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verb
noun
- (medicine) A sheath that surrounds a limb and which is used under a cast.
- (fishing) An optional wrap that goes under the guide wrap on a fishing rod.
- (sewing) The portion of a garment that is overlapped by another portion, such as the hidden part of a wrap skirt or the edge that holds buttons which is hidden when a garment is buttoned up.
- (medicine) A lightweight foam that is applied to the skin to reduce irritation before wrapping with supportive tape.
- An undergarment that consists of a cloth wrapped around the body.
noun
- any wrapper or covering
- Something that envelops; a wrapping.
- the maximum operating capability of a system (especially an aircraft)
- a curve that is tangent to each of a family of curves
- a flat (usually rectangular) container for a letter, thin package, etc.
- a natural covering (as by a fluid)
- the bag containing the gas in a balloon
- (engineering) The set of limitations within which a technological system can perform safely and effectively.
- (astronomy) The nebulous covering of the head or nucleus of a comet; a coma.
- (electronics) A curve that bounds another curve or set of curves, as the modulation envelope of an amplitude-modulated carrier wave in electronics.
- A paper or cardboard wrapper used to enclose small, flat items, especially letters, for mailing.
- (music) The shape of a sound, which may be controlled by a synthesizer or sampler.
- A bag containing the lifting gas of a balloon or airship; fabric that encloses the gas-bags of an airship.
- (biology) An enclosing structure or cover, such as a membrane; a space between two membranes
- (geometry) A mathematical curve, surface, or higher-dimensional object that is the tangent to a given family of lines, curves, surfaces, or higher-dimensional objects.
- (networking) The information used for routing a message that is transmitted with the message but not part of its contents.
- An earthwork in the form of a single parapet or a small rampart, sometimes raised in the ditch and sometimes beyond it.
verb
adj
verb
adj
- not carefully arranged in a package
- having escaped, especially from confinement
- not tense or taut
- emptying easily or excessively
- not officially recognized or controlled
- casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior
- not compact or dense in structure or arrangement
- lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility
- not affixed
- (of a ball in sport) not in the possession or control of any player
- not tight; not closely constrained or constricted or constricting
- (of textures) full of small openings or gaps
- not literal
- Relaxed.
- Not fitting closely.
- Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate.
- (not comparable, sports) Not being in the possession of any competing team during a game.
- Indiscreet.
- Not fixed in place tightly or firmly.
- Not held or packaged together.
- (of volumes of materials) Measured loosely stacked or disorganized (such as of firewood).
- Not under control.
- Not compact.
- (US, slang, motor racing, of a stock car) Having oversteer.
adv
verb
- become loose or looser or less tight
- grant freedom to; free from confinement
- turn loose or free from restraint
- make loose or looser
- (archery) To shoot (an arrow).
- Misspelling of lose.
- (transitive) To let loose, to free from restraints.
- (intransitive) Of a grip or hold, to let go.
- (transitive) To unfasten, to loosen.
- (transitive) To make less tight, to loosen.
intj
noun
verb
- remove the outer cover or wrapping of
- cancel, annul, or reverse an action or its effect
- cause the ruin or downfall of
- deprive of certain characteristics
- cause to become loose
- (transitive) To unfasten.
- To reverse the effects of an action.
- (transitive, colloquial) To unfasten the clothing of (a person).
- (figuratively) To impoverish or ruin, as in reputation; to cause the downfall of.
adj
noun
verb
- remove the outer cover or wrapping of
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- (transitive, computing) To remove word wrap from.
- (transitive, computer graphics) To flatten (a three-dimensional model) into a two-dimensional plane.
- (intransitive) To become unwrapped.
- (transitive) To open or undo, as what is wrapped or folded.
noun
verb
- To make insufficient allowance for; to scant; to scrimp.
- (intransitive) To save; to be parsimonious or stingy.
- (Scotland, Northern England) To mock, deride, scorn, scold, make fun of.
- (transitive) To slight; to do carelessly; to scamp.
- supply sparingly and with restricted quantities
- work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially
- limit in quality or quantity
- subsist on a meager allowance
noun
noun
- A wrapper for loose papers.
- A leaf of a book or manuscript.
- A page number. The even folios are on the left-hand pages and the odd folios on the right-hand pages.
- (computing) A protective case with a flap that folds to cover the screen of a mobile device.
- A book made of sheets of paper each folded in half (two leaves or four pages to the sheet); hence, a book of the largest kind, exceeding 30 centimetres in height.
- A page of a book, that is, one side of a leaf of a book.
- (accounting) A page in an account book; sometimes, two opposite pages bearing the same serial number.
- A sheet of paper folded in half.
- the system of numbering pages
- a sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book)
- a book (or manuscript) consisting of large sheets of paper folded in the middle to make two leaves or four pages
verb
adj
adj
- insufficiently cooked
- foolish; totally unsound
- Of a person, foolish or having no common sense.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: Partially cooked by heating in an oven, either as an accidental outcome or as a work in process.
- Of an idea or scheme, not fully planned or carefully considered, ill-conceived, unsound or poorly thought-out.
- (informal, figurative) Mildly under the influence (of alcohol).
noun
- (uncountable) Ellipsis of wrapping paper.
- Ellipsis of newspaper; anything used as such (such as a newsletter or listing magazine).
- (rock paper scissors) An open hand (a handshape resembling a sheet of paper), that beats rock and loses to scissors. It loses to lizard and beats Spock in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.
- (uncountable) Ellipsis of wallpaper.
- A paper packet containing a quantity of items.
- (New Zealand, countable) A university course.
- A medicinal preparation spread upon paper, intended for external application.
- A substance resembling paper secreted by certain invertebrates as protection for their nests and eggs.
- A written document, generally shorter than a book; usually written as a school assignment or a government report.
