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noun
- a body of troops in close array
- any closely ranked crowd of people
- any of the bones of the fingers or toes
- (botany) A bundle of stamens, in diadelphous and polyadelphous flowers.
- (plural phalanxes or (rare) phalanges) A large group of people, animals or things, compact or closely massed, or tightly knit and united in common purpose.
- (historical sociology) A Fourierite utopian community; a phalanstery.
- (historical, plural phalanxes) An ancient Greek and Macedonian military unit that consisted of several ranks and files (lines) of soldiers in close array with joined shields and long spears.
- (anatomy, plural phalanges) One of the bones of the finger or toe.
noun
- a body of troops arranged in a line
- a diffraction grating consisting of a pile of plates of equal thickness arranged stepwise with a constant offset
- status in a society or organization
- A level or rank in an organization, profession, or society.
- (military) A formation of troops, ships, aircraft, etc., in diagonal parallel rows.
- (cycling) A line of riders seeking maximum drafting in a crosswind, resulting in a diagonal line across the road.
adj
verb
noun
- a group of soldiers
- a cavalry unit corresponding to an infantry company
- an orderly crowd
- a unit of Girl or Boy Scouts
- A detachment of soldiers or police, especially horse artillery, armour, or state troopers.
- (military) A small unit of cavalry or armour commanded by a captain, corresponding to a platoon or company of infantry.
- (collective) A group of monkeys.
- (military, nonstandard) An individual soldier or member of a military force; a trooper.
- (chiefly in the plural) A group of soldiers; military forces.
- (collective) A collection of people; a number; a multitude (in general).
- (mycology) A group of mushrooms that are close but not close enough to be called a cluster.
- (nonstandard) A company of actors; a troupe.
- A particular roll of the drum; a quick march.
- A group of meerkat families living together.
- (scouting) A chapter of a national girl or boy scouts organization, consisting of one or more patrols of 6 to 8 youngsters each.
verb
noun
- a large military unit
- archaic terms for army
- a vast multitude
- association of ex-servicemen
- (military, Ancient Rome) The major unit or division of the Roman army, usually comprising 3000 to 6000 infantry soldiers and 100 to 200 cavalry troops.
- (military) A large military or semi-military unit trained for combat; any military force; an army, regiment; an armed, organized and assembled militia.
- (military) A combined arms major military unit featuring cavalry, infantry, and artillery, including historical units such as the British Legion, and present-day units such as the Spanish Legion and the French Foreign Legion.
- (often plural) A great number.
- (often Legion or the Legion) A national organization or association of former servicemen, such as the American Legion.
- A large number of people; a multitude.
adj
verb
noun
- a small unit of troops of special composition
- coming apart
- avoiding emotional involvement
- the state of being isolated or detached
- the act of releasing from an attachment or connection
- (uncountable, military) The separation of a military unit from the main body for a particular purpose or special mission.
- (countable, military) The unit so dispatched.
- (uncountable) The action of detaching; separation.
- (countable) Any smaller portion of a main body separately employed.
- (uncountable) Absence of bias; impartiality; objectivity.
- (uncountable) The state of being detached or disconnected; insulation.
- (uncountable) Indifference to the concerns of others; disregard; nonchalance; aloofness.
- (countable, military) A permanent unit organized for special duties.
noun
- A body of forces equipped for war.
- The process of building up military capacity.
- (military, naval) All the cannon and small arms collectively, with their equipments, belonging to a ship or a fortification.
- Any equipment for resistance.
- weaponry used by military or naval force
- the act of equipping with weapons in preparation for war
noun
- The body of troops manning such a post.
- (chess) A square protected by a pawn that is in or near the enemy's stronghold.
- A military post stationed at a distance from the main body of troops.
- An outlying settlement.
- a station in a remote or sparsely populated location
- a settlement on the frontier of civilization
- a military post stationed at a distance from the main body of troops
noun
- a gathering of military personnel for duty
- compulsory military service
- (Australia, New Zealand) A roundup of livestock for inspection, branding, drenching, shearing etc.
- A collection of peafowl. (not a term used in zoology)
- The sum total of an army when assembled for review and inspection; the whole number of effective men in an army.
- An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
- (military) An assembling or review of troops, as for parade, verification of numbers, inspection, exercise, or introduction into service.
- Synonym of mustee.
verb
- call to duty, military service, jury duty, etc.
- gather or bring together
- (transitive, Australia, New Zealand) To gather or round up livestock.
- (transitive, US) To enroll (into service).
- (intransitive) To be gathered together for parade, inspection, exercise, or the like (especially of a military force); to come together as parts of a force or body.
- (transitive) To look within oneself to summon (a particular positive quality, such as strength, energy or courage); see: muster up.
- (transitive) To collect, call or assemble together, such as troops or a group for inspection, orders, display etc.
noun
- Any large body of troops.
- (military) An army unit having two or more companies, etc. and a headquarters. Traditionally forming part of a regiment.
- (US, military) an army unit having two or more companies, etc. and a headquarters; forming part of a brigade.
- (by extension) A great number of things.
- a large indefinite quantity
- an army unit usually consisting of a headquarters and three or more companies
verb
noun
- A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers.
- a row or line of people (especially soldiers or police) standing abreast of one another
- (taxonomy) A level in a scientific taxonomy system.
- (chess) One of the eight horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a number).
- A hierarchical level in an organization such as the military.
- (algebra) The maximum quantity of D-linearly independent elements of a module (over an integral domain D).
- (card games) The value of a playing card.
- (typically in the plural) A category of people, such as those who share an occupation or belong to an organisation.
- (mathematics) The size of any basis of a given matroid.
- One's position in a list sorted by a shared property such as physical location, population, popularity, or quality.
- (music) In a pipe organ, a set of pipes of a certain quality for which each pipe corresponds to one key or pedal.
- (mathematics) The dimensionality of an array (computing) or tensor.
- (linear algebra) The maximal number of linearly independent columns (or rows) of a matrix.
- The level of one's position in a class-based society.
- the body of members of an organization or group
- relative status
- the ordinary members of an organization (such as the enlisted soldiers of an army)
- position in a social hierarchy
adj
- Having a very strong, bad taste or odor.
- (intensifier, negative) complete, unmitigated, utter.
- complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers
- very offensive in smell or taste
- growing profusely
- conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
- very fertile; producing profuse growth
verb
- (transitive, US) To take the rank of; to outrank.
- (intransitive) To have a ranking.
- (transitive) To assign a suitable place in a class or order; to classify.
- (transitive) To place abreast or in a line.
- take or have a position relative to others
- assign a rank or rating to
- take precedence or surpass others in rank
noun
- A show of military force.
- (mathematics, philosophy) A proof.
- Expression of one's feelings by outward signs.
- An event at which something will be demonstrated.
- A public display of group opinion, such as a protest march.
- The act of demonstrating; showing or explaining something.
- (prison slang) A prisoner's act of beating up another prisoner.
- a public display of group feelings (usually of a political nature)
- a show of military force or preparedness
- proof by a process of argument or a series of proposition proving an asserted conclusion
- a show or display; the act of presenting something to sight or view
- a visual presentation showing how something works
noun
adj
- very unfavorable to life or growth
- impossible to bring into friendly accord
- unsolicited and resisted by the management of the target company (used of attempts to buy or take control of a business)
- characterized by enmity or ill will
- not belonging to your own country's forces or those of an ally
- Aggressive; antagonistic.
- (not comparable) Being or relating to a hostile takeover.
- Not friendly; appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence or a desire to thwart and injure.
- Unwilling.
noun
- A regiment of infantry.
- an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot
- (uncountable) The part of an army consisting of infantry soldiers, especially opposed to mounted and technical troops.
- Soldiers who fight on foot (on land), as opposed to cavalry and other mounted units, regardless of external transport (e.g. airborne).
- (colloquial, humorous) Infants; children.
noun
- an army unit that uses big guns
- a means of persuading or arguing
- large but transportable armament
- (UK, Ireland, slang) One or more guns.
- Gunnery (design and manufacture of guns).
- Large projectile weapons, in modern usage usually large guns, but also rocket artillery.
- An army unit that uses such weapons, or a military formation using projectile weapons, such as archers.
noun
- A detachment of soldiers; soldiers collectively.
- Any apparatus for defence.
- A protective organ, structure, or covering of an animal or plant, for defense or offense, like claws, teeth, thorns, or the shell of a turtle.
- The art of using arms and armour in combat; skill at arms; a mode or manner of armed combat.
- The frame of a pair of glasses.
- The rotating part of an electric motor or dynamo, which mostly consists of coils of wire (the winding) around a metal core.
- The moving part in an electromechanical device like a loudspeaker or a buzzer.
- (computer graphics) A kinematic chain (a system of bones or rigid bodies connected by joints) that is used to pose and deform models, often character models.
- A piece of soft steel or iron that connects the poles of a magnet, to preserve its strength by forming a circuit.
- Armor, such as a suit of armor, weapons and other military equipment.
