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noun
- The joint made by welding.
- A herb (Reseda luteola) related to mignonette, growing in Europe, and to some extent in America, used to make a yellow dye.
- The yellow coloring matter or dye extracted from this plant.
- European mignonette cultivated as a source of yellow dye; naturalized in North America
- a metal joint formed by softening with heat and fusing or hammering together
verb
verb
- To weld with initial small welds to temporarily fasten in preparation for full welding.
- (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
- (nautical) To maneuver a sailing vessel so that its bow turns through the wind, i.e. the wind changes from one side of the vessel to the other.
- To sew/stitch with a tack (loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth).
- (transitive) To nail (something) with a tack (small nail with a flat head).
- To add something as an extra item.
- Synonym of tack up (“to prepare a horse for riding by equipping it with a tack”).
- sew together loosely, with large stitches
- fasten with tacks
- turn into the wind
- create by putting components or members together
- fix to; attach
- reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
noun
- (nautical) The lower corner on the leading edge of a sail relative to the direction of the wind.
- A thumbtack.
- (nautical) A rope used to hold in place the foremost lower corners of the courses when the vessel is close-hauled; also, a rope employed to pull the lower corner of a studding sail to the boom.
- (law, Scotland and Northern England) A contract by which the use of a thing is set, or let, for hire; a lease.
- (nautical) The maneuver by which a sailing vessel turns its bow through the wind so that the wind changes from one side to the other.
- (nautical) A course or heading that enables a sailing vessel to head upwind.
- That which is attached; a supplement; an appendix.
- (figurative) A direction or course of action, especially a new one; a method or approach to solving a problem.
- A small nail with a flat head.
- A stain; a tache.
- (sewing) A loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth.
- Food generally; fare, especially of the hard bread or breadlike kind.
- (manufacturing, construction, chemistry) The stickiness of a compound, related to its cohesive and adhesive properties.
- (nautical) The distance a sailing vessel runs between these maneuvers when working to windward; a board.
- Any of the various equipment and accessories worn by horses in the course of their use as domesticated animals.
- (colloquial) That which is tacky; something cheap and gaudy.
- a short nail with a sharp point and a large head
- gear for a horse
- sailing a zigzag course
- (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind
- (nautical) the act of changing tack
- the heading or position of a vessel relative to the trim of its sails
noun
verb
- (manufacturing) To perform the final welds on a manufactured item.
- (sports, bowling) To replace a pin to its correct position prior to a player bowling.
- (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) To replace a ball on its correct spot on a snooker, billiards or pool table.
- To move a commercial or military vehicle or vehicles into a new position in order to make room for other activity or to allow the moved vehicles to be worked on.
noun
- One who welds, that is, unites pieces of steel, aluminum, or other metals by welding.
- A machine that a human operator uses for welding.
- joins pieces of metal by welding them together
- One who welds, that is, wields.
- A manager; an actual occupant; a land-tenant holding under the farmer or middleman.
- A robotic machine that welds automatically.
noun
- A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a fagot.
- An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.
- A list or league
- Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.)
- A large stake, or piece of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth or sea-bed for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc.
- (informal) A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process.
- A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
- (historical, electrochemistry) A battery (simple device for converting chemical potential energy into usable electricity).
- A large building, or mass of buildings.
- A mass formed in layers.
- A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals (especially copper and zinc), laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; a voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.
- The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth.
- A battery consisting of repeated units of alternating types of metal; voltaic pile.
- (usually in the plural) A hemorrhoid.
- (heraldry) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
- (slang) A large amount of money.
- A funeral pile; a pyre.
- (architecture, civil engineering) A beam, pole, or pillar, driven completely into the ground, usually as one of a group that constitutes a foundation.
- The head of an arrow or spear.
- fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)
- a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy
- the yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave
- a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure
- battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta
- a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit)
- a collection of objects laid on top of each other
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
verb
- (transitive) To add something to a great number.
- (transitive, often used with the preposition "up") To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate
- (transitive) (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
- (transitive) To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
- (transitive) To give a pile to; to make shaggy.
- (intransitive) To form a pile or heap.
- (transitive, military) To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright, supporting each other.
- (transitive) To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
- arrange in stacks
- press tightly together or cram
- place or lay as if in a pile
verb
noun
- A bundle of pieces of iron or steel cut off into suitable lengths for welding.
- offensive term for a homosexual man
- a bundle of sticks and branches bound together
- (highly derogatory, offensive, vulgar) A gay man, especially an effeminate one.
- (chiefly UK, Ireland, collective) A bundle of sticks or brushwood intended to be used for fuel tied together for carrying. (Some sources specify that a faggot is tied with two bands or withes, whereas a bavin is tied with just one.)
- (loosely, highly derogatory, offensive, vulgar) A non-heterosexual man.
- (UK, Ireland, historical, possibly now offensive) A faggot voter.
- (chiefly US, Canada, derogatory, offensive, vulgar) A man considered effeminate.
- (chiefly UK, Ireland) A meatball made with offcuts and offal, especially pork. (See Wikipedia.)
- (US, Canada, derogatory, offensive, vulgar) An annoying or inconsiderate person.
verb
noun
verb
- To weld together through a series of connecting or overlapping spot welds.
- To form stitches in; especially, to sew in such a manner as to show on the surface a continuous line of stitches.
- (TikTok) To incorporate (an existing video) into a new one, resulting in a collaborative clip that shows the two videos in a sequence.
- (agriculture) To form land into ridges.
- (computer graphics) To combine two or more photographs of the same scene into a single image.
- To sew, or unite or attach by stitches.
- To include, combine, or unite into a single whole.
- (intransitive) To practice/practise stitching or needlework.
- fasten by sewing; do needlework
noun
- A local sharp pain (anywhere); an acute pain, like the piercing of a needle.
- A single turn of the thread round a needle in knitting; a link, or loop, of yarn
- (colloquial) Any least part of a fabric or clothing.
- (medicine) A single pass of a surgical suture (to sew the edges of a wound together)
- (by extension) Any space passed over; distance.
- An arrangement of stitches in knitting, or method of knitting in some particular way or style.
- (countable) A single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made.
- A fastening, as of thread or wire, through the back of a book to connect the pages.
- A space of work taken up, or gone over, in a single pass of the needle.
- (TikTok) An incorporation of an existing video into a new one, resulting in a collaborative clip that shows the two videos in a sequence.
- An arrangement of stitches in sewing, or method of stitching in some particular way or style.
- (countable and uncountable) An intense stabbing pain under the lower edge of the ribcage, brought on by exercise or laughing.
- a link or loop or knot made by an implement in knitting, crocheting, embroidery, or sewing
- a sharp spasm of pain in the side resulting from running
noun
- a hard steel edge tool used to cut gears
- a shelf beside an open fire where something can be kept warm
- (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous
- (folklore) a small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings
- (historical) The flat projection or iron shelf at the side of a fire grate, where things are put to be kept warm.
