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verb
- enclose with a sheath
- plunge or bury (a knife or sword) in flesh
- cover with a protective sheathing
- (transitive) Of an animal: to draw back or retract (a body part) into the body, such as claws into a paw.
- (transitive) To put (something such as a knife or sword) into a sheath.
- (transitive) To encase (something) with a protective covering.
noun
- a restraint put around something to hold it together
- A strip of material wrapped around things to hold them together.
- a strip of material attached to the leg of a bird to identify it (as in studies of bird migration)
- an unofficial association of people or groups
- instrumentalists not including string players
- a group of musicians playing popular music for dancing
- a cord-like tissue connecting two larger parts of an anatomical structure
- a stripe or stripes of contrasting color
- an adornment consisting of a strip of a contrasting color or material
- a thin flat strip of flexible material that is worn around the body or one of the limbs (especially to decorate the body)
- a thin flat strip or loop of flexible material that goes around or over something else, typically to hold it together or as a decoration
- jewelry consisting of a circlet of precious metal (often set with jewels) worn on the finger
- a driving belt in machinery
- a range of frequencies between two limits
- (telecommunications) A designated range of radio frequencies used for wireless communication.
- A continuous tablet, stripe, or series of ornaments, as of carved foliage, of colour, or of brickwork.
- (sciences) Any distinguishing line formed by chromatography, electrophoresis etc
- A narrow strip of cloth or other material on clothing, to bind, strengthen, or ornament it.
- (Canada) Ellipsis of band government.
- A linen collar or ruff worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- (in the plural) Two strips of linen hanging from the neck in front as part of a clerical, legal, or academic dress.
- (physics) A group of energy levels in a solid state material.
- A type of orchestra originally playing janissary music; an instance of this type.
- (slang, hiphop, often in the plural) A wad of money totaling $1K, held together by a band; (by extension) $1000, a grand; (by extension) money
- A group of musicians who perform together as an ensemble; sometimes, such a group working for a professional recording artist.
- A long strip of material, color, etc, that is different from the surrounding area.
- (physics) A part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
- (medicine) Ellipsis of band cell.
- That which serves as the means of union or connection between persons; a tie.
- Ellipsis of marching band.
- A strip along the spine of a book where the pages are attached.
- (anthropology) A small group of people living in a simple society, contrasted with tribes, chiefdoms, and nations.
- (especially US) A ring, such as a wedding ring (wedding band), or a ring put on a bird's leg to identify it.
- In Gothic architecture, the moulding, or suite of mouldings, which encircles the pillars and small shafts.
- A group of people loosely united for a common purpose, such as a band of thieves.
- A belt or strap that is part of a machine.
verb
- attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify
- bind or tie together, as with a band
- (transitive) To fasten with a band.
- (transitive, ornithology) To fasten an identifying band around the leg of (a bird).
- (transitive, education) To group (students) together by perceived ability; to stream.
- (intransitive) To group together for a common purpose; to confederate.
noun
- pulley blocks with associated rope or cable
- A system in which a rope, cable, or chain (the tackle) is passed over pulleys enclosed in two (or rarely more) blocks, one fixed and one attached to a load, which is used to gain mechanical advantage to lift or pull heavy loads.
- (euphemistic) The underwear combination of stockings worn with a suspender belt.
verb
- enclose with rails
- complain bitterly
- spread negative information about
- lay with rails
- provide with rails
- criticize severely
- convey (goods etc.) by rails
- travel by rail or train
- fish with a handline over the rails of a boat
- separate with a railing
- (transitive, rail transport, of rolling stock) To place on a track.
- To complain violently (against, about).
- (transitive, slang, drugs) To snort a line of powdered drugs.
- (transitive) To enclose with rails or a railing.
- (intransitive) To travel by railway.
- (transitive, vulgar, slang) To sexually penetrate in a rough manner.
- (transitive) To range in a line.
noun
- any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud
- a horizontal bar (usually of wood or metal)
- short for railway
- a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports
- a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll
- Any of several birds in the family Rallidae.
- A horizontal bar extending between supports and used for support or as a barrier; a railing.
- The metal bar forming part of the track for a railroad.
- (drugs) A large line (portion or serving of a powdery illegal drug).
- A horizontal piece of wood that serves to separate sections of a door or window.
- A railroad; a railway, as a means of transportation.
- (electronics) A conductor maintained at a fixed electrical potential relative to ground, to which other circuit components are connected.
- (surfing) One of the lengthwise edges of a surfboard.
- (backgammon) The raised edge of the game board.
- (Internet) A vertical section on one side of a web page.
- Each of two vertical side bars supporting the rungs of a ladder.
noun
- An assembly of two or more cable-laid ropes.
- (television) Ellipsis of cable television, broadcast over the above network, not by antenna.
- (nautical) A unit of length equal to one tenth of a nautical mile.
- (nautical) A strong rope or chain used to moor or anchor a ship.
- A strong, large-diameter wire or rope, or something resembling such a rope.
- (finance) The currency pair British Pound against United States Dollar.
- (architecture) A moulding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to resemble the spiral twist of a rope.
- (unit, chiefly nautical) 100 fathoms, 600 imperial feet, approximately 185 m.
- (communication) A system for transmitting television or Internet services over a network of coaxial or fibreoptic cables.
- A telegram, notably when sent by (submarine) telegraph cable.
- (knitting) A textural pattern achieved by passing groups of stitches over one another.
- An assembly of two or more wires, used for electrical power or data circuits; one or more and/or the whole may be insulated.
- a television system that transmits over cables
- a very strong thick rope made of twisted hemp or steel wire
- a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power
- television that is transmitted over cable directly to the receiver
- a nautical unit of depth
- a telegram sent abroad
verb
- (transitive) To wrap (wires) to form a cable.
- (intransitive, knitting) To create cable stitches.
- (intransitive) To communicate by cable.
- (transitive) To send (a telegram, news, etc.) by cable.
- (transitive) To fasten (something) (as if) with cable(s).
- (transitive, architecture) To ornament (something) with cabling.
- (transitive) To provide (something) with cable(s).
- fasten with a cable
- send cables, wires, or telegrams
verb
- To attach a limber.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To prepare; to make oneself ready.
- (transitive) To make (someone or something) more limber or flexible.
- (intransitive) To stretch one's muscles to make them more limber, usually as a preparation for physical exercise.
- make one's body limber or suppler by stretching, as if to prepare for strenuous physical activity
- attach the limber
verb
noun
- a framework that supports climbing plants
- (literary) A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat.
- Either of the two highest trumps in the card games euchre and five hundred (where the joker is omitted).
- A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods.
- One who plays any of several bow instruments, such as the musical bow or diddley bow.
- A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle.
- (falconry) A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.
- A peasant; a farmer.
- (ornithology) A large structure made of grass, twigs, etc., and decorated with bright objects, used by male bower birds during courtship displays.
- A muscle that bends a limb, especially the arm.
- One who bows or bends.
- (nautical) A type of ship's anchor, carried at the bow.
verb
- To hedge, cover, make, or enclose with hurdles.
- (T-flapping) Misspelling of hurtle.
- To jump over something while running.
- To overcome an obstacle.
- (chess, of a hopper piece) To jump over another piece without capturing it.
- To compete in the track and field events of hurdles (e.g. high hurdles).
- jump a hurdle
noun
- (T-flapping) Misspelling of hurtle.
- (figuratively) An obstacle, real or perceived, physical or abstract.
- (UK, historical) A sled or crate on which criminals were drawn to the place of execution.
- (athletics, equestrianism) An artificial barrier, variously constructed, over which athletes or horses jump in a race.
- (chess) A piece that is jumped over by a hopper piece.
- A movable frame of wattled twigs, osiers, or withes and stakes, or sometimes of iron, used for enclosing land, for folding sheep and cattle, for gates, etc.; also, in fortification, used as revetments, and for other purposes.
- a light movable barrier that competitors must leap over in certain races
- an obstacle that you are expected to overcome
- the act of jumping over an obstacle
verb
- fasten with tacks
- sew together loosely, with large stitches
- turn into the wind
- create by putting components or members together
- fix to; attach
- reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
- (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
- (nautical) To maneuver a sailing vessel so that its bow turns through the wind, i.e. the wind changes from one side of the vessel to the other.
- To sew/stitch with a tack (loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth).
- (transitive) To nail (something) with a tack (small nail with a flat head).
- To add something as an extra item.
- To weld with initial small welds to temporarily fasten in preparation for full welding.
- Synonym of tack up (“to prepare a horse for riding by equipping it with a tack”).
noun
- a short nail with a sharp point and a large head
- gear for a horse
- sailing a zigzag course
- (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind
- (nautical) the act of changing tack
- the heading or position of a vessel relative to the trim of its sails
- (nautical) The lower corner on the leading edge of a sail relative to the direction of the wind.
- A thumbtack.
- (nautical) A rope used to hold in place the foremost lower corners of the courses when the vessel is close-hauled; also, a rope employed to pull the lower corner of a studding sail to the boom.
- (law, Scotland and Northern England) A contract by which the use of a thing is set, or let, for hire; a lease.
- (nautical) The maneuver by which a sailing vessel turns its bow through the wind so that the wind changes from one side to the other.
- (nautical) A course or heading that enables a sailing vessel to head upwind.
- That which is attached; a supplement; an appendix.
- (figurative) A direction or course of action, especially a new one; a method or approach to solving a problem.
- A small nail with a flat head.
- A stain; a tache.
- (sewing) A loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth.
- Food generally; fare, especially of the hard bread or breadlike kind.
- (manufacturing, construction, chemistry) The stickiness of a compound, related to its cohesive and adhesive properties.
- (nautical) The distance a sailing vessel runs between these maneuvers when working to windward; a board.
- Any of the various equipment and accessories worn by horses in the course of their use as domesticated animals.
