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noun
- valuable goods
- goods or money obtained illegally
- a bundle containing the personal belongings of a swagman
- A pass, gap or sag in a mountain ridge.
- Alternative letter-case form of SWAG; a wild guess or ballpark estimate.
- (slang) Style; fashionable appearance or manner.
- Something that droops like a swag.
- (window coverings) A loop of draped fabric.
- (countable, Australia, New Zealand) A large quantity (of something).
- (uncountable, informal) Branded handout, freebies, or giveaways, often distributed at conventions; merchandise.
- (uncountable, thieves' cant) Stolen goods; the booty of a burglar or thief; boodle.
- A place where water collects; a low, wet place where the land has settled.
- (countable, Australia, by extension) A small single-person tent, usually foldable into an integral backpack.
verb
- walk as if unable to control one's movements
- droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness
- sway heavily or unsteadily
- To transport stolen goods.
- (transitive) To install (a ceiling fan or light fixture) by means of a long cord running from the ceiling to an outlet, and suspended by hooks or similar.
- To transport in the course of arrest.
- (ambitransitive) To (cause to) sway.
- (intransitive) To droop; to sag.
- (transitive) To decorate (something) with loops of draped fabric.
- (Australia, ambitransitive) To travel on foot carrying a swag (possessions tied in a blanket).
adj
noun
- An anthology of previously released material linked together by theme or author, especially in book form.
- A broadcast programme consisting of all of the episodes of a serial that have been shown in the previous week.
- an omnibus box
- (philately) A stamp issue, usually commemorative, that appears simultaneously in several countries as a joint issue.
- an anthology of articles on a related subject or an anthology of the works of a single author
- a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport
verb
noun
- an assortment of miscellaneous items
- a container from which a person draws a wrapped item at random without knowing the contents
- A bag containing essential items, which can be easily picked up and taken in an emergency.
- A bag from which a gift or prize may be withdrawn (grabbed) unseen.
- A gift, purchase, etc. whose contents are concealed until after a selection is made; a bag as gift that comprises mystery prizes.
- (figurative) Any random assortment, selection or possibility.
- A moderately large bag of crisps or other snack, suitable for sharing.
noun
- A list or collection of various items.
- (pharmaceutical industry) A collected body of information on the standards of strength, purity, and quality of drugs.
- A collection of board games packaged in a single box.
- A short, complete summary; an abstract.
- a concise but comprehensive summary of a larger work
- a publication containing a variety of works
noun
- A varied collection (of items).
- (printing) A part of a book that is not a portion of the text, such as the title, index, etc. (usually plural).
- Something strange or unusual.
- Something that does not match the things it is with or cannot easily be categorized; a miscellaneous item.
- (commerce) An item that was originally part of a set but is sold individually; an excess item of stock.
- A remaining number or amount (after a calculation).
- A part of something that is left over, such as a piece of cloth.
- A person who does not fit in with others or is considered to be strange in some way.
- a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold
- something unusual — perhaps worthy of collecting
noun
- An item's relative importance.
- Precedence; superior rank.
- (taxonomy, of a name) A superior claim to use by virtue of being validly published at an earlier date.
- The quality of being earlier or coming first compared to another thing; the state of being prior.
- (transport) Right of way; The right to pass (an intersection) before other road users.
- A goal of a person or an organisation.
- preceding in time
- status established in order of importance or urgency
noun
noun
adj
- not of prime or central importance
- occurring with or following as a consequence
- (sometimes followed by ‘to’) minor or casual or subordinate in significance or nature or occurring as a chance concomitant or consequence
- Existing tangentially, being a byproduct, a tangent, or a likely consequence.
- (physics, of radiation) Entering or approaching, prior to reflection (more frequently incident).
- Loosely associated; of limited relevance except indirectly; only accidentally related.
- Occurring by chance.
adj
- concerned with material things
- impelled by physical force especially against resistance
- characterized by energetic bodily activity
- involving the body as distinguished from the mind or spirit
- relating to the sciences dealing with matter and energy; especially physics
- according with material things or natural laws (other than those peculiar to living matter)
- having substance or material existence; perceptible to the senses
- Sexual, carnal.
- In accordance with the laws of nature; now specifically, pertaining to physics.
- Denoting a map showing natural features of the landscape (compare political).
- Having to do with the body as opposed to the mind; corporeal, bodily.
- Involving bodily force or contact; vigorous, aggressive.
- Pertaining to the world as understood through the senses rather than the mind, having to do with the material world.
noun
noun
- A particular way in which items are organized.
- The act of arranging.
- An agreement.
- The manner of being arranged.
- A collection of things that have been arranged.
- (music) An adaptation of a piece of music for other instruments, or in another style.
- (often in the plural) Preparations for some undertaking.
- the thing arranged or agreed to
- an organized structure for arranging or classifying
- the spatial property of the way in which something is placed
- the act of arranging and adapting a piece of music
- an orderly grouping (of things or persons) considered as a unit; the result of arranging
- a piece of music that has been adapted for performance by a particular set of voices or instruments
noun
- A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
- The full number of eggs set under a hen.
- The pattern of a tartan, etc.
- The amount by which the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
- (horticulture) A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
- A rudimentary fruit.
- (engineering) A permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc.
- A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun.)
- (music) A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
- (volleyball) A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
- (exercise) A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
- A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
- A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
- (tennis) A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
- A group of people, usually meeting socially or connected through some shared interest, activity, attribute, etc.
- A young oyster when first attached.
- The scenery for a film or play.
- (poker, slang) Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is on the board. Compare trips (“three of a kind, especially with two cards on the board and one in one's hand”).
- The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
- (music) A drum kit, a drum set.
- (piledriving) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached by the weight, or hammer.
- An object made up of several parts.
- A tool for dressing forged iron.
- A punch for setting nails in wood.
- (volleyball) The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
- Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
- (UK, education) A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
- (literally and figuratively) General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
- Alternative form of sett (“piece of quarried stone”).
- A bias of mind; an attitude or pattern of behaviour.
- Alternative form of sett (“a hole made and lived in by a badger”).
- (dance) The initial or basic formation of dancers.
- (colloquial) The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
- (in plural, “sets”, mathematics, informal) Set theory.
- (set theory) A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order or repetition of the objects which may be contained within it.
- the general locations and area where a movie’s, a film’s, or a video’s scenery is arranged to be filmed also including places for actors, assorted crew, director, producers which are typically not filmed.
- A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 4, Noun)
- The camber of a curved roofing tile.
- Alternative form of sett (“pattern of threads and yarns”).
- an unofficial association of people or groups
- a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used
- several exercises intended to be done in series
- (mathematics) an abstract collection of numbers or symbols
- (psychology) being temporarily ready to respond in a particular way
- a relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way
- the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization
- the act of putting something in position
- the descent of a heavenly body below the horizon
- a unit of play in tennis or squash
- any electronic equipment that receives or transmits radio or tv signals
- representation consisting of the scenery and other properties used to identify the location of a dramatic production
adj
- Intent, determined (to do something).
- Rigid, solidified.
- Fixed in one’s opinion.
- Fixed in position.
- Ready, prepared.
- (of hair) Fixed in a certain style.
- Prearranged.
- determined or decided upon as by an authority
- situated in a particular spot or position
- set down according to a plan
- fixed and unmoving
- converted to solid form (as concrete)
- (usually followed by ‘to’ or ‘for’) on the point of or strongly disposed
- being below the horizon
verb
- (transitive, volleyball) To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
- (transitive) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
- (intransitive, country dancing) To acknowledge a dancing partner by facing him or her and moving first to one side and then to the other, while she or he does the opposite.
- (transitive) To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
- (transitive, bridge) To defeat a contract.
- To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
- (transitive) To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
- (transitive) To introduce or describe.
- (transitive) To put (something) down, to rest.
- To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
- (UK, education) To divide a class group in a subject according to ability
- (intransitive, of fruit) To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
- (ambitransitive) To fit music to words.
- To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
- (transitive) To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
- (transitive) To arrange (type).
- (ambitransitive) To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
- To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
- (transitive) To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to, geographically or temporally.
- (transitive) To adjust.
- To extend and bring into position; to spread.
- (transitive) To prepare (a stage or film set).
- (transitive) To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
- To cause (a domestic fowl) to sit on eggs to brood.
- (intransitive, now dialectal) To sit or lie (easily etc.) on the stomach; to be digested in a certain manner.
- (intransitive) To solidify.
- (transitive) To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
- (transitive) To start (a fire).
- To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
- (intransitive, Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) To rest or lie somewhere, on something, etc.; to occupy a certain place.
- To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly.
- (transitive) To fit (someone) up in a situation.
- (transitive) To determine or settle.
- (transitive) To devise and assign (work) to.
- To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
- (intransitive, Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) To sit (be in a seated position).
- To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
- (intransitive) Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
- To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
- (masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
- (transitive, botany) To produce after pollination.
- (hunting, ambitransitive) Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
- To place or fix in a setting.
- (Scotland) To suit; to become.
- urge to attack someone
- put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground
- equip with sails or masts
- set in type
- arrange attractively
- alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard
- put into a certain state; cause to be in a certain state
- fix conclusively or authoritatively
- become gelatinous
- disappear beyond the horizon
- set to a certain position or cause to operate correctly
- give a fine, sharp edge to a knife or razor
- insert (a nail or screw below the surface, as into a countersink)
- put into a certain place or abstract location
- produce fruit
- make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc
- put into a position that will restore a normal state
- get ready for a particular purpose or event
- locate
- adapt for performance in a different way
- decide upon or fix definitely
- establish as the highest level or best performance
- fix in a border
- apply or start
- estimate
noun
- A variety of items taken from a larger collection.
- (programming) A list of items on which user operations will take place. ᵂᵖ
- A musical piece.
- (historical) The free selection before survey of crown land in some Australian colonies under land legislation introduced in the 1860s. ᵂᵖ
- (algebra) A unary operation that denotes a subset of a relation.
- (biology) Ellipsis of natural selection.
- (biology) The stage of a genetic algorithm in which individual genomes are chosen from a population for later breeding. ᵂᵖ
- Something selected.
- (Australia) A plot of land, or farm, thus selected.
- The process or act of selecting.
- (linguistics) The ability of predicates to determine the semantic content of their arguments. ᵂᵖ
- (databases) A set of data obtained from a database using a query.
