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adj
noun
- A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form.
- An ice cream cone.
- The fruit of a conifer.
- (anatomy) Any of the small cone-shaped structures in the retina.
- (topology) A space formed by taking the direct product of a given space with a closed interval and identifying all of one end to a point.
- A unit of volume, applied solely to marijuana and only while it is in a smokable state; roughly 1.5 cubic centimetres, depending on use.
- (slang, by extension) A passenger on a cruise ship (that needs to be navigated around).
- (slang) A cone-shaped cannabis joint.
- (geometry) A surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line.
- (slang) The process of smoking cannabis in a bong.
- (slang) The bowl piece on a bong.
- A traffic cone.
- A cone-shaped flower head of various plants, such as banksias and proteas.
- (geometry) A solid of revolution formed by rotating a triangle around one of its altitudes.
- (computing theory) A set of formal languages with certain desirable closure properties, in particular those of the regular languages, the context-free languages and the recursively enumerable languages.
- (category theory) An object V together with an arrow going from V to each object of a diagram such that for any arrow A in the diagram, the pair of arrows from V which subtend A also commute with it. (Then V can be said to be the cone’s vertex and the diagram which the cone subtends can be said to be its base.)
- cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts
- a shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a point
- a visual receptor cell in the retina that is sensitive to bright light and to color
- any cone-shaped artifact
verb
verb
- make concave; shape like a dish
- provide (usually but not necessarily food)
- (transitive) To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food.
- (informal, slang) To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another.
- (transitive) To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish.
- (slang) To insult, speak ill of.
noun
- the quantity that a dish will hold
- a piece of dishware normally used as a container for holding or serving food
- an activity that you like or at which you are superior
- directional antenna consisting of a parabolic reflector for microwave or radio frequency radiation
- a very attractive or seductive looking woman
- a particular item of prepared food
- (baseball, slang) The home plate.
- A hollow place, as in a field.
- (in the plural) Tableware (including cutlery, etc, as well as crockery) that is to be or is being washed after being used to prepare, serve and eat a meal.
- A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.
- (slang) A sexually attractive person.
- (slang, uncountable) Gossip.
- The contents of such a vessel.
- (telecommunications) A type of antenna with a similar shape to a plate or bowl.
- (metonymic) A specific type of prepared food.
noun
- ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore
- a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair
- any of several tools for straightening fibers
- the act of drawing a comb through hair
- the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds
- (music) The main body of a harmonica containing the air chambers and to which the reed plates are attached.
- (rare) Abbreviation of combination.
- A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place.
- A ctene.
- Alternative form of combe.
- The curling crest of a wave; a comber.
- (weaving) A toothed wooden pick used to push the weft thread tightly against the previous pass of thread to create a tight weave.
- The top part of a gun’s stock.
- An old English measure of corn equal to the half quarter.
- A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
- One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen in scorpions, with which they comb substrate.
- The toothed plate at the top and bottom of an escalator that prevents objects getting trapped between the moving stairs and fixed landings.
- A fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles; crest.
- The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
- A toothed plate used for creating wells in agar gels for electrophoresis.
- (algebraic geometry) A connected and reduced curve with irreducible components consisting of a smooth subcurve (called the handle) and one or more additional irreducible components (called teeth) that each intersect the handle in a single point that is unequal to the unique point of intersection for any of the other teeth.
- A toothed tool used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.
- The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.
- (dialectal) Alternative form of coomb.
- A structure of hexagon cells made by bees for storing honey; honeycomb.
- (by extension) A crest (of metal, leather, etc) on a piece of armor, especially on a helmet.
- A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening soft fibre.
verb
- smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb
- straighten with a comb
- search thoroughly
- (transitive) To search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb.
- (transitive, especially of hair or fur) To groom with a toothed implement, especially a comb.
- (nautical, intransitive) To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.
- (naval, transitive) To turn a vessel parallel to (the track of) (a torpedo) so as to reduce one's size as a target.