- (colloquial) That which is tacky; something cheap and gaudy.
verb
- furnish with staves
- burst or force (a hole) into something
- (transitive, usually with 'in') To break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst.
- To suffer, or cause to be lost by breaking the cask.
- (transitive) To fit or furnish with staves or rundles.
- (transitive, with 'off') To push, or keep off, as with a staff.
- To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron.
- (transitive, usually with 'off') To delay by force or craft; to drive away.
noun
- (music) the system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written
- a crosspiece between the legs of a chair
- one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket
- A staff or walking stick.
- (poetry, rare) The initial consonant, consonant cluster, or vowel of a word which rhymes with another word with the same consonant or vowel in stave-rhyme.
- (poetry) A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.
- One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; especially, one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, barrel, pail, etc.
- One of the bars or rounds of a rack, rungs of a ladder, etc; one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel
- A sign, symbol or sigil, including rune or rune-like characters, used in Icelandic magic.
- (music) The set of five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
noun
verb
noun
- usually coiled
- a wispy white cloud (usually of fine ice crystals) at a high altitude (4 to 8 miles)
- a slender flexible animal appendage as on barnacles or crinoids or many insects; often tactile
- (zoology) A thin tendril-like appendage.
- (meteorology) A principal high-level cloud type, typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments, wisps, or narrow bands.
- (botany) A tendril.
verb
- To secure with rope, string, etc.
- (finance) To immobilize a capital: make a capital investment that makes that capital unavailable.
- (idiomatic) To occupy, detain, keep busy, or delay.
- (idiomatic) To complete, finish, or resolve.
- finish the last row
- invest so as to make unavailable for other purposes
- secure with or as if with ropes
- restrain from moving or operating normally
- secure in or as if in a berth or dock
noun
- The substance lining the bottom edge of an enclosure.
- (biology) A surface on which an organism grows, or to which an organism or an item is attached.
- (plating) A metal which is plated with another metal which has different physical properties.
- (linguistics) A language that is replaced in a population by another language and that influences the language imposed on its speakers.
- (construction) A surface to which a substance adheres.
- (biochemistry) A substance acted upon, as by an enzyme.
- An underlying layer; a substratum.
- the substance that is acted upon by an enzyme or ferment
- a surface on which an organism grows or is attached
- any stratum or layer lying underneath another
- an indigenous language that contributes features to the language of an invading people who impose their language on the indigenous population
adj
verb
noun
- a small nail
- A binary radian.
- (US, elementary school usage) A paper fastener, a fastening device formed of thin, soft metal, such as shim brass, with a round head and a flat, split shank, which is spread after insertion in a hole in a stack of pages, in much the same way as a cotter pin or a split rivet.
- A thin, small nail, with a slight projection at the top on one side instead of a head, or occasionally with a small domed head, similar to that of an escutcheon pin.
noun
- Material used to line the bottom of something.
- (technical, historical) The contouring of the wooden seat of a chair.
- The act of something that bottoms; the point at which something bottoms (in various senses).
- (UK, colloquial) The act of thoroughly cleaning something.
- (dyeing) A substance used to prepare a material for dyeing.
- Residue left at the bottom of something.
- A foundation (literal and figurative senses).
verb
noun
- (masonry) An attachment in the middle of a long guide line to keep it from sagging.
- A prickling or mildly stinging sensation; frisson.
- A patch that covers a hole in something that needs to be watertight, such as a roof or a boat.
- A nail of the very smallest size; a tack.
- A tingling sound; a chime or tinkle.
- an almost pleasurable sensation of fright
- a somatic sensation as from many tiny stings
verb
- (transitive) To fasten with a tingle; to tack.
- (intransitive) To feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.
- (intransitive) To ring; to tinkle or twang.
- (transitive) To cause to feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.
- (masonry, transitive) To secure the middle of a guide line by means of a tingle.
- (transitive) To patch with a tingle; to cover a hole in something that requires it to be watertight.
- (transitive) To cause to ring, to tinkle.
- cause a stinging or tingling sensation
noun
- A device used to bind or tighten chain.
- (US, mainly 1920–1930) A transient worker who would move from boom town to boom town in search of temporary work.
- (by extension, slang, sometimes derogatory) An elderly person, regardless of generation.
- A sewellel (Aplodontia rufa).
- A techno-optimist, in particular concerning artificial intelligence.
- (US, nautical, military, slang) A nuclear ballistic missile submarine, SSBN.
- (informal) A baby boomer.
- An adult male kangaroo.
- (by extension, slang, sometimes derogatory) A person who is too old to be familiar with the use of recent technology.
- (UK) A Eurasian bittern (subfamily Botaurinae spp.).
- (US, historical) Alternative letter-case form of Boomer (“Oklahoma settler”).
- (Appalachia) A red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus).
- Something that makes a booming sound.
- (realtime strategy games) A player who prioritises economic development and securing resources (and therefore future production) over offence or defence.
- a member of the baby boom generation in the 1950s
noun
- (mining) A safety link or detaching hook above the cage attached to the winding rope to prevent the cage from being overwound.
- (sports) A type of stretch in which one sits on the ground with the legs folded into a shape like that of a butterfly's wings, slightly rocking them up and down, resembling the wings fluttering.
- A person who changes partners frequently.
- (swimming) The butterfly stroke.
- (medicine, attributive) A use of surgical tape, cut into thin strips and placed across an open wound to hold it closed.
- (finance) A combination of four options of the same type at three strike prices giving limited profit and limited risk.
- A flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from moths by their diurnal activity and generally brighter colouring.
- Any of several plane curves that look like a butterfly; see Butterfly curve (transcendental) and Butterfly curve (algebraic).
- (in the plural) Ellipsis of butterflies in one’s stomach (“A sensation of excited anxiety felt in the stomach”).
- (Philippines, Philippine politics, often derogatory) party switcher; turncoat.
- (alternate history) A random change in an aspect of the timeline seemingly unrelated to the primary point of divergence, resulting from the butterfly effect.
- diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings
- a swimming stroke in which the arms are thrown forward together out of the water while the feet kick up and down
verb
- (transitive) To cut (food) almost entirely in half and spread the halves apart, in a shape suggesting the wings of a butterfly.
- (transitive, of the point of divergence of an alternate history scenario) To cause events after the point of divergence to not happen as they did in real history, and people conceived after the point of divergence to not exist in recognizable form, due to the random variations introduced by the butterfly effect.
- (transitive) To cut strips of surgical tape or plasters into thin strips, and place across (a gaping wound) to close it.
- cut and spread open, as in preparation for cooking
- flutter like a butterfly
- talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions
verb
- fasten or secure with chains
- connect or arrange into a chain by linking
- (computing) To be chained to another data item.
- (transitive, computing, rare, associated with Acorn Computers) To load and automatically run (a program).
- (intransitive) To link multiple items together.
- (figurative) To connect as if with a chain, due to dependence, addiction, or other feelings
- (computing) To relate data items with a chain of pointers.
- (transitive) To measure a distance using a 66-foot long chain, as in land surveying.
- (figurative) To obligate.
- (transitive) To secure someone with fetters.
- (transitive) To fasten something with a chain.
- (transitive) To obstruct the mouth of a river etc with a chain.
noun
- a unit of length
- a series of things depending on each other as if linked together
- (chemistry) a series of linked atoms (generally in an organic molecule)
- anything that acts as a restraint
- a series of (usually metal) rings or links fitted into one another to make a flexible ligament
- a necklace made by stringing objects together
- a linked or connected series of objects
- (business) a number of similar establishments (stores or restaurants or banks or hotels or theaters) under one ownership
- a series of hills or mountains
- A livery collar, a chain of office.
- (algebraic topology, homological algebra, more generally) An element of a group (or module) in a chain complex.
- A unit of length, exactly equal to 22 yards, which is 4 rods or 100 links, and approximately equal to 20.12 metres; the length of a Gunter's surveying chain; the length of a cricket pitch.
- That which confines, fetters, or secures; a bond.
- A series of stores or businesses with the same brand name.
- A series of interconnected things.
- (weaving) The warp threads of a web.
- (British) A sequence of linked house purchases, each of which is dependent on the preceding and succeeding purchase (said to be "broken" if a buyer or seller pulls out).
- (surveying) A series of interconnected links of known length, used as a measuring device.
- A series of interconnected rings or links usually made of metal.
- (surveying) A long measuring tape.
- (mathematics, set theory, order theory) A totally ordered set, especially a totally ordered subset of a poset.
- (nautical, in the plural) Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels.
- (algebraic topology, originally) A formal sum of cells in a CW complex of a certain dimension k (in which case the formal sums are called k'''-chains); a formal sum of simplices or cubes of a certain dimension in a simplical complex or cubical complex (respectively).
- (organic chemistry, physical chemistry) A number of atoms in a series, which combine to form a molecule.
noun
- coiled barbed wire used as an obstacle
- Coiled barbed wire for use as an obstacle.
- free-reed instrument played like an accordion by pushing its ends together to force air through the reeds
- Something multiply folded like a concertina, such as a folded book, a bus door or a set of picture frames that are folded together.
- A musical instrument, like the various accordions, that is a member of the free-reed family of musical instruments, typically having buttons on both ends.
- A type of booklet label, consisting of up to 32 pages of booklet as an insert.
verb
noun
- A strap-shaped structure.
- (botany) In many grasses (Poaceae) and some sedges (Cyperaceae), the membranous appendage or ring of hairs projecting from the inner side of a leaf at the junction between the blade and the sheath.
- (botany) A portion of a leaf found at the base of the petiole, when present.
- (botany) any appendage to a plant that is shaped like a strap
noun
- One of a set of levers from which the heddles hang in some looms.
- A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for its habit of tumbling, or turning somersaults, during its flight.
- A piece attached to, or forming part of, the hammer of a gunlock, upon which the mainspring acts and in which are the notches for sear point to enter.
- (cryptocurrencies) A service that mixes potentially identifiable or 'tainted' cryptocurrency funds with others, so as to obscure the audit trail; used for money laundering.