- (sculpture) A supporting framework in a sculpture.
- coil in which voltage is induced by motion through a magnetic field
verb
noun
- a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack
- a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work
- a vehicle performing sentinel duty
- a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
- a form of military punishment used by the British in the late 17th century in which a soldier was forced to stand on one foot on a pointed stake
- a wooden strip forming part of a fence
- (sometimes figurative) A sentry.
- (military) One of the soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance; or any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.
- (historical) A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.
- A stake driven into the ground.
- (card games, uncountable) The card game piquet.
- A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.
- A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.
verb
- fasten with a picket
- serve as pickets or post pickets
- (intransitive) To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.
- (transitive) To enclose or fortify with pickets or pointed stakes.
- (transitive) To tether to, or as if to, a picket.
- (transitive) To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.
noun
- an army unit large enough to sustain combat
- a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings
- a league ranked by quality
- (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum
- the act or process of dividing
- one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
- an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed
- a group of ships of similar type
- (biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category
- an administrative unit in government or business
- the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart
- discord that splits a group
- (music) A florid instrumental variation of a melody in the 17th and 18th centuries, originally conceived as the dividing of each of a succession of long notes into several short ones.
- (computing) Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code.
- (botany, mycology) A rank below kingdom and above class, particularly used of plants or fungi, also (particularly of animals) called a phylum; a taxon at that rank.
- (government) A method by which a legislature is separated into groups in order to take a better estimate of vote than a voice vote.
- (UK, Eton College) A lesson; a class.
- A usually high-level section of a large company or conglomerate.
- (Australia) A parliamentary constituency.
- (arithmetic, uncountable) The process of dividing a number by another.
- (uncountable) The act or process of dividing anything.
- (law) A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.
- Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
- A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
- (military) A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.
- (music) A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
- (zoology) An optional rank subordinate to the infraclass and superordinate to the legion and cohort; a taxon at that rank.
- (arithmetic) A calculation that involves this process.
noun
adj
- Relating to war.
- Characteristic of members of the armed forces.
- Relating to armies or ground forces.
- (Canada, US) Relating to armed forces such as the army, marines, navy and air force (often as distinguished from civilians or police forces).
- associated with or performed by members of the armed services as contrasted with civilians
- characteristic of or associated with soldiers or the military
- of or relating to the study of the principles of warfare
noun
- (US, military, countable) A platoon-sized group of airborne soldiers.
- (US, sports, chiefly basketball) The prediction that there will be no upsets, and the favored competitor will win.
- Tailor's chalk.
- (US, sports, chiefly basketball, horse racing) The favorite in a sporting event.
- (uncountable) A soft, white, powdery limestone (calcium carbonate, CaCO₃).
- (countable) A piece of chalk, or nowadays processed compressed gypsum (calcium sulfate, CaSO₄), that is used for drawing and for writing on a blackboard (chalkboard).
- (uncountable, climbing, gymnastics) A white powdery substance used to prevent hands slipping from holds when climbing, or losing grip in weight-lifting or gymnastics, sometimes but not always limestone-chalk, often magnesium carbonate (MgCO₃).
- a pure flat white with little reflectance
- a soft whitish calcite
- an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant
- a piece of calcite or a similar substance, usually in the shape of a crayon, that is used to write or draw on blackboards or other flat surfaces
verb
- To record something, as on a blackboard, using chalk.
- (figurative) To record a score or event, as if on a chalkboard.
- To make white, as if with chalk; to make pale; to bleach.
- To use powdered chalk to mark the lines on a playing field.
- To manure (land) with chalk.
- To apply chalk to anything, such as the tip of a billiard cue.
- write, draw, or trace with chalk
noun
- (military) A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.
- A part of a document, especially a major part; often notated with §.
- (surgery, colloquial) Ellipsis of Caesarean section.
- (music) A group of instruments in an orchestra.
- (Philippines, education) A class in a school; a group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher in a certain school year or semester or school quarter year.
- (geology) A sequence of rock layers.
- (topology) A function that generalizes the notion of the graph of a function; formally, a continuous right inverse to the projection map of a fiber bundle.
- A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
- (botany) A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.
- (zoology) An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.
- An act or instance of cutting.
- (sciences) thin section, a thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.
- (generalizing the topology sense in a different way, sheaf theory) An object which is defined by analogy with sections of fiber bundles but in a more general setting (that of sheaves). Formally, an element of the image of an open set under the action of a (pre-)sheaf.
- (New Zealand) A piece of residential land; a plot.
- (aviation) A cross-section perpendicular the longitudinal axis of an aircraft in flight.
- (US, Canada, law and land surveying) Synonym of square mile, a unit of land area, especially in the contexts of Canadian surveys and American land grants and legal property descriptions.
- (surgery) An incision or the act of making an incision.
- A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
- The symbol §, denoting a section of a document.
- A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
- (technology) Angle section, L-section, angle iron, steel angle, slotted angle.
- (archaeology) Archeological section; vertical plane and cross-section of the ground to view its profile and stratigraphy; part of an archeological sequence.
- (generalizing the topology sense, algebra, category theory) A right inverse of a morphism in some category
- one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object
- a division of an orchestra containing all instruments of the same class
- (geometry) the area created by a plane cutting through a solid
- a small team of policemen working as part of a police platoon
- a distinct region or subdivision of a territorial or political area or community or group of people
- a small army unit usually having a special function
- one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
- a segment of a citrus fruit
- a specialized division of a large organization
- a very thin slice (of tissue or mineral or other substance) for examination under a microscope
- a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical)
- a small class of students who are part of a larger course but are taught separately
- the cutting of or into body tissues or organs (especially by a surgeon as part of an operation)
- a land unit equal to 1 square mile
verb
- To cut, divide or separate into pieces.
- To reduce to the degree of thinness required for study with the microscope.
- (medicine) To perform a cesarean section on (someone).
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand) To commit (a person) to a hospital for mental health treatment as an involuntary patient. So called after various sections of legal acts regarding mental health.
- divide into segments
noun
- an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot
- lowest support of a structure
- travel by walking
- the pedal extremity of vertebrates other than human beings
- a member of a surveillance team who works on foot or rides as a passenger
- a support resembling a pedal extremity
- a linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard
- the part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint
- any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates
- the lower part of anything
- (prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm
- (anatomy) Specifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing and walking.
- (molecular biology) The globular lower domain of a protein.
- (botany) In a bryophyte, that portion of a sporophyte which remains embedded within and attached to the parent gametophyte plant.
- (cigars) The end of a cigar which is lit, and usually cut before lighting.
- (phonology) The parsing of syllables into prosodic constituents, which are used to determine the placement of stress in languages along with the notions of constituent heads.
- (printing) The bottommost part of a typed or printed page.
- Recognized condition; rank; footing.
- (geometry) The point of intersection of one line with another that is perpendicular to it.
- (sewing) The part of a sewing machine which presses downward on the fabric, and may also serve to move it forward.
- The end of a rectangular table opposite the head.
- (informal) Ellipsis of cubic foot, a unit of volume.
- (nautical) The bottom edge of a sail.
- Fundamental principle; basis; plan.
- (informal) Ellipsis of square foot, a unit of area.
- (billiards) The end of a billiard or pool table behind the foot point where the balls are racked.
- (malacology) The muscular part of a bivalve mollusc or a gastropod by which it moves or holds its position on a surface.
- A biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg.
- (prosody) The basic measure of rhythm in a poem.
- (collective, military) Foot soldiers; infantry.
- The base or bottom of anything.
- A short foot-like projection on the bottom of an object to support it.
- (printing) The base of a piece of type, forming the sides of the groove.
- The part of a flat surface on which the feet customarily rest.
- (music) A unit of measure for organ pipes equal to the wavelength of two octaves above middle C, approximately 328 mm.
- (often used attributively) Travel by walking.
- A unit of measure equal to twelve inches or one third of a yard, equal to exactly 30.48 centimetres.
verb
- pay for something
- walk
- add a column of numbers
- To walk.
- (transitive) To use the foot to kick (usually a ball).
- To renew the foot of (a stocking, etc.).
- To sum up, as the numbers in a column; sometimes with up.
- To tread to measure of music; to dance; to trip; to skip.
- (transitive) To pay (a bill).
- (Ireland, transitive) To spread out and stack up (turf sods) to allow them to dry.
noun
verb
- To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription. etc.
- To raise, as a siege.
- To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority.
- To draft someone into military service.
- (transitive) To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property.
- (law) To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up.
- To wage war.
- impose and collect
- cause to assemble or enlist in military
noun
- the leading units moving at the head of an army
- any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts)
- a camper equipped with living quarters
- (Great Britain) a closed railroad car that carries baggage or freight
- a truck with an enclosed cargo space
- (aerospace) A large towable vehicle equipped for the repair of structures that cannot easily be moved.
- (mining) A shovel used in cleansing ore.
- (British) An enclosed railway vehicle for transport of goods, such as a boxcar/box van.
- Clipping of vanguard.
