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noun
- Waste material from a mine.
- Scum that forms on the surface of molten metal.
- Scoria associated with a volcano.
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, slang, derogatory) A prostitute or promiscuous woman; a slut.
- Hard aggregate remaining as a residue from blast furnaces, sometimes used as a surfacing material.
- (UK, Ireland, chiefly Cockney, derogatory) A contemptible person, a scumbag.
- Impurities formed and separated out when a metal is smelted from ore; vitrified cinders.
- the scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals
verb
- (transitive, Ireland, slang) To make fun of; to take the piss (tease, ridicule or mock).
- (transitive) To produce slag.
- (transitive) To reduce to slag.
- (intransitive) To become slag; to agglomerate when heated below the fusion point.
- (intransitive, Australia, slang) To spit.
- (transitive, UK, slang) To talk badly about; to malign or denigrate (someone).
- convert into slag
noun
- (uncountable, mining) Waste material in old mine workings, goaf.
- (countable) A lump of soft or sticky material.
- (UK, Commonwealth, Ireland, slang) The mouth.
- (uncountable, slang) Saliva or phlegm.
- (US, military, slang) A sailor.
- (countable, US, regional) A whoopie pie.
- a man who serves as a sailor
- a lump of slimy stuff
- informal terms for the mouth
verb
noun
- (mining) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
- (countable, uncountable) A large number or crowd of people, animals, or objects.
- (countable, uncountable) The children in one family; offspring.
- (uncountable) The young of any egg-laying creature, especially if produced at the same time.
- Parentage.
- The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother.
- (countable, uncountable) The eggs and larvae of social insects such as bees, ants and some wasps, especially when gathered together in special brood chambers or combs within the colony.
- That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
- the young of an animal cared for at one time
adj
verb
- (transitive) To keep an egg warm to make it hatch.
- (transitive) To protect (something that is gradually maturing); to foster.
- (intransitive) (typically with over, on or about) To dwell upon moodily and at length, mainly alone.
- (intransitive) To be bred.
- be in a huff and display one's displeasure
- hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing
- be in a huff; be silent or sullen
- sit on (eggs)
- think moodily or anxiously about something
noun
- (mining) A heap of rubbish, attle, or other such refuse.
- (obsolete except in scientific use and in some dialects) A castrated boar.
- (saltworks) A wicker case in which salt is put to drain.
- A long sleeveless flannel garment for infants.
- (chiefly British) A hill.
- A mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves.
- (British) A small vehicle used to carry a load and pulled or pushed by hand.
- (archeology) a heap of earth placed over prehistoric tombs
- the quantity that a barrow will hold
- a cart for carrying small loads; has handles and one or more wheels
noun
- Waste material left over in the course of excavation, construction, mining, or dredging operations.
- That which is taken from another by violence; especially, the plunder taken from an enemy; pillage, booty.
- Public offices and their benefits regarded as the peculiar property of a successful party or faction, to be bestowed for its own advantage.
verb
noun
- A waste product from working with metal.
- (figurative) Worthless or trivial matter.
- (slang) Residual raw opium left in an opium pipe which can be recycled for further sale or use.
- The impurities in metal.
- Residue that forms as a scum on the surface of molten metal from oxidation.
- the scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals
- worthless or dangerous material that should be removed
verb
verb
noun
- (Australia, New Zealand, mining) Overburden: waste material generated while searching for minerals or while mining, such as when sinking a shaft.
- (Australia, New Zealand, mining) Tailings: waste rock from which the wanted gold, minerals, opal, etc., has been extracted.
- Nonsense, rubbish.
- (now UK dialect) Rubbish, waste matter.
- (UK, Yorkshire, dialect) A mess; the result of a blunder.
noun
- (mining) A pile of coal or ore heaped up on the ground after it has been mined.
- (specifically, military, weaponry) A supply of nuclear weapons kept by a country; a nuclear stockpile.
- A supply (especially a large one) of something kept for future use, specifically in case the cost of the item increases or if there a shortage.
- a storage pile accumulated for future use
- something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose
verb
noun
- (mining) A heap of dressed ore.
- (masonry) One of the faces of a hewn stone.
- (law) The whole jury.
- A soft pad beneath a saddletree to prevent chafing.
- (medicine) A group of tests or assays, a battery.
- A portion of text or other material within a book, newspaper, web page, etc. set apart from the main body or separated by a border.
- A portion of a framed structure between adjacent posts or struts, as in a bridge truss.
- (law) A document containing the names of persons summoned as jurors by the sheriff.
- A (usually) rectangular section of a surface, or of a covering or of a wall, fence etc.
- (dressmaking) A plain strip or band, as of velvet or plush, placed at intervals lengthwise on the skirt of a dress, for ornament.
- (architecture) A sunken compartment with raised margins, moulded or otherwise, as in ceilings, wainscotings, etc.
- (graphical user interface) A type of GUI widget, such as a control panel.
- (Scots law) A prisoner arraigned for trial at the bar of a criminal court.
- (masonry) A slab or plank of wood used instead of a canvas for painting on.
- (joinery) A board having its edges inserted in the groove of a surrounding frame.
- (mining) One of the districts divided by pillars of extra size, into which a mine is laid off in one system of extracting coal.
- (British, historical) A list of doctors who could provide limited free healthcare prior to the introduction of the NHS.
- A group of people gathered to judge, interview, discuss etc. as on a television or radio broadcast for example.
- (comics) An individual frame or drawing in a comic.
- sheet that forms a distinct (usually flat and rectangular) section or component of something
- (computer science) a small temporary window in a graphical user interface that appears in order to request information from the user; after the information has been provided the user dismisses the box with ‘okay’ or ‘cancel’
- a committee appointed to judge a competition
- a group of people gathered for a special purpose as to plan or discuss an issue or judge a contest etc
- a piece of cloth that is generally triangular or tapering; used in making garments or umbrellas or sails
- a soft pad placed under a saddle
- electrical device consisting of a flat insulated surface that contains switches and dials and meters for controlling other electrical devices
- (law) a group of people summoned for jury service (from whom a jury will be chosen)
verb
noun
- a piece of land where waste materials are dumped
- (mining) A pile of ore or rock.
