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verb
noun
- a high gear used at high speeds to maintain the driving speed with less output power
- the state of high or excessive activity or productivity or concentration
- (euphemistic, slang) Freewheeling (driving a vehicle with the transmission in neutral) on downhill stretches to achieve higher fuel economy and/or speed than otherwise. In colloquial registers, ethnically bigoted variants have been common, such as Jewish overdrive (alluding to the stereotype of miserly Jews) or Mexican overdrive or Polish overdrive (alluding to stereotypes of foolishness and poverty).
- (uncountable, figurative) A state of heightened activity.
- (engineering, mechanical) A gear ratio higher than 1:1: one in which a single revolution of the driving element corresponds to more than one revolution of the driven element.
adj
noun
verb
verb
noun
- a notable achievement
- An achievement.
- (by extension, Internet, video games) An action or technique that takes advantage of the conditions of a video game to gain an advantage, or to disadvantage others.
- A heroic or extraordinary deed.
- (computing) A program or technique that takes advantage of a vulnerability in other software.
verb
- force or drive out
- cause to come out in a squirt
- press, force, or thrust out of a small space
- force to leave (an office)
- expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process
- force with the thumb
- terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
- emit or cause to move with force of effort
- To cause something to be ejected
- (baseball) To create an out by touching a base in advance of a runner who has no base to return to while in possession of a ball which has already touched the ground
noun
- a putout of a base runner who is required to run; the putout is accomplished by holding the ball while touching the base to which the runner must advance before the runner reaches that base
- (baseball) An instance of an out created by touching a base in advance of a runner who has no base to return to while in possession of a ball which has already touched the ground.
verb
- force or drive out
- cause to become awake or conscious
- become active
- cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
- (slang, when followed by "on") To tell off; to criticise.
- To cause, stir up, excite (a feeling, thought, etc.).
- (transitive) To wake (someone) from sleep, or from apathy.
- To cause to start from a covert or lurking place.
- (intransitive) To be awoken from sleep, or from apathy.
- (nautical) To pull by main strength; to haul.
- To provoke (someone) to action or anger.
noun
- Wine or other liquor considered an inducement to mirth or drunkenness; a full glass; a bumper.
- A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
- An official ceremony over drinks.
- An arousal.
- (military, British and Canada) The sounding of a bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers are to rise from bed, often the rouse.
verb
- To drive or ride briskly, so as to make a clattering.
- (intransitive) To make a rattling noise; to make noise by or from shaking.
- To make a clatter with one's voice; to talk rapidly and idly; often with on or away.
- (transitive, ergative) To create a rattling sound by shaking or striking.
- (transitive, figurative, informal) To scare, startle, unsettle, or unnerve.
- (UK, slang) To experience withdrawal from drugs.
- shake and cause to make a rattling noise
- make short successive sounds
noun
- (music) A musical instrument that makes a rattling sound.
- (onomatopoeia) A rapid succession of percussive sounds, as made by loose objects shaking or vibrating against one another.
- A rough noise produced in the throat by air passing through obstructed airways; croup; a death rattle.
- A device which produces a loud rattling sound, especially one having a ratchet mechanism and spun round on a handle.
- A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer.
- A baby’s toy designed to make sound when shaken, usually containing loose grains or pellets in a hollow container.
- Any of various plants of the genera Rhinanthus and Pedicularis, whose seeds produce a rattling noise in the wind.
- (historical units of measure) Alternative form of rottol: a former Middle Eastern and North African unit of dry weight usually equal to 1–5 lb (0.5–2.5 kg).
- (zoology) The set of rings at the end of a rattlesnake's tail which produce a rattling sound.
- a rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders)
- a baby's toy that makes percussive noises when shaken
- loosely connected horny sections at the end of a rattlesnake's tail
verb
- To work hard.
- To form a felt-like texture, similar to the way beaver fur is used for felt-making.
- (backgammon) After being doubled, to immediately double the stakes again, a move that keeps the doubling cube on one’s own side of the board.
- (slang) To spot a beard in a game of beaver.
- (logging, slang) To cut a continuous ring around a tree that one is felling.
- work hard on something
noun
- (countable, backgammon) A move in response to being doubled, in which one immediately doubles the stakes again, keeping the doubling cube on one’s own side of the board.
- Butter.
- Alternative letter-case form of Beaver (“member of the youngest wing of the Scout movement”).
- Beaver cloth, a heavy felted woollen cloth, used chiefly for making overcoats.
- Alternative spelling of bevor (“part of a helmet”).
- A brown colour, like that of a beaver.
- (chiefly Canada, US, slang, countable) The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself; (attributively) denoting films or literature featuring nude women.
- (Canada, US) Beaver pelts as an article of exchange or as a standard of value.
- (US, offensive, slang) A woman, especially one who is sexually attractive.
- (countable) A semiaquatic rodent of the genus Castor, having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet, native to the Northern Hemisphere.
- (countable, slang) A beard or a bearded person.
- (countable) A hat, of various shapes, made from a felted beaver fur (or later of silk), fashionable in Europe between 1550 and 1850.
- The fur of the beaver.
- (uncountable, historical, slang) A game, in which points are scored by spotting beards.
- a movable piece of armor on a medieval helmet used to protect the lower face
- the soft brown fur of the beaver
- a hat made with the fur of a beaver (or similar material)
- a full beard
- large semiaquatic rodent with webbed hind feet and a broad flat tail; construct complex dams and underwater lodges
- a man's hat with a tall crown; usually covered with silk or with beaver fur
verb
- To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir.
- (structural engineering) To tend to shear a structure (that is, force it to bend, lean, or move in different directions at different points).
- (nautical) To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
- (slang, transitive) To strike in the testicles.
- To fly, as vapour or broken clouds.
- (figurative) To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.
- To cause (someone) to suffer pain.
- (of a horse) To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace.
- (slang) To shoplift (especially in a megastore), often by taking off of a rack.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.
- (firearms) To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
- To place in or hang on a rack.
- (firearms) To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round.
- To torture (someone) on the rack.
- (mining) To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.
- (brewing) To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.
- (by extension) To take that which belongs to another, without regard of right or permission.
- torment emotionally or mentally
- go at a rack
- work on a rack
- fly in high wind
- seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block
- place in a rack
- put on a rack and pinion
- torture on the rack
- run before a gale
- draw off from the lees
- obtain by coercion or intimidation
- stretch to the limits
noun
- (slang, vulgar) A woman's breasts.
- (billiards, snooker) A hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game.
- (climbing, slang) A climber's set of equipment for setting up protection and belays, consisting of runners, slings, carabiners, nuts, Friends, etc.
- (nautical) A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.
- A fast amble.
- A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other.
- A cranequin, a mechanism including a rack, pinion and pawl, providing both mechanical advantage and a ratchet, used to bend and cock a crossbow.
- A distaff.
- (algebra) A set with a distributive binary operation whose action on the set is invertible.
