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adj
verb
- (transitive) To take something stealthily without permission.
- (ditransitive) To stealthily bring someone something.
- (intransitive, informal, with on) To inform an authority of another's misdemeanours.
- (intransitive) To creep or go stealthily; to come or go while trying to avoid detection, as a person who does not wish to be seen.
- to go stealthily or furtively
- put, bring, or take in a secretive or furtive manner
- pass on stealthily
- make off with belongings of others
noun
- One who sneaks; one who moves stealthily to acquire an item or information.
- (American football) A play where the quarterback receives the snap and immediately dives forward.
- An informer; a tell-tale.
- A cheat; a con artist.
- (movie theaters) Ellipsis of sneak preview
- The act of sneaking
- (US) A sneaker; a tennis shoe.
- someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police
- a person who is regarded as underhanded and furtive and contemptible
- someone who prowls or sneaks about; usually with unlawful intentions
verb
noun
noun
- a secret watcher; someone who secretly watches other people
- A person who secretly watches and examines the actions of other individuals or organizations and gathers information on them (usually to gain an advantage).
- (military) a secret agent hired by a state to obtain information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors
- (American football) A defensive player assigned to cover an offensive backfield player man-to-man when they are expected to engage in a running play, but the offensive player does not run with the ball immediately.
verb
- watch, observe, or inquire secretly
- catch sight of
- secretly collect sensitive or classified information; engage in espionage
- catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes
- (transitive) To spot; to catch sight of; to espy.
- (transitive) To explore; to see; to view; inspect and examine secretly, as a country.
- (intransitive) To act as a spy.
- (intransitive) To search narrowly; to scrutinize.
adj
adv
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verb
noun
- something that is read
- A reading or an act of reading, especially of an actor's part of a play or a piece of stored data.
- (at first especially in the black LGBTQ community) An instance of reading (“calling attention to someone's flaws; a taunt or insult”).
- (biochemistry) The identification of a specific sequence of genes in a genome or bases in a nucleic acid string.
- (in combination) Something to be read; a written work.
- A person's interpretation or impression of something.
verb
- have or contain a certain wording or form
- make sense of a language
- be a student of a certain subject
- obtain data from magnetic tapes or other digital sources
- indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments
- look at, interpret, and say out loud something that is written or printed
- interpret the significance of, as of palms, tea leaves, intestines, the sky; also of human behavior
- interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression
- audition for a stage role by reading parts of a role
- interpret something that is written or printed
- to hear and understand
- (transitive, telecommunications) To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
- (computing, transitive) To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).
- (ergative) To substitute a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one; used to introduce an emendation of a text.
- (by extension, ironic or humorous, usually imperative) Used to introduce a blunter, actually intended meaning.
- (go) To imagine sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones.
- (transitive or intransitive) To speak aloud words or other information that is written. (often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object)
- (transitive, Commonwealth, except Scotland) To study (a subject) at a high level, especially at university.
- (at first especially in the black LGBTQ community) To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in a playful, taunting, or insulting way.
- (transitive) To interpret, or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc., from.
- simple past and past participle of read
- (transitive, LGBTQ) To recognise (someone) as being transgender.
- (transitive, rail transport) To observe and comprehend (a displayed signal).
- (transitive, metonymic) To read a work or works written by the named author.
- (ergative, of text) To be understood or physically read in a specific way.
- (transitive or intransitive) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
- To consist of certain text.
verb
- (transitive) To follow and observe surreptitiously.
- To pull or draw by the tail.
- (architecture) To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into
- To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
- (nautical) To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.
- remove or shorten the tail of an animal
- remove the stalk of fruits or berries
- go after with the intent to catch
adj
noun
- An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.
- (electrical engineering) Synonym of pigtail (“a short length of twisted electrical wire”).
- (typography) The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.
- (mathematics) All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.
- (slang) The penis of a person or animal.
- (surgery) A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness of the skin, and is more painful than a complete incision; called also tailing.
- (slang, uncountable) Sexual intercourse.
- The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
- (nautical) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
- A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
- (law) Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.
- A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.
- (chiefly in the plural) The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary value of the coin is indicated; the reverse.
- (now colloquial, chiefly US) The buttocks or backside.
- (mining) A tailing.
- The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
- (anatomy) The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to their posterior and near the anus or cloaca.
- (anatomy) The distal tendon of a muscle.
- The tail-end of any object.
- (architecture) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
- The feathers attached to the pygostyle of a bird.
- (kayaking) The stern; the back of the kayak.
- The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
- (cricket) The lower order of batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
- One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
- (entomology) A filamentous projection on the tornal section of each hind wing of certain butterflies.
- (statistics) The part of a distribution most distant from the mode.
- (astronomy) The visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
- (chemistry) The final fraction of a distillation run, typically containing impurities and fusel oils.
- One who surreptitiously follows another.
- (music) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
- any projection that resembles the tail of an animal
- (usually plural) the reverse side of a coin that does not bear the representation of a person's head
- the rear part of an aircraft
- the rear part of a ship
- the posterior part of the body of a vertebrate especially when elongated and extending beyond the trunk or main part of the body
- a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- the time of the last part of something
noun
- A means of access, often secret and unprotected, to something.
- (golf, informal) The rear side of the hole, furthest from the golfer.
- A subsidiary entrance to a building or house at its rear, normally away from the street.
- (automotive) A rear side door of a car, or at the back of a van.
- (computer security) A secret means of access to a program or system.
- (slang) The anus; (by extension) anal sex.