- a coarse term for defecation
- (computer science) a copy of the contents of a computer storage device; sometimes used in debugging programs
- a place where supplies can be stored
- That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.
- (historical, Australia, Canada) A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin (called a holey dollar).
- A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
- (usually in the plural) A sad, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; despondency.
- (computing) A formatted listing of the contents of program storage, especially when produced automatically by a failing program.
- (slang, often with the verb "take", euphemistic) An act of defecation; a defecating.
- A storage place for supplies, especially military.
- (slang) An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, unfashionable, boring, or depressing looking place.
- A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site.
- (marketing) A temporary display case that holds many copies of an item being sold.
- (computing) An act of dumping, or its result.
- (Northern England) A deep hole in a river bed; a pool.
- Absence of mind; reverie.
- (Internet slang) A disorganized collection of images posted on social media.
verb
- throw away as refuse
- sell at artificially low prices
- drop (stuff) in a heap or mass
- knock down with force
- fall abruptly
- sever all ties with, usually unceremoniously or irresponsibly
- (transitive, computing) To copy (data) from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.
- (transitive) To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.
- (transitive, computing) To output the contents of storage or a data structure, often in order to diagnose a bug.
- (transitive) To discard; to get rid of something one no longer wants.
- (transitive, Australia) Of a surf wave, to crash a swimmer, surfer, etc., heavily downwards.
- (transitive) To sell below cost or very cheaply; to engage in dumping.
- (transitive) To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it
- (transitive, US) To precipitate (especially snow) heavily.
- (transitive, informal) To end a romantic relationship with.
noun
- (mining) The waste that remains after the minerals have been extracted from an ore by ore dressing; the waste from coal mining.
- (alcohol production) The weak feints, the last fraction of product obtained at the end of distillation, typically impure and containing fusel oils.
- plural of tailing
- (agriculture) Inferior or damaged grain, as well as seeds of other plants (weeds), removed from grain before milling or sowing.
noun
- a mine or quarry that is being or has been worked
- Method of operation.
- (usually in the plural) Operation; action.
- Fermentation.
- (countable) A train movement.
- (arithmetic) The incidental or subsidiary calculations performed in solving an overall problem.
- A place where work is carried on.
- (of bodies of water) Becoming full of a vegetable substance.
adj
- serving to permit or facilitate further work or activity
- (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing
- adequate for practical use; especially sufficient in strength or numbers to accomplish something
- actively engaged in paid work
- adopted as a temporary basis for further work
- Enough to allow one to use something.
- That suffices but requires additional work; provisional.
- In paid employment.
- Used in real life; practical.
- That is or are functioning.
- Of or relating to employment.
verb
noun
- A deposit of ore, coal, etc.
- (countable) The bottom of a body of water, such as an ocean, sea, lake, or river.
- A shaped piece of timber to hold a cask clear of a ship’s floor; a pallet.
- A piece of music, normally instrumental, over which a radio DJ talks.
- (uncountable, usually after a preposition) Sleep; rest; getting to sleep.
- (uncountable) Time spent in a bed.
- (masonry) A course of stone or brick in a wall.
- The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.
- (uncountable, usually after a preposition) The time for going to sleep or resting in bed; bedtime.
- Clipping of bedroom.
- (countable, geology) The smallest division of a geologic formation or stratigraphic rock series marked by well-defined divisional planes (bedding planes) separating it from layers above and below.
- An area where a large number of oysters, mussels, other sessile shellfish, or a large amount of seaweed is found.
- (countable) A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep.
- (US, Canada, automotive) The platform of a truck, trailer, wagon, railcar, or other vehicle that supports the load to be hauled.
- (usually after a preposition) One's place of sleep or rest.
- A garden plot.
- (figurative) Marriage.
- (trampoline) The taut surface of a trampoline.
- A foundation or supporting surface formed of a fluid.
- (figurative, uncountable) Sexual activity.
- A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.
- (masonry) The horizontal surface of a building stone.
- A prepared spot in which to spend the night.
- (computing) The flat surface of a scanner on which a document is placed to be scanned.
- (masonry) The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile.
- (darts) Any of the sections of a dartboard with a point value, delimited by a wire.
- a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit
- a depression forming the ground under a body of water
- (geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock)
- a plot of ground in which plants are growing
- the flat surface of a printing press on which the type form is laid in the last stage of producing a newspaper or magazine or book etc.
- a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep
- single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance
- a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track
verb
- (intransitive, hunting) Of large game animals: to be at rest.
- (transitive) To place in a bed.
- (transitive) To dress or prepare the surface of (stone) so it can serve as a bed.
- (ambitransitive) To have sex (with).
- (intransitive) To go to bed; to put oneself to sleep.
- (transitive) To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or enclosed; to embed.
- (transitive) To set out (plants) in a garden bed.
- (transitive) To furnish with a bed or bedding.
- (transitive) To set in a soft matrix, as paving stones in sand, or tiles in cement.
- (transitive) To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position.
- To settle, as machinery.
- put to bed
- have sexual intercourse with
- place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil
- furnish with a bed
- prepare for sleep
noun
- (mining) A large deposit of ore in a lode.
- That which swallows irretrievably; a whirlpool; a sucking eddy.
- (figurative) A wide interval or gap; a separating space.
- (figurative) A difference, especially a large difference, between groups.
- (geography) A portion of an ocean or sea extending into the land; a partially landlocked sea
- (Oxbridge slang) The bottom part of a list of those awarded a degree, for those who have only just passed.
- A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin.
- a deep wide chasm
- an unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding)
- an arm of a sea or ocean partly enclosed by land; larger than a bay
verb
noun
verb
noun
noun
- (mining) Liquid waste from some types of mining, such as mountain top removal mining, usually very toxic and stored nearby in large dams.