- A movable obstruction in a lock, consisting of a lever, latch, wheel, slide, or the like, which must be adjusted to a particular position by a key or other means before the bolt can be thrown in locking or unlocking.
- A drinking glass that has no stem, foot, or handle — so called because such glasses originally had a pointed or convex base and could not be set down without spilling. This compelled the drinker to finish their measure.
- Something that causes something else to tumble.
- (entomology) The pupa of a mosquito.
- A rotating device for smoothing and polishing rough objects, placed inside it, on relatively small parts.
- A beverage cup, typically made of stainless steel, that is broad at the top and narrow at the bottom commonly used in India.
- a movable obstruction in a lock that must be adjusted to a given position (as by a key) before the bolt can be thrown
- a gymnast who performs rolls and somersaults and twists etc.
- a glass with a flat bottom but no handle or stem; originally had a round bottom
- pigeon that executes backward somersaults in flight or on the ground
noun
- A (usually tubular) covering or lining to protect a piece of machinery etc.
- (British Columbia) A serving of beer smaller than a pint, typically measuring between 12 and 16 ounces.
- Sleave; untwisted thread.
- A protective jacket or case, especially for a record, containing art and information about the contents; also the analogous leaflet found in a packaged CD.
- (electrical engineering) A double tube of copper into which the ends of bare wires are pushed so that when the tube is twisted an electrical connection is made. The joint thus made is called a McIntire joint.
- The part of a garment that covers the arm.
- A narrow channel of water.
- A tattoo covering the whole arm.
- (US) A long, cylindrical plastic bag of cookies or crackers, or a similar package of disposable drinking cups.
- the part of a garment that is attached at the armhole and that provides a cloth covering for the arm
- small case into which an object fits
verb
verb
- secure with cables or ropes
- come into or dock at a wharf
- secure in or as if in a berth or dock
- (transitive, nautical) To fix or secure (e.g. a vessel) in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with ropes, cables or chains or the like.
- (transitive) To secure or fix firmly.
- (intransitive, nautical) To cast anchor or become fastened.
noun
- open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss
- An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light (and usually acidic) soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath. (Compare bog, peatland, marsh, swamp, fen.)
- A game preserve consisting of moorland.
noun
- A set of hoops or parrel beads which secure the gaff loosely to the mast in a vertical position.
- A wire that leads from a point near the end of a gaff to a point near the other end. A block travels along this wire, and a halyard is attached to the block. This allows the gaff to be raised to the vertical by a single halyard.
noun
- a barrier that serves to enclose an area
- a dealer in stolen property
- (by extension) The place whence such a middleman operates.
- A thin artificial barrier that separates two pieces of land or forms a perimeter enclosing the lands of a house, building, etc.
- Skill in oral debate.
- (informal) Someone who hides or buys and sells stolen goods, a criminal middleman for transactions of stolen goods.
- A guard or guide on machinery.
- (cricket) The boundary.
- (programming) A memory barrier.
- (figuratively) A barrier, for example an emotional barrier.
verb
- have an argument about something
- enclose with a fence
- receive stolen goods
- fight with fencing swords
- surround with a wall in order to fortify
- (intransitive, equestrianism) To jump over a fence.
- (transitive) To defend or guard.
- (transitive) To engage in the selling or buying of stolen goods.
- (intransitive) To conceal the truth by giving equivocal answers; to hedge; to be evasive.
- (transitive) To enclose, contain or separate by building fence.
- (intransitive, sports) To engage in the sport of fencing.
noun
- a barrier that serves to enclose an area
- material for building fences
- the art or sport of fighting with swords (especially the use of foils or epees or sabres to score points under a set of rules)
- Material used to make fences, fences used as barriers or an enclosure.
- The art or sport of duelling with swords, especially with the 17th- to 18th-century European dueling swords and the practice weapons descended from them (sport fencing).
- (slang, criminology) The buying and receiving of stolen goods.
verb
verb
- propel
- pursue a line of scent or be a bearer
- include as the content; broadcast or publicize
- include, as on a list
- support or hold in a certain manner
- have or possess something abstract
- sing or play against other voices or parts
- contain or hold; have within
- transmit or serve as the medium for transmission
- be able to feed
- behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself
- secure the passage or adoption (of bills and motions)
- be pregnant with
- win approval or support for
- propel or give impetus to
- transfer (a number, cipher, or remainder) to the next column or unit's place before or after, in addition or multiplication
- have on the surface or on the skin
- transfer (entries) from one account book to another
- extend to a certain degree
- pass on a communication
- cover a certain distance or advance beyond
- have with oneself; have on one's person
- serve as a means for expressing something
- drink alcohol without showing ill effects
- be successful in
- have as an inherent or characteristic feature or have as a consequence
- be conveyed over a certain distance
- move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body
- compensate for a weaker partner or member by one's own performance
- capture after a fight
- be necessarily associated with or result in or involve
- keep up with financial support
- win in an election
- be equipped with (a mast or sail)
- take further or advance
- have on hand
- continue or extend
- bear or be able to bear the weight, pressure,or responsibility of
- have a certain range
- bear (a crop)
- To contain; to comprise; have a particular aspect; to show or exhibit
- (transitive) To stock or supply (something); to have in store.
- To succeed in (e.g. a contest); to succeed in; to win.
- To hold the head; said of a horse.
- (transitive) To notionally transfer from one place (such as a country, book, or column) to another.
- (reflexive) To bear (oneself); to behave or conduct.
- (transitive) To convey by extension or continuance; to extend.
- (transitive) To adopt (something); take (something) over.
- (slang, transitive) To insult, to diss.
- (transitive) To have on one’s person.
- (Southern US) To physically transport (in the general sense, not necessarily by lifting)
- (intransitive) To have a weapon on one's person; to be armed.
- (Canada, US) To bear a firearm, such as a gun.
- (transitive) To adopt or resolve on, especially in a deliberative assembly
- (transitive) To have, hold, possess or maintain (something).
- (gaming, sports) (transitive or, rarely, intransitive) To be disproportionately responsible for a team's success or for counteracting teammates' underperformance.
- (transitive, nautical) To capture a ship by coming alongside and boarding.
- (transitive, sports) To transport (the ball) whilst maintaining possession.
- To bear or uphold successfully, especially through conflict, for example a leader or principle
- To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another.
- (transitive) To lead or guide.
- To have propulsive power; to propel.
- (hunting) To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare.
- To be pregnant (with).
- (intransitive) To be transmitted; to travel.
- (intransitive, cricket) For the ball, having been hit in the air, to reach a fielder without touching the ground (whether or not the fielder catches it).
- (transitive) To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.
- (transitive, arithmetic) In an addition, to transfer the quantity in excess of what is countable in the units in a column to the column immediately to the left in order to be added there.
noun
- the act of carrying something
- (computing) The bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation.
- (golf) The distance travelled by the ball when struck, until it hits the ground.
- (finance) Carried interest.
- (UK, dialect) The sky; cloud-drift.
- A tract of land over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a portage.
- (finance) The benefit or cost of owning an asset over time.
- A manner of transporting or lifting something; the grip or position in which something is carried.
verb
- propel
- let saliva drivel from the mouth
- run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream
- let or cause to fall in drops
- (intransitive) To move or roll slowly.
- To perform a card flourish in which the cards fall smoothly from one's hand.
- (basketball, soccer) In various ball games, to move (with) the ball, controlling its path by kicking or bouncing it repeatedly.
- To fall in drops or an unsteady stream; to trickle.
- (transitive) To let something fall in drips.
- To let saliva drip from the mouth; to drool.
noun
- saliva spilling from the mouth
- the propulsion of a ball by repeated taps or kicks
- flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid
- (countable) A weak, unsteady stream; a trickle.
- (countable) A card flourish in which the cards fall smoothly from one's hand.
- (countable) A small amount of a liquid.
- (countable, sports) The act of moving (with) a ball by kicking or bouncing it.
- (uncountable) Drool; saliva.
- (uncountable, colloquial) Rubbish; worthless matter.
noun
- a rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling
- a light curved skeleton to spread out a skirt
- horizontal circular metal hoop supporting a net through which players try to throw the basketball
- a small arch used as croquet equipment
- (cricket, slang, uncountable) A significant amount of swing from the bowler.
- (rhythmic gymnastics, countable) An apparatus.
- A circular band of metal, wood, or similar material used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent.
- (now chiefly historical) A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of ladies' dresses; (hence, by extension) a hoop petticoat or hoop skirt.
- (figurative, usually in the plural) An obstacle that must be overcome in order to proceed.
- (US, in the plural, metonymic) The game of basketball.
- (uncountable) Hooping (manipulation of and artistic movement or dancing with a hoop).
- A hoop earring.
- Any circular band or ring.
- (basketball) The rim part of a basketball net.
- (Australia, metonymic, slang, by extension) A jockey.
- (sports, usually in the plural) A horizontal stripe on the jersey.
- A quart-pot; so called because originally bound with hoops, like a barrel. Also, a portion of the contents measured by the distance between the hoops.
- A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough.
- (rhythmic gymnastics, metonymic) An apparatus program with a hoop.
- A circular band of metal used to bind a barrel.
verb
noun
- a rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling
- a strip of material attached to the leg of a bird to identify it (as in studies of bird migration)
- a platform usually marked off by ropes in which contestants box or wrestle
- (chemistry) a chain of atoms in a molecule that forms a closed loop
- an association of criminals
- a characteristic sound
- jewelry consisting of a circlet of precious metal (often set with jewels) worn on the finger
- the sound of a bell ringing
- a toroidal shape
- (colloquial) A telephone call.
- (typography) A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a kroužek.
- Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.
- In a jack plug, the connector between the tip and the sleeve.
- (Internet) Ellipsis of webring.
- A circular group of people or objects.
- (astronomy) A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet or young star.
- (vulgar) The rectum, anus, or anal sphincters.