- (British, Hong Kong) A set of examination questions to be answered at one session.
- (finance, uncountable) Any financial assets other than specie, including paper money, commercial paper, and others.
- A sheet material typically used for writing on or printing on (or as a non-waterproof container), usually made by draining cellulose fibres from a suspension in water.
- (slang) Money.
- A written document that reports scientific or academic research and is usually subjected to peer review before publication in a scientific journal (as a journal article or the manuscript for one) or in the proceedings of a scientific or academic meeting (such as a conference, workshop, or symposium).
- a daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains news and articles and advertisements
- an essay (especially one written as an assignment)
- a material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses
- a medium for written communication
- a business firm that publishes newspapers
- the physical object that is the product of a newspaper publisher
- a scholarly article describing the results of observations or stating hypotheses
adj
verb
- (transitive) To sandpaper.
- (transitive) To submit official papers to (a law court, etc.).
- (transitive) To enfold in paper.
- To paste the endpapers and flyleaves at the beginning and end of a book before fitting it into its covers.
- (transitive) To give public notice (typically by displaying posters) that a person is wanted by the police or other authority.
- (transitive) To fill (a theatre or other paid event) with complimentary seats.
- (transitive) To document; to memorialize.
- (transitive) To apply paper to.
- (Northeastern US) To cover someone's house with toilet paper. Otherwise known as toilet papering or TPing.
- cover with wallpaper
- cover with paper
adj
noun
verb
adj
verb
- To remove the outer covering or shell of something.
- (topology) To form a shelling.
- To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
- (computing, intransitive) To switch to a shell or command line.
- (cricket, slang, transitive) To drop (the ball).
- (intransitive) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
- (intransitive) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
- (informal) To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
- To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
- remove from its shell or outer covering
- use explosives on
- create by using explosives
- fall out of the pod or husk
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- look for and collect shells by the seashore
- remove the husks from
- hit the pitches of hard and regularly
noun
- The covering, or outside part, of a nut.
- (architecture) Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in, as the shell of a house.
- The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
- A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that often fastens in the rear.
- (nautical, rigging) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
- (nautical) The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
- A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
- (figuratively) The empty outward form of someone or something.
- (music) A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
- In formal debating, a set of proposed rules to be followed, with set penalties for violating them.
- A psychological barrier to social interaction.
- (figuratively) The outward form independent of what is inside.
- (British, education) One or more school grades within secondary education, at certain public schools.
- The thin coating of copper on an electrotype.
- (chemistry) A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
- (music) The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims added for tuning and for attaching the drum head.
- One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
- An engraved copper roller used in print works.
- The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
- The conjoined scutes that constitute the "shell" (carapace) of a tortoise or turtle.
- (UK, slang) A person's ear.
- (geology) The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
- An emaciated person.
- (nautical) A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper; a racing shell or dragon boat.
- (computing) An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs and control their interactions; the user's command interpreter. Shell is a way to separate the internal complexity of the implementation of the command from the user. The internals can change while the user experience/interface remains the same.
- (weaponry) A hollow, usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon. It contains an explosive substance designed to be ignited by a fuse or by percussion at the target site so that it will burst and scatter at high velocity its contents and fragments. Formerly called a bomb.
- (business) A legal entity that has no operations.
- (in the plural) Husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is sometimes used as a substitute or adulterant for cocoa and its products such as chocolate.
- (by extension) Any mollusk having such a covering.
- (figuratively) A person otherwise diminished.
- The overlapping hard plates comprising the armor covering the armadillo's body.
- (weaponry) The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
- (weaponry) The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
- (phonology) The onset and coda of a syllable.
- A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
- A pod containing the seeds of certain plants, such as the legume Phaseolus vulgaris.
- An unmarked vehicle for carrying corpses from a crime scene.
- (entomology) The exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects.
- (engineering) A gouge bit or shell bit.
- a rigid covering that envelops an object
- the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod
- a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
- the hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits especially nuts
- hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles
- the housing or outer covering of something
- the exterior covering of a bird's egg
- a very light narrow racing boat
- ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun
- the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals
noun
verb
noun
- a piece of soft material that covers and protects an injured part of the body
- (figuratively, by extension) A provisional or makeshift solution that provides insufficient coverage or relief.
- A strip of gauze or similar material used to protect or support a wound or injury.
- A strip of cloth bound round the head and eyes as a blindfold.
verb
- wrap around with something so as to cover or enclose
- fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord
- cause to be constipated
- make fast; tie or secure, with or as if with a rope
- provide with a binding
- stick to firmly
- secure with or as if with ropes
- form a chemical bond with
- create social or emotional ties
- bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted
- (transitive) To confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or influence of any kind.
- (intransitive, LGBTQ) To wear a binder so as to flatten one's chest to give the appearance of a flat chest, usually done by trans men.
- (transitive) To put together in a cover, as of books.
- (transitive, programming) To process one or more object modules into an executable program.
- (transitive) To cover, as with a bandage.
- (figuratively) To oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other social tie.
- (transitive) To tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.
- (intransitive) To tie; to confine by any ligature.
- (law) To place under legal obligation to serve.
- (transitive, chemistry) To make two or more elements stick together.
- (transitive) To protect or strengthen by applying a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment.
- (transitive) To couple.
- (intransitive) To cohere or stick together in a mass.
- (law) To put (a person) under definite legal obligations, especially, under the obligation of a bond or covenant.
- (intransitive) To exert a binding or restraining influence.
- (intransitive) To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction.
- (UK, dialect) To complain; to whine about something.
- (transitive, programming) To associate an identifier with a value; to associate a variable name, method name, etc. with the content of a storage location.
noun
- something that hinders as if with bonds
- The indurated clay of coal mines, or other overlying substances such as sandstone or shale.