- Any flowable suspension of small particles in liquid.
- (cooking) A thickener.
- (agriculture) A mixture of animal waste, other organic material and sometimes water, stored in a slurry pit and used as fertilizer; also used in combination, as pig slurry, etc.
- a suspension of insoluble particles (as plaster of Paris or lime or clay etc.) usually in water
adj
verb
noun
- (mining) Refuse or rubbish from a mine.
- (only as plural) A publication intended for participants in an industry or related group of industries.
- (countable) Those engaged in an industry or group of related industries.
- Short for trade paperback
- (countable) An idea or strategy for an investment on a market.
- (countable or uncountable) An occupation in the secondary sector, as opposed to an agricultural, professional or military one.
- (chiefly in the plural) Steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator.
- (countable) A particular instance of buying or selling, or a series of related transactions executed as a single investment.
- (uncountable) The buying and selling of goods and services on a market.
- (countable) The skilled practice of a practical occupation.
- (countable) Those who perform a particular kind of skilled work.
- (uncountable, UK) The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers.
- (uncountable, gay slang) A masculine man available for casual sex with men, often for pay. (Compare rough trade.)
- (countable) An instance of bartering items in exchange for one another.
- steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator
- an equal exchange
- the commercial exchange (buying and selling on domestic or international markets) of goods and services
- the skilled practice of a practical occupation
- the business given to a commercial establishment by its customers
- people who perform a particular kind of skilled work
- a particular instance of buying or selling
adj
verb
- (transitive, with for) To give (something) in exchange (for).
- (horticulture, transitive or intransitive) To give someone a plant and receive a different one in return.
- (ambitransitive) To engage in trade.
- (transitive) To mutually exchange (something) (with).
- (transitive, with on) To use or exploit a particular aspect, such as a name, reputation, or image, to gain advantage or benefit.
- (intransitive) To have dealings; to be concerned or associated (with).
- (transitive) To recommend and get recommendations.
- (finance, intransitive, copulative) To be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions.
- (ambitransitive) To do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood.
- engage in the trade of
- exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions
- turn in as payment or part payment for a purchase
- do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood
noun
- The process of breaking up or pulverizing ores.
- The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching.
- The act of a quadruped kicking both hind legs upward at once.
- The liquid used in this process.
- (forestry) The process of cutting a felled and delimbed tree into logs.
- A washing.
verb
noun
- (mining, local use) Mining waste from lead and zinc mines.
- (by extension, nonstandard, humorous) Familiar term of address for users on social media other than a chat room, as in "guys."
- (Internet, uncountable, with or without "the") A chat room, especially (in later use) one accompanying a videoconference or live stream.
- A small potato, such as is given to swine.
- (British, Australia, New Zealand, World War I military slang) A louse (small, parasitic insect).
- (countable) Any of various small Old World passerine birds in the muscicapid tribe Saxicolini or subfamily Saxicolinae that feed on insects.
- (metonymic, originally video games) The entirety of users, viewed collectively, in a chat room, especially the chat room accompanying a live stream.
- (countable, uncountable) Informal conversation.
- (countable, uncountable) An exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, resembling a face-to-face conversation.
- Alternative form of chaat.
- (countable) Any of several small Australian honeyeaters in the genus Epthianura.
- birds having a chattering call
- an informal conversation
- songbirds having a chattering call
intj
verb
- (transitive) To talk of; to discuss.
- (informal, slang, often as chatting) To chat shit (to speak nonsense, to lie).
- To exchange text or voice messages in real time through a computer network such as a social media chat room or messaging application (as if having a face-to-face conversation instead of SMS or writing emails or letters).
- To talk more than a few words.
- To be engaged in informal conversation.
- talk socially without exchanging too much information
noun
verb
- make denser, stronger, or purer
- cook until very little liquid is left
- make central
- compress or concentrate
- be cooked until very little liquid is left
- make more concise
- direct one's attention on something
- draw together or meet in one common center
- (ergative) To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force.
- (intransitive) To focus one's thought or attention (on).
- To approach or meet in a common center; to consolidate.
- To increase the strength and diminish the bulk of, as of a liquid or an ore; to intensify, by getting rid of useless material; to condense.
adj
noun
- (mining) A hook-like tool used to tear away ore, rock, etc.
- (US, New Jersey, slang) A hot dog deep-fried in oil until the casing bursts.
- (computing) Software that extracts content from files or storage media.
- A murderer who kills and often mutilates victims with a blade or similar sharp weapon.
- A foghorn.
- A legislative bill or act that transfers powers of appointment from the usual holders to a chief executive or a board of officials.
- Someone who rips something.
- (mining) A person employed to tear away ore, rock, etc. to make a passage for material to be carried to the surface.
- Something that rips something else.
- (British, Australia, slang) Something that is an excellent example of its kind.
- (agriculture) A tool or plant used to reduce soil compaction.
- a murderer who slashes the victims with a knife
adj
adj
- (mining) Of something mined such as coal or ore: broken into pieces.
- Caused to move (and usually weakened) by a strong force.
- Of a drink, especially (alcoholic beverages) a cocktail: mixed by being agitated with ice in a shaker.
- Chiefly of a person: having had one's composure or confidence disrupted or upset; in a state of shock or trauma.
- Moved rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
- Weakened by some event.
- (timber industry) Of timber: damaged from being cracked.
- disturbed psychologically as if by a physical jolt or shock
noun
verb
noun
- (mining) A roadway along which foul air travels from the face on its way out of the mine.
- (American football) The act of catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.
- An answer.
- An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, etc.; especially, in the plural, a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general information.
- (computing) The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.
- (computing) A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.
- The act of returning.
- (computing) A carriage return character.
- Gain or loss from an investment.
- (taxation, finance) A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax payment amounts; a tax return.
- A return pipe, returning fluid to a boiler or other central plant (compare with flow pipe, which carries liquid away from a central plant).