- A grate on which bacon is laid.
- Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky.
- (slang, especially nautical) A bunk.
- Alternative form of arak.
- (nautical, by extension, slang, uncountable) Sleep.
- (mechanical engineering, rail transport) A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with those of a gearwheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive or be driven by it.
- (gambling) A plastic tray used for holding and moving chips.
- A set of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).
- (climbing, caving) A friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with five or more metal bars, around which the rope is threaded.
- A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs.
- (slang) A thousand dollars, especially if the proceeds are from a crime.
- Any of various kinds of frame for holding luggage or other objects on a vehicle or vessel.
- (historical) A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.
- (mechanical engineering) A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with a pawl as a ratchet allowing movement in one direction only, used for example in a handbrake or crossbow.
- an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims
- a form of torture in which pain is inflicted by stretching the body
- rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton
- the destruction or collapse of something
- a support for displaying or holding various articles
- a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately
verb
- (intransitive) To tire due to overwork; to overwork to one's limit.
- (intransitive) To become nonfunctional (especially of lightbulbs or similar light-producing devices).
- (intransitive, bowling, of a ball) To use up too much energy when first bowled and to therefore not finish strongly.
- (transitive) To destroy by fire.
- (intransitive, automotive) To have one's tires skid against the ground; to peel off, peel out.
- (intransitive) To become extinguished due to lack of fuel.
- (transitive) To cause (someone) to tire due to overwork; to cause (someone) to overwork to one's limit.
- (idiomatic) To make (someone) unavailable for work involving exposure to ionizing radiation by employing (the person) in such work until the person's accumulated exposure reaches the maximum permitted for an administrative period, typically a year.
- (intransitive, slang, uncommon) To end one's shift at a job.
- melt, break, or become otherwise unusable
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verb
noun
verb
- force or drive back
- cause to move back by force or influence
- reject outright and bluntly
- be repellent to; cause aversion in
- fill with distaste
- (transitive) To drive back (an assailant, advancing force etc.).
- (transitive) To cause repulsion or dislike in; to disgust.
- (transitive, sports) To save (a shot).
- (transitive) To reject, put off (a request, demand etc.).
- (transitive, physics) To force away by means of a repulsive force.
- (transitive) To ward off (a malignant influence, attack etc.).
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noun
adj
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- work as a driver
- cause someone or something to move by driving
- force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically
- strive and make an effort to reach a goal
- cause to move rapidly by striking or throwing with force
- cause to move back by force or influence
- (hunting) chase from cover into more open ground
- move by being propelled by a force
- operate or control a vehicle
- proceed along in a vehicle
- to compel or force or urge relentlessly or exert coercive pressure on, or motivate strongly
- (hunting) search for game
- move into a desired direction of discourse
- push, propel, or press with force
- excavate horizontally
- cause to function by supplying the force or power for or by controlling
- urge forward
- travel or be transported in a vehicle
- strike with a driver, as in teeing off
- have certain properties when driven
- compel somebody to do something, often against their own will or judgment
- hit very hard, as by swinging a bat horizontally
- (transitive) To cause (a mechanism) to operate.
- (intransitive) To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.
- (transitive, slang, aviation) To operate (an aircraft); to pilot.
- (intransitive) To move forcefully.
- (transitive) To separate the lighter (feathers or down) from the heavier, by exposing them to a current of air.
- (transitive) (especially animals) To cause to flee out of.
- (transitive, intransitive) To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.
- (transitive) To compel, exert pressure, coerce (to do something).
- (intransitive, sports, cricket, tennis, baseball) To hit the ball with a drive.
- (transitive) To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
- (transitive) To displace either physically or non-physically, through the application of force.
- To be the dominant party in a sex act.
- (transitive) To convey (a person, etc.) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.
- (transitive) To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.
- (transitive) (especially of animals) To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.
- (transitive) To cause to become.
- (transitive, ergative) To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).
- (transitive) To motivate through the application or demonstration of force; to impel or urge onward in such a way.
- (transitive) To provide an impetus for motion or other physical change, to move an object by means of the provision of force thereto.
- (transitive) To motivate; to provide an incentive for.
- (mining) To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
- (American football) To put together a drive (n.): to string together offensive plays and advance the ball down the field.
- (intransitive) To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship).
- (transitive) To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
- (transitive) To provide an impetus for a change in one's situation or state of mind.
noun
- the act of applying force to propel something
- a mechanism by which force or power is transmitted in a machine
- hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver
- a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
- a wide scenic road planted with trees
- the act of driving a herd of animals overland
- the trait of being highly motivated
- a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile)
- (computer science) a device that writes data onto or reads data from a storage medium
- a physiological state corresponding to a strong need or desire
- (sports) a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash)
- a road leading up to a private house
- (American football) An offensive possession, generally one consisting of several plays and/ or first downs, often leading to a scoring opportunity.
- (retail) A campaign aimed at selling more of a certain product or promoting a public service.
- (golf) A stroke made with a driver.
- (philanthropy) A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive.
- (soccer) A straight level shot or pass.
- (typography) An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift.
- An act of driving livestock animals forward, to transport a herd.
- (psychology) Desire or interest.
- A mechanism used to power or give motion to a vehicle or other machine or machine part.
- A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.
- A trip made in a vehicle (now generally in a motor vehicle).
- (automotive) The gear into which one usually shifts an automatic transmission when one is driving a car or truck. (Denoted with symbol D on a shifter's labeling.)
- Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; (especially) a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
- Planned, usually long-lasting, effort to achieve something; ability coupled with ambition, determination, and motivation.
- (computer hardware) An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk.
- (military) A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take an objective.
- (computer hardware) A mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with the mechanism for storing data.
- A type of public roadway.
- (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a vertical arc, through the line of the ball, and hitting it along the ground, normally between cover and midwicket.
- (baseball, tennis) A ball struck in a flat trajectory.
- An act of driving game animals forward, to be captured or hunted.
- A driveway.
- (UK, especially Bristol and Wales, slang) Friendly term of address for a bus driver.
verb
noun
- Hard work.
- (glassblowing, blow molding) The excess material which adheres to the top, base, or rim of a glass object when it is cut or knocked off from a blowpipe or punty, or from the mold-filling process. Typically removed after annealing as part of the finishing process (e.g. scored and snapped off).
- A spot; a defilement.
- (glassblowing) The metallic oxide from a blowpipe which has adhered to a glass object.
- Confusion, turmoil.
- (glassblowing) The glass circling the tip of a blowpipe or punty, such as the residual glass after detaching a blown vessel, or the lower part of a gather.
verb
- work hard
- remove, harvest, or recover by digging
- remove the inner part or the core of
- get the meaning of something
- turn up, loosen, or remove earth
- thrust down or into
- create by digging
- poke or thrust abruptly
- (transitive) To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.