- A male ferret.
- A rounded peg used as a target in several games, especially in quoits.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) The top cooking surface on a cooker; a cooktop. It typically comprises several cooking elements (often four), also known as 'rings'.
- The hub of a wheel.
- A kind of cutting tool, used to cut the teeth of a gear.
verb
verb
- To sharpen with a honing steel.
- To harden or strengthen; to nerve or make obdurate; to fortify against.
- (dialectal) To press with a flat iron.
- To electroplate an item (particularly an engraving plate) with a layer of iron.
- To steelify; to turn iron into steel.
- To edge, cover, or point with steel.
- (literary or poetic) To give (something) the appearance of steel.
- cover, plate, or edge with steel
- get ready for something difficult or unpleasant
noun
- A honing steel, a tool used to sharpen or hone metal blades.
- knife sharpener consisting of a ridged steel rod
- Projectiles.
- A piece used for striking sparks from flint or ferrocerium.
- (countable, uncountable) An artificial metal produced from iron, harder and more elastic than elemental iron; used figuratively as a symbol of hardness.
- (figurative) Extreme hardness or resilience.
- (sewing, dialectal) A sewing needle; a knitting needle; a sharp metal stylus.
- (printing) An engraving plate.
- (uncountable, colors) The gray hue of this metal; steel-gray, or steel blue.
- Bladed or pointed weapons, as swords, javelins, daggers.
- (sewing) Pieces used to strengthen, support, or expand an item of clothing.
- (music, guitar) A type of slide used while playing the steel guitar.
- (sewing) A fringe of beads or decoration of this metal.
- Armor.
- (dialectal) A flat iron.
- a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard
- an alloy of iron with small amounts of carbon; widely used in construction; mechanical properties can be varied over a wide range
adj
noun
- a machine tool for shaping metal or wood
- a person who makes things
- (agent noun) Any agent that shapes (something), whether literally or figuratively.
- (surfing) A person who designs and builds surfboards.
- (machining) A machine tool in which a single-point cutting tool mounted on a reciprocating ram is traversed across the workpiece linearly. Shapers can generate various shapes, but were most especially employed in generating flat surfaces and keyways. The shaper is nowadays obsolescent, most of its applications being served by milling machines.
noun
- a tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging
- an improbable and unexpected victory
- an unhappy and worried mental state
- the act of upsetting something
- the act of disturbing the mind or body
- a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning
- (uncountable) Disturbance or disruption.
- (mathematics) An upper set; a subset (X,≤) of a partially ordered set with the property that, if x is in U and x≤y, then y is in U.
- (automobile insurance) An overturn.
- (countable, sports, politics) An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win.
- (aviation) The dangerous situation where the flight attitude or airspeed of an aircraft is outside the designed bounds of operation, possibly resulting in loss of control.
- An upset stomach.
- (basketry) A woven row supporting the foundation rods for the uprights of a basket.
adj
- used of an unexpected defeat of a team favored to win
- thrown into a state of disarray or confusion
- mildly physically distressed
- afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief
- having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom
- (of a stomach or gastrointestinal tract) Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit.
- (of a person, predicative only) Angry, distressed, or unhappy
verb
- form metals with a swage
- disturb the balance or stability of
- cause to lose one's composure
- cause to overturn from an upright or normal position
- defeat suddenly and unexpectedly
- move deeply
- To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.
- (transitive) To defeat unexpectedly.
- (intransitive) To be upset or knocked over.
- (transitive, basketry) To support with an upset (type of woven row).
- (transitive) To tip or overturn (something).
- (transitive) To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
- (metalworking) To thicken and shorten a soft or heated piece of metal, by forging or hammering on the end, to shape, for example, rivets or internal combustion engine valves.
- (transitive) To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).
noun
- a thin pointed piece of metal that is hammered into materials as a fastener
- a former unit of length for cloth equal to 1/16 of a yard
- horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits
- The basal thickened portion of the anterior wings of certain hemiptera.
- The claw of a bird or other animal.
- An archaic English unit of length equivalent to ¹⁄₂₀ of an ell or ¹⁄₁₆ of a yard (2+¹⁄₄ inches or 5.715 cm).
- The thin, horny plate at the ends of fingers and toes on humans and some other animals.
- The terminal horny plate on the beak of ducks, and other allied birds.
- A round pedestal on which merchants once carried out their business, such as the four nails outside The Exchange, Bristol.
- A spike-shaped metal fastener used for joining wood or similar materials. The nail is generally driven through two or more layers of material by means of impacts from a hammer or other device. It is then held in place by friction.
verb
- succeed in obtaining a position
- succeed at easily
- hit with great force
- take into custody
- attach something somewhere by means of nails
- locate exactly
- complete a pass
- (transitive, vulgar, slang) Of a male, to engage in sexual intercourse with.
- (transitive, slang) To accomplish (a task) completely and successfully.
- (transitive) To nail down: to make certain, or confirm.
- (transitive, slang) To expose as a sham.
- (transitive) To fix (an object) to another object using a nail.
- (intransitive) To drive a nail.
- (transitive, slang) To hit (a target) effectively with some weapon.
- (slang) To catch.
- (transitive) To stud or boss with nails, or as if with nails.
- (military) To spike, as a cannon.
noun
- a heavy iron lever with one end forged into a wedge
- An iron or steel bar, often with a flattened end which may also be hook-shaped, to be used as a lever to manually force things apart.
- An electrical circuit that prevents an overvoltage from causing damage.
- A type of cocktail made with only Crown Royal whiskey and lemon lime soda.
verb
noun
verb
- be nosey
- make an uninvited or presumptuous inquiry
- to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open
- search or inquire in a meddlesome way
- (figuratively) Usually followed by out (of): to draw out or get (information, etc.) with effort.
- To use leverage to open, raise, or widen (something); to prise or prize.
- (figuratively) To inquire into something that does not concern one; to be nosy; to snoop.
- To peer closely and curiously, especially at something closed or not public.
noun
- The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.
- (Scotland) The act or operation of reaping.
- Deformation by forces acting in opposite directions.
- The material cut off in this way.
- The act or operation of dividing with shears.
- The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.
- (mining) The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.
- Alternative form of shearling.
- removing by cutting off or clipping
adj
verb
noun
- A rectangular piece of steel obtained by means of a shingling process involving hammering of puddled steel.
- A punitive strap such as a belt.
- (by extension) Any paddle used for corporal punishment.
- A small signboard designating a professional office; this may be both a physical signboard or a metaphoric term for a small production company (a production shingle).
- Small, smooth pebbles, as found on a beach.
- (computational linguistics) A word-based n-gram.
- A small, thin piece of building material, often with one end thicker than the other, for laying in overlapping rows as a covering for the roof or sides of a building.