- A wing with which the air is beaten.
- A fan or other contrivance, such as a sieve, for winnowing grain.
- A covered motor vehicle used to carry goods or (normally less than ten) persons, usually roughly cuboid in shape, Depending on the type of van, it can be bigger or smaller than a pickup truck and SUV, and longer and higher than a car but relatively smaller than a truck/lorry or a bus.
verb
noun
- the leading units moving at the head of an army
- any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts)
- the position of greatest importance or advancement; the leading position in any movement or field
- (military) The leading units at the front of an army or fleet.
- (by extension) The person(s) at the forefront of any group or movement.
noun
- army
- aqua
- annus (a year)
- acre; acres
- application
- adjutant
- air
- associate; association
- age; aged
- ambassador
- academy; academician
- automobile
- answer
- Americanization
- air branch
- accumulator
- artillery
- adult
- artificer
- aircraft; airplane
- apprentice
- atomic weight
- amplitude
- absolute temperature
- article
- acid
- alto
- anode
- attack
- amphibian
- administration
- ana; anna
- admiral
- (military) assault, as on a badge
- alfa
- airman
- address
- Angstrom
- accusative case
- accommodation
- amateur
- absorbance; absorbancy
- arctic
- author
adj
adv
name
prep
verb
noun
- a military unit consisting of armored fighting vehicles
- tough more-or-less rigid protective covering of an animal or plant
- protective covering made of metal and used in combat
- (military, uncountable) A military formation consisting primarily of tanks or other armoured fighting vehicles, collectively.
- (uncountable) A natural form of this kind of protection on an animal's body.
- (uncountable) A protective layer over a body, vehicle, or other object intended to deflect or diffuse damaging forces.
- (countable) A tank, or other heavy mobile assault vehicle.
- (hydrology, uncountable) The naturally occurring surface of pebbles, rocks or boulders that line the bed of a waterway or beach and provide protection against erosion.
- (uncountable) A metal plate, protecting a ship, military vehicle, or aircraft.
verb
noun
- A sortie of troops from a besieged place against an enemy.
- (slang, drugs, Canada, US) The crystalline or powdered form of MDA.
- (New Zealand, slang) A member of the Salvation Army.
- A kind of stonefly.
- A wren.
- A willow.
- An object made from the wood of a willow.
- Any tree that resembles a willow.
- A tufted woollen part of a bellrope, used to provide grip when ringing a bell.
- An excursion or side trip.
- A sudden rushing forth.
- (figuratively) A witty statement or quip, usually at the expense of one's interlocutor.
- a military action in which besieged troops burst forth from their position
- a venture off the beaten path
- witty remark
verb
noun
- small military unit; usually two or three platoons
- a unit of firefighters including their equipment
- the state of being with someone
- a social gathering of guests or companions
- a band of people associated temporarily in some activity
- a social or business visitor
- an institution created to conduct business
- organization of performers and associated personnel (especially theatrical)
- crew of a ship including the officers; the whole force or personnel of a ship
- (law) An entity having legal personality, and thus able to own property and to sue and be sued in its own name; a corporation.
- A unit of firefighters and their equipment.
- (business) Any business, whether incorporated or not, that manufactures or sells products (also known as goods), or provides services as a commercial venture.
- (espionage, informal) An intelligence service.
- (uncountable) Companionship.
- (A group of) adversaries, enemies, or rivals; unwanted company.
- A small group of birds or animals.
- A group of individuals who work together for a common purpose.
- (military) A unit of approximately sixty to one hundred and twenty soldiers, typically consisting of two or three platoons and forming part of a battalion.
- (uncountable) Social visitors or companions.
- (nautical) The entire crew of a ship.
verb
noun
- bringing together military forces
- complete attention; intense mental effort
- the spatial property of being crowded together
- increase in density
- great and constant diligence and attention
- strengthening the concentration (as of a solute in a mixture) by removing diluting material
- the strength of a solution; number of molecules of a substance in a given volume
- The direction of attention to a specific object.
- (physical chemistry) The amount of solute in a solution measured in suitable units (e.g., parts per million (ppm))
- The matching game pelmanism.
- The act, process or product of reducing the volume of a liquid, as by evaporation.
- The act or process of removing the dress of ore and of reducing the valuable part to smaller compass, as by currents of air or water.
- A field or course of study on which one focuses, especially as a student in a college or university.
- The act, process or ability of concentrating; the process of becoming concentrated, or the state of being concentrated.
- The proportion of a substance in a whole.
noun
- military installation at which a body of troops is stationed
- any particular collection of letters or packages that is delivered
- a pole or stake set up to mark something (as the start or end of a race track)
- an upright consisting of a piece of timber or metal fixed firmly in an upright position
- A message on a social media website
- the position where someone (as a guard or sentry) stands or is assigned to stand
- the system whereby messages are transmitted via the post office
- the delivery and collection of letters and packages
- a job in an organization
- (film, informal) Post-production.
- (American football) A moderate to deep passing route in which a receiver runs 10-20 yards from the line of scrimmage straight down the field, then cuts toward the middle of the field (towards the facing goalposts) at a 45-degree angle.
- (vocal music, chiefly a cappella) A prolonged final melody note, among moving harmony notes.
- A military base; the place at which a soldier or a body of troops is stationed; also, the troops at such a station.
- An assigned station; a guard post.
- The vertical part of a crochet stitch.
- (sports) A goalpost.
- A location on a basketball court near the basket.
- (paper, printing) A printing paper size measuring 19.25 inches x 15.5 inches.
- (now historical) Someone who travels express along a set route carrying letters and dispatches; a courier.
- (dentistry) A long, narrow piece inserted into a root canal to provide retention for a crown.
- (construction) A stud; a two-by-four.
- A single delivery of letters; the letters or deliveries that make up a single batch delivered to one person or one address.
- An organisation for delivering letters, parcels etc., or the service provided by such an organisation.
- An appointed position in an organization, job.
- A message posted in an electronic or Internet forum, or on a blog, etc.
- A pole in a battery.
- A long dowel or plank protruding from the ground; a fencepost; a lightpost.
- (medicine, informal) A post mortem (an investigation of a body's cause of death).
verb
- transfer (entries) from one account book to another
- place so as to be noticed
- cause to be directed or transmitted to another place
- To post a message on a social media website
- ride Western style and bob up and down in the saddle in rhythm with a horse's trotting gait
- affix in a public place or for public notice
- enter on a public list
- assign to a post; put into a post
- publicize with, or as if with, a poster
- assign to a station
- mark or expose as infamous
- mark with a stake
- display, as of records in sports games
- To assign to a station; to set; to place.
- (Internet) To publish (a message) to a newsgroup, forum, blog, etc.
- To travel quickly; to hurry.
- (law) To pay bail.
- To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation.
- To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, etc.
- (gambling) To pay (a stake or blind).
- (transitive) To hang (a notice) in a conspicuous manner for general review.
- (UK, Ireland, India, Australia, New Zealand) To send (an item of mail etc.) through the postal service.
- (transitive, by extension) To announce publicly; to publish.
- (horse-riding) To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, especially in trotting.
- To travel with relays of horses; to travel by post horses, originally as a courier.
- (accounting) To carry (an account) from the journal to the ledger.
- To inform; to give the news to; to make acquainted with the details of a subject; often with up.
adv
prep
noun
- A body of troops or army vehicles, usually strung out along a road.
- (architecture) A solid upright structure designed usually to support a larger structure above it, such as a roof or horizontal beam, but sometimes for decoration.
- A vertical line of entries in a table, usually read from top to bottom.
- (by extension) A recurring feature in a periodical, especially an opinion piece, especially by a single author or small rotating group of authors, or on a single theme.
- (botany) The gynostemium
- A body of text meant to be read line by line, especially in printed material that has multiple adjacent such on a single page.
- Something having similar vertical form or structure to the things mentioned above, such as a spinal column.
- (chemistry) An instrument used to separate the different components of a liquid or to purify chemical compounds.
- A unit of width, especially of advertisements, in a periodical, equivalent to the width of a usual column of text.
- an article giving opinions or perspectives
- a vertical array of numbers or other information
- anything that approximates the shape of a column or tower
- a page or text that is vertically divided
- a vertical cylindrical structure standing alone and not supporting anything (such as a monument)
- a vertical glass tube used in column chromatography; a mixture is poured in the top and washed through a stationary substance where components of the mixture are adsorbed selectively to form colored bands
- (architecture) a tall vertical cylindrical structure standing upright and used to support a structure
- a line of units following one after another
- any tubular or pillar-like supporting structure in the body
noun
- the back of a military formation or procession
- the part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer
- the side of an object that is opposite its front
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- the side that goes last or is not normally seen
- (military) Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.
- The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last in order.
- (anatomy) The buttocks or bottom.
adj
verb
- cause to rise up
- stand up on the hind legs, of quadrupeds
- rise up
- construct, build, or erect
- look after a child until it is an adult
- (transitive) To move; stir.
- (transitive, vulgar, British) To sodomize (perform anal sex)
- (intransitive) To rise up on the hind legs.