- (mining) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
- (volleyball) To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball
- To thrust; to poke.
- (figurative) To investigate, to research, often followed by out or up.
- (transitive, intransitive) To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way.
noun
- the act of digging
- the site of an archeological exploration
- an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
- the act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow
- a small gouge (as in the cover of a book)
- An archeological or paleontological investigation, or the site where such an investigation is taking place.
- The occupation of digging for gold.
- (music, slang) A rare or interesting vinyl record bought second-hand.
- (medicine, colloquial) Digoxin.
- (cricket) An innings.
- A thrust; a poke.
- (volleyball) A defensive pass of the ball that has been attacked by the opposing team.
- A cutting, sarcastic remark.
verb
- work hard
- exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress
- act as a servant for older boys, in British public schools
- (intransitive, UK, Ireland, education, historical, colloquial) Of a younger student, to act as a servant for senior students in many British boarding schools.
- (transitive, UK, Ireland, education, historical, colloquial) To have (a younger student) act as a servant in this way.
noun
- finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking
- offensive term for a homosexual man
- (US, vulgar, derogatory, offensive) An annoying person.
- (education, historical, colloquial) A younger student acting as a servant for senior students.
- (US, technical) In textile inspections, a rough or coarse defect in the woven fabric.
- (US, Canada, vulgar, usually offensive, sometimes endearing) A homosexual man.
- (UK, Ireland, colloquial) A cigarette.
- (slang, offensive, usually derogatory) An effeminate or unusual homosexual man.
verb
- work hard
- make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together
- reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading
- press or grind with a crushing noise
- created by grinding
- dance by rotating the pelvis in an erotically suggestive way, often while in contact with one's partner such that the dancers' legs are interlaced
- shape or form by grinding
- (transitive) To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion.
- (sports, intransitive) To slide the flat portion of a skateboard or snowboard across an obstacle such as a railing.
- (slang, Hawaii) To eat.
- (slang) To dance in a sexually suggestive way with both partners in very close proximity, often pressed against each other.
- To produce mechanically and repetitively as if by turning a crank.
- (slang) To rub one's body against another's in a sexual way; to frottage.
- To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
- (transitive) To shape with the force of friction.
- (metalworking) To remove material by rubbing with an abrasive surface.
- (transitive) To operate by turning a crank.
- To instill through repetitive teaching.
- (video games) To repeat a task a large number of times in a row to achieve a specific goal.
- (intransitive, slang) To work or study hard; to hustle or drudge.
- (transitive, slang) To annoy or irritate (a person); to grind one's gears.
- (intransitive) To become ground, pulverized, or polished by friction.
- (transitive) To oppress, hold down or weaken.
- (slang, intransitive) To rotate the hips erotically.
noun
- an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious
- the act of grinding to a powder or dust
- the grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground
- hard monotonous routine work
- A specific degree of pulverization of coffee beans.
- A grinding trick on a skateboard or snowboard.
- (uncountable, slang) Hustle; hard work.
- A traditional communal pilot whale hunt in the Faroe Islands.
- Something that has been reduced to powder, something that has been ground.
- (uncountable, music) Clipping of grindcore (“subgenre of heavy metal”).
- A tedious and laborious task.
- The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.
verb
noun
- an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement
- concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child
- productive work (especially physical work done for wages)
- a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages
- any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
- (chiefly American spelling) Alternative spelling of labour.
verb
- work hard
- strive and make an effort to reach a goal
- undergo the efforts of childbirth
- To suffer the pangs of childbirth.
- To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially hard or wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under a burden.
- (transitive) To belabour, to emphasise or expand upon (a point in a debate, etc).
- (nautical) To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.
- (intransitive) To toil, to work.
noun
- an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement
- concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child
- productive work (especially physical work done for wages)
- a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages
- any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
- (uncountable) Workers in general; the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labour movement, organised labour.
- (historical) A traditional unit of area in Mexico and Texas, equivalent to 177.1 acres or 71.67 ha.
- The time period during which a mother gives birth.
- (uncountable) A political party or force aiming or claiming to represent the interests of labour.
- An effort expended on a particular task; toil, work.
- (uncommon, zoology) A group of moles.
- That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.
- (medicine, obstetrics) The act or process of a mother giving birth.
- (nautical) The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.
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verb
- To exhaust, by working.
- To force to work.
- (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
- (transitive) To move or progress slowly [with one's way].
- (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
- Said of one's job title [with as].
- General use, said of either fellow employees or instruments or clients [with with].
- (intransitive) To ferment.
- (transitive) To cause to ferment.
- (transitive) To embroider with thread.
- (transitive) To work or operate in, through, or by means of.
- (transitive) To cause to move slowly or with difficulty.
- (ditransitive, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad).
- (law) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
- (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
- (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
- (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled
- Said of a company or individual who employs [with for].
- To set into action.
- To provoke or excite; to influence.
- To shape, form, or improve a material.
- Said of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business) [with in or at].
- (slang, transitive) To pull off; to wear, perform, etc. successfully or to advantage.
- (LGBTQ slang, intransitive) To perform with a confident attitude, particularly as a drag queen.
- (intransitive) To move or progress slowly or with difficulty; to proceed with effort.
- (transitive) To work or operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
- To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
- provoke or excite
- have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected
- prepare for crops
- arrive at a certain condition through repeated motion
- operate in or through
- to mix into a homogeneous mass
- behave in a certain way when handled
- move in an agitated manner
- move into or onto
- proceed towards a goal or along a path or through an activity
- operate in a certain place, area, or specialty
- cause to work
- cause to happen or to occur as a consequence
- use or manipulate to one's advantage
- exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity; work
- find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of
- proceed along a path
- shape, form, or improve a material
- make something, usually for a specific function
- give a workout to
- cause to operate or function
- go sour or spoil
- gratify and charm, usually in order to influence
- perform as expected when applied
- be employed
- have and exert influence or effect
- cause to undergo fermentation
noun
- (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
- Effort expended on a particular task.
- (physics, more generally) A measure of energy that is usefully extracted from a process: applied productively.
- (uncountable, often in combination) The result of a particular manner of production.
- The place where one is employed.
- (LGBTQ slang) The confident attitude of a drag queen.
- Labour, occupation, job.
- (countable) A fortification.
- (slang, plural only) The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.)
- Something on which effort is expended.
- (prison slang) Prison gang violence.
- (uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.
- Sustained effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result.
- (uncountable, often in combination) Something produced using the specified material or tool.
- (physics) A measure of energy expended in moving an object; most commonly, force times distance. No work is done if the object does not move.
- (euphemistic) Cosmetic surgery.
- (countable) A literary, artistic, or intellectual production; a creative work.
- (by extension) One's employer.
