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adj
adj
- made heavy or weighted down with weariness
- adjusted to reflect value or proportion
- (statistics) With the components of an average multiplied by particular factors so as to take account of their relative importance.
- Containing a large proportion (of something).
- Biased, so as to favour one party.
- (graph theory, of a graph) having values assigned to its edges
- Having weights on it.
verb
noun
adv
adj
noun
verb
adj
- imposing in size or bulk or solidity
- Substantial in mass; bulky, heavy and solid.
- imposing in scale or scope or degree or power
- consisting of great mass; containing a great quantity of matter
- being the same substance throughout
- (mineralogy) Not having an obvious crystalline structure.
- (colloquial) Of particularly exceptional quality or value; awesome.
- (general) Very large in size or extent.
- (medicine) Affecting a large portion of the body, or severe.
- (informal) To a very great extent; total, utter.
- (physics, of a particle) Having any mass.
- (geology) Homogeneous, unstructured.
- (colloquial, informal, Ireland) Outstanding, beautiful.
noun
adj
- imposing in size or bulk or solidity
- characterized by massiveness and rigidity and total uniformity
- (figurative) Of a single structure, a singular component; instead of an assembly.
- (engineering) Consisting of a single piece of homogeneous material as opposed to a composite material or an assembly of multiple parts.
- (figurative) Having a massive, unchanging structure that does not permit individual variation.
- (software engineering) Consisting of a single program or codebase.
- Of or resembling a monolith.
verb
- make less dense
- become loose or looser or less tight
- make less severe or strict
- cause to become loose
- become less severe or strict
- make loose or looser
- disentangle and raise the fibers of
- (transitive) To make loose.
- (transitive) To disengage (a device that restrains).
- (transitive) To free from restraint; to set at liberty.
- (transitive) To relieve (the bowels) from constipation; to promote defecation.
- (intransitive) To become loose.
- (intransitive) To become unfastened or undone.
verb
- make fit for use
- mate with
- be used by; as of a utility
- (transitive) To make a repayment or pay interest (on a debt).
- (transitive) To serve.
- (transitive) To perform maintenance.
- (transitive, military, euphemistic) To attack.
- (public relations, transitive) To supply (media outlets) with press releases etc.
- (transitive, agriculture, euphemistic) To inseminate through sexual intercourse.
- (transitive, vulgar) To perform a sexual act upon.
noun
- a force that is a branch of the armed forces
- periodic maintenance on a car or machine
- work done by one person or group that benefits another
- a means of serving
- the act of mating by male animals
- employment in or work for another
- the act of public worship following prescribed rules
- a company or agency that performs a public service; subject to government regulation
- an act of help or assistance; something (such as a tool, software or system) used to render said help or assistance
- the performance of duties by a waiter or servant
- (law) the acts performed by an English feudal tenant for the benefit of their lord which formed the consideration for the property granted to them
- (sports) a stroke that puts the ball in play
- the act of delivering a writ or summons upon someone
- tableware consisting of a complete set of articles (silver or dishware) for use at table
- (Israel, West Bank, also in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria) A taxi shared among unrelated passengers, each of whom pays part of the fare; often, it has a fixed route between cities.
- (law) The serving, or delivery, of a summons or writ.
- (nautical) The materials used for serving a rope, etc., such as spun yarn and small lines.
- Access to resources such as hotel rooms and Web-based videos without transfer of the resources' ownership.
- (economics) The practice of providing assistance as economic activity.
- A religious rite or ritual.
- A set of dishes or utensils.
- (business) Synonym of utility (“commodity provided on a continuous basis by a physical infrastructure network, such as electricity, water supply or sewerage”).
- (elliptical, uncountable) Work as a member of the military.
- (computing) A function that is provided by one program or machine for another.
- The sorb; the fruit of this tree.
- An act of being of assistance to someone.
- (sports) The act of initially starting, or serving, the ball in play in tennis, volleyball, and other games.
- A musical composition for use in churches.
- The state of being subordinate to or employed by an individual or group.
- Service tree.
- A department in a company, organization, or institution.
- (with the) The military.
verb
noun
verb
- make large
- to swell or cause to enlarge
- fill with gas or air
- cause to burst with a violent release of energy
- get very angry and fly into a rage
- burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction
- exaggerate or make bigger
- add details to
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blow, up.
- (transitive) To inflate or fill with air, either by literally blowing or by using a pump.
- (transitive, also figuratively) To cause (something or someone) to explode, or to destroy (something) or maim or kill (someone) by means of an explosion.
- (intransitive, cycling) To succumb to oxygen debt and lose the ability to maintain pace in a race.
- (intransitive, also figuratively) To explode or be destroyed by explosion.
- (of a hangout) To overwhelm (a place) with traffic or volume by revealing its existence to others.
- (transitive) To enlarge or zoom in on.
- (intransitive, mathematics, said of a function) To increase without bound as a function argument or parameter approaches a certain value; to tend toward infinity; to approach infinity as a limit.
- (intransitive, slang) To become much more fat or rotund in a short space of time.
- (of a cell phone, pager, or similar) To receive a large number of calls, texts, or notifications, to the point of being rendered temporarily unusable or exasperating the recipient.
- (intransitive, slang) To suddenly get very angry, to lose one's temper.
- (transitive, figuratively) To represent something as being more important or serious than it actually is; to inflate; to exaggerate.
- (of a cell phone, pager, or similar) To bombard with a large number of calls, texts, or notifications, to the point of rendering temporarily unusable or exasperating the recipient.
- (intransitive, slang, of a device, machine, system, or establishment) To be overwhelmed by unexpectedly high demand, usage, activity, traffic volume, etc.
- (slang, colloquial) To cause a malodorous smell by flatulation, defecation, etc.
- (of a hangout) To be overwhelmed with traffic or volume.
- (intransitive) To fail disastrously.
- (transitive, slang, of a device, machine, system, or establishment) To overwhelm through unexpectedly high demand, activity, usage, traffic volume, etc.
- (intransitive, of a storm) To begin; to gather; to form.
- (slang, intransitive) To become popular very quickly.
- (sports) To blow the whistle.
verb
- make large
- make larger
- become larger or bigger
- add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing
- (intransitive) To grow larger.
- (nautical) To get more astern or parallel with the vessel's course; to draw aft; said of the wind.
- (law) To extend the time allowed for compliance with (an order or rule).
- (transitive) To increase the capacity of; to expand; to give free scope or greater scope to; also, to dilate, as with joy, affection, etc.
- (transitive) To make (something) larger.
- (intransitive) To speak or write at length upon or on (some subject); expand; elaborate
verb
- make large
- to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth
- increase in size, volume or significance
- (transitive) To praise, glorify (someone or something, especially God).
- (transitive) To make (someone or something) appear greater or more important than it is; to intensify, exaggerate.
- (transitive) To make (something) appear larger by means of a lens, magnifying glass, telescope etc.
- (transitive) To make (something) larger or more important.
adj
- Closely packed or densely constituted; having much material in a small volume.
- (of prose) Brief and pithy; not verbose.
- Having all necessary features fitting neatly into a small space.
- Such that every open cover has a finite subcover. In a metric space, this is equivalent to being sequentially compact. In metric spaces with the Heine-Borel property, this is equivalent to being closed and bounded.
- Compact in the above sense and moreover Hausdorff.
- closely and firmly united or packed together
- briefly giving the gist of something
- having a short and solid form or stature
verb
noun
- A broadsheet newspaper published in the size of a tabloid but keeping its non-sensational style.
- An agreement or contract.
- An automobile that is larger than a subcompact but smaller than an intermediate.
- A slim folding case, often featuring a mirror, powder and a powder puff, small enough to fit in a woman's purse, handbag, or pocket.
- a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action
- a small cosmetics case with a mirror; to be carried in a woman's purse
- a small and economical car
verb
- have the property of being packable or of compacting easily
- carry, as on one's back
- hike with a backpack
- load with a pack
- fill to capacity
- have with oneself; have on one's person
- seal with packing
- press down tightly
- compress into a wad
- press tightly together or cram
- treat the body or any part of it by wrapping it, as with blankets or sheets, and applying compresses to it, or stuffing it to provide cover, containment, or therapy, or to absorb blood
- arrange in a container
- set up a committee or legislative body with one's own supporters so as to influence the outcome
- (transitive) To load with a pack.
- (transitive) To cause to go; to send away with baggage or belongings; especially, to send away peremptorily or suddenly; – sometimes with off. See pack off.
- (transitive) To bring together or make up unfairly, in order to secure a certain result.
- (transitive, slang) To carry weapons, especially firearms, on one's person.
- (transitive) To make impervious, such as by filling or surrounding with suitable material, or to fit or adjust so as to move without allowing air, water, or steam inside.
- (transitive) To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack
- (intransitive, LGBTQ, especially of a trans man or drag king) To wear an object, such as a prosthetic penis, inside one’s trousers to appear more male or masculine.
- (transitive, historical) To combine (telegraph messages) in order to send them more cheaply as a single transmission.
- (transitive) To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot.
- (transitive, progressive aspect, slang) To have a large penis, as if carrying a large weapon on one's person.
- (transitive, US, chiefly Western US) To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (on the backs of men or animals).