- an entrance at the rear of a building
- an undocumented way to get access to a computer system or the data it contains
- a secret or underhand means of access (to a place or a position)
adj
verb
- To attempt to accomplish by indirect means, especially when direct means are proscribed.
- (surfing) To enter a tube by accelerating from behind; to surf into an already formed hollow wave, in contrast to the normal method of slowing to allow a surfable wave to form.
- (computer security) To add a backdoor (a secret means of access) to a program or system.
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adj
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noun
- reading superficially or at random
- the act of feeding by continual nibbling
- vegetation (such as young shoots, twigs, and leaves) that is suitable for animals to eat
- (Cornwall, fishing, uncountable) Bruised fish used as bait.
- (countable) That which one browses through; something to read.
- (uncountable) Young shoots and twigs.
- (uncountable) Fodder for cattle and other animals.
- (countable) The act of browsing through something.
verb
- shop around; not necessarily buying
- feed as in a meadow or pasture
- eat lightly, try different dishes
- look around casually and randomly, without seeking anything in particular
- (transitive, computing) To navigate through hyperlinked documents on a computer, usually with a browser.
- (intransitive, of an animal) To move about while eating parts of plants, especially plants other than pasture, such as shrubs or trees.
- To scan, to casually look through in order to find items of interest, especially without knowledge of what to look for beforehand.
- To move about while sampling, such as with food or products on display.
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verb
- place something or someone in a certain position in order to secretly observe or deceive
- put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground
- fix or set securely or deeply
- place into a river
- put firmly in the mind
- set up or lay the groundwork for
- (transitive) To place in the ground.
- (transitive) To set up; to install; to instate.
- (ambitransitive) To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.
- (transitive) To place or set something firmly or with conviction.
- (transitive) To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish.
- (transitive) To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
- (transitive) To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of.
- (transitive) To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.
- (transitive) To furnish or supply with plants.
noun
- buildings for carrying on industrial labor
- (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion
- an actor situated in the audience whose acting is rehearsed but seems spontaneous to the audience
- something planted secretly for discovery by another
- (botany) An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis. Typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a tree.
- A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc.
- An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person.
- (control theory) A system, such as a motor, whose behaviour is being regulated or controlled by a control system.
- (botany) An organism of the kingdom Plantae. Now specifically, a living organism of the Embryophyta (land plants) or of the Chlorophyta (green algae), a eukaryote that includes double-membraned chloroplasts in its cells containing chlorophyll a and b, or any organism closely related to such an organism.
- Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation).
- (Australia) The equipment and work animals of a drover or other rural worker travelling through the countryside.
- (US, dialect) A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
- (ecology) Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.
- An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
- (countable) A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.
- (uncountable) Machinery and other supplies and equipment, such as the kind used in heavy industry, light industry, earthmoving, or construction.
- (proscribed as biologically inaccurate) Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including plants and fungi.
- (snooker) A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the second; a set.
noun
- the act of following someone secretly
- (espionage) Secretly or discreetly tracking or following someone, keeping under surveillance.
- (computing) The technique of copying ROM contents to RAM to allow for shorter access times. The ROM chip is then disabled while the initialized memory locations are switched in on the same block of addresses.
- The effect of being shadowed (in the sense of blocked), as from a light source or radio transmission.
- The situation where a person repeats speech immediately as they hear it (usually through earphones).
- (education) A work experience option where students learn about a job by walking through the work day as a shadow to a competent worker.
- A faint representation; an adumbration.
verb
noun
- (slang) A hidden listening device on the person of an undercover operative for the purposes of obtaining incriminating spoken evidence.
- (slang) A covert signal sent between people cheating in a card game.
- (journalism, informal) Clipping of wire service and/or newswire.
- (billiards) A wire strung with beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep score.
- (sports) A finish line of a racetrack.
- (by extension) An electric telegraph; a telegram.
- (informal) A telecommunication wire or cable.
- A fence made of usually barbed wire.
- (uncountable) Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.
- A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable.
- A metal conductor that carries electricity.
- (informal) A deadline or critical endpoint.
- (usually in the plural) Any of the system of wires used to operate the puppets in a puppet show; hence, the network of hidden influences controlling the action of a person or organization; strings.
- (Scotland) A knitting needle.
- The slender shaft of the plumage of certain birds.
- ligament made of metal and used to fasten things or make cages or fences etc
- a metal conductor that carries electricity over a distance
- a message transmitted by telegraph
- the finishing line on a racetrack
verb
- To string on a wire.
- (slang) To make someone tense or psyched up. See also adjective wired.
- To snare by means of a wire or wires.
- To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.
- To add or connect (something) into a system as if with wires (for example, with nerves).
- (slang) To install eavesdropping equipment.
- (transitive, croquet) To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.
- To connect, involve or embed (something) deeply or intimately into (something else, such as an organization or political scene), so that it is plugged in (to that thing) (“keeping up with current information about (the thing)”) or has insinuated itself into (the thing).
- (figuratively, usually passive) To set or predetermine (someone's personality or behaviour, or an organization's culture) in a particular way.
- To equip with wires for use with electricity.
- To add (something) into a system (especially an electrical system) by means of wiring.
- To send a message or monetary funds to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominantly by telegraph.
- send cables, wires, or telegrams
- equip for use with electricity
- string on a wire
- fasten with wire
- provide with electrical circuits
verb
noun
- adult male deer
- a male deer, especially an adult male red deer
- (countable) An improperly or late castrated bull or ram – also called a bull seg (see note under ox).