- (transitive, said of people towards animals) To breed and raise.
- (intransitive, usually with "up") To get angry.
- (transitive, literary) To raise physically or metaphorically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate.
- (transitive, rare) To construct by building; to set up
- To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.
- (intransitive) To rise high above, tower above.
- (transitive, of geese) To carve.
- (transitive) To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster.
- (transitive, rare) To raise spiritually; to lift up; to elevate morally.
adv
noun
- (military) A small detachment of soldiers.
- A column of people one behind another, whether "single file" or in a grid pattern.
- A roll or list.
- A tool consisting of a strip or rod of hardened and coarse metal, used for removing sharp edges, shaping, and cutting, especially through metal; usually a hand tool.
- A collection of papers collated and archived together.
- (computing) An aggregation of data on a storage device, identified by a name.
- A course of thought; a thread of narration.
- (chess) One of the eight vertical lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a letter).
- (Canada, US) Clipping of file cabinet.
- A row of modular kitchen units and a countertop, consisting of cabinets and appliances below (dishwasher) and next to (stove/cooker) a countertop.
- a line of persons or things ranged one behind the other
- a steel hand tool with small sharp teeth on some or all of its surfaces; used for smoothing wood or metal
- a set of related records (either written or electronic) kept together
- office furniture consisting of a container for keeping papers in order
verb
- (transitive) To commit (official papers) to some office.
- (transitive) To smooth, grind, or cut with a file.
- (transitive) To place in an archive in a logical place and order.
- (transitive) To store a file (aggregation of data) on a storage medium such as a disc or another computer.
- (intransitive) To move in a file.
- To corrupt.
- (transitive) (of a journalist) To submit (an article) to a newspaper or similar publication.
- (intransitive, with for, chiefly law) To submit a formal request to some office.
- proceed in line
- smooth with a file
- place in a container for keeping records
- record in a public office or in a court of law
- file a formal charge against
noun
adj
noun
- a unit that is part of some military service
- Any large, organized group involved in a military engagement.
- a group of people having the power of effective action
- physical energy or intensity
- group of people willing to obey orders
- one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority
- (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity
- a powerful effect or influence
- a putout of a base runner who is required to run; the putout is accomplished by holding the ball while touching the base to which the runner must advance before the runner reaches that base
- (of a law) having legal validity
- an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists)
- (mass noun, possibly proscribed) Force understood as something of which there can be an amount.
- (usually with "the", in the singular or plural) Synonym of police force.
- (linguistics, semantics, pragmatics) Ability of an utterance or its element (word, form, prosody, ...) to effect a given meaning.
- (law, uncountable) The state of having legal weight, of being legally valid,.
- (financial mathematics, actuarial science) The annualized instantaneous rate of change at a particular timepoint.
- (countable, Northern England) A waterfall or cascade.
- Something or anything that has the power to produce a physical effect upon something else, such as causing it to move or change shape.
- Ability to influence; strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect.
- (in the singular or plural) Military personnel, collectively, including any vehicles, ships, or aircraft. More broadly, the military or police altogether.
- (countable) A magic trick in which the outcome is known to the magician beforehand, especially one involving the apparent free choice of a card by another person.
- (countable) An instance of a physical force.
- (humorous or science fiction, with the, often capitalized) A metaphysical and ubiquitous power from the fictional Star Wars universe created by George Lucas. See usage note.
- (countable) A particular form or type of force.
- (countable) Something that exerts influence.
- (countable) Anything that is able to make a substantial change in a person or thing.
- (when in reference to that which it affects) Something that, over time, influences a system with which it interacts (with a connotation of underlyingness, subtlety, or indirectness).
- (uncountable) The generalized abstraction of this concept.
- (law) Either unlawful violence, as in a "forced entry", or lawful compulsion.
- (countable) A group organized for the goal of attacking, controlling, or constraining, especially one with a set command structure (in particular, a military or police group).
- (uncountable) Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.
verb
- force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically
- to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means
- impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably
- take by force
- do forcibly; exert force
- move with force
- urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate
- squeeze like a wedge into a tight space
- (transitive, baseball) To create an out by touching a base in advance of a runner who has no base to return to while in possession of a ball which has already touched the ground.
- (transitive) To drive (something) by force, to propel (generally + prepositional phrase or adverb).
- (transitive) To forcibly open (a door, lock etc.).
- (transitive) To make someone or something do something, often regardless of their will.
- To stuff; to lard; to farce.
- (whist) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit that he/she does not hold.
- To grow (rhubarb) in the dark, causing it to grow early.
- To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress.
- (transitive) To constrain by force; to overcome the limitations or resistance of.
- (transitive) To cause to occur (despite inertia, resistance etc.); to produce through force.
- (transitive) To violate (a woman); to rape.
noun
- (military) A body of soldiers drawn up in a circle, as for defence, especially infantry to repel cavalry.
- (poetic) The eye, seen as a luminous and spherical entity
- A globus cruciger; a ceremonial sphere used to represent royal or imperial power
- An orbit of an heavenly body
- (rare) A sphere of action.
- (rare) The time period of an orbit
- (architecture) A blank window or panel.
- A spherical body; a sphere, especially one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star
- (astrology, uncountable) Amount of deviation from the closest perfect aspect.
- (architecture) A structural motif or finial in the shape of a sphere
- Celestial sphere; one of the azure transparent spheres conceived by the ancients to be enclosed one within another, and to carry the heavenly bodies in their revolutions
- A translucent sphere appearing in flash photography (Orb (optics))
- (poetic) Any revolving circular body, such as a wheel
- an object with a spherical shape
- the ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye
verb
noun
- the line along which warring troops meet
- (military) The notional line on either side of which opposing forces are arrayed, and at which they meet in battle; a fortified line, short of the line where battle is expected, and behind which forces are arrayed; a forward line of infantry or other force, prepared for battle.
- (figuratively, usually in the plural) Any of those parts of a contest which, as a result of strategic decisions on both sides, are most closely fought and will likely determine the contest's course and outcome.
- (military, navy) A line of battle.
verb
- hold a review (of troops)
- examine so as to determine accuracy, quality, or condition
- happen in a particular manner
- fall forward and down
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To create a response or impression.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, over.
- (rugby) To score a try.
- (transitive) To encompass or cover (a subject).
- (graffiti) To spray paint graffiti over someone else's graffiti.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To look at carefully; to scrutinize; to analyze.
- (intransitive, by extension) To convert or switch sides.
verb
- hold a review (of troops)
- look at again; examine again
- look back upon (a period of time, sequence of events); remember
- appraise critically
- refresh one's memory
- 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.
noun
- (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
- (law) A judicial reassessment of a case or an event.
- A survey of the available items or material.
- (sciences) A review article.
- A stage show made up of topical sketches etc.
- A 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.
verb
- hold a review (of troops)
- keep under surveillance
- plot a map of (land)
- consider in a comprehensive way
- look over carefully or inspect
- make a survey of; for statistical purposes
- To view with a scrutinizing eye; to examine.
- To determine the form, extent, position, etc., of, as a tract of land, a coast, harbor, or the like, by means of linear and angular measurements, and the application of the principles of geometry and trigonometry
- To investigate the opinions, experiences, etc., of people by asking them questions; to conduct a survey; to administer a questionnaire.
- To inspect, or take a view of; to view with attention, as from a high place; to overlook
- To examine and ascertain, as the boundaries and royalties of a manor, the tenure of the tenants, and the rent and value of the same.
- To examine with reference to condition, situation, value, etc.; to examine and ascertain the state of
noun
- short descriptive summary (of events)
- the act of looking or seeing or observing
- a detailed critical inspection
- The operation of finding the contour, dimensions, position, or other particulars of any part of the Earth's surface.
- A measured plan and description of any portion of country.
- A particular view; an examination, especially an official examination, of a particular group of items, in order to ascertain the condition, quantity, or quality.
- (US) A district for the collection of customs under a particular officer.
- A questionnaire or similar instrument used for examining the opinions of a group of people.
- The act of surveying; a general view.
- (historical) An auction at which a farm is let for a lease for lives.
- An examination of the opinions of a group of people.
noun
- The leading military unit in an attack.
- the leading military unit in an attack
- One who leads or initiates an activity (such as an attack or a campaign).
- (sports) A player who initiates attacking moves.
- The pointed head, or end, of a spear.
- someone who leads or initiates an activity (attack or campaign etc.)
- the head and sharpened point of a spear
verb
noun
- A camp where troops are assembled, prior to combat or transport.
- A camp where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners, prisoners of war, refugees etc., are detained for the purpose of confining them in one place, typically with inadequate or inhumane facilities.
- (figuratively) A situation of overcrowding and extremely harsh conditions.
- a situation characterized by crowding and extremely harsh conditions
- a penal camp where political prisoners or prisoners of war are confined (usually under harsh conditions)
noun
- a body of troops in close array
- any closely ranked crowd of people
- any of the bones of the fingers or toes
- (botany) A bundle of stamens, in diadelphous and polyadelphous flowers.