- coarse beach gravel of small waterworn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel)
- building material used as siding or roofing
- a small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g.
verb
- (transitive) To increase the storage density of (a hard disk) by writing tracks that partially overlap.
- (transitive) To cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shingles.
- (transitive, manufacturing) To hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy.
- (transitive) To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, like shingles on a roof.
- (transitive) To beat with a shingle.
- cover with shingles
noun
- machine tool for shaping metal or wood; the workpiece turns about a horizontal axis against a fixed tool
- (tools, metalworking, woodworking) A machine tool used to shape a piece of material, or workpiece, by rotating the workpiece against a cutting tool.
- (weaving) The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft.
verb
noun
- a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends
- a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument
- the best people or things in a group
- the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving
- the quantity of a crop that is harvested
- a basketball maneuver; obstructing an opponent with one's body
- the person or thing chosen or selected
- the act of choosing or selecting
- a thin sharp implement used for removing unwanted material
- A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
- (American football) An interception.
- (art, painting) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
- A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
- (Australia) Pasture; feed, for animals.
- (baseball) A good defensive play by an infielder.
- (music) A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
- (baseball) A pickoff.
- A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
- (lacrosse) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
- (nautical, slang) An anchor.
- A choice; ability to choose.
- That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
- (basketball) A screen.
- (weaving) The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute); hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread.
verb
- remove in small bits
- look for and gather
- select carefully from a group
- eat intermittently; take small bites of
- provoke
- pay for something
- pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
- remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits
- harass with constant criticism
- attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example
- pilfer or rob
- hit lightly with a picking motion
- To remove something from somewhere with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
- To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground.
- (music) To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
- To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
- To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
- (ambitransitive) To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.
- (cricket) To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand and arm as the ball is released.
- To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
- (American football, informal) To intercept a pass from the offense as a defensive player.
- To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
- To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
- To do anything fastidiously or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
- (basketball) To screen.
- To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
- To steal; to pilfer.
- (transitive) To seek (a fight or quarrel) where the opportunity arises.
noun
- a device used for shaping metal
- a small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the six faces; used in gambling to generate random numbers
- a cutting tool that is fitted into a diestock and used for cutting male (external) screw threads on screws or bolts or pipes or rods
- (semiconductors, plural also dice) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.
- A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.)
- A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.
- An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.
- An isohedral polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and thrown in games of chance.
- The cubical part of a pedestal; a plinth.
- A device for cutting into a specified shape.
- Any small cubical or square body.
verb
- be brought to or as if to the point of death by an intense emotion such as embarrassment, amusement, or shame
- lose sparkle or bouquet
- pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- suffer or face the pain of death
- suffer spiritual death; be damned (in the religious sense)
- stop operating or functioning
- languish as with love or desire
- feel indifferent towards
- disappear or come to an end
- to be on base at the end of an inning, of a player
- cut or shape with a die
- followed by of as an indication of direct cause; general use:
- (intransitive) To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
- (intransitive, of a machine) To stop working; to break down or otherwise lose "vitality".
- (intransitive, figuratively) To yearn intensely.
- (intransitive, uncommon, idiomatic) To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.
- (intransitive, colloquial, hyperbolic) To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
- (video games, slang) To lose or be eliminated from a game, particularly with a deathlike animation.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
- (in bare form) to die in a certain form.
- To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
- To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
- (now sometimes proscribed) followed by to as an indication of direct cause (like from):
- (still current) followed by with as an indication of manner:
- (transitive) To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death).
- (intransitive, of a legislative bill or resolution) To expire at the end of the session of a legislature without having been brought to a vote.
- (intransitive, figurative, hyperbolic) To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.
- followed by for; often expressing wider contextual motivations, though sometimes indicating direct causes:
- (of a stand-up comedian or a joke, slang) To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.
- (often with "to") To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.
- followed by from as an indication of direct cause; general use, though somewhat more common in the context of medicine or the sciences:
- (intransitive, of a computer program) To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
- (architecture) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
- To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.
adv
noun
- a machine tool that polishes metal
- machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing
- grinding tooth with a broad crown; located behind the premolars
- a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States
- (lawyer slang) A low-ranking attorney with no clients who works very hard.
- (Northern US, especially Connecticut, Vermont) A sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll.
- One who grinds something, such as the teeth.
- (music, slang) A fan or performer of grindcore music.
- A grinding machine: any of various machine tools for grinding (either heavy or light grinding, but precise either way).
- (Pennsylvania) In particular, a submarine sandwich (hoagie) that is toasted or baked and typically does not contain lettuce.
- (ice hockey, slang) A hard-working, physical player with limited offensive ability.
- The restless flycatcher (Myiagra inquieta) of Australia, which makes a noise like a scissors grinder.
- (radio, informal) Atmospheric interference producing a roaring background noise.
- A kitchen gadget for processing coffee, herbs etc. into small or powdered pieces.
- (slang) A biohacker who uses cybernetic implants or biochemicals to enhance or change their own body.
- (anatomy) A molar.
- (slang) Any tooth.
- Any of various pieces of heavy equipment for grinding.
- (US, military, slang) An outdoor space for drills and parades.
- Any of various power tools with a spinning abrasive disc, used for smoothing, shaping, or deburring materials, usually metal.
noun
adj
- (especially sports) Of a club, bat or other hitting implement, angled downwards and/or (for a right-hander) anticlockwise of straight.
- (of a business or venue) Not operating or conducting trade; not allowing entrance to visitors or the public.
- (heraldry) Synonym of close.
- Physically sealed, obstructed, folded together, etc.
- Not available for use or operation.
- Not receptive.
- not open
- used especially of mouth or eyes
verb
- (transitive) To isolate, to close off from the world.
- (transitive) To put out of use or operation.
- (transitive, intransitive) To remove or block an opening, gap or passage through.
- (intransitive) To cease operation or cease to be available.
- (transitive) To confine in an enclosed area; to enclose.
- (ergative, computing, more usually 'close') To terminate an application, window, file or database connection, etc.
- (transitive, intransitive, chiefly British) To close (a business or venue) temporarily or permanently.
- simple past and past participle of shut
- (transitive) To catch or snag in the act of shutting something.
- (transitive, intransitive) To make or become unreceptive.
- (transitive) To preclude, exclude.
- move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut
- become closed
- prevent from entering; shut out
noun
- a sharp pointed implement (usually steel)
- a slender pointer for indicating the reading on the scale of a measuring instrument
- the leaf of a conifer
- a stylus that formerly made sound by following a groove in a phonograph record
- (programming) A text string that is searched for within another string. (see: needle in a haystack)
- A needle-like leaf found on some conifers.
- (entomology) Any of various species of damselfly of the genus Synlestes, endemic to Australia.
- A fine measurement indicator on a dial or graph.
- A strong beam resting on props, used as a temporary support during building repairs.
- Any slender, pointed object resembling a needle, such as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc.