- a passage selected from a larger work
- a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment
- an assortment of things from which a choice can be made
- the person or thing chosen or selected
- the act of choosing or selecting
noun
- a collection of precious things
- any possession that is highly valued by its owner
- accumulated wealth in the form of money or jewels etc.
- art highly prized for its beauty or perfection
- A term of endearment.
- (literally, countable and uncountable) A collection of valuable things; accumulated wealth; a stock of money, jewels, etc.
- (figuratively, countable) Anything greatly valued.
- (in the plural, euphemistic or literary) The female genitals; pudenda.
verb
noun
- (countable) An assortment of miscellaneous items.
- (uncountable) The condition of being miscellaneous, of being a hodgepodge.
- (countable) A collection of writings on various subjects or topics; an anthology.
- a collection containing a variety of sorts of things
- an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc.
noun
- two items of the same kind
- a rope on a square-rigged ship that is used to swing a yard about and secure it
- a structural member used to stiffen a framework
- an appliance that corrects dental irregularities
- a set of two similar things considered as a unit
- a support that steadies or strengthens something else
- elastic straps that hold trousers up
- a carpenter's tool having a crank handle for turning and a socket to hold a bit for boring
- either of two punctuation marks (‘{’ or ‘}’) used to enclose textual material
- The state of being braced or tight; tension.
- A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock.
- (British, chiefly in the plural) Straps or bands to sustain trousers; suspenders.
- A cord, ligament, or rod, for producing or maintaining tension.
- A piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces, in a frame or truss, which divide the structure into triangular parts. It may act as a tie, or as a strut, and serves to prevent distortion of the structure, and transverse strains in its members. A boiler brace is a diagonal stay, connecting the head with the shell.
- That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop.
- (nautical) A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon.
- (soccer) Two goals scored by one player in a game.
- (typography) A curved, pointed line, also known as "curly bracket": { or } connecting two or more words or lines, which are to be considered together, such as in {role, roll}; in music, used to connect staves.
- (plural brace) A pair, a couple; originally used of dogs, and later of animals generally (e.g., a brace of conies) and then other things, but rarely human persons. (In British use (as plural), this is a particularly common reference to game birds.)
- Harness; warlike preparation.
- (plural in North America, singular or plural in the UK) A system of wires, brackets, and elastic bands used to correct crooked teeth or to reduce overbite.
- A thong used to regulate the tension of a drum.
- (British, Cornwall, mining) The mouth of a shaft.
- (cricket) Two wickets taken with two consecutive deliveries.
verb
- cause to be alert and energetic
- support by bracing
- support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace
- prepare (oneself), often but not necessarily for something unpleasant or difficult
- To place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold firmly.
- (transitive, intransitive) To prepare for something bad, such as an impact or blow.
- To stop someone for questioning, usually said of police.
- To draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen.
- To bind or tie closely; to fasten tightly.
- (nautical) To swing round the yards of a square rigged ship, using braces, to present a more efficient sail surface to the direction of the wind.
- To confront with questions, demands or requests.
- To furnish with braces; to support; to prop.
noun
- two items of the same kind
- (physics) something joined by two equal and opposite forces that act along parallel lines
- a pair of people who live together
- a small indefinite number
- a pair who associate with one another
- That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler.
- One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery, called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple.
- Two of the same kind connected or considered together.
- Two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship.
- (architecture) A couple-close.
- (informal) A small number.
- (physics) A turning effect created by forces that produce a non-zero external torque.
verb
- bring two objects, ideas, or people together
- form a pair or pairs
- engage in sexual intercourse
- link together
- (intransitive) To join in sexual intercourse; to copulate.
- (transitive) To join (two things) together, or (one thing) to (another).
- (horse racing, transitive) To enter (multiple horses with the same owner) into a race so that a single bet can be placed on any of them winning.
- (transitive) To cause (two animals) to copulate, to bring (two animals) together for mating.
adj
det
noun
- two items of the same kind
- a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse; usually rhymed
- A pair of one-way streets which carry opposing directions of traffic through gridded urban areas.
- (taxonomy) A pair of two mutually exclusive choices in a dichotomous key.
- Ellipsis of antithetical couplet, Chinese couplet, or duilian couplet (“duilian”).
- (literature) A pair of lines, typically with rhyming end words.
noun
- two items of the same kind
- a musical composition for two performers
- (ballet) a dance for two people (usually a ballerina and a danseur noble)
- two performers or singers who perform together
- a pair who associate with one another
- A pair or couple, especially one that is harmonious or elegant.
- (music) A song composed for and/or performed by a duo.
- (music) A musical composition in two parts, each performed by a single voice (singer, instrument or univoce ensemble).
verb
noun
- two items of the same kind
- a musical composition for two performers
- two performers or singers who perform together
- a pair who associate with one another
- A meal with two paired components.
- Any cocktail consisting of a spirit and a liqueur.
- Any pair of people.
- Two people who work or collaborate together as partners; especially:
- (musician group) Two musicians who perform music together.
- A song in two parts; a duet.
noun
- two items of the same kind
- A set of two elements treated as one; a pair.
- (music) Any set of two different pitch classes.
- (sociology) The relationship or interaction itself in reference to a couple.
- (biology) A secondary unit of organisation consisting of an aggregate of monads.
- (sociology) Two persons in an ongoing relationship; a dyadic relationship.
- (chemistry) An element, atom, or radical having a valence of or combining power of two.
- (mathematics) A tensor of order two and rank one.
- (biology) A chromosome structure, usually X- or V-shaped, consisting of two condensed sister chromatids joined by a centromere.
noun
- two items of the same kind
- two people considered as a unit
- a set of two similar things considered as a unit
- a poker hand with 2 cards of the same value
- (baseball, informal) A double play, two outs recorded in one play.
- (baseball, informal) A doubleheader, two games played on the same day between the same teams.
- (card games) A poker hand that contains two cards of identical rank, which cannot also count as a better hand.
- (slang) A pair of testicles.
- Two alike or identical things taken together; often followed by of.
- Two members of opposite parties or opinion, as in a parliamentary body, who mutually agree not to vote on a given question, or on issues of a party nature during a specified time.
- One of the constituent items that make up a pair.
- (kinematics) In a mechanism, two elements, or bodies, which are so applied to each other as to mutually constrain relative motion; named in accordance with the motion it permits, as in turning pair, sliding pair, twisting pair.
- Two people in a relationship, partnership or friendship.
- Used with binary nouns (often in the plural to indicate multiple instances, since such nouns are plural only, except in some technical contexts).
- (slang) A pair of breasts.
- (rowing) A boat for two sweep rowers.
- (Australia, politics) The exclusion of one member of a parliamentary party from a vote, if a member of the other party is absent for important personal reasons.
- A couple of working animals attached to work together, as by a yoke.
- (cricket) A score of zero runs (a duck) in both innings of a two-innings match.
verb
- bring two objects, ideas, or people together
- arrange in pairs
- form a pair or pairs
- occur in pairs
- engage in sexual intercourse
- (politics, slang) To engage (oneself) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions.
- (intransitive) To suit; to fit, as a counterpart.
- (transitive) To bring two (animals, notably dogs) together for mating.
- (computing) to link two electronic devices wirelessly together, especially through a protocol such as Bluetooth.
- (transitive) To group into one or more sets of two.
- (intransitive) To come together for mating.
noun
- two items of the same kind
- the act of sitting or standing astride
- a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc.
- a unit of length based on the width of the expanded human hand (usually taken as 9 inches)
- the distance or interval between two points
- the complete duration of something
- (by extension) A small space or a brief portion of time.
- (US, Canada) A pair of horses or other animals driven together; usually, such a pair of horses when similar in color, form, and action.
- (architecture, construction) The length of a cable, wire, rope, chain between two consecutive supports.
- A portion of something by length; a subsequence.
- The full width of an open hand from the end of the thumb to the end of the little finger used as an informal unit of length.
- (architecture, construction) The spread or extent of an arch or between its abutments, or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or the like, between supports.
- Any of various traditional units of length approximating this distance, especially the English handspan of 9 inches forming ⅛ fathom and equivalent to 22.86 cm.
- wingspan of a plane or bird
- (computing) The time required to execute a parallel algorithm on an infinite number of processors, i.e. the shortest distance across a directed acyclic graph representing the computation steps.
- (mathematics) The space of all linear combinations of vectors within a set.
- (nautical) A rope having its ends made fast so that a purchase can be hooked to the bight; also, a rope made fast in the center so that both ends can be used.
verb
- to cover or extend over an area or time period
- (transitive) To extend through (a time period).
- (transitive) To measure by the span of the hand with the fingers extended, or with the fingers encompassing the object.
- (mathematics) To generate an entire space by means of linear combinations.
- (transitive) To fetter, as a horse; to hobble.
- (transitive) To extend through the distance between or across.
noun
- two items of the same kind
- a pair of draft animals joined by a yoke
- a connection (like a clamp or vise) between two things so they move together
- support consisting of a wooden frame across the shoulders that enables a person to carry buckets hanging from each end
- an oppressive power
- fabric comprising a fitted part at the top of a garment
- stable gear that joins two draft animals at the neck so they can work together as a team
- A collar placed on the neck of a conquered person or prisoner to restrain movement.
- Misspelling of yolk.
- Something which oppresses or restrains a person; a burden.
- (glassblowing) A Y-shaped stand used to support a blowpipe or punty while reheating in the glory hole.
- (chiefly US) A frame or convex crosspiece from which a bell is hung.
- (Ireland, informal) A chap, a fellow.
- (Ireland, informal) A miscellaneous object; a gadget.
- (nautical) A fitting placed across the head of the rudder with a line attached at each end by which a boat may be steered; in modern use it is primarily found in sailing canoes and kayaks.
- (electronics) The electromagnetic coil that deflects the electron beam in a cathode ray tube.
- (chiefly historical) A pair of draught animals, especially oxen, yoked together to pull something.
- (Ancient Rome) Chiefly in pass under the yoke: a raised yoke (sense 1.1), or a symbolic yoke formed from two spears installed upright in the ground with another spear connecting their tops, under which a defeated army was made to march as a sign of subjugation.
- A bar or frame by which two oxen or other draught animals are joined at their necks enabling them to pull a cart, plough, etc.; (by extension) a device attached to a single draught animal for the same purpose.
