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noun
- A piece of needlework embroidered with a variety of designs.
- a piece of embroidery demonstrating skill with various stitches
- A device that takes samples.
- A representative selection of a larger group.
- (music) An electronic musical instrument that records and plays back samples of recordings.
- Someone whose job is to take samples.
- an assortment of various samples
- someone who samples food or drink for its quality
- an observation station that is set up to make sample observations of something
noun
- A kind of needlework; appliqué.
- (bureaucracy, law) A petition, entreaty, or other request, with the adposition for denoting the subject matter.
- A verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school, course or similar.
- The substance applied.
- The act of requesting, claiming, or petitioning something.
- (computing theory) The substitution of a specific value for the parameter in the abstraction, in lambda calculus.
- The act of applying as a means; the employment of means to accomplish an end; specific use.
- The act of directing or referring something to a particular case, to discover or illustrate agreement or disagreement, fitness, or correspondence.
- Diligence; close thought or attention.
- (computing) A computer program or the set of software that the end user perceives as a single entity as a tool for a well-defined purpose. (Also called: application program; application software.)
- The act of physically applying or laying on.
- a verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school
- liquid preparation having a soothing or antiseptic or medicinal action when applied to the skin
- the action of putting something into operation
- the work of applying something
- a program that gives a computer instructions that provide the user with tools to accomplish a task
- a diligent effort
- the act of bringing something to bear; using it for a particular purpose
verb
- To decorate with quillwork.
- To pierce with quills. (Usually in the passive voice, as be quilled or get quilled.)
- (figuratively) To write.
- (US and Canada, especially Appalachia and the Prairies, transitive) To subject (a woman who is giving birth) to the practice of quilling (blowing pepper into her nose to induce or hasten labor).
- To form fabric into small, rounded folds.
noun
- (mechanical engineering) A quill drive, having a hollow shaft with another movable shaft inside it.
- (by extension) Any pen.
- A thin piece of bark, especially of cinnamon or cinchona, curled up into a tube.
- The lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs.
- Something having the form of a quill, such as the fold or plain of a ruff, or (weaving) a spindle, or spool, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle.
- (music) The tube of a musical instrument.
- A pen made from a feather.
- (zoology) The pen of a squid.
- (music) The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.
- A sharply pointed, barbed, and easily detached needle-like structure that grows on the skin of a porcupine or hedgehog as a defense against predators.
- any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird
- the hollow spine of a feather
- pen made from a bird's feather
- a stiff hollow protective spine on a porcupine or hedgehog
verb
noun
- a longitudinal slice or boned side of a fish
- a boneless steak cut from the tenderloin of beef
- lace having a square mesh
- a narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband
- a bundle of sensory nerve fibers going to the thalamus
- fastener consisting of a narrow strip of welded metal used to join steel members
- (woodworking) Any scantling smaller than a batten.
- A colored or gilded border.
- (anatomy) A fascia; a band of fibres; applied especially to certain bands of white matter in the brain.
- (engineering, drafting, CAD) A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an inside edge, added for a finished appearance and to break sharp edges.
- (heraldry) An ordinary equal in breadth to one quarter of the chief, to the lowest portion of which it corresponds in position.
- (construction) A heavy bead of waterproofing compound or sealant material generally installed at the point where vertical and horizontal surfaces meet.
- (architecture) The space between two flutings in a shaft.
- The raised moulding around the muzzle of a gun.
- A thin strip of any material, in various technical uses.
- (UK) A premium cut of meat, especially beef, taken from below the lower back of the animal, considered to be lean and tender; also called tenderloin.
- (architecture) A thin featureless moulding/molding used as separation between broader decorative mouldings.
- The thread of a screw.
- A strip or compact piece of meat or fish from which any bones and skin and feathers have been removed.
- The loins of a horse, beginning at the place where the hinder part of the saddle rests.
verb
noun
- a shape that is spherical and small
- a small ball with a hole through the middle
- a beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture
- Each in a string of small balls making up the rosary or paternoster.
- A bubble, in spirits.
- A small, round object with a hole to allow it to be threaded on a cord or wire, particularly for decorative purposes.
- Various small, round solid objects.
- (by extension) Knowledge sufficient to direct one's activities to a purpose.
- A small, round ball at the end of a barrel of a gun used for aiming.
- (architecture) A narrow molding with semicircular section.
- A rigid edge of a tire that mounts it on a wheel; tire bead.
- A small drop of water or other liquid.
noun
verb
- decorate, as with ornaments
- adjust (sails on a ship) so that the wind is optimally used
- cut closely
- cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
- decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods
- be in equilibrium during a flight
- balance in flight by regulating the control surfaces
- cut down on; make a reduction in
- remove the edges from and cut down to the desired size
- (transitive, aviation, of an aircraft) To adjust the positions of control surfaces, sometimes using trim tabs, so as to modify or eliminate the aircraft's tendency to pitch, roll, or yaw when the cockpit controls are released.
- (transitive, nautical, of a vessel's sails) To modify the angle (of the sails) relative to the wind, especially to set them at the most advantageous angle.
- (transitive, nautical, of a vessel) To modify the angle relative to the water by shifting cargo or ballast; to adjust for sailing; to assume, or cause to assume a certain position, or trim, in the water.
- (transitive) To decorate or adorn; especially of a Christmas tree.
- (transitive, historical) To cut back the wick of (a lamp) to maintain a clean, bright flame.
- (transitive) To make trim; to put in due order for any purpose; to make right, neat, or pleasing; to adjust.
- (transitive) To reduce slightly; to cut; especially, to remove excess.
- (transitive, carpentry, of timber) To dress; to make smooth.
- (transitive, by extension) To change the carbon rods of (an arc lamp).
adj
noun
- cutting down to the desired size or shape
- attitude of an aircraft in flight when allowed to take its own orientation
- a state of arrangement or appearance
- a decoration or adornment typically on the edge of a garment
- (uncountable, underwater diving) The horizontal position of an underwater water
- (printing, binding, publishing) Any of the three cut edges of book pages, trimmed with a shear after binding.
- Dress; gear; ornaments.
- (by extension, uncountable, slang, mildly vulgar) Sexual intercourse with a woman.
- (especially automotive) Features optionally available on a vehicle; an established configuration of such features within a model (a trim level).
- (nautical) The arrangement of the sails with reference to the wind.
- (uncountable, aviation, of an aircraft) The state of adjustment of control surfaces such that the desired attitude can be maintained without requiring the continuous application of force to the cockpit controls.
- (nautical) The fore-and-aft angle of the vessel to the water, with reference to the cargo and ballast; the manner in which a vessel floats on the water, whether on an even keel or down by the head or stern.
- (countable) A haircut, especially a moderate one to touch up an existing style.
- (countable) The manner in which something is equipped or adorned; order; disposition.
- (uncountable, aviation, by extension) The mechanism(s) used to trim an aircraft in roll, pitch, and/or yaw.
- (uncountable, slang, mildly vulgar) The female genitalia.
- (uncountable) Decoration; especially, decoration placed along edges or borders.
adv
noun
- decorating with a design
- representing figuratively as by emblem or allegory
- The act of giving figure or determinate form.
- (sociology) A structure through which people are joined, or the process of constructing such structures.
- (art) Representation through visual forms.
- Form, outline or boundaries.
- Mixture of concords and discords.