- (informal) A sensor for playing phonograph records, a phonograph stylus.
- (gymnastics) A move in which the performer begins with two hands and one leg on the floor, then kicks the other leg into a full split.
- (informal, usually preceded by the) The death penalty carried out by lethal injection.
- A long, thin, sharp implement usually for piercing as in sewing, embroidery, acupuncture, tattooing, body piercing, medical injections, sutures, etc; or a blunt but otherwise similar implement used for forming loops or knots in crafts such as darning, knitting, tatting, etc.
verb
noun
verb
- prepare (a metal) for soldering or brazing by applying a thin layer of solder to the surface
- plate with tin
- preserve in a can or tin
- (transitive) To place into a metal can (ie. a tin; be it tin, steel, aluminum) in order to preserve.
- To coat with solder, in preparation for soldering, to ensure a good solder joint
- (transitive) To cover with tin.
- To coat with solder, in order to consolidate braided wire, so as to make contact with all strands and reduce fragility of the fraying wire
noun
- a vessel (box, can, pan, etc.) made of tinplate and used mainly in baking
- airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc.
- a silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion; used in many alloys and to coat other metals to prevent corrosion; obtained chiefly from cassiterite where it occurs as tin oxide
- metal container for storing dry foods such as tea or flour
- (countable, squash) The bottom part of the front wall, which is "out" if a player strikes it with the ball.
- (slang, uncountable) computer hardware.
- (countable) A metal pan used for baking, roasting, storing food, etc.
- (metonymic) Iron or steel sheet metal that is coated with tin as an anticorrosion protectant.
- (uncountable) A malleable, ductile, metallic element, resistant to corrosion, with atomic number 50 and symbol Sn.
- (chiefly UK, Commonwealth, countable) An airtight container, made of tin-coated steel (called tinplate or tin), (formerly) tin, aluminium, or another metal, used to preserve food, or hold a liquid or some other product.
adj
noun
- (metalworking) A large ladle for molten metal, fitted with long bars for handling it.
- (ornithology, colloquial) A redshank or greenshank, various species of Old World wading birds in the genus Tringa having distinctly colored legs.
- The center part of a fishhook between the eye and the hook, the 'hook' being the curved part that bends toward the point.
- The metal part on a curb bit that falls below the mouthpiece, which length controls the severity of the leverage action of the bit, and to which the reins of the bridle are attached.
- (shoemaking) A metal strip strengthening the waists of shoes. (Also shankpiece.)
- A protruding part of an object, by which it is or can be attached.
- Flat-nosed pliers, used by opticians for nipping off the edges of pieces of glass to make them round.
- (golf) A poorly played golf shot in which the ball is struck by the part of the club head that connects to the shaft.
- A loop forming an eye to a button.
- (architecture) The space between two channels of the Doric triglyph.
- (slang) An improvised stabbing weapon, originally in prison, possibly from the strips of metal in shoes.
- The part of the leg between the knee and the ankle.
- Meat from that part of an animal.
- The main part or beginning of a period of time.
- The end or remainder, particularly of a period of time.
- A straight, narrow part of an object, such as a key or an anchor; shaft; stem.
- The handle of a pair of shears, connecting the ride to the neck.
- (shoemaking) The part of the sole beneath the instep connecting the broader front part with the heel.
- the part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle
- cylinder forming the part of a bit by which it is held in the drill
- a poor golf stroke in which the heel of the club hits the ball
- a cut of meat (beef or veal or mutton or lamb) from the upper part of the leg
- the narrow part of the shoe connecting the heel and the wide part of the sole
- cylinder forming the part of a bolt between the thread and the head
- cylinder forming a long narrow part of something
- lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals
adj
verb
- (transitive, sewing) To provide (a button) with a shank (loop forming an eye).
- (shoemaking) To apply the shank to a shoe, during the process of manufacturing it.
- (slang) To remove another's trousers, especially in jest; to depants.
- (slang) To stab, especially with an improvised blade.
- (intransitive) To fall off, as a leaf, flower, or capsule, on account of disease affecting the supporting footstalk; usually followed by off.
- (transitive, chiefly tennis, soccer, gridiron football) To hit or kick the ball in an unintended direction.
- (transitive, golf) To misstrike the ball with the part of the club head that connects to the shaft.
- hit (a golf ball) with the heel of a club, causing the ball to veer in the wrong direction
noun
- a powered machine for cutting or shaping or finishing metals or other materials
- (machining, manufacturing) A tool, typically a power-driven machine and typically stationary, used especially for machining (removing hard material via cutting, grinding, or other subtractive processes) and (more broadly) for any mix of subtractive, forming/stamping, or additive work.
noun
- A power tool used in carpentry for cutting grooves.
- (Internet) A device that connects local area networks to form a larger internet by, at minimum, selectively passing those datagrams having a destination IP address to the network which is able to deliver them to their destination; a network gateway.
- Someone who routes or directs items from one location to another.
- (telecommunications) Any device that directs packets of information using the equivalent of Open Systems Interconnection layer 3 (network layer) information. Most commonly used in reference to Internet Protocol routers.
- A plane with a hooked tool protruding far below the sole, for smoothing the bottom of a cavity.
- A plane made like a spokeshave, for working the inside edges of circular sashes.
- (electronics, electronic design automation) In integrated circuit or printed circuit board design, an algorithm for adding all wires needed to properly connect all of the placed components while obeying all design rules.
- a worker who routes shipments for distribution and delivery
- (computer science) a device that forwards data packets between computer networks
- a power tool with a shaped cutter; used in carpentry for cutting grooves
verb
noun
- The joint made by welding.
- A herb (Reseda luteola) related to mignonette, growing in Europe, and to some extent in America, used to make a yellow dye.
- The yellow coloring matter or dye extracted from this plant.
- European mignonette cultivated as a source of yellow dye; naturalized in North America
- a metal joint formed by softening with heat and fusing or hammering together
verb
noun
verb
- (manufacturing) To perform the final welds on a manufactured item.
- (sports, bowling) To replace a pin to its correct position prior to a player bowling.
- (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) To replace a ball on its correct spot on a snooker, billiards or pool table.
- To move a commercial or military vehicle or vehicles into a new position in order to make room for other activity or to allow the moved vehicles to be worked on.
noun
- One who welds, that is, unites pieces of steel, aluminum, or other metals by welding.
- A machine that a human operator uses for welding.
- joins pieces of metal by welding them together
- One who welds, that is, wields.
- A manager; an actual occupant; a land-tenant holding under the farmer or middleman.
- A robotic machine that welds automatically.
noun
- A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a fagot.
- An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.
- A list or league
- Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.)
- A large stake, or piece of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth or sea-bed for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc.
- (informal) A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind of selection process.
- A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
- (historical, electrochemistry) A battery (simple device for converting chemical potential energy into usable electricity).
- A large building, or mass of buildings.