- (Ireland, Scotland) A carriage, a horse and cart; (by extension, generally) a car or other vehicle.
- (Ireland, slang) A pill of a psychoactive drug.
- (bodybuilding) Well-developed muscles of the neck and shoulders.
- (video games) A similar device used as a game controller.
- A pole carried on the neck and shoulders of a person, used for carrying a pair of buckets, etc., one at each end of the pole; a carrying pole.
- (aviation) Any of various devices with crosspieces used to control an aircraft; specifically, the control column.
- (chiefly England, especially Kent; also Scotland; historical) An amount of work done with draught animals, lasting about half a day; (by extension) an amount or shift of any work.
- A bond of love, especially marriage; also, a bond of friendship or partnership; an obligation or task borne by two or more people.
- (electrical engineering) Originally, a metal piece connecting the poles of a magnet or electromagnet; later, a part of magnetic circuit (such as in a generator or motor) not surrounded by windings (“wires wound around the cores of electrical transformers”).
- (agriculture) A frame placed on the neck of an animal such as a cow, pig, or goose to prevent passage through a fence or other barrier.
- (clothing) The part of an item of clothing which fits around the shoulders or the hips from which the rest of the garment hangs, and which is often distinguished by having a double thickness of material, or decorative flourishes.
- Any of various linking or supporting objects that resembles a yoke (sense 1.1); a crosspiece, a curved bar, etc.
verb
- put a yoke on or join with a yoke
- link with or as with a yoke
- become joined or linked together
- (agriculture) To place a frame on the neck of (an animal such as a cow, pig, or goose) to prevent passage through a fence or other barrier.
- To place a collar on the neck of (a conquered person or prisoner) to restrain movement.
- To join (several draught animals) together with a yoke; also, to fasten a yoke (on one or more draught animals) to pull a cart, plough, etc.; or to attach (a cart, plough, etc.) to a draught animal.
- To be or become connected, linked, or united in a relationship; to have dealings with.
- To put (one's arm or arms) around someone's neck, waist, etc.; also, to surround (someone's neck, waist, etc.) with one's arms.
- To bring into or keep (someone) in bondage or a state of submission; to enslave or subject to confine, to restrain; to oppress, to subjugate.
- To bring (two or more people or things) into a close relationship (often one that is undesired); to connect, to link, to unite.
- To put (something) around someone's neck like a yoke; also, to surround (someone's neck) with something.
noun
- miscellaneous unspecified objects
- the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object
- unspecified qualities required to do or be something
- a critically important or characteristic component
- informal terms for personal possessions
- information in some unspecified form
- senseless talk
- (informal) Unspecified things or matters.
- The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.
- (informal) Miscellaneous items or objects; (with possessive) personal effects.
- Abstract/figurative substance or character.
- (informal) Used as placeholder, usually for material of unknown type or name.
- (slang) Narcotic drugs, especially heroin.
- (nautical) A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication.
- (sometimes euphemistic) Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language.
- Paper stock ground ready for use. When partly ground, it is called half stuff.
verb
- treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting
- overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
- press or force
- fill tightly with a material
- fill with a stuffing while cooking
- obstruct
- cram into a cavity
- (transitive, mildly vulgar, often imperative) Used to contemptuously dismiss or reject something. See also stuff it.
- (transitive) To load goods into (a container) for transport.
- (transitive, British, Australia, New Zealand) To break; to destroy.
- To preserve a dead bird or other animal by filling its skin.
- (transitive) To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.
- (informal) To heavily defeat or get the better of.
- (transitive, cooking) To fill with seasoning.
- (transitive) To fill by packing or crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess.
- (transitive, computing) To compress (a file or files) in the StuffIt format, to be unstuffed later.
- (pronominal) To eat, especially in a hearty or greedy manner.
- (transitive) To cut off another competitor in a race by disturbing his projected and committed racing line (trajectory) by an abrupt manoeuvre.
- (transitive) To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.
- (transitive) To fill a space with (something) in a compressed manner.
- (transitive, vulgar, British, Australia, New Zealand) To sexually penetrate.
- (transitive, used in the passive) To sate.
noun
- An arrangement of items in a line.
- The process of adjusting a mechanism such that its parts are aligned; the condition of having its parts so adjusted.
- (astronomy) The conjunction of two celestial objects.
- (artificial intelligence) The goals and values of an artificial intelligence, considered relative to human ethical standards.
- (roleplaying games) One of a set number of moral positions or philosophies a character can take.
- An alliance of factions.
- (bioinformatics) A way of arranging DNA, RNA or protein sequences in order to identify regions of similarity.
- (transport) The precise route or course taken by a linear way (road, railway, footpath, etc.) between two points.
- ground plan of a canal or road
- an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty
- the spatial property possessed by an arrangement or position of things in a straight line or in parallel lines
- the act of adjusting or aligning the parts of a device in relation to each other
- (astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac
noun
- Any group of associated items.
- (nautical) A location, as on a navigable river, where barges are secured.
- (dialectal, obsolete outside of place names) An arm of the sea; a run of water, such as an inlet or a creek.
- A group of vessels or vehicles.
- A large, coordinated group of people.
- (nautical) A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.
- (nautical, British Royal Navy) Any command of vessels exceeding a squadron in size, or a rear admiral's command, composed of five sail-of-the-line, with any number of smaller vessels.
- The individual waves in corrugated fiberboard.
- group of motor vehicles operating together under the same ownership
- a group of warships organized as a tactical unit
- a group of steamships operating together under the same ownership
- group of aircraft operating together under the same ownership
adj
verb
- (intransitive) To evanesce, disappear, die out.
- To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.
- (nautical) To move up a rope, so as to haul to more advantage; especially to draw apart the blocks of a tackle.
- To take the cream from; to skim.
- (ambitransitive) To hasten over; to cause to pass away lightly, or in mirth and joy.
- (ambitransitive) To pass over rapidly; to skim the surface of.
- (intransitive) To flee, to escape, to speed away.
- (nautical, intransitive, of people) To move or change in position.
- move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart
- disappear gradually
noun
- the act of making a list of items
- a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics)
- The act of ploughing with a lister.
- (computing) A printout of a program or data set.
- The action of the verb to list.
- An entry on a register of securities accepted for trading and quotation on a securities exchange or similar system.
- An entry in a list or directory.
- A physical manifestation of a single item in a list.
adj
verb
noun
- A collection or number of different things.
- A specific variation of something.
- (cybernetics) The total number of distinct states of a system; also, the logarithm to the base 2 of the total number of distinct states of a system.
- A deviation or difference.
- (radio, television, theater) Ellipsis of variety performance or variety show (“a type of entertainment featuring a succession of short, unrelated performances by various artistes such as (depending on the medium) acrobats, comedians, dancers, magicians, singers, etc.”).
- (linguistics) A specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is an accent, dialect, register, etc., and to its prestige level; an isolect or lect.
- (radio, television, theater) The kind of entertainment given in variety performances or shows; also, the production of, or performance in, variety performances or shows.
- (algebraic geometry) Ellipsis of algebraic variety (“the set of solutions of a given system of polynomial equations over the real or complex numbers; any of certain generalisations of such a set that preserves the geometric intuition implicit in the original definition”).
- (botany, taxonomy) A rank in a taxonomic classification below species and (if present) subspecies, and above form; hence, an organism of that rank.
- In universal algebra: an equational class; the class of all algebraic structures of a given signature, satisfying a given set of identities.
- The quality of being varied; diversity.
- (philately) A stamp, or set of stamps, which has one or more characteristics (such as colour, paper, etc.) differing from other stamps in the same issue, especially if such differences are intentionally introduced.
- (biology, loosely) An animal or plant (or a group of such animals or plants) with characteristics causing it to differ from other animals or plants of the same species; a strain or cultivar.
- (biology) a taxonomic category consisting of members of a species that differ from others of the same species in minor but heritable characteristics
- a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
- noticeable heterogeneity
- a difference that is usually pleasant
- a collection containing a variety of sorts of things
- a show consisting of a series of short unrelated performances
noun
- An item of goods or supplies, especially food, obtained for future use.
- (British, historical) A nomination by the pope to a benefice before it became vacant, depriving the patron of his right of presentation.
- (law) A clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- (Roman Catholicism) Regular induction into a benefice, comprehending nomination, collation, and installation.
- Money set aside for a future event.
- The act of providing, or making previous preparation.
- (accounting) A liability or contra account to recognise likely future adverse events associated with current transactions.
- a store or supply of something (especially of food or clothing or arms)
- the cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happening
- the activity of supplying or providing something
- a stipulated condition
verb
noun
- A set of items or amount of material procured, gathered or presented together.
- (set theory, topology, mathematical analysis) A set of sets; used because such a thing is in general too large to comply with the formal definition of a set.
- (Oxford University, usually in the plural) A set of college exams generally taken at the start of the term.
- A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations.
- The activity of collecting.
- (music) A set of pitch classes used by a composer.
- The quality of being collected; calm composure.
- (law) Debt collection.
- (UK) The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
- request for a sum of money
- a publication containing a variety of works
- the act of gathering something together
- several things grouped together or considered as a whole
noun
- a collection of related things intended for use together
- a device that produces electricity; may have several primary or secondary cells arranged in parallel or series
- a unit composed of the pitcher and catcher
- a series of stamps operated in one mortar for crushing ores
- an assault in which the assailant makes physical contact
- the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target
- group of guns or missile launchers operated together at one place
- (baseball) The catcher and the pitcher together
- (music) A marching percussion ensemble; the section of the drumline that marches on the field during a performance.
- An array of similar things.
- (chess) Two or more pieces working together on the same rank, file, or diagonal
- (originally and sometimes still, strictly) Such a device that has multiple cells.
- (law) The infliction of unlawful physical violence on a person, legally distinguished from assault, which involves the threat of impending violence.
- The state of a firearm or cannon when it is possible to be fired.
- (metonymic, informal, uncountable) The energy stored in such a device.
- (electricity, electronics, countable) A device used to power electric devices, consisting of one or more electrically connected electrochemical cells or (archaically) electrostatic cells.
- A set of small cages where hens are kept for the purpose of farming their eggs.
- (military, countable) A coordinated group of artillery weapons, with any of various numbers of guns.
- Such a group of a certain size (number of guns and artillerists), within a schema of military unit organization.
noun
- (UK) An inventory of matériel.