- Ornamentation or decoration, especially by the addition of figures.
verb
- cover and decorate with objects that pierce the surface
- fasten with an adhesive material like glue
- pierce with a thrust using a pointed instrument
- be loyal to
- fasten into place by fixing an end or point into something
- stick to firmly
- be in a certain place and not leave
- come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- fasten with or as with pins or nails
- saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous
- pierce or penetrate or puncture with something pointed
- be a devoted follower or supporter
- put, fix, force, or implant
- endure
- be or become fixed
- (transitive) To place, set down (quickly or carelessly).
- (intransitive) To persist.
- (transitive) To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale.
- (intransitive) To remain loyal; to remain firm.
- (transitive, now only in dialects) To stab.
- (transitive, gymnastics, aviation, sports) To perform (a landing or a shot) perfectly.
- (transitive) To press (something with a sharp point) into something else.
- (intransitive) Of snow, to remain frozen on landing.
- To hit with a stick.
- (transitive, joinery) To run or plane (mouldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. Such mouldings are said to be stuck.
- (intransitive, blackjack, chiefly UK) To stand pat: to cease taking any more cards and finalize one's hand.
- (botany, transitive) To propagate plants by cuttings.
- (carpentry) To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint.
- (intransitive, US, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
- (transitive) To furnish or set with sticks.
- (transitive) To tolerate, to endure, to stick with.
- (intransitive) To jam; to stop moving.
- (intransitive) To become or remain attached; to adhere.
- (transitive) To attach with glue or as if by gluing.
noun
- a small thin branch of a tree
- a long implement (usually made of wood) that is shaped so that hockey or polo players can hit a puck or ball
- a long thin implement resembling a length of wood
- a rectangular quarter pound block of butter or margarine
- threat of a penalty
- an implement consisting of a length of wood
- a lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane
- marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking
- informal terms for the leg
- A small, thin branch from a tree or bush; a twig; a branch.
- (slang) Vigorous driving of a car; gas.
- (US) A timber board, especially a two by four (inches).
- (military) The structure to which a set of bombs in a bomber aircraft are attached and which drops the bombs when it is released. The bombs themselves and, by extension, any load of similar items dropped in quick succession such as paratroopers or containers.
- (slang) A bar (counter where drinks are served).
- (nautical) A mast or part of a mast of a ship; also, a yard.
- (golf) The pole bearing a small flag that marks the hole.
- (fishing) The amount of fishing line resting on the water surface before a cast; line stick.
- (boardsports) A board as used in board sports, such as a surfboard, snowboard, or skateboard.
- (horse racing) The short whip carried by a jockey.
- (figurative) A negative stimulus or a punishment. (This sense derives from the metaphor of using a stick, a long piece of wood, to poke or beat a beast of burden to compel it to move forward.)
- (uncountable) That which sticks (remains attached to another surface).
- (US, colloquial, uncountable) Vehicles, collectively, equipped with manual transmissions.
- (baseball) General hitting ability.
- (carpentry) The vertical member of a cope-and-stick joint.
- A standard rectangular strip of chewing gum.
- (sports, generically) A long thin implement used to control a ball or puck in sports like hockey, polo, and lacrosse.
- A relatively long, thin piece of wood, of any size.
- (field hockey or ice hockey) The potential accuracy of a hockey stick, implicating also the player using it.
- Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.
- (golf) The long-range driving ability of a golf club.
- (aviation, uncountable) Use of the stick to control the aircraft.
- A cudgel or truncheon (usually of wood, metal or plastic), especially one carried by police or guards.
- (slang) A cigarette (usually a tobacco cigarette, less often a marijuana cigarette).
- (video games) A joystick.
- (US, slang, uncountable) The cue used in billiards, pool, snooker, etc.
- (computing) A memory stick.
- (US, colloquial) A manual transmission, a vehicle equipped with a manual transmission, so called because of the stick-like, i.e. twig-like, control (the gear shift) with which the driver of such a vehicle controls its transmission.
- (uncountable) The tendency to stick (remain stuck), stickiness.
- A cane or walking stick (usually wooden, metal or plastic) to aid in walking.
- (slang) A handgun.
- (computing) Any of the eight 16-character groups making up the 128 characters of the 7-bit ASCII character set.
- (countable) A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.
- (slang) Vigor; spirit; effort, energy, intensity.
- The game of pool, or an individual pool game.
- (chiefly Canada, US) A small rectangular block, with a length several times its width, which contains by volume one half of a cup of shortening (butter, margarine or lard).
- (baseball) The potential hitting power of a specific bat.
- (figuratively) A piece (of furniture, especially if wooden).
- (jazz, slang) The clarinet.
- (slang, uncountable) Corporal punishment, beatings
- (British, figurative) Criticism or ridicule, often in the expressions "get a lot of stick", "get some stick", "come in for some stick", etc.
- (aviation) The control column of an aircraft; a joystick. (By convention, a wheel-like control mechanism with a handgrip on opposite sides, similar to the steering wheel of an automobile, can also be called the "stick", although "yoke" or "control wheel" is more commonly seen.)
- (US military slang, World War I) An aircraft’s propeller.
- A bunch of something wrapped around or attached to a stick.
- (motor racing) The traction of tires on the road surface.
adj
verb
noun
- An element of decoration; that which embellishes or adorns.
- (music) A musical flourish that is unnecessary to the overall melodic or harmonic line, but serves to decorate that line.
- (Christianity, in the plural) The articles used in church services.
- (by extension) Ellipsis of Christmas ornament; a Christmas tree decoration.
- (biology) A characteristic that has a decorative function (typically in order to attract a mate)
- something used to beautify
noun
- (countable) A decoration made on wood by carving.
- (countable) A carved wooden object.
- (uncountable) The art of carving wood to make decorative objects.
- a form of working wood by means of a cutting tool (knife) in one hand or a chisel by two hands or with one hand on a chisel and one hand on a mallet, resulting in a wooden figure or figurine, or in the sculptural ornamentation of a wooden object.
noun
- A decorative ornament made by artful cutting of paper, as into silhouettes.
- A wound caused by a piece of paper or any thin, sharp material which can slice through a person's skin.
- (software) a paper cut bug: a bug which causes harm and would be easy to fix.
- (figurative) Any minor harm.
- (film and video editing) A text-based description of the cuts to be made in raw footage to make finished video.
noun
- A circular frame for embroidery.
- A rich kind of gold and silver embroidery.
- A rolling top or front (as of a rolltop desk) of narrow strips of wood glued on canvas.
- (military) A work usually in the form of a redan, to enclose a space before a door or staircase, or at the gorge of a larger work. It is arranged like a stockade.
- (music) A small shallow drum.
- (sports) In real tennis, a buttress-like obstruction in the main wall.
- (medicine) A shallow metallic cup or drum, with a thin elastic membrane supporting a writing lever. Two or more of these are connected by a rubber tube and used to transmit and register the movements of the pulse or of any pulsating artery.
- (architecture) Synonym of drum (“cylindrical stone in the shaft of a column”).
- Silk or other material embroidered on a tambour.
- (architecture) The capital of a Corinthian column.
- a drum
- a frame made of two hoops; used for embroidering
verb
verb
- decorate with colors
- change color, often in an undesired manner
- add color to
- affect as in thought or feeling
- give a deceptive explanation or excuse for
- modify or bias
- (intransitive) To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers or crayons.
- (mathematics, graph theory) To assign colors to the vertices of a graph (or the regions of a map) so that no two vertices connected by an edge (regions sharing a border) have the same color.
- (transitive) To give something color.
- (transitive) To cause (a pipe, especially a meerschaum) to take on a brown or black color, by smoking.