- (transitive) To fill in the manner of a pack, that is, compactly and securely, as for transportation; hence, to fill closely or to repletion; to stow away within; to cause to be full; to crowd into.
- (intransitive) To depart in haste; – generally with off or away.
- (transitive, sports, slang) To block a shot, especially in basketball.
- (transitive, computing) To compress (data).
- (transitive, card games) To sort and arrange (the cards) in the pack to give oneself an unfair advantage
- (intransitive, of animals) To gather together in flocks, herds, schools or similar groups of animals.
- (intransitive) To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation.
- (intransitive) To form a compact mass, especially in order for transportation.
- (intransitive) To put together for morally wrong purposes; to join in cahoots.
- (transitive, figurative) To load; to encumber.
- (intransitive, rugby, of the forwards in a rugby team) To play together cohesively, specially with reference to technique in the scrum.
- (transitive) To wrap in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings.
noun
- an association of criminals
- a large indefinite quantity
- an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
- a sheet or blanket (either dry or wet) to wrap around the body for its therapeutic effect
- a convenient package or parcel (as of cigarettes or film)
- a bundle (especially one carried on the back)
- a complete collection of similar things
- a cream that cleanses and tones the skin
- a group of hunting animals
- A full set of playing cards
- A wolfpack: a number of wolves, hunting together.
- A group of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.
- A group of Cub Scouts.
- (roller derby) The largest group of blockers from both teams skating in close proximity.
- A bundle of sheet iron plates for rolling simultaneously.
- The assortment of playing cards used in a particular game.
- (slang) A loose, lewd, or worthless person.
- A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack
- A shook of cask staves.
- (rugby) The forwards in a rugby team (eight in Rugby Union, six in Rugby League) who with the opposing pack constitute the scrum.
- (medicine) An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment.
- A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back, but also a load for an animal, a bale.
- (snooker, pool) A tight group of object balls in cue sports. Usually the reds in snooker.
- A group of people associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang.
- A multitude.
- A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.
- A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective.
- A flock of knots.
- (slang) A package of cigarettes.
verb
adj
noun
- (figurative) Someone packed or crammed into a small space.
- Any one of several species of small herring which are commonly preserved in olive oil or in tins for food, especially the pilchard, or European sardine (Sardina pilchardus, syn. Clupea pilchardus). The American sardines of the Atlantic coast are mostly the young of the Atlantic herring and of the menhaden.
- Dark-brown sard.
- small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring
- small fatty fish usually canned
- any of various small edible herring or related food fishes frequently canned
- a deep orange-red variety of chalcedony
verb
- (transitive, dyeing) To load (fabrics) with barite, etc. to increase the weight.
- (transitive, sports) To give a certain amount of force to a throw, kick, hit, etc.
- (transitive) To load, burden or oppress someone.
- (transitive) To bias something; to slant.
- (transitive) To add weight to something; to make something heavier.
- (transitive, mathematics) To assign weights to individual statistics.
- (transitive, horse racing) To handicap a horse with a specified weight.
- present with a bias
- weight down with a load
noun
- An object used to make something heavier.
- (sometimes specifically) Ellipsis of free weight, as contrasted with the weights inside an exercise machine.
- (statistics) A variable which multiplies a value for ease of statistical manipulation.
- The downwards force an object experiences due to gravity.
- (slang, uncountable) Shipments of (often illegal) drugs.
- (figurative) Importance or influence.
- (slang, countable) One pound of drugs, especially cannabis.
- (physics) Mass (atomic weight, molecular weight, etc.) (in restricted circumstances).
- A standardized block of metal used in a balance to measure the mass of another object.
- (visual art) The illusion of mass.
- (measurement) Mass (net weight, troy weight, carat weight, etc.).
- (lubricants) Viscosity rating.
- The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.
- (visual art) The thickness and opacity of paint.
- (topology) The smallest cardinality of a base.
- Weight class
- (typography) The boldness of a font; the relative thickness of its strokes.
- (figurative) Pressure; burden.
- The thickness of yarn.
- (especially in computing, machine learning) Emphasis applied to a given criterion.
- (exercise, weightlifting) An object, such as a weight plate or barbell, used for strength training.
- (visual art) The relative thickness of a drawn rule or painted brushstroke, line weight.
- (physics, proscribed) Synonym of mass (in general circumstances).
- (statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance
- the relative importance granted to something
- a unit used to measure weight
- a system of units used to express the weight of something
- an artifact that is heavy
- an oppressive feeling of heavy force
- sports equipment used in calisthenic exercises and weightlifting; it is not attached to anything and is raised and lowered by use of the hands and arms
- the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity
verb
noun
adj
noun
- an adjustment made for the weight of the packaging in order to determine the net weight of the goods
- (chemical analysis) a counterweight used in chemical analysis; consists of an empty container that counterbalances the weight of the container holding chemicals
- any of several weedy vetches grown for forage
- the weight of a motor vehicle, railroad car, or aircraft without its fuel or cargo
- weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous
- Any of the tufted grasses of genus Lolium; darnel.
- Any of various dipping sauces served with Japanese food, typically based on soy sauce.
- (rare, figuratively) A damaging weed growing in fields of grain.
- (rare) A vetch, or the seed of a vetch (genus Vicia, esp. Vicia sativa)
- The empty weight of a container; unladen weight.
- Alternative form of tara (“Indian coin”).
verb
verb
- make to a size; bring to a suitable size
- cover or stiffen or glaze a porous material with size or sizing (a glutinous substance)
- sort according to size
- (transitive) To apply glue or other primer to a surface which is to be painted.
- (mining) To sift (pieces of ore or metal) in order to separate the finer from the coarser parts.
- (military) To take the height of men, in order to place them in the ranks according to their stature.
- (intransitive) To take a greater size; to increase in size.
- (transitive) To adjust the size of; to make a certain size.
- (transitive, colloquial) To approximate the dimensions, estimate the size of.
- (biochemistry) To separate different proteins by molecular weight.
adj
noun
- the actual state of affairs
- a large magnitude
- any glutinous material used to fill pores in surfaces or to stiffen fabrics
- the physical magnitude of something (how big it is)
- the property resulting from being one of a series of graduated measurements (as of clothing)
- Alternative form of sice (“number six in dice games”).
- A thin, weak glue used as primer for paper or canvas intended to be painted upon.
- Wallpaper paste.
- The dimensions or magnitude of a thing; how big something is.
- A specific set of dimensions for a manufactured article, especially clothing.
- (graph theory) The number of edges in a graph.
- An instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges fastened together at one end by a rivet, used for measuring the size of pearls
- Any viscous substance, such as gilder's varnish.
- The thickened crust on coagulated blood.
- (US) Ellipsis of chili size (“hamburger served with chili con carne”).
adv
- So as to reduce size, weight or volume.
- At or towards any place that is visualised as 'down' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
- Away from the city (regardless of direction).
- (crosswords, in relation to a numbered clued word) In a downwards direction; vertically.
- To the south (as south is at the bottom of typical maps).
- (sentence substitute, imperative) Get down.
- Forward, straight ahead.
- On paper (or in a durable record).
- To a subordinate or less prestigious position or rank.
- So as to be cowed into silence.
- Into a state of non-operation.
- (comparable) From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
- From less to greater detail.
- Used with verbs to indicate that the action of the verb was carried to some state of completion, permanence, or success rather than being of indefinite duration.
- (comparable) At a lower or further place or position along a set path.
- To or towards what is considered the bottom of something, irrespective of whether this is presently physically lower.
- So as to lessen quantity, level or intensity.
- (sports) Towards the opponent's side (in ball-sports).
- From a remoter or higher antiquity.
- (rail transport) In the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
- As a down payment.
- So as to secure or compress something to the floor, ground, or other (usually horizontal) surface.
- away from a more central or a more northerly place
- from an earlier time
- in an inactive or inoperative state
- to a lower intensity
- spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position
- paid in cash at time of purchase
adj
- (baseball, cricket, colloquial, following the noun modified) Out.
- (not comparable, military, law enforcement, slang, of a person) Wounded and unable to move normally, or killed.
- (not comparable) Inoperable; out of order; out of service.
- Having a lower score than an opponent.
- (veterinary medicine, of a cow) Stranded in a recumbent position; unable to stand.
- (rail transport, of a train) Travelling in the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
- Finished (of a task); defeated or dealt with (of an opponent or obstacle); elapsed (of time). Often coupled with to go (remaining).
- (normally in the combination 'down with') Sick or ill.
- (informal) Sad, unhappy, depressed, feeling low.
- (slang) In prison.
- (of a tree, limb, etc) Fallen or felled.
- At a lower level than before.
- (colloquial, with "on") Negative about; hostile to.
- (Canada, US, slang) Comfortable [with]; accepting [of]; okay [with].
- Facing downwards.
- Thoroughly practiced, learned or memorised; mastered. (Compare down pat.)
- (not comparable, military, aviation, slang, of an aircraft) Mechanically failed, collided, shot down, or otherwise suddenly unable to fly.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) Accepted, respected, or loyally participating in the (thug) community.