- Any twining or climbing plant or stem, especially a hop vine; a bine.
- (countable) That which binds or ties.
- (countable) A troublesome situation; a problem; a predicament or quandary.
- (chess, countable) A strong grip or stranglehold on a position, which is difficult for the opponent to break.
- (music, countable) A ligature or tie for grouping notes.
noun
- a wrapped container
- (computer science) written programs or procedures or rules and associated documentation pertaining to the operation of a computer system and that are stored in read/write memory
- a collection of things wrapped or boxed together
- Something which consists of various components, such as a piece of computer software.
- (uncountable, historical) A charge made for packing goods.
- (euphemistic, vulgar) The male genitalia.
- (television, radio) Synonym of wrap (“complete news report ready for broadcast”).
- Something resembling a package.
- A package holiday.
- (software) A piece of software which has been prepared in such a way that it can be installed with a package manager.
- Something which is packed, a parcel, a box, an envelope.
- A football formation.
- (journalism) A group of related stories spread over several pages.
verb
noun
- a wrapped container
- the allotment of some amount by dividing something
- an extended area of land
- a collection of things wrapped or boxed together
- A division of land bought and sold as a unit.
- A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.
- An individual consignment of cargo for shipment, regardless of size and form.
- An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group.
- A package wrapped for shipment.
- A small amount of food that has been wrapped up, for example a pastry.
- An individual item appearing on an invoice or receipt (only in the phrase bill of parcels).
verb
noun
- The act of wrapping
- (Australia, informal) Alternative spelling of rap (“appraisal”).
- A wraparound mortgage.
- (television, radio) A complete news report ready for broadcast, incorporating spoken reporting and other material.
- (automotive) A large sheet of self-adhesive material applied over a vehicle's paintwork for decorative or protective purposes.
- A loose piece of women's clothing that one wraps around the body; a shawl or scarf.
- Paper or sheeting that is wrapped around something to protect, contain, or conceal it.
- (entertainment) The completion of all or a major part of a performance.
- (poker slang) A straight draw in which there are more than 8 outs to complete the straight, especially in Omaha hold 'em.
- A type of food consisting of various ingredients wrapped in a tortilla or pancake.
- the covering (usually paper or cellophane) in which something is wrapped
- cloak that is folded or wrapped around a person
- a sandwich in which the filling is rolled up in a soft tortilla
verb
- (transitive) To enclose or coil around an object or organism, as a form of grasping.
- (transitive or intransitive) To (cause to) reset to an original value after passing a maximum.
- (transitive, lines, words, text, etc.) To break a continuous line (of text) onto the next line
- (transitive) To enclose (an object) completely in any flexible, thin material such as fabric or paper.
- (computing, transitive) To make functionality available through a software wrapper.
- (transitive, figurative) To conceal by enveloping or enfolding; to hide.
- (transitive or intransitive, video production) To finish shooting (filming) a video, television show, or movie.
- enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering
- arrange or fold as a cover or protection
- arrange or coil around
- crash into so as to coil around
adj
- containing little excess
- not profitable or prosperous
- lacking in mineral content or combustible material
- lacking excess flesh
- (business) Efficient, economic, frugal, agile, slimmed-down; pertaining to the modern industrial principles of "lean manufacturing".
- Having little extra or little to spare; scanty; meagre.
- (of meat) Having little fat.
- Having a low proportion or concentration of a desired substance or ingredient.
- (of a person or animal) Slim; not fleshy.
noun
- the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical
- (uncountable) Meat with no fat on it.
- (US slang) A recreational drug composed of codeine-promethazine cough syrup mixed with usually soda and associated with the hip-hop culture of the Southern United States.
- (countable, biology) An organism that is lean in stature.
- (of an object taller than its width and depth) An inclination away from the vertical.
verb
- cause to lean to the side
- have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined
- rely on for support
- cause to lean or incline
- to incline or bend from a vertical position
- (copulative) To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; often with to, toward, etc.
- To hang outwards.
- To thin out (a fuel-air mixture): to reduce the fuel flow into the mixture so that there is more air or oxygen.
- (Followed by against, on, or upon) To rest or rely, for support, comfort, to use as a hard surface for writing, etc.
- (intransitive) To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating.
- To press against.
verb
adj
noun
- A pallet.
- (Internet slang) A stepchild.
- A basic platform for the storage and transport of goods, machinery or equipment, later developed into the pallet.
- A ski-shaped runner or supporting surface as found on a helicopter or other aircraft in place of wheels.
- An out-of-control sliding motion as would result from applying the brakes too hard in a car or other vehicle.
- (aviation) A banked sideslip where the aircraft's nose is yawed towards the low wing, often due to excessive rudder input.
- (sports) A losing streak.
- (by extension) A hook attached to a chain, used for the same purpose.
- A runner of a sled.
- (Internet slang) A script kiddie.
- A shoe or clog, as of iron, attached to a chain, and placed under the wheel of a wagon to prevent its turning when descending a steep hill.
- One of a pair of horizontal rails or timbers for supporting anything, such as a boat or barrel.
- a restraint provided when the brake linings are moved hydraulically against the brake drum to retard the wheel's rotation
- an unexpected slide
- one of a pair of planks used to make a track for rolling or sliding objects
verb
- (Internet slang) To steal or copy, especially computer code.
- (transitive) To cause to move on skids.
- (intransitive, transitive, aviation) To operate an aircraft in a banked sideslip with the nose yawed towards the low wing.
- (intransitive) (of a wheel, sled runner, or vehicle tracks) To slide along the ground, without the rotary motion that wheels or tracks would normally have.
- (transitive) To check or halt (wagon wheels, etc.) with a skid.