- (of a person or their face) To become red through increased blood flow.
- (informal) To attribute a quality to; to portray (as).
- To affect without completely changing.
- (linguistics, usually of a phoneme) To affect the quality of a speech sound, especially a vowel.
adj
noun
- a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect
- an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading
- the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation
- interest and variety and intensity
- any material used for its color
- (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction
- the timbre of a musical sound
- (medicine) Skin color, noted as normal, jaundiced, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of the skin signs assessment.
- (linguistics) The quality of a particular vowel sound.
- (professional wrestling slang) To bleed, either through injury or blading. Usally prefaced with "get".
- (in the plural) The flag of a nation or team.
- A flushed appearance of blood in the face; redness of complexion.
- A front or facade; an ostensible truth actually false; pretext.
- (uncountable) Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
- A paint.
- (music) Timbre, often in relation to orchestration.
- (figuratively) Richness of expression; detail or flavour that is likely to generate interest or enjoyment.
- (finance, uncountable) A third-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change of gamma with respect to time, or equivalently the rate of change of charm with respect to changes in the underlying asset price.
- (countable) A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class.
- (in the plural) Gang insignia.
- (uncountable) The spectral composition of visible light.
- (physics) A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange by passing gluons; color charge.
- (in the plural) A standard or banner.
- These hues as used in color television or films, color photographs, etc (as opposed to the shades of grey used in black-and-white television).
- An appearance of right or authority; color of law.
- (military, in the plural) The morning ceremony of raising the flag.
- (mining) Gold, particles of gold found when prospecting.
- (typography) The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page. (See type color on Wikipedia.Wikipedia)
- (snooker) Any of the colored balls excluding the reds.
- (uncountable) Hue as opposed to achromatic colors (black, white and grays).
- (heraldry) Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and vert.
- (in the plural) An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
verb
adj
noun
- a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect
- an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading
- the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation
- interest and variety and intensity
- any material used for its color
- (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction
- the timbre of a musical sound
- Commonwealth and Ireland standard spelling of color.
verb
- decorate
- knock down with force
- be beautiful to look at
- (uncommon) To furnish with a deck, as a vessel.
- (transitive) To cover; to overspread.
- (informal) To knock someone to the floor, especially with a single punch.
- (collectible card games) To cause a player to run out of cards to draw, usually making them lose the game.
noun
- a porch that resembles the deck on a ship
- street name for a packet of illegal drugs
- any of various platforms built into a vessel
- a pack of 52 playing cards
- (graph theory) The multiset of graphs formed from a single graph by deleting a single vertex in all possible ways.
- (slang) A folded paper used for distributing illicit drugs.
- Any raised flat surface that can be walked on: a balcony; a porch; a raised patio; a flat rooftop.
- (aviation) A main aeroplane surface, especially of a biplane or multiplane.
- (card games) A pack or set of playing cards.
- (colloquial) The floor.
- (nautical) The floorlike covering of the horizontal sections, or compartments, of a ship or boat. Small vessels have only one deck; larger ships have two or three decks.
- (computing) A collection of cards (pages or forms) in systems such as WML (Wireless Markup Language) and HyperCard.
- (British, fishing) The bottom of a water body.
- (card games, by extension) A set of cards owned by each individual player and from which they draw when playing.
- Ellipsis of slide deck: a set of slides for a presentation.
- (theater) The stage.
- (journalism) A headline consisting of one or more full lines of text; especially, a subheadline.
- Ellipsis of tape deck.
verb
verb
- provide with decoration
- award a mark of honor, such as a medal, to
- make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.
- be beautiful to look at
- (By putting paint or wallpaper on the walls.)
- (transitive) To furnish with decorations.
- (By adding adornments to the interior space.)
- (programming, transitive) To extend a method, etc. by attaching some further code item.
- (transitive) To honor by providing a medal, ribbon, or other adornment.
verb
- provide with decoration
- cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
- give a neat appearance to
- arrange attractively
- cut down rough-hewn (lumber) to standard thickness and width
- convert into leather
- provide with clothes or put clothes on
- dress or groom with elaborate care
- arrange in ranks
- decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods
- kill and prepare for market or consumption
- put a dressing on
- dress in a certain manner
- put on clothes
- apply a bandage or medication to
- put a finish on
- To arrange or style (someone's hair).
- (agriculture, horticulture) To cultivate or tend to (a garden, land, plants, etc.); especially, to add fertilizer or manure to (soil); to fertilize, to manure.
- To apply a dressing to or otherwise treat (a wound); (obsolete) to give (a wounded person) medical aid.
- (slang) Ellipsis of cross-dress.
- (also reflexive and figuratively) To put clothes (or, formerly, armour) on (oneself or someone, a doll, a mannequin, etc.); to clothe.
- (especially of ores) To prepare by any of many types of physical processing (e.g., breaking, crushing, sorting, sieving, controlled burning or heating).
- To prepare, treat, or curry (animal hide or leather).
- To put on clothes.
- To design, make, provide, or select clothes (for someone).
- (also figuratively) To adorn or ornament (something).
- (butchering) Of an animal carcass: to have a certain quantity or weight after removal of the internal organs and skin; also, to have a certain appearance after being cut up and prepared for cooking.
- (specifically) To attire (oneself or someone) for a particular (especially formal) occasion, or in a fashionable manner.
- (fishing) To prepare (an artificial fly) to be attached to a fish hook.
- To arrange a display of goods in, or to decorate (a shop or shop window).
- (euphemistic, chiefly in the tailoring context) To allow one's penis to fall to one side or the other within one's trousers.
- To fit or prepare (something) for use; to render (something) suitable for an intended purpose; to get ready.
- To prepare (a set) by installing the props, scenery, etc.
- (military, sometimes imperative as a drill command) Of soldiers or troops: to arrange into proper formation; especially, to form into straight lines and at a proper distance from each other.
- To prepare the surface of (a material, such as lumber or stone; a grindstone or grinding wheel).
- (sports) Of a sportsperson: to put on the uniform and have the equipment needed to play a sport.
- (butchering) To cut up (an animal or its flesh) for food.
- (cooking) To prepare (food) for cooking or eating, especially by seasoning it; specifically, to add a dressing or sauce (to food, especially a salad).
- (historical or England, regional) To remove chaff or impurities from (flour, grain, etc.) by bolting or sifting, winnowing, and other methods.
- (nautical) To ornament (a ship) by hoisting the national colours at the peak and mastheads, and setting the jack forward; when "dressed full", the signal flags and pennants are added.
- To design, make, or prepare costumes (for a play or other performance); also, to present (a production) in a particular costume style.
- (military) To arrange (soldiers or troops) into proper formation; especially, to adjust (soldiers or troops) into straight lines and at a proper distance from each other; to align.
- Of a thing: to attain a certain condition after undergoing some process or treatment to fit or prepare it for use.
- (specifically) To attire oneself for a particular (especially formal) occasion, or in a fashionable manner.
adj
noun
- clothing in general
- a one-piece garment for a woman; has skirt and bodice
- clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion
- (figuratively) The external appearance of something, especially if intended to give a positive impression; garb, guise.
- The appearance of an object after it has undergone some process or treatment to fit or prepare it for use; finish.
- (film, television, theater) Ellipsis of dress rehearsal.
- Apparel or clothing, especially when appropriate for a particular occasion, profession, etc.
- (archaic outside of India) An item of outer clothing or set of such clothes (worn by people of all sexes) which is generally decorative and appropriate for a particular occasion, profession, etc.