- A tract of ground kept in its natural state, about or adjacent to a residence, such as for the preservation of game, for walking, riding, or the like.
- (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A space in which to leave a car; a parking space.
- (automotive) The gear into which one shifts an automatic transmission when one is parking a car or truck. (Denoted with symbol P on a shifter's labeling.)
- A partially enclosed basin in which oysters are grown.
- An area zoned for a particular (industrial or commercial) purpose.
- An open space occupied by or reserved for vehicles, matériel or stores.
- (US) A wide, flat-bottomed valley in a mountainous region.
- A piece of ground in or near a city or town, enclosed and kept for ornament and recreation.
- An enclosed parcel of land stocked with animals for hunting, which one may have by prescription or royal grant.
- An area on which a sporting match is played; (soccer) a pitch.
- a lot where cars are parked
- a gear position that acts as a parking brake
- a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area
- a large area of land preserved in its natural state as public property
- a facility in which ball games are played (especially baseball games)
verb
- (transitive, finance) To invest money temporarily in an investment instrument considered to relatively free of risk, especially while awaiting other opportunities.
- (transitive, baseball) To hit a home run; to hit the ball out of the park.
- (intransitive, slang, US) To engage in romantic or sexual activities inside a nonmoving vehicle that was driven to a suitable spot for that purpose.
- (transitive) To bring (something such as a vehicle) to a halt or store in a specified place.
- (Internet) To register a domain name, but make no use of it (See domain parking)
- (transitive) To bring together in a park, or compact body.
- (transitive, informal, figurative) To defer (a matter) until a later date.
- (transitive, oyster culture) To enclose in a park, or partially enclosed basin.
- (transitive, informal, sometimes reflexive) To sit, recline, or put, especially in a manner suggesting an intent to remain for some time.
- (transitive) To enclose in a park, or as in a park.
- maneuver a vehicle into a parking space
- place temporarily
noun
- Miscellaneous items of little value, especially discarded or unwanted items.
- Pieces of old cable or cordage, used for making gaskets, mats, swabs, etc., and when picked to pieces, forming oakum for filling the seams of ships.
- (nautical) A Chinese sailing vessel.
- (slang) Any narcotic drug, especially heroin.
- Nonsense; gibberish.
- (slang) The genitalia, especially of a male.
- (nautical) Salt beef.
- (attributive) Material or resources of poor quality or low value, especially resources that lack commercial value.
- any of various Chinese boats with a high poop and lugsails
- the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up
verb
noun
- The lot or set of goods as shipped or received.
- (Taiwan) A kind of receipt that serves as a tax document and sometimes also as a lottery ticket.
- (generally of a vehicle) The price which a seller or dealer pays the manufacturer for goods to be sold.
- A bill; a commercial document issued by a seller to a buyer indicating the products, quantities and agreed prices for products or services that the seller has already provided the buyer with. An invoice indicates that, unless paid in advance, payment is due by the buyer to the seller, according to the agreed terms.
- an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered
verb
noun
- A single item belonging to a class of similar items.
- (US, colloquial) A gun.
- An article published in the press.
- (US, slang) A cannabis pipe.
- (US, colloquial, mildly vulgar, short for piece of crap/piece of shit) A shoddy or worthless object (usually applied to consumer products like vehicles or appliances).
- (US, colloquial, vulgar) A sexual encounter; from piece of ass or piece of tail.
- (chess) One of the figures used in playing chess, specifically a higher-value figure as distinguished from a pawn; (by extension) those with which draughts, backgammon, and other similar board games are played.
- A part of a larger whole, usually in such a form that it is able to be separated from other parts.
- (Scotland, Ireland, UK, US, dialectal) A slice or other quantity of bread, eaten on its own; a sandwich or light snack.
- A coin, especially one valued at less than the principal unit of currency.
- An amount of work to be done at one time; a unit of piece work.
- An artistic creation, such as a painting, sculpture, musical composition, literary work, etc.
- (US, Canada, colloquial, short for hairpiece) A toupee or wig, especially when worn by a man.
- (military) An artillery gun.
- (US) A pacifier; a dummy.
- (slang) An ounce of a recreational drug.
- (colloquial) A distance.
- (baseball, uncountable) Used to describe a pitch that has been hit but not well, usually either being caught by the opposing team or going foul. Usually used in the past tense with get.
- (rowing) A structured practice row, often used for performance evaluation.
- a portion of a natural object
- a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition
- game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games
- a share of something
- a separate part of a whole
- a serving that has been cut from a larger portion
- a portable gun
- an instance of some kind
- an item that is an instance of some type
- an artistic or literary composition
- a distance
- a work of art of some artistic value
- a musical work that has been created
verb
- (transitive, usually with together) To assemble (something real or figurative).
- To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces; to patch; often with out.
- (slang) To produce a work of graffiti more complex than a tag.
- eat intermittently; take small bites of
- to join or unite the pieces of
- create by putting components or members together
- join during spinning
- repair by adding pieces
noun
- One of the items in a hierarchy.
- An item of clothing worn under or over another.
- A (usually) horizontal deposit; a stratum.
- A shoot of a plant, laid underground for growth.
- A hen kept to lay eggs; a breed of chicken bred to maximize laying output.
- (networking) One of the seven network switch pieces in the Open Systems Interconnection model: application, presentation, session, transport, network, data link, and physical.
- (computing) An alternative keymap accessed through a modifier key or toggle.
- A person who lays anything, such as tiles or a wager.
- (computer graphics, by analogy to a stack of transparencies) One in a stack of (initially transparent) drawing surfaces that comprise an image; used to keep elements of an image separate so that they can be modified independently from one another.
- A mature female bird, insect, etc. that is able to lay eggs.
- A single thickness of some material covering a surface.
- an abstract place usually conceived as having depth
- thin structure composed of a single thickness of cells
- a hen that lays eggs
- a relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another
- single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance
verb
noun
- A structured arrangement of items within certain limits.
- A plan for such arrangement.
- The act of laying out something.
- (gymnastics) A fully stretched out position of the body, with toes pointed and legs straight.
- (electronics) A specification of an integrated circuit showing the position of the physical components that will implement the schematic in silicon.
- (publishing) The process of arranging editorial content, advertising, graphics and other information
- (engineering) A map or a drawing of a construction site showing the position of roads, buildings or other constructions.
- (Internet) The customizable features of a user's profile (such as profile picture, screen name, and bio) collectively.
- a plan or design of something that is laid out
- the act of laying out (as by making plans for something)
noun
- A bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other.
- (music) A secundal chord of three or more notes.
- (US) In full oak leaf cluster: a small bronze or silver device shaped like a twig of oak leaves and acorns which is worn on a ribbon to indicate that the wearer has been conferred the same award or decoration before; an oakleaf.
- A number of individuals (animals or people) collected in one place or grouped together; a crowd, a mob, a swarm.
- (epidemiology) A group of cases of the same disease occurring around the same place or time.
- (linguistics) Synonym of lexical bundle (“a sequence of two or more words that occur in a language with high frequency but are not idiomatic”).
- (phonetics) A pronounceable group of consonants that occur together: a consonant cluster.
- (physical chemistry) An ensemble of bound atoms (especially of a metal) or molecules, intermediate in size between a molecule and a bulk solid.
- A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see block (noun)).
- A group of computers that work together.
- A set of bombs or mines released as part of the same blast.
- (statistics) In cluster analysis: a subset of a population whose members are similar enough to each other and distinct from others as to be considered a separate group; also, such a grouping in a set of observed data that is statistically significant.
- (slang) Euphemistic form of clusterfuck (“a chaotic situation where everything seems to go wrong”).
- (astronomy) A group of galaxies, nebulae, or stars that appear to the naked eye to be near each other.
- a grouping of a number of similar things
verb
- (intransitive) To form a cluster or group; to assemble, to gather.
- To cover (with clusters); to scatter or strew in clusters (within); to distribute (objects) within such that they form clusters.
- To collect (animals, people, objects, data points, etc) into clusters (noun noun sense 1).
- come together as in a cluster or flock
- gather or cause to gather into a cluster
pron
adv
det
- The known (thing) (used in indicating something or someone just mentioned).
- (of a time reference) Designates the current or next instance.
- The known (thing) (used in indicating something or someone about to be mentioned).
- (colloquial, with stress on this) Referring to oneself.
- (informal) A known (thing) (used in first mentioning a person or thing that the speaker does not think is known to the audience). Compare with "a certain ...".
- The (thing) here (used in indicating something or someone nearby).
intj
noun
noun
adj
noun
- A survey of the available items or material.
- (law) A judicial reassessment of a case or an event.
- (sciences) A review article.
- A stage show made up of topical sketches etc.
- A second or subsequent reading of a text or artifact in an attempt to gain new insights.
- A periodical which makes a survey of the arts or some other field.
- A forensic inspection to assess compliance with regulations or some code.
- A military inspection or display for the benefit of superiors or VIPs.
- An account intended as a critical evaluation of a text or a piece of work.
- (accounting) a service (less exhaustive than an audit) that provides some assurance to interested parties as to the reliability of financial data
- a new appraisal or evaluation
- practice intended to polish performance or refresh the memory
- a formal or official examination
- (law) a judicial reexamination of the proceedings of a court (especially by an appellate court)
- an essay or article that gives a critical evaluation (as of a book or play)
- a subsequent examination of a patient for the purpose of monitoring earlier treatment
- a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion
- a periodical that publishes critical essays on current affairs or literature or art
- a variety show with topical sketches and songs and dancing and comedians
verb
- To survey; to look broadly over.
- To look back over in order to correct or edit; to revise.
- To write a critical evaluation of a new art work etc.; to write a review.
- (transitive, Philippines, sometimes Canada, US) To look over again (something previously written or learned), especially in preparation for an examination.
- look at again; examine again
- look back upon (a period of time, sequence of events); remember
- appraise critically
- refresh one's memory
- hold a review (of troops)
noun
- (countable) A group of related items.
- (countable) A group of individuals who are related by blood and/or by marriage.
- (countable) The method in which individuals are grouped together into families that live together.
- (uncountable) The strategy of putting related inventory items together.
- (countable) A group of family members who are posed together.
- (uncountable, UK) The system of grouping children of differing ages together, used primarily at the preschool level.
- (countable) A taxonomic grouping at the family level.
noun
- the commodities purchased from stores
- searching for or buying goods or services
- Placement in a workshop for overhaul.