- (historical) An instrument, formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the graduated inner surface opposite.
- (chemistry) A group of atoms linked by bonds to form a closed chain in a molecule.
- A piece of food in the shape of a ring.
- An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices.
- (mathematical analysis, measure theory) A family of sets that is closed under finite unions and set-theoretic differences.
- (geometry) A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.
- (historical) An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter.
- The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.
- A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.
- (algebra) An algebraic structure as above, but only required to be a semigroup under the multiplicative operation, that is, there need not be a multiplicative identity element.
- (figuratively) A sound or appearance that is characteristic of something.
- A long stripe of contrastive material, colour, etc, that encircles something.
- (computing theory) A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level, used to protect data and functionality (also protection ring).
- (British) A large circular prehistoric stone construction such as Stonehenge.
- A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.
- A place where some sports or exhibitions take place; notably a circular or comparable arena, such as a boxing ring or a circus ring; hence the field of a political contest.
- (jewelry) A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger or through the ear, nose, etc.
- (algebra) An algebraic structure which consists of a set with two binary operations: an additive operation and a multiplicative operation, such that the set is an abelian group under the additive operation, a monoid under the multiplicative operation, and such that the multiplicative operation is distributive with respect to the additive operation.
- (networking) A network topology where connected devices form a circular data channel. All computers on the ring can see every message, and there are no collisions, and a single point of failure will occur if any part of the ring breaks.
- (firearms) Either of the pair of clamps used to hold a telescopic sight to a rifle.
- (figuratively) A pleasant or correct sound.
- (UK) A burner on a kitchen stove.
- The open space in front of a racecourse stand, used for betting purposes.
- (cartomancy) The twenty-fifth Lenormand card.
- (botany) A flexible band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns.
- (UK) A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.
- (mathematics, order theory) A family of sets closed under finite union and finite intersection.
verb
- sound loudly and sonorously
- ring or echo with sound
- attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify
- get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone
- make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification
- extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle
- (transitive) To enclose or surround.
- (intransitive) to resound, reverberate, echo.
- (transitive) To attach a ring to, especially for identification.
- To ring up (enter into a cash register or till)
- (intransitive, figuratively) To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.
- (transitive, colloquial, British, Australia, New Zealand) To telephone (someone).
- (Australia, transitive) To ride around (a group of animals, especially cattle) to keep them milling in one place; hence (intransitive), to work as a drover, to muster cattle.
- (transitive, figuratively) To make an incision around; to girdle; to cut away a circular tract of bark from a tree in order to kill it.
- (transitive) To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound.
- (transitive) To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.
- (intransitive) Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound.
- (transitive) To steal and change the identity of (cars) in order to resell them.
- (transitive) To produce (a sound) by ringing.
- (falconry) To rise in the air spirally.
- (intransitive) To produce music with bells.
- (intransitive, figuratively) Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.
verb
- confine in a cage
- (transitive) To confine in a cage; to put into and keep in a cage.
- (aviation) To immobilize an artificial horizon.
- (transitive, figuratively) To restrict someone's movement or creativity.
- To track individual responses to direct mail, either (advertising) to maintain and develop mailing lists or (politics) to identify people who are not eligible to vote because they do not reside at the registered addresses.
- (transitive, slang) To imprison.
noun
- something that restricts freedom as a cage restricts movement
- a movable screen placed behind home base to catch balls during batting practice
- an enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals can be kept
- the net that is the goal in ice hockey
- (slang) A prison or prison cell.
- (mining) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
- The passenger compartment of a lift.
- (athletics) The area from which competitors throw a discus or hammer.
- A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes.
- (graph theory) A regular graph that has as few vertices as possible for its girth.
- (engineering) A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, such as a ball valve.
- In killer sudoku puzzles, an irregularly-shaped group of cells that must contain a set of unique digits adding up to a certain total, in addition to the usual constraints of sudoku.
- An enclosure made of bars, normally to hold animals.
- (figuratively) Something that hinders freedom.
- (US, derogatory, slang) An automobile.
- (baseball, ice hockey) The protective wire mask at the front of a helmet.
- An outer framework of timber, enclosing something within it.
- (field hockey or ice hockey, water polo) The goal.
noun
- A movable barrier.
- A location which serves as a conduit for transport, migration, or trade.
- A doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
- (slang) A place where drugs are illegally sold.
- The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
- (Scotland, Northern England) A street; now used especially as a combining form to make the name of a street e.g. "Briggate" (a common street name in the north of England meaning "Bridge Street") or Kirkgate meaning "Church Street".
- In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
- A passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
- (cinematography) A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
- An individual theme park as part of a larger resort complex with multiple parks.
- A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.
- (electronics) The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
- The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
- (mining) A tunnel serving the coal face.
- (computing) A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
- (now Scotland, Northern England) A way, path.
- (cricket) The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.
- (metalworking) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate; tedge.
- (flow cytometry) A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
- A doorlike structure outside a house.
- total admission receipts at a sports event
- a movable barrier in a fence or wall
- passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark
- a computer circuit with several inputs but only one output that can be activated by particular combinations of inputs
verb
- (transitive) To selectively regulate or restrict (access to something).
- (transitive) To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
- (transitive) To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively, as needed or to avoid damage from excessive light exposure. See autogating.
- (transitive, biochemistry) To open (a closed ion channel).
- (transitive) To furnish with a gate.
- supply with a gate
- control with a valve or other device that functions like a gate
- restrict (school boys') movement to the dormitory or campus as a means of punishment
verb
- To strengthen, secure, or reinforce by passing a rope, cable, or chain around the underside of an object.
- (figurative) To give fundamental support; provide with a sound or secure basis; provide supportive evidence for.
- To secure below or underneath.
- To lend moral support to.
- make secure underneath
- lend moral support to
verb
noun
- (slang) offensive term for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine
- a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea
- Alternative form of deck: (US dialect slang, obsolete) A well-dressed man.
- Alternative form of dyke, Alternative form of deck: (slang, usually derogatory) a masculine woman; a lesbian.
- (chiefly US) Alternative spelling of dyke: ditch; embankment; waterway; etc.
verb
- enclose with a dike
- (transitive) To steep [fibers] within a watercourse.
- (transitive) To surround with a ditch, to entrench.
- (transitive or intransitive) To dig, particularly to create a ditch.
- (transitive or intransitive) To raise a protective earthwork against a sea or river.
- (transitive, Scotland) To surround with a low dirt or stone wall.
- (transitive) To scour a watercourse.
noun
- (slang) offensive term for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine
- a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea
- (dialect) Any navigable watercourse.
- (historical) A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to serve as a boundary marker.
- An embankment formed by the spoil from the creation of a ditch.
- (dialect) Any watercourse.
- (loosely, slang, usually derogatory and offensive) A non-heterosexual woman.
- A beaver's dam.
- (now chiefly Scotland) A low embankment or stone wall serving as an enclosure and boundary marker.
- A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to conduct water.
- (geology) A body of rock (usually igneous) originally filling a fissure but now often rising above the older stratum as it is eroded away.
- (dialect) Any small body of water.
- An earthwork raised to prevent inundation of low land by the sea or flooding rivers.
- (now chiefly Australia, slang) A place to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.
- (slang, usually derogatory and offensive) A lesbian, particularly one with masculine or butch traits or behavior.
- (slang, usually derogatory and offensive) A masculine woman.
- (figuratively) Any impediment, barrier, or difficulty.
- A wall, especially (obsolete outside heraldry) a masoned city or castle wall.
- (dialect) Any fence or hedge.
- (dialect) A jetty; a pier.
- (dialect, mining) A fissure in a rock stratum filled with intrusive rock; a fault.
- A raised causeway.
noun
- (Australia) A batten fixed to a post-and-wire fence to keep the wires apart.
- A dog which suddenly drops upon the ground when it sights game.
- A utensil for dispensing a single drop of liquid at a time.
- (slang) A person who uses fraudulent cheques.
- (cricket, historical) A delivery by lob bowling (no longer legal).
- A seat post whose height can be adjusted while riding.
- (computing) A software component designed to install malware on a target system.
- (mining) A branch vein which drops off from, or leaves, the main lode.
- (botany) The young bulb of a tulip, not of flowering size.
- One who drops something, especially one who drops a specific item to cause mischief.
- (cricket, historical) A bowler who makes such deliveries.
- (fishing) A fly that drops from the leaden above the bob or end fly.
- (tennis, informal) A drop shot.
- pipet consisting of a small tube with a vacuum bulb at one end for drawing liquid in and releasing it a drop at a time
adj
- Reinforced, supported, tied or bound with wire.
- (informal, of people or communities) Connected to the Internet; online.
- (slang) All worked out; completely understood.
- Equipped with hidden electronic eavesdropping devices.
- Equipped with wires, so as to connect to a power source or to other electric or electronic equipment; connected by wires.
- (poker slang) Being three of a kind as the first three cards in seven card stud.
- (slang) Very excited, overstimulated; high-strung.
- (zoology) Having wiry feathers.
- (poker slang) Being a pair in seven-card stud with one face up and one face down.
- equipped with wire or wires especially for electric or telephone service
- tied or bound with wire
- tense with excitement and enthusiasm as from a rush of adrenaline
- having hidden electronic eavesdropping devices
verb
verb
noun
- each of a pair of short oars that are used by a single oarsman
- a long oar that is mounted at the stern of a boat and moved left and right to propel the boat forward
- a racing shell that is propelled by sculls
- A light rowing boat used for racing by one, two, or four rowers, each operating two oars (sculls), one in each hand.
- One of a pair of oars handled by a single rower.
- A single oar mounted at the stern of a boat and moved from side to side to propel the boat forward.
- The skua gull.
- A skull cap. A small bowl-shaped helmet, without visor or bever.
- A small rowing boat, for one person.
adj
verb
noun
- a restraint put around something to hold it together
- A strip of material wrapped around things to hold them together.