- The external covering of an animal (for example, the feathers of a bird) or an object.
- (by extension, India) Any item of clothing, or an outfit.
- (clothing) An item of clothing (usually worn by a woman or young girl) which both covers the upper part of the body and includes a skirt below the waist.
verb
- To decorate with fringe or embroidered edge
- To rise in circles, ripples, or undulations; to curl; to mantle.
- (knitting) To use or create a purl stitch or stitches.
- (intransitive) To flow with a murmuring sound in swirls and eddies.
- flow in a circular current, of liquids
- knit with a purl stitch
- embroider with gold or silver thread
- edge or border with gold or silver embroidery
- make a murmuring sound
noun
- A gentle murmuring sound, such as that produced by the running of a liquid among obstructions.
- An embroidered and puckered border; a hem or fringe, often of gold or silver twist; also, a pleat or fold, as of a band.
- A circle made by the motion of a fluid; an eddy; a ripple.
- A particular stitch in knitting in which the working yarn is pulled through an existing stitch from front to back.
- a heavy or headlong fall; an upset.
- The edge of lace trimmed with loops.
- a basic knitting stitch made by putting the needle through the front of the stitch from the righthand side
- gold or silver wire thread
verb
noun
- (acarology) Any of a series of wrinkles on the backs of some ticks.
- (technology) A specific style of electric light bulb consisting of a cylindrical enclosure with two points of contact on either end providing power to the filament or diode.
- (manufacturing) Two sets of rollers used to create a buffer of material on web handling equipment.
- (architecture) A bas-relief, painting, or structural motif resembling such an ornament.
- Any of various papilionid butterflies of the genus Zerynthia.
- A raised cable with light globes attached.
- An ornament such as a garland or chain which hangs loosely from two tacked spots.
- (dentistry) Texturing applied to a denture to simulate human tissue.
- (astronomy) A cloud on Jupiter that hangs out of its home belt or zone into an adjacent area forming a curved finger-like image or a complete loop back to its home belt or zone.
- a curtain of fabric draped and bound at intervals to form graceful curves
- an embellishment consisting of a decorative representation of a string of flowers suspended between two points; used on pottery or in architectural work
- flower chains suspended in curves between points as a decoration
verb
adj
noun
- An ornate silk fabric originating from Damascus.
- A damask rose, Rosa × damascena.
- Linen so woven that a pattern is produced by the different directions of the thread, without contrast of colour.
- The peculiar markings or water of such steel.
- A grayish-pink color, like that of the damask rose.
- Damascus steel.
- A heavy woolen or worsted stuff with a pattern woven in the same way as the linen damask; made for furniture covering and hangings.
- a table linen made from linen with a damask pattern
- a fabric of linen or cotton or silk or wool with a reversible pattern woven into it
verb
- decorate with an interlaced design
- cause annoyance in
- worry unnecessarily or excessively
- provide (a musical instrument) with frets
- become or make sore by or as if by rubbing
- carve a pattern into
- gnaw into; make resentful or angry
- wear away or erode
- cause friction
- remove soil or rock
- be agitated or irritated
- be too tight; rub or press
- (transitive) To make rough, to agitate or disturb; to cause to ripple.
- (transitive, music) To press down the string behind a fret.
- (transitive) To decorate or ornament, especially with an interlaced or interwoven pattern, or (architecture) with carving or relief (raised) work.
- (transitive, music) # To fit frets on to (a musical instrument).
- (intransitive) To be anxious, to worry.
- (transitive) To cut through with a fretsaw, to create fretwork.
- (intransitive) To be agitated; to rankle; to be in violent commotion.
- (transitive) To form a pattern on; to variegate.
- (transitive) In the form fret out: to squander, to waste.
- (ambitransitive) To gnaw; to consume, to eat away.
- (intransitive, brewing, wine) To have secondary fermentation (fermentation occurring after the conversion of sugar to alcohol in beers and wine) take place.
- (ambitransitive) To be chafed or irritated; to be angry or vexed; to utter peevish expressions through irritation or worry.
- (transitive) To chafe or irritate; to worry.
- To bind, to tie, originally with a loop or ring.
- (ambitransitive) To mine by agitating or eating away at (ore in the bank of a river).
- (intransitive) To be worn away; to chafe; to fray.
noun
- an ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines (often in relief)
- agitation resulting from active worry
- a spot that has been worn away by abrasion or erosion
- a small bar of metal across the fingerboard of a musical instrument; when the string is stopped by a finger at the metal bar it will produce a note of the desired pitch
- Agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.
- Agitation of the mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation.
- (rare) A channel or passage created by the sea.
- (Northumbria) A fog or mist at sea, or coming inland from the sea.
- (mining, in the plural) The worn sides of riverbanks, where ores or stones containing them accumulate after being washed down from higher ground, which thus indicate to miners the locality of veins of ore.
- (music) One of the pieces of metal, plastic or wood across the neck of a guitar or other string instrument that marks where a finger should be positioned to depress a string as it is played.
- A channel, a strait; a fretum.
- (heraldry) A saltire interlaced with a mascle.
- An ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines, often in relief.
- Herpes; tetter (“any of various pustular skin conditions”).
noun
- a decoration consisting of wormlike carvings
- the process of wavelike muscle contractions of the alimentary tract that moves food along
- A pattern of irregular wavy lines resembling worms or their casts or tracks, found on the plumage of birds, used to decorate artworks and buildings, etc.
- The state of being infested or consumed by worms.
noun
verb
noun
- decoration that is hung (as a tapestry) on a wall or over a window
- the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely)
- a form of capital punishment; victim is suspended by the neck from a gallows or gibbet until dead
- (countable, uncountable) The act of hanging a person (or oneself) by the neck in order to kill that person (or to commit suicide).
- (countable) Anything that is hung as a decorative element (such as curtains, gobelins, or posters).
- (uncountable) The way in which hangings (decorations) are arranged.
adj
- (UK, slang, of a person, originally Manchester) Ugly; very unattractive; disgusting.
- Suspended.
- (typography, of a punctuation mark) Extending beyond the margins of a page.
- (baseball, slang, of an off-speed pitch) Hittable; poorly executed by the pitcher, hence relatively easy to hit.
- (chess, of a piece) Unprotected and exposed to capture.
verb
noun
adj
noun
- adornment consisting of a small piece of shiny material used to decorate clothing
- A speckle or spot, especially on the body of an animal.
- A shiny particle of a mineral.
- A point of light; also (rare), a glitter, a sparkle.
- (figuratively) A star.
- A small, flat piece of sparkling metallic or metal-like material with a hole which is sewn on to a garment, etc., for decoration; a sequin.
- Any small sparkling object.
- Any of a number of swallowtail butterflies (genus Papilio); specifically Papilio protenor.
verb
verb
- To decorate with ornaments; to adorn; to embellish.
- (cooking) To ornament with something placed around it.
- (law) To warn by garnishment; to give notice to.
- (law) To have (money) set aside by court order (particularly for the payment of alleged debts); to garnishee.
- decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods
- take a debtor's wages on legal orders, such as for child support
noun
- (slang, historical, uncountable) A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded from a newcomer by the older prisoners.
- (cooking) Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment.
- Clothes; garments, especially when showy or decorative.
- A set of dishes, often pewter, containing a dozen pieces of several types.
- (US, slang) Cash.
- Pewter vessels in general.
- Something added for embellishment.
- something (such as parsley) added to a dish for flavor or decoration
- any decoration added as a trimming or adornment
noun
- A piece of needlework embroidered with a variety of designs.