- the occupation for which you are paid
- a place where work is done
- applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading)
- activity directed toward making or doing something
- a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing
- (physics) a manifestation of energy; the transfer of energy from one physical system to another expressed as the product of a force and the distance through which it moves a body in the direction of that force
- the total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial part of it)
verb
noun
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) A person who drives excessively quickly, loudly or irresponsibly; a street drag racer often driving heavily customized cars.
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) An attempt or go at something.
- (India, historical) A pagoda, a type of gold coin.
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang, derogatory) A worthless person; a hooligan or lout.
- (historical) A unit of weight (about 0.378125 of a gram, or 0.0133 of an ounce) used to measure opium in British-controlled parts of Asia; a candareen.
verb
- work doggedly or persistently
- walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud
- strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat
- (intransitive, by extension) To work slowly and deliberately at a tedious task.
- (intransitive) To walk slowly or doggedly, encountering resistance.
- To strike something with a heavy blow, especially a ball with a bat.
noun
- (countable, cricket) An aggressive shot played with little skill.
- (countable) A book or other media that is difficult to get through due to dullness, density, or lack of narrative momentum.
- (countable, uncountable, chiefly British, Australia and Canada, by extension) A hard, persistent effort, session of work, or period.
- (countable, uncountable, chiefly British, Australia and Canada) A long, tedious walk or march.
verb
- (intransitive) To drive away, especially at a fast speed.
- (transitive) To remove (an outer layer or covering, such as clothing).
- (intransitive) To separate off from the main body, to move off to one side; as in troop movements on a parade ground or an organized retreat, or columns in a procession.
- peel off in scales
- leave a formation
- peel off the outer layer of something
- take off, as with some difficulty
- come off in flakes or thin small pieces
adj
- Requiring effort or labor; difficult, laborious.
- (informal) Very bad, poor.
- Causing pain or distress, either physical or mental.
- Afflicted or suffering with pain (of a body part or, formerly, of a person).
- causing misery or pain or distress
- causing physical or psychological pain
- exceptionally bad or displeasing
- causing physical discomfort
verb
noun
noun
noun
- The action of the verb to drive in any sense.
- In particular, the action of operating a motor vehicle.
- (golf) The act of driving the ball; hitting the ball a long distance, especially from the tee to the putting green.
- the act of controlling and steering the movement of a vehicle or animal
- hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver
adj
verb
verb
adv
noun
verb
- exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress
- lose interest or become bored with something or somebody
- (intransitive, engineering, of a material specimen) To undergo the process of fatigue; to fail as a result of fatigue.
- (transitive) To tire or make weary by physical or mental exertion.
- (transitive, engineering) To cause to undergo the process of fatigue.
- (intransitive) To lose so much strength or energy that one becomes tired, weary, feeble or exhausted.
- (transitive, cooking) To wilt a salad by dressing or tossing it.
noun
- temporary loss of strength and energy resulting from hard physical or mental work
- used of materials (especially metals) in a weakened state caused by long stress
- labor of a nonmilitary kind done by soldiers (cleaning or digging or draining or so on)
- (always used with a modifier) boredom resulting from overexposure to something
- (engineering) Weakening and eventual failure of material, typically by cracking leading to complete separation, caused by repeated application of mechanical stress to the material.
- (often in the plural) A menial task or tasks, especially in the military.
- A weariness caused by exertion; exhaustion.
- (US) Attributive form of fatigues (“military clothing worn when doing menial tasks”).
verb
adj
noun
- a woman adulterer
- a light green color varying from bluish green to yellowish green
- a semiprecious gemstone that takes a high polish; is usually green but sometimes whitish; consists of jadeite or nephrite
- an old or over-worked horse
- (especially derogatory) A bad-tempered or disreputable woman.
- A horse too old to be put to work.
- A bright shade of slightly bluish or greyish green, typical of polished jade stones.
- A succulent plant, Crassula ovata.
- A semiprecious stone, either nephrite or jadeite, generally green or white in color, often used for carving figurines.
verb
noun
- hoop that covers a wheel
- A child's apron covering the upper part of the body, and tied with tape or cord; a pinafore. Also tier.
- A covering for the head; a headdress.
- (American spelling) Alternative spelling of tyre: The metal rim of a wheel, especially that of a railroad locomotive.
- A tier, row, or rank.
- (American spelling, Canadian spelling) Alternative spelling of tyre: The rubber covering on a wheel.
verb
- exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress
- To exhaust, fatigue, expend, or weary.
- have in one's aspect; wear an expression of one's attitude or personality
- last and be usable
- put clothing on one's body
- deteriorate through use or stress
- go to pieces
- have or show an appearance of
- be dressed in
- have on one's person
- (intransitive, copulative) To undergo gradual deterioration; become impaired; be reduced or consumed gradually due to any continued process, activity, or use.
- (nautical) To bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern (as opposed to tacking when the wind is brought around the bow); to come round on another tack by turning away from the wind.
- (now chiefly UK dialectal, transitive) To guard; watch; keep watch, especially from entry or invasion.
- To eat away at, erode, diminish, or consume gradually; to cause a gradual deterioration in; to produce (some change) through attrition, exposure, or constant use.
- To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc.
- (intransitive, colloquial) (in the phrase "wearing on (someone)") To cause annoyance, irritation, fatigue, or weariness near the point of an exhaustion of patience.
- To bear or display in one's aspect or appearance.
- (colloquial, with "it") To overcome one's reluctance and endure a (previously specified) situation.
- (now chiefly UK dialectal, transitive) To defend; protect.
- (intransitive, of time) To pass slowly, gradually or tediously.
- (now chiefly UK dialectal, transitive) To ward off; prevent from approaching or entering; drive off; repel.
- To have or carry on one's person habitually, consistently; or, to maintain in a particular fashion or manner.
- (intransitive) To last or remain durable under hard use or over time; to retain usefulness, value, or desirable qualities under any continued strain or long period of time; sometimes said of a person, regarding the quality of being easy or difficult to tolerate.
- (now chiefly UK dialectal, transitive) To conduct or guide with care or caution, as into a fold or place of safety.
noun
verb
- exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress
- deteriorate through use or stress
- go to pieces
- (intransitive) To become exhausted, tired, fatigued, or weary, as by continued strain or exertion.
- Of apparel, to display in public.
- To exhaust; to cause or contribute to another's exhaustion, fatigue, or weariness, as by continued strain or exertion.
- (chiefly Southern US) To punish by spanking.
- To cause (something) to become damaged, useless, or ineffective through continued use, especially hard, heavy, or careless use.
- Of a shirt, to not tuck into the pants; to wear in a casual manner.
- (intransitive) To deteriorate or become unusable or ineffective due to continued use, exposure, or strain.
verb
adj
adj
noun
noun
noun
- The action of the verb to drive in any sense.
- In particular, the action of operating a motor vehicle.
- (golf) The act of driving the ball; hitting the ball a long distance, especially from the tee to the putting green.
- the act of controlling and steering the movement of a vehicle or animal
- hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver
adj
verb
verb
noun
- Hard work.