- The process of buying goods or services, or searching for those suitable to buy.
- An area's combination of stores and other infrastructure and products available for people who want to shop.
- Recently bought goods.
verb
noun
- valuable goods
- goods or money obtained illegally
- a bundle containing the personal belongings of a swagman
- A pass, gap or sag in a mountain ridge.
- Alternative letter-case form of SWAG; a wild guess or ballpark estimate.
- (slang) Style; fashionable appearance or manner.
- Something that droops like a swag.
- (window coverings) A loop of draped fabric.
- (countable, Australia, New Zealand) A large quantity (of something).
- (uncountable, informal) Branded handout, freebies, or giveaways, often distributed at conventions; merchandise.
- (uncountable, thieves' cant) Stolen goods; the booty of a burglar or thief; boodle.
- A place where water collects; a low, wet place where the land has settled.
- (countable, Australia, by extension) A small single-person tent, usually foldable into an integral backpack.
verb
- walk as if unable to control one's movements
- droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness
- sway heavily or unsteadily
- To transport stolen goods.
- (transitive) To install (a ceiling fan or light fixture) by means of a long cord running from the ceiling to an outlet, and suspended by hooks or similar.
- To transport in the course of arrest.
- (ambitransitive) To (cause to) sway.
- (intransitive) To droop; to sag.
- (transitive) To decorate (something) with loops of draped fabric.
- (Australia, ambitransitive) To travel on foot carrying a swag (possessions tied in a blanket).
noun
- an assortment of miscellaneous items
- a container from which a person draws a wrapped item at random without knowing the contents
- A bag containing essential items, which can be easily picked up and taken in an emergency.
- A bag from which a gift or prize may be withdrawn (grabbed) unseen.
- A gift, purchase, etc. whose contents are concealed until after a selection is made; a bag as gift that comprises mystery prizes.
- (figurative) Any random assortment, selection or possibility.
- A moderately large bag of crisps or other snack, suitable for sharing.
noun
- A list or collection of various items.
- (pharmaceutical industry) A collected body of information on the standards of strength, purity, and quality of drugs.
- A collection of board games packaged in a single box.
- A short, complete summary; an abstract.
- a concise but comprehensive summary of a larger work
- a publication containing a variety of works
noun
- A varied collection (of items).
- (printing) A part of a book that is not a portion of the text, such as the title, index, etc. (usually plural).
- Something strange or unusual.
- Something that does not match the things it is with or cannot easily be categorized; a miscellaneous item.
- (commerce) An item that was originally part of a set but is sold individually; an excess item of stock.
- A remaining number or amount (after a calculation).
- A part of something that is left over, such as a piece of cloth.
- A person who does not fit in with others or is considered to be strange in some way.
- a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold
- something unusual — perhaps worthy of collecting
noun
- An item's relative importance.
- Precedence; superior rank.
- (taxonomy, of a name) A superior claim to use by virtue of being validly published at an earlier date.
- The quality of being earlier or coming first compared to another thing; the state of being prior.
- (transport) Right of way; The right to pass (an intersection) before other road users.
- A goal of a person or an organisation.
- preceding in time
- status established in order of importance or urgency
noun
noun
adj
- not of prime or central importance
- occurring with or following as a consequence
- (sometimes followed by ‘to’) minor or casual or subordinate in significance or nature or occurring as a chance concomitant or consequence
- Existing tangentially, being a byproduct, a tangent, or a likely consequence.
- (physics, of radiation) Entering or approaching, prior to reflection (more frequently incident).
- Loosely associated; of limited relevance except indirectly; only accidentally related.
- Occurring by chance.
noun
- A particular way in which items are organized.
- The act of arranging.
- An agreement.
- The manner of being arranged.
- A collection of things that have been arranged.
- (music) An adaptation of a piece of music for other instruments, or in another style.
- (often in the plural) Preparations for some undertaking.
- the thing arranged or agreed to
- an organized structure for arranging or classifying
- the spatial property of the way in which something is placed
- the act of arranging and adapting a piece of music
- an orderly grouping (of things or persons) considered as a unit; the result of arranging
- a piece of music that has been adapted for performance by a particular set of voices or instruments
noun
- A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
- The full number of eggs set under a hen.
- The pattern of a tartan, etc.
- The amount by which the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
- (horticulture) A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
- A rudimentary fruit.
- (engineering) A permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc.
- A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun.)
- (music) A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
- (volleyball) A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
- (exercise) A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
- A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
- A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
- (tennis) A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
- A group of people, usually meeting socially or connected through some shared interest, activity, attribute, etc.
- A young oyster when first attached.
- The scenery for a film or play.
- (poker, slang) Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is on the board. Compare trips (“three of a kind, especially with two cards on the board and one in one's hand”).
- The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
- (music) A drum kit, a drum set.
- (piledriving) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached by the weight, or hammer.
- An object made up of several parts.
- A tool for dressing forged iron.
- A punch for setting nails in wood.
- (volleyball) The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
- Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
- (UK, education) A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
- (literally and figuratively) General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
- Alternative form of sett (“piece of quarried stone”).
- A bias of mind; an attitude or pattern of behaviour.
- Alternative form of sett (“a hole made and lived in by a badger”).
- (dance) The initial or basic formation of dancers.
- (colloquial) The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
- (in plural, “sets”, mathematics, informal) Set theory.
- (set theory) A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order or repetition of the objects which may be contained within it.
- the general locations and area where a movie’s, a film’s, or a video’s scenery is arranged to be filmed also including places for actors, assorted crew, director, producers which are typically not filmed.
- A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 4, Noun)
- The camber of a curved roofing tile.
- Alternative form of sett (“pattern of threads and yarns”).
- an unofficial association of people or groups
- a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used
- several exercises intended to be done in series
- (mathematics) an abstract collection of numbers or symbols
- (psychology) being temporarily ready to respond in a particular way
- a relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way
- the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization
- the act of putting something in position
- the descent of a heavenly body below the horizon
- a unit of play in tennis or squash
- any electronic equipment that receives or transmits radio or tv signals
- representation consisting of the scenery and other properties used to identify the location of a dramatic production
adj
- Intent, determined (to do something).
- Rigid, solidified.
- Fixed in one’s opinion.
- Fixed in position.
- Ready, prepared.
- (of hair) Fixed in a certain style.
- Prearranged.
- determined or decided upon as by an authority
- situated in a particular spot or position
- set down according to a plan
- fixed and unmoving
- converted to solid form (as concrete)
- (usually followed by ‘to’ or ‘for’) on the point of or strongly disposed
- being below the horizon
verb
- (transitive, volleyball) To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
- (transitive) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
- (intransitive, country dancing) To acknowledge a dancing partner by facing him or her and moving first to one side and then to the other, while she or he does the opposite.
- (transitive) To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
- (transitive, bridge) To defeat a contract.
- To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
- (transitive) To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
- (transitive) To introduce or describe.
- (transitive) To put (something) down, to rest.
- To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
- (UK, education) To divide a class group in a subject according to ability
- (intransitive, of fruit) To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
- (ambitransitive) To fit music to words.
- To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
- (transitive) To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
- (transitive) To arrange (type).
- (ambitransitive) To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
- To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
- (transitive) To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to, geographically or temporally.
- (transitive) To adjust.
- To extend and bring into position; to spread.
- (transitive) To prepare (a stage or film set).
- (transitive) To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
- To cause (a domestic fowl) to sit on eggs to brood.
- (intransitive, now dialectal) To sit or lie (easily etc.) on the stomach; to be digested in a certain manner.
- (intransitive) To solidify.
- (transitive) To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
- (transitive) To start (a fire).
- To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
- (intransitive, Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) To rest or lie somewhere, on something, etc.; to occupy a certain place.
- To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly.
- (transitive) To fit (someone) up in a situation.
- (transitive) To determine or settle.
- (transitive) To devise and assign (work) to.
- To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
- (intransitive, Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) To sit (be in a seated position).
- To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
- (intransitive) Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
- To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
- (masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
- (transitive, botany) To produce after pollination.
- (hunting, ambitransitive) Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
- To place or fix in a setting.
- (Scotland) To suit; to become.
- urge to attack someone
- put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground
- equip with sails or masts
- set in type
- arrange attractively
- alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard
- put into a certain state; cause to be in a certain state
- fix conclusively or authoritatively
- become gelatinous
- disappear beyond the horizon
- set to a certain position or cause to operate correctly
- give a fine, sharp edge to a knife or razor
- insert (a nail or screw below the surface, as into a countersink)
- put into a certain place or abstract location
- produce fruit
- make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc
- put into a position that will restore a normal state
- get ready for a particular purpose or event
- locate
- adapt for performance in a different way
- decide upon or fix definitely
- establish as the highest level or best performance
- fix in a border
- apply or start
- estimate
noun
- A variety of items taken from a larger collection.
- (programming) A list of items on which user operations will take place. ᵂᵖ
- A musical piece.
- (historical) The free selection before survey of crown land in some Australian colonies under land legislation introduced in the 1860s. ᵂᵖ
- (algebra) A unary operation that denotes a subset of a relation.
- (biology) Ellipsis of natural selection.
- (biology) The stage of a genetic algorithm in which individual genomes are chosen from a population for later breeding. ᵂᵖ
- Something selected.
- (Australia) A plot of land, or farm, thus selected.
- The process or act of selecting.
- (linguistics) The ability of predicates to determine the semantic content of their arguments. ᵂᵖ
- (databases) A set of data obtained from a database using a query.
- a passage selected from a larger work
- a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment
- an assortment of things from which a choice can be made
- the person or thing chosen or selected
- the act of choosing or selecting
noun
- a collection of precious things
- any possession that is highly valued by its owner
- accumulated wealth in the form of money or jewels etc.
- art highly prized for its beauty or perfection
- A term of endearment.
- (literally, countable and uncountable) A collection of valuable things; accumulated wealth; a stock of money, jewels, etc.
- (figuratively, countable) Anything greatly valued.
- (in the plural, euphemistic or literary) The female genitals; pudenda.
verb
noun
- (countable) An assortment of miscellaneous items.
- (uncountable) The condition of being miscellaneous, of being a hodgepodge.
- (countable) A collection of writings on various subjects or topics; an anthology.