- (architecture) The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, such as a moulding; applied to the shorter in contradistinction to the longer.
- A return ticket.
- A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.
- (cricket) A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
- (business) An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect.
- (American football) the act of running back the ball after a kickoff or punt or interception or fumble
- the key on electric typewriters or computer keyboards that causes a carriage return and a line feed
- the act of going back to a prior location
- a reciprocal group action
- a coming to or returning home
- document giving the tax collector information about the taxpayer's tax liability
- getting something back again
- a tennis stroke that sends the ball back to the other player
- the act of someone appearing again
- happening again (especially at regular intervals)
- the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property
- the occurrence of a change in direction back in the opposite direction
- a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one)
verb
- To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
- (cricket) To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in the field.
- (intransitive) To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
- (transitive) To say in reply; to respond.
- (intransitive, computing) To relinquish control to the calling procedure.
- (transitive, computing) To pass (data) back to the calling procedure.
- (transitive) To take back something to a vendor for a complete or partial refund.
- (fencing) To give a thrust or cut after parrying a sword-thrust.
- (transitive) To give something back to its original holder or owner.
- (transitive) To report, or bring back and make known.
- (transitive) To reciprocate (a visit or telephone call).
- (intransitive) To come or go back (to a place or person).
- (card games) To play a card as a result of another player's lead.
- (tennis) To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve.
- (intransitive) To recur; to come again.
- (transitive) To place or put back something where it had been.
- go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before
- make a return
- give back
- elect again
- answer back
- go back to a previous state
- be restored
- be inherited by
- return to a previous position; in mathematics
- return in kind
- pay back
- submit (a report, etc.) to someone in authority
- go back to something earlier
- bring back to the point of departure
- give or supply
- pass down
verb
- lay mines
- get from the earth by excavation
- (ambitransitive) To remove (rock or ore) from the ground.
- (by extension, figurative) To ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
- To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine.
- (transitive) To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area).
- To dig into, for ore or metal.
- (intransitive) To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth.
- (slang) To pick one's nose.
- (cryptocurrencies) To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.
- (by extension, figurative) To tap into.
- (transitive) To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device).
noun
- excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extracted
- explosive device that explodes on contact; designed to destroy vehicles or ships or to kill or maim personnel
- An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels.
- (military) A device intended to explode when stepped upon or touched, or when approached by a ship, vehicle, or person.
- (entomology) The cavity made by a caterpillar while feeding inside a leaf.
- (figurative) Any source of wealth or resources.
- (computing) A machine or network of machines used to extract units of a cryptocurrency.
- (pyrotechnics) A type of firework that explodes on the ground, shooting sparks upward.
- (military) A passage dug toward or underneath enemy lines, which is then packed with explosives.
- Alternative form of mien.
pron
noun
- (mining) A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.
- (sugar manufacture) A charge of syrup in the pans.
- (informal) A song, typically one on an album, that is not worth listening to.
- A wheeled basket chiefly used in textile factories.
- A skipper; the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority.
- (radio) skywave propagation
- (video games) A trick allowing the player to proceed to a later section of the game without playing through a section that was intended to be mandatory.
- (Trinity College, Dublin, historical) A college servant.
- (Commonwealth, UK, Ireland) A large container for waste, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to remove it along with its contents, or to be picked up by hydraulic arms so that its contents can be dumped into the truck.
- (scouting, informal) The scoutmaster of a troop of scouts (youth organization).
- The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
- (Australia, slang) An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent.
- A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) A skep, or basket, such as a creel or a handbasket.
- (curling) The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.
- The captain of a sports team.
- (bowls) The captain of a bowls team, who directs the team's tactics and rolls the side's last wood, so as to be able to retrieve a difficult situation if necessary.
- (steelmaking) A skip car.
- A beehive made of woven straw, wicker, etc.
- (slang) A skip-level manager; the boss of one's boss.
- (music) A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
- A leaping or jumping movement; the action of one who skips.
- a mistake resulting from neglect
- a gait in which steps and hops alternate
verb
- (intransitive) To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.
- (knitting, crochet) To pass by a stitch as if it were not there, continuing with the next stitch.
- (printing) To have insufficient ink transfer.
- To jump rope.
- To cause the stylus to jump back to the previous loop of the record's groove, continuously repeating that part of the sound, as a result of excessive scratching or wear. (of a phonograph record)
- To leap lightly over.
- (transitive) To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).
- (intransitive) To move by hopping on alternate feet.
- (intransitive) To leap about lightly.
- (transitive, informal) Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).
- (transitive, informal) To leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner.
- (transitive) To place an item in a skip (etymology 2, sense 1).
- (transitive) To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.
- intentionally fail to attend
- jump lightly
- leave suddenly
- bound off one point after another
- cause to skip over a surface
- bypass
noun
noun
- (mining) A shovel used in cleansing ore.
- (aerospace) A large towable vehicle equipped for the repair of structures that cannot easily be moved.
- (British) An enclosed railway vehicle for transport of goods, such as a boxcar/box van.
- Clipping of vanguard.
- A wing with which the air is beaten.
- A fan or other contrivance, such as a sieve, for winnowing grain.
- A covered motor vehicle used to carry goods or (normally less than ten) persons, usually roughly cuboid in shape, Depending on the type of van, it can be bigger or smaller than a pickup truck and SUV, and longer and higher than a car but relatively smaller than a truck/lorry or a bus.
- any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts)
- a camper equipped with living quarters
- the leading units moving at the head of an army
- (Great Britain) a closed railroad car that carries baggage or freight
- a truck with an enclosed cargo space
verb
noun
verb
noun
- Waste material from a mine.
- Scum that forms on the surface of molten metal.
- Scoria associated with a volcano.
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, slang, derogatory) A prostitute or promiscuous woman; a slut.
- Hard aggregate remaining as a residue from blast furnaces, sometimes used as a surfacing material.
- (UK, Ireland, chiefly Cockney, derogatory) A contemptible person, a scumbag.