- (transitive) To separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
noun
- a small concavity
- the intersection of two streets
- a projecting part where two sides or edges meet
- the point where two lines meet or intersect
- a temporary monopoly on a kind of commercial trade
- (architecture) solid exterior angle of a building; especially one formed by a cornerstone
- a remote area
- a place off to the side of an area
- the point where three areas or surfaces meet or intersect
- an interior angle formed by two meeting walls
- a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible
- (baseball) One of the four vertices of the strike zone.
- (business, finance) A sufficient interest in a salable security or commodity to allow the cornering party to influence prices.
- (soccer) A corner kick.
- (baseball) First base or third base.
- (boxing, by extension) The group of people who assist a boxer during a bout.
- The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.
- An intersection of two streets; any of the four outer points off the street at that intersection.
- One who corns, or preserves food in salt.
- (American football) A cornerback.
- (boxing) The corner of the ring, which is where the boxer rests before and during a fight.
- (figuratively) Complete control or ownership of something.
- A secret or secluded place; a remote or out of the way place; a nook.
- A place where people meet for a particular purpose.
- An embarrassing situation; a difficulty.
- The projection into space of an angle in a solid object.
- (attributive) Denoting a premises that is in a convenient local location, notionally, but not necessarily literally, on the corner of two streets.
- (Maine) The neighborhood surrounding an intersection of rural roads.
- The space in the angle between converging lines or walls which meet in a point.
- An edge or extremity; the part farthest from the center; hence, any quarter or part, or the direction in which it lies.
verb
- force a person or an animal into a position from which they cannot escape
- turn a corner
- gain control over
- (automotive, transitive) To turn a corner or drive around a curve.
- (transitive) To put (someone) in an awkward situation.
- (finance, business, transitive) To get sufficient command of (a stock, commodity, etc.), so as to be able to manipulate its price.
- (transitive) To supply with corners.
- (automotive, intransitive) To handle while moving around a corner in a road or otherwise turning.
- (transitive) To drive (someone or something) into a corner or other confined space.
- (transitive) To trap in a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment.
intj
noun
- a small concavity
- an enclosure that is set back or indented
- a position particularly well suited to the person who or organization which occupies it
- (ecology) the status of an organism within its environment and community (affecting its survival as a species)
- Specifically, a cremation niche; a columbarium.
- (Islam) An arrow woven into a prayer rug pointing in the direction of qibla.
- (architecture) A cavity, hollow, or recess, generally within the thickness of a wall, for a statue, bust, or other erect ornament.
- (ecology) A function within an ecological system to which an organism is especially suited.
- Any similar position, literal or figurative.
- (by extension) Any position of opportunity for which one is well-suited, such as a particular market in business.
adj
verb
noun
- a small concavity
- an enclosure that is set back or indented
- an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands)
- a state of abeyance or suspended business
- a pause from doing something (as work)
- (government) A period of time when the proceedings of a committee, court of law, parliament, or other official body are temporarily suspended.
- (countable, historical) A decree or resolution of the diet of the Holy Roman Empire or the Hanseatic League.
- (Australia, British, Canada, US, Philippines, education) A time away from studying during the school day for a meal or recreation.
- (countable, geology) An overall-concave, reentrant section of a sinuous fold and thrust belt, thrust sheet, or a single thrust fault, caused by one or more of: deformation (folding and faulting) of strata and geologic structures during orogenesis, differences in the angle of critical taper during orogenesis, or differing erosional level of the present geomorphological surface.
- (countable) A hidden, innermost, or inaccessible place or part of a place.
- (figuratively, usually in the plural) An obscure, remote, or secret situation.
- (countable) A depressed, hollow, or indented space; also, a hole or opening.
- (criminal slang, usually in the plural) The place in a prison where the communal lavatories are located.
- (countable) A temporary stoppage of an activity; a break, a pause.
- (architecture) A small space created by building part of a wall further back from the rest; a niche.