- being put out in a game of baseball
- lower than previously
- extending or moving from a higher to a lower place
- filled with melancholy and despondency
- understood perfectly
- becoming progressively lower
- shut
- not functioning (temporarily or permanently)
- being or moving lower in position or less in some value
noun
- Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping bags and jackets.
- The lightest quark with a charge number of −¹⁄₃.
- (usually in the plural) A field, especially one used for horse racing.
- (UK, chiefly in the plural) A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep.
- (gambling) The shift or period of time during which a dealer manages a given table before rotating to the next table at a casino or cardroom, which is often 30 minutes.
- (American football) A single play, from the time the ball is snapped (the start) to the time the whistle is blown (the end) when the ball is down, or is downed.
- A downstairs room of a two-story house.
- The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
- A negative aspect; a downer, a downside.
- That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down.
- (especially Southern England, also Australia, often plural, often in place names) A hill; in England, especially a chalk hill.
- (crosswording) A clue whose solution runs vertically in the grid.
- (botany) The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, such as the thistle.
- Down payment.
- A downer, depressant.
- An act of swallowing an entire drink at once.
- fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)
- soft fine feathers
- (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil
- (American football) a complete play to advance the football
prep
- From one end to another of (in any direction); along.
- Towards the mouth of (a river); in the direction of flow of.
- (UK, Ireland) To (a given place that is seen as removed from one's present location or other point of reference).
- From north to south of.
- (UK, Ireland) At (a given place that is seen as removed from one's present location or other point of reference).
- From the higher end to the lower of.
verb
- (transitive, golf, pocket billiards) To sink (a ball) into a hole or pocket.
- (transitive) To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down; to fell.
- (transitive, colloquial) To drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing the liquid is empty.
- (transitive) Specifically, to cause (something in the air) to fall to the ground; to bring down (with a missile etc.).
- (transitive, colloquial) To disparage; to put down.
- (transitive, American football, Canadian football) To render (the ball) dead, typically by touching the ground while in possession.
- (transitive, figurative) To defeat; to overpower.
- (transitive) To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.
- (transitive) To lower; to put (something) down.
- eat up completely, as with great appetite
- shoot at and force to come down
- improve or perfect by pruning or polishing
- bring down or defeat (an opponent)
- drink down entirely
- cause to come or go down
verb
- make bigger or wider in size, volume, or quantity
- grow vigorously
- become larger in size or volume or quantity
- extend in one or more directions
- expand the influence of
- exaggerate or make bigger
- add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing
- (transitive) To express (something) at length and/or in detail.
- (transitive) To change (something) from a smaller form or size to a larger one; to spread out or lay open.
- (transitive, computing) In a hierarchical list (such as a directory tree or table of contents), to show the subentries of (an entry).
- (intransitive) To increase in extent, number, volume or scope.
- (transitive, algebra) To rewrite (an expression) as a longer, yet equivalent, sum of terms.
- (transitive, arithmetic) To multiply both the numerator and the denominator of a fraction by the same (non-zero) number (which yields a fraction of equal value).
- (transitive) To increase the extent, number, volume or scope of (something).
- (intransitive) To feel generous or optimistic.
- (intransitive) To speak or write at length or in detail.
- (intransitive, algebra, of an expression) To become, by rewriting, a longer, yet equivalent, sum of terms.
- (intransitive) To change or grow from smaller to larger in form, number, or size.
noun
adj
verb
verb
- increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance
- reach outward in space
- use to the utmost; exert vigorously or to full capacity
- extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length
- thrust or extend out
- cause to move at full gallop
- offer verbally
- open or straighten out; unbend
- extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body
- extend in scope or range or area
- expand the influence of
- prolong the time allowed for payment of
- span an interval of distance, space or time
- lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer
- continue or extend
- make available; provide
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
- (transitive) To cause to last for a longer period of time.
- (intransitive) To possess a certain extent; to cover an amount of space.
- (intransitive, US, military) To reenlist for a further period.
- (transitive) To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply.
- (UK, law) To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent.
- (transitive) To cause to increase in extent.
- To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions.
- (transitive) To straighten (a limb).
- (object-oriented programming) Of a class: to be an extension or subtype of, or to be based on, a prototype or a more abstract class.
- (intransitive) To increase in extent.
noun
verb
- increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance
- become longer by being stretched and pulled
- extend the scope or meaning of; often unduly
- extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length
- extend one's body or limbs
- corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
- make long or longer by pulling and stretching
- occupy a large, elongated area
- pull in opposite directions
- extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body
- lie down comfortably
- (figuratively, transitive) To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
- (figuratively, transitive) To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
- (intransitive) To increase, to grow.
- (physics, transitive) To make a pulse or particle bunch longer by applying dispersion to it.
- (nautical) To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
- (transitive) To increase.
- (transitive) To make great demands on the capacity or resources of something.
- (intransitive) To extend physically, especially from a limit point and/or to a limit point.
- (intransitive, transitive) To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body, for example in order to improve the elasticity of one's muscles.
- (transitive) To pull tight.
- (intransitive) To lengthen when pulled.
- (transitive) To lengthen by pulling.
adj
noun
- an unbroken period of time during which you do something
- the capacity for being stretched
- exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent
- the act of physically reaching or thrusting out
- extension to or beyond the ordinary limit
- a large and unbroken expanse or distance
- a straightaway section of a racetrack
- Ellipsis of stretch limousine.
- A segment or length of material.
- (informal) Term of address for a tall person.
- The ability to lengthen when pulled.
- A segment of a journey or route.
- (baseball) A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman in order to catch the ball sooner.
- (slang) A jail or prison term of one year's duration.
- (horse racing) The homestretch, the final straight section of the track leading to the finish.
- (Ireland) Extended daylight hours, especially said of the evening in springtime when compared to the shorter winter days.
- (slang) A jail or prison term.
- A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief or exaggeration.
- (baseball) A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead of lifting it.
- (sports) The period of the season between the trade deadline and the beginning of the playoffs.
- An act of stretching.
- A length of time.
- A single uninterrupted sitting; a turn.
verb
- make denser, stronger, or purer
- cook until very little liquid is left
- make central
- compress or concentrate
- be cooked until very little liquid is left
- make more concise
- direct one's attention on something
- draw together or meet in one common center
- (ergative) To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force.
- (intransitive) To focus one's thought or attention (on).
- To approach or meet in a common center; to consolidate.
- To increase the strength and diminish the bulk of, as of a liquid or an ore; to intensify, by getting rid of useless material; to condense.
noun
adj
adj
noun
verb
adj
- large and powerful; especially designed for heavy loads or rough work
- given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors
- of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought
- in an advanced stage of pregnancy
- unusually great in degree or quantity or number
- slow and laborious because of weight
- prodigious
- of relatively large extent and density
- full and loud and deep
- usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it
- of comparatively great physical weight or density
- darkened by clouds
- full of; bearing great weight
- (of an actor or role) being or playing the villain
- (of sleep) deep and complete
- sharply inclined
- dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal
- (used of soil) compact and fine-grained
- marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness
- (physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight
- requiring or showing effort
- made of fabric having considerable thickness
- permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter
- of the military or industry; using (or being) the heaviest and most powerful armaments or weapons or equipment
- lacking lightness or liveliness
- of great intensity or power or force
- characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
- (of a person) Heavyset: overweight.
- Not raised or leavened.
- (of weather) Hot and humid.
- Of great force, power, or intensity; deep or intense.
- (of any physical thing) Having great weight.
- (oil industry) Of petroleum, having high viscosity.
- (of a topic) Serious, somber.
- (nautical, military) Heavily-armed.
- (of music) Loud, distorted, or intense.
- (of wines or spirits) Having much body or strength.
- (physics) Containing one or more isotopes that are heavier than the normal one.
- (aviation, of an aircraft) Having a relatively high takeoff weight and payload.
- (of food) High in fat or protein; difficult to digest.
- Laden with that which is weighty; encumbered; burdened; bowed down, either with an actual burden, or with grief, pain, disappointment, etc.
- (of the eyes) With eyelids difficult to keep open due to tiredness.
- Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive.
- Doing the specified activity more intensely than most other people.
- (slang) Armed.
- (finance) Of a market: in which the price of shares is declining.
- Having the heaves.
- Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid.
- Having a maximum takeoff weight exceeding 300,000 tons, as almost all widebodies do, generating high wake turbulence.
- (of a rate of flow) High, great.
- Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey.
noun
- an actor who plays villainous roles
- a serious (or tragic) role in a play
- (journalism, slang, chiefly in the plural) A newspaper of the quality press.
- (aviation) A relatively large multi-engined aircraft.
- (slang) A doorman, bouncer or bodyguard.
- (slang) A villain or bad guy; the one responsible for evil or aggressive acts.
- (military, historical) A member of the heavy cavalry.
- A prominent figure; a "major player".
adv
verb
noun
- Something added to fill a space or add weight or size.
- (television, music) A material of lower cost or quality that is used to fill a certain television time slot or physical medium, such as a music album.
- (cosmetic surgery) A dermal filler, a substance injected beneath the skin to restore lost volume.
- Cut tobacco used to make up the body of a cigar.
- One who fills.