- (countable, finance) One who applies for the allotment of shares in new projects, with a view to sell immediately at a premium, and not to hold the stock.
- (countable, chiefly Scotland) A young horse (colt or filly).
- (uncountable, UK, military, slang) Guard duty.
- (countable) An adult male deer, especially a red deer and especially one in high adulthood versus a young adult.
- (countable, slang) An informer.
- (countable) A stag beetle (family Lucanidae).
- (countable) The Eurasian wren, Troglodytes troglodytes.
- (countable, finance) An outside irregular dealer in stocks, who is not a member of the exchange.
- (countable, usually attributive) An unmarried man; a bachelor; a man not accompanying a woman at a social event.
- (countable) A social event for men held in honor of a groom on the eve of his wedding, attended by male friends of the groom; sometimes a fundraiser.
- (British) A male turkey: a turkeycock.
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noun
- activity that tries to conceal something
- a party of guests wearing costumes and masks
- a protective covering worn over the face
- a covering to disguise or conceal the face
- A cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection.
- (computing, programming) A pattern of bits used in bitwise operations; bitmask.
- (UK dialectal) Mash.
- A festive entertainment of dancing or other diversions, where all wear masks; a masquerade.
- (heraldry) The head of a fox, shown face-on and cut off immediately behind the ears.
- (computer graphics) A two-color (black and white) bitmap generated from an image, used to create transparency in the image.
- (UK dialectal, Scotland) The mesh of a net; a net; net-bag.
- (zoology) The lower lip of the larva of a dragonfly, modified so as to form a prehensile organ.
- (fortification) In a permanent fortification, a redoubt which protects the caponiere.
- That which disguises; a pretext or subterfuge.
- Mesh.
- (poetic) Appearance, likeness.
- (publishing, film) A flat covering used to block off an unwanted portion of a scene or image.
- (fortification) A screen for a battery.
- (architecture) A grotesque head or face, used to adorn keystones and other prominent parts, to spout water in fountains, and the like.
- A person wearing a mask.
verb
- hide under a false appearance
- make unrecognizable
- shield from light
- cover with a sauce
- put a mask on or cover with a mask
- (transitive, UK dialectal) To bewilder; confuse.
- (transitive, military) To conceal; also, to intervene in the line of.
- (UK dialectal, Scotland, Cumbria, Geordie, Northumbria, Durham) To prepare tea in a teapot; alternative to brew.
- (transitive, military) To cover or keep in check.
- (intransitive) To put on a mask; to wear a mask.
- (transitive, UK dialectal) (brewing) To mix malt with hot water to yield wort.
- (transitive) To conceal from view or knowledge; to cover; to hide.
- (transitive, computing) To set or unset (certain bits, or binary digits, within a value) by means of a bitmask.
- (transitive, Scotland, Cumbria, Geordie, Northumbria, Durham dialectal) To be infused or steeped.
- (intransitive) To take part as a masker in a masquerade.
- (transitive) To disguise as something else.
- (transitive) To cover or shield something, or a portion of something, so as to prevent reproduction or to safeguard the surface from the colors used when working with an air brush or painting.
- (transitive) To cover (the face or something else), in order to conceal the identity or protect against injury; to cover with a mask or visor.
- (transitive, computing) To disable (an interrupt, etc.) by setting or unsetting the associated bit.
- (Scotland, Northern England, rare, of clouds, the weather, a storm, etc) To prepare (to storm).
- (intransitive) To conceal or disguise one's autism; to learn, practice, and perform certain behaviors and suppress others in order to appear more neurotypical.
- (transitive, UK dialectal) To mash.
verb
- To reveal something that was masked or hidden; to expose; to unmask.
- (transitive) To clear etchant and maskant from a part being chemically etched or milled.
- (more generally) To remove any masking materials that have been added to protect an area.
- To make salient or conspicuous; to draw attention to or improve the perception of.
- (more specifically) To overcome ideological preconceptions and labels.
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noun
- The act of secretly entering a physical location and/or organization.
- The substance which has entered the pores or cavities of a body.
- The act or process of infiltrating, as of water into a porous substance, or of a fluid into the cells of an organ or part of the body.
- (hydrology, soil science) process by which water on the ground surface enters the soil.
- a process in which individuals (or small groups) penetrate an area (especially the military penetration of enemy positions without detection)
- the slow passage of a liquid through a filtering medium
noun
- The act of disguising.
- (biology) The resemblance of an organism to its surroundings for avoiding detection.
- (military) The use of natural or artificial material on personnel, objects, or tactical positions with the aim of confusing, misleading, or evading the enemy.
- Clothes made from camouflage fabric, for concealment in combat or hunting.
- (textiles) A pattern on clothing consisting of irregularly shaped patches that are either greenish/brownish, brownish/whitish, or bluish/whitish, as used by ground combat forces.
- A disguise or covering up.
- device or stratagem for concealment or deceit
- an outward semblance that misrepresents the true nature of something
- the act of concealing the identity of something by modifying its appearance
- fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan; intended to make the wearer of a garment made of this fabric hard to distinguish from the background
verb
verb
- To withdraw or convey (oneself) clandestinely.
- (transitive) To draw attention unexpectedly in (an entertainment), especially by being the outstanding performer. Usually used in the phrase steal the show.
- (transitive) To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else without intending to return it.
- (transitive) To convey (something) clandestinely.
- (intransitive) To move silently or secretly.
- (transitive, baseball) To advance safely to (another base) during the delivery of a pitch, without the aid of a hit, walk, passed ball, wild pitch, or defensive indifference.