- (glassblowing, blow molding) The excess material which adheres to the top, base, or rim of a glass object when it is cut or knocked off from a blowpipe or punty, or from the mold-filling process. Typically removed after annealing as part of the finishing process (e.g. scored and snapped off).
- A spot; a defilement.
- (glassblowing) The metallic oxide from a blowpipe which has adhered to a glass object.
- Confusion, turmoil.
- (glassblowing) The glass circling the tip of a blowpipe or punty, such as the residual glass after detaching a blown vessel, or the lower part of a gather.
verb
noun
- a high gear used at high speeds to maintain the driving speed with less output power
- the state of high or excessive activity or productivity or concentration
- (euphemistic, slang) Freewheeling (driving a vehicle with the transmission in neutral) on downhill stretches to achieve higher fuel economy and/or speed than otherwise. In colloquial registers, ethnically bigoted variants have been common, such as Jewish overdrive (alluding to the stereotype of miserly Jews) or Mexican overdrive or Polish overdrive (alluding to stereotypes of foolishness and poverty).
- (uncountable, figurative) A state of heightened activity.
- (engineering, mechanical) A gear ratio higher than 1:1: one in which a single revolution of the driving element corresponds to more than one revolution of the driven element.
verb
noun
- a notable achievement
- An achievement.
- (by extension, Internet, video games) An action or technique that takes advantage of the conditions of a video game to gain an advantage, or to disadvantage others.
- A heroic or extraordinary deed.
- (computing) A program or technique that takes advantage of a vulnerability in other software.
verb
- force or drive out
- cause to come out in a squirt
- press, force, or thrust out of a small space
- force to leave (an office)
- expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process
- force with the thumb
- terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
- emit or cause to move with force of effort
- To cause something to be ejected
- (baseball) To create an out by touching a base in advance of a runner who has no base to return to while in possession of a ball which has already touched the ground
noun
- a putout of a base runner who is required to run; the putout is accomplished by holding the ball while touching the base to which the runner must advance before the runner reaches that base
- (baseball) An instance of an out created by touching a base in advance of a runner who has no base to return to while in possession of a ball which has already touched the ground.
verb
- force or drive out
- cause to become awake or conscious
- become active
- cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
- (slang, when followed by "on") To tell off; to criticise.
- To cause, stir up, excite (a feeling, thought, etc.).
- (transitive) To wake (someone) from sleep, or from apathy.
- To cause to start from a covert or lurking place.
- (intransitive) To be awoken from sleep, or from apathy.
- (nautical) To pull by main strength; to haul.
- To provoke (someone) to action or anger.
noun
- Wine or other liquor considered an inducement to mirth or drunkenness; a full glass; a bumper.
- A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
- An official ceremony over drinks.
- An arousal.
- (military, British and Canada) The sounding of a bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers are to rise from bed, often the rouse.
verb
- To drive or ride briskly, so as to make a clattering.
- (intransitive) To make a rattling noise; to make noise by or from shaking.
- To make a clatter with one's voice; to talk rapidly and idly; often with on or away.
- (transitive, ergative) To create a rattling sound by shaking or striking.
- (transitive, figurative, informal) To scare, startle, unsettle, or unnerve.
- (UK, slang) To experience withdrawal from drugs.
- shake and cause to make a rattling noise
- make short successive sounds
noun
- (music) A musical instrument that makes a rattling sound.
- (onomatopoeia) A rapid succession of percussive sounds, as made by loose objects shaking or vibrating against one another.
- A rough noise produced in the throat by air passing through obstructed airways; croup; a death rattle.
- A device which produces a loud rattling sound, especially one having a ratchet mechanism and spun round on a handle.
- A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer.
- A baby’s toy designed to make sound when shaken, usually containing loose grains or pellets in a hollow container.
- Any of various plants of the genera Rhinanthus and Pedicularis, whose seeds produce a rattling noise in the wind.
- (historical units of measure) Alternative form of rottol: a former Middle Eastern and North African unit of dry weight usually equal to 1–5 lb (0.5–2.5 kg).
- (zoology) The set of rings at the end of a rattlesnake's tail which produce a rattling sound.
- a rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders)
- a baby's toy that makes percussive noises when shaken
- loosely connected horny sections at the end of a rattlesnake's tail
verb
- To work hard.
- To form a felt-like texture, similar to the way beaver fur is used for felt-making.
- (backgammon) After being doubled, to immediately double the stakes again, a move that keeps the doubling cube on one’s own side of the board.
- (slang) To spot a beard in a game of beaver.
- (logging, slang) To cut a continuous ring around a tree that one is felling.
- work hard on something
noun
- (countable, backgammon) A move in response to being doubled, in which one immediately doubles the stakes again, keeping the doubling cube on one’s own side of the board.
- Butter.
- Alternative letter-case form of Beaver (“member of the youngest wing of the Scout movement”).
- Beaver cloth, a heavy felted woollen cloth, used chiefly for making overcoats.
- Alternative spelling of bevor (“part of a helmet”).
- A brown colour, like that of a beaver.
- (chiefly Canada, US, slang, countable) The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself; (attributively) denoting films or literature featuring nude women.
- (Canada, US) Beaver pelts as an article of exchange or as a standard of value.
- (US, offensive, slang) A woman, especially one who is sexually attractive.
- (countable) A semiaquatic rodent of the genus Castor, having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet, native to the Northern Hemisphere.
- (countable, slang) A beard or a bearded person.
- (countable) A hat, of various shapes, made from a felted beaver fur (or later of silk), fashionable in Europe between 1550 and 1850.
- The fur of the beaver.
- (uncountable, historical, slang) A game, in which points are scored by spotting beards.
- a movable piece of armor on a medieval helmet used to protect the lower face
- the soft brown fur of the beaver
- a hat made with the fur of a beaver (or similar material)
- a full beard
- large semiaquatic rodent with webbed hind feet and a broad flat tail; construct complex dams and underwater lodges
- a man's hat with a tall crown; usually covered with silk or with beaver fur
verb
- To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir.
- (structural engineering) To tend to shear a structure (that is, force it to bend, lean, or move in different directions at different points).
- (nautical) To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
- (slang, transitive) To strike in the testicles.
- To fly, as vapour or broken clouds.
- (figurative) To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.
- To cause (someone) to suffer pain.
- (of a horse) To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace.
- (slang) To shoplift (especially in a megastore), often by taking off of a rack.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.
- (firearms) To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
- To place in or hang on a rack.
- (firearms) To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round.
- To torture (someone) on the rack.
- (mining) To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.
- (brewing) To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.
- (by extension) To take that which belongs to another, without regard of right or permission.
- torment emotionally or mentally
- go at a rack
- work on a rack
- fly in high wind
- seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block
- place in a rack
- put on a rack and pinion
- torture on the rack
- run before a gale
- draw off from the lees
- obtain by coercion or intimidation
- stretch to the limits
noun
- (slang, vulgar) A woman's breasts.