- A mass formed in layers.
- A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals (especially copper and zinc), laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; a voltaic pile, or galvanic pile.
- The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth.
- A battery consisting of repeated units of alternating types of metal; voltaic pile.
- (usually in the plural) A hemorrhoid.
- (heraldry) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost.
- (slang) A large amount of money.
- A funeral pile; a pyre.
- (architecture, civil engineering) A beam, pole, or pillar, driven completely into the ground, usually as one of a group that constitutes a foundation.
- The head of an arrow or spear.
- fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)
- a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy
- the yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave
- a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure
- battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta
- a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit)
- a collection of objects laid on top of each other
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
verb
- (transitive) To add something to a great number.
- (transitive, often used with the preposition "up") To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate
- (transitive) (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
- (transitive) To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
- (transitive) To give a pile to; to make shaggy.
- (intransitive) To form a pile or heap.
- (transitive, military) To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright, supporting each other.
- (transitive) To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
- arrange in stacks
- press tightly together or cram
- place or lay as if in a pile
noun
- a hard steel edge tool used to cut gears
- a shelf beside an open fire where something can be kept warm
- (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous
- (folklore) a small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings
- (historical) The flat projection or iron shelf at the side of a fire grate, where things are put to be kept warm.
- A male ferret.
- A rounded peg used as a target in several games, especially in quoits.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) The top cooking surface on a cooker; a cooktop. It typically comprises several cooking elements (often four), also known as 'rings'.
- The hub of a wheel.
- A kind of cutting tool, used to cut the teeth of a gear.
verb
verb
noun
- A bundle of pieces of iron or steel cut off into suitable lengths for welding.
- offensive term for a homosexual man
- a bundle of sticks and branches bound together
- (highly derogatory, offensive, vulgar) A gay man, especially an effeminate one.
- (chiefly UK, Ireland, collective) A bundle of sticks or brushwood intended to be used for fuel tied together for carrying. (Some sources specify that a faggot is tied with two bands or withes, whereas a bavin is tied with just one.)
- (loosely, highly derogatory, offensive, vulgar) A non-heterosexual man.
- (UK, Ireland, historical, possibly now offensive) A faggot voter.
- (chiefly US, Canada, derogatory, offensive, vulgar) A man considered effeminate.
- (chiefly UK, Ireland) A meatball made with offcuts and offal, especially pork. (See Wikipedia.)
- (US, Canada, derogatory, offensive, vulgar) An annoying or inconsiderate person.
noun
- a machine tool for shaping metal or wood
- a person who makes things
- (agent noun) Any agent that shapes (something), whether literally or figuratively.
- (surfing) A person who designs and builds surfboards.
- (machining) A machine tool in which a single-point cutting tool mounted on a reciprocating ram is traversed across the workpiece linearly. Shapers can generate various shapes, but were most especially employed in generating flat surfaces and keyways. The shaper is nowadays obsolescent, most of its applications being served by milling machines.
noun
- a tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging
- an improbable and unexpected victory
- an unhappy and worried mental state
- the act of upsetting something
- the act of disturbing the mind or body
- a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning
- (uncountable) Disturbance or disruption.
- (mathematics) An upper set; a subset (X,≤) of a partially ordered set with the property that, if x is in U and x≤y, then y is in U.
- (automobile insurance) An overturn.
- (countable, sports, politics) An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win.
- (aviation) The dangerous situation where the flight attitude or airspeed of an aircraft is outside the designed bounds of operation, possibly resulting in loss of control.
- An upset stomach.
- (basketry) A woven row supporting the foundation rods for the uprights of a basket.
adj
- used of an unexpected defeat of a team favored to win
- thrown into a state of disarray or confusion
- mildly physically distressed
- afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief
- having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom
- (of a stomach or gastrointestinal tract) Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit.
- (of a person, predicative only) Angry, distressed, or unhappy
verb
- form metals with a swage
- disturb the balance or stability of
- cause to lose one's composure
- cause to overturn from an upright or normal position
- defeat suddenly and unexpectedly
- move deeply
- To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.
- (transitive) To defeat unexpectedly.
- (intransitive) To be upset or knocked over.
- (transitive, basketry) To support with an upset (type of woven row).
- (transitive) To tip or overturn (something).
- (transitive) To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
- (metalworking) To thicken and shorten a soft or heated piece of metal, by forging or hammering on the end, to shape, for example, rivets or internal combustion engine valves.
- (transitive) To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).
noun
- a thin pointed piece of metal that is hammered into materials as a fastener
- a former unit of length for cloth equal to 1/16 of a yard
- horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits
- The basal thickened portion of the anterior wings of certain hemiptera.
- The claw of a bird or other animal.
- An archaic English unit of length equivalent to ¹⁄₂₀ of an ell or ¹⁄₁₆ of a yard (2+¹⁄₄ inches or 5.715 cm).
- The thin, horny plate at the ends of fingers and toes on humans and some other animals.
- The terminal horny plate on the beak of ducks, and other allied birds.
- A round pedestal on which merchants once carried out their business, such as the four nails outside The Exchange, Bristol.
- A spike-shaped metal fastener used for joining wood or similar materials. The nail is generally driven through two or more layers of material by means of impacts from a hammer or other device. It is then held in place by friction.
verb
- succeed in obtaining a position
- succeed at easily
- hit with great force
- take into custody
- attach something somewhere by means of nails
- locate exactly
- complete a pass
- (transitive, vulgar, slang) Of a male, to engage in sexual intercourse with.
- (transitive, slang) To accomplish (a task) completely and successfully.
- (transitive) To nail down: to make certain, or confirm.
- (transitive, slang) To expose as a sham.
- (transitive) To fix (an object) to another object using a nail.
- (intransitive) To drive a nail.
- (transitive, slang) To hit (a target) effectively with some weapon.
- (slang) To catch.
- (transitive) To stud or boss with nails, or as if with nails.
- (military) To spike, as a cannon.
noun
- a heavy iron lever with one end forged into a wedge
- An iron or steel bar, often with a flattened end which may also be hook-shaped, to be used as a lever to manually force things apart.
- An electrical circuit that prevents an overvoltage from causing damage.
- A type of cocktail made with only Crown Royal whiskey and lemon lime soda.
verb
noun
verb
- be nosey
- make an uninvited or presumptuous inquiry
- to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open
- search or inquire in a meddlesome way
- (figuratively) Usually followed by out (of): to draw out or get (information, etc.) with effort.
- To use leverage to open, raise, or widen (something); to prise or prize.
- (figuratively) To inquire into something that does not concern one; to be nosy; to snoop.
- To peer closely and curiously, especially at something closed or not public.
verb
- To sharpen with a honing steel.
- To harden or strengthen; to nerve or make obdurate; to fortify against.
- (dialectal) To press with a flat iron.
- To electroplate an item (particularly an engraving plate) with a layer of iron.