- (countable, anatomy) An extension or outpouching of a cavity (e.g. articular recess, peritoneal recess,...)
verb
- put into a recess
- make a recess in
- close at the end of a session
- To position (something) a distance behind another thing; to set back.
- To temporarily suspend (a meeting, the proceedings of an official body, etc.).
- (also reflexive) Often preceded by in or into: to inset (something) into a recess or niche.
- To make a recess (noun noun sense 1 and noun sense 1.1) in (something).
- (figuratively) To conceal, to hide.
- Of an official body: to suspend proceedings for a period of time.
- Of a meeting, the proceedings of an official body, etc.: to adjourn, to take a break.
- (informal) To make a recess appointment in respect of (someone).
noun
- a small concavity
- the state of the economy declines; a widespread decline in the GDP and employment and trade lasting from six months to a year
- the act of ceding back
- the act of becoming more distant
- the withdrawal of the clergy and choir from the chancel to the vestry at the end of a church service
- A period of low temperatures that causes a reduction in species; ice age.
- (surgery) A procedure in which an extraocular muscle is detached from the globe of the eye and reattached posteriorly.
- The act or an instance of receding or withdrawing.
- (economics) A period of reduced economic activity.
- The act of ceding something back.
- The ceremonial filing out of clergy and/or choir at the end of a church service.
noun
- (conchology) One of the whorls of a spiral univalve shell.
- (specifically, Euclidean geometry) A rotation around an axis which is not the centre of rotational symmetry; an eccentric or off-centre rotation.
- (also figuratively) The act of turning or whirling, especially around a fixed axis or centre; a circular or spiral motion; rotation.
- (neurology) The arrangement of convolutions of gyri in the cerebral cortex of the brain.
- the act of rotating in a circle or spiral
- a single complete turn (axial or orbital)
noun
- (conchology) The shell of the Conus ammiralis; the cone shells of various other species displaying similarly intricate banding.
- (military, now informal) The commander of a naval squadron or fleet, regardless of formal rank.
- The commander of a fishing or merchant fleet, particularly (historical, Canada) a captain granted special privileges in exchange for bringing the first ship of a given fishing season to certain harbors in Newfoundland.
- (military) A high rank in the British and American Navies, NATO grade OF-9, equivalent ranks in other navies, in coast guards, etc.
- (military) The appointed commander of a navy, regardless of formal title.
- (now historical) Synonym of flagship: an admiral's ship in a fleet, the command or largest ship in a naval or commercial fleet.
- (now historical, uncommon) Synonym of emir, a Muslim commander or prince.
- Any of several species of nymphalid butterflies of the genera Kaniska, Limenitis and Vanessa.
- the supreme commander of a fleet; ranks above a vice admiral and below a fleet admiral
- any of several brightly colored butterflies
noun
- A small spherical cavity in a solid material.
- (figurative) Anything lacking firmness or solidity; a cheat or fraud; an empty project.
- An officer's station in a prison dormitory, affording views on all sides.
- (by extension) Anything resembling a hollow sphere.
- The people who are in this quarantine.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A Greek.
- (chiefly COVID-19 pandemic) A quarantine environment containing multiple people or facilities isolated from the rest of society.
- Ellipsis of travel bubble.
- (economics) A period of intense speculation in a market, causing prices to rise quickly to irrational levels as the metaphorical bubble expands, and then fall even more quickly as the bubble bursts.
- (television, slang) A bulb or lamp; the part of a lighting assembly that actually produces the light.
- (computing, historical) Any of the small magnetized areas that make up bubble memory.
- A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
- The globule of air in the chamber of a spirit level.
- (figurative) The emotional or physical atmosphere in which a subject is immersed; especially, a homogeneous atmosphere in which subjects are spared exposure to culture or ideas different from their own.
- A spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.
- (drug paraphernalia) A specialized glass pipe having a sphere-shaped apparatus at one end.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A laugh.
- (poker) In a poker tournament, the point before which eliminated players receive no prize money and after which they do; the situation where all remaining players are guaranteed prize money (in this case, the players are said to have made the bubble); the situation where all remaining players will be guaranteed prize money after some small number of players are eliminated (in this case, the players are said to be on the bubble).