- (billiards, snooker) A hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game.
- (climbing, slang) A climber's set of equipment for setting up protection and belays, consisting of runners, slings, carabiners, nuts, Friends, etc.
- (nautical) A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.
- A fast amble.
- A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other.
- A cranequin, a mechanism including a rack, pinion and pawl, providing both mechanical advantage and a ratchet, used to bend and cock a crossbow.
- A distaff.
- (algebra) A set with a distributive binary operation whose action on the set is invertible.
- A grate on which bacon is laid.
- Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky.
- (slang, especially nautical) A bunk.
- Alternative form of arak.
- (nautical, by extension, slang, uncountable) Sleep.
- (mechanical engineering, rail transport) A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with those of a gearwheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive or be driven by it.
- (gambling) A plastic tray used for holding and moving chips.
- A set of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).
- (climbing, caving) A friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with five or more metal bars, around which the rope is threaded.
- A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs.
- (slang) A thousand dollars, especially if the proceeds are from a crime.
- Any of various kinds of frame for holding luggage or other objects on a vehicle or vessel.
- (historical) A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.
- (mechanical engineering) A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with a pawl as a ratchet allowing movement in one direction only, used for example in a handbrake or crossbow.
- an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims
- a form of torture in which pain is inflicted by stretching the body
- rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton
- the destruction or collapse of something
- a support for displaying or holding various articles
- a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately
verb
- (intransitive) To tire due to overwork; to overwork to one's limit.
- (intransitive) To become nonfunctional (especially of lightbulbs or similar light-producing devices).
- (intransitive, bowling, of a ball) To use up too much energy when first bowled and to therefore not finish strongly.
- (transitive) To destroy by fire.
- (intransitive, automotive) To have one's tires skid against the ground; to peel off, peel out.
- (intransitive) To become extinguished due to lack of fuel.
- (transitive) To cause (someone) to tire due to overwork; to cause (someone) to overwork to one's limit.
- (idiomatic) To make (someone) unavailable for work involving exposure to ionizing radiation by employing (the person) in such work until the person's accumulated exposure reaches the maximum permitted for an administrative period, typically a year.
- (intransitive, slang, uncommon) To end one's shift at a job.
- melt, break, or become otherwise unusable
noun
verb
noun
verb
- force or drive back
- cause to move back by force or influence
- reject outright and bluntly
- be repellent to; cause aversion in
- fill with distaste
- (transitive) To drive back (an assailant, advancing force etc.).
- (transitive) To cause repulsion or dislike in; to disgust.
- (transitive, sports) To save (a shot).
- (transitive) To reject, put off (a request, demand etc.).
- (transitive, physics) To force away by means of a repulsive force.
- (transitive) To ward off (a malignant influence, attack etc.).
verb
noun
verb
- work as a driver
- cause someone or something to move by driving
- force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically
- strive and make an effort to reach a goal
- cause to move rapidly by striking or throwing with force
- cause to move back by force or influence
- (hunting) chase from cover into more open ground
- move by being propelled by a force
- operate or control a vehicle
- proceed along in a vehicle
- to compel or force or urge relentlessly or exert coercive pressure on, or motivate strongly
- (hunting) search for game
- move into a desired direction of discourse
- push, propel, or press with force
- excavate horizontally
- cause to function by supplying the force or power for or by controlling
- urge forward
- travel or be transported in a vehicle
- strike with a driver, as in teeing off
- have certain properties when driven
- compel somebody to do something, often against their own will or judgment
- hit very hard, as by swinging a bat horizontally
- (transitive) To cause (a mechanism) to operate.
- (intransitive) To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.
- (transitive, slang, aviation) To operate (an aircraft); to pilot.
- (intransitive) To move forcefully.
- (transitive) To separate the lighter (feathers or down) from the heavier, by exposing them to a current of air.
- (transitive) (especially animals) To cause to flee out of.
- (transitive, intransitive) To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.
- (transitive) To compel, exert pressure, coerce (to do something).
- (intransitive, sports, cricket, tennis, baseball) To hit the ball with a drive.
- (transitive) To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
- (transitive) To displace either physically or non-physically, through the application of force.
- To be the dominant party in a sex act.
- (transitive) To convey (a person, etc.) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.
- (transitive) To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.
- (transitive) (especially of animals) To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.
- (transitive) To cause to become.
- (transitive, ergative) To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).
- (transitive) To motivate through the application or demonstration of force; to impel or urge onward in such a way.
- (transitive) To provide an impetus for motion or other physical change, to move an object by means of the provision of force thereto.
- (transitive) To motivate; to provide an incentive for.
- (mining) To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
- (American football) To put together a drive (n.): to string together offensive plays and advance the ball down the field.
- (intransitive) To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship).
- (transitive) To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
- (transitive) To provide an impetus for a change in one's situation or state of mind.
noun
- the act of applying force to propel something
- a mechanism by which force or power is transmitted in a machine
- hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver
- a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
- a wide scenic road planted with trees
- the act of driving a herd of animals overland
- the trait of being highly motivated
- a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile)
- (computer science) a device that writes data onto or reads data from a storage medium
- a physiological state corresponding to a strong need or desire
- (sports) a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash)
- a road leading up to a private house
- (American football) An offensive possession, generally one consisting of several plays and/ or first downs, often leading to a scoring opportunity.
- (retail) A campaign aimed at selling more of a certain product or promoting a public service.
- (golf) A stroke made with a driver.
- (philanthropy) A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive.
- (soccer) A straight level shot or pass.
- (typography) An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift.
- An act of driving livestock animals forward, to transport a herd.
- (psychology) Desire or interest.
- A mechanism used to power or give motion to a vehicle or other machine or machine part.
- A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.
- A trip made in a vehicle (now generally in a motor vehicle).
- (automotive) The gear into which one usually shifts an automatic transmission when one is driving a car or truck. (Denoted with symbol D on a shifter's labeling.)
- Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; (especially) a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
- Planned, usually long-lasting, effort to achieve something; ability coupled with ambition, determination, and motivation.
- (computer hardware) An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk.
- (military) A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take an objective.
- (computer hardware) A mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with the mechanism for storing data.
- A type of public roadway.
- (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a vertical arc, through the line of the ball, and hitting it along the ground, normally between cover and midwicket.
- (baseball, tennis) A ball struck in a flat trajectory.
- An act of driving game animals forward, to be captured or hunted.
- A driveway.
- (UK, especially Bristol and Wales, slang) Friendly term of address for a bus driver.
verb
noun
- Hard work.
- (glassblowing, blow molding) The excess material which adheres to the top, base, or rim of a glass object when it is cut or knocked off from a blowpipe or punty, or from the mold-filling process. Typically removed after annealing as part of the finishing process (e.g. scored and snapped off).