- To steelify; to turn iron into steel.
- To edge, cover, or point with steel.
- (literary or poetic) To give (something) the appearance of steel.
- cover, plate, or edge with steel
- get ready for something difficult or unpleasant
noun
- A honing steel, a tool used to sharpen or hone metal blades.
- knife sharpener consisting of a ridged steel rod
- Projectiles.
- A piece used for striking sparks from flint or ferrocerium.
- (countable, uncountable) An artificial metal produced from iron, harder and more elastic than elemental iron; used figuratively as a symbol of hardness.
- (figurative) Extreme hardness or resilience.
- (sewing, dialectal) A sewing needle; a knitting needle; a sharp metal stylus.
- (printing) An engraving plate.
- (uncountable, colors) The gray hue of this metal; steel-gray, or steel blue.
- Bladed or pointed weapons, as swords, javelins, daggers.
- (sewing) Pieces used to strengthen, support, or expand an item of clothing.
- (music, guitar) A type of slide used while playing the steel guitar.
- (sewing) A fringe of beads or decoration of this metal.
- Armor.
- (dialectal) A flat iron.
- a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard
- an alloy of iron with small amounts of carbon; widely used in construction; mechanical properties can be varied over a wide range
adj
noun
- The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.
- (Scotland) The act or operation of reaping.
- Deformation by forces acting in opposite directions.
- The material cut off in this way.
- The act or operation of dividing with shears.
- The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.
- (mining) The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.
- Alternative form of shearling.
- removing by cutting off or clipping
adj
verb
noun
- A rectangular piece of steel obtained by means of a shingling process involving hammering of puddled steel.
- A punitive strap such as a belt.
- (by extension) Any paddle used for corporal punishment.
- A small signboard designating a professional office; this may be both a physical signboard or a metaphoric term for a small production company (a production shingle).
- Small, smooth pebbles, as found on a beach.
- (computational linguistics) A word-based n-gram.
- A small, thin piece of building material, often with one end thicker than the other, for laying in overlapping rows as a covering for the roof or sides of a building.
- coarse beach gravel of small waterworn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel)
- building material used as siding or roofing
- a small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g.
verb
- (transitive) To increase the storage density of (a hard disk) by writing tracks that partially overlap.
- (transitive) To cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shingles.
- (transitive, manufacturing) To hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy.
- (transitive) To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, like shingles on a roof.
- (transitive) To beat with a shingle.
- cover with shingles
noun
- machine tool for shaping metal or wood; the workpiece turns about a horizontal axis against a fixed tool
- (tools, metalworking, woodworking) A machine tool used to shape a piece of material, or workpiece, by rotating the workpiece against a cutting tool.
- (weaving) The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft.
verb
noun
- a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends
- a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument
- the best people or things in a group
- the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving
- the quantity of a crop that is harvested
- a basketball maneuver; obstructing an opponent with one's body
- the person or thing chosen or selected
- the act of choosing or selecting
- a thin sharp implement used for removing unwanted material
- A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
- (American football) An interception.
- (art, painting) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
- A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
- (Australia) Pasture; feed, for animals.
- (baseball) A good defensive play by an infielder.
- (music) A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
- (baseball) A pickoff.
- A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
- (lacrosse) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
- (nautical, slang) An anchor.
- A choice; ability to choose.
- That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
- (basketball) A screen.
- (weaving) The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute); hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread.
verb
- remove in small bits
- look for and gather
- select carefully from a group
- eat intermittently; take small bites of
- provoke
- pay for something
- pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
- remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits
- harass with constant criticism
- attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example
- pilfer or rob
- hit lightly with a picking motion
- To remove something from somewhere with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
- To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground.
- (music) To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
- To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
- To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
- (ambitransitive) To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.
- (cricket) To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand and arm as the ball is released.
- To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
- (American football, informal) To intercept a pass from the offense as a defensive player.
- To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
- To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
- To do anything fastidiously or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
- (basketball) To screen.
- To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
- To steal; to pilfer.
- (transitive) To seek (a fight or quarrel) where the opportunity arises.
noun
- a device used for shaping metal
- a small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the six faces; used in gambling to generate random numbers
- a cutting tool that is fitted into a diestock and used for cutting male (external) screw threads on screws or bolts or pipes or rods
- (semiconductors, plural also dice) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.
- A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.)
- A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.
- An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.
- An isohedral polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and thrown in games of chance.
- The cubical part of a pedestal; a plinth.
- A device for cutting into a specified shape.
- Any small cubical or square body.
verb
- be brought to or as if to the point of death by an intense emotion such as embarrassment, amusement, or shame
- lose sparkle or bouquet
- pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- suffer or face the pain of death
- suffer spiritual death; be damned (in the religious sense)
- stop operating or functioning
- languish as with love or desire
- feel indifferent towards
- disappear or come to an end
- to be on base at the end of an inning, of a player
- cut or shape with a die
- followed by of as an indication of direct cause; general use:
- (intransitive) To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
- (intransitive, of a machine) To stop working; to break down or otherwise lose "vitality".
- (intransitive, figuratively) To yearn intensely.
- (intransitive, uncommon, idiomatic) To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.
- (intransitive, colloquial, hyperbolic) To be mortified or shocked by a situation.
- (video games, slang) To lose or be eliminated from a game, particularly with a deathlike animation.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.
- (in bare form) to die in a certain form.
- To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
- To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
- (now sometimes proscribed) followed by to as an indication of direct cause (like from):
- (still current) followed by with as an indication of manner:
- (transitive) To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death).
- (intransitive, of a legislative bill or resolution) To expire at the end of the session of a legislature without having been brought to a vote.
- (intransitive, figurative, hyperbolic) To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.
- followed by for; often expressing wider contextual motivations, though sometimes indicating direct causes:
- (of a stand-up comedian or a joke, slang) To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.
- (often with "to") To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.
- followed by from as an indication of direct cause; general use, though somewhat more common in the context of medicine or the sciences:
- (intransitive, of a computer program) To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
- (architecture) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
- To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.
adv
noun
- a machine tool that polishes metal
- machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing
- grinding tooth with a broad crown; located behind the premolars
- a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States
- (lawyer slang) A low-ranking attorney with no clients who works very hard.
- (Northern US, especially Connecticut, Vermont) A sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll.
- One who grinds something, such as the teeth.
- (music, slang) A fan or performer of grindcore music.
- A grinding machine: any of various machine tools for grinding (either heavy or light grinding, but precise either way).
- (Pennsylvania) In particular, a submarine sandwich (hoagie) that is toasted or baked and typically does not contain lettuce.
- (ice hockey, slang) A hard-working, physical player with limited offensive ability.
- The restless flycatcher (Myiagra inquieta) of Australia, which makes a noise like a scissors grinder.
- (radio, informal) Atmospheric interference producing a roaring background noise.