- (sports) The cutoff point between qualifying, advancing or being invited to a tournament, or having one's competition end.
- a hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide)
- an impracticable and illusory idea
- a speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control
- a dome-shaped covering made of transparent glass or plastic
verb
- (intransitive) To join together in a support bubble
- (intransitive, Scotland and Northern England) To cry, weep.
- (transitive, UK, slang) To grass (report criminal activity to the authorities).
- (intransitive, figurative) To churn or foment, as if wishing to rise to the surface.
- (intransitive, figurative) To rise through a medium or system, similar to the way that bubbles rise in liquid.
- (transitive) To pat a baby on the back so as to cause it to belch.
- (computing) To apply a filter bubble, as to search results.
- (transitive) To cover with bubbles.
- (transitive) To express in a bubbly or lively manner.
- (transitive) To bubble in; to mark a response on a form by filling in a circular area (‘bubble’).
- (transitive) To cause to feel as if bubbling or churning.
- (intransitive) To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such as in foods cooking or liquids boiling).
- (transitive) To form into a protruding round shape.
- flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise
- expel gas from the stomach
- form, produce, or emit bubbles
- cause to form bubbles
- rise in bubbles or as if in bubbles
verb
noun
prefix
noun
- a fullerene molecule having a cylindrical or toroidal shape
- Shortening of carbon nanotube; A carbon molecule, in the shape of a tube, having a fullerene structure and a diameter of about 1 or 2 nanometers.
- any nanotech tubular structure with a characteristic diameter measured in a few nanometres, such as titanium nanotubes
noun
- any cup-shaped concavity
- the hole (or metal container in the hole) on a golf green
- cup-shaped plant organ
- a punch served in a pitcher instead of a punch bowl
- a small open container usually used for drinking; usually has a handle
- a large metal vessel with two handles that is awarded as a trophy to the winner of a competition
- a United States liquid unit equal to 8 fluid ounces
- the quantity a cup will hold
- (medicine, historical) A cupping glass or other vessel or instrument used to produce the vacuum in cupping.
- (mathematics) The symbol ∪ denoting union and similar operations.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A metric unit of measure equal to 250 mL.
- A concave vessel for drinking, usually made of opaque material (as opposed to a glass) and with a handle.
- (US) A US unit of liquid measure equal to 8 fluid ounces (¹⁄₁₆ of a US gallon; 236.5882365 mL) or 240 mL.
- Prefixed with a letter, used as a measurement of bra or breast size.
- The contents of said vessel.
- (in combination) Any of various sweetened alcoholic drinks.
- A container in which dice are held and shaken before being thrown.
- (golf) A cup-shaped object placed in the target hole.
- (soccer) The main knockout tournament in a country, organised alongside the league.
- (figurative) That which is to be received or indured; that which is allotted to one; a portion of blessings and afflictions.
- (tarot) A suit of the minor arcana in tarot, or one of the cards from the suit.
- Anything shaped like a cup.
- (Canada) A Canadian unit of measure equal to 8 imperial ounces (¹⁄₂₀ imperial gallon; 227.3 mL) or 250 mL.
- A flexible concave membrane used to temporarily attach a handle or hook to a flat surface by means of suction.
- (ultimate frisbee) A defensive style characterized by a three player near defense cupping the thrower; or those three players.
- A trophy in the shape of an oversized cup.
- A contest for which a cup is awarded.
- (US, Canada) A rigid concave protective covering for the male genitalia.
- One of the two parts of a brassiere which each cover a breast.
verb
- treat by applying evacuated cups to the patient's skin
- form into the shape of a cup
- put into a cup
- (transitive, engineering) To make concave or in the form of a cup.
- (transitive) To form into the shape of a cup, particularly of the hands.
- (transitive) To hold something in cupped hands.
- (transitive) To pour (a liquid, drink, etc.) into a cup.
noun
- A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form.