- (intransitive) To slide in an uncontrolled manner as in a car with the brakes applied too hard, the wheels sliding with limited spinning.
- (transitive) To protect or support with a skid or skids.
- elevate onto skids
- move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner
- apply a brake or skid to
- slide without control
verb
- To enclose or cover with a net.
- (transitive, figuratively) To catch in a trap, or by stratagem.
- (dialectal) To clean, wash, rinse.
- To fully hedge a position.
- To form a netting or network; to knit.
- (transitive) To receive as profit.
- (transitive) To yield as profit for.
- (tennis) To hit the ball into the net.
- (transitive, soccer) To score (a goal).
- (transitive) To catch by means of a net.
- catch with a net
- make as a net profit
- yield as a net profit
- construct or form a web, as if by weaving
adj
adv
intj
noun
- (by extension) A trap.
- A device made from such mesh, used for catching fish, butterflies, etc.
- (geometry) Any set of polygons joined edge to edge that, when folded along the edges between adjoining polygons so that the outer edges touch, form a given polyhedron.
- (sports, tennis) A mesh stretched to divide the court in tennis, badminton, volleyball, etc.
- (sports) A framework backed by a mesh, serving as the goal in hockey, soccer, lacrosse, etc.
- (electronics) A conductor that interconnects two or more component terminals.
- The amount remaining after expenses or other kinds of deductions are subtracted.
- A device made from such mesh, generally used for trapping something.
- Anything that has the appearance of such a device.
- A mesh of string, cord or rope.
- A system that interconnects a number of users, locations etc. allowing transport or communication between them.
- (tennis, by extension) The area of the court close to the net (mesh stretched to divide the court).
- a computer network consisting of a worldwide network of computer networks that use the TCP/IP network protocols to facilitate data transmission and exchange
- an open fabric of string or rope or wire woven together at regular intervals
- game equipment consisting of a strip of netting dividing the playing area in tennis or badminton
- the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)
- a goal lined with netting (as in soccer or hockey)
- a trap made of netting to catch fish or birds or insects
verb
noun
- a line that suspends the harness from the canopy of a parachute
- burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped
- (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind
- Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
- The branching top of a tree; foliage.
- One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
- (nautical) One of a set of ropes or cables (rigging) attaching a mast to the sides of a vessel or to another anchor point, serving to support the mast sideways; such rigging collectively.
- That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
- A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
- (astronautics) A streamlined protective covering used to protect the payload during a rocket-powered launch.
- That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
noun
- an outer wrapping or casing
- a short coat
- (dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth
- the tough metal shell casing for certain kinds of ammunition
- the outer skin of a potato
- (Jamaica) A bastard child, in particular one whose father is unaware that he is not the child’s biological father.
- A protective or insulating cover for an object (e.g. a book, hot water tank, bullet.)
- A piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse, often waist length to thigh length.
- (military) In ordnance, a strengthening band surrounding and reinforcing the tube in which the charge is fired.
- (slang) A police record.
- A piece of a person's suit, beside trousers and, sometimes, waistcoat; coat (US)
- The tough outer skin of a baked potato.
- (Appalachia) A vest (US); a waistcoat (UK).
verb
adj
- of insufficient quantity to meet a need
- having little money or few possessions
- lacking in quality or substances
- deserving or inciting pity
- characterized by or indicating poverty
- Deficient in a specified way.
- With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.
- Inadequate, insufficient.
- Of low quality.
- Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.
- (attributive only) Worthy of pity.
noun
verb
adj
- of insufficient quantity to meet a need
- marked by rude or peremptory shortness
- not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices
- primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration
- of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration
- less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so
- tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening
- (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length
- lacking foresight or scope
- (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range
- low in stature; not tall; describing something or someone with a stature less than normal
- (golf) Of an approach shot or putt, that falls short of the green or the hole.
- Having little duration.
- (cricket) Of a ball, bowled so that it bounces relatively far from the batsman.
- (colloquial) Undiluted; neat.
- (finance) Being in a financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying security declines in the future.
- Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.
- Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied, especially with money; scantily furnished; lacking.
- Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty.
- (baking) Of pastries or (metallurgy) of materials, brittle, crumbly.
- (gambling) Of betting odds, offering a small return for the money wagered.
- Deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard.
- Abrupt, brief, pointed, curt.
- Of a person, living being, or object, having a comparatively small height.
- (followed by for) Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of another).
- (by extension) Doubtful of, skeptical of.
- (cricket) Of a fielder or fielding position, that is relatively close to the batsman.
noun
- the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base
- the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed
- accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference
- (Internet) A short-form vertical video.
- (finance) A short seller.
- A short film.
- A summary account.
- (US, slang) An automobile.
- (finance) A short sale or short position.
- (baseball) A shortstop.
- A short version of a garment in a particular size.
- (phonetics) A short phone (such as a vowel) or syllable.
- A short circuit.
- (programming) An integer variable having a smaller range than normal integers; usually two bytes long.
adv
- so as to interrupt
- at some point or distance before a goal is reached
- quickly and without warning; happening unexpectedly; on impulse; without premeditation
- at a disadvantage
- in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner
- without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold
- clean across
- Without achieving a goal or requirement.
- Abruptly, curtly, briefly.
- (finance) With a negative ownership position.
- (cricket, of the manner of bounce of a cricket ball) Relatively far from the batsman and hence bouncing higher than normal; opposite of full.
- Unawares.
verb
- create a short circuit in
- cheat someone by not returning them enough money
- (transitive) To cause a short circuit in (something).
- (intransitive, of an electrical circuit) To short circuit.
- (transitive, business) To sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for delivery at a later date in hopes of profiting from a decline in the price; to sell short.
- (transitive, informal) To provide with an amount smaller than that agreed or labeled; to shortchange.
prep
noun
- any wrapper or covering
- Something that envelops; a wrapping.