- a piece of embroidery demonstrating skill with various stitches
- A device that takes samples.
- A representative selection of a larger group.
- (music) An electronic musical instrument that records and plays back samples of recordings.
- Someone whose job is to take samples.
- an assortment of various samples
- someone who samples food or drink for its quality
- an observation station that is set up to make sample observations of something
noun
- A kind of needlework; appliqué.
- (bureaucracy, law) A petition, entreaty, or other request, with the adposition for denoting the subject matter.
- A verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school, course or similar.
- The substance applied.
- The act of requesting, claiming, or petitioning something.
- (computing theory) The substitution of a specific value for the parameter in the abstraction, in lambda calculus.
- The act of applying as a means; the employment of means to accomplish an end; specific use.
- The act of directing or referring something to a particular case, to discover or illustrate agreement or disagreement, fitness, or correspondence.
- Diligence; close thought or attention.
- (computing) A computer program or the set of software that the end user perceives as a single entity as a tool for a well-defined purpose. (Also called: application program; application software.)
- The act of physically applying or laying on.
- a verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school
- liquid preparation having a soothing or antiseptic or medicinal action when applied to the skin
- the action of putting something into operation
- the work of applying something
- a program that gives a computer instructions that provide the user with tools to accomplish a task
- a diligent effort
- the act of bringing something to bear; using it for a particular purpose
noun
noun
- decorating with a design
- representing figuratively as by emblem or allegory
- The act of giving figure or determinate form.
- (sociology) A structure through which people are joined, or the process of constructing such structures.
- (art) Representation through visual forms.
- Form, outline or boundaries.
- Mixture of concords and discords.
- Ornamentation or decoration, especially by the addition of figures.
noun
- (countable) A decoration made on wood by carving.
- (countable) A carved wooden object.
- (uncountable) The art of carving wood to make decorative objects.
- a form of working wood by means of a cutting tool (knife) in one hand or a chisel by two hands or with one hand on a chisel and one hand on a mallet, resulting in a wooden figure or figurine, or in the sculptural ornamentation of a wooden object.
noun
- A decorative ornament made by artful cutting of paper, as into silhouettes.
- A wound caused by a piece of paper or any thin, sharp material which can slice through a person's skin.
- (software) a paper cut bug: a bug which causes harm and would be easy to fix.
- (figurative) Any minor harm.
- (film and video editing) A text-based description of the cuts to be made in raw footage to make finished video.
noun
- A circular frame for embroidery.
- A rich kind of gold and silver embroidery.
- A rolling top or front (as of a rolltop desk) of narrow strips of wood glued on canvas.
- (military) A work usually in the form of a redan, to enclose a space before a door or staircase, or at the gorge of a larger work. It is arranged like a stockade.
- (music) A small shallow drum.
- (sports) In real tennis, a buttress-like obstruction in the main wall.
- (medicine) A shallow metallic cup or drum, with a thin elastic membrane supporting a writing lever. Two or more of these are connected by a rubber tube and used to transmit and register the movements of the pulse or of any pulsating artery.
- (architecture) Synonym of drum (“cylindrical stone in the shaft of a column”).
- Silk or other material embroidered on a tambour.
- (architecture) The capital of a Corinthian column.
- a drum
- a frame made of two hoops; used for embroidering
verb
noun
- a decoration consisting of wormlike carvings
- the process of wavelike muscle contractions of the alimentary tract that moves food along
- A pattern of irregular wavy lines resembling worms or their casts or tracks, found on the plumage of birds, used to decorate artworks and buildings, etc.
- The state of being infested or consumed by worms.
noun
verb
noun
- decoration that is hung (as a tapestry) on a wall or over a window
- the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely)
- a form of capital punishment; victim is suspended by the neck from a gallows or gibbet until dead
- (countable, uncountable) The act of hanging a person (or oneself) by the neck in order to kill that person (or to commit suicide).
- (countable) Anything that is hung as a decorative element (such as curtains, gobelins, or posters).
- (uncountable) The way in which hangings (decorations) are arranged.
adj
- (UK, slang, of a person, originally Manchester) Ugly; very unattractive; disgusting.
- Suspended.
- (typography, of a punctuation mark) Extending beyond the margins of a page.
- (baseball, slang, of an off-speed pitch) Hittable; poorly executed by the pitcher, hence relatively easy to hit.
- (chess, of a piece) Unprotected and exposed to capture.
verb
noun
adj
noun
- adornment consisting of a small piece of shiny material used to decorate clothing
- A speckle or spot, especially on the body of an animal.
- A shiny particle of a mineral.
- A point of light; also (rare), a glitter, a sparkle.
- (figuratively) A star.
- A small, flat piece of sparkling metallic or metal-like material with a hole which is sewn on to a garment, etc., for decoration; a sequin.
- Any small sparkling object.
- Any of a number of swallowtail butterflies (genus Papilio); specifically Papilio protenor.
verb
verb
- To decorate with quillwork.
- To pierce with quills. (Usually in the passive voice, as be quilled or get quilled.)
- (figuratively) To write.
- (US and Canada, especially Appalachia and the Prairies, transitive) To subject (a woman who is giving birth) to the practice of quilling (blowing pepper into her nose to induce or hasten labor).
- To form fabric into small, rounded folds.
noun
- (mechanical engineering) A quill drive, having a hollow shaft with another movable shaft inside it.
- (by extension) Any pen.
- A thin piece of bark, especially of cinnamon or cinchona, curled up into a tube.
- The lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs.
- Something having the form of a quill, such as the fold or plain of a ruff, or (weaving) a spindle, or spool, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle.
- (music) The tube of a musical instrument.
- A pen made from a feather.
- (zoology) The pen of a squid.
- (music) The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.
- A sharply pointed, barbed, and easily detached needle-like structure that grows on the skin of a porcupine or hedgehog as a defense against predators.
- any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird
- the hollow spine of a feather
- pen made from a bird's feather
- a stiff hollow protective spine on a porcupine or hedgehog
verb
noun
- a longitudinal slice or boned side of a fish
- a boneless steak cut from the tenderloin of beef
- lace having a square mesh
- a narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband
- a bundle of sensory nerve fibers going to the thalamus
- fastener consisting of a narrow strip of welded metal used to join steel members
- (woodworking) Any scantling smaller than a batten.
- A colored or gilded border.
- (anatomy) A fascia; a band of fibres; applied especially to certain bands of white matter in the brain.
- (engineering, drafting, CAD) A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an inside edge, added for a finished appearance and to break sharp edges.
- (heraldry) An ordinary equal in breadth to one quarter of the chief, to the lowest portion of which it corresponds in position.
- (construction) A heavy bead of waterproofing compound or sealant material generally installed at the point where vertical and horizontal surfaces meet.
- (architecture) The space between two flutings in a shaft.
- The raised moulding around the muzzle of a gun.
- A thin strip of any material, in various technical uses.
- (UK) A premium cut of meat, especially beef, taken from below the lower back of the animal, considered to be lean and tender; also called tenderloin.
- (architecture) A thin featureless moulding/molding used as separation between broader decorative mouldings.
- The thread of a screw.
- A strip or compact piece of meat or fish from which any bones and skin and feathers have been removed.
- The loins of a horse, beginning at the place where the hinder part of the saddle rests.
verb
noun
- a shape that is spherical and small
- a small ball with a hole through the middle
- a beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture
- Each in a string of small balls making up the rosary or paternoster.