- Impurities formed and separated out when a metal is smelted from ore; vitrified cinders.
- the scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals
verb
- (transitive, Ireland, slang) To make fun of; to take the piss (tease, ridicule or mock).
- (transitive) To produce slag.
- (transitive) To reduce to slag.
- (intransitive) To become slag; to agglomerate when heated below the fusion point.
- (intransitive, Australia, slang) To spit.
- (transitive, UK, slang) To talk badly about; to malign or denigrate (someone).
- convert into slag
noun
- (uncountable, mining) Waste material in old mine workings, goaf.
- (countable) A lump of soft or sticky material.
- (UK, Commonwealth, Ireland, slang) The mouth.
- (uncountable, slang) Saliva or phlegm.
- (US, military, slang) A sailor.
- (countable, US, regional) A whoopie pie.
- a man who serves as a sailor
- a lump of slimy stuff
- informal terms for the mouth
verb
noun
- (mining) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
- (countable, uncountable) A large number or crowd of people, animals, or objects.
- (countable, uncountable) The children in one family; offspring.
- (uncountable) The young of any egg-laying creature, especially if produced at the same time.
- Parentage.
- The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother.
- (countable, uncountable) The eggs and larvae of social insects such as bees, ants and some wasps, especially when gathered together in special brood chambers or combs within the colony.
- That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
- the young of an animal cared for at one time
adj
verb
- (transitive) To keep an egg warm to make it hatch.
- (transitive) To protect (something that is gradually maturing); to foster.
- (intransitive) (typically with over, on or about) To dwell upon moodily and at length, mainly alone.
- (intransitive) To be bred.
- be in a huff and display one's displeasure
- hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing
- be in a huff; be silent or sullen
- sit on (eggs)
- think moodily or anxiously about something
noun
- (mining) A heap of rubbish, attle, or other such refuse.
- (obsolete except in scientific use and in some dialects) A castrated boar.
- (saltworks) A wicker case in which salt is put to drain.
- A long sleeveless flannel garment for infants.
- (chiefly British) A hill.
- A mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves.
- (British) A small vehicle used to carry a load and pulled or pushed by hand.
- (archeology) a heap of earth placed over prehistoric tombs
- the quantity that a barrow will hold
- a cart for carrying small loads; has handles and one or more wheels
noun
- Waste material left over in the course of excavation, construction, mining, or dredging operations.
- That which is taken from another by violence; especially, the plunder taken from an enemy; pillage, booty.
- Public offices and their benefits regarded as the peculiar property of a successful party or faction, to be bestowed for its own advantage.
verb
noun
- A waste product from working with metal.
- (figurative) Worthless or trivial matter.
- (slang) Residual raw opium left in an opium pipe which can be recycled for further sale or use.
- The impurities in metal.
- Residue that forms as a scum on the surface of molten metal from oxidation.
- the scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals
- worthless or dangerous material that should be removed
verb
noun
- (mining) A pile of coal or ore heaped up on the ground after it has been mined.
- (specifically, military, weaponry) A supply of nuclear weapons kept by a country; a nuclear stockpile.
- A supply (especially a large one) of something kept for future use, specifically in case the cost of the item increases or if there a shortage.
- a storage pile accumulated for future use
- something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose
verb
noun
- (mining) A heap of dressed ore.
- (masonry) One of the faces of a hewn stone.
- (law) The whole jury.
- A soft pad beneath a saddletree to prevent chafing.
- (medicine) A group of tests or assays, a battery.
- A portion of text or other material within a book, newspaper, web page, etc. set apart from the main body or separated by a border.
- A portion of a framed structure between adjacent posts or struts, as in a bridge truss.
- (law) A document containing the names of persons summoned as jurors by the sheriff.
- A (usually) rectangular section of a surface, or of a covering or of a wall, fence etc.
- (dressmaking) A plain strip or band, as of velvet or plush, placed at intervals lengthwise on the skirt of a dress, for ornament.
- (architecture) A sunken compartment with raised margins, moulded or otherwise, as in ceilings, wainscotings, etc.
- (graphical user interface) A type of GUI widget, such as a control panel.
- (Scots law) A prisoner arraigned for trial at the bar of a criminal court.
- (masonry) A slab or plank of wood used instead of a canvas for painting on.
- (joinery) A board having its edges inserted in the groove of a surrounding frame.
- (mining) One of the districts divided by pillars of extra size, into which a mine is laid off in one system of extracting coal.
- (British, historical) A list of doctors who could provide limited free healthcare prior to the introduction of the NHS.
- A group of people gathered to judge, interview, discuss etc. as on a television or radio broadcast for example.
- (comics) An individual frame or drawing in a comic.
- sheet that forms a distinct (usually flat and rectangular) section or component of something
- (computer science) a small temporary window in a graphical user interface that appears in order to request information from the user; after the information has been provided the user dismisses the box with ‘okay’ or ‘cancel’
- a committee appointed to judge a competition
- a group of people gathered for a special purpose as to plan or discuss an issue or judge a contest etc
- a piece of cloth that is generally triangular or tapering; used in making garments or umbrellas or sails
- a soft pad placed under a saddle
- electrical device consisting of a flat insulated surface that contains switches and dials and meters for controlling other electrical devices
- (law) a group of people summoned for jury service (from whom a jury will be chosen)
verb
noun
- a piece of land where waste materials are dumped
- (mining) A pile of ore or rock.
- a coarse term for defecation
- (computer science) a copy of the contents of a computer storage device; sometimes used in debugging programs
- a place where supplies can be stored
- That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.
- (historical, Australia, Canada) A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin (called a holey dollar).
- A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
- (usually in the plural) A sad, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; despondency.
- (computing) A formatted listing of the contents of program storage, especially when produced automatically by a failing program.
- (slang, often with the verb "take", euphemistic) An act of defecation; a defecating.
- A storage place for supplies, especially military.
- (slang) An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, unfashionable, boring, or depressing looking place.
- A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site.