- (plural phalanxes or (rare) phalanges) A large group of people, animals or things, compact or closely massed, or tightly knit and united in common purpose.
- (historical sociology) A Fourierite utopian community; a phalanstery.
- (historical, plural phalanxes) An ancient Greek and Macedonian military unit that consisted of several ranks and files (lines) of soldiers in close array with joined shields and long spears.
- (anatomy, plural phalanges) One of the bones of the finger or toe.
noun
- a body of troops arranged in a line
- a diffraction grating consisting of a pile of plates of equal thickness arranged stepwise with a constant offset
- status in a society or organization
- A level or rank in an organization, profession, or society.
- (military) A formation of troops, ships, aircraft, etc., in diagonal parallel rows.
- (cycling) A line of riders seeking maximum drafting in a crosswind, resulting in a diagonal line across the road.
adj
verb
noun
- a group of soldiers
- a cavalry unit corresponding to an infantry company
- an orderly crowd
- a unit of Girl or Boy Scouts
- A detachment of soldiers or police, especially horse artillery, armour, or state troopers.
- (military) A small unit of cavalry or armour commanded by a captain, corresponding to a platoon or company of infantry.
- (collective) A group of monkeys.
- (military, nonstandard) An individual soldier or member of a military force; a trooper.
- (chiefly in the plural) A group of soldiers; military forces.
- (collective) A collection of people; a number; a multitude (in general).
- (mycology) A group of mushrooms that are close but not close enough to be called a cluster.
- (nonstandard) A company of actors; a troupe.
- A particular roll of the drum; a quick march.
- A group of meerkat families living together.
- (scouting) A chapter of a national girl or boy scouts organization, consisting of one or more patrols of 6 to 8 youngsters each.
verb
noun
- a large military unit
- archaic terms for army
- a vast multitude
- association of ex-servicemen
- (military, Ancient Rome) The major unit or division of the Roman army, usually comprising 3000 to 6000 infantry soldiers and 100 to 200 cavalry troops.
- (military) A large military or semi-military unit trained for combat; any military force; an army, regiment; an armed, organized and assembled militia.
- (military) A combined arms major military unit featuring cavalry, infantry, and artillery, including historical units such as the British Legion, and present-day units such as the Spanish Legion and the French Foreign Legion.
- (often plural) A great number.
- (often Legion or the Legion) A national organization or association of former servicemen, such as the American Legion.
- A large number of people; a multitude.
adj
verb
noun
- a small unit of troops of special composition
- coming apart
- avoiding emotional involvement
- the state of being isolated or detached
- the act of releasing from an attachment or connection
- (uncountable, military) The separation of a military unit from the main body for a particular purpose or special mission.
- (countable, military) The unit so dispatched.
- (uncountable) The action of detaching; separation.
- (countable) Any smaller portion of a main body separately employed.
- (uncountable) Absence of bias; impartiality; objectivity.
- (uncountable) The state of being detached or disconnected; insulation.
- (uncountable) Indifference to the concerns of others; disregard; nonchalance; aloofness.
- (countable, military) A permanent unit organized for special duties.
noun
- A body of forces equipped for war.
- The process of building up military capacity.
- (military, naval) All the cannon and small arms collectively, with their equipments, belonging to a ship or a fortification.
- Any equipment for resistance.
- weaponry used by military or naval force
- the act of equipping with weapons in preparation for war
noun
- The body of troops manning such a post.
- (chess) A square protected by a pawn that is in or near the enemy's stronghold.
- A military post stationed at a distance from the main body of troops.
- An outlying settlement.
- a station in a remote or sparsely populated location
- a settlement on the frontier of civilization
- a military post stationed at a distance from the main body of troops
noun
- a gathering of military personnel for duty
- compulsory military service
- (Australia, New Zealand) A roundup of livestock for inspection, branding, drenching, shearing etc.
- A collection of peafowl. (not a term used in zoology)
- The sum total of an army when assembled for review and inspection; the whole number of effective men in an army.
- An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.
- (military) An assembling or review of troops, as for parade, verification of numbers, inspection, exercise, or introduction into service.
- Synonym of mustee.
verb
- call to duty, military service, jury duty, etc.
- gather or bring together
- (transitive, Australia, New Zealand) To gather or round up livestock.
- (transitive, US) To enroll (into service).
- (intransitive) To be gathered together for parade, inspection, exercise, or the like (especially of a military force); to come together as parts of a force or body.
- (transitive) To look within oneself to summon (a particular positive quality, such as strength, energy or courage); see: muster up.
- (transitive) To collect, call or assemble together, such as troops or a group for inspection, orders, display etc.
noun
- Any large body of troops.
- (military) An army unit having two or more companies, etc. and a headquarters. Traditionally forming part of a regiment.
- (US, military) an army unit having two or more companies, etc. and a headquarters; forming part of a brigade.
- (by extension) A great number of things.
- a large indefinite quantity
- an army unit usually consisting of a headquarters and three or more companies
verb
noun
- A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers.
- a row or line of people (especially soldiers or police) standing abreast of one another
- (taxonomy) A level in a scientific taxonomy system.
- (chess) One of the eight horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a number).
- A hierarchical level in an organization such as the military.
- (algebra) The maximum quantity of D-linearly independent elements of a module (over an integral domain D).
- (card games) The value of a playing card.
- (typically in the plural) A category of people, such as those who share an occupation or belong to an organisation.
- (mathematics) The size of any basis of a given matroid.
- One's position in a list sorted by a shared property such as physical location, population, popularity, or quality.
- (music) In a pipe organ, a set of pipes of a certain quality for which each pipe corresponds to one key or pedal.
- (mathematics) The dimensionality of an array (computing) or tensor.
- (linear algebra) The maximal number of linearly independent columns (or rows) of a matrix.
- The level of one's position in a class-based society.
- the body of members of an organization or group
- relative status
- the ordinary members of an organization (such as the enlisted soldiers of an army)
- position in a social hierarchy
adj
- Having a very strong, bad taste or odor.
- (intensifier, negative) complete, unmitigated, utter.
- complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers
- very offensive in smell or taste
- growing profusely
- conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
- very fertile; producing profuse growth
verb
- (transitive, US) To take the rank of; to outrank.
- (intransitive) To have a ranking.
- (transitive) To assign a suitable place in a class or order; to classify.
- (transitive) To place abreast or in a line.
- take or have a position relative to others
- assign a rank or rating to
- take precedence or surpass others in rank
noun
- A show of military force.
- (mathematics, philosophy) A proof.
- Expression of one's feelings by outward signs.
- An event at which something will be demonstrated.
- A public display of group opinion, such as a protest march.
- The act of demonstrating; showing or explaining something.
- (prison slang) A prisoner's act of beating up another prisoner.
- a public display of group feelings (usually of a political nature)
- a show of military force or preparedness
- proof by a process of argument or a series of proposition proving an asserted conclusion
- a show or display; the act of presenting something to sight or view
- a visual presentation showing how something works
noun
adj
- very unfavorable to life or growth
- impossible to bring into friendly accord
- unsolicited and resisted by the management of the target company (used of attempts to buy or take control of a business)
- characterized by enmity or ill will
- not belonging to your own country's forces or those of an ally
- Aggressive; antagonistic.
- (not comparable) Being or relating to a hostile takeover.
- Not friendly; appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence or a desire to thwart and injure.
- Unwilling.
noun
- A regiment of infantry.
- an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot
- (uncountable) The part of an army consisting of infantry soldiers, especially opposed to mounted and technical troops.
- Soldiers who fight on foot (on land), as opposed to cavalry and other mounted units, regardless of external transport (e.g. airborne).
- (colloquial, humorous) Infants; children.
noun
- an army unit that uses big guns
- a means of persuading or arguing
- large but transportable armament
- (UK, Ireland, slang) One or more guns.
- Gunnery (design and manufacture of guns).
- Large projectile weapons, in modern usage usually large guns, but also rocket artillery.
- An army unit that uses such weapons, or a military formation using projectile weapons, such as archers.
noun
- A detachment of soldiers; soldiers collectively.
- Any apparatus for defence.
- A protective organ, structure, or covering of an animal or plant, for defense or offense, like claws, teeth, thorns, or the shell of a turtle.
- The art of using arms and armour in combat; skill at arms; a mode or manner of armed combat.
- The frame of a pair of glasses.
- The rotating part of an electric motor or dynamo, which mostly consists of coils of wire (the winding) around a metal core.
- The moving part in an electromechanical device like a loudspeaker or a buzzer.
- (computer graphics) A kinematic chain (a system of bones or rigid bodies connected by joints) that is used to pose and deform models, often character models.
- A piece of soft steel or iron that connects the poles of a magnet, to preserve its strength by forming a circuit.
- Armor, such as a suit of armor, weapons and other military equipment.
- (sculpture) A supporting framework in a sculpture.