- A bubble, in spirits.
- A small, round object with a hole to allow it to be threaded on a cord or wire, particularly for decorative purposes.
- Various small, round solid objects.
- (by extension) Knowledge sufficient to direct one's activities to a purpose.
- A small, round ball at the end of a barrel of a gun used for aiming.
- (architecture) A narrow molding with semicircular section.
- A rigid edge of a tire that mounts it on a wheel; tire bead.
- A small drop of water or other liquid.
verb
- decorate, as with ornaments
- adjust (sails on a ship) so that the wind is optimally used
- cut closely
- cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
- decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods
- be in equilibrium during a flight
- balance in flight by regulating the control surfaces
- cut down on; make a reduction in
- remove the edges from and cut down to the desired size
- (transitive, aviation, of an aircraft) To adjust the positions of control surfaces, sometimes using trim tabs, so as to modify or eliminate the aircraft's tendency to pitch, roll, or yaw when the cockpit controls are released.
- (transitive, nautical, of a vessel's sails) To modify the angle (of the sails) relative to the wind, especially to set them at the most advantageous angle.
- (transitive, nautical, of a vessel) To modify the angle relative to the water by shifting cargo or ballast; to adjust for sailing; to assume, or cause to assume a certain position, or trim, in the water.
- (transitive) To decorate or adorn; especially of a Christmas tree.
- (transitive, historical) To cut back the wick of (a lamp) to maintain a clean, bright flame.
- (transitive) To make trim; to put in due order for any purpose; to make right, neat, or pleasing; to adjust.
- (transitive) To reduce slightly; to cut; especially, to remove excess.
- (transitive, carpentry, of timber) To dress; to make smooth.
- (transitive, by extension) To change the carbon rods of (an arc lamp).
adj
noun
- cutting down to the desired size or shape
- attitude of an aircraft in flight when allowed to take its own orientation
- a state of arrangement or appearance
- a decoration or adornment typically on the edge of a garment
- (uncountable, underwater diving) The horizontal position of an underwater water
- (printing, binding, publishing) Any of the three cut edges of book pages, trimmed with a shear after binding.
- Dress; gear; ornaments.
- (by extension, uncountable, slang, mildly vulgar) Sexual intercourse with a woman.
- (especially automotive) Features optionally available on a vehicle; an established configuration of such features within a model (a trim level).
- (nautical) The arrangement of the sails with reference to the wind.
- (uncountable, aviation, of an aircraft) The state of adjustment of control surfaces such that the desired attitude can be maintained without requiring the continuous application of force to the cockpit controls.
- (nautical) The fore-and-aft angle of the vessel to the water, with reference to the cargo and ballast; the manner in which a vessel floats on the water, whether on an even keel or down by the head or stern.
- (countable) A haircut, especially a moderate one to touch up an existing style.
- (countable) The manner in which something is equipped or adorned; order; disposition.
- (uncountable, aviation, by extension) The mechanism(s) used to trim an aircraft in roll, pitch, and/or yaw.
- (uncountable, slang, mildly vulgar) The female genitalia.
- (uncountable) Decoration; especially, decoration placed along edges or borders.
adv
verb
- cover and decorate with objects that pierce the surface
- fasten with an adhesive material like glue
- pierce with a thrust using a pointed instrument
- be loyal to
- fasten into place by fixing an end or point into something
- stick to firmly
- be in a certain place and not leave
- come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- fasten with or as with pins or nails
- saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous
- pierce or penetrate or puncture with something pointed
- be a devoted follower or supporter
- put, fix, force, or implant
- endure
- be or become fixed
- (transitive) To place, set down (quickly or carelessly).
- (intransitive) To persist.
- (transitive) To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale.
- (intransitive) To remain loyal; to remain firm.
- (transitive, now only in dialects) To stab.
- (transitive, gymnastics, aviation, sports) To perform (a landing or a shot) perfectly.
- (transitive) To press (something with a sharp point) into something else.
- (intransitive) Of snow, to remain frozen on landing.
- To hit with a stick.
- (transitive, joinery) To run or plane (mouldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. Such mouldings are said to be stuck.
- (intransitive, blackjack, chiefly UK) To stand pat: to cease taking any more cards and finalize one's hand.
- (botany, transitive) To propagate plants by cuttings.
- (carpentry) To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint.
- (intransitive, US, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
- (transitive) To furnish or set with sticks.
- (transitive) To tolerate, to endure, to stick with.
- (intransitive) To jam; to stop moving.
- (intransitive) To become or remain attached; to adhere.
- (transitive) To attach with glue or as if by gluing.
noun
- a small thin branch of a tree
- a long implement (usually made of wood) that is shaped so that hockey or polo players can hit a puck or ball
- a long thin implement resembling a length of wood
- a rectangular quarter pound block of butter or margarine
- threat of a penalty
- an implement consisting of a length of wood
- a lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane
- marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking
- informal terms for the leg
- A small, thin branch from a tree or bush; a twig; a branch.
- (slang) Vigorous driving of a car; gas.
- (US) A timber board, especially a two by four (inches).
- (military) The structure to which a set of bombs in a bomber aircraft are attached and which drops the bombs when it is released. The bombs themselves and, by extension, any load of similar items dropped in quick succession such as paratroopers or containers.
- (slang) A bar (counter where drinks are served).
- (nautical) A mast or part of a mast of a ship; also, a yard.
- (golf) The pole bearing a small flag that marks the hole.
- (fishing) The amount of fishing line resting on the water surface before a cast; line stick.
- (boardsports) A board as used in board sports, such as a surfboard, snowboard, or skateboard.
- (horse racing) The short whip carried by a jockey.
- (figurative) A negative stimulus or a punishment. (This sense derives from the metaphor of using a stick, a long piece of wood, to poke or beat a beast of burden to compel it to move forward.)
- (uncountable) That which sticks (remains attached to another surface).
- (US, colloquial, uncountable) Vehicles, collectively, equipped with manual transmissions.
- (baseball) General hitting ability.
- (carpentry) The vertical member of a cope-and-stick joint.
- A standard rectangular strip of chewing gum.
- (sports, generically) A long thin implement used to control a ball or puck in sports like hockey, polo, and lacrosse.
- A relatively long, thin piece of wood, of any size.
- (field hockey or ice hockey) The potential accuracy of a hockey stick, implicating also the player using it.
- Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.
- (golf) The long-range driving ability of a golf club.
- (aviation, uncountable) Use of the stick to control the aircraft.
- A cudgel or truncheon (usually of wood, metal or plastic), especially one carried by police or guards.
- (slang) A cigarette (usually a tobacco cigarette, less often a marijuana cigarette).
- (video games) A joystick.
- (US, slang, uncountable) The cue used in billiards, pool, snooker, etc.
- (computing) A memory stick.
- (US, colloquial) A manual transmission, a vehicle equipped with a manual transmission, so called because of the stick-like, i.e. twig-like, control (the gear shift) with which the driver of such a vehicle controls its transmission.
- (uncountable) The tendency to stick (remain stuck), stickiness.
- A cane or walking stick (usually wooden, metal or plastic) to aid in walking.
- (slang) A handgun.
- (computing) Any of the eight 16-character groups making up the 128 characters of the 7-bit ASCII character set.
- (countable) A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.
- (slang) Vigor; spirit; effort, energy, intensity.
- The game of pool, or an individual pool game.
- (chiefly Canada, US) A small rectangular block, with a length several times its width, which contains by volume one half of a cup of shortening (butter, margarine or lard).