- (marketing) A temporary display case that holds many copies of an item being sold.
- (computing) An act of dumping, or its result.
- (Northern England) A deep hole in a river bed; a pool.
- Absence of mind; reverie.
- (Internet slang) A disorganized collection of images posted on social media.
verb
- throw away as refuse
- sell at artificially low prices
- drop (stuff) in a heap or mass
- knock down with force
- fall abruptly
- sever all ties with, usually unceremoniously or irresponsibly
- (transitive, computing) To copy (data) from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.
- (transitive) To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.
- (transitive, computing) To output the contents of storage or a data structure, often in order to diagnose a bug.
- (transitive) To discard; to get rid of something one no longer wants.
- (transitive, Australia) Of a surf wave, to crash a swimmer, surfer, etc., heavily downwards.
- (transitive) To sell below cost or very cheaply; to engage in dumping.
- (transitive) To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it
- (transitive, US) To precipitate (especially snow) heavily.
- (transitive, informal) To end a romantic relationship with.
noun
- (mining) The waste that remains after the minerals have been extracted from an ore by ore dressing; the waste from coal mining.
- (alcohol production) The weak feints, the last fraction of product obtained at the end of distillation, typically impure and containing fusel oils.
- plural of tailing
- (agriculture) Inferior or damaged grain, as well as seeds of other plants (weeds), removed from grain before milling or sowing.
noun
- a mine or quarry that is being or has been worked
- Method of operation.
- (usually in the plural) Operation; action.
- Fermentation.
- (countable) A train movement.
- (arithmetic) The incidental or subsidiary calculations performed in solving an overall problem.
- A place where work is carried on.
- (of bodies of water) Becoming full of a vegetable substance.
adj
- serving to permit or facilitate further work or activity
- (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing
- adequate for practical use; especially sufficient in strength or numbers to accomplish something
- actively engaged in paid work
- adopted as a temporary basis for further work
- Enough to allow one to use something.
- That suffices but requires additional work; provisional.
- In paid employment.
- Used in real life; practical.
- That is or are functioning.
- Of or relating to employment.
verb
noun
- A deposit of ore, coal, etc.
- (countable) The bottom of a body of water, such as an ocean, sea, lake, or river.
- A shaped piece of timber to hold a cask clear of a ship’s floor; a pallet.
- A piece of music, normally instrumental, over which a radio DJ talks.
- (uncountable, usually after a preposition) Sleep; rest; getting to sleep.
- (uncountable) Time spent in a bed.
- (masonry) A course of stone or brick in a wall.
- The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.
- (uncountable, usually after a preposition) The time for going to sleep or resting in bed; bedtime.
- Clipping of bedroom.
- (countable, geology) The smallest division of a geologic formation or stratigraphic rock series marked by well-defined divisional planes (bedding planes) separating it from layers above and below.
- An area where a large number of oysters, mussels, other sessile shellfish, or a large amount of seaweed is found.
- (countable) A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep.
- (US, Canada, automotive) The platform of a truck, trailer, wagon, railcar, or other vehicle that supports the load to be hauled.
- (usually after a preposition) One's place of sleep or rest.
- A garden plot.
- (figurative) Marriage.
- (trampoline) The taut surface of a trampoline.
- A foundation or supporting surface formed of a fluid.
- (figurative, uncountable) Sexual activity.
- A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.
- (masonry) The horizontal surface of a building stone.
- A prepared spot in which to spend the night.
- (computing) The flat surface of a scanner on which a document is placed to be scanned.
- (masonry) The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile.
- (darts) Any of the sections of a dartboard with a point value, delimited by a wire.
- a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit
- a depression forming the ground under a body of water
- (geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock)
- a plot of ground in which plants are growing
- the flat surface of a printing press on which the type form is laid in the last stage of producing a newspaper or magazine or book etc.
- a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep
- single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance
- a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track
verb
- (intransitive, hunting) Of large game animals: to be at rest.
- (transitive) To place in a bed.
- (transitive) To dress or prepare the surface of (stone) so it can serve as a bed.
- (ambitransitive) To have sex (with).
- (intransitive) To go to bed; to put oneself to sleep.
- (transitive) To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or enclosed; to embed.
- (transitive) To set out (plants) in a garden bed.
- (transitive) To furnish with a bed or bedding.
- (transitive) To set in a soft matrix, as paving stones in sand, or tiles in cement.
- (transitive) To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position.
- To settle, as machinery.
- put to bed
- have sexual intercourse with
- place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil
- furnish with a bed
- prepare for sleep
noun
- (mining) A large deposit of ore in a lode.
- That which swallows irretrievably; a whirlpool; a sucking eddy.
- (figurative) A wide interval or gap; a separating space.
- (figurative) A difference, especially a large difference, between groups.
- (geography) A portion of an ocean or sea extending into the land; a partially landlocked sea
- (Oxbridge slang) The bottom part of a list of those awarded a degree, for those who have only just passed.
- A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin.
- a deep wide chasm
- an unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding)
- an arm of a sea or ocean partly enclosed by land; larger than a bay
verb
noun
verb
noun
noun
- (mining) Liquid waste from some types of mining, such as mountain top removal mining, usually very toxic and stored nearby in large dams.
- Any flowable suspension of small particles in liquid.
- (cooking) A thickener.
- (agriculture) A mixture of animal waste, other organic material and sometimes water, stored in a slurry pit and used as fertilizer; also used in combination, as pig slurry, etc.
- a suspension of insoluble particles (as plaster of Paris or lime or clay etc.) usually in water
adj
verb
noun
- (mining) Refuse or rubbish from a mine.
- (only as plural) A publication intended for participants in an industry or related group of industries.
- (countable) Those engaged in an industry or group of related industries.
- Short for trade paperback
- (countable) An idea or strategy for an investment on a market.
- (countable or uncountable) An occupation in the secondary sector, as opposed to an agricultural, professional or military one.
- (chiefly in the plural) Steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator.