- (sports, transitive) To dispossess
- (informal, transitive, humorous) To take or retell someone else’s joke; to use a clever phrase or expression from someone else in one's own speaking or writing.
- (transitive, informal, figurative) To acquire at a low price.
- (transitive, of ideas, words, music, a look, credit, etc.) To appropriate without giving credit or acknowledgement.
- (informal, transitive, hyperbolic) To borrow for a short moment.
- (transitive) To get or effect surreptitiously or artfully.
- steal a base
- move stealthily
- take without the owner's consent
noun
- (computing) A policy in database systems that a database follows which allows a transaction to be written on nonvolatile storage before its commit occurs.
- (curling) Scoring in an end without the hammer.
- (slang, figurative) A piece of merchandise available at a very low, attractive price; the act of buying it.
- (basketball, ice hockey) A situation in which a defensive player actively takes possession of the ball or puck from the opponent's team.
- (baseball) A stolen base.
- The act of stealing.
- a stolen base; an instance in which a base runner advances safely during the delivery of a pitch (without the help of a hit or walk or passed ball or wild pitch)
- an advantageous purchase
noun
- A second or subsequent reading of a text or artifact in an attempt to gain new insights.
- (law) A judicial reassessment of a case or an event.
- A survey of the available items or material.
- (sciences) A review article.
- A stage show made up of topical sketches etc.
- A periodical which makes a survey of the arts or some other field.
- A forensic inspection to assess compliance with regulations or some code.
- A military inspection or display for the benefit of superiors or VIPs.
- An account intended as a critical evaluation of a text or a piece of work.
- (accounting) a service (less exhaustive than an audit) that provides some assurance to interested parties as to the reliability of financial data
- a new appraisal or evaluation
- practice intended to polish performance or refresh the memory
- a formal or official examination
- (law) a judicial reexamination of the proceedings of a court (especially by an appellate court)
- an essay or article that gives a critical evaluation (as of a book or play)
- a subsequent examination of a patient for the purpose of monitoring earlier treatment
- a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion
- a periodical that publishes critical essays on current affairs or literature or art
- a variety show with topical sketches and songs and dancing and comedians
verb
- To survey; to look broadly over.
- To look back over in order to correct or edit; to revise.
- To write a critical evaluation of a new art work etc.; to write a review.
- (transitive, Philippines, sometimes Canada, US) To look over again (something previously written or learned), especially in preparation for an examination.
- look at again; examine again
- look back upon (a period of time, sequence of events); remember
- appraise critically
- refresh one's memory
- hold a review (of troops)
verb
- To hide (something) by covering it; to conceal, to obscure.
- (philately) To cancel (a postage stamp) with a postmark so it cannot be reused.
- (biology, pathology, surgery, chiefly passive voice) To impair the function and/or structure of (a body cavity, vessel, etc.) by ablating or occluding it (in the latter case, chiefly by filling it with tissue).
- (biology, pathology) Of a body cavity, vessel, etc.: to close up or fill with tissue; of perfusion or a pulse: to cease owing to obstruction.
- To be destroyed completely, leaving no trace.
- To destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace; to annihilate, to wipe out.
- (also figuratively) To make (a drawing, text which is printed or written, etc.) indecipherable, either by erasing or obscuring it; to blot out, to efface, to delete.
- mark for deletion, rub off, or erase
- do away with completely, without leaving a trace
- make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing
- remove completely from recognition or memory
adj
noun
- a rapid superficial reader
- gull-like seabird that flies along the surface of the water with an elongated lower mandible immersed to skim out food
- a stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown
- a cooking utensil used to skim fat from the surface of liquids
- Synonym of water strider.
- A loose-fitting one-piece dress, similar to a shift but with slightly more fitting.
- Any of three species of bird, in the genus Rynchops of the family Laridae, that feed by skimming the surface of water bodies with their bills in flight.
- A sieve-like, slotted spoon.
- A ballet flat shoe.
- Any of several large bivalve shells, sometimes used for skimming milk, such as the sea clam (Spisula solidissima) and large scallops.
- (naval) A sailor in the surface forces, as opposed to a submariner.
- (science fiction) A small, fast-moving spacecraft.
- (naval) A surface ship.
- (entomology) Any of the dragonflies in the family Libellulidae.
- A person who skims.
- A device for removing organic matter from an aquarium.
- (crime) A device used to read and record the magnetic code from a credit card for later fraudulent use.
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verb
noun
- a secret watcher; someone who secretly watches other people
- A person who secretly watches and examines the actions of other individuals or organizations and gathers information on them (usually to gain an advantage).
- (military) a secret agent hired by a state to obtain information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors
- (American football) A defensive player assigned to cover an offensive backfield player man-to-man when they are expected to engage in a running play, but the offensive player does not run with the ball immediately.
verb
- watch, observe, or inquire secretly
- catch sight of
- secretly collect sensitive or classified information; engage in espionage
- catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes
- (transitive) To spot; to catch sight of; to espy.
- (transitive) To explore; to see; to view; inspect and examine secretly, as a country.
- (intransitive) To act as a spy.
- (intransitive) To search narrowly; to scrutinize.
noun
- something that is read
- A reading or an act of reading, especially of an actor's part of a play or a piece of stored data.
- (at first especially in the black LGBTQ community) An instance of reading (“calling attention to someone's flaws; a taunt or insult”).
- (biochemistry) The identification of a specific sequence of genes in a genome or bases in a nucleic acid string.
- (in combination) Something to be read; a written work.