- a strip of material attached to the leg of a bird to identify it (as in studies of bird migration)
- an unofficial association of people or groups
- instrumentalists not including string players
- a group of musicians playing popular music for dancing
- a cord-like tissue connecting two larger parts of an anatomical structure
- a stripe or stripes of contrasting color
- an adornment consisting of a strip of a contrasting color or material
- a thin flat strip of flexible material that is worn around the body or one of the limbs (especially to decorate the body)
- a thin flat strip or loop of flexible material that goes around or over something else, typically to hold it together or as a decoration
- jewelry consisting of a circlet of precious metal (often set with jewels) worn on the finger
- a driving belt in machinery
- a range of frequencies between two limits
- (telecommunications) A designated range of radio frequencies used for wireless communication.
- A continuous tablet, stripe, or series of ornaments, as of carved foliage, of colour, or of brickwork.
- (sciences) Any distinguishing line formed by chromatography, electrophoresis etc
- A narrow strip of cloth or other material on clothing, to bind, strengthen, or ornament it.
- (Canada) Ellipsis of band government.
- A linen collar or ruff worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- (in the plural) Two strips of linen hanging from the neck in front as part of a clerical, legal, or academic dress.
- (physics) A group of energy levels in a solid state material.
- A type of orchestra originally playing janissary music; an instance of this type.
- (slang, hiphop, often in the plural) A wad of money totaling $1K, held together by a band; (by extension) $1000, a grand; (by extension) money
- A group of musicians who perform together as an ensemble; sometimes, such a group working for a professional recording artist.
- A long strip of material, color, etc, that is different from the surrounding area.
- (physics) A part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
- (medicine) Ellipsis of band cell.
- That which serves as the means of union or connection between persons; a tie.
- Ellipsis of marching band.
- A strip along the spine of a book where the pages are attached.
- (anthropology) A small group of people living in a simple society, contrasted with tribes, chiefdoms, and nations.
- (especially US) A ring, such as a wedding ring (wedding band), or a ring put on a bird's leg to identify it.
- In Gothic architecture, the moulding, or suite of mouldings, which encircles the pillars and small shafts.
- A group of people loosely united for a common purpose, such as a band of thieves.
- A belt or strap that is part of a machine.
verb
- attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify
- bind or tie together, as with a band
- (transitive) To fasten with a band.
- (transitive, ornithology) To fasten an identifying band around the leg of (a bird).
- (transitive, education) To group (students) together by perceived ability; to stream.
- (intransitive) To group together for a common purpose; to confederate.
noun
- pulley blocks with associated rope or cable
- A system in which a rope, cable, or chain (the tackle) is passed over pulleys enclosed in two (or rarely more) blocks, one fixed and one attached to a load, which is used to gain mechanical advantage to lift or pull heavy loads.
- (euphemistic) The underwear combination of stockings worn with a suspender belt.
noun
- An assembly of two or more cable-laid ropes.
- (television) Ellipsis of cable television, broadcast over the above network, not by antenna.
- (nautical) A unit of length equal to one tenth of a nautical mile.
- (nautical) A strong rope or chain used to moor or anchor a ship.
- A strong, large-diameter wire or rope, or something resembling such a rope.
- (finance) The currency pair British Pound against United States Dollar.
- (architecture) A moulding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to resemble the spiral twist of a rope.
- (unit, chiefly nautical) 100 fathoms, 600 imperial feet, approximately 185 m.
- (communication) A system for transmitting television or Internet services over a network of coaxial or fibreoptic cables.
- A telegram, notably when sent by (submarine) telegraph cable.
- (knitting) A textural pattern achieved by passing groups of stitches over one another.
- An assembly of two or more wires, used for electrical power or data circuits; one or more and/or the whole may be insulated.
- a television system that transmits over cables
- a very strong thick rope made of twisted hemp or steel wire
- a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power
- television that is transmitted over cable directly to the receiver
- a nautical unit of depth
- a telegram sent abroad
verb
- (transitive) To wrap (wires) to form a cable.
- (intransitive, knitting) To create cable stitches.
- (intransitive) To communicate by cable.
- (transitive) To send (a telegram, news, etc.) by cable.
- (transitive) To fasten (something) (as if) with cable(s).
- (transitive, architecture) To ornament (something) with cabling.
- (transitive) To provide (something) with cable(s).
- fasten with a cable
- send cables, wires, or telegrams
noun
verb
noun
- usually coiled
- a wispy white cloud (usually of fine ice crystals) at a high altitude (4 to 8 miles)
- a slender flexible animal appendage as on barnacles or crinoids or many insects; often tactile
- (zoology) A thin tendril-like appendage.
- (meteorology) A principal high-level cloud type, typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments, wisps, or narrow bands.
- (botany) A tendril.
noun
- The substance lining the bottom edge of an enclosure.
- (biology) A surface on which an organism grows, or to which an organism or an item is attached.
- (plating) A metal which is plated with another metal which has different physical properties.
- (linguistics) A language that is replaced in a population by another language and that influences the language imposed on its speakers.
- (construction) A surface to which a substance adheres.
- (biochemistry) A substance acted upon, as by an enzyme.
- An underlying layer; a substratum.
- the substance that is acted upon by an enzyme or ferment
- a surface on which an organism grows or is attached
- any stratum or layer lying underneath another
- an indigenous language that contributes features to the language of an invading people who impose their language on the indigenous population
adj
noun
- Material used to line the bottom of something.
- (technical, historical) The contouring of the wooden seat of a chair.
- The act of something that bottoms; the point at which something bottoms (in various senses).
- (UK, colloquial) The act of thoroughly cleaning something.
- (dyeing) A substance used to prepare a material for dyeing.
- Residue left at the bottom of something.
- A foundation (literal and figurative senses).
verb
noun
- (masonry) An attachment in the middle of a long guide line to keep it from sagging.
- A prickling or mildly stinging sensation; frisson.
- A patch that covers a hole in something that needs to be watertight, such as a roof or a boat.
- A nail of the very smallest size; a tack.
- A tingling sound; a chime or tinkle.
- an almost pleasurable sensation of fright
- a somatic sensation as from many tiny stings
verb
- (transitive) To fasten with a tingle; to tack.
- (intransitive) To feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.
- (intransitive) To ring; to tinkle or twang.
- (transitive) To cause to feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.
- (masonry, transitive) To secure the middle of a guide line by means of a tingle.
- (transitive) To patch with a tingle; to cover a hole in something that requires it to be watertight.
- (transitive) To cause to ring, to tinkle.
- cause a stinging or tingling sensation
noun
- A device used to bind or tighten chain.
- (US, mainly 1920–1930) A transient worker who would move from boom town to boom town in search of temporary work.
- (by extension, slang, sometimes derogatory) An elderly person, regardless of generation.
- A sewellel (Aplodontia rufa).
- A techno-optimist, in particular concerning artificial intelligence.
- (US, nautical, military, slang) A nuclear ballistic missile submarine, SSBN.
- (informal) A baby boomer.
- An adult male kangaroo.
- (by extension, slang, sometimes derogatory) A person who is too old to be familiar with the use of recent technology.
- (UK) A Eurasian bittern (subfamily Botaurinae spp.).
- (US, historical) Alternative letter-case form of Boomer (“Oklahoma settler”).
- (Appalachia) A red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus).
- Something that makes a booming sound.
- (realtime strategy games) A player who prioritises economic development and securing resources (and therefore future production) over offence or defence.
- a member of the baby boom generation in the 1950s
noun
- (mining) A safety link or detaching hook above the cage attached to the winding rope to prevent the cage from being overwound.
- (sports) A type of stretch in which one sits on the ground with the legs folded into a shape like that of a butterfly's wings, slightly rocking them up and down, resembling the wings fluttering.
- A person who changes partners frequently.
- (swimming) The butterfly stroke.
- (medicine, attributive) A use of surgical tape, cut into thin strips and placed across an open wound to hold it closed.
- (finance) A combination of four options of the same type at three strike prices giving limited profit and limited risk.
- A flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from moths by their diurnal activity and generally brighter colouring.
- Any of several plane curves that look like a butterfly; see Butterfly curve (transcendental) and Butterfly curve (algebraic).
- (in the plural) Ellipsis of butterflies in one’s stomach (“A sensation of excited anxiety felt in the stomach”).
- (Philippines, Philippine politics, often derogatory) party switcher; turncoat.
- (alternate history) A random change in an aspect of the timeline seemingly unrelated to the primary point of divergence, resulting from the butterfly effect.
- diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings
- a swimming stroke in which the arms are thrown forward together out of the water while the feet kick up and down
verb
- (transitive) To cut (food) almost entirely in half and spread the halves apart, in a shape suggesting the wings of a butterfly.
- (transitive, of the point of divergence of an alternate history scenario) To cause events after the point of divergence to not happen as they did in real history, and people conceived after the point of divergence to not exist in recognizable form, due to the random variations introduced by the butterfly effect.
- (transitive) To cut strips of surgical tape or plasters into thin strips, and place across (a gaping wound) to close it.
- cut and spread open, as in preparation for cooking
- flutter like a butterfly
- talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions
noun
- coiled barbed wire used as an obstacle
- Coiled barbed wire for use as an obstacle.
- free-reed instrument played like an accordion by pushing its ends together to force air through the reeds
- Something multiply folded like a concertina, such as a folded book, a bus door or a set of picture frames that are folded together.
- A musical instrument, like the various accordions, that is a member of the free-reed family of musical instruments, typically having buttons on both ends.
- A type of booklet label, consisting of up to 32 pages of booklet as an insert.
verb
noun
- A strap-shaped structure.
- (botany) In many grasses (Poaceae) and some sedges (Cyperaceae), the membranous appendage or ring of hairs projecting from the inner side of a leaf at the junction between the blade and the sheath.
- (botany) A portion of a leaf found at the base of the petiole, when present.