- An ice cream cone.
- The fruit of a conifer.
- (anatomy) Any of the small cone-shaped structures in the retina.
- (topology) A space formed by taking the direct product of a given space with a closed interval and identifying all of one end to a point.
- A unit of volume, applied solely to marijuana and only while it is in a smokable state; roughly 1.5 cubic centimetres, depending on use.
- (slang, by extension) A passenger on a cruise ship (that needs to be navigated around).
- (slang) A cone-shaped cannabis joint.
- (geometry) A surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line.
- (slang) The process of smoking cannabis in a bong.
- (slang) The bowl piece on a bong.
- A traffic cone.
- A cone-shaped flower head of various plants, such as banksias and proteas.
- (geometry) A solid of revolution formed by rotating a triangle around one of its altitudes.
- (computing theory) A set of formal languages with certain desirable closure properties, in particular those of the regular languages, the context-free languages and the recursively enumerable languages.
- (category theory) An object V together with an arrow going from V to each object of a diagram such that for any arrow A in the diagram, the pair of arrows from V which subtend A also commute with it. (Then V can be said to be the cone’s vertex and the diagram which the cone subtends can be said to be its base.)
- cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts
- a shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a point
- a visual receptor cell in the retina that is sensitive to bright light and to color
- any cone-shaped artifact
verb
noun
- ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore
- a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair
- any of several tools for straightening fibers
- the act of drawing a comb through hair
- the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds
- (music) The main body of a harmonica containing the air chambers and to which the reed plates are attached.
- (rare) Abbreviation of combination.
- A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place.
- A ctene.
- Alternative form of combe.
- The curling crest of a wave; a comber.
- (weaving) A toothed wooden pick used to push the weft thread tightly against the previous pass of thread to create a tight weave.
- The top part of a gun’s stock.
- An old English measure of corn equal to the half quarter.
- A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
- One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen in scorpions, with which they comb substrate.
- The toothed plate at the top and bottom of an escalator that prevents objects getting trapped between the moving stairs and fixed landings.
- A fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles; crest.
- The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
- A toothed plate used for creating wells in agar gels for electrophoresis.
- (algebraic geometry) A connected and reduced curve with irreducible components consisting of a smooth subcurve (called the handle) and one or more additional irreducible components (called teeth) that each intersect the handle in a single point that is unequal to the unique point of intersection for any of the other teeth.
- A toothed tool used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.
- The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.
- (dialectal) Alternative form of coomb.
- A structure of hexagon cells made by bees for storing honey; honeycomb.
- (by extension) A crest (of metal, leather, etc) on a piece of armor, especially on a helmet.
- A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening soft fibre.
verb
- smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb
- straighten with a comb
- search thoroughly
- (transitive) To search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb.
- (transitive, especially of hair or fur) To groom with a toothed implement, especially a comb.
- (nautical, intransitive) To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.
- (naval, transitive) To turn a vessel parallel to (the track of) (a torpedo) so as to reduce one's size as a target.
- (transitive) To separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
noun
- a small concavity
- the intersection of two streets
- a projecting part where two sides or edges meet
- the point where two lines meet or intersect
- a temporary monopoly on a kind of commercial trade
- (architecture) solid exterior angle of a building; especially one formed by a cornerstone
- a remote area
- a place off to the side of an area
- the point where three areas or surfaces meet or intersect
- an interior angle formed by two meeting walls
- a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible
- (baseball) One of the four vertices of the strike zone.
- (business, finance) A sufficient interest in a salable security or commodity to allow the cornering party to influence prices.
- (soccer) A corner kick.
- (baseball) First base or third base.
- (boxing, by extension) The group of people who assist a boxer during a bout.
- The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.
- An intersection of two streets; any of the four outer points off the street at that intersection.
- One who corns, or preserves food in salt.
- (American football) A cornerback.
- (boxing) The corner of the ring, which is where the boxer rests before and during a fight.