- (forestry, usually in the plural) Any standing tree or standard higher than the surrounding coppice in the form of forest known as "coppice under standards".
- (horticulture) A plant that lacks a distinctive shape and can fill inconvenient spaces around other plants in pots or gardens.
- A relatively inert ingredient added to modify physical characteristics; a bulking agent.
- A short article in a newspaper or magazine.
- (linguistics) Any spoken sound or word used to fill gaps in speech; filled pause.
- A short piece of music or an announcement between radio or TV programmes.
- Any semisolid substance used to fill gaps, cracks or pores.
- (programming) In COBOL, the description of an unnamed part of a record that contains no data relevant to a given context (normally capitalised when in a data division).
- 100 filler equal 1 forint in Hungary
- copy to fill space between more important articles in the layout of a magazine or newspaper
- the tobacco used to form the core of a cigar
- anything added to fill out a whole
- used for filling cracks or holes in a surface
verb
- press or wedge together; pack together
- have an effect upon
- (transitive) To collide or strike, the act of impinging.
- (transitive) To compress; to compact; to press into something or pack together.
- (transitive, rare) To stamp or impress onto something.
- (transitive, figurative, proscribed) To significantly or strongly influence or affect; to have an impact on.
noun
- influencing strongly
- the violent interaction of individuals or groups entering into combat
- the striking of one body against another
- a forceful consequence; a strong effect
- (chiefly medicine) A forced impinging.
- The striking of one body against another; collision.
- The force or energy of a collision of two objects.
- (figurative, proscribed) A significant or strong influence or effect.
noun
- material used to make packages
- a message issued in behalf of some product or cause or idea or person or institution
- the business of packing
- The materials used to pack something.
- The act of packing something.
- The industry that produces such material.
- (by extension) The manner in which a person or product is promoted.
verb
verb
- fill tightly with a material
- treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting
- overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
- press or force
- fill with a stuffing while cooking
- obstruct
- cram into a cavity
- (transitive, mildly vulgar, often imperative) Used to contemptuously dismiss or reject something. See also stuff it.
- (transitive) To load goods into (a container) for transport.
- (transitive, British, Australia, New Zealand) To break; to destroy.
- To preserve a dead bird or other animal by filling its skin.
- (transitive) To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.
- (informal) To heavily defeat or get the better of.
- (transitive, cooking) To fill with seasoning.
- (transitive) To fill by packing or crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess.
- (transitive, computing) To compress (a file or files) in the StuffIt format, to be unstuffed later.
- (pronominal) To eat, especially in a hearty or greedy manner.
- (transitive) To cut off another competitor in a race by disturbing his projected and committed racing line (trajectory) by an abrupt manoeuvre.
- (transitive) To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.
- (transitive) To fill a space with (something) in a compressed manner.
- (transitive, vulgar, British, Australia, New Zealand) To sexually penetrate.
- (transitive, used in the passive) To sate.
noun
- the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object
- unspecified qualities required to do or be something
- a critically important or characteristic component
- informal terms for personal possessions
- information in some unspecified form
- senseless talk
- miscellaneous unspecified objects
- (informal) Unspecified things or matters.
- The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.
- (informal) Miscellaneous items or objects; (with possessive) personal effects.
- Abstract/figurative substance or character.
- (informal) Used as placeholder, usually for material of unknown type or name.
- (slang) Narcotic drugs, especially heroin.
- (nautical) A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication.
- (sometimes euphemistic) Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language.
- Paper stock ground ready for use. When partly ground, it is called half stuff.
adj
- capable of being compressed or made more compact
- capable of being easily compressed
- able to be compressed
- (topology, of a surface embedded in a 3-dimensional manifold) Containing a circle that does not serve as the boundary of a disk that lies in the surface, but does serve as boundary of a disk that lies in the ambient manifold.
verb
- make (substances) hard and improve their usability
- be or become preserved
- provide a cure for, make healthy again
- prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve
- (intransitive) To undergo a chemical or physical process for preservation or use.
- (transitive) To cause to be rid of (a defect).
- (transitive) To prepare or alter, especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use.
- (intransitive) To bring about a cure of any kind.
- (transitive) To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end.
- (intransitive) To solidify or gel.
- (transitive) To restore to health.
- To preserve (food), typically by salting.
noun
- a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain
- A process of preservation, as by smoking.
- Cured fish.
- (figurative) A solution to a problem.
- An act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health after a disease, or to soundness after injury.
- Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate.
- A process of solidification or gelling.
- (engineering) A process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure or weathering.
- A method, device or medication that restores good health.
- That which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate.
verb
- make viscous or dense
- make thick or thicker
- become thick or thicker
- (transitive) To make thicker (in the sense of wider).
- (transitive) To make more frequent.
- (academic) To make more detailed or comprehensive.
- (intransitive) To become thicker (in the sense of more viscous).
- (intransitive) To become thicker (in the sense of wider).
- (transitive) To strengthen; to confirm.
- (transitive) To make thicker (in the sense of more viscous).
adj
noun
- something that has consolidated into a compact mass
- combining into a solid mass
- the act of combining into an integral whole
- The act or process of consolidating, making firm, or uniting; the state of being consolidated.
- The combination of several actions into one.
- (medicine) A solidification into a firm dense mass. It is usually applied to induration (swelling or hardening of normally soft tissue) of a normally aerated lung.
adj
- Heavy in build; thickset.
- (slang, chiefly of women) Curvy and voluptuous, and especially having large hips.
- Impenetrable to sight.
- Deep, intense, or profound.
- Having a viscous consistency.
- Densely crowded or packed.
- Greatly evocative of one's nationality or place of origin.
- Difficult to understand, or poorly articulated.
- (informal) Friendly or intimate.
- (informal) Stupid.
- Measuring a certain number of units in this dimension.
- Abounding in number.
- Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension.
- (academic) Detailed and expansive; substantive.
- (used informally) associated on close terms
- spoken as if with a thick tongue
- not thin; of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions
- abounding; having a lot of
- (of darkness) densely dark
- relatively dense in consistency
- hard to pass through because of dense growth
- (used informally) stupid
- having a short and solid form or stature
- having component parts closely crowded together
adv
det
noun
noun
- A block of any various dense materials.
- A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough.
- (slang) A pair of buttocks, especially one that is exceptionally plump or full.
- (pyrotechnics) A multishot fireworks assembly comprising several tubes, each with a fireworks effect, lit by a single fuse.
- (slang) Ellipsis of piece of cake: a trivially easy task or responsibility.
- A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
- Used to describe the doctrine of having one's cake and eating it too.
- (slang) Money.
- A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake.
- small flat mass of chopped or ground food
- food made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat, typically cooked in an oven
- a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax)
verb
adj
- of considerable weight and size
- Strong; bulky.
- (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful
- large in amount or extent or degree
- Heavy, weighing a lot.
- (of a person) Possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful; powerfully or heavily built.
- With heft; heavy, strong, vigorous, mighty, impressive
- (of a number or amount) Large, healthy.
noun
- (in combination) Something that weighs a specified number of pounds.
- (in combination) Something or someone costing so many pounds sterling.
- (in combination) A gun capable of firing a specified weight of shot in pounds.
- A vessel in which something is pounded, or an implement used in pounding.
- (used only in combination) something weighing a given number of pounds
- a heavy tool of stone or iron (usually with a flat base and a handle) that is used to grind and mix material (as grain or drugs or pigments) against a slab of stone
noun
noun
- an adjustment made for the weight of the packaging in order to determine the net weight of the goods
- (chemical analysis) a counterweight used in chemical analysis; consists of an empty container that counterbalances the weight of the container holding chemicals
- any of several weedy vetches grown for forage
- the weight of a motor vehicle, railroad car, or aircraft without its fuel or cargo
- weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous
- Any of the tufted grasses of genus Lolium; darnel.
- Any of various dipping sauces served with Japanese food, typically based on soy sauce.
- (rare, figuratively) A damaging weed growing in fields of grain.
- (rare) A vetch, or the seed of a vetch (genus Vicia, esp. Vicia sativa)
- The empty weight of a container; unladen weight.
- Alternative form of tara (“Indian coin”).
verb
noun
adj
verb
noun
- Something added to fill a space or add weight or size.
- (television, music) A material of lower cost or quality that is used to fill a certain television time slot or physical medium, such as a music album.
- (cosmetic surgery) A dermal filler, a substance injected beneath the skin to restore lost volume.
- Cut tobacco used to make up the body of a cigar.
- One who fills.
- (forestry, usually in the plural) Any standing tree or standard higher than the surrounding coppice in the form of forest known as "coppice under standards".
- (horticulture) A plant that lacks a distinctive shape and can fill inconvenient spaces around other plants in pots or gardens.
- A relatively inert ingredient added to modify physical characteristics; a bulking agent.
- A short article in a newspaper or magazine.
- (linguistics) Any spoken sound or word used to fill gaps in speech; filled pause.
- A short piece of music or an announcement between radio or TV programmes.
- Any semisolid substance used to fill gaps, cracks or pores.
- (programming) In COBOL, the description of an unnamed part of a record that contains no data relevant to a given context (normally capitalised when in a data division).