- A person's interpretation or impression of something.
verb
- have or contain a certain wording or form
- make sense of a language
- be a student of a certain subject
- obtain data from magnetic tapes or other digital sources
- indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments
- look at, interpret, and say out loud something that is written or printed
- interpret the significance of, as of palms, tea leaves, intestines, the sky; also of human behavior
- interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression
- audition for a stage role by reading parts of a role
- interpret something that is written or printed
- to hear and understand
- (transitive, telecommunications) To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
- (computing, transitive) To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).
- (ergative) To substitute a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one; used to introduce an emendation of a text.
- (by extension, ironic or humorous, usually imperative) Used to introduce a blunter, actually intended meaning.
- (go) To imagine sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones.
- (transitive or intransitive) To speak aloud words or other information that is written. (often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object)
- (transitive, Commonwealth, except Scotland) To study (a subject) at a high level, especially at university.
- (at first especially in the black LGBTQ community) To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in a playful, taunting, or insulting way.
- (transitive) To interpret, or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc., from.
- simple past and past participle of read
- (transitive, LGBTQ) To recognise (someone) as being transgender.
- (transitive, rail transport) To observe and comprehend (a displayed signal).
- (transitive, metonymic) To read a work or works written by the named author.
- (ergative, of text) To be understood or physically read in a specific way.
- (transitive or intransitive) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
- To consist of certain text.
noun
- A means of access, often secret and unprotected, to something.
- (golf, informal) The rear side of the hole, furthest from the golfer.
- A subsidiary entrance to a building or house at its rear, normally away from the street.
- (automotive) A rear side door of a car, or at the back of a van.
- (computer security) A secret means of access to a program or system.
- (slang) The anus; (by extension) anal sex.
- an entrance at the rear of a building
- an undocumented way to get access to a computer system or the data it contains
- a secret or underhand means of access (to a place or a position)
adj
verb
- To attempt to accomplish by indirect means, especially when direct means are proscribed.
- (surfing) To enter a tube by accelerating from behind; to surf into an already formed hollow wave, in contrast to the normal method of slowing to allow a surfable wave to form.
- (computer security) To add a backdoor (a secret means of access) to a program or system.
noun
- reading superficially or at random
- the act of feeding by continual nibbling
- vegetation (such as young shoots, twigs, and leaves) that is suitable for animals to eat
- (Cornwall, fishing, uncountable) Bruised fish used as bait.
- (countable) That which one browses through; something to read.
- (uncountable) Young shoots and twigs.
- (uncountable) Fodder for cattle and other animals.
- (countable) The act of browsing through something.
verb
- shop around; not necessarily buying
- feed as in a meadow or pasture
- eat lightly, try different dishes
- look around casually and randomly, without seeking anything in particular
- (transitive, computing) To navigate through hyperlinked documents on a computer, usually with a browser.
- (intransitive, of an animal) To move about while eating parts of plants, especially plants other than pasture, such as shrubs or trees.
- To scan, to casually look through in order to find items of interest, especially without knowledge of what to look for beforehand.
- To move about while sampling, such as with food or products on display.
noun
- the act of following someone secretly
- (espionage) Secretly or discreetly tracking or following someone, keeping under surveillance.
- (computing) The technique of copying ROM contents to RAM to allow for shorter access times. The ROM chip is then disabled while the initialized memory locations are switched in on the same block of addresses.
- The effect of being shadowed (in the sense of blocked), as from a light source or radio transmission.
- The situation where a person repeats speech immediately as they hear it (usually through earphones).
- (education) A work experience option where students learn about a job by walking through the work day as a shadow to a competent worker.
- A faint representation; an adumbration.
verb
noun
- (slang) A hidden listening device on the person of an undercover operative for the purposes of obtaining incriminating spoken evidence.
- (slang) A covert signal sent between people cheating in a card game.
- (journalism, informal) Clipping of wire service and/or newswire.
- (billiards) A wire strung with beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep score.
- (sports) A finish line of a racetrack.
- (by extension) An electric telegraph; a telegram.
- (informal) A telecommunication wire or cable.
- A fence made of usually barbed wire.
- (uncountable) Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.
- A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable.
- A metal conductor that carries electricity.
- (informal) A deadline or critical endpoint.
- (usually in the plural) Any of the system of wires used to operate the puppets in a puppet show; hence, the network of hidden influences controlling the action of a person or organization; strings.
- (Scotland) A knitting needle.
- The slender shaft of the plumage of certain birds.
- ligament made of metal and used to fasten things or make cages or fences etc
- a metal conductor that carries electricity over a distance
- a message transmitted by telegraph
- the finishing line on a racetrack
verb
- To string on a wire.
- (slang) To make someone tense or psyched up. See also adjective wired.
- To snare by means of a wire or wires.
- To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.
- To add or connect (something) into a system as if with wires (for example, with nerves).
- (slang) To install eavesdropping equipment.
- (transitive, croquet) To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.
- To connect, involve or embed (something) deeply or intimately into (something else, such as an organization or political scene), so that it is plugged in (to that thing) (“keeping up with current information about (the thing)”) or has insinuated itself into (the thing).
- (figuratively, usually passive) To set or predetermine (someone's personality or behaviour, or an organization's culture) in a particular way.
- To equip with wires for use with electricity.
- To add (something) into a system (especially an electrical system) by means of wiring.
- To send a message or monetary funds to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominantly by telegraph.