- (figuratively) Complete control or ownership of something.
- A secret or secluded place; a remote or out of the way place; a nook.
- A place where people meet for a particular purpose.
- An embarrassing situation; a difficulty.
- The projection into space of an angle in a solid object.
- (attributive) Denoting a premises that is in a convenient local location, notionally, but not necessarily literally, on the corner of two streets.
- (Maine) The neighborhood surrounding an intersection of rural roads.
- The space in the angle between converging lines or walls which meet in a point.
- An edge or extremity; the part farthest from the center; hence, any quarter or part, or the direction in which it lies.
verb
- force a person or an animal into a position from which they cannot escape
- turn a corner
- gain control over
- (automotive, transitive) To turn a corner or drive around a curve.
- (transitive) To put (someone) in an awkward situation.
- (finance, business, transitive) To get sufficient command of (a stock, commodity, etc.), so as to be able to manipulate its price.
- (transitive) To supply with corners.
- (automotive, intransitive) To handle while moving around a corner in a road or otherwise turning.
- (transitive) To drive (someone or something) into a corner or other confined space.
- (transitive) To trap in a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment.
intj
noun
- a small concavity
- an enclosure that is set back or indented
- a position particularly well suited to the person who or organization which occupies it
- (ecology) the status of an organism within its environment and community (affecting its survival as a species)
- Specifically, a cremation niche; a columbarium.
- (Islam) An arrow woven into a prayer rug pointing in the direction of qibla.
- (architecture) A cavity, hollow, or recess, generally within the thickness of a wall, for a statue, bust, or other erect ornament.
- (ecology) A function within an ecological system to which an organism is especially suited.
- Any similar position, literal or figurative.
- (by extension) Any position of opportunity for which one is well-suited, such as a particular market in business.
adj
verb
noun
- a small concavity
- an enclosure that is set back or indented
- an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands)
- a state of abeyance or suspended business
- a pause from doing something (as work)
- (government) A period of time when the proceedings of a committee, court of law, parliament, or other official body are temporarily suspended.
- (countable, historical) A decree or resolution of the diet of the Holy Roman Empire or the Hanseatic League.
- (Australia, British, Canada, US, Philippines, education) A time away from studying during the school day for a meal or recreation.
- (countable, geology) An overall-concave, reentrant section of a sinuous fold and thrust belt, thrust sheet, or a single thrust fault, caused by one or more of: deformation (folding and faulting) of strata and geologic structures during orogenesis, differences in the angle of critical taper during orogenesis, or differing erosional level of the present geomorphological surface.
- (countable) A hidden, innermost, or inaccessible place or part of a place.
- (figuratively, usually in the plural) An obscure, remote, or secret situation.
- (countable) A depressed, hollow, or indented space; also, a hole or opening.
- (criminal slang, usually in the plural) The place in a prison where the communal lavatories are located.
- (countable) A temporary stoppage of an activity; a break, a pause.
- (architecture) A small space created by building part of a wall further back from the rest; a niche.
- (countable, anatomy) An extension or outpouching of a cavity (e.g. articular recess, peritoneal recess,...)
verb
- put into a recess
- make a recess in
- close at the end of a session
- To position (something) a distance behind another thing; to set back.
- To temporarily suspend (a meeting, the proceedings of an official body, etc.).
- (also reflexive) Often preceded by in or into: to inset (something) into a recess or niche.
- To make a recess (noun noun sense 1 and noun sense 1.1) in (something).
- (figuratively) To conceal, to hide.
- Of an official body: to suspend proceedings for a period of time.
- Of a meeting, the proceedings of an official body, etc.: to adjourn, to take a break.
- (informal) To make a recess appointment in respect of (someone).
noun
- a small concavity
- the state of the economy declines; a widespread decline in the GDP and employment and trade lasting from six months to a year
- the act of ceding back
- the act of becoming more distant
- the withdrawal of the clergy and choir from the chancel to the vestry at the end of a church service
- A period of low temperatures that causes a reduction in species; ice age.