- (botany) any appendage to a plant that is shaped like a strap
noun
- One of a set of levers from which the heddles hang in some looms.
- A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for its habit of tumbling, or turning somersaults, during its flight.
- A piece attached to, or forming part of, the hammer of a gunlock, upon which the mainspring acts and in which are the notches for sear point to enter.
- (cryptocurrencies) A service that mixes potentially identifiable or 'tainted' cryptocurrency funds with others, so as to obscure the audit trail; used for money laundering.
- A movable obstruction in a lock, consisting of a lever, latch, wheel, slide, or the like, which must be adjusted to a particular position by a key or other means before the bolt can be thrown in locking or unlocking.
- A drinking glass that has no stem, foot, or handle — so called because such glasses originally had a pointed or convex base and could not be set down without spilling. This compelled the drinker to finish their measure.
- Something that causes something else to tumble.
- (entomology) The pupa of a mosquito.
- A rotating device for smoothing and polishing rough objects, placed inside it, on relatively small parts.
- A beverage cup, typically made of stainless steel, that is broad at the top and narrow at the bottom commonly used in India.
- a movable obstruction in a lock that must be adjusted to a given position (as by a key) before the bolt can be thrown
- a gymnast who performs rolls and somersaults and twists etc.
- a glass with a flat bottom but no handle or stem; originally had a round bottom
- pigeon that executes backward somersaults in flight or on the ground
noun
- A (usually tubular) covering or lining to protect a piece of machinery etc.
- (British Columbia) A serving of beer smaller than a pint, typically measuring between 12 and 16 ounces.
- Sleave; untwisted thread.
- A protective jacket or case, especially for a record, containing art and information about the contents; also the analogous leaflet found in a packaged CD.
- (electrical engineering) A double tube of copper into which the ends of bare wires are pushed so that when the tube is twisted an electrical connection is made. The joint thus made is called a McIntire joint.
- The part of a garment that covers the arm.
- A narrow channel of water.
- A tattoo covering the whole arm.
- (US) A long, cylindrical plastic bag of cookies or crackers, or a similar package of disposable drinking cups.
- the part of a garment that is attached at the armhole and that provides a cloth covering for the arm
- small case into which an object fits
verb
noun
- A set of hoops or parrel beads which secure the gaff loosely to the mast in a vertical position.
- A wire that leads from a point near the end of a gaff to a point near the other end. A block travels along this wire, and a halyard is attached to the block. This allows the gaff to be raised to the vertical by a single halyard.
noun
- a barrier that serves to enclose an area
- a dealer in stolen property
- (by extension) The place whence such a middleman operates.
- A thin artificial barrier that separates two pieces of land or forms a perimeter enclosing the lands of a house, building, etc.
- Skill in oral debate.
- (informal) Someone who hides or buys and sells stolen goods, a criminal middleman for transactions of stolen goods.
- A guard or guide on machinery.
- (cricket) The boundary.
- (programming) A memory barrier.
- (figuratively) A barrier, for example an emotional barrier.
verb
- have an argument about something
- enclose with a fence
- receive stolen goods
- fight with fencing swords
- surround with a wall in order to fortify
- (intransitive, equestrianism) To jump over a fence.
- (transitive) To defend or guard.
- (transitive) To engage in the selling or buying of stolen goods.
- (intransitive) To conceal the truth by giving equivocal answers; to hedge; to be evasive.
- (transitive) To enclose, contain or separate by building fence.
- (intransitive, sports) To engage in the sport of fencing.
noun
- a barrier that serves to enclose an area
- material for building fences
- the art or sport of fighting with swords (especially the use of foils or epees or sabres to score points under a set of rules)
- Material used to make fences, fences used as barriers or an enclosure.
- The art or sport of duelling with swords, especially with the 17th- to 18th-century European dueling swords and the practice weapons descended from them (sport fencing).
- (slang, criminology) The buying and receiving of stolen goods.
verb
noun
- a rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling
- a light curved skeleton to spread out a skirt
- horizontal circular metal hoop supporting a net through which players try to throw the basketball
- a small arch used as croquet equipment
- (cricket, slang, uncountable) A significant amount of swing from the bowler.
- (rhythmic gymnastics, countable) An apparatus.
- A circular band of metal, wood, or similar material used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent.
- (now chiefly historical) A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of ladies' dresses; (hence, by extension) a hoop petticoat or hoop skirt.
- (figurative, usually in the plural) An obstacle that must be overcome in order to proceed.
- (US, in the plural, metonymic) The game of basketball.
- (uncountable) Hooping (manipulation of and artistic movement or dancing with a hoop).
- A hoop earring.
- Any circular band or ring.
- (basketball) The rim part of a basketball net.
- (Australia, metonymic, slang, by extension) A jockey.
- (sports, usually in the plural) A horizontal stripe on the jersey.
- A quart-pot; so called because originally bound with hoops, like a barrel. Also, a portion of the contents measured by the distance between the hoops.
- A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough.
- (rhythmic gymnastics, metonymic) An apparatus program with a hoop.
- A circular band of metal used to bind a barrel.
verb
noun
- a rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling
- a strip of material attached to the leg of a bird to identify it (as in studies of bird migration)
- a platform usually marked off by ropes in which contestants box or wrestle
- (chemistry) a chain of atoms in a molecule that forms a closed loop
- an association of criminals
- a characteristic sound
- jewelry consisting of a circlet of precious metal (often set with jewels) worn on the finger
- the sound of a bell ringing
- a toroidal shape
- (colloquial) A telephone call.
- (typography) A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a kroužek.
- Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.
- In a jack plug, the connector between the tip and the sleeve.
- (Internet) Ellipsis of webring.
- A circular group of people or objects.
- (astronomy) A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet or young star.
- (vulgar) The rectum, anus, or anal sphincters.
- (historical) An instrument, formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the graduated inner surface opposite.
- (chemistry) A group of atoms linked by bonds to form a closed chain in a molecule.
- A piece of food in the shape of a ring.
- An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices.
- (mathematical analysis, measure theory) A family of sets that is closed under finite unions and set-theoretic differences.
- (geometry) A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.
- (historical) An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter.
- The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.
- A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.
- (algebra) An algebraic structure as above, but only required to be a semigroup under the multiplicative operation, that is, there need not be a multiplicative identity element.
- (figuratively) A sound or appearance that is characteristic of something.
- A long stripe of contrastive material, colour, etc, that encircles something.
- (computing theory) A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level, used to protect data and functionality (also protection ring).
- (British) A large circular prehistoric stone construction such as Stonehenge.
- A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.
- A place where some sports or exhibitions take place; notably a circular or comparable arena, such as a boxing ring or a circus ring; hence the field of a political contest.
- (jewelry) A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger or through the ear, nose, etc.
- (algebra) An algebraic structure which consists of a set with two binary operations: an additive operation and a multiplicative operation, such that the set is an abelian group under the additive operation, a monoid under the multiplicative operation, and such that the multiplicative operation is distributive with respect to the additive operation.
- (networking) A network topology where connected devices form a circular data channel. All computers on the ring can see every message, and there are no collisions, and a single point of failure will occur if any part of the ring breaks.
- (firearms) Either of the pair of clamps used to hold a telescopic sight to a rifle.
- (figuratively) A pleasant or correct sound.
- (UK) A burner on a kitchen stove.
- The open space in front of a racecourse stand, used for betting purposes.
- (cartomancy) The twenty-fifth Lenormand card.
- (botany) A flexible band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns.
- (UK) A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.
- (mathematics, order theory) A family of sets closed under finite union and finite intersection.
verb
- sound loudly and sonorously
- ring or echo with sound
- attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify
- get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone
- make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification
- extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle
- (transitive) To enclose or surround.
- (intransitive) to resound, reverberate, echo.
- (transitive) To attach a ring to, especially for identification.
- To ring up (enter into a cash register or till)
- (intransitive, figuratively) To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.
- (transitive, colloquial, British, Australia, New Zealand) To telephone (someone).
- (Australia, transitive) To ride around (a group of animals, especially cattle) to keep them milling in one place; hence (intransitive), to work as a drover, to muster cattle.
- (transitive, figuratively) To make an incision around; to girdle; to cut away a circular tract of bark from a tree in order to kill it.
- (transitive) To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound.
- (transitive) To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.
- (intransitive) Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound.
- (transitive) To steal and change the identity of (cars) in order to resell them.
- (transitive) To produce (a sound) by ringing.
- (falconry) To rise in the air spirally.
- (intransitive) To produce music with bells.
- (intransitive, figuratively) Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.
noun
- A movable barrier.
- A location which serves as a conduit for transport, migration, or trade.
- A doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
- (slang) A place where drugs are illegally sold.
- The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
- (Scotland, Northern England) A street; now used especially as a combining form to make the name of a street e.g. "Briggate" (a common street name in the north of England meaning "Bridge Street") or Kirkgate meaning "Church Street".
- In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
- A passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
- (cinematography) A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
- An individual theme park as part of a larger resort complex with multiple parks.
- A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.
- (electronics) The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
- The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
- (mining) A tunnel serving the coal face.
- (computing) A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
- (now Scotland, Northern England) A way, path.
- (cricket) The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.
- (metalworking) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate; tedge.
- (flow cytometry) A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
- A doorlike structure outside a house.
- total admission receipts at a sports event
- a movable barrier in a fence or wall
- passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark
- a computer circuit with several inputs but only one output that can be activated by particular combinations of inputs
verb
- (transitive) To selectively regulate or restrict (access to something).
- (transitive) To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
- (transitive) To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively, as needed or to avoid damage from excessive light exposure. See autogating.
- (transitive, biochemistry) To open (a closed ion channel).
- (transitive) To furnish with a gate.
- supply with a gate
- control with a valve or other device that functions like a gate
- restrict (school boys') movement to the dormitory or campus as a means of punishment
noun
- (Australia) A batten fixed to a post-and-wire fence to keep the wires apart.