- the maximum operating capability of a system (especially an aircraft)
- a curve that is tangent to each of a family of curves
- a flat (usually rectangular) container for a letter, thin package, etc.
- a natural covering (as by a fluid)
- the bag containing the gas in a balloon
- (engineering) The set of limitations within which a technological system can perform safely and effectively.
- (astronomy) The nebulous covering of the head or nucleus of a comet; a coma.
- (electronics) A curve that bounds another curve or set of curves, as the modulation envelope of an amplitude-modulated carrier wave in electronics.
- A paper or cardboard wrapper used to enclose small, flat items, especially letters, for mailing.
- (music) The shape of a sound, which may be controlled by a synthesizer or sampler.
- A bag containing the lifting gas of a balloon or airship; fabric that encloses the gas-bags of an airship.
- (biology) An enclosing structure or cover, such as a membrane; a space between two membranes
- (geometry) A mathematical curve, surface, or higher-dimensional object that is the tangent to a given family of lines, curves, surfaces, or higher-dimensional objects.
- (networking) The information used for routing a message that is transmitted with the message but not part of its contents.
- An earthwork in the form of a single parapet or a small rampart, sometimes raised in the ditch and sometimes beyond it.
verb
noun
- A wrapper for loose papers.
- A leaf of a book or manuscript.
- A page number. The even folios are on the left-hand pages and the odd folios on the right-hand pages.
- (computing) A protective case with a flap that folds to cover the screen of a mobile device.
- A book made of sheets of paper each folded in half (two leaves or four pages to the sheet); hence, a book of the largest kind, exceeding 30 centimetres in height.
- A page of a book, that is, one side of a leaf of a book.
- (accounting) A page in an account book; sometimes, two opposite pages bearing the same serial number.
- A sheet of paper folded in half.
- the system of numbering pages
- a sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book)
- a book (or manuscript) consisting of large sheets of paper folded in the middle to make two leaves or four pages
verb
noun
- (uncountable) Ellipsis of wrapping paper.
- Ellipsis of newspaper; anything used as such (such as a newsletter or listing magazine).
- (rock paper scissors) An open hand (a handshape resembling a sheet of paper), that beats rock and loses to scissors. It loses to lizard and beats Spock in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.
- (uncountable) Ellipsis of wallpaper.
- A paper packet containing a quantity of items.
- (New Zealand, countable) A university course.
- A medicinal preparation spread upon paper, intended for external application.
- A substance resembling paper secreted by certain invertebrates as protection for their nests and eggs.
- A written document, generally shorter than a book; usually written as a school assignment or a government report.
- (British, Hong Kong) A set of examination questions to be answered at one session.
- (finance, uncountable) Any financial assets other than specie, including paper money, commercial paper, and others.
- A sheet material typically used for writing on or printing on (or as a non-waterproof container), usually made by draining cellulose fibres from a suspension in water.
- (slang) Money.
- A written document that reports scientific or academic research and is usually subjected to peer review before publication in a scientific journal (as a journal article or the manuscript for one) or in the proceedings of a scientific or academic meeting (such as a conference, workshop, or symposium).
- a daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains news and articles and advertisements
- an essay (especially one written as an assignment)
- a material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses
- a medium for written communication
- a business firm that publishes newspapers
- the physical object that is the product of a newspaper publisher
- a scholarly article describing the results of observations or stating hypotheses
adj
verb
- (transitive) To sandpaper.
- (transitive) To submit official papers to (a law court, etc.).
- (transitive) To enfold in paper.
- To paste the endpapers and flyleaves at the beginning and end of a book before fitting it into its covers.
- (transitive) To give public notice (typically by displaying posters) that a person is wanted by the police or other authority.
- (transitive) To fill (a theatre or other paid event) with complimentary seats.
- (transitive) To document; to memorialize.
- (transitive) To apply paper to.
- (Northeastern US) To cover someone's house with toilet paper. Otherwise known as toilet papering or TPing.
- cover with wallpaper
- cover with paper
noun
noun
- a wrapped container
- (computer science) written programs or procedures or rules and associated documentation pertaining to the operation of a computer system and that are stored in read/write memory
- a collection of things wrapped or boxed together
- Something which consists of various components, such as a piece of computer software.
- (uncountable, historical) A charge made for packing goods.
- (euphemistic, vulgar) The male genitalia.
- (television, radio) Synonym of wrap (“complete news report ready for broadcast”).
- Something resembling a package.
- A package holiday.
- (software) A piece of software which has been prepared in such a way that it can be installed with a package manager.
- Something which is packed, a parcel, a box, an envelope.
- A football formation.
- (journalism) A group of related stories spread over several pages.
verb
noun
- a wrapped container
- the allotment of some amount by dividing something
- an extended area of land
- a collection of things wrapped or boxed together
- A division of land bought and sold as a unit.
- A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.
- An individual consignment of cargo for shipment, regardless of size and form.
- An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group.
- A package wrapped for shipment.
- A small amount of food that has been wrapped up, for example a pastry.
- An individual item appearing on an invoice or receipt (only in the phrase bill of parcels).
verb
noun
- The act of wrapping
- (Australia, informal) Alternative spelling of rap (“appraisal”).
- A wraparound mortgage.
- (television, radio) A complete news report ready for broadcast, incorporating spoken reporting and other material.
- (automotive) A large sheet of self-adhesive material applied over a vehicle's paintwork for decorative or protective purposes.
- A loose piece of women's clothing that one wraps around the body; a shawl or scarf.
- Paper or sheeting that is wrapped around something to protect, contain, or conceal it.
- (entertainment) The completion of all or a major part of a performance.
- (poker slang) A straight draw in which there are more than 8 outs to complete the straight, especially in Omaha hold 'em.