- (surgery) A procedure in which an extraocular muscle is detached from the globe of the eye and reattached posteriorly.
- The act or an instance of receding or withdrawing.
- (economics) A period of reduced economic activity.
- The act of ceding something back.
- The ceremonial filing out of clergy and/or choir at the end of a church service.
noun
- (conchology) One of the whorls of a spiral univalve shell.
- (specifically, Euclidean geometry) A rotation around an axis which is not the centre of rotational symmetry; an eccentric or off-centre rotation.
- (also figuratively) The act of turning or whirling, especially around a fixed axis or centre; a circular or spiral motion; rotation.
- (neurology) The arrangement of convolutions of gyri in the cerebral cortex of the brain.
- the act of rotating in a circle or spiral
- a single complete turn (axial or orbital)
noun
- (conchology) The shell of the Conus ammiralis; the cone shells of various other species displaying similarly intricate banding.
- (military, now informal) The commander of a naval squadron or fleet, regardless of formal rank.
- The commander of a fishing or merchant fleet, particularly (historical, Canada) a captain granted special privileges in exchange for bringing the first ship of a given fishing season to certain harbors in Newfoundland.
- (military) A high rank in the British and American Navies, NATO grade OF-9, equivalent ranks in other navies, in coast guards, etc.
- (military) The appointed commander of a navy, regardless of formal title.
- (now historical) Synonym of flagship: an admiral's ship in a fleet, the command or largest ship in a naval or commercial fleet.
- (now historical, uncommon) Synonym of emir, a Muslim commander or prince.
- Any of several species of nymphalid butterflies of the genera Kaniska, Limenitis and Vanessa.
- the supreme commander of a fleet; ranks above a vice admiral and below a fleet admiral
- any of several brightly colored butterflies
noun
- A small spherical cavity in a solid material.
- (figurative) Anything lacking firmness or solidity; a cheat or fraud; an empty project.
- An officer's station in a prison dormitory, affording views on all sides.
- (by extension) Anything resembling a hollow sphere.
- The people who are in this quarantine.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A Greek.
- (chiefly COVID-19 pandemic) A quarantine environment containing multiple people or facilities isolated from the rest of society.
- Ellipsis of travel bubble.
- (economics) A period of intense speculation in a market, causing prices to rise quickly to irrational levels as the metaphorical bubble expands, and then fall even more quickly as the bubble bursts.
- (television, slang) A bulb or lamp; the part of a lighting assembly that actually produces the light.
- (computing, historical) Any of the small magnetized areas that make up bubble memory.
- A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
- The globule of air in the chamber of a spirit level.
- (figurative) The emotional or physical atmosphere in which a subject is immersed; especially, a homogeneous atmosphere in which subjects are spared exposure to culture or ideas different from their own.
- A spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.
- (drug paraphernalia) A specialized glass pipe having a sphere-shaped apparatus at one end.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A laugh.
- (poker) In a poker tournament, the point before which eliminated players receive no prize money and after which they do; the situation where all remaining players are guaranteed prize money (in this case, the players are said to have made the bubble); the situation where all remaining players will be guaranteed prize money after some small number of players are eliminated (in this case, the players are said to be on the bubble).
- (sports) The cutoff point between qualifying, advancing or being invited to a tournament, or having one's competition end.
- a hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide)
- an impracticable and illusory idea
- a speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control
- a dome-shaped covering made of transparent glass or plastic
verb
- (intransitive) To join together in a support bubble
- (intransitive, Scotland and Northern England) To cry, weep.
- (transitive, UK, slang) To grass (report criminal activity to the authorities).
- (intransitive, figurative) To churn or foment, as if wishing to rise to the surface.
- (intransitive, figurative) To rise through a medium or system, similar to the way that bubbles rise in liquid.
- (transitive) To pat a baby on the back so as to cause it to belch.
- (computing) To apply a filter bubble, as to search results.
- (transitive) To cover with bubbles.
- (transitive) To express in a bubbly or lively manner.