- a collection containing a variety of sorts of things
- an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc.
noun
- two items of the same kind
- a rope on a square-rigged ship that is used to swing a yard about and secure it
- a structural member used to stiffen a framework
- an appliance that corrects dental irregularities
- a set of two similar things considered as a unit
- a support that steadies or strengthens something else
- elastic straps that hold trousers up
- a carpenter's tool having a crank handle for turning and a socket to hold a bit for boring
- either of two punctuation marks (‘{’ or ‘}’) used to enclose textual material
- The state of being braced or tight; tension.
- A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock.
- (British, chiefly in the plural) Straps or bands to sustain trousers; suspenders.
- A cord, ligament, or rod, for producing or maintaining tension.
- A piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces, in a frame or truss, which divide the structure into triangular parts. It may act as a tie, or as a strut, and serves to prevent distortion of the structure, and transverse strains in its members. A boiler brace is a diagonal stay, connecting the head with the shell.
- That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop.
- (nautical) A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon.
- (soccer) Two goals scored by one player in a game.
- (typography) A curved, pointed line, also known as "curly bracket": { or } connecting two or more words or lines, which are to be considered together, such as in {role, roll}; in music, used to connect staves.
- (plural brace) A pair, a couple; originally used of dogs, and later of animals generally (e.g., a brace of conies) and then other things, but rarely human persons. (In British use (as plural), this is a particularly common reference to game birds.)
- Harness; warlike preparation.
- (plural in North America, singular or plural in the UK) A system of wires, brackets, and elastic bands used to correct crooked teeth or to reduce overbite.
- A thong used to regulate the tension of a drum.
- (British, Cornwall, mining) The mouth of a shaft.
- (cricket) Two wickets taken with two consecutive deliveries.
verb
- cause to be alert and energetic
- support by bracing
- support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace
- prepare (oneself), often but not necessarily for something unpleasant or difficult
- To place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold firmly.
- (transitive, intransitive) To prepare for something bad, such as an impact or blow.
- To stop someone for questioning, usually said of police.
- To draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen.
- To bind or tie closely; to fasten tightly.
- (nautical) To swing round the yards of a square rigged ship, using braces, to present a more efficient sail surface to the direction of the wind.
- To confront with questions, demands or requests.
- To furnish with braces; to support; to prop.
noun
- two items of the same kind
- (physics) something joined by two equal and opposite forces that act along parallel lines
- a pair of people who live together
- a small indefinite number
- a pair who associate with one another
- That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler.
- One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery, called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple.
- Two of the same kind connected or considered together.
- Two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship.
- (architecture) A couple-close.
- (informal) A small number.
- (physics) A turning effect created by forces that produce a non-zero external torque.
verb
- bring two objects, ideas, or people together
- form a pair or pairs
- engage in sexual intercourse
- link together
- (intransitive) To join in sexual intercourse; to copulate.
- (transitive) To join (two things) together, or (one thing) to (another).
- (horse racing, transitive) To enter (multiple horses with the same owner) into a race so that a single bet can be placed on any of them winning.
- (transitive) To cause (two animals) to copulate, to bring (two animals) together for mating.
adj
det
noun
- two items of the same kind
- a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse; usually rhymed
- A pair of one-way streets which carry opposing directions of traffic through gridded urban areas.
- (taxonomy) A pair of two mutually exclusive choices in a dichotomous key.
- Ellipsis of antithetical couplet, Chinese couplet, or duilian couplet (“duilian”).
- (literature) A pair of lines, typically with rhyming end words.
noun
- two items of the same kind
- a musical composition for two performers
- (ballet) a dance for two people (usually a ballerina and a danseur noble)
- two performers or singers who perform together
- a pair who associate with one another
- A pair or couple, especially one that is harmonious or elegant.
- (music) A song composed for and/or performed by a duo.
- (music) A musical composition in two parts, each performed by a single voice (singer, instrument or univoce ensemble).
verb
noun
- two items of the same kind
- a musical composition for two performers
- two performers or singers who perform together
- a pair who associate with one another
- A meal with two paired components.
- Any cocktail consisting of a spirit and a liqueur.
- Any pair of people.
- Two people who work or collaborate together as partners; especially:
- (musician group) Two musicians who perform music together.
- A song in two parts; a duet.
noun
- two items of the same kind
- A set of two elements treated as one; a pair.
- (music) Any set of two different pitch classes.
- (sociology) The relationship or interaction itself in reference to a couple.
- (biology) A secondary unit of organisation consisting of an aggregate of monads.
- (sociology) Two persons in an ongoing relationship; a dyadic relationship.
- (chemistry) An element, atom, or radical having a valence of or combining power of two.
- (mathematics) A tensor of order two and rank one.
- (biology) A chromosome structure, usually X- or V-shaped, consisting of two condensed sister chromatids joined by a centromere.
noun
- two items of the same kind
- two people considered as a unit
- a set of two similar things considered as a unit
- a poker hand with 2 cards of the same value
- (baseball, informal) A double play, two outs recorded in one play.
- (baseball, informal) A doubleheader, two games played on the same day between the same teams.
- (card games) A poker hand that contains two cards of identical rank, which cannot also count as a better hand.
- (slang) A pair of testicles.
- Two alike or identical things taken together; often followed by of.
- Two members of opposite parties or opinion, as in a parliamentary body, who mutually agree not to vote on a given question, or on issues of a party nature during a specified time.
- One of the constituent items that make up a pair.
- (kinematics) In a mechanism, two elements, or bodies, which are so applied to each other as to mutually constrain relative motion; named in accordance with the motion it permits, as in turning pair, sliding pair, twisting pair.
- Two people in a relationship, partnership or friendship.
- Used with binary nouns (often in the plural to indicate multiple instances, since such nouns are plural only, except in some technical contexts).
- (slang) A pair of breasts.
- (rowing) A boat for two sweep rowers.
- (Australia, politics) The exclusion of one member of a parliamentary party from a vote, if a member of the other party is absent for important personal reasons.
- A couple of working animals attached to work together, as by a yoke.
- (cricket) A score of zero runs (a duck) in both innings of a two-innings match.
verb
- bring two objects, ideas, or people together
- arrange in pairs
- form a pair or pairs
- occur in pairs
- engage in sexual intercourse
- (politics, slang) To engage (oneself) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions.
- (intransitive) To suit; to fit, as a counterpart.
- (transitive) To bring two (animals, notably dogs) together for mating.
- (computing) to link two electronic devices wirelessly together, especially through a protocol such as Bluetooth.
- (transitive) To group into one or more sets of two.
- (intransitive) To come together for mating.
noun
- two items of the same kind
- the act of sitting or standing astride
- a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc.
- a unit of length based on the width of the expanded human hand (usually taken as 9 inches)
- the distance or interval between two points
- the complete duration of something
- (by extension) A small space or a brief portion of time.
- (US, Canada) A pair of horses or other animals driven together; usually, such a pair of horses when similar in color, form, and action.
- (architecture, construction) The length of a cable, wire, rope, chain between two consecutive supports.
- A portion of something by length; a subsequence.
- The full width of an open hand from the end of the thumb to the end of the little finger used as an informal unit of length.
- (architecture, construction) The spread or extent of an arch or between its abutments, or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or the like, between supports.
- Any of various traditional units of length approximating this distance, especially the English handspan of 9 inches forming ⅛ fathom and equivalent to 22.86 cm.
- wingspan of a plane or bird
- (computing) The time required to execute a parallel algorithm on an infinite number of processors, i.e. the shortest distance across a directed acyclic graph representing the computation steps.
- (mathematics) The space of all linear combinations of vectors within a set.
- (nautical) A rope having its ends made fast so that a purchase can be hooked to the bight; also, a rope made fast in the center so that both ends can be used.
verb
- to cover or extend over an area or time period
- (transitive) To extend through (a time period).
- (transitive) To measure by the span of the hand with the fingers extended, or with the fingers encompassing the object.
- (mathematics) To generate an entire space by means of linear combinations.
- (transitive) To fetter, as a horse; to hobble.
- (transitive) To extend through the distance between or across.
noun
- two items of the same kind
- a pair of draft animals joined by a yoke
- a connection (like a clamp or vise) between two things so they move together
- support consisting of a wooden frame across the shoulders that enables a person to carry buckets hanging from each end
- an oppressive power
- fabric comprising a fitted part at the top of a garment
- stable gear that joins two draft animals at the neck so they can work together as a team
- A collar placed on the neck of a conquered person or prisoner to restrain movement.
- Misspelling of yolk.
- Something which oppresses or restrains a person; a burden.
- (glassblowing) A Y-shaped stand used to support a blowpipe or punty while reheating in the glory hole.
- (chiefly US) A frame or convex crosspiece from which a bell is hung.
- (Ireland, informal) A chap, a fellow.
- (Ireland, informal) A miscellaneous object; a gadget.
- (nautical) A fitting placed across the head of the rudder with a line attached at each end by which a boat may be steered; in modern use it is primarily found in sailing canoes and kayaks.
- (electronics) The electromagnetic coil that deflects the electron beam in a cathode ray tube.
- (chiefly historical) A pair of draught animals, especially oxen, yoked together to pull something.
- (Ancient Rome) Chiefly in pass under the yoke: a raised yoke (sense 1.1), or a symbolic yoke formed from two spears installed upright in the ground with another spear connecting their tops, under which a defeated army was made to march as a sign of subjugation.
- A bar or frame by which two oxen or other draught animals are joined at their necks enabling them to pull a cart, plough, etc.; (by extension) a device attached to a single draught animal for the same purpose.
- (Ireland, Scotland) A carriage, a horse and cart; (by extension, generally) a car or other vehicle.
- (Ireland, slang) A pill of a psychoactive drug.
- (bodybuilding) Well-developed muscles of the neck and shoulders.
- (video games) A similar device used as a game controller.
- A pole carried on the neck and shoulders of a person, used for carrying a pair of buckets, etc., one at each end of the pole; a carrying pole.
- (aviation) Any of various devices with crosspieces used to control an aircraft; specifically, the control column.
- (chiefly England, especially Kent; also Scotland; historical) An amount of work done with draught animals, lasting about half a day; (by extension) an amount or shift of any work.
- A bond of love, especially marriage; also, a bond of friendship or partnership; an obligation or task borne by two or more people.