- A type of food consisting of various ingredients wrapped in a tortilla or pancake.
- the covering (usually paper or cellophane) in which something is wrapped
- cloak that is folded or wrapped around a person
- a sandwich in which the filling is rolled up in a soft tortilla
verb
- (transitive) To enclose or coil around an object or organism, as a form of grasping.
- (transitive or intransitive) To (cause to) reset to an original value after passing a maximum.
- (transitive, lines, words, text, etc.) To break a continuous line (of text) onto the next line
- (transitive) To enclose (an object) completely in any flexible, thin material such as fabric or paper.
- (computing, transitive) To make functionality available through a software wrapper.
- (transitive, figurative) To conceal by enveloping or enfolding; to hide.
- (transitive or intransitive, video production) To finish shooting (filming) a video, television show, or movie.
- enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering
- arrange or fold as a cover or protection
- arrange or coil around
- crash into so as to coil around
noun
- A pallet.
- (Internet slang) A stepchild.
- A basic platform for the storage and transport of goods, machinery or equipment, later developed into the pallet.
- A ski-shaped runner or supporting surface as found on a helicopter or other aircraft in place of wheels.
- An out-of-control sliding motion as would result from applying the brakes too hard in a car or other vehicle.
- (aviation) A banked sideslip where the aircraft's nose is yawed towards the low wing, often due to excessive rudder input.
- (sports) A losing streak.
- (by extension) A hook attached to a chain, used for the same purpose.
- A runner of a sled.
- (Internet slang) A script kiddie.
- A shoe or clog, as of iron, attached to a chain, and placed under the wheel of a wagon to prevent its turning when descending a steep hill.
- One of a pair of horizontal rails or timbers for supporting anything, such as a boat or barrel.
- a restraint provided when the brake linings are moved hydraulically against the brake drum to retard the wheel's rotation
- an unexpected slide
- one of a pair of planks used to make a track for rolling or sliding objects
verb
- (Internet slang) To steal or copy, especially computer code.
- (transitive) To cause to move on skids.
- (intransitive, transitive, aviation) To operate an aircraft in a banked sideslip with the nose yawed towards the low wing.
- (intransitive) (of a wheel, sled runner, or vehicle tracks) To slide along the ground, without the rotary motion that wheels or tracks would normally have.
- (transitive) To check or halt (wagon wheels, etc.) with a skid.
- (intransitive) To slide in an uncontrolled manner as in a car with the brakes applied too hard, the wheels sliding with limited spinning.
- (transitive) To protect or support with a skid or skids.
- elevate onto skids
- move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner
- apply a brake or skid to
- slide without control
noun
- an outer wrapping or casing
- a short coat
- (dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth
- the tough metal shell casing for certain kinds of ammunition
- the outer skin of a potato
- (Jamaica) A bastard child, in particular one whose father is unaware that he is not the child’s biological father.
- A protective or insulating cover for an object (e.g. a book, hot water tank, bullet.)
- A piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse, often waist length to thigh length.
- (military) In ordnance, a strengthening band surrounding and reinforcing the tube in which the charge is fired.
- (slang) A police record.
- A piece of a person's suit, beside trousers and, sometimes, waistcoat; coat (US)
- The tough outer skin of a baked potato.
- (Appalachia) A vest (US); a waistcoat (UK).
verb
verb
noun
- (medicine) A sheath that surrounds a limb and which is used under a cast.
- (fishing) An optional wrap that goes under the guide wrap on a fishing rod.
- (sewing) The portion of a garment that is overlapped by another portion, such as the hidden part of a wrap skirt or the edge that holds buttons which is hidden when a garment is buttoned up.
- (medicine) A lightweight foam that is applied to the skin to reduce irritation before wrapping with supportive tape.
- An undergarment that consists of a cloth wrapped around the body.
verb
- remove the outer cover or wrapping of
- cancel, annul, or reverse an action or its effect
- cause the ruin or downfall of
- deprive of certain characteristics
- cause to become loose
- (transitive) To unfasten.
- To reverse the effects of an action.
- (transitive, colloquial) To unfasten the clothing of (a person).
- (figuratively) To impoverish or ruin, as in reputation; to cause the downfall of.
adj
noun
verb
- remove the outer cover or wrapping of
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- (transitive, computing) To remove word wrap from.
- (transitive, computer graphics) To flatten (a three-dimensional model) into a two-dimensional plane.
- (intransitive) To become unwrapped.
- (transitive) To open or undo, as what is wrapped or folded.
noun
verb
- To make insufficient allowance for; to scant; to scrimp.
- (intransitive) To save; to be parsimonious or stingy.
- (Scotland, Northern England) To mock, deride, scorn, scold, make fun of.
- (transitive) To slight; to do carelessly; to scamp.
- supply sparingly and with restricted quantities
- work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially
- limit in quality or quantity
- subsist on a meager allowance
noun
verb
- To remove the outer covering or shell of something.
- (topology) To form a shelling.
- To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
- (computing, intransitive) To switch to a shell or command line.
- (cricket, slang, transitive) To drop (the ball).
- (intransitive) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
- (intransitive) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
- (informal) To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
- To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
- remove from its shell or outer covering
- use explosives on
- create by using explosives
- fall out of the pod or husk
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- look for and collect shells by the seashore
- remove the husks from
- hit the pitches of hard and regularly
noun
- The covering, or outside part, of a nut.
- (architecture) Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in, as the shell of a house.
- The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
- A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that often fastens in the rear.
- (nautical, rigging) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
- (nautical) The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
- A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
- (figuratively) The empty outward form of someone or something.
- (music) A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
- In formal debating, a set of proposed rules to be followed, with set penalties for violating them.
- A psychological barrier to social interaction.