- coil in which voltage is induced by motion through a magnetic field
verb
noun
- a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack
- a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work
- a vehicle performing sentinel duty
- a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
- a form of military punishment used by the British in the late 17th century in which a soldier was forced to stand on one foot on a pointed stake
- a wooden strip forming part of a fence
- (sometimes figurative) A sentry.
- (military) One of the soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance; or any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.
- (historical) A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.
- A stake driven into the ground.
- (card games, uncountable) The card game piquet.
- A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.
- A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.
verb
- fasten with a picket
- serve as pickets or post pickets
- (intransitive) To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.
- (transitive) To enclose or fortify with pickets or pointed stakes.
- (transitive) To tether to, or as if to, a picket.
- (transitive) To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.
noun
- an army unit large enough to sustain combat
- a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings
- a league ranked by quality
- (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum
- the act or process of dividing
- one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
- an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed
- a group of ships of similar type
- (biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category
- an administrative unit in government or business
- the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart
- discord that splits a group
- (music) A florid instrumental variation of a melody in the 17th and 18th centuries, originally conceived as the dividing of each of a succession of long notes into several short ones.
- (computing) Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code.
- (botany, mycology) A rank below kingdom and above class, particularly used of plants or fungi, also (particularly of animals) called a phylum; a taxon at that rank.
- (government) A method by which a legislature is separated into groups in order to take a better estimate of vote than a voice vote.
- (UK, Eton College) A lesson; a class.
- A usually high-level section of a large company or conglomerate.
- (Australia) A parliamentary constituency.
- (arithmetic, uncountable) The process of dividing a number by another.
- (uncountable) The act or process of dividing anything.
- (law) A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.
- Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
- A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
- (military) A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.
- (music) A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
- (zoology) An optional rank subordinate to the infraclass and superordinate to the legion and cohort; a taxon at that rank.
- (arithmetic) A calculation that involves this process.
noun
adj
- Relating to war.
- Characteristic of members of the armed forces.
- Relating to armies or ground forces.
- (Canada, US) Relating to armed forces such as the army, marines, navy and air force (often as distinguished from civilians or police forces).
- associated with or performed by members of the armed services as contrasted with civilians
- characteristic of or associated with soldiers or the military
- of or relating to the study of the principles of warfare
noun
- (US, military, countable) A platoon-sized group of airborne soldiers.
- (US, sports, chiefly basketball) The prediction that there will be no upsets, and the favored competitor will win.
- Tailor's chalk.
- (US, sports, chiefly basketball, horse racing) The favorite in a sporting event.
- (uncountable) A soft, white, powdery limestone (calcium carbonate, CaCO₃).
- (countable) A piece of chalk, or nowadays processed compressed gypsum (calcium sulfate, CaSO₄), that is used for drawing and for writing on a blackboard (chalkboard).
- (uncountable, climbing, gymnastics) A white powdery substance used to prevent hands slipping from holds when climbing, or losing grip in weight-lifting or gymnastics, sometimes but not always limestone-chalk, often magnesium carbonate (MgCO₃).
- a pure flat white with little reflectance
- a soft whitish calcite
- an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant
- a piece of calcite or a similar substance, usually in the shape of a crayon, that is used to write or draw on blackboards or other flat surfaces
verb
- To record something, as on a blackboard, using chalk.
- (figurative) To record a score or event, as if on a chalkboard.
- To make white, as if with chalk; to make pale; to bleach.
- To use powdered chalk to mark the lines on a playing field.
- To manure (land) with chalk.
- To apply chalk to anything, such as the tip of a billiard cue.
- write, draw, or trace with chalk
noun
- (military) A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.
- A part of a document, especially a major part; often notated with §.
- (surgery, colloquial) Ellipsis of Caesarean section.
- (music) A group of instruments in an orchestra.
- (Philippines, education) A class in a school; a group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher in a certain school year or semester or school quarter year.
- (geology) A sequence of rock layers.
- (topology) A function that generalizes the notion of the graph of a function; formally, a continuous right inverse to the projection map of a fiber bundle.
- A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
- (botany) A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.
- (zoology) An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.
- An act or instance of cutting.
- (sciences) thin section, a thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.
- (generalizing the topology sense in a different way, sheaf theory) An object which is defined by analogy with sections of fiber bundles but in a more general setting (that of sheaves). Formally, an element of the image of an open set under the action of a (pre-)sheaf.
- (New Zealand) A piece of residential land; a plot.
- (aviation) A cross-section perpendicular the longitudinal axis of an aircraft in flight.
- (US, Canada, law and land surveying) Synonym of square mile, a unit of land area, especially in the contexts of Canadian surveys and American land grants and legal property descriptions.
- (surgery) An incision or the act of making an incision.
- A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
- The symbol §, denoting a section of a document.
- A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
- (technology) Angle section, L-section, angle iron, steel angle, slotted angle.
- (archaeology) Archeological section; vertical plane and cross-section of the ground to view its profile and stratigraphy; part of an archeological sequence.
- (generalizing the topology sense, algebra, category theory) A right inverse of a morphism in some category
- one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object
- a division of an orchestra containing all instruments of the same class
- (geometry) the area created by a plane cutting through a solid
- a small team of policemen working as part of a police platoon
- a distinct region or subdivision of a territorial or political area or community or group of people
- a small army unit usually having a special function
- one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
- a segment of a citrus fruit
- a specialized division of a large organization
- a very thin slice (of tissue or mineral or other substance) for examination under a microscope
- a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical)
- a small class of students who are part of a larger course but are taught separately
- the cutting of or into body tissues or organs (especially by a surgeon as part of an operation)
- a land unit equal to 1 square mile
verb
- To cut, divide or separate into pieces.
- To reduce to the degree of thinness required for study with the microscope.
- (medicine) To perform a cesarean section on (someone).
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand) To commit (a person) to a hospital for mental health treatment as an involuntary patient. So called after various sections of legal acts regarding mental health.
- divide into segments
noun
- an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot
- lowest support of a structure
- travel by walking
- the pedal extremity of vertebrates other than human beings
- a member of a surveillance team who works on foot or rides as a passenger
- a support resembling a pedal extremity
- a linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard
- the part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint
- any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates
- the lower part of anything
- (prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm
- (anatomy) Specifically, a human foot, which is found below the ankle and is used for standing and walking.
- (molecular biology) The globular lower domain of a protein.
- (botany) In a bryophyte, that portion of a sporophyte which remains embedded within and attached to the parent gametophyte plant.
- (cigars) The end of a cigar which is lit, and usually cut before lighting.
- (phonology) The parsing of syllables into prosodic constituents, which are used to determine the placement of stress in languages along with the notions of constituent heads.
- (printing) The bottommost part of a typed or printed page.
- Recognized condition; rank; footing.
- (geometry) The point of intersection of one line with another that is perpendicular to it.
- (sewing) The part of a sewing machine which presses downward on the fabric, and may also serve to move it forward.
- The end of a rectangular table opposite the head.
- (informal) Ellipsis of cubic foot, a unit of volume.
- (nautical) The bottom edge of a sail.
- Fundamental principle; basis; plan.
- (informal) Ellipsis of square foot, a unit of area.
- (billiards) The end of a billiard or pool table behind the foot point where the balls are racked.
- (malacology) The muscular part of a bivalve mollusc or a gastropod by which it moves or holds its position on a surface.
- A biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg.
- (prosody) The basic measure of rhythm in a poem.
- (collective, military) Foot soldiers; infantry.
- The base or bottom of anything.
- A short foot-like projection on the bottom of an object to support it.
- (printing) The base of a piece of type, forming the sides of the groove.
- The part of a flat surface on which the feet customarily rest.
- (music) A unit of measure for organ pipes equal to the wavelength of two octaves above middle C, approximately 328 mm.
- (often used attributively) Travel by walking.
- A unit of measure equal to twelve inches or one third of a yard, equal to exactly 30.48 centimetres.
verb
- pay for something
- walk
- add a column of numbers
- To walk.
- (transitive) To use the foot to kick (usually a ball).
- To renew the foot of (a stocking, etc.).
- To sum up, as the numbers in a column; sometimes with up.
- To tread to measure of music; to dance; to trip; to skip.
- (transitive) To pay (a bill).
- (Ireland, transitive) To spread out and stack up (turf sods) to allow them to dry.
noun
verb
- To raise; to collect; said of troops, to form into an army by enrollment, conscription. etc.
- To raise, as a siege.
- To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority.
- To draft someone into military service.
- (transitive) To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property.
- (law) To erect, build, or set up; to make or construct; to raise or cast up.
- To wage war.
- impose and collect
- cause to assemble or enlist in military
noun
- the leading units moving at the head of an army
- any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts)
- a camper equipped with living quarters
- (Great Britain) a closed railroad car that carries baggage or freight
- a truck with an enclosed cargo space
- (aerospace) A large towable vehicle equipped for the repair of structures that cannot easily be moved.
- (mining) A shovel used in cleansing ore.
- (British) An enclosed railway vehicle for transport of goods, such as a boxcar/box van.