- A dog which suddenly drops upon the ground when it sights game.
- A utensil for dispensing a single drop of liquid at a time.
- (slang) A person who uses fraudulent cheques.
- (cricket, historical) A delivery by lob bowling (no longer legal).
- A seat post whose height can be adjusted while riding.
- (computing) A software component designed to install malware on a target system.
- (mining) A branch vein which drops off from, or leaves, the main lode.
- (botany) The young bulb of a tulip, not of flowering size.
- One who drops something, especially one who drops a specific item to cause mischief.
- (cricket, historical) A bowler who makes such deliveries.
- (fishing) A fly that drops from the leaden above the bob or end fly.
- (tennis, informal) A drop shot.
- pipet consisting of a small tube with a vacuum bulb at one end for drawing liquid in and releasing it a drop at a time
verb
- enclose with a sheath
- plunge or bury (a knife or sword) in flesh
- cover with a protective sheathing
- (transitive) Of an animal: to draw back or retract (a body part) into the body, such as claws into a paw.
- (transitive) To put (something such as a knife or sword) into a sheath.
- (transitive) To encase (something) with a protective covering.
verb
- enclose with rails
- complain bitterly
- spread negative information about
- lay with rails
- provide with rails
- criticize severely
- convey (goods etc.) by rails
- travel by rail or train
- fish with a handline over the rails of a boat
- separate with a railing
- (transitive, rail transport, of rolling stock) To place on a track.
- To complain violently (against, about).
- (transitive, slang, drugs) To snort a line of powdered drugs.
- (transitive) To enclose with rails or a railing.
- (intransitive) To travel by railway.
- (transitive, vulgar, slang) To sexually penetrate in a rough manner.
- (transitive) To range in a line.
noun
- any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud
- a horizontal bar (usually of wood or metal)
- short for railway
- a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports
- a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll
- Any of several birds in the family Rallidae.
- A horizontal bar extending between supports and used for support or as a barrier; a railing.
- The metal bar forming part of the track for a railroad.
- (drugs) A large line (portion or serving of a powdery illegal drug).
- A horizontal piece of wood that serves to separate sections of a door or window.
- A railroad; a railway, as a means of transportation.
- (electronics) A conductor maintained at a fixed electrical potential relative to ground, to which other circuit components are connected.
- (surfing) One of the lengthwise edges of a surfboard.
- (backgammon) The raised edge of the game board.
- (Internet) A vertical section on one side of a web page.
- Each of two vertical side bars supporting the rungs of a ladder.
verb
- To attach a limber.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To prepare; to make oneself ready.
- (transitive) To make (someone or something) more limber or flexible.
- (intransitive) To stretch one's muscles to make them more limber, usually as a preparation for physical exercise.
- make one's body limber or suppler by stretching, as if to prepare for strenuous physical activity
- attach the limber
verb
noun
- a framework that supports climbing plants
- (literary) A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat.
- Either of the two highest trumps in the card games euchre and five hundred (where the joker is omitted).
- A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods.
- One who plays any of several bow instruments, such as the musical bow or diddley bow.
- A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle.
- (falconry) A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.
- A peasant; a farmer.
- (ornithology) A large structure made of grass, twigs, etc., and decorated with bright objects, used by male bower birds during courtship displays.
- A muscle that bends a limb, especially the arm.
- One who bows or bends.
- (nautical) A type of ship's anchor, carried at the bow.
verb
- To hedge, cover, make, or enclose with hurdles.
- (T-flapping) Misspelling of hurtle.
- To jump over something while running.
- To overcome an obstacle.
- (chess, of a hopper piece) To jump over another piece without capturing it.
- To compete in the track and field events of hurdles (e.g. high hurdles).
- jump a hurdle
noun
- (T-flapping) Misspelling of hurtle.
- (figuratively) An obstacle, real or perceived, physical or abstract.
- (UK, historical) A sled or crate on which criminals were drawn to the place of execution.
- (athletics, equestrianism) An artificial barrier, variously constructed, over which athletes or horses jump in a race.
- (chess) A piece that is jumped over by a hopper piece.
- A movable frame of wattled twigs, osiers, or withes and stakes, or sometimes of iron, used for enclosing land, for folding sheep and cattle, for gates, etc.; also, in fortification, used as revetments, and for other purposes.
- a light movable barrier that competitors must leap over in certain races
- an obstacle that you are expected to overcome
- the act of jumping over an obstacle
verb
- fasten with tacks
- sew together loosely, with large stitches
- turn into the wind
- create by putting components or members together
- fix to; attach
- reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
- (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
- (nautical) To maneuver a sailing vessel so that its bow turns through the wind, i.e. the wind changes from one side of the vessel to the other.
- To sew/stitch with a tack (loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth).
- (transitive) To nail (something) with a tack (small nail with a flat head).
- To add something as an extra item.
- To weld with initial small welds to temporarily fasten in preparation for full welding.
- Synonym of tack up (“to prepare a horse for riding by equipping it with a tack”).
noun
- a short nail with a sharp point and a large head
- gear for a horse
- sailing a zigzag course
- (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind
- (nautical) the act of changing tack
- the heading or position of a vessel relative to the trim of its sails
- (nautical) The lower corner on the leading edge of a sail relative to the direction of the wind.
- A thumbtack.
- (nautical) A rope used to hold in place the foremost lower corners of the courses when the vessel is close-hauled; also, a rope employed to pull the lower corner of a studding sail to the boom.
- (law, Scotland and Northern England) A contract by which the use of a thing is set, or let, for hire; a lease.
- (nautical) The maneuver by which a sailing vessel turns its bow through the wind so that the wind changes from one side to the other.
- (nautical) A course or heading that enables a sailing vessel to head upwind.
- That which is attached; a supplement; an appendix.
- (figurative) A direction or course of action, especially a new one; a method or approach to solving a problem.
- A small nail with a flat head.
- A stain; a tache.
- (sewing) A loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth.
- Food generally; fare, especially of the hard bread or breadlike kind.
- (manufacturing, construction, chemistry) The stickiness of a compound, related to its cohesive and adhesive properties.
- (nautical) The distance a sailing vessel runs between these maneuvers when working to windward; a board.
- Any of the various equipment and accessories worn by horses in the course of their use as domesticated animals.
- (colloquial) That which is tacky; something cheap and gaudy.
verb
- furnish with staves
- burst or force (a hole) into something
- (transitive, usually with 'in') To break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst.
- To suffer, or cause to be lost by breaking the cask.
- (transitive) To fit or furnish with staves or rundles.
- (transitive, with 'off') To push, or keep off, as with a staff.
- To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron.
- (transitive, usually with 'off') To delay by force or craft; to drive away.
noun
- (music) the system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written
- a crosspiece between the legs of a chair
- one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket
- A staff or walking stick.
- (poetry, rare) The initial consonant, consonant cluster, or vowel of a word which rhymes with another word with the same consonant or vowel in stave-rhyme.
- (poetry) A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.
- One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; especially, one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, barrel, pail, etc.
- One of the bars or rounds of a rack, rungs of a ladder, etc; one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel
- A sign, symbol or sigil, including rune or rune-like characters, used in Icelandic magic.
- (music) The set of five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
verb
- To secure with rope, string, etc.
- (finance) To immobilize a capital: make a capital investment that makes that capital unavailable.
- (idiomatic) To occupy, detain, keep busy, or delay.
- (idiomatic) To complete, finish, or resolve.
- finish the last row
- invest so as to make unavailable for other purposes
- secure with or as if with ropes
- restrain from moving or operating normally
- secure in or as if in a berth or dock
verb
noun
- a small nail
- A binary radian.
- (US, elementary school usage) A paper fastener, a fastening device formed of thin, soft metal, such as shim brass, with a round head and a flat, split shank, which is spread after insertion in a hole in a stack of pages, in much the same way as a cotter pin or a split rivet.
- A thin, small nail, with a slight projection at the top on one side instead of a head, or occasionally with a small domed head, similar to that of an escutcheon pin.
verb
- fasten or secure with chains
- connect or arrange into a chain by linking
- (computing) To be chained to another data item.
- (transitive, computing, rare, associated with Acorn Computers) To load and automatically run (a program).
- (intransitive) To link multiple items together.
- (figurative) To connect as if with a chain, due to dependence, addiction, or other feelings
- (computing) To relate data items with a chain of pointers.
- (transitive) To measure a distance using a 66-foot long chain, as in land surveying.
- (figurative) To obligate.
- (transitive) To secure someone with fetters.
- (transitive) To fasten something with a chain.
- (transitive) To obstruct the mouth of a river etc with a chain.
noun
- a unit of length
- a series of things depending on each other as if linked together
- (chemistry) a series of linked atoms (generally in an organic molecule)
- anything that acts as a restraint
- a series of (usually metal) rings or links fitted into one another to make a flexible ligament
- a necklace made by stringing objects together
- a linked or connected series of objects
- (business) a number of similar establishments (stores or restaurants or banks or hotels or theaters) under one ownership
- a series of hills or mountains
- A livery collar, a chain of office.
- (algebraic topology, homological algebra, more generally) An element of a group (or module) in a chain complex.
- A unit of length, exactly equal to 22 yards, which is 4 rods or 100 links, and approximately equal to 20.12 metres; the length of a Gunter's surveying chain; the length of a cricket pitch.
- That which confines, fetters, or secures; a bond.
- A series of stores or businesses with the same brand name.
- A series of interconnected things.
- (weaving) The warp threads of a web.
- (British) A sequence of linked house purchases, each of which is dependent on the preceding and succeeding purchase (said to be "broken" if a buyer or seller pulls out).
- (surveying) A series of interconnected links of known length, used as a measuring device.
- A series of interconnected rings or links usually made of metal.
- (surveying) A long measuring tape.
- (mathematics, set theory, order theory) A totally ordered set, especially a totally ordered subset of a poset.