- (figuratively) The outward form independent of what is inside.
- (British, education) One or more school grades within secondary education, at certain public schools.
- The thin coating of copper on an electrotype.
- (chemistry) A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
- (music) The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims added for tuning and for attaching the drum head.
- One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
- An engraved copper roller used in print works.
- The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
- The conjoined scutes that constitute the "shell" (carapace) of a tortoise or turtle.
- (UK, slang) A person's ear.
- (geology) The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
- An emaciated person.
- (nautical) A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper; a racing shell or dragon boat.
- (computing) An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs and control their interactions; the user's command interpreter. Shell is a way to separate the internal complexity of the implementation of the command from the user. The internals can change while the user experience/interface remains the same.
- (weaponry) A hollow, usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon. It contains an explosive substance designed to be ignited by a fuse or by percussion at the target site so that it will burst and scatter at high velocity its contents and fragments. Formerly called a bomb.
- (business) A legal entity that has no operations.
- (in the plural) Husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is sometimes used as a substitute or adulterant for cocoa and its products such as chocolate.
- (by extension) Any mollusk having such a covering.
- (figuratively) A person otherwise diminished.
- The overlapping hard plates comprising the armor covering the armadillo's body.
- (weaponry) The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
- (weaponry) The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
- (phonology) The onset and coda of a syllable.
- A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
- A pod containing the seeds of certain plants, such as the legume Phaseolus vulgaris.
- An unmarked vehicle for carrying corpses from a crime scene.
- (entomology) The exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects.
- (engineering) A gouge bit or shell bit.
- a rigid covering that envelops an object
- the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod
- a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
- the hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits especially nuts
- hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles
- the housing or outer covering of something
- the exterior covering of a bird's egg
- a very light narrow racing boat
- ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun
- the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals
verb
noun
- a piece of soft material that covers and protects an injured part of the body
- (figuratively, by extension) A provisional or makeshift solution that provides insufficient coverage or relief.
- A strip of gauze or similar material used to protect or support a wound or injury.
- A strip of cloth bound round the head and eyes as a blindfold.
verb
- wrap around with something so as to cover or enclose
- fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord
- cause to be constipated
- make fast; tie or secure, with or as if with a rope
- provide with a binding
- stick to firmly
- secure with or as if with ropes
- form a chemical bond with
- create social or emotional ties
- bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted
- (transitive) To confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or influence of any kind.
- (intransitive, LGBTQ) To wear a binder so as to flatten one's chest to give the appearance of a flat chest, usually done by trans men.
- (transitive) To put together in a cover, as of books.
- (transitive, programming) To process one or more object modules into an executable program.
- (transitive) To cover, as with a bandage.
- (figuratively) To oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other social tie.
- (transitive) To tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.
- (intransitive) To tie; to confine by any ligature.
- (law) To place under legal obligation to serve.
- (transitive, chemistry) To make two or more elements stick together.
- (transitive) To protect or strengthen by applying a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment.
- (transitive) To couple.
- (intransitive) To cohere or stick together in a mass.
- (law) To put (a person) under definite legal obligations, especially, under the obligation of a bond or covenant.
- (intransitive) To exert a binding or restraining influence.
- (intransitive) To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction.
- (UK, dialect) To complain; to whine about something.
- (transitive, programming) To associate an identifier with a value; to associate a variable name, method name, etc. with the content of a storage location.
noun
- something that hinders as if with bonds
- The indurated clay of coal mines, or other overlying substances such as sandstone or shale.
- Any twining or climbing plant or stem, especially a hop vine; a bine.
- (countable) That which binds or ties.
- (countable) A troublesome situation; a problem; a predicament or quandary.
- (chess, countable) A strong grip or stranglehold on a position, which is difficult for the opponent to break.
- (music, countable) A ligature or tie for grouping notes.
verb
adj
verb
- To enclose or cover with a net.
- (transitive, figuratively) To catch in a trap, or by stratagem.
- (dialectal) To clean, wash, rinse.
- To fully hedge a position.
- To form a netting or network; to knit.
- (transitive) To receive as profit.
- (transitive) To yield as profit for.
- (tennis) To hit the ball into the net.
- (transitive, soccer) To score (a goal).
- (transitive) To catch by means of a net.
- catch with a net
- make as a net profit
- yield as a net profit
- construct or form a web, as if by weaving
adj
adv
intj
noun
- (by extension) A trap.
- A device made from such mesh, used for catching fish, butterflies, etc.
- (geometry) Any set of polygons joined edge to edge that, when folded along the edges between adjoining polygons so that the outer edges touch, form a given polyhedron.
- (sports, tennis) A mesh stretched to divide the court in tennis, badminton, volleyball, etc.
- (sports) A framework backed by a mesh, serving as the goal in hockey, soccer, lacrosse, etc.
- (electronics) A conductor that interconnects two or more component terminals.
- The amount remaining after expenses or other kinds of deductions are subtracted.
- A device made from such mesh, generally used for trapping something.
- Anything that has the appearance of such a device.
- A mesh of string, cord or rope.
- A system that interconnects a number of users, locations etc. allowing transport or communication between them.
- (tennis, by extension) The area of the court close to the net (mesh stretched to divide the court).
- a computer network consisting of a worldwide network of computer networks that use the TCP/IP network protocols to facilitate data transmission and exchange
- an open fabric of string or rope or wire woven together at regular intervals
- game equipment consisting of a strip of netting dividing the playing area in tennis or badminton
- the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)
- a goal lined with netting (as in soccer or hockey)
- a trap made of netting to catch fish or birds or insects
verb
noun
- a line that suspends the harness from the canopy of a parachute
- burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped
- (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind
- Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
- The branching top of a tree; foliage.