- A kitchen gadget for processing coffee, herbs etc. into small or powdered pieces.
- (slang) A biohacker who uses cybernetic implants or biochemicals to enhance or change their own body.
- (anatomy) A molar.
- (slang) Any tooth.
- Any of various pieces of heavy equipment for grinding.
- (US, military, slang) An outdoor space for drills and parades.
- Any of various power tools with a spinning abrasive disc, used for smoothing, shaping, or deburring materials, usually metal.
noun
adj
- (especially sports) Of a club, bat or other hitting implement, angled downwards and/or (for a right-hander) anticlockwise of straight.
- (of a business or venue) Not operating or conducting trade; not allowing entrance to visitors or the public.
- (heraldry) Synonym of close.
- Physically sealed, obstructed, folded together, etc.
- Not available for use or operation.
- Not receptive.
- not open
- used especially of mouth or eyes
verb
- (transitive) To isolate, to close off from the world.
- (transitive) To put out of use or operation.
- (transitive, intransitive) To remove or block an opening, gap or passage through.
- (intransitive) To cease operation or cease to be available.
- (transitive) To confine in an enclosed area; to enclose.
- (ergative, computing, more usually 'close') To terminate an application, window, file or database connection, etc.
- (transitive, intransitive, chiefly British) To close (a business or venue) temporarily or permanently.
- simple past and past participle of shut
- (transitive) To catch or snag in the act of shutting something.
- (transitive, intransitive) To make or become unreceptive.
- (transitive) To preclude, exclude.
- move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut
- become closed
- prevent from entering; shut out
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- a sharp pointed implement (usually steel)
- a slender pointer for indicating the reading on the scale of a measuring instrument
- the leaf of a conifer
- a stylus that formerly made sound by following a groove in a phonograph record
- (programming) A text string that is searched for within another string. (see: needle in a haystack)
- A needle-like leaf found on some conifers.
- (entomology) Any of various species of damselfly of the genus Synlestes, endemic to Australia.
- A fine measurement indicator on a dial or graph.
- A strong beam resting on props, used as a temporary support during building repairs.
- Any slender, pointed object resembling a needle, such as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc.
- (informal) A sensor for playing phonograph records, a phonograph stylus.
- (gymnastics) A move in which the performer begins with two hands and one leg on the floor, then kicks the other leg into a full split.
- (informal, usually preceded by the) The death penalty carried out by lethal injection.
- A long, thin, sharp implement usually for piercing as in sewing, embroidery, acupuncture, tattooing, body piercing, medical injections, sutures, etc; or a blunt but otherwise similar implement used for forming loops or knots in crafts such as darning, knitting, tatting, etc.
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- (metalworking) A large ladle for molten metal, fitted with long bars for handling it.
- (ornithology, colloquial) A redshank or greenshank, various species of Old World wading birds in the genus Tringa having distinctly colored legs.
- The center part of a fishhook between the eye and the hook, the 'hook' being the curved part that bends toward the point.
- The metal part on a curb bit that falls below the mouthpiece, which length controls the severity of the leverage action of the bit, and to which the reins of the bridle are attached.
- (shoemaking) A metal strip strengthening the waists of shoes. (Also shankpiece.)
- A protruding part of an object, by which it is or can be attached.
- Flat-nosed pliers, used by opticians for nipping off the edges of pieces of glass to make them round.
- (golf) A poorly played golf shot in which the ball is struck by the part of the club head that connects to the shaft.
- A loop forming an eye to a button.
- (architecture) The space between two channels of the Doric triglyph.
- (slang) An improvised stabbing weapon, originally in prison, possibly from the strips of metal in shoes.
- The part of the leg between the knee and the ankle.
- Meat from that part of an animal.
- The main part or beginning of a period of time.
- The end or remainder, particularly of a period of time.
- A straight, narrow part of an object, such as a key or an anchor; shaft; stem.
- The handle of a pair of shears, connecting the ride to the neck.
- (shoemaking) The part of the sole beneath the instep connecting the broader front part with the heel.
- the part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle
- cylinder forming the part of a bit by which it is held in the drill
- a poor golf stroke in which the heel of the club hits the ball
- a cut of meat (beef or veal or mutton or lamb) from the upper part of the leg
- the narrow part of the shoe connecting the heel and the wide part of the sole
- cylinder forming the part of a bolt between the thread and the head
- cylinder forming a long narrow part of something
- lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals
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- (transitive, sewing) To provide (a button) with a shank (loop forming an eye).
- (shoemaking) To apply the shank to a shoe, during the process of manufacturing it.
- (slang) To remove another's trousers, especially in jest; to depants.
- (slang) To stab, especially with an improvised blade.
- (intransitive) To fall off, as a leaf, flower, or capsule, on account of disease affecting the supporting footstalk; usually followed by off.
- (transitive, chiefly tennis, soccer, gridiron football) To hit or kick the ball in an unintended direction.
- (transitive, golf) To misstrike the ball with the part of the club head that connects to the shaft.
- hit (a golf ball) with the heel of a club, causing the ball to veer in the wrong direction
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- a powered machine for cutting or shaping or finishing metals or other materials
- (machining, manufacturing) A tool, typically a power-driven machine and typically stationary, used especially for machining (removing hard material via cutting, grinding, or other subtractive processes) and (more broadly) for any mix of subtractive, forming/stamping, or additive work.
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- A power tool used in carpentry for cutting grooves.
- (Internet) A device that connects local area networks to form a larger internet by, at minimum, selectively passing those datagrams having a destination IP address to the network which is able to deliver them to their destination; a network gateway.
- Someone who routes or directs items from one location to another.
- (telecommunications) Any device that directs packets of information using the equivalent of Open Systems Interconnection layer 3 (network layer) information. Most commonly used in reference to Internet Protocol routers.
- A plane with a hooked tool protruding far below the sole, for smoothing the bottom of a cavity.
- A plane made like a spokeshave, for working the inside edges of circular sashes.
- (electronics, electronic design automation) In integrated circuit or printed circuit board design, an algorithm for adding all wires needed to properly connect all of the placed components while obeying all design rules.
- a worker who routes shipments for distribution and delivery
- (computer science) a device that forwards data packets between computer networks
- a power tool with a shaped cutter; used in carpentry for cutting grooves
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- To weld with initial small welds to temporarily fasten in preparation for full welding.
- (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
- (nautical) To maneuver a sailing vessel so that its bow turns through the wind, i.e. the wind changes from one side of the vessel to the other.
- To sew/stitch with a tack (loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth).
- (transitive) To nail (something) with a tack (small nail with a flat head).
- To add something as an extra item.
- Synonym of tack up (“to prepare a horse for riding by equipping it with a tack”).
- sew together loosely, with large stitches
- fasten with tacks
- turn into the wind
- create by putting components or members together
- fix to; attach
- reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
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- (nautical) The lower corner on the leading edge of a sail relative to the direction of the wind.