- (countable) A particular instance of buying or selling, or a series of related transactions executed as a single investment.
- (uncountable) The buying and selling of goods and services on a market.
- (countable) The skilled practice of a practical occupation.
- (countable) Those who perform a particular kind of skilled work.
- (uncountable, UK) The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers.
- (uncountable, gay slang) A masculine man available for casual sex with men, often for pay. (Compare rough trade.)
- (countable) An instance of bartering items in exchange for one another.
- steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator
- an equal exchange
- the commercial exchange (buying and selling on domestic or international markets) of goods and services
- the skilled practice of a practical occupation
- the business given to a commercial establishment by its customers
- people who perform a particular kind of skilled work
- a particular instance of buying or selling
adj
verb
- (transitive, with for) To give (something) in exchange (for).
- (horticulture, transitive or intransitive) To give someone a plant and receive a different one in return.
- (ambitransitive) To engage in trade.
- (transitive) To mutually exchange (something) (with).
- (transitive, with on) To use or exploit a particular aspect, such as a name, reputation, or image, to gain advantage or benefit.
- (intransitive) To have dealings; to be concerned or associated (with).
- (transitive) To recommend and get recommendations.
- (finance, intransitive, copulative) To be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions.
- (ambitransitive) To do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood.
- engage in the trade of
- exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions
- turn in as payment or part payment for a purchase
- do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood
noun
- The process of breaking up or pulverizing ores.
- The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching.
- The act of a quadruped kicking both hind legs upward at once.
- The liquid used in this process.
- (forestry) The process of cutting a felled and delimbed tree into logs.
- A washing.
verb
noun
- (mining, local use) Mining waste from lead and zinc mines.
- (by extension, nonstandard, humorous) Familiar term of address for users on social media other than a chat room, as in "guys."
- (Internet, uncountable, with or without "the") A chat room, especially (in later use) one accompanying a videoconference or live stream.
- A small potato, such as is given to swine.
- (British, Australia, New Zealand, World War I military slang) A louse (small, parasitic insect).
- (countable) Any of various small Old World passerine birds in the muscicapid tribe Saxicolini or subfamily Saxicolinae that feed on insects.
- (metonymic, originally video games) The entirety of users, viewed collectively, in a chat room, especially the chat room accompanying a live stream.
- (countable, uncountable) Informal conversation.
- (countable, uncountable) An exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, resembling a face-to-face conversation.
- Alternative form of chaat.
- (countable) Any of several small Australian honeyeaters in the genus Epthianura.
- birds having a chattering call
- an informal conversation
- songbirds having a chattering call
intj
verb
- (transitive) To talk of; to discuss.
- (informal, slang, often as chatting) To chat shit (to speak nonsense, to lie).
- To exchange text or voice messages in real time through a computer network such as a social media chat room or messaging application (as if having a face-to-face conversation instead of SMS or writing emails or letters).
- To talk more than a few words.
- To be engaged in informal conversation.
- talk socially without exchanging too much information
noun
verb
- make denser, stronger, or purer
- cook until very little liquid is left
- make central
- compress or concentrate
- be cooked until very little liquid is left
- make more concise
- direct one's attention on something
- draw together or meet in one common center
- (ergative) To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force.
- (intransitive) To focus one's thought or attention (on).
- To approach or meet in a common center; to consolidate.
- To increase the strength and diminish the bulk of, as of a liquid or an ore; to intensify, by getting rid of useless material; to condense.
adj
noun
- (mining) A hook-like tool used to tear away ore, rock, etc.
- (US, New Jersey, slang) A hot dog deep-fried in oil until the casing bursts.
- (computing) Software that extracts content from files or storage media.
- A murderer who kills and often mutilates victims with a blade or similar sharp weapon.
- A foghorn.
- A legislative bill or act that transfers powers of appointment from the usual holders to a chief executive or a board of officials.
- Someone who rips something.
- (mining) A person employed to tear away ore, rock, etc. to make a passage for material to be carried to the surface.
- Something that rips something else.
- (British, Australia, slang) Something that is an excellent example of its kind.
- (agriculture) A tool or plant used to reduce soil compaction.
- a murderer who slashes the victims with a knife
adj
noun
- (mining) A roadway along which foul air travels from the face on its way out of the mine.
- (American football) The act of catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.
- An answer.
- An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, etc.; especially, in the plural, a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general information.
- (computing) The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.
- (computing) A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.
- The act of returning.
- (computing) A carriage return character.
- Gain or loss from an investment.
- (taxation, finance) A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax payment amounts; a tax return.
- A return pipe, returning fluid to a boiler or other central plant (compare with flow pipe, which carries liquid away from a central plant).
- (architecture) The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, such as a moulding; applied to the shorter in contradistinction to the longer.
- A return ticket.
- A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.
- (cricket) A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
- (business) An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect.
- (American football) the act of running back the ball after a kickoff or punt or interception or fumble
- the key on electric typewriters or computer keyboards that causes a carriage return and a line feed
- the act of going back to a prior location
- a reciprocal group action
- a coming to or returning home
- document giving the tax collector information about the taxpayer's tax liability
- getting something back again
- a tennis stroke that sends the ball back to the other player
- the act of someone appearing again
- happening again (especially at regular intervals)
- the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property
- the occurrence of a change in direction back in the opposite direction
- a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one)
verb
- To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
- (cricket) To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in the field.
- (intransitive) To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
- (transitive) To say in reply; to respond.
- (intransitive, computing) To relinquish control to the calling procedure.
- (transitive, computing) To pass (data) back to the calling procedure.
- (transitive) To take back something to a vendor for a complete or partial refund.
- (fencing) To give a thrust or cut after parrying a sword-thrust.
- (transitive) To give something back to its original holder or owner.
- (transitive) To report, or bring back and make known.
- (transitive) To reciprocate (a visit or telephone call).
- (intransitive) To come or go back (to a place or person).
- (card games) To play a card as a result of another player's lead.