- Clipping of vanguard.
- A wing with which the air is beaten.
- A fan or other contrivance, such as a sieve, for winnowing grain.
- A covered motor vehicle used to carry goods or (normally less than ten) persons, usually roughly cuboid in shape, Depending on the type of van, it can be bigger or smaller than a pickup truck and SUV, and longer and higher than a car but relatively smaller than a truck/lorry or a bus.
verb
noun
- the leading units moving at the head of an army
- any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts)
- the position of greatest importance or advancement; the leading position in any movement or field
- (military) The leading units at the front of an army or fleet.
- (by extension) The person(s) at the forefront of any group or movement.
noun
- army
- aqua
- annus (a year)
- acre; acres
- application
- adjutant
- air
- associate; association
- age; aged
- ambassador
- academy; academician
- automobile
- answer
- Americanization
- air branch
- accumulator
- artillery
- adult
- artificer
- aircraft; airplane
- apprentice
- atomic weight
- amplitude
- absolute temperature
- article
- acid
- alto
- anode
- attack
- amphibian
- administration
- ana; anna
- admiral
- (military) assault, as on a badge
- alfa
- airman
- address
- Angstrom
- accusative case
- accommodation
- amateur
- absorbance; absorbancy
- arctic
- author
adj
adv
name
prep
verb
noun
- a military unit consisting of armored fighting vehicles
- tough more-or-less rigid protective covering of an animal or plant
- protective covering made of metal and used in combat
- (military, uncountable) A military formation consisting primarily of tanks or other armoured fighting vehicles, collectively.
- (uncountable) A natural form of this kind of protection on an animal's body.
- (uncountable) A protective layer over a body, vehicle, or other object intended to deflect or diffuse damaging forces.
- (countable) A tank, or other heavy mobile assault vehicle.
- (hydrology, uncountable) The naturally occurring surface of pebbles, rocks or boulders that line the bed of a waterway or beach and provide protection against erosion.
- (uncountable) A metal plate, protecting a ship, military vehicle, or aircraft.
verb
noun
- A sortie of troops from a besieged place against an enemy.
- (slang, drugs, Canada, US) The crystalline or powdered form of MDA.
- (New Zealand, slang) A member of the Salvation Army.
- A kind of stonefly.
- A wren.
- A willow.
- An object made from the wood of a willow.
- Any tree that resembles a willow.
- A tufted woollen part of a bellrope, used to provide grip when ringing a bell.
- An excursion or side trip.
- A sudden rushing forth.
- (figuratively) A witty statement or quip, usually at the expense of one's interlocutor.
- a military action in which besieged troops burst forth from their position
- a venture off the beaten path
- witty remark
verb
noun
- small military unit; usually two or three platoons
- a unit of firefighters including their equipment
- the state of being with someone
- a social gathering of guests or companions
- a band of people associated temporarily in some activity
- a social or business visitor
- an institution created to conduct business
- organization of performers and associated personnel (especially theatrical)
- crew of a ship including the officers; the whole force or personnel of a ship
- (law) An entity having legal personality, and thus able to own property and to sue and be sued in its own name; a corporation.
- A unit of firefighters and their equipment.
- (business) Any business, whether incorporated or not, that manufactures or sells products (also known as goods), or provides services as a commercial venture.
- (espionage, informal) An intelligence service.
- (uncountable) Companionship.
- (A group of) adversaries, enemies, or rivals; unwanted company.
- A small group of birds or animals.
- A group of individuals who work together for a common purpose.
- (military) A unit of approximately sixty to one hundred and twenty soldiers, typically consisting of two or three platoons and forming part of a battalion.
- (uncountable) Social visitors or companions.
- (nautical) The entire crew of a ship.
verb
noun
- bringing together military forces
- complete attention; intense mental effort
- the spatial property of being crowded together
- increase in density
- great and constant diligence and attention
- strengthening the concentration (as of a solute in a mixture) by removing diluting material
- the strength of a solution; number of molecules of a substance in a given volume
- The direction of attention to a specific object.
- (physical chemistry) The amount of solute in a solution measured in suitable units (e.g., parts per million (ppm))
- The matching game pelmanism.
- The act, process or product of reducing the volume of a liquid, as by evaporation.
- The act or process of removing the dress of ore and of reducing the valuable part to smaller compass, as by currents of air or water.
- A field or course of study on which one focuses, especially as a student in a college or university.
- The act, process or ability of concentrating; the process of becoming concentrated, or the state of being concentrated.
- The proportion of a substance in a whole.
noun
- military installation at which a body of troops is stationed
- any particular collection of letters or packages that is delivered
- a pole or stake set up to mark something (as the start or end of a race track)
- an upright consisting of a piece of timber or metal fixed firmly in an upright position
- A message on a social media website
- the position where someone (as a guard or sentry) stands or is assigned to stand
- the system whereby messages are transmitted via the post office
- the delivery and collection of letters and packages
- a job in an organization
- (film, informal) Post-production.
- (American football) A moderate to deep passing route in which a receiver runs 10-20 yards from the line of scrimmage straight down the field, then cuts toward the middle of the field (towards the facing goalposts) at a 45-degree angle.
- (vocal music, chiefly a cappella) A prolonged final melody note, among moving harmony notes.
- A military base; the place at which a soldier or a body of troops is stationed; also, the troops at such a station.
- An assigned station; a guard post.
- The vertical part of a crochet stitch.
- (sports) A goalpost.
- A location on a basketball court near the basket.
- (paper, printing) A printing paper size measuring 19.25 inches x 15.5 inches.
- (now historical) Someone who travels express along a set route carrying letters and dispatches; a courier.
- (dentistry) A long, narrow piece inserted into a root canal to provide retention for a crown.
- (construction) A stud; a two-by-four.
- A single delivery of letters; the letters or deliveries that make up a single batch delivered to one person or one address.
- An organisation for delivering letters, parcels etc., or the service provided by such an organisation.
- An appointed position in an organization, job.
- A message posted in an electronic or Internet forum, or on a blog, etc.
- A pole in a battery.
- A long dowel or plank protruding from the ground; a fencepost; a lightpost.
- (medicine, informal) A post mortem (an investigation of a body's cause of death).
verb
- transfer (entries) from one account book to another
- place so as to be noticed
- cause to be directed or transmitted to another place
- To post a message on a social media website
- ride Western style and bob up and down in the saddle in rhythm with a horse's trotting gait
- affix in a public place or for public notice
- enter on a public list
- assign to a post; put into a post
- publicize with, or as if with, a poster
- assign to a station
- mark or expose as infamous
- mark with a stake
- display, as of records in sports games
- To assign to a station; to set; to place.
- (Internet) To publish (a message) to a newsgroup, forum, blog, etc.
- To travel quickly; to hurry.
- (law) To pay bail.
- To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation.
- To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, etc.
- (gambling) To pay (a stake or blind).
- (transitive) To hang (a notice) in a conspicuous manner for general review.
- (UK, Ireland, India, Australia, New Zealand) To send (an item of mail etc.) through the postal service.
- (transitive, by extension) To announce publicly; to publish.
- (horse-riding) To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, especially in trotting.
- To travel with relays of horses; to travel by post horses, originally as a courier.
- (accounting) To carry (an account) from the journal to the ledger.
- To inform; to give the news to; to make acquainted with the details of a subject; often with up.
adv
prep
noun
- A body of troops or army vehicles, usually strung out along a road.
- (architecture) A solid upright structure designed usually to support a larger structure above it, such as a roof or horizontal beam, but sometimes for decoration.
- A vertical line of entries in a table, usually read from top to bottom.
- (by extension) A recurring feature in a periodical, especially an opinion piece, especially by a single author or small rotating group of authors, or on a single theme.
- (botany) The gynostemium
- A body of text meant to be read line by line, especially in printed material that has multiple adjacent such on a single page.
- Something having similar vertical form or structure to the things mentioned above, such as a spinal column.
- (chemistry) An instrument used to separate the different components of a liquid or to purify chemical compounds.
- A unit of width, especially of advertisements, in a periodical, equivalent to the width of a usual column of text.
- an article giving opinions or perspectives
- a vertical array of numbers or other information
- anything that approximates the shape of a column or tower
- a page or text that is vertically divided
- a vertical cylindrical structure standing alone and not supporting anything (such as a monument)
- a vertical glass tube used in column chromatography; a mixture is poured in the top and washed through a stationary substance where components of the mixture are adsorbed selectively to form colored bands
- (architecture) a tall vertical cylindrical structure standing upright and used to support a structure
- a line of units following one after another
- any tubular or pillar-like supporting structure in the body
noun
- the back of a military formation or procession
- the part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer
- the side of an object that is opposite its front
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- the side that goes last or is not normally seen
- (military) Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest.
- The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last in order.
- (anatomy) The buttocks or bottom.
adj
verb
- cause to rise up
- stand up on the hind legs, of quadrupeds
- rise up
- construct, build, or erect
- look after a child until it is an adult
- (transitive) To move; stir.