- 100 filler equal 1 forint in Hungary
- copy to fill space between more important articles in the layout of a magazine or newspaper
- the tobacco used to form the core of a cigar
- anything added to fill out a whole
- used for filling cracks or holes in a surface
noun
- material used to make packages
- a message issued in behalf of some product or cause or idea or person or institution
- the business of packing
- The materials used to pack something.
- The act of packing something.
- The industry that produces such material.
- (by extension) The manner in which a person or product is promoted.
verb
verb
- (transitive, dyeing) To load (fabrics) with barite, etc. to increase the weight.
- (transitive, sports) To give a certain amount of force to a throw, kick, hit, etc.
- (transitive) To load, burden or oppress someone.
- (transitive) To bias something; to slant.
- (transitive) To add weight to something; to make something heavier.
- (transitive, mathematics) To assign weights to individual statistics.
- (transitive, horse racing) To handicap a horse with a specified weight.
- present with a bias
- weight down with a load
noun
- An object used to make something heavier.
- (sometimes specifically) Ellipsis of free weight, as contrasted with the weights inside an exercise machine.
- (statistics) A variable which multiplies a value for ease of statistical manipulation.
- The downwards force an object experiences due to gravity.
- (slang, uncountable) Shipments of (often illegal) drugs.
- (figurative) Importance or influence.
- (slang, countable) One pound of drugs, especially cannabis.
- (physics) Mass (atomic weight, molecular weight, etc.) (in restricted circumstances).
- A standardized block of metal used in a balance to measure the mass of another object.
- (visual art) The illusion of mass.
- (measurement) Mass (net weight, troy weight, carat weight, etc.).
- (lubricants) Viscosity rating.
- The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.
- (visual art) The thickness and opacity of paint.
- (topology) The smallest cardinality of a base.
- Weight class
- (typography) The boldness of a font; the relative thickness of its strokes.
- (figurative) Pressure; burden.
- The thickness of yarn.
- (especially in computing, machine learning) Emphasis applied to a given criterion.
- (exercise, weightlifting) An object, such as a weight plate or barbell, used for strength training.
- (visual art) The relative thickness of a drawn rule or painted brushstroke, line weight.
- (physics, proscribed) Synonym of mass (in general circumstances).
- (statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance
- the relative importance granted to something
- a unit used to measure weight
- a system of units used to express the weight of something
- an artifact that is heavy
- an oppressive feeling of heavy force
- sports equipment used in calisthenic exercises and weightlifting; it is not attached to anything and is raised and lowered by use of the hands and arms
- the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity
noun
- something that has consolidated into a compact mass
- combining into a solid mass
- the act of combining into an integral whole
- The act or process of consolidating, making firm, or uniting; the state of being consolidated.
- The combination of several actions into one.
- (medicine) A solidification into a firm dense mass. It is usually applied to induration (swelling or hardening of normally soft tissue) of a normally aerated lung.
noun
- A block of any various dense materials.
- A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough.
- (slang) A pair of buttocks, especially one that is exceptionally plump or full.
- (pyrotechnics) A multishot fireworks assembly comprising several tubes, each with a fireworks effect, lit by a single fuse.
- (slang) Ellipsis of piece of cake: a trivially easy task or responsibility.
- A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
- Used to describe the doctrine of having one's cake and eating it too.
- (slang) Money.
- A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake.
- small flat mass of chopped or ground food
- food made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat, typically cooked in an oven
- a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax)
verb
noun
- (in combination) Something that weighs a specified number of pounds.
- (in combination) Something or someone costing so many pounds sterling.
- (in combination) A gun capable of firing a specified weight of shot in pounds.
- A vessel in which something is pounded, or an implement used in pounding.
- (used only in combination) something weighing a given number of pounds
- a heavy tool of stone or iron (usually with a flat base and a handle) that is used to grind and mix material (as grain or drugs or pigments) against a slab of stone
verb
- make less dense
- become loose or looser or less tight
- make less severe or strict
- cause to become loose
- become less severe or strict
- make loose or looser
- disentangle and raise the fibers of
- (transitive) To make loose.
- (transitive) To disengage (a device that restrains).
- (transitive) To free from restraint; to set at liberty.
- (transitive) To relieve (the bowels) from constipation; to promote defecation.
- (intransitive) To become loose.
- (intransitive) To become unfastened or undone.
verb
- make fit for use
- mate with
- be used by; as of a utility
- (transitive) To make a repayment or pay interest (on a debt).
- (transitive) To serve.
- (transitive) To perform maintenance.
- (transitive, military, euphemistic) To attack.
- (public relations, transitive) To supply (media outlets) with press releases etc.
- (transitive, agriculture, euphemistic) To inseminate through sexual intercourse.
- (transitive, vulgar) To perform a sexual act upon.
noun
- a force that is a branch of the armed forces
- periodic maintenance on a car or machine
- work done by one person or group that benefits another
- a means of serving
- the act of mating by male animals
- employment in or work for another
- the act of public worship following prescribed rules
- a company or agency that performs a public service; subject to government regulation
- an act of help or assistance; something (such as a tool, software or system) used to render said help or assistance
- the performance of duties by a waiter or servant
- (law) the acts performed by an English feudal tenant for the benefit of their lord which formed the consideration for the property granted to them
- (sports) a stroke that puts the ball in play
- the act of delivering a writ or summons upon someone
- tableware consisting of a complete set of articles (silver or dishware) for use at table
- (Israel, West Bank, also in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria) A taxi shared among unrelated passengers, each of whom pays part of the fare; often, it has a fixed route between cities.
- (law) The serving, or delivery, of a summons or writ.
- (nautical) The materials used for serving a rope, etc., such as spun yarn and small lines.
- Access to resources such as hotel rooms and Web-based videos without transfer of the resources' ownership.
- (economics) The practice of providing assistance as economic activity.
- A religious rite or ritual.
- A set of dishes or utensils.
- (business) Synonym of utility (“commodity provided on a continuous basis by a physical infrastructure network, such as electricity, water supply or sewerage”).
- (elliptical, uncountable) Work as a member of the military.
- (computing) A function that is provided by one program or machine for another.
- The sorb; the fruit of this tree.
- An act of being of assistance to someone.
- (sports) The act of initially starting, or serving, the ball in play in tennis, volleyball, and other games.
- A musical composition for use in churches.
- The state of being subordinate to or employed by an individual or group.
- Service tree.
- A department in a company, organization, or institution.
- (with the) The military.
verb
noun
verb
- make large
- to swell or cause to enlarge
- fill with gas or air
- cause to burst with a violent release of energy
- get very angry and fly into a rage
- burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction
- exaggerate or make bigger
- add details to
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blow, up.
- (transitive) To inflate or fill with air, either by literally blowing or by using a pump.
- (transitive, also figuratively) To cause (something or someone) to explode, or to destroy (something) or maim or kill (someone) by means of an explosion.
- (intransitive, cycling) To succumb to oxygen debt and lose the ability to maintain pace in a race.
- (intransitive, also figuratively) To explode or be destroyed by explosion.
- (of a hangout) To overwhelm (a place) with traffic or volume by revealing its existence to others.
- (transitive) To enlarge or zoom in on.
- (intransitive, mathematics, said of a function) To increase without bound as a function argument or parameter approaches a certain value; to tend toward infinity; to approach infinity as a limit.
- (intransitive, slang) To become much more fat or rotund in a short space of time.
- (of a cell phone, pager, or similar) To receive a large number of calls, texts, or notifications, to the point of being rendered temporarily unusable or exasperating the recipient.
- (intransitive, slang) To suddenly get very angry, to lose one's temper.
- (transitive, figuratively) To represent something as being more important or serious than it actually is; to inflate; to exaggerate.
- (of a cell phone, pager, or similar) To bombard with a large number of calls, texts, or notifications, to the point of rendering temporarily unusable or exasperating the recipient.
- (intransitive, slang, of a device, machine, system, or establishment) To be overwhelmed by unexpectedly high demand, usage, activity, traffic volume, etc.
- (slang, colloquial) To cause a malodorous smell by flatulation, defecation, etc.
- (of a hangout) To be overwhelmed with traffic or volume.
- (intransitive) To fail disastrously.
- (transitive, slang, of a device, machine, system, or establishment) To overwhelm through unexpectedly high demand, activity, usage, traffic volume, etc.
- (intransitive, of a storm) To begin; to gather; to form.
- (slang, intransitive) To become popular very quickly.
- (sports) To blow the whistle.
verb
- make large
- make larger
- become larger or bigger
- add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing
- (intransitive) To grow larger.
- (nautical) To get more astern or parallel with the vessel's course; to draw aft; said of the wind.
- (law) To extend the time allowed for compliance with (an order or rule).
- (transitive) To increase the capacity of; to expand; to give free scope or greater scope to; also, to dilate, as with joy, affection, etc.
- (transitive) To make (something) larger.
- (intransitive) To speak or write at length upon or on (some subject); expand; elaborate
verb
- make large
- to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth
- increase in size, volume or significance
- (transitive) To praise, glorify (someone or something, especially God).
- (transitive) To make (someone or something) appear greater or more important than it is; to intensify, exaggerate.
- (transitive) To make (something) appear larger by means of a lens, magnifying glass, telescope etc.