- send cables, wires, or telegrams
- equip for use with electricity
- string on a wire
- fasten with wire
- provide with electrical circuits
noun
- activity that tries to conceal something
- a party of guests wearing costumes and masks
- a protective covering worn over the face
- a covering to disguise or conceal the face
- A cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection.
- (computing, programming) A pattern of bits used in bitwise operations; bitmask.
- (UK dialectal) Mash.
- A festive entertainment of dancing or other diversions, where all wear masks; a masquerade.
- (heraldry) The head of a fox, shown face-on and cut off immediately behind the ears.
- (computer graphics) A two-color (black and white) bitmap generated from an image, used to create transparency in the image.
- (UK dialectal, Scotland) The mesh of a net; a net; net-bag.
- (zoology) The lower lip of the larva of a dragonfly, modified so as to form a prehensile organ.
- (fortification) In a permanent fortification, a redoubt which protects the caponiere.
- That which disguises; a pretext or subterfuge.
- Mesh.
- (poetic) Appearance, likeness.
- (publishing, film) A flat covering used to block off an unwanted portion of a scene or image.
- (fortification) A screen for a battery.
- (architecture) A grotesque head or face, used to adorn keystones and other prominent parts, to spout water in fountains, and the like.
- A person wearing a mask.
verb
- hide under a false appearance
- make unrecognizable
- shield from light
- cover with a sauce
- put a mask on or cover with a mask
- (transitive, UK dialectal) To bewilder; confuse.
- (transitive, military) To conceal; also, to intervene in the line of.
- (UK dialectal, Scotland, Cumbria, Geordie, Northumbria, Durham) To prepare tea in a teapot; alternative to brew.
- (transitive, military) To cover or keep in check.
- (intransitive) To put on a mask; to wear a mask.
- (transitive, UK dialectal) (brewing) To mix malt with hot water to yield wort.
- (transitive) To conceal from view or knowledge; to cover; to hide.
- (transitive, computing) To set or unset (certain bits, or binary digits, within a value) by means of a bitmask.
- (transitive, Scotland, Cumbria, Geordie, Northumbria, Durham dialectal) To be infused or steeped.
- (intransitive) To take part as a masker in a masquerade.
- (transitive) To disguise as something else.
- (transitive) To cover or shield something, or a portion of something, so as to prevent reproduction or to safeguard the surface from the colors used when working with an air brush or painting.
- (transitive) To cover (the face or something else), in order to conceal the identity or protect against injury; to cover with a mask or visor.
- (transitive, computing) To disable (an interrupt, etc.) by setting or unsetting the associated bit.
- (Scotland, Northern England, rare, of clouds, the weather, a storm, etc) To prepare (to storm).
- (intransitive) To conceal or disguise one's autism; to learn, practice, and perform certain behaviors and suppress others in order to appear more neurotypical.
- (transitive, UK dialectal) To mash.
verb
noun
noun
- The act of secretly entering a physical location and/or organization.
- The substance which has entered the pores or cavities of a body.
- The act or process of infiltrating, as of water into a porous substance, or of a fluid into the cells of an organ or part of the body.
- (hydrology, soil science) process by which water on the ground surface enters the soil.
- a process in which individuals (or small groups) penetrate an area (especially the military penetration of enemy positions without detection)
- the slow passage of a liquid through a filtering medium
noun
- The act of disguising.
- (biology) The resemblance of an organism to its surroundings for avoiding detection.
- (military) The use of natural or artificial material on personnel, objects, or tactical positions with the aim of confusing, misleading, or evading the enemy.
- Clothes made from camouflage fabric, for concealment in combat or hunting.
- (textiles) A pattern on clothing consisting of irregularly shaped patches that are either greenish/brownish, brownish/whitish, or bluish/whitish, as used by ground combat forces.
- A disguise or covering up.
- device or stratagem for concealment or deceit
- an outward semblance that misrepresents the true nature of something
- the act of concealing the identity of something by modifying its appearance
- fabric dyed with splotches of green and brown and black and tan; intended to make the wearer of a garment made of this fabric hard to distinguish from the background
verb
noun
- A second or subsequent reading of a text or artifact in an attempt to gain new insights.
- (law) A judicial reassessment of a case or an event.
- A survey of the available items or material.
- (sciences) A review article.
- A stage show made up of topical sketches etc.
- A periodical which makes a survey of the arts or some other field.
- A forensic inspection to assess compliance with regulations or some code.
- A military inspection or display for the benefit of superiors or VIPs.
- An account intended as a critical evaluation of a text or a piece of work.
- (accounting) a service (less exhaustive than an audit) that provides some assurance to interested parties as to the reliability of financial data
- a new appraisal or evaluation
- practice intended to polish performance or refresh the memory
- a formal or official examination
- (law) a judicial reexamination of the proceedings of a court (especially by an appellate court)
- an essay or article that gives a critical evaluation (as of a book or play)
- a subsequent examination of a patient for the purpose of monitoring earlier treatment
- a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion
- a periodical that publishes critical essays on current affairs or literature or art
- a variety show with topical sketches and songs and dancing and comedians
verb
- To survey; to look broadly over.
- To look back over in order to correct or edit; to revise.
- To write a critical evaluation of a new art work etc.; to write a review.
- (transitive, Philippines, sometimes Canada, US) To look over again (something previously written or learned), especially in preparation for an examination.
- look at again; examine again
- look back upon (a period of time, sequence of events); remember
- appraise critically
- refresh one's memory
- hold a review (of troops)
noun
- a rapid superficial reader
- gull-like seabird that flies along the surface of the water with an elongated lower mandible immersed to skim out food
- a stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown
- a cooking utensil used to skim fat from the surface of liquids
- Synonym of water strider.