- (tennis) To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve.
- (intransitive) To recur; to come again.
- (transitive) To place or put back something where it had been.
- go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before
- make a return
- give back
- elect again
- answer back
- go back to a previous state
- be restored
- be inherited by
- return to a previous position; in mathematics
- return in kind
- pay back
- submit (a report, etc.) to someone in authority
- go back to something earlier
- bring back to the point of departure
- give or supply
- pass down
noun
- (mining) A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.
- (sugar manufacture) A charge of syrup in the pans.
- (informal) A song, typically one on an album, that is not worth listening to.
- A wheeled basket chiefly used in textile factories.
- A skipper; the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority.
- (radio) skywave propagation
- (video games) A trick allowing the player to proceed to a later section of the game without playing through a section that was intended to be mandatory.
- (Trinity College, Dublin, historical) A college servant.
- (Commonwealth, UK, Ireland) A large container for waste, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to remove it along with its contents, or to be picked up by hydraulic arms so that its contents can be dumped into the truck.
- (scouting, informal) The scoutmaster of a troop of scouts (youth organization).
- The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
- (Australia, slang) An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent.
- A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) A skep, or basket, such as a creel or a handbasket.
- (curling) The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.
- The captain of a sports team.
- (bowls) The captain of a bowls team, who directs the team's tactics and rolls the side's last wood, so as to be able to retrieve a difficult situation if necessary.
- (steelmaking) A skip car.
- A beehive made of woven straw, wicker, etc.
- (slang) A skip-level manager; the boss of one's boss.
- (music) A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
- A leaping or jumping movement; the action of one who skips.
- a mistake resulting from neglect
- a gait in which steps and hops alternate
verb
- (intransitive) To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.
- (knitting, crochet) To pass by a stitch as if it were not there, continuing with the next stitch.
- (printing) To have insufficient ink transfer.
- To jump rope.
- To cause the stylus to jump back to the previous loop of the record's groove, continuously repeating that part of the sound, as a result of excessive scratching or wear. (of a phonograph record)
- To leap lightly over.
- (transitive) To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).
- (intransitive) To move by hopping on alternate feet.
- (intransitive) To leap about lightly.
- (transitive, informal) Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).
- (transitive, informal) To leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner.
- (transitive) To place an item in a skip (etymology 2, sense 1).
- (transitive) To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.
- intentionally fail to attend
- jump lightly
- leave suddenly
- bound off one point after another
- cause to skip over a surface
- bypass
noun
noun
- (mining) A shovel used in cleansing ore.
- (aerospace) A large towable vehicle equipped for the repair of structures that cannot easily be moved.
- (British) An enclosed railway vehicle for transport of goods, such as a boxcar/box van.
- Clipping of vanguard.
- A wing with which the air is beaten.
- A fan or other contrivance, such as a sieve, for winnowing grain.
- A covered motor vehicle used to carry goods or (normally less than ten) persons, usually roughly cuboid in shape, Depending on the type of van, it can be bigger or smaller than a pickup truck and SUV, and longer and higher than a car but relatively smaller than a truck/lorry or a bus.
- any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts)
- a camper equipped with living quarters
- the leading units moving at the head of an army
- (Great Britain) a closed railroad car that carries baggage or freight
- a truck with an enclosed cargo space
verb
noun
verb
verb
noun
- (Australia, New Zealand, mining) Overburden: waste material generated while searching for minerals or while mining, such as when sinking a shaft.
- (Australia, New Zealand, mining) Tailings: waste rock from which the wanted gold, minerals, opal, etc., has been extracted.
- Nonsense, rubbish.
- (now UK dialect) Rubbish, waste matter.
- (UK, Yorkshire, dialect) A mess; the result of a blunder.
noun
- (mining) A pile of coal or ore heaped up on the ground after it has been mined.
- (specifically, military, weaponry) A supply of nuclear weapons kept by a country; a nuclear stockpile.
- A supply (especially a large one) of something kept for future use, specifically in case the cost of the item increases or if there a shortage.
- a storage pile accumulated for future use
- something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose
verb
noun
- (uncountable, mining) Waste material in old mine workings, goaf.
- (countable) A lump of soft or sticky material.
- (UK, Commonwealth, Ireland, slang) The mouth.
- (uncountable, slang) Saliva or phlegm.
- (US, military, slang) A sailor.
- (countable, US, regional) A whoopie pie.
- a man who serves as a sailor
- a lump of slimy stuff
- informal terms for the mouth
verb
verb
- lay mines
- get from the earth by excavation
- (ambitransitive) To remove (rock or ore) from the ground.
- (by extension, figurative) To ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
- To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine.
- (transitive) To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area).
- To dig into, for ore or metal.
- (intransitive) To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth.
- (slang) To pick one's nose.
- (cryptocurrencies) To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.
- (by extension, figurative) To tap into.
- (transitive) To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device).
noun
- excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extracted
- explosive device that explodes on contact; designed to destroy vehicles or ships or to kill or maim personnel
- An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels.
- (military) A device intended to explode when stepped upon or touched, or when approached by a ship, vehicle, or person.
- (entomology) The cavity made by a caterpillar while feeding inside a leaf.
- (figurative) Any source of wealth or resources.
- (computing) A machine or network of machines used to extract units of a cryptocurrency.
- (pyrotechnics) A type of firework that explodes on the ground, shooting sparks upward.
- (military) A passage dug toward or underneath enemy lines, which is then packed with explosives.
- Alternative form of mien.
pron
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adj
- (mining) Of something mined such as coal or ore: broken into pieces.
- Caused to move (and usually weakened) by a strong force.
- Of a drink, especially (alcoholic beverages) a cocktail: mixed by being agitated with ice in a shaker.
- Chiefly of a person: having had one's composure or confidence disrupted or upset; in a state of shock or trauma.
- Moved rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
- Weakened by some event.
- (timber industry) Of timber: damaged from being cracked.
- disturbed psychologically as if by a physical jolt or shock