- (baseball) The potential hitting power of a specific bat.
- (figuratively) A piece (of furniture, especially if wooden).
- (jazz, slang) The clarinet.
- (slang, uncountable) Corporal punishment, beatings
- (British, figurative) Criticism or ridicule, often in the expressions "get a lot of stick", "get some stick", "come in for some stick", etc.
- (aviation) The control column of an aircraft; a joystick. (By convention, a wheel-like control mechanism with a handgrip on opposite sides, similar to the steering wheel of an automobile, can also be called the "stick", although "yoke" or "control wheel" is more commonly seen.)
- (US military slang, World War I) An aircraft’s propeller.
- A bunch of something wrapped around or attached to a stick.
- (motor racing) The traction of tires on the road surface.
adj
verb
noun
- An element of decoration; that which embellishes or adorns.
- (music) A musical flourish that is unnecessary to the overall melodic or harmonic line, but serves to decorate that line.
- (Christianity, in the plural) The articles used in church services.
- (by extension) Ellipsis of Christmas ornament; a Christmas tree decoration.
- (biology) A characteristic that has a decorative function (typically in order to attract a mate)
- something used to beautify
verb
- decorate with colors
- change color, often in an undesired manner
- add color to
- affect as in thought or feeling
- give a deceptive explanation or excuse for
- modify or bias
- (intransitive) To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers or crayons.
- (mathematics, graph theory) To assign colors to the vertices of a graph (or the regions of a map) so that no two vertices connected by an edge (regions sharing a border) have the same color.
- (transitive) To give something color.
- (transitive) To cause (a pipe, especially a meerschaum) to take on a brown or black color, by smoking.
- (of a person or their face) To become red through increased blood flow.
- (informal) To attribute a quality to; to portray (as).
- To affect without completely changing.
- (linguistics, usually of a phoneme) To affect the quality of a speech sound, especially a vowel.
adj
noun
- a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect
- an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading
- the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation
- interest and variety and intensity
- any material used for its color
- (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction
- the timbre of a musical sound
- (medicine) Skin color, noted as normal, jaundiced, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of the skin signs assessment.
- (linguistics) The quality of a particular vowel sound.
- (professional wrestling slang) To bleed, either through injury or blading. Usally prefaced with "get".
- (in the plural) The flag of a nation or team.
- A flushed appearance of blood in the face; redness of complexion.
- A front or facade; an ostensible truth actually false; pretext.
- (uncountable) Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
- A paint.
- (music) Timbre, often in relation to orchestration.
- (figuratively) Richness of expression; detail or flavour that is likely to generate interest or enjoyment.
- (finance, uncountable) A third-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change of gamma with respect to time, or equivalently the rate of change of charm with respect to changes in the underlying asset price.
- (countable) A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class.
- (in the plural) Gang insignia.
- (uncountable) The spectral composition of visible light.
- (physics) A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange by passing gluons; color charge.
- (in the plural) A standard or banner.
- These hues as used in color television or films, color photographs, etc (as opposed to the shades of grey used in black-and-white television).
- An appearance of right or authority; color of law.
- (military, in the plural) The morning ceremony of raising the flag.
- (mining) Gold, particles of gold found when prospecting.
- (typography) The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page. (See type color on Wikipedia.Wikipedia)
- (snooker) Any of the colored balls excluding the reds.
- (uncountable) Hue as opposed to achromatic colors (black, white and grays).
- (heraldry) Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and vert.
- (in the plural) An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
verb
adj
noun
- a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect
- an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading
- the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation
- interest and variety and intensity
- any material used for its color
- (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction
- the timbre of a musical sound
- Commonwealth and Ireland standard spelling of color.
verb
- decorate
- knock down with force
- be beautiful to look at
- (uncommon) To furnish with a deck, as a vessel.
- (transitive) To cover; to overspread.
- (informal) To knock someone to the floor, especially with a single punch.
- (collectible card games) To cause a player to run out of cards to draw, usually making them lose the game.
noun
- a porch that resembles the deck on a ship
- street name for a packet of illegal drugs
- any of various platforms built into a vessel
- a pack of 52 playing cards
- (graph theory) The multiset of graphs formed from a single graph by deleting a single vertex in all possible ways.
- (slang) A folded paper used for distributing illicit drugs.
- Any raised flat surface that can be walked on: a balcony; a porch; a raised patio; a flat rooftop.
- (aviation) A main aeroplane surface, especially of a biplane or multiplane.
- (card games) A pack or set of playing cards.
- (colloquial) The floor.
- (nautical) The floorlike covering of the horizontal sections, or compartments, of a ship or boat. Small vessels have only one deck; larger ships have two or three decks.
- (computing) A collection of cards (pages or forms) in systems such as WML (Wireless Markup Language) and HyperCard.
- (British, fishing) The bottom of a water body.
- (card games, by extension) A set of cards owned by each individual player and from which they draw when playing.
- Ellipsis of slide deck: a set of slides for a presentation.
- (theater) The stage.
- (journalism) A headline consisting of one or more full lines of text; especially, a subheadline.
- Ellipsis of tape deck.
verb
verb
- provide with decoration
- award a mark of honor, such as a medal, to
- make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.
- be beautiful to look at
- (By putting paint or wallpaper on the walls.)
- (transitive) To furnish with decorations.
- (By adding adornments to the interior space.)
- (programming, transitive) To extend a method, etc. by attaching some further code item.
- (transitive) To honor by providing a medal, ribbon, or other adornment.
verb
- provide with decoration
- cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
- give a neat appearance to
- arrange attractively
- cut down rough-hewn (lumber) to standard thickness and width
- convert into leather
- provide with clothes or put clothes on
- dress or groom with elaborate care
- arrange in ranks
- decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods
- kill and prepare for market or consumption
- put a dressing on
- dress in a certain manner
- put on clothes
- apply a bandage or medication to
- put a finish on
- To arrange or style (someone's hair).
- (agriculture, horticulture) To cultivate or tend to (a garden, land, plants, etc.); especially, to add fertilizer or manure to (soil); to fertilize, to manure.
- To apply a dressing to or otherwise treat (a wound); (obsolete) to give (a wounded person) medical aid.
- (slang) Ellipsis of cross-dress.
- (also reflexive and figuratively) To put clothes (or, formerly, armour) on (oneself or someone, a doll, a mannequin, etc.); to clothe.
- (especially of ores) To prepare by any of many types of physical processing (e.g., breaking, crushing, sorting, sieving, controlled burning or heating).
- To prepare, treat, or curry (animal hide or leather).
- To put on clothes.
- To design, make, provide, or select clothes (for someone).
- (also figuratively) To adorn or ornament (something).
- (butchering) Of an animal carcass: to have a certain quantity or weight after removal of the internal organs and skin; also, to have a certain appearance after being cut up and prepared for cooking.
- (specifically) To attire (oneself or someone) for a particular (especially formal) occasion, or in a fashionable manner.
- (fishing) To prepare (an artificial fly) to be attached to a fish hook.
- To arrange a display of goods in, or to decorate (a shop or shop window).
- (euphemistic, chiefly in the tailoring context) To allow one's penis to fall to one side or the other within one's trousers.
- To fit or prepare (something) for use; to render (something) suitable for an intended purpose; to get ready.
- To prepare (a set) by installing the props, scenery, etc.
- (military, sometimes imperative as a drill command) Of soldiers or troops: to arrange into proper formation; especially, to form into straight lines and at a proper distance from each other.