- (transitive) To make (something) larger or more important.
adj
- Closely packed or densely constituted; having much material in a small volume.
- (of prose) Brief and pithy; not verbose.
- Having all necessary features fitting neatly into a small space.
- Such that every open cover has a finite subcover. In a metric space, this is equivalent to being sequentially compact. In metric spaces with the Heine-Borel property, this is equivalent to being closed and bounded.
- Compact in the above sense and moreover Hausdorff.
- closely and firmly united or packed together
- briefly giving the gist of something
- having a short and solid form or stature
verb
noun
- A broadsheet newspaper published in the size of a tabloid but keeping its non-sensational style.
- An agreement or contract.
- An automobile that is larger than a subcompact but smaller than an intermediate.
- A slim folding case, often featuring a mirror, powder and a powder puff, small enough to fit in a woman's purse, handbag, or pocket.
- a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action
- a small cosmetics case with a mirror; to be carried in a woman's purse
- a small and economical car
verb
- have the property of being packable or of compacting easily
- carry, as on one's back
- hike with a backpack
- load with a pack
- fill to capacity
- have with oneself; have on one's person
- seal with packing
- press down tightly
- compress into a wad
- press tightly together or cram
- treat the body or any part of it by wrapping it, as with blankets or sheets, and applying compresses to it, or stuffing it to provide cover, containment, or therapy, or to absorb blood
- arrange in a container
- set up a committee or legislative body with one's own supporters so as to influence the outcome
- (transitive) To load with a pack.
- (transitive) To cause to go; to send away with baggage or belongings; especially, to send away peremptorily or suddenly; – sometimes with off. See pack off.
- (transitive) To bring together or make up unfairly, in order to secure a certain result.
- (transitive, slang) To carry weapons, especially firearms, on one's person.
- (transitive) To make impervious, such as by filling or surrounding with suitable material, or to fit or adjust so as to move without allowing air, water, or steam inside.
- (transitive) To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack
- (intransitive, LGBTQ, especially of a trans man or drag king) To wear an object, such as a prosthetic penis, inside one’s trousers to appear more male or masculine.
- (transitive, historical) To combine (telegraph messages) in order to send them more cheaply as a single transmission.
- (transitive) To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot.
- (transitive, progressive aspect, slang) To have a large penis, as if carrying a large weapon on one's person.
- (transitive, US, chiefly Western US) To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (on the backs of men or animals).
- (transitive) To fill in the manner of a pack, that is, compactly and securely, as for transportation; hence, to fill closely or to repletion; to stow away within; to cause to be full; to crowd into.
- (intransitive) To depart in haste; – generally with off or away.
- (transitive, sports, slang) To block a shot, especially in basketball.
- (transitive, computing) To compress (data).
- (transitive, card games) To sort and arrange (the cards) in the pack to give oneself an unfair advantage
- (intransitive, of animals) To gather together in flocks, herds, schools or similar groups of animals.
- (intransitive) To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation.
- (intransitive) To form a compact mass, especially in order for transportation.
- (intransitive) To put together for morally wrong purposes; to join in cahoots.
- (transitive, figurative) To load; to encumber.
- (intransitive, rugby, of the forwards in a rugby team) To play together cohesively, specially with reference to technique in the scrum.
- (transitive) To wrap in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings.
noun
- an association of criminals
- a large indefinite quantity
- an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
- a sheet or blanket (either dry or wet) to wrap around the body for its therapeutic effect
- a convenient package or parcel (as of cigarettes or film)
- a bundle (especially one carried on the back)
- a complete collection of similar things
- a cream that cleanses and tones the skin
- a group of hunting animals
- A full set of playing cards
- A wolfpack: a number of wolves, hunting together.
- A group of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.
- A group of Cub Scouts.
- (roller derby) The largest group of blockers from both teams skating in close proximity.
- A bundle of sheet iron plates for rolling simultaneously.
- The assortment of playing cards used in a particular game.
- (slang) A loose, lewd, or worthless person.
- A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack
- A shook of cask staves.
- (rugby) The forwards in a rugby team (eight in Rugby Union, six in Rugby League) who with the opposing pack constitute the scrum.
- (medicine) An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment.
- A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back, but also a load for an animal, a bale.
- (snooker, pool) A tight group of object balls in cue sports. Usually the reds in snooker.
- A group of people associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang.
- A multitude.
- A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.
- A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective.
- A flock of knots.
- (slang) A package of cigarettes.
verb
adj
noun
- (figurative) Someone packed or crammed into a small space.
- Any one of several species of small herring which are commonly preserved in olive oil or in tins for food, especially the pilchard, or European sardine (Sardina pilchardus, syn. Clupea pilchardus). The American sardines of the Atlantic coast are mostly the young of the Atlantic herring and of the menhaden.
- Dark-brown sard.
- small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring
- small fatty fish usually canned
- any of various small edible herring or related food fishes frequently canned
- a deep orange-red variety of chalcedony
verb
- (transitive, dyeing) To load (fabrics) with barite, etc. to increase the weight.
- (transitive, sports) To give a certain amount of force to a throw, kick, hit, etc.
- (transitive) To load, burden or oppress someone.
- (transitive) To bias something; to slant.
- (transitive) To add weight to something; to make something heavier.
- (transitive, mathematics) To assign weights to individual statistics.
- (transitive, horse racing) To handicap a horse with a specified weight.
- present with a bias
- weight down with a load
noun
- An object used to make something heavier.
- (sometimes specifically) Ellipsis of free weight, as contrasted with the weights inside an exercise machine.
- (statistics) A variable which multiplies a value for ease of statistical manipulation.
- The downwards force an object experiences due to gravity.
- (slang, uncountable) Shipments of (often illegal) drugs.
- (figurative) Importance or influence.
- (slang, countable) One pound of drugs, especially cannabis.
- (physics) Mass (atomic weight, molecular weight, etc.) (in restricted circumstances).
- A standardized block of metal used in a balance to measure the mass of another object.
- (visual art) The illusion of mass.
- (measurement) Mass (net weight, troy weight, carat weight, etc.).
- (lubricants) Viscosity rating.
- The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.
- (visual art) The thickness and opacity of paint.
- (topology) The smallest cardinality of a base.
- Weight class
- (typography) The boldness of a font; the relative thickness of its strokes.
- (figurative) Pressure; burden.
- The thickness of yarn.
- (especially in computing, machine learning) Emphasis applied to a given criterion.
- (exercise, weightlifting) An object, such as a weight plate or barbell, used for strength training.
- (visual art) The relative thickness of a drawn rule or painted brushstroke, line weight.
- (physics, proscribed) Synonym of mass (in general circumstances).
- (statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance
- the relative importance granted to something
- a unit used to measure weight
- a system of units used to express the weight of something
- an artifact that is heavy
- an oppressive feeling of heavy force
- sports equipment used in calisthenic exercises and weightlifting; it is not attached to anything and is raised and lowered by use of the hands and arms
- the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity
verb
noun
verb
- make to a size; bring to a suitable size
- cover or stiffen or glaze a porous material with size or sizing (a glutinous substance)
- sort according to size
- (transitive) To apply glue or other primer to a surface which is to be painted.
- (mining) To sift (pieces of ore or metal) in order to separate the finer from the coarser parts.
- (military) To take the height of men, in order to place them in the ranks according to their stature.
- (intransitive) To take a greater size; to increase in size.
- (transitive) To adjust the size of; to make a certain size.
- (transitive, colloquial) To approximate the dimensions, estimate the size of.
- (biochemistry) To separate different proteins by molecular weight.
adj
noun
- the actual state of affairs
- a large magnitude
- any glutinous material used to fill pores in surfaces or to stiffen fabrics
- the physical magnitude of something (how big it is)
- the property resulting from being one of a series of graduated measurements (as of clothing)
- Alternative form of sice (“number six in dice games”).
- A thin, weak glue used as primer for paper or canvas intended to be painted upon.
- Wallpaper paste.
- The dimensions or magnitude of a thing; how big something is.
- A specific set of dimensions for a manufactured article, especially clothing.
- (graph theory) The number of edges in a graph.
- An instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges fastened together at one end by a rivet, used for measuring the size of pearls
- Any viscous substance, such as gilder's varnish.
- The thickened crust on coagulated blood.
- (US) Ellipsis of chili size (“hamburger served with chili con carne”).
verb
- make bigger or wider in size, volume, or quantity
- grow vigorously
- become larger in size or volume or quantity
- extend in one or more directions
- expand the influence of
- exaggerate or make bigger
- add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing
- (transitive) To express (something) at length and/or in detail.
- (transitive) To change (something) from a smaller form or size to a larger one; to spread out or lay open.
- (transitive, computing) In a hierarchical list (such as a directory tree or table of contents), to show the subentries of (an entry).
- (intransitive) To increase in extent, number, volume or scope.
- (transitive, algebra) To rewrite (an expression) as a longer, yet equivalent, sum of terms.
- (transitive, arithmetic) To multiply both the numerator and the denominator of a fraction by the same (non-zero) number (which yields a fraction of equal value).
- (transitive) To increase the extent, number, volume or scope of (something).
- (intransitive) To feel generous or optimistic.