- A spot; a defilement.
- (glassblowing) The metallic oxide from a blowpipe which has adhered to a glass object.
- Confusion, turmoil.
- (glassblowing) The glass circling the tip of a blowpipe or punty, such as the residual glass after detaching a blown vessel, or the lower part of a gather.
verb
- work hard
- remove, harvest, or recover by digging
- remove the inner part or the core of
- get the meaning of something
- turn up, loosen, or remove earth
- thrust down or into
- create by digging
- poke or thrust abruptly
- (transitive) To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.
- (mining) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
- (volleyball) To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball
- To thrust; to poke.
- (figurative) To investigate, to research, often followed by out or up.
- (transitive, intransitive) To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way.
noun
- the act of digging
- the site of an archeological exploration
- an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
- the act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow
- a small gouge (as in the cover of a book)
- An archeological or paleontological investigation, or the site where such an investigation is taking place.
- The occupation of digging for gold.
- (music, slang) A rare or interesting vinyl record bought second-hand.
- (medicine, colloquial) Digoxin.
- (cricket) An innings.
- A thrust; a poke.
- (volleyball) A defensive pass of the ball that has been attacked by the opposing team.
- A cutting, sarcastic remark.
verb
- work hard
- exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress
- act as a servant for older boys, in British public schools
- (intransitive, UK, Ireland, education, historical, colloquial) Of a younger student, to act as a servant for senior students in many British boarding schools.
- (transitive, UK, Ireland, education, historical, colloquial) To have (a younger student) act as a servant in this way.
noun
- finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking
- offensive term for a homosexual man
- (US, vulgar, derogatory, offensive) An annoying person.
- (education, historical, colloquial) A younger student acting as a servant for senior students.
- (US, technical) In textile inspections, a rough or coarse defect in the woven fabric.
- (US, Canada, vulgar, usually offensive, sometimes endearing) A homosexual man.
- (UK, Ireland, colloquial) A cigarette.
- (slang, offensive, usually derogatory) An effeminate or unusual homosexual man.
verb
- work hard
- make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together
- reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading
- press or grind with a crushing noise
- created by grinding
- dance by rotating the pelvis in an erotically suggestive way, often while in contact with one's partner such that the dancers' legs are interlaced
- shape or form by grinding
- (transitive) To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion.
- (sports, intransitive) To slide the flat portion of a skateboard or snowboard across an obstacle such as a railing.
- (slang, Hawaii) To eat.
- (slang) To dance in a sexually suggestive way with both partners in very close proximity, often pressed against each other.
- To produce mechanically and repetitively as if by turning a crank.
- (slang) To rub one's body against another's in a sexual way; to frottage.
- To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
- (transitive) To shape with the force of friction.
- (metalworking) To remove material by rubbing with an abrasive surface.
- (transitive) To operate by turning a crank.
- To instill through repetitive teaching.
- (video games) To repeat a task a large number of times in a row to achieve a specific goal.
- (intransitive, slang) To work or study hard; to hustle or drudge.
- (transitive, slang) To annoy or irritate (a person); to grind one's gears.
- (intransitive) To become ground, pulverized, or polished by friction.
- (transitive) To oppress, hold down or weaken.
- (slang, intransitive) To rotate the hips erotically.
noun
- an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious
- the act of grinding to a powder or dust
- the grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground
- hard monotonous routine work
- A specific degree of pulverization of coffee beans.
- A grinding trick on a skateboard or snowboard.
- (uncountable, slang) Hustle; hard work.
- A traditional communal pilot whale hunt in the Faroe Islands.
- Something that has been reduced to powder, something that has been ground.
- (uncountable, music) Clipping of grindcore (“subgenre of heavy metal”).
- A tedious and laborious task.
- The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.
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- an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement
- concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child
- productive work (especially physical work done for wages)
- a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages
- any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
- (chiefly American spelling) Alternative spelling of labour.
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- work hard
- strive and make an effort to reach a goal
- undergo the efforts of childbirth
- To suffer the pangs of childbirth.
- To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially hard or wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under a burden.
- (transitive) To belabour, to emphasise or expand upon (a point in a debate, etc).
- (nautical) To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.
- (intransitive) To toil, to work.
noun
- an organized attempt by workers to improve their status by united action (particularly via labor unions) or the leaders of this movement
- concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child
- productive work (especially physical work done for wages)
- a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages
- any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
- (uncountable) Workers in general; the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labour movement, organised labour.
- (historical) A traditional unit of area in Mexico and Texas, equivalent to 177.1 acres or 71.67 ha.
- The time period during which a mother gives birth.
- (uncountable) A political party or force aiming or claiming to represent the interests of labour.
- An effort expended on a particular task; toil, work.
- (uncommon, zoology) A group of moles.
- That which requires hard work for its accomplishment; that which demands effort.
- (medicine, obstetrics) The act or process of a mother giving birth.
- (nautical) The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging.
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- To exhaust, by working.
- To force to work.
- (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
- (transitive) To move or progress slowly [with one's way].
- (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
- Said of one's job title [with as].
- General use, said of either fellow employees or instruments or clients [with with].
- (intransitive) To ferment.
- (transitive) To cause to ferment.
- (transitive) To embroider with thread.
- (transitive) To work or operate in, through, or by means of.
- (transitive) To cause to move slowly or with difficulty.
- (ditransitive, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad).
- (law) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
- (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
- (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
- (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled
- Said of a company or individual who employs [with for].
- To set into action.
- To provoke or excite; to influence.
- To shape, form, or improve a material.
- Said of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business) [with in or at].
- (slang, transitive) To pull off; to wear, perform, etc. successfully or to advantage.
- (LGBTQ slang, intransitive) To perform with a confident attitude, particularly as a drag queen.
- (intransitive) To move or progress slowly or with difficulty; to proceed with effort.
- (transitive) To work or operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
- To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
- provoke or excite
- have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected
- prepare for crops
- arrive at a certain condition through repeated motion
- operate in or through
- to mix into a homogeneous mass
- behave in a certain way when handled
- move in an agitated manner
- move into or onto
- proceed towards a goal or along a path or through an activity
- operate in a certain place, area, or specialty
- cause to work
- cause to happen or to occur as a consequence
- use or manipulate to one's advantage
- exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity; work
- find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of
- proceed along a path
- shape, form, or improve a material
- make something, usually for a specific function
- give a workout to
- cause to operate or function
- go sour or spoil
- gratify and charm, usually in order to influence
- perform as expected when applied
- be employed
- have and exert influence or effect
- cause to undergo fermentation
noun
- (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
- Effort expended on a particular task.
- (physics, more generally) A measure of energy that is usefully extracted from a process: applied productively.
- (uncountable, often in combination) The result of a particular manner of production.
- The place where one is employed.
- (LGBTQ slang) The confident attitude of a drag queen.