- (electrical engineering) Originally, a metal piece connecting the poles of a magnet or electromagnet; later, a part of magnetic circuit (such as in a generator or motor) not surrounded by windings (“wires wound around the cores of electrical transformers”).
- (agriculture) A frame placed on the neck of an animal such as a cow, pig, or goose to prevent passage through a fence or other barrier.
- (clothing) The part of an item of clothing which fits around the shoulders or the hips from which the rest of the garment hangs, and which is often distinguished by having a double thickness of material, or decorative flourishes.
- Any of various linking or supporting objects that resembles a yoke (sense 1.1); a crosspiece, a curved bar, etc.
verb
- put a yoke on or join with a yoke
- link with or as with a yoke
- become joined or linked together
- (agriculture) To place a frame on the neck of (an animal such as a cow, pig, or goose) to prevent passage through a fence or other barrier.
- To place a collar on the neck of (a conquered person or prisoner) to restrain movement.
- To join (several draught animals) together with a yoke; also, to fasten a yoke (on one or more draught animals) to pull a cart, plough, etc.; or to attach (a cart, plough, etc.) to a draught animal.
- To be or become connected, linked, or united in a relationship; to have dealings with.
- To put (one's arm or arms) around someone's neck, waist, etc.; also, to surround (someone's neck, waist, etc.) with one's arms.
- To bring into or keep (someone) in bondage or a state of submission; to enslave or subject to confine, to restrain; to oppress, to subjugate.
- To bring (two or more people or things) into a close relationship (often one that is undesired); to connect, to link, to unite.
- To put (something) around someone's neck like a yoke; also, to surround (someone's neck) with something.
noun
- miscellaneous unspecified objects
- the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object
- unspecified qualities required to do or be something
- a critically important or characteristic component
- informal terms for personal possessions
- information in some unspecified form
- senseless talk
- (informal) Unspecified things or matters.
- The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.
- (informal) Miscellaneous items or objects; (with possessive) personal effects.
- Abstract/figurative substance or character.
- (informal) Used as placeholder, usually for material of unknown type or name.
- (slang) Narcotic drugs, especially heroin.
- (nautical) A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication.
- (sometimes euphemistic) Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language.
- Paper stock ground ready for use. When partly ground, it is called half stuff.
verb
- treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting
- overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
- press or force
- fill tightly with a material
- fill with a stuffing while cooking
- obstruct
- cram into a cavity
- (transitive, mildly vulgar, often imperative) Used to contemptuously dismiss or reject something. See also stuff it.
- (transitive) To load goods into (a container) for transport.
- (transitive, British, Australia, New Zealand) To break; to destroy.
- To preserve a dead bird or other animal by filling its skin.
- (transitive) To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.
- (informal) To heavily defeat or get the better of.
- (transitive, cooking) To fill with seasoning.
- (transitive) To fill by packing or crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess.
- (transitive, computing) To compress (a file or files) in the StuffIt format, to be unstuffed later.
- (pronominal) To eat, especially in a hearty or greedy manner.
- (transitive) To cut off another competitor in a race by disturbing his projected and committed racing line (trajectory) by an abrupt manoeuvre.
- (transitive) To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.
- (transitive) To fill a space with (something) in a compressed manner.
- (transitive, vulgar, British, Australia, New Zealand) To sexually penetrate.
- (transitive, used in the passive) To sate.
noun
- An arrangement of items in a line.
- The process of adjusting a mechanism such that its parts are aligned; the condition of having its parts so adjusted.
- (astronomy) The conjunction of two celestial objects.
- (artificial intelligence) The goals and values of an artificial intelligence, considered relative to human ethical standards.
- (roleplaying games) One of a set number of moral positions or philosophies a character can take.
- An alliance of factions.
- (bioinformatics) A way of arranging DNA, RNA or protein sequences in order to identify regions of similarity.
- (transport) The precise route or course taken by a linear way (road, railway, footpath, etc.) between two points.
- ground plan of a canal or road
- an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty
- the spatial property possessed by an arrangement or position of things in a straight line or in parallel lines
- the act of adjusting or aligning the parts of a device in relation to each other
- (astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac
noun
- Any group of associated items.
- (nautical) A location, as on a navigable river, where barges are secured.
- (dialectal, obsolete outside of place names) An arm of the sea; a run of water, such as an inlet or a creek.
- A group of vessels or vehicles.
- A large, coordinated group of people.
- (nautical) A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.
- (nautical, British Royal Navy) Any command of vessels exceeding a squadron in size, or a rear admiral's command, composed of five sail-of-the-line, with any number of smaller vessels.
- The individual waves in corrugated fiberboard.
- group of motor vehicles operating together under the same ownership
- a group of warships organized as a tactical unit
- a group of steamships operating together under the same ownership
- group of aircraft operating together under the same ownership
adj
verb
- (intransitive) To evanesce, disappear, die out.
- To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.
- (nautical) To move up a rope, so as to haul to more advantage; especially to draw apart the blocks of a tackle.
- To take the cream from; to skim.
- (ambitransitive) To hasten over; to cause to pass away lightly, or in mirth and joy.
- (ambitransitive) To pass over rapidly; to skim the surface of.
- (intransitive) To flee, to escape, to speed away.
- (nautical, intransitive, of people) To move or change in position.
- move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart
- disappear gradually
noun
- the act of making a list of items
- a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics)
- The act of ploughing with a lister.
- (computing) A printout of a program or data set.
- The action of the verb to list.
- An entry on a register of securities accepted for trading and quotation on a securities exchange or similar system.
- An entry in a list or directory.
- A physical manifestation of a single item in a list.
adj
verb
noun
- A collection or number of different things.
- A specific variation of something.
- (cybernetics) The total number of distinct states of a system; also, the logarithm to the base 2 of the total number of distinct states of a system.
- A deviation or difference.
- (radio, television, theater) Ellipsis of variety performance or variety show (“a type of entertainment featuring a succession of short, unrelated performances by various artistes such as (depending on the medium) acrobats, comedians, dancers, magicians, singers, etc.”).
- (linguistics) A specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is an accent, dialect, register, etc., and to its prestige level; an isolect or lect.
- (radio, television, theater) The kind of entertainment given in variety performances or shows; also, the production of, or performance in, variety performances or shows.
- (algebraic geometry) Ellipsis of algebraic variety (“the set of solutions of a given system of polynomial equations over the real or complex numbers; any of certain generalisations of such a set that preserves the geometric intuition implicit in the original definition”).
- (botany, taxonomy) A rank in a taxonomic classification below species and (if present) subspecies, and above form; hence, an organism of that rank.
- In universal algebra: an equational class; the class of all algebraic structures of a given signature, satisfying a given set of identities.
- The quality of being varied; diversity.
- (philately) A stamp, or set of stamps, which has one or more characteristics (such as colour, paper, etc.) differing from other stamps in the same issue, especially if such differences are intentionally introduced.
- (biology, loosely) An animal or plant (or a group of such animals or plants) with characteristics causing it to differ from other animals or plants of the same species; a strain or cultivar.
- (biology) a taxonomic category consisting of members of a species that differ from others of the same species in minor but heritable characteristics
- a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
- noticeable heterogeneity
- a difference that is usually pleasant
- a collection containing a variety of sorts of things
- a show consisting of a series of short unrelated performances
noun
- An item of goods or supplies, especially food, obtained for future use.
- (British, historical) A nomination by the pope to a benefice before it became vacant, depriving the patron of his right of presentation.
- (law) A clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- (Roman Catholicism) Regular induction into a benefice, comprehending nomination, collation, and installation.
- Money set aside for a future event.
- The act of providing, or making previous preparation.
- (accounting) A liability or contra account to recognise likely future adverse events associated with current transactions.
- a store or supply of something (especially of food or clothing or arms)
- the cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happening
- the activity of supplying or providing something
- a stipulated condition
verb
noun
- A set of items or amount of material procured, gathered or presented together.
- (set theory, topology, mathematical analysis) A set of sets; used because such a thing is in general too large to comply with the formal definition of a set.
- (Oxford University, usually in the plural) A set of college exams generally taken at the start of the term.
- A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations.
- The activity of collecting.
- (music) A set of pitch classes used by a composer.
- The quality of being collected; calm composure.
- (law) Debt collection.
- (UK) The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
- request for a sum of money
- a publication containing a variety of works
- the act of gathering something together
- several things grouped together or considered as a whole
noun
- a collection of related things intended for use together
- a device that produces electricity; may have several primary or secondary cells arranged in parallel or series
- a unit composed of the pitcher and catcher
- a series of stamps operated in one mortar for crushing ores
- an assault in which the assailant makes physical contact
- the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target
- group of guns or missile launchers operated together at one place
- (baseball) The catcher and the pitcher together
- (music) A marching percussion ensemble; the section of the drumline that marches on the field during a performance.
- An array of similar things.
- (chess) Two or more pieces working together on the same rank, file, or diagonal
- (originally and sometimes still, strictly) Such a device that has multiple cells.
- (law) The infliction of unlawful physical violence on a person, legally distinguished from assault, which involves the threat of impending violence.
- The state of a firearm or cannon when it is possible to be fired.
- (metonymic, informal, uncountable) The energy stored in such a device.
- (electricity, electronics, countable) A device used to power electric devices, consisting of one or more electrically connected electrochemical cells or (archaically) electrostatic cells.
- A set of small cages where hens are kept for the purpose of farming their eggs.
- (military, countable) A coordinated group of artillery weapons, with any of various numbers of guns.
- Such a group of a certain size (number of guns and artillerists), within a schema of military unit organization.
noun
- (UK) An inventory of matériel.
- A tract of ground kept in its natural state, about or adjacent to a residence, such as for the preservation of game, for walking, riding, or the like.
- (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A space in which to leave a car; a parking space.
- (automotive) The gear into which one shifts an automatic transmission when one is parking a car or truck. (Denoted with symbol P on a shifter's labeling.)
- A partially enclosed basin in which oysters are grown.
- An area zoned for a particular (industrial or commercial) purpose.
- An open space occupied by or reserved for vehicles, matériel or stores.
- (US) A wide, flat-bottomed valley in a mountainous region.
- A piece of ground in or near a city or town, enclosed and kept for ornament and recreation.
- An enclosed parcel of land stocked with animals for hunting, which one may have by prescription or royal grant.
- An area on which a sporting match is played; (soccer) a pitch.