- (intransitive) To speak or write at length or in detail.
- (intransitive, algebra, of an expression) To become, by rewriting, a longer, yet equivalent, sum of terms.
- (intransitive) To change or grow from smaller to larger in form, number, or size.
verb
- increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance
- reach outward in space
- use to the utmost; exert vigorously or to full capacity
- extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length
- thrust or extend out
- cause to move at full gallop
- offer verbally
- open or straighten out; unbend
- extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body
- extend in scope or range or area
- expand the influence of
- prolong the time allowed for payment of
- span an interval of distance, space or time
- lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer
- continue or extend
- make available; provide
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
- (transitive) To cause to last for a longer period of time.
- (intransitive) To possess a certain extent; to cover an amount of space.
- (intransitive, US, military) To reenlist for a further period.
- (transitive) To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply.
- (UK, law) To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent.
- (transitive) To cause to increase in extent.
- To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions.
- (transitive) To straighten (a limb).
- (object-oriented programming) Of a class: to be an extension or subtype of, or to be based on, a prototype or a more abstract class.
- (intransitive) To increase in extent.
noun
verb
- increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance
- become longer by being stretched and pulled
- extend the scope or meaning of; often unduly
- extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length
- extend one's body or limbs
- corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
- make long or longer by pulling and stretching
- occupy a large, elongated area
- pull in opposite directions
- extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body
- lie down comfortably
- (figuratively, transitive) To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
- (figuratively, transitive) To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
- (intransitive) To increase, to grow.
- (physics, transitive) To make a pulse or particle bunch longer by applying dispersion to it.
- (nautical) To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
- (transitive) To increase.
- (transitive) To make great demands on the capacity or resources of something.
- (intransitive) To extend physically, especially from a limit point and/or to a limit point.
- (intransitive, transitive) To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body, for example in order to improve the elasticity of one's muscles.
- (transitive) To pull tight.
- (intransitive) To lengthen when pulled.
- (transitive) To lengthen by pulling.
adj
noun
- an unbroken period of time during which you do something
- the capacity for being stretched
- exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent
- the act of physically reaching or thrusting out
- extension to or beyond the ordinary limit
- a large and unbroken expanse or distance
- a straightaway section of a racetrack
- Ellipsis of stretch limousine.
- A segment or length of material.
- (informal) Term of address for a tall person.
- The ability to lengthen when pulled.
- A segment of a journey or route.
- (baseball) A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman in order to catch the ball sooner.
- (slang) A jail or prison term of one year's duration.
- (horse racing) The homestretch, the final straight section of the track leading to the finish.
- (Ireland) Extended daylight hours, especially said of the evening in springtime when compared to the shorter winter days.
- (slang) A jail or prison term.
- A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief or exaggeration.
- (baseball) A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead of lifting it.
- (sports) The period of the season between the trade deadline and the beginning of the playoffs.
- An act of stretching.
- A length of time.
- A single uninterrupted sitting; a turn.
verb
- make denser, stronger, or purer
- cook until very little liquid is left
- make central
- compress or concentrate
- be cooked until very little liquid is left
- make more concise
- direct one's attention on something
- draw together or meet in one common center
- (ergative) To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force.
- (intransitive) To focus one's thought or attention (on).
- To approach or meet in a common center; to consolidate.
- To increase the strength and diminish the bulk of, as of a liquid or an ore; to intensify, by getting rid of useless material; to condense.
noun
adj
verb
- press or wedge together; pack together
- have an effect upon
- (transitive) To collide or strike, the act of impinging.
- (transitive) To compress; to compact; to press into something or pack together.
- (transitive, rare) To stamp or impress onto something.
- (transitive, figurative, proscribed) To significantly or strongly influence or affect; to have an impact on.
noun
- influencing strongly
- the violent interaction of individuals or groups entering into combat
- the striking of one body against another
- a forceful consequence; a strong effect
- (chiefly medicine) A forced impinging.
- The striking of one body against another; collision.
- The force or energy of a collision of two objects.
- (figurative, proscribed) A significant or strong influence or effect.
verb
- fill tightly with a material
- treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting
- overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
- press or force
- fill with a stuffing while cooking
- obstruct
- cram into a cavity
- (transitive, mildly vulgar, often imperative) Used to contemptuously dismiss or reject something. See also stuff it.
- (transitive) To load goods into (a container) for transport.
- (transitive, British, Australia, New Zealand) To break; to destroy.
- To preserve a dead bird or other animal by filling its skin.
- (transitive) To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.
- (informal) To heavily defeat or get the better of.
- (transitive, cooking) To fill with seasoning.
- (transitive) To fill by packing or crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess.
- (transitive, computing) To compress (a file or files) in the StuffIt format, to be unstuffed later.
- (pronominal) To eat, especially in a hearty or greedy manner.
- (transitive) To cut off another competitor in a race by disturbing his projected and committed racing line (trajectory) by an abrupt manoeuvre.
- (transitive) To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.
- (transitive) To fill a space with (something) in a compressed manner.
- (transitive, vulgar, British, Australia, New Zealand) To sexually penetrate.
- (transitive, used in the passive) To sate.
noun
- the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object
- unspecified qualities required to do or be something
- a critically important or characteristic component
- informal terms for personal possessions
- information in some unspecified form
- senseless talk
- miscellaneous unspecified objects
- (informal) Unspecified things or matters.
- The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.
- (informal) Miscellaneous items or objects; (with possessive) personal effects.
- Abstract/figurative substance or character.
- (informal) Used as placeholder, usually for material of unknown type or name.
- (slang) Narcotic drugs, especially heroin.
- (nautical) A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication.
- (sometimes euphemistic) Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language.
- Paper stock ground ready for use. When partly ground, it is called half stuff.
verb
- make (substances) hard and improve their usability
- be or become preserved
- provide a cure for, make healthy again
- prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve
- (intransitive) To undergo a chemical or physical process for preservation or use.
- (transitive) To cause to be rid of (a defect).
- (transitive) To prepare or alter, especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use.
- (intransitive) To bring about a cure of any kind.
- (transitive) To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end.
- (intransitive) To solidify or gel.
- (transitive) To restore to health.
- To preserve (food), typically by salting.
noun
- a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain
- A process of preservation, as by smoking.
- Cured fish.
- (figurative) A solution to a problem.
- An act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health after a disease, or to soundness after injury.
- Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate.
- A process of solidification or gelling.
- (engineering) A process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure or weathering.
- A method, device or medication that restores good health.
- That which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate.
verb
- make viscous or dense
- make thick or thicker
- become thick or thicker
- (transitive) To make thicker (in the sense of wider).
- (transitive) To make more frequent.
- (academic) To make more detailed or comprehensive.
- (intransitive) To become thicker (in the sense of more viscous).
- (intransitive) To become thicker (in the sense of wider).
- (transitive) To strengthen; to confirm.
- (transitive) To make thicker (in the sense of more viscous).
noun
- an adjustment made for the weight of the packaging in order to determine the net weight of the goods
- (chemical analysis) a counterweight used in chemical analysis; consists of an empty container that counterbalances the weight of the container holding chemicals
- any of several weedy vetches grown for forage
- the weight of a motor vehicle, railroad car, or aircraft without its fuel or cargo
- weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous
- Any of the tufted grasses of genus Lolium; darnel.
- Any of various dipping sauces served with Japanese food, typically based on soy sauce.
- (rare, figuratively) A damaging weed growing in fields of grain.
- (rare) A vetch, or the seed of a vetch (genus Vicia, esp. Vicia sativa)
- The empty weight of a container; unladen weight.
- Alternative form of tara (“Indian coin”).
verb
adv
adj
noun
verb
adv
- So as to reduce size, weight or volume.
- At or towards any place that is visualised as 'down' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
- Away from the city (regardless of direction).
- (crosswords, in relation to a numbered clued word) In a downwards direction; vertically.
- To the south (as south is at the bottom of typical maps).
- (sentence substitute, imperative) Get down.
- Forward, straight ahead.
- On paper (or in a durable record).
- To a subordinate or less prestigious position or rank.
- So as to be cowed into silence.
- Into a state of non-operation.
- (comparable) From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
- From less to greater detail.
- Used with verbs to indicate that the action of the verb was carried to some state of completion, permanence, or success rather than being of indefinite duration.
- (comparable) At a lower or further place or position along a set path.
- To or towards what is considered the bottom of something, irrespective of whether this is presently physically lower.
- So as to lessen quantity, level or intensity.
- (sports) Towards the opponent's side (in ball-sports).
- From a remoter or higher antiquity.
- (rail transport) In the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
- As a down payment.
- So as to secure or compress something to the floor, ground, or other (usually horizontal) surface.
- away from a more central or a more northerly place
- from an earlier time
- in an inactive or inoperative state
- to a lower intensity
- spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position
- paid in cash at time of purchase
adj
- (baseball, cricket, colloquial, following the noun modified) Out.
- (not comparable, military, law enforcement, slang, of a person) Wounded and unable to move normally, or killed.
- (not comparable) Inoperable; out of order; out of service.
- Having a lower score than an opponent.