- A thumbtack.
- (nautical) A rope used to hold in place the foremost lower corners of the courses when the vessel is close-hauled; also, a rope employed to pull the lower corner of a studding sail to the boom.
- (law, Scotland and Northern England) A contract by which the use of a thing is set, or let, for hire; a lease.
- (nautical) The maneuver by which a sailing vessel turns its bow through the wind so that the wind changes from one side to the other.
- (nautical) A course or heading that enables a sailing vessel to head upwind.
- That which is attached; a supplement; an appendix.
- (figurative) A direction or course of action, especially a new one; a method or approach to solving a problem.
- A small nail with a flat head.
- A stain; a tache.
- (sewing) A loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth.
- Food generally; fare, especially of the hard bread or breadlike kind.
- (manufacturing, construction, chemistry) The stickiness of a compound, related to its cohesive and adhesive properties.
- (nautical) The distance a sailing vessel runs between these maneuvers when working to windward; a board.
- Any of the various equipment and accessories worn by horses in the course of their use as domesticated animals.
- (colloquial) That which is tacky; something cheap and gaudy.
- a short nail with a sharp point and a large head
- gear for a horse
- sailing a zigzag course
- (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind
- (nautical) the act of changing tack
- the heading or position of a vessel relative to the trim of its sails
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- (manufacturing) To perform the final welds on a manufactured item.
- (sports, bowling) To replace a pin to its correct position prior to a player bowling.
- (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) To replace a ball on its correct spot on a snooker, billiards or pool table.
- To move a commercial or military vehicle or vehicles into a new position in order to make room for other activity or to allow the moved vehicles to be worked on.
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- A bundle of pieces of iron or steel cut off into suitable lengths for welding.
- offensive term for a homosexual man
- a bundle of sticks and branches bound together
- (highly derogatory, offensive, vulgar) A gay man, especially an effeminate one.
- (chiefly UK, Ireland, collective) A bundle of sticks or brushwood intended to be used for fuel tied together for carrying. (Some sources specify that a faggot is tied with two bands or withes, whereas a bavin is tied with just one.)
- (loosely, highly derogatory, offensive, vulgar) A non-heterosexual man.
- (UK, Ireland, historical, possibly now offensive) A faggot voter.
- (chiefly US, Canada, derogatory, offensive, vulgar) A man considered effeminate.
- (chiefly UK, Ireland) A meatball made with offcuts and offal, especially pork. (See Wikipedia.)
- (US, Canada, derogatory, offensive, vulgar) An annoying or inconsiderate person.
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- To weld together through a series of connecting or overlapping spot welds.
- To form stitches in; especially, to sew in such a manner as to show on the surface a continuous line of stitches.
- (TikTok) To incorporate (an existing video) into a new one, resulting in a collaborative clip that shows the two videos in a sequence.
- (agriculture) To form land into ridges.
- (computer graphics) To combine two or more photographs of the same scene into a single image.
- To sew, or unite or attach by stitches.
- To include, combine, or unite into a single whole.
- (intransitive) To practice/practise stitching or needlework.
- fasten by sewing; do needlework
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- A local sharp pain (anywhere); an acute pain, like the piercing of a needle.
- A single turn of the thread round a needle in knitting; a link, or loop, of yarn
- (colloquial) Any least part of a fabric or clothing.
- (medicine) A single pass of a surgical suture (to sew the edges of a wound together)
- (by extension) Any space passed over; distance.
- An arrangement of stitches in knitting, or method of knitting in some particular way or style.
- (countable) A single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made.
- A fastening, as of thread or wire, through the back of a book to connect the pages.
- A space of work taken up, or gone over, in a single pass of the needle.
- (TikTok) An incorporation of an existing video into a new one, resulting in a collaborative clip that shows the two videos in a sequence.
- An arrangement of stitches in sewing, or method of stitching in some particular way or style.
- (countable and uncountable) An intense stabbing pain under the lower edge of the ribcage, brought on by exercise or laughing.
- a link or loop or knot made by an implement in knitting, crocheting, embroidery, or sewing
- a sharp spasm of pain in the side resulting from running
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- To sharpen with a honing steel.
- To harden or strengthen; to nerve or make obdurate; to fortify against.
- (dialectal) To press with a flat iron.
- To electroplate an item (particularly an engraving plate) with a layer of iron.
- To steelify; to turn iron into steel.
- To edge, cover, or point with steel.
- (literary or poetic) To give (something) the appearance of steel.
- cover, plate, or edge with steel
- get ready for something difficult or unpleasant
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- A honing steel, a tool used to sharpen or hone metal blades.
- knife sharpener consisting of a ridged steel rod
- Projectiles.
- A piece used for striking sparks from flint or ferrocerium.
- (countable, uncountable) An artificial metal produced from iron, harder and more elastic than elemental iron; used figuratively as a symbol of hardness.
- (figurative) Extreme hardness or resilience.
- (sewing, dialectal) A sewing needle; a knitting needle; a sharp metal stylus.
- (printing) An engraving plate.
- (uncountable, colors) The gray hue of this metal; steel-gray, or steel blue.
- Bladed or pointed weapons, as swords, javelins, daggers.
- (sewing) Pieces used to strengthen, support, or expand an item of clothing.
- (music, guitar) A type of slide used while playing the steel guitar.
- (sewing) A fringe of beads or decoration of this metal.
- Armor.
- (dialectal) A flat iron.
- a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard
- an alloy of iron with small amounts of carbon; widely used in construction; mechanical properties can be varied over a wide range
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- prepare (a metal) for soldering or brazing by applying a thin layer of solder to the surface
- plate with tin
- preserve in a can or tin
- (transitive) To place into a metal can (ie. a tin; be it tin, steel, aluminum) in order to preserve.
- To coat with solder, in preparation for soldering, to ensure a good solder joint
- (transitive) To cover with tin.
- To coat with solder, in order to consolidate braided wire, so as to make contact with all strands and reduce fragility of the fraying wire
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- a vessel (box, can, pan, etc.) made of tinplate and used mainly in baking
- airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc.
- a silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion; used in many alloys and to coat other metals to prevent corrosion; obtained chiefly from cassiterite where it occurs as tin oxide
- metal container for storing dry foods such as tea or flour
- (countable, squash) The bottom part of the front wall, which is "out" if a player strikes it with the ball.
- (slang, uncountable) computer hardware.
- (countable) A metal pan used for baking, roasting, storing food, etc.
- (metonymic) Iron or steel sheet metal that is coated with tin as an anticorrosion protectant.
- (uncountable) A malleable, ductile, metallic element, resistant to corrosion, with atomic number 50 and symbol Sn.
- (chiefly UK, Commonwealth, countable) An airtight container, made of tin-coated steel (called tinplate or tin), (formerly) tin, aluminium, or another metal, used to preserve food, or hold a liquid or some other product.
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