- a lot where cars are parked
- a gear position that acts as a parking brake
- a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area
- a large area of land preserved in its natural state as public property
- a facility in which ball games are played (especially baseball games)
verb
- (transitive, finance) To invest money temporarily in an investment instrument considered to relatively free of risk, especially while awaiting other opportunities.
- (transitive, baseball) To hit a home run; to hit the ball out of the park.
- (intransitive, slang, US) To engage in romantic or sexual activities inside a nonmoving vehicle that was driven to a suitable spot for that purpose.
- (transitive) To bring (something such as a vehicle) to a halt or store in a specified place.
- (Internet) To register a domain name, but make no use of it (See domain parking)
- (transitive) To bring together in a park, or compact body.
- (transitive, informal, figurative) To defer (a matter) until a later date.
- (transitive, oyster culture) To enclose in a park, or partially enclosed basin.
- (transitive, informal, sometimes reflexive) To sit, recline, or put, especially in a manner suggesting an intent to remain for some time.
- (transitive) To enclose in a park, or as in a park.
- maneuver a vehicle into a parking space
- place temporarily
noun
- Miscellaneous items of little value, especially discarded or unwanted items.
- Pieces of old cable or cordage, used for making gaskets, mats, swabs, etc., and when picked to pieces, forming oakum for filling the seams of ships.
- (nautical) A Chinese sailing vessel.
- (slang) Any narcotic drug, especially heroin.
- Nonsense; gibberish.
- (slang) The genitalia, especially of a male.
- (nautical) Salt beef.
- (attributive) Material or resources of poor quality or low value, especially resources that lack commercial value.
- any of various Chinese boats with a high poop and lugsails
- the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up
verb
noun
- The lot or set of goods as shipped or received.
- (Taiwan) A kind of receipt that serves as a tax document and sometimes also as a lottery ticket.
- (generally of a vehicle) The price which a seller or dealer pays the manufacturer for goods to be sold.
- A bill; a commercial document issued by a seller to a buyer indicating the products, quantities and agreed prices for products or services that the seller has already provided the buyer with. An invoice indicates that, unless paid in advance, payment is due by the buyer to the seller, according to the agreed terms.
- an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered
verb
noun
- A single item belonging to a class of similar items.
- (US, colloquial) A gun.
- An article published in the press.
- (US, slang) A cannabis pipe.
- (US, colloquial, mildly vulgar, short for piece of crap/piece of shit) A shoddy or worthless object (usually applied to consumer products like vehicles or appliances).
- (US, colloquial, vulgar) A sexual encounter; from piece of ass or piece of tail.
- (chess) One of the figures used in playing chess, specifically a higher-value figure as distinguished from a pawn; (by extension) those with which draughts, backgammon, and other similar board games are played.
- A part of a larger whole, usually in such a form that it is able to be separated from other parts.
- (Scotland, Ireland, UK, US, dialectal) A slice or other quantity of bread, eaten on its own; a sandwich or light snack.
- A coin, especially one valued at less than the principal unit of currency.
- An amount of work to be done at one time; a unit of piece work.
- An artistic creation, such as a painting, sculpture, musical composition, literary work, etc.
- (US, Canada, colloquial, short for hairpiece) A toupee or wig, especially when worn by a man.
- (military) An artillery gun.
- (US) A pacifier; a dummy.
- (slang) An ounce of a recreational drug.
- (colloquial) A distance.
- (baseball, uncountable) Used to describe a pitch that has been hit but not well, usually either being caught by the opposing team or going foul. Usually used in the past tense with get.
- (rowing) A structured practice row, often used for performance evaluation.
- a portion of a natural object
- a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition
- game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games
- a share of something
- a separate part of a whole
- a serving that has been cut from a larger portion
- a portable gun
- an instance of some kind
- an item that is an instance of some type
- an artistic or literary composition
- a distance
- a work of art of some artistic value
- a musical work that has been created
verb
- (transitive, usually with together) To assemble (something real or figurative).
- To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces; to patch; often with out.
- (slang) To produce a work of graffiti more complex than a tag.
- eat intermittently; take small bites of
- to join or unite the pieces of
- create by putting components or members together
- join during spinning
- repair by adding pieces
noun
- One of the items in a hierarchy.
- An item of clothing worn under or over another.
- A (usually) horizontal deposit; a stratum.
- A shoot of a plant, laid underground for growth.
- A hen kept to lay eggs; a breed of chicken bred to maximize laying output.
- (networking) One of the seven network switch pieces in the Open Systems Interconnection model: application, presentation, session, transport, network, data link, and physical.
- (computing) An alternative keymap accessed through a modifier key or toggle.
- A person who lays anything, such as tiles or a wager.
- (computer graphics, by analogy to a stack of transparencies) One in a stack of (initially transparent) drawing surfaces that comprise an image; used to keep elements of an image separate so that they can be modified independently from one another.
- A mature female bird, insect, etc. that is able to lay eggs.
- A single thickness of some material covering a surface.
- an abstract place usually conceived as having depth
- thin structure composed of a single thickness of cells
- a hen that lays eggs
- a relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another
- single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance
verb
noun
- A structured arrangement of items within certain limits.
- A plan for such arrangement.
- The act of laying out something.
- (gymnastics) A fully stretched out position of the body, with toes pointed and legs straight.
- (electronics) A specification of an integrated circuit showing the position of the physical components that will implement the schematic in silicon.
- (publishing) The process of arranging editorial content, advertising, graphics and other information
- (engineering) A map or a drawing of a construction site showing the position of roads, buildings or other constructions.
- (Internet) The customizable features of a user's profile (such as profile picture, screen name, and bio) collectively.
- a plan or design of something that is laid out
- the act of laying out (as by making plans for something)
noun
- A bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other.
- (music) A secundal chord of three or more notes.
- (US) In full oak leaf cluster: a small bronze or silver device shaped like a twig of oak leaves and acorns which is worn on a ribbon to indicate that the wearer has been conferred the same award or decoration before; an oakleaf.
- A number of individuals (animals or people) collected in one place or grouped together; a crowd, a mob, a swarm.
- (epidemiology) A group of cases of the same disease occurring around the same place or time.
- (linguistics) Synonym of lexical bundle (“a sequence of two or more words that occur in a language with high frequency but are not idiomatic”).
- (phonetics) A pronounceable group of consonants that occur together: a consonant cluster.
- (physical chemistry) An ensemble of bound atoms (especially of a metal) or molecules, intermediate in size between a molecule and a bulk solid.
- A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see block (noun)).
- A group of computers that work together.
- A set of bombs or mines released as part of the same blast.
- (statistics) In cluster analysis: a subset of a population whose members are similar enough to each other and distinct from others as to be considered a separate group; also, such a grouping in a set of observed data that is statistically significant.
- (slang) Euphemistic form of clusterfuck (“a chaotic situation where everything seems to go wrong”).
- (astronomy) A group of galaxies, nebulae, or stars that appear to the naked eye to be near each other.
- a grouping of a number of similar things
verb
- (intransitive) To form a cluster or group; to assemble, to gather.
- To cover (with clusters); to scatter or strew in clusters (within); to distribute (objects) within such that they form clusters.
- To collect (animals, people, objects, data points, etc) into clusters (noun noun sense 1).
- come together as in a cluster or flock
- gather or cause to gather into a cluster
noun
adj
noun
- A survey of the available items or material.
- (law) A judicial reassessment of a case or an event.
- (sciences) A review article.
- A stage show made up of topical sketches etc.
- A second or subsequent reading of a text or artifact in an attempt to gain new insights.
- A periodical which makes a survey of the arts or some other field.
- A forensic inspection to assess compliance with regulations or some code.
- A military inspection or display for the benefit of superiors or VIPs.
- An account intended as a critical evaluation of a text or a piece of work.
- (accounting) a service (less exhaustive than an audit) that provides some assurance to interested parties as to the reliability of financial data
- a new appraisal or evaluation
- practice intended to polish performance or refresh the memory
- a formal or official examination
- (law) a judicial reexamination of the proceedings of a court (especially by an appellate court)
- an essay or article that gives a critical evaluation (as of a book or play)
- a subsequent examination of a patient for the purpose of monitoring earlier treatment
- a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion
- a periodical that publishes critical essays on current affairs or literature or art
- a variety show with topical sketches and songs and dancing and comedians
verb
- To survey; to look broadly over.
- To look back over in order to correct or edit; to revise.
- To write a critical evaluation of a new art work etc.; to write a review.
- (transitive, Philippines, sometimes Canada, US) To look over again (something previously written or learned), especially in preparation for an examination.
- look at again; examine again
- look back upon (a period of time, sequence of events); remember
- appraise critically
- refresh one's memory
- hold a review (of troops)
noun
- (countable) A group of related items.
- (countable) A group of individuals who are related by blood and/or by marriage.
- (countable) The method in which individuals are grouped together into families that live together.
- (uncountable) The strategy of putting related inventory items together.
- (countable) A group of family members who are posed together.
- (uncountable, UK) The system of grouping children of differing ages together, used primarily at the preschool level.
- (countable) A taxonomic grouping at the family level.
noun
- the commodities purchased from stores
- searching for or buying goods or services
- Placement in a workshop for overhaul.
- The process of buying goods or services, or searching for those suitable to buy.
- An area's combination of stores and other infrastructure and products available for people who want to shop.
- Recently bought goods.
verb
adj
noun
- An anthology of previously released material linked together by theme or author, especially in book form.
- A broadcast programme consisting of all of the episodes of a serial that have been shown in the previous week.
- an omnibus box
- (philately) A stamp issue, usually commemorative, that appears simultaneously in several countries as a joint issue.
- an anthology of articles on a related subject or an anthology of the works of a single author
- a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport
verb
adj
- concerned with material things
- impelled by physical force especially against resistance
- characterized by energetic bodily activity
- involving the body as distinguished from the mind or spirit
- relating to the sciences dealing with matter and energy; especially physics
- according with material things or natural laws (other than those peculiar to living matter)
- having substance or material existence; perceptible to the senses
- Sexual, carnal.
- In accordance with the laws of nature; now specifically, pertaining to physics.
- Denoting a map showing natural features of the landscape (compare political).
- Having to do with the body as opposed to the mind; corporeal, bodily.
- Involving bodily force or contact; vigorous, aggressive.
- Pertaining to the world as understood through the senses rather than the mind, having to do with the material world.