- (transitive, vulgar, British) To sodomize (perform anal sex)
- (intransitive) To rise up on the hind legs.
- (transitive, said of people towards animals) To breed and raise.
- (intransitive, usually with "up") To get angry.
- (transitive, literary) To raise physically or metaphorically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate.
- (transitive, rare) To construct by building; to set up
- To place in the rear; to secure the rear of.
- (intransitive) To rise high above, tower above.
- (transitive, of geese) To carve.
- (transitive) To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster.
- (transitive, rare) To raise spiritually; to lift up; to elevate morally.
adv
noun
- (military) A small detachment of soldiers.
- A column of people one behind another, whether "single file" or in a grid pattern.
- A roll or list.
- A tool consisting of a strip or rod of hardened and coarse metal, used for removing sharp edges, shaping, and cutting, especially through metal; usually a hand tool.
- A collection of papers collated and archived together.
- (computing) An aggregation of data on a storage device, identified by a name.
- A course of thought; a thread of narration.
- (chess) One of the eight vertical lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a letter).
- (Canada, US) Clipping of file cabinet.
- A row of modular kitchen units and a countertop, consisting of cabinets and appliances below (dishwasher) and next to (stove/cooker) a countertop.
- a line of persons or things ranged one behind the other
- a steel hand tool with small sharp teeth on some or all of its surfaces; used for smoothing wood or metal
- a set of related records (either written or electronic) kept together
- office furniture consisting of a container for keeping papers in order
verb
- (transitive) To commit (official papers) to some office.
- (transitive) To smooth, grind, or cut with a file.
- (transitive) To place in an archive in a logical place and order.
- (transitive) To store a file (aggregation of data) on a storage medium such as a disc or another computer.
- (intransitive) To move in a file.
- To corrupt.
- (transitive) (of a journalist) To submit (an article) to a newspaper or similar publication.
- (intransitive, with for, chiefly law) To submit a formal request to some office.
- proceed in line
- smooth with a file
- place in a container for keeping records
- record in a public office or in a court of law
- file a formal charge against
noun
adj
noun
- a unit that is part of some military service
- Any large, organized group involved in a military engagement.
- a group of people having the power of effective action
- physical energy or intensity
- group of people willing to obey orders
- one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority
- (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity
- a powerful effect or influence
- a putout of a base runner who is required to run; the putout is accomplished by holding the ball while touching the base to which the runner must advance before the runner reaches that base
- (of a law) having legal validity
- an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists)
- (mass noun, possibly proscribed) Force understood as something of which there can be an amount.
- (usually with "the", in the singular or plural) Synonym of police force.
- (linguistics, semantics, pragmatics) Ability of an utterance or its element (word, form, prosody, ...) to effect a given meaning.
- (law, uncountable) The state of having legal weight, of being legally valid,.
- (financial mathematics, actuarial science) The annualized instantaneous rate of change at a particular timepoint.
- (countable, Northern England) A waterfall or cascade.
- Something or anything that has the power to produce a physical effect upon something else, such as causing it to move or change shape.
- Ability to influence; strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect.
- (in the singular or plural) Military personnel, collectively, including any vehicles, ships, or aircraft. More broadly, the military or police altogether.
- (countable) A magic trick in which the outcome is known to the magician beforehand, especially one involving the apparent free choice of a card by another person.
- (countable) An instance of a physical force.
- (humorous or science fiction, with the, often capitalized) A metaphysical and ubiquitous power from the fictional Star Wars universe created by George Lucas. See usage note.
- (countable) A particular form or type of force.
- (countable) Something that exerts influence.
- (countable) Anything that is able to make a substantial change in a person or thing.
- (when in reference to that which it affects) Something that, over time, influences a system with which it interacts (with a connotation of underlyingness, subtlety, or indirectness).
- (uncountable) The generalized abstraction of this concept.
- (law) Either unlawful violence, as in a "forced entry", or lawful compulsion.
- (countable) A group organized for the goal of attacking, controlling, or constraining, especially one with a set command structure (in particular, a military or police group).
- (uncountable) Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.
verb
- force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically
- to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means
- impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably
- take by force
- do forcibly; exert force
- move with force
- urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate
- squeeze like a wedge into a tight space
- (transitive, baseball) To create an out by touching a base in advance of a runner who has no base to return to while in possession of a ball which has already touched the ground.
- (transitive) To drive (something) by force, to propel (generally + prepositional phrase or adverb).
- (transitive) To forcibly open (a door, lock etc.).
- (transitive) To make someone or something do something, often regardless of their will.
- To stuff; to lard; to farce.
- (whist) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit that he/she does not hold.
- To grow (rhubarb) in the dark, causing it to grow early.
- To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress.
- (transitive) To constrain by force; to overcome the limitations or resistance of.
- (transitive) To cause to occur (despite inertia, resistance etc.); to produce through force.
- (transitive) To violate (a woman); to rape.
noun
- (military) A body of soldiers drawn up in a circle, as for defence, especially infantry to repel cavalry.
- (poetic) The eye, seen as a luminous and spherical entity
- A globus cruciger; a ceremonial sphere used to represent royal or imperial power
- An orbit of an heavenly body
- (rare) A sphere of action.
- (rare) The time period of an orbit
- (architecture) A blank window or panel.
- A spherical body; a sphere, especially one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star
- (astrology, uncountable) Amount of deviation from the closest perfect aspect.
- (architecture) A structural motif or finial in the shape of a sphere
- Celestial sphere; one of the azure transparent spheres conceived by the ancients to be enclosed one within another, and to carry the heavenly bodies in their revolutions
- A translucent sphere appearing in flash photography (Orb (optics))
- (poetic) Any revolving circular body, such as a wheel
- an object with a spherical shape
- the ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye
verb
noun
- the line along which warring troops meet
- (military) The notional line on either side of which opposing forces are arrayed, and at which they meet in battle; a fortified line, short of the line where battle is expected, and behind which forces are arrayed; a forward line of infantry or other force, prepared for battle.
- (figuratively, usually in the plural) Any of those parts of a contest which, as a result of strategic decisions on both sides, are most closely fought and will likely determine the contest's course and outcome.
- (military, navy) A line of battle.
noun
- The leading military unit in an attack.
- the leading military unit in an attack
- One who leads or initiates an activity (such as an attack or a campaign).
- (sports) A player who initiates attacking moves.
- The pointed head, or end, of a spear.
- someone who leads or initiates an activity (attack or campaign etc.)
- the head and sharpened point of a spear
verb
noun
- A camp where troops are assembled, prior to combat or transport.
- A camp where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners, prisoners of war, refugees etc., are detained for the purpose of confining them in one place, typically with inadequate or inhumane facilities.
- (figuratively) A situation of overcrowding and extremely harsh conditions.
- a situation characterized by crowding and extremely harsh conditions
- a penal camp where political prisoners or prisoners of war are confined (usually under harsh conditions)
verb
- hold a review (of troops)
- examine so as to determine accuracy, quality, or condition
- happen in a particular manner
- fall forward and down
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To create a response or impression.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, over.
- (rugby) To score a try.
- (transitive) To encompass or cover (a subject).
- (graffiti) To spray paint graffiti over someone else's graffiti.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To look at carefully; to scrutinize; to analyze.
- (intransitive, by extension) To convert or switch sides.
verb
- hold a review (of troops)
- look at again; examine again
- look back upon (a period of time, sequence of events); remember
- appraise critically
- refresh one's memory
- 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.
noun
- (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
- (law) A judicial reassessment of a case or an event.
- A survey of the available items or material.
- (sciences) A review article.
- A stage show made up of topical sketches etc.
- A 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.
verb
- hold a review (of troops)
- keep under surveillance
- plot a map of (land)
- consider in a comprehensive way
- look over carefully or inspect
- make a survey of; for statistical purposes
- To view with a scrutinizing eye; to examine.
- To determine the form, extent, position, etc., of, as a tract of land, a coast, harbor, or the like, by means of linear and angular measurements, and the application of the principles of geometry and trigonometry
- To investigate the opinions, experiences, etc., of people by asking them questions; to conduct a survey; to administer a questionnaire.
- To inspect, or take a view of; to view with attention, as from a high place; to overlook
- To examine and ascertain, as the boundaries and royalties of a manor, the tenure of the tenants, and the rent and value of the same.
- To examine with reference to condition, situation, value, etc.; to examine and ascertain the state of
noun
- short descriptive summary (of events)
- the act of looking or seeing or observing
- a detailed critical inspection
- The operation of finding the contour, dimensions, position, or other particulars of any part of the Earth's surface.
- A measured plan and description of any portion of country.
- A particular view; an examination, especially an official examination, of a particular group of items, in order to ascertain the condition, quantity, or quality.
- (US) A district for the collection of customs under a particular officer.
- A questionnaire or similar instrument used for examining the opinions of a group of people.
- The act of surveying; a general view.
- (historical) An auction at which a farm is let for a lease for lives.
- An examination of the opinions of a group of people.