- To prepare the surface of (a material, such as lumber or stone; a grindstone or grinding wheel).
- (sports) Of a sportsperson: to put on the uniform and have the equipment needed to play a sport.
- (butchering) To cut up (an animal or its flesh) for food.
- (cooking) To prepare (food) for cooking or eating, especially by seasoning it; specifically, to add a dressing or sauce (to food, especially a salad).
- (historical or England, regional) To remove chaff or impurities from (flour, grain, etc.) by bolting or sifting, winnowing, and other methods.
- (nautical) To ornament (a ship) by hoisting the national colours at the peak and mastheads, and setting the jack forward; when "dressed full", the signal flags and pennants are added.
- To design, make, or prepare costumes (for a play or other performance); also, to present (a production) in a particular costume style.
- (military) To arrange (soldiers or troops) into proper formation; especially, to adjust (soldiers or troops) into straight lines and at a proper distance from each other; to align.
- Of a thing: to attain a certain condition after undergoing some process or treatment to fit or prepare it for use.
- (specifically) To attire oneself for a particular (especially formal) occasion, or in a fashionable manner.
adj
noun
- clothing in general
- a one-piece garment for a woman; has skirt and bodice
- clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion
- (figuratively) The external appearance of something, especially if intended to give a positive impression; garb, guise.
- The appearance of an object after it has undergone some process or treatment to fit or prepare it for use; finish.
- (film, television, theater) Ellipsis of dress rehearsal.
- Apparel or clothing, especially when appropriate for a particular occasion, profession, etc.
- (archaic outside of India) An item of outer clothing or set of such clothes (worn by people of all sexes) which is generally decorative and appropriate for a particular occasion, profession, etc.
- The external covering of an animal (for example, the feathers of a bird) or an object.
- (by extension, India) Any item of clothing, or an outfit.
- (clothing) An item of clothing (usually worn by a woman or young girl) which both covers the upper part of the body and includes a skirt below the waist.
verb
- To decorate with fringe or embroidered edge
- To rise in circles, ripples, or undulations; to curl; to mantle.
- (knitting) To use or create a purl stitch or stitches.
- (intransitive) To flow with a murmuring sound in swirls and eddies.
- flow in a circular current, of liquids
- knit with a purl stitch
- embroider with gold or silver thread
- edge or border with gold or silver embroidery
- make a murmuring sound
noun
- A gentle murmuring sound, such as that produced by the running of a liquid among obstructions.
- An embroidered and puckered border; a hem or fringe, often of gold or silver twist; also, a pleat or fold, as of a band.
- A circle made by the motion of a fluid; an eddy; a ripple.
- A particular stitch in knitting in which the working yarn is pulled through an existing stitch from front to back.
- a heavy or headlong fall; an upset.
- The edge of lace trimmed with loops.
- a basic knitting stitch made by putting the needle through the front of the stitch from the righthand side
- gold or silver wire thread
verb
noun
- (acarology) Any of a series of wrinkles on the backs of some ticks.
- (technology) A specific style of electric light bulb consisting of a cylindrical enclosure with two points of contact on either end providing power to the filament or diode.
- (manufacturing) Two sets of rollers used to create a buffer of material on web handling equipment.
- (architecture) A bas-relief, painting, or structural motif resembling such an ornament.
- Any of various papilionid butterflies of the genus Zerynthia.
- A raised cable with light globes attached.
- An ornament such as a garland or chain which hangs loosely from two tacked spots.
- (dentistry) Texturing applied to a denture to simulate human tissue.
- (astronomy) A cloud on Jupiter that hangs out of its home belt or zone into an adjacent area forming a curved finger-like image or a complete loop back to its home belt or zone.
- a curtain of fabric draped and bound at intervals to form graceful curves
- an embellishment consisting of a decorative representation of a string of flowers suspended between two points; used on pottery or in architectural work
- flower chains suspended in curves between points as a decoration
verb
adj
noun
- An ornate silk fabric originating from Damascus.
- A damask rose, Rosa × damascena.
- Linen so woven that a pattern is produced by the different directions of the thread, without contrast of colour.
- The peculiar markings or water of such steel.
- A grayish-pink color, like that of the damask rose.
- Damascus steel.
- A heavy woolen or worsted stuff with a pattern woven in the same way as the linen damask; made for furniture covering and hangings.
- a table linen made from linen with a damask pattern
- a fabric of linen or cotton or silk or wool with a reversible pattern woven into it
verb
- decorate with an interlaced design
- cause annoyance in
- worry unnecessarily or excessively
- provide (a musical instrument) with frets
- become or make sore by or as if by rubbing
- carve a pattern into
- gnaw into; make resentful or angry
- wear away or erode
- cause friction
- remove soil or rock
- be agitated or irritated
- be too tight; rub or press
- (transitive) To make rough, to agitate or disturb; to cause to ripple.
- (transitive, music) To press down the string behind a fret.
- (transitive) To decorate or ornament, especially with an interlaced or interwoven pattern, or (architecture) with carving or relief (raised) work.
- (transitive, music) # To fit frets on to (a musical instrument).
- (intransitive) To be anxious, to worry.
- (transitive) To cut through with a fretsaw, to create fretwork.
- (intransitive) To be agitated; to rankle; to be in violent commotion.
- (transitive) To form a pattern on; to variegate.
- (transitive) In the form fret out: to squander, to waste.
- (ambitransitive) To gnaw; to consume, to eat away.
- (intransitive, brewing, wine) To have secondary fermentation (fermentation occurring after the conversion of sugar to alcohol in beers and wine) take place.
- (ambitransitive) To be chafed or irritated; to be angry or vexed; to utter peevish expressions through irritation or worry.
- (transitive) To chafe or irritate; to worry.
- To bind, to tie, originally with a loop or ring.
- (ambitransitive) To mine by agitating or eating away at (ore in the bank of a river).
- (intransitive) To be worn away; to chafe; to fray.
noun
- an ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines (often in relief)
- agitation resulting from active worry
- a spot that has been worn away by abrasion or erosion
- a small bar of metal across the fingerboard of a musical instrument; when the string is stopped by a finger at the metal bar it will produce a note of the desired pitch
- Agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.
- Agitation of the mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation.
- (rare) A channel or passage created by the sea.
- (Northumbria) A fog or mist at sea, or coming inland from the sea.
- (mining, in the plural) The worn sides of riverbanks, where ores or stones containing them accumulate after being washed down from higher ground, which thus indicate to miners the locality of veins of ore.
- (music) One of the pieces of metal, plastic or wood across the neck of a guitar or other string instrument that marks where a finger should be positioned to depress a string as it is played.
- A channel, a strait; a fretum.
- (heraldry) A saltire interlaced with a mascle.
- An ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines, often in relief.
- Herpes; tetter (“any of various pustular skin conditions”).
verb
- To decorate with ornaments; to adorn; to embellish.
- (cooking) To ornament with something placed around it.
- (law) To warn by garnishment; to give notice to.
- (law) To have (money) set aside by court order (particularly for the payment of alleged debts); to garnishee.
- decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods
- take a debtor's wages on legal orders, such as for child support
noun
- (slang, historical, uncountable) A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded from a newcomer by the older prisoners.
- (cooking) Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment.
- Clothes; garments, especially when showy or decorative.
- A set of dishes, often pewter, containing a dozen pieces of several types.
- (US, slang) Cash.
- Pewter vessels in general.
- Something added for embellishment.
- something (such as parsley) added to a dish for flavor or decoration
- any decoration added as a trimming or adornment