- (transitive) To bubble in; to mark a response on a form by filling in a circular area (‘bubble’).
- (transitive) To cause to feel as if bubbling or churning.
- (intransitive) To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such as in foods cooking or liquids boiling).
- (transitive) To form into a protruding round shape.
- flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise
- expel gas from the stomach
- form, produce, or emit bubbles
- cause to form bubbles
- rise in bubbles or as if in bubbles
noun
noun
- a fullerene molecule having a cylindrical or toroidal shape
- Shortening of carbon nanotube; A carbon molecule, in the shape of a tube, having a fullerene structure and a diameter of about 1 or 2 nanometers.
- any nanotech tubular structure with a characteristic diameter measured in a few nanometres, such as titanium nanotubes
noun
- any cup-shaped concavity
- the hole (or metal container in the hole) on a golf green
- cup-shaped plant organ
- a punch served in a pitcher instead of a punch bowl
- a small open container usually used for drinking; usually has a handle
- a large metal vessel with two handles that is awarded as a trophy to the winner of a competition
- a United States liquid unit equal to 8 fluid ounces
- the quantity a cup will hold
- (medicine, historical) A cupping glass or other vessel or instrument used to produce the vacuum in cupping.
- (mathematics) The symbol ∪ denoting union and similar operations.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A metric unit of measure equal to 250 mL.
- A concave vessel for drinking, usually made of opaque material (as opposed to a glass) and with a handle.
- (US) A US unit of liquid measure equal to 8 fluid ounces (¹⁄₁₆ of a US gallon; 236.5882365 mL) or 240 mL.
- Prefixed with a letter, used as a measurement of bra or breast size.
- The contents of said vessel.
- (in combination) Any of various sweetened alcoholic drinks.
- A container in which dice are held and shaken before being thrown.
- (golf) A cup-shaped object placed in the target hole.
- (soccer) The main knockout tournament in a country, organised alongside the league.
- (figurative) That which is to be received or indured; that which is allotted to one; a portion of blessings and afflictions.
- (tarot) A suit of the minor arcana in tarot, or one of the cards from the suit.
- Anything shaped like a cup.
- (Canada) A Canadian unit of measure equal to 8 imperial ounces (¹⁄₂₀ imperial gallon; 227.3 mL) or 250 mL.
- A flexible concave membrane used to temporarily attach a handle or hook to a flat surface by means of suction.
- (ultimate frisbee) A defensive style characterized by a three player near defense cupping the thrower; or those three players.
- A trophy in the shape of an oversized cup.
- A contest for which a cup is awarded.
- (US, Canada) A rigid concave protective covering for the male genitalia.
- One of the two parts of a brassiere which each cover a breast.
verb
- treat by applying evacuated cups to the patient's skin
- form into the shape of a cup
- put into a cup
- (transitive, engineering) To make concave or in the form of a cup.
- (transitive) To form into the shape of a cup, particularly of the hands.
- (transitive) To hold something in cupped hands.
- (transitive) To pour (a liquid, drink, etc.) into a cup.
verb
- make concave; shape like a dish
- provide (usually but not necessarily food)
- (transitive) To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food.
- (informal, slang) To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another.
- (transitive) To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish.
- (slang) To insult, speak ill of.
noun
- the quantity that a dish will hold
- a piece of dishware normally used as a container for holding or serving food
- an activity that you like or at which you are superior
- directional antenna consisting of a parabolic reflector for microwave or radio frequency radiation
- a very attractive or seductive looking woman
- a particular item of prepared food
- (baseball, slang) The home plate.
- A hollow place, as in a field.
- (in the plural) Tableware (including cutlery, etc, as well as crockery) that is to be or is being washed after being used to prepare, serve and eat a meal.
- A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.
- (slang) A sexually attractive person.
- (slang, uncountable) Gossip.
- The contents of such a vessel.
- (telecommunications) A type of antenna with a similar shape to a plate or bowl.
- (metonymic) A specific type of prepared food.