- (nautical, in the plural) Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels.
- (algebraic topology, originally) A formal sum of cells in a CW complex of a certain dimension k (in which case the formal sums are called k'''-chains); a formal sum of simplices or cubes of a certain dimension in a simplical complex or cubical complex (respectively).
- (organic chemistry, physical chemistry) A number of atoms in a series, which combine to form a molecule.
verb
- secure with cables or ropes
- come into or dock at a wharf
- secure in or as if in a berth or dock
- (transitive, nautical) To fix or secure (e.g. a vessel) in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with ropes, cables or chains or the like.
- (transitive) To secure or fix firmly.
- (intransitive, nautical) To cast anchor or become fastened.
noun
- open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss
- An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light (and usually acidic) soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath. (Compare bog, peatland, marsh, swamp, fen.)
- A game preserve consisting of moorland.
verb
- propel
- pursue a line of scent or be a bearer
- include as the content; broadcast or publicize
- include, as on a list
- support or hold in a certain manner
- have or possess something abstract
- sing or play against other voices or parts
- contain or hold; have within
- transmit or serve as the medium for transmission
- be able to feed
- behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself
- secure the passage or adoption (of bills and motions)
- be pregnant with
- win approval or support for
- propel or give impetus to
- transfer (a number, cipher, or remainder) to the next column or unit's place before or after, in addition or multiplication
- have on the surface or on the skin
- transfer (entries) from one account book to another
- extend to a certain degree
- pass on a communication
- cover a certain distance or advance beyond
- have with oneself; have on one's person
- serve as a means for expressing something
- drink alcohol without showing ill effects
- be successful in
- have as an inherent or characteristic feature or have as a consequence
- be conveyed over a certain distance
- move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body
- compensate for a weaker partner or member by one's own performance
- capture after a fight
- be necessarily associated with or result in or involve
- keep up with financial support
- win in an election
- be equipped with (a mast or sail)
- take further or advance
- have on hand
- continue or extend
- bear or be able to bear the weight, pressure,or responsibility of
- have a certain range
- bear (a crop)
- To contain; to comprise; have a particular aspect; to show or exhibit
- (transitive) To stock or supply (something); to have in store.
- To succeed in (e.g. a contest); to succeed in; to win.
- To hold the head; said of a horse.
- (transitive) To notionally transfer from one place (such as a country, book, or column) to another.
- (reflexive) To bear (oneself); to behave or conduct.
- (transitive) To convey by extension or continuance; to extend.
- (transitive) To adopt (something); take (something) over.
- (slang, transitive) To insult, to diss.
- (transitive) To have on one’s person.
- (Southern US) To physically transport (in the general sense, not necessarily by lifting)
- (intransitive) To have a weapon on one's person; to be armed.
- (Canada, US) To bear a firearm, such as a gun.
- (transitive) To adopt or resolve on, especially in a deliberative assembly
- (transitive) To have, hold, possess or maintain (something).
- (gaming, sports) (transitive or, rarely, intransitive) To be disproportionately responsible for a team's success or for counteracting teammates' underperformance.
- (transitive, nautical) To capture a ship by coming alongside and boarding.
- (transitive, sports) To transport (the ball) whilst maintaining possession.
- To bear or uphold successfully, especially through conflict, for example a leader or principle
- To bear the charges or burden of holding or having, as stocks, merchandise, etc., from one time to another.
- (transitive) To lead or guide.
- To have propulsive power; to propel.
- (hunting) To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare.
- To be pregnant (with).
- (intransitive) To be transmitted; to travel.
- (intransitive, cricket) For the ball, having been hit in the air, to reach a fielder without touching the ground (whether or not the fielder catches it).
- (transitive) To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting.
- (transitive, arithmetic) In an addition, to transfer the quantity in excess of what is countable in the units in a column to the column immediately to the left in order to be added there.
noun
- the act of carrying something
- (computing) The bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation.
- (golf) The distance travelled by the ball when struck, until it hits the ground.
- (finance) Carried interest.
- (UK, dialect) The sky; cloud-drift.
- A tract of land over which boats or goods are carried between two bodies of navigable water; a portage.
- (finance) The benefit or cost of owning an asset over time.
- A manner of transporting or lifting something; the grip or position in which something is carried.
verb
- propel
- let saliva drivel from the mouth
- run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream
- let or cause to fall in drops
- (intransitive) To move or roll slowly.
- To perform a card flourish in which the cards fall smoothly from one's hand.
- (basketball, soccer) In various ball games, to move (with) the ball, controlling its path by kicking or bouncing it repeatedly.
- To fall in drops or an unsteady stream; to trickle.
- (transitive) To let something fall in drips.
- To let saliva drip from the mouth; to drool.
noun
- saliva spilling from the mouth
- the propulsion of a ball by repeated taps or kicks
- flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid
- (countable) A weak, unsteady stream; a trickle.
- (countable) A card flourish in which the cards fall smoothly from one's hand.
- (countable) A small amount of a liquid.
- (countable, sports) The act of moving (with) a ball by kicking or bouncing it.
- (uncountable) Drool; saliva.
- (uncountable, colloquial) Rubbish; worthless matter.
verb
- confine in a cage
- (transitive) To confine in a cage; to put into and keep in a cage.
- (aviation) To immobilize an artificial horizon.
- (transitive, figuratively) To restrict someone's movement or creativity.
- To track individual responses to direct mail, either (advertising) to maintain and develop mailing lists or (politics) to identify people who are not eligible to vote because they do not reside at the registered addresses.
- (transitive, slang) To imprison.
noun
- something that restricts freedom as a cage restricts movement
- a movable screen placed behind home base to catch balls during batting practice
- an enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals can be kept
- the net that is the goal in ice hockey
- (slang) A prison or prison cell.
- (mining) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
- The passenger compartment of a lift.
- (athletics) The area from which competitors throw a discus or hammer.
- A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes.
- (graph theory) A regular graph that has as few vertices as possible for its girth.
- (engineering) A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, such as a ball valve.
- In killer sudoku puzzles, an irregularly-shaped group of cells that must contain a set of unique digits adding up to a certain total, in addition to the usual constraints of sudoku.
- An enclosure made of bars, normally to hold animals.
- (figuratively) Something that hinders freedom.
- (US, derogatory, slang) An automobile.
- (baseball, ice hockey) The protective wire mask at the front of a helmet.
- An outer framework of timber, enclosing something within it.
- (field hockey or ice hockey, water polo) The goal.
verb
- To strengthen, secure, or reinforce by passing a rope, cable, or chain around the underside of an object.
- (figurative) To give fundamental support; provide with a sound or secure basis; provide supportive evidence for.
- To secure below or underneath.
- To lend moral support to.
- make secure underneath
- lend moral support to
verb
noun
- (slang) offensive term for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine
- a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea
- Alternative form of deck: (US dialect slang, obsolete) A well-dressed man.
- Alternative form of dyke, Alternative form of deck: (slang, usually derogatory) a masculine woman; a lesbian.
- (chiefly US) Alternative spelling of dyke: ditch; embankment; waterway; etc.
verb
- enclose with a dike
- (transitive) To steep [fibers] within a watercourse.
- (transitive) To surround with a ditch, to entrench.
- (transitive or intransitive) To dig, particularly to create a ditch.
- (transitive or intransitive) To raise a protective earthwork against a sea or river.
- (transitive, Scotland) To surround with a low dirt or stone wall.
- (transitive) To scour a watercourse.
noun
- (slang) offensive term for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine
- a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea
- (dialect) Any navigable watercourse.
- (historical) A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to serve as a boundary marker.
- An embankment formed by the spoil from the creation of a ditch.
- (dialect) Any watercourse.
- (loosely, slang, usually derogatory and offensive) A non-heterosexual woman.
- A beaver's dam.
- (now chiefly Scotland) A low embankment or stone wall serving as an enclosure and boundary marker.
- A long, narrow hollow dug from the ground to conduct water.
- (geology) A body of rock (usually igneous) originally filling a fissure but now often rising above the older stratum as it is eroded away.
- (dialect) Any small body of water.
- An earthwork raised to prevent inundation of low land by the sea or flooding rivers.
- (now chiefly Australia, slang) A place to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.
- (slang, usually derogatory and offensive) A lesbian, particularly one with masculine or butch traits or behavior.
- (slang, usually derogatory and offensive) A masculine woman.
- (figuratively) Any impediment, barrier, or difficulty.
- A wall, especially (obsolete outside heraldry) a masoned city or castle wall.
- (dialect) Any fence or hedge.
- (dialect) A jetty; a pier.
- (dialect, mining) A fissure in a rock stratum filled with intrusive rock; a fault.
- A raised causeway.
verb
noun
- each of a pair of short oars that are used by a single oarsman
- a long oar that is mounted at the stern of a boat and moved left and right to propel the boat forward
- a racing shell that is propelled by sculls
- A light rowing boat used for racing by one, two, or four rowers, each operating two oars (sculls), one in each hand.
- One of a pair of oars handled by a single rower.
- A single oar mounted at the stern of a boat and moved from side to side to propel the boat forward.
- The skua gull.
- A skull cap. A small bowl-shaped helmet, without visor or bever.
- A small rowing boat, for one person.
adj
- Reinforced, supported, tied or bound with wire.
- (informal, of people or communities) Connected to the Internet; online.
- (slang) All worked out; completely understood.
- Equipped with hidden electronic eavesdropping devices.
- Equipped with wires, so as to connect to a power source or to other electric or electronic equipment; connected by wires.
- (poker slang) Being three of a kind as the first three cards in seven card stud.
- (slang) Very excited, overstimulated; high-strung.
- (zoology) Having wiry feathers.
- (poker slang) Being a pair in seven-card stud with one face up and one face down.
- equipped with wire or wires especially for electric or telephone service
- tied or bound with wire
- tense with excitement and enthusiasm as from a rush of adrenaline
- having hidden electronic eavesdropping devices