- Labour, occupation, job.
- (countable) A fortification.
- (slang, plural only) The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.)
- Something on which effort is expended.
- (prison slang) Prison gang violence.
- (uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.
- Sustained effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result.
- (uncountable, often in combination) Something produced using the specified material or tool.
- (physics) A measure of energy expended in moving an object; most commonly, force times distance. No work is done if the object does not move.
- (euphemistic) Cosmetic surgery.
- (countable) A literary, artistic, or intellectual production; a creative work.
- (by extension) One's employer.
- the occupation for which you are paid
- a place where work is done
- applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading)
- activity directed toward making or doing something
- a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing
- (physics) a manifestation of energy; the transfer of energy from one physical system to another expressed as the product of a force and the distance through which it moves a body in the direction of that force
- the total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial part of it)
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- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) A person who drives excessively quickly, loudly or irresponsibly; a street drag racer often driving heavily customized cars.
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) An attempt or go at something.
- (India, historical) A pagoda, a type of gold coin.
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang, derogatory) A worthless person; a hooligan or lout.
- (historical) A unit of weight (about 0.378125 of a gram, or 0.0133 of an ounce) used to measure opium in British-controlled parts of Asia; a candareen.
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- work doggedly or persistently
- walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud
- strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat
- (intransitive, by extension) To work slowly and deliberately at a tedious task.
- (intransitive) To walk slowly or doggedly, encountering resistance.
- To strike something with a heavy blow, especially a ball with a bat.
noun
- (countable, cricket) An aggressive shot played with little skill.
- (countable) A book or other media that is difficult to get through due to dullness, density, or lack of narrative momentum.
- (countable, uncountable, chiefly British, Australia and Canada, by extension) A hard, persistent effort, session of work, or period.
- (countable, uncountable, chiefly British, Australia and Canada) A long, tedious walk or march.
verb
- (intransitive) To drive away, especially at a fast speed.
- (transitive) To remove (an outer layer or covering, such as clothing).
- (intransitive) To separate off from the main body, to move off to one side; as in troop movements on a parade ground or an organized retreat, or columns in a procession.
- peel off in scales
- leave a formation
- peel off the outer layer of something
- take off, as with some difficulty
- come off in flakes or thin small pieces
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- exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress
- lose interest or become bored with something or somebody
- (intransitive, engineering, of a material specimen) To undergo the process of fatigue; to fail as a result of fatigue.
- (transitive) To tire or make weary by physical or mental exertion.
- (transitive, engineering) To cause to undergo the process of fatigue.
- (intransitive) To lose so much strength or energy that one becomes tired, weary, feeble or exhausted.
- (transitive, cooking) To wilt a salad by dressing or tossing it.
noun
- temporary loss of strength and energy resulting from hard physical or mental work
- used of materials (especially metals) in a weakened state caused by long stress
- labor of a nonmilitary kind done by soldiers (cleaning or digging or draining or so on)
- (always used with a modifier) boredom resulting from overexposure to something
- (engineering) Weakening and eventual failure of material, typically by cracking leading to complete separation, caused by repeated application of mechanical stress to the material.
- (often in the plural) A menial task or tasks, especially in the military.
- A weariness caused by exertion; exhaustion.
- (US) Attributive form of fatigues (“military clothing worn when doing menial tasks”).
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- a woman adulterer
- a light green color varying from bluish green to yellowish green
- a semiprecious gemstone that takes a high polish; is usually green but sometimes whitish; consists of jadeite or nephrite
- an old or over-worked horse
- (especially derogatory) A bad-tempered or disreputable woman.
- A horse too old to be put to work.
- A bright shade of slightly bluish or greyish green, typical of polished jade stones.
- A succulent plant, Crassula ovata.
- A semiprecious stone, either nephrite or jadeite, generally green or white in color, often used for carving figurines.
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- hoop that covers a wheel
- A child's apron covering the upper part of the body, and tied with tape or cord; a pinafore. Also tier.
- A covering for the head; a headdress.
- (American spelling) Alternative spelling of tyre: The metal rim of a wheel, especially that of a railroad locomotive.
- A tier, row, or rank.
- (American spelling, Canadian spelling) Alternative spelling of tyre: The rubber covering on a wheel.
verb
- exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress
- To exhaust, fatigue, expend, or weary.
- have in one's aspect; wear an expression of one's attitude or personality
- last and be usable
- put clothing on one's body
- deteriorate through use or stress
- go to pieces
- have or show an appearance of
- be dressed in
- have on one's person
- (intransitive, copulative) To undergo gradual deterioration; become impaired; be reduced or consumed gradually due to any continued process, activity, or use.
- (nautical) To bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern (as opposed to tacking when the wind is brought around the bow); to come round on another tack by turning away from the wind.
- (now chiefly UK dialectal, transitive) To guard; watch; keep watch, especially from entry or invasion.
- To eat away at, erode, diminish, or consume gradually; to cause a gradual deterioration in; to produce (some change) through attrition, exposure, or constant use.
- To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc.
- (intransitive, colloquial) (in the phrase "wearing on (someone)") To cause annoyance, irritation, fatigue, or weariness near the point of an exhaustion of patience.
- To bear or display in one's aspect or appearance.
- (colloquial, with "it") To overcome one's reluctance and endure a (previously specified) situation.
- (now chiefly UK dialectal, transitive) To defend; protect.
- (intransitive, of time) To pass slowly, gradually or tediously.
- (now chiefly UK dialectal, transitive) To ward off; prevent from approaching or entering; drive off; repel.
- To have or carry on one's person habitually, consistently; or, to maintain in a particular fashion or manner.
- (intransitive) To last or remain durable under hard use or over time; to retain usefulness, value, or desirable qualities under any continued strain or long period of time; sometimes said of a person, regarding the quality of being easy or difficult to tolerate.
- (now chiefly UK dialectal, transitive) To conduct or guide with care or caution, as into a fold or place of safety.
noun
verb
- exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress
- deteriorate through use or stress
- go to pieces
- (intransitive) To become exhausted, tired, fatigued, or weary, as by continued strain or exertion.
- Of apparel, to display in public.
- To exhaust; to cause or contribute to another's exhaustion, fatigue, or weariness, as by continued strain or exertion.
- (chiefly Southern US) To punish by spanking.
- To cause (something) to become damaged, useless, or ineffective through continued use, especially hard, heavy, or careless use.
- Of a shirt, to not tuck into the pants; to wear in a casual manner.
- (intransitive) To deteriorate or become unusable or ineffective due to continued use, exposure, or strain.
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- Requiring effort or labor; difficult, laborious.
- (informal) Very bad, poor.
- Causing pain or distress, either physical or mental.
- Afflicted or suffering with pain (of a body part or, formerly, of a person).
- causing misery or pain or distress
- causing physical or psychological pain
- exceptionally bad or displeasing
- causing physical discomfort