- A loose-fitting one-piece dress, similar to a shift but with slightly more fitting.
- Any of three species of bird, in the genus Rynchops of the family Laridae, that feed by skimming the surface of water bodies with their bills in flight.
- A sieve-like, slotted spoon.
- A ballet flat shoe.
- Any of several large bivalve shells, sometimes used for skimming milk, such as the sea clam (Spisula solidissima) and large scallops.
- (naval) A sailor in the surface forces, as opposed to a submariner.
- (science fiction) A small, fast-moving spacecraft.
- (naval) A surface ship.
- (entomology) Any of the dragonflies in the family Libellulidae.
- A person who skims.
- A device for removing organic matter from an aquarium.
- (crime) A device used to read and record the magnetic code from a credit card for later fraudulent use.
verb
noun
verb
verb
noun
verb
- (transitive) To follow and observe surreptitiously.
- To pull or draw by the tail.
- (architecture) To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into
- To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
- (nautical) To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.
- remove or shorten the tail of an animal
- remove the stalk of fruits or berries
- go after with the intent to catch
adj
noun
- An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.
- (electrical engineering) Synonym of pigtail (“a short length of twisted electrical wire”).
- (typography) The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.
- (mathematics) All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.
- (slang) The penis of a person or animal.
- (surgery) A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness of the skin, and is more painful than a complete incision; called also tailing.
- (slang, uncountable) Sexual intercourse.
- The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
- (nautical) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
- A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
- (law) Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.
- A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.
- (chiefly in the plural) The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary value of the coin is indicated; the reverse.
- (now colloquial, chiefly US) The buttocks or backside.
- (mining) A tailing.
- The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
- (anatomy) The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to their posterior and near the anus or cloaca.
- (anatomy) The distal tendon of a muscle.
- The tail-end of any object.
- (architecture) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
- The feathers attached to the pygostyle of a bird.
- (kayaking) The stern; the back of the kayak.
- The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
- (cricket) The lower order of batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
- One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
- (entomology) A filamentous projection on the tornal section of each hind wing of certain butterflies.
- (statistics) The part of a distribution most distant from the mode.
- (astronomy) The visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
- (chemistry) The final fraction of a distillation run, typically containing impurities and fusel oils.
- One who surreptitiously follows another.
- (music) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
- any projection that resembles the tail of an animal
- (usually plural) the reverse side of a coin that does not bear the representation of a person's head
- the rear part of an aircraft
- the rear part of a ship
- the posterior part of the body of a vertebrate especially when elongated and extending beyond the trunk or main part of the body
- a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- the time of the last part of something
verb
- place something or someone in a certain position in order to secretly observe or deceive
- put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground
- fix or set securely or deeply
- place into a river
- put firmly in the mind
- set up or lay the groundwork for
- (transitive) To place in the ground.
- (transitive) To set up; to install; to instate.
- (ambitransitive) To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow.
- (transitive) To place or set something firmly or with conviction.
- (transitive) To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish.
- (transitive) To engender; to generate; to set the germ of.
- (transitive) To introduce and establish the principles or seeds of.
- (transitive) To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit.
- (transitive) To furnish or supply with plants.
noun
- buildings for carrying on industrial labor
- (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion
- an actor situated in the audience whose acting is rehearsed but seems spontaneous to the audience
- something planted secretly for discovery by another
- (botany) An organism that is not an animal, especially an organism capable of photosynthesis. Typically a small or herbaceous organism of this kind, rather than a tree.
- A person, placed amongst an audience, whose role is to cause confusion, laughter etc.
- An object placed surreptitiously in order to cause suspicion to fall upon a person.
- (control theory) A system, such as a motor, whose behaviour is being regulated or controlled by a control system.
- (botany) An organism of the kingdom Plantae. Now specifically, a living organism of the Embryophyta (land plants) or of the Chlorophyta (green algae), a eukaryote that includes double-membraned chloroplasts in its cells containing chlorophyll a and b, or any organism closely related to such an organism.
- Anyone assigned to behave as a member of the public during a covert operation (as in a police investigation).
- (Australia) The equipment and work animals of a drover or other rural worker travelling through the countryside.
- (US, dialect) A young oyster suitable for transplanting.
- (ecology) Now specifically, a multicellular eukaryote that includes chloroplasts in its cells, which have a cell wall.
- An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.
- (countable) A factory or other industrial or institutional building or facility.
- (uncountable) Machinery and other supplies and equipment, such as the kind used in heavy industry, light industry, earthmoving, or construction.
- (proscribed as biologically inaccurate) Any creature that grows on soil or similar surfaces, including plants and fungi.
- (snooker) A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the second; a set.
adj
verb
- (transitive) To take something stealthily without permission.
- (ditransitive) To stealthily bring someone something.
- (intransitive, informal, with on) To inform an authority of another's misdemeanours.
- (intransitive) To creep or go stealthily; to come or go while trying to avoid detection, as a person who does not wish to be seen.
- to go stealthily or furtively
- put, bring, or take in a secretive or furtive manner
- pass on stealthily
- make off with belongings of others
noun
- One who sneaks; one who moves stealthily to acquire an item or information.
- (American football) A play where the quarterback receives the snap and immediately dives forward.
- An informer; a tell-tale.
- A cheat; a con artist.
- (movie theaters) Ellipsis of sneak preview
- The act of sneaking
- (US) A sneaker; a tennis shoe.
- someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police
- a person who is regarded as underhanded and furtive and contemptible
- someone who prowls or sneaks about; usually with unlawful intentions
noun
- a secret watcher; someone who secretly watches other people
- A person who secretly watches and examines the actions of other individuals or organizations and gathers information on them (usually to gain an advantage).
- (military) a secret agent hired by a state to obtain information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors
- (American football) A defensive player assigned to cover an offensive backfield player man-to-man when they are expected to engage in a running play, but the offensive player does not run with the ball immediately.
verb
- watch, observe, or inquire secretly
- catch sight of
- secretly collect sensitive or classified information; engage in espionage
- catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes
- (transitive) To spot; to catch sight of; to espy.
- (transitive) To explore; to see; to view; inspect and examine secretly, as a country.
- (intransitive) To act as a spy.
- (intransitive) To search narrowly; to scrutinize.
verb
noun
- adult male deer
- a male deer, especially an adult male red deer
- (countable) An improperly or late castrated bull or ram – also called a bull seg (see note under ox).
- (countable, finance) One who applies for the allotment of shares in new projects, with a view to sell immediately at a premium, and not to hold the stock.
- (countable, chiefly Scotland) A young horse (colt or filly).
- (uncountable, UK, military, slang) Guard duty.
- (countable) An adult male deer, especially a red deer and especially one in high adulthood versus a young adult.
- (countable, slang) An informer.
- (countable) A stag beetle (family Lucanidae).
- (countable) The Eurasian wren, Troglodytes troglodytes.
- (countable, finance) An outside irregular dealer in stocks, who is not a member of the exchange.
- (countable, usually attributive) An unmarried man; a bachelor; a man not accompanying a woman at a social event.
- (countable) A social event for men held in honor of a groom on the eve of his wedding, attended by male friends of the groom; sometimes a fundraiser.
- (British) A male turkey: a turkeycock.
adv
verb
- To reveal something that was masked or hidden; to expose; to unmask.
- (transitive) To clear etchant and maskant from a part being chemically etched or milled.
- (more generally) To remove any masking materials that have been added to protect an area.
- To make salient or conspicuous; to draw attention to or improve the perception of.
- (more specifically) To overcome ideological preconceptions and labels.
verb
- To withdraw or convey (oneself) clandestinely.
- (transitive) To draw attention unexpectedly in (an entertainment), especially by being the outstanding performer. Usually used in the phrase steal the show.
- (transitive) To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else without intending to return it.
- (transitive) To convey (something) clandestinely.
- (intransitive) To move silently or secretly.
- (transitive, baseball) To advance safely to (another base) during the delivery of a pitch, without the aid of a hit, walk, passed ball, wild pitch, or defensive indifference.
- (sports, transitive) To dispossess
- (informal, transitive, humorous) To take or retell someone else’s joke; to use a clever phrase or expression from someone else in one's own speaking or writing.
- (transitive, informal, figurative) To acquire at a low price.
- (transitive, of ideas, words, music, a look, credit, etc.) To appropriate without giving credit or acknowledgement.
- (informal, transitive, hyperbolic) To borrow for a short moment.
- (transitive) To get or effect surreptitiously or artfully.
- steal a base
- move stealthily
- take without the owner's consent
noun
- (computing) A policy in database systems that a database follows which allows a transaction to be written on nonvolatile storage before its commit occurs.
- (curling) Scoring in an end without the hammer.
- (slang, figurative) A piece of merchandise available at a very low, attractive price; the act of buying it.
- (basketball, ice hockey) A situation in which a defensive player actively takes possession of the ball or puck from the opponent's team.
- (baseball) A stolen base.
- The act of stealing.
- a stolen base; an instance in which a base runner advances safely during the delivery of a pitch (without the help of a hit or walk or passed ball or wild pitch)
- an advantageous purchase
verb
- To hide (something) by covering it; to conceal, to obscure.
- (philately) To cancel (a postage stamp) with a postmark so it cannot be reused.
- (biology, pathology, surgery, chiefly passive voice) To impair the function and/or structure of (a body cavity, vessel, etc.) by ablating or occluding it (in the latter case, chiefly by filling it with tissue).
- (biology, pathology) Of a body cavity, vessel, etc.: to close up or fill with tissue; of perfusion or a pulse: to cease owing to obstruction.
- To be destroyed completely, leaving no trace.
- To destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace; to annihilate, to wipe out.
- (also figuratively) To make (a drawing, text which is printed or written, etc.) indecipherable, either by erasing or obscuring it; to blot out, to efface, to delete.
- mark for deletion, rub off, or erase
- do away with completely, without leaving a trace
- make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing
- remove completely from recognition or memory
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adv
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adj
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verb
adj
verb
- (transitive) To take something stealthily without permission.
- (ditransitive) To stealthily bring someone something.
- (intransitive, informal, with on) To inform an authority of another's misdemeanours.
- (intransitive) To creep or go stealthily; to come or go while trying to avoid detection, as a person who does not wish to be seen.
- to go stealthily or furtively
- put, bring, or take in a secretive or furtive manner
- pass on stealthily
- make off with belongings of others
noun
- One who sneaks; one who moves stealthily to acquire an item or information.
- (American football) A play where the quarterback receives the snap and immediately dives forward.
- An informer; a tell-tale.
- A cheat; a con artist.
- (movie theaters) Ellipsis of sneak preview
- The act of sneaking
- (US) A sneaker; a tennis shoe.
- someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police
- a person who is regarded as underhanded and furtive and contemptible
- someone who prowls or sneaks about; usually with unlawful intentions