- (veterinary medicine, of a cow) Stranded in a recumbent position; unable to stand.
- (rail transport, of a train) Travelling in the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
- Finished (of a task); defeated or dealt with (of an opponent or obstacle); elapsed (of time). Often coupled with to go (remaining).
- (normally in the combination 'down with') Sick or ill.
- (informal) Sad, unhappy, depressed, feeling low.
- (slang) In prison.
- (of a tree, limb, etc) Fallen or felled.
- At a lower level than before.
- (colloquial, with "on") Negative about; hostile to.
- (Canada, US, slang) Comfortable [with]; accepting [of]; okay [with].
- Facing downwards.
- Thoroughly practiced, learned or memorised; mastered. (Compare down pat.)
- (not comparable, military, aviation, slang, of an aircraft) Mechanically failed, collided, shot down, or otherwise suddenly unable to fly.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) Accepted, respected, or loyally participating in the (thug) community.
- being put out in a game of baseball
- lower than previously
- extending or moving from a higher to a lower place
- filled with melancholy and despondency
- understood perfectly
- becoming progressively lower
- shut
- not functioning (temporarily or permanently)
- being or moving lower in position or less in some value
noun
- Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping bags and jackets.
- The lightest quark with a charge number of −¹⁄₃.
- (usually in the plural) A field, especially one used for horse racing.
- (UK, chiefly in the plural) A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep.
- (gambling) The shift or period of time during which a dealer manages a given table before rotating to the next table at a casino or cardroom, which is often 30 minutes.
- (American football) A single play, from the time the ball is snapped (the start) to the time the whistle is blown (the end) when the ball is down, or is downed.
- A downstairs room of a two-story house.
- The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
- A negative aspect; a downer, a downside.
- That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down.
- (especially Southern England, also Australia, often plural, often in place names) A hill; in England, especially a chalk hill.
- (crosswording) A clue whose solution runs vertically in the grid.
- (botany) The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, such as the thistle.
- Down payment.
- A downer, depressant.
- An act of swallowing an entire drink at once.
- fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)
- soft fine feathers
- (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil
- (American football) a complete play to advance the football
prep
- From one end to another of (in any direction); along.
- Towards the mouth of (a river); in the direction of flow of.
- (UK, Ireland) To (a given place that is seen as removed from one's present location or other point of reference).
- From north to south of.
- (UK, Ireland) At (a given place that is seen as removed from one's present location or other point of reference).
- From the higher end to the lower of.
verb
- (transitive, golf, pocket billiards) To sink (a ball) into a hole or pocket.
- (transitive) To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down; to fell.
- (transitive, colloquial) To drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing the liquid is empty.
- (transitive) Specifically, to cause (something in the air) to fall to the ground; to bring down (with a missile etc.).
- (transitive, colloquial) To disparage; to put down.
- (transitive, American football, Canadian football) To render (the ball) dead, typically by touching the ground while in possession.
- (transitive, figurative) To defeat; to overpower.
- (transitive) To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.
- (transitive) To lower; to put (something) down.
- eat up completely, as with great appetite
- shoot at and force to come down
- improve or perfect by pruning or polishing
- bring down or defeat (an opponent)
- drink down entirely
- cause to come or go down
adj
adj
- made heavy or weighted down with weariness
- adjusted to reflect value or proportion
- (statistics) With the components of an average multiplied by particular factors so as to take account of their relative importance.
- Containing a large proportion (of something).
- Biased, so as to favour one party.
- (graph theory, of a graph) having values assigned to its edges
- Having weights on it.
verb
adj
- imposing in size or bulk or solidity
- Substantial in mass; bulky, heavy and solid.
- imposing in scale or scope or degree or power
- consisting of great mass; containing a great quantity of matter
- being the same substance throughout
- (mineralogy) Not having an obvious crystalline structure.
- (colloquial) Of particularly exceptional quality or value; awesome.
- (general) Very large in size or extent.
- (medicine) Affecting a large portion of the body, or severe.
- (informal) To a very great extent; total, utter.
- (physics, of a particle) Having any mass.
- (geology) Homogeneous, unstructured.
- (colloquial, informal, Ireland) Outstanding, beautiful.
noun
adj
- imposing in size or bulk or solidity
- characterized by massiveness and rigidity and total uniformity
- (figurative) Of a single structure, a singular component; instead of an assembly.
- (engineering) Consisting of a single piece of homogeneous material as opposed to a composite material or an assembly of multiple parts.
- (figurative) Having a massive, unchanging structure that does not permit individual variation.
- (software engineering) Consisting of a single program or codebase.
- Of or resembling a monolith.
adj
- Closely packed or densely constituted; having much material in a small volume.
- (of prose) Brief and pithy; not verbose.
- Having all necessary features fitting neatly into a small space.
- Such that every open cover has a finite subcover. In a metric space, this is equivalent to being sequentially compact. In metric spaces with the Heine-Borel property, this is equivalent to being closed and bounded.
- Compact in the above sense and moreover Hausdorff.
- closely and firmly united or packed together
- briefly giving the gist of something
- having a short and solid form or stature
verb
noun
- A broadsheet newspaper published in the size of a tabloid but keeping its non-sensational style.
- An agreement or contract.
- An automobile that is larger than a subcompact but smaller than an intermediate.
- A slim folding case, often featuring a mirror, powder and a powder puff, small enough to fit in a woman's purse, handbag, or pocket.
- a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action
- a small cosmetics case with a mirror; to be carried in a woman's purse
- a small and economical car
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verb
adj
- large and powerful; especially designed for heavy loads or rough work
- given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors
- of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought
- in an advanced stage of pregnancy
- unusually great in degree or quantity or number
- slow and laborious because of weight
- prodigious
- of relatively large extent and density
- full and loud and deep
- usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it
- of comparatively great physical weight or density
- darkened by clouds
- full of; bearing great weight
- (of an actor or role) being or playing the villain
- (of sleep) deep and complete
- sharply inclined
- dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal
- (used of soil) compact and fine-grained
- marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness
- (physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight
- requiring or showing effort
- made of fabric having considerable thickness
- permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter
- of the military or industry; using (or being) the heaviest and most powerful armaments or weapons or equipment
- lacking lightness or liveliness
- of great intensity or power or force
- characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
- (of a person) Heavyset: overweight.
- Not raised or leavened.
- (of weather) Hot and humid.
- Of great force, power, or intensity; deep or intense.
- (of any physical thing) Having great weight.
- (oil industry) Of petroleum, having high viscosity.
- (of a topic) Serious, somber.
- (nautical, military) Heavily-armed.
- (of music) Loud, distorted, or intense.
- (of wines or spirits) Having much body or strength.
- (physics) Containing one or more isotopes that are heavier than the normal one.
- (aviation, of an aircraft) Having a relatively high takeoff weight and payload.
- (of food) High in fat or protein; difficult to digest.
- Laden with that which is weighty; encumbered; burdened; bowed down, either with an actual burden, or with grief, pain, disappointment, etc.
- (of the eyes) With eyelids difficult to keep open due to tiredness.
- Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive.
- Doing the specified activity more intensely than most other people.
- (slang) Armed.
- (finance) Of a market: in which the price of shares is declining.
- Having the heaves.
- Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid.
- Having a maximum takeoff weight exceeding 300,000 tons, as almost all widebodies do, generating high wake turbulence.
- (of a rate of flow) High, great.
- Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey.
noun
- an actor who plays villainous roles
- a serious (or tragic) role in a play
- (journalism, slang, chiefly in the plural) A newspaper of the quality press.
- (aviation) A relatively large multi-engined aircraft.
- (slang) A doorman, bouncer or bodyguard.
- (slang) A villain or bad guy; the one responsible for evil or aggressive acts.
- (military, historical) A member of the heavy cavalry.
- A prominent figure; a "major player".
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verb
adj
- capable of being compressed or made more compact
- capable of being easily compressed
- able to be compressed
- (topology, of a surface embedded in a 3-dimensional manifold) Containing a circle that does not serve as the boundary of a disk that lies in the surface, but does serve as boundary of a disk that lies in the ambient manifold.
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adj
- Heavy in build; thickset.
- (slang, chiefly of women) Curvy and voluptuous, and especially having large hips.
- Impenetrable to sight.
- Deep, intense, or profound.
- Having a viscous consistency.
- Densely crowded or packed.
- Greatly evocative of one's nationality or place of origin.
- Difficult to understand, or poorly articulated.
- (informal) Friendly or intimate.
- (informal) Stupid.
- Measuring a certain number of units in this dimension.
- Abounding in number.
- Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension.
- (academic) Detailed and expansive; substantive.
- (used informally) associated on close terms
- spoken as if with a thick tongue
- not thin; of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions
- abounding; having a lot of
- (of darkness) densely dark
- relatively dense in consistency
- hard to pass through because of dense growth
- (used informally) stupid
- having a short and solid form or stature
- having component parts closely crowded together
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noun
adj
- of considerable weight and size
- Strong; bulky.
- (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful
- large in amount or extent or degree
- Heavy, weighing a lot.
- (of a person) Possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful; powerfully or heavily built.
- With heft; heavy, strong, vigorous, mighty, impressive
- (of a number or amount) Large, healthy.