- One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
- (nautical) One of a set of ropes or cables (rigging) attaching a mast to the sides of a vessel or to another anchor point, serving to support the mast sideways; such rigging collectively.
- That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
- A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
- (astronautics) A streamlined protective covering used to protect the payload during a rocket-powered launch.
- That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
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adj
verb
adj
- not carefully arranged in a package
- having escaped, especially from confinement
- not tense or taut
- emptying easily or excessively
- not officially recognized or controlled
- casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior
- not compact or dense in structure or arrangement
- lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility
- not affixed
- (of a ball in sport) not in the possession or control of any player
- not tight; not closely constrained or constricted or constricting
- (of textures) full of small openings or gaps
- not literal
- Relaxed.
- Not fitting closely.
- Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate.
- (not comparable, sports) Not being in the possession of any competing team during a game.
- Indiscreet.
- Not fixed in place tightly or firmly.
- Not held or packaged together.
- (of volumes of materials) Measured loosely stacked or disorganized (such as of firewood).
- Not under control.
- Not compact.
- (US, slang, motor racing, of a stock car) Having oversteer.
adv
verb
- become loose or looser or less tight
- grant freedom to; free from confinement
- turn loose or free from restraint
- make loose or looser
- (archery) To shoot (an arrow).
- Misspelling of lose.
- (transitive) To let loose, to free from restraints.
- (intransitive) Of a grip or hold, to let go.
- (transitive) To unfasten, to loosen.
- (transitive) To make less tight, to loosen.
intj
noun
adj
adj
- insufficiently cooked
- foolish; totally unsound
- Of a person, foolish or having no common sense.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: Partially cooked by heating in an oven, either as an accidental outcome or as a work in process.
- Of an idea or scheme, not fully planned or carefully considered, ill-conceived, unsound or poorly thought-out.
- (informal, figurative) Mildly under the influence (of alcohol).
adj
noun
verb
adj
adj
- containing little excess
- not profitable or prosperous
- lacking in mineral content or combustible material
- lacking excess flesh
- (business) Efficient, economic, frugal, agile, slimmed-down; pertaining to the modern industrial principles of "lean manufacturing".
- Having little extra or little to spare; scanty; meagre.
- (of meat) Having little fat.
- Having a low proportion or concentration of a desired substance or ingredient.
- (of a person or animal) Slim; not fleshy.
noun
- the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical
- (uncountable) Meat with no fat on it.
- (US slang) A recreational drug composed of codeine-promethazine cough syrup mixed with usually soda and associated with the hip-hop culture of the Southern United States.
- (countable, biology) An organism that is lean in stature.
- (of an object taller than its width and depth) An inclination away from the vertical.
verb
- cause to lean to the side
- have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined
- rely on for support
- cause to lean or incline
- to incline or bend from a vertical position
- (copulative) To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; often with to, toward, etc.
- To hang outwards.
- To thin out (a fuel-air mixture): to reduce the fuel flow into the mixture so that there is more air or oxygen.
- (Followed by against, on, or upon) To rest or rely, for support, comfort, to use as a hard surface for writing, etc.
- (intransitive) To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating.
- To press against.
adj
- of insufficient quantity to meet a need
- having little money or few possessions
- lacking in quality or substances
- deserving or inciting pity
- characterized by or indicating poverty
- Deficient in a specified way.
- With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.
- Inadequate, insufficient.
- Of low quality.
- Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.
- (attributive only) Worthy of pity.
noun
verb
adj
- of insufficient quantity to meet a need
- marked by rude or peremptory shortness
- not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices
- primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration
- of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration
- less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so
- tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening
- (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length
- lacking foresight or scope
- (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range
- low in stature; not tall; describing something or someone with a stature less than normal
- (golf) Of an approach shot or putt, that falls short of the green or the hole.
- Having little duration.
- (cricket) Of a ball, bowled so that it bounces relatively far from the batsman.
- (colloquial) Undiluted; neat.
- (finance) Being in a financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying security declines in the future.
- Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.
- Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied, especially with money; scantily furnished; lacking.
- Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty.
- (baking) Of pastries or (metallurgy) of materials, brittle, crumbly.
- (gambling) Of betting odds, offering a small return for the money wagered.
- Deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard.
- Abrupt, brief, pointed, curt.
- Of a person, living being, or object, having a comparatively small height.
- (followed by for) Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of another).
- (by extension) Doubtful of, skeptical of.
- (cricket) Of a fielder or fielding position, that is relatively close to the batsman.
noun
- the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base
- the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed
- accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference
- (Internet) A short-form vertical video.
- (finance) A short seller.
- A short film.
- A summary account.
- (US, slang) An automobile.
- (finance) A short sale or short position.
- (baseball) A shortstop.
- A short version of a garment in a particular size.
- (phonetics) A short phone (such as a vowel) or syllable.
- A short circuit.
- (programming) An integer variable having a smaller range than normal integers; usually two bytes long.
adv
- so as to interrupt
- at some point or distance before a goal is reached
- quickly and without warning; happening unexpectedly; on impulse; without premeditation
- at a disadvantage
- in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner
- without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold
- clean across
- Without achieving a goal or requirement.
- Abruptly, curtly, briefly.
- (finance) With a negative ownership position.
- (cricket, of the manner of bounce of a cricket ball) Relatively far from the batsman and hence bouncing higher than normal; opposite of full.
- Unawares.
verb
- create a short circuit in
- cheat someone by not returning them enough money
- (transitive) To cause a short circuit in (something).
- (intransitive, of an electrical circuit) To short circuit.
- (transitive, business) To sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for delivery at a later date in hopes of profiting from a decline in the price; to sell short.
- (transitive, informal) To provide with an amount smaller than that agreed or labeled; to shortchange.