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adj
- held from above and hanging down
- Hanging down.
- addicted to a drug
- relying on or requiring a person or thing for support, supply, or what is needed
- (of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence
- contingent on something else
- being under the power or sovereignty of another or others
- Relying upon; depending upon.
- (of Irish/Manx/Scottish (Gaelic) verb forms) Used after a particle (with one or two exceptions), such as those which express questions, subordinate clauses, and negative sentences.
- (medicine) Of part of the body: positioned lower than the heart, like the legs while standing up, or the back while supine.
- (statistics) Having a probability that is affected by the outcome of a separate event.
noun
- a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support)
- (grammar) An element in phrase or clause structure that is not the head. Includes complements, modifiers and determiners.
- A person who relies on another for support or sustenance, particularly financial support.
- (philosophy) dependent (origination), in Buddhism, the idea that the existence of everything is conditional and dependent on a cause, and that nothing happens fortuitously or by chance.
- (grammar) The aorist subjunctive or subjunctive perfective: a form of a verb not used independently but preceded by a particle to form the negative or a tense form. Found in Greek and in the Gaelic languages.
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- branched lighting fixture; often ornate; hangs from the ceiling
- an adornment that hangs from a piece of jewelry (necklace or earring)
- The dangling part of an earring.
- A lamp hanging from the roof.
- (fine arts) One of a pair; a counterpart.
- (architecture) A supporting post attached to the main rafter.
- (nautical) A short rope hanging down, used to attach hooks for tackles; a pennant.
- A long narrow flag at the head of the principal mast in a royal ship.
- A piece of jewellery which hangs down as an ornament, especially worn on a chain around the neck.
- An ornament of wood or of stone hanging downwards from a roof.
- (US) The stem and ring of a watch, by which it is suspended.
adj
- held from above and hanging down
- Dangling, drooping, hanging down or suspended.
- Pending (in various senses).
- (architecture, of a structure) Either hanging in some sense, or constructed of multiple elements such as the voussoirs of an arch or the pendentives of a dome, none of which can stand on its own, but which in combination are stable.
- (heraldry) Hanging or pointed downward; (of a crescent) with its horns pointing downward.
- (grammar, of a sentence) Incomplete in some sense, such as lacking a finite verb.
noun
adj
- Hung from above.
- (law) suspended sentence
- (medicine) suspended animation
- (of coffee, food, etc.) Paid for but not consumed by a customer, so that it can be given to a less fortunate person.
- (botany, of an ovule) Attached slightly below the summit of the ovary.
- (chemistry) A chemical suspension
- (music, of a chord) Having had its third omitted and replaced with a major second or perfect fourth.
- (of undissolved particles in a fluid) supported or kept from sinking or falling by buoyancy and without apparent attachment
verb
verb
- hang in the air; fly or be suspended above
- be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity
- hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing
- to hang about in a place beyond the proper or usual time
- be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action
- Of a bird: to shelter (chicks) under its body and wings; (by extension) of a thing: to cover or surround (something).
- (computing) Chiefly followed by over: to use a mouse or other device to place a cursor over something on a screen such as a hyperlink or icon without clicking, so as to produce a result (such as the appearance of a tooltip).
- To keep (something, such as an aircraft) in a stationary state in the air.
- Sometimes followed by over: to hang around or linger in a place, especially in an uncertain manner.
- To be indecisive or uncertain; to vacillate, to waver.
- To remain stationary or float in the air.
- (nautical) To travel in a hovercraft as it moves above a water surface.
noun
- An act, or the state, of remaining stationary in the air or some other place.
- (figuratively) An act, or the state, of being suspended; a suspension.
- A flock of birds fluttering in the air in one place.
- (chiefly Southern England) A cover; a protection; a shelter; specifically, an overhanging bank or stone under which fish can shelter; also, a shelter for hens brooding their eggs.
verb
noun
- either of the rudimentary hind wings of dipterous insects; used for maintaining equilibrium during flight
- a rope that is used by a hangman to execute persons who have been condemned to death by hanging
- rope or canvas headgear for a horse, with a rope for leading
- a woman's top that fastens behind the back and neck leaving the back and arms uncovered
- A rope with a noose, for hanging criminals; the gallows rope.
- Alternative form of haltere.
- A bitless headpiece of rope or straps, placed on the head of animals such as cattle or horses to lead or tie them.
- One who halts or limps; a cripple.
- A halter top.
noun
- the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely)
- decoration that is hung (as a tapestry) on a wall or over a window
- a form of capital punishment; victim is suspended by the neck from a gallows or gibbet until dead
- (countable, uncountable) The act of hanging a person (or oneself) by the neck in order to kill that person (or to commit suicide).
- (countable) Anything that is hung as a decorative element (such as curtains, gobelins, or posters).
- (uncountable) The way in which hangings (decorations) are arranged.
adj
- (UK, slang, of a person, originally Manchester) Ugly; very unattractive; disgusting.
- Suspended.
- (typography, of a punctuation mark) Extending beyond the margins of a page.
- (baseball, slang, of an off-speed pitch) Hittable; poorly executed by the pitcher, hence relatively easy to hit.
- (chess, of a piece) Unprotected and exposed to capture.
verb
noun
- the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely)
- a temporary debarment (from a privilege or position etc.)
- a mechanical system of springs or shock absorbers connecting the wheels and axles to the chassis of a wheeled vehicle
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- temporary cessation or suspension
- an interruption in the intensity or amount of something
- a mixture in which fine particles are suspended in a fluid where they are supported by buoyancy
- (Scots law) A stay or postponement of the execution of a sentence, usually by letters of suspension granted on application to the Lord Ordinary.
- A temporary or conditional delay, interruption or discontinuation.
- Thus a kind of silt or sludge.
- The temporary barring of a person from a workplace, society, etc. pending investigation into alleged misconduct.
- (chemistry, physics) The state of a solid or substance produced when its particles are mixed with, but not dissolved in, a fluid, and are capable of separation by straining.
- (topology) A function derived, in a standard way, from another, such that the instant function’s domain and codomain are suspensions of the original function’s.
- (education) The process of barring a student from school grounds as a form of punishment (particularly out-of-school suspension).
- (music) The act of or discord produced by prolonging one or more tones of a chord into the chord which follows, thus producing a momentary discord, suspending the concord which the ear expects.
- (vehicles) The system of springs and shock absorbers connected to the wheels in an automobile, which allows the vehicle to move smoothly with reduced shock to its occupants.
- (topology) A topological space derived from another by taking the product of the original space with an interval and collapsing each end of the product to a point.
- The act of keeping a person who is listening in doubt and expectation of what is to follow.
- The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended.
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noun
- A hook imagined to be suspended in midair.
- a hook that is imagined to be suspended from the sky
- (slang) A CB radio antenna.
- A helicopter that lifts and transports heavy objects suspended by a heavy cable.
- An overhead winch.
- (climbing) A small hook for gripping small and slippery protrusions.
- (tennis) A form of the overhead smash in which the eastern grip is used to hit the ball farther behind the body than usually possible.
- (astronautics) A proposed momentum-exchange tether for launching payloads into low Earth orbit by hooking them to the end of a cable that reaches down from an orbiting station into the upper atmosphere.
- (board sports) A device covering the rider's boot and sometimes screwed to the board, to facilitate jumping and enhance stability.
- helicopter carrying a reel of steel cable that can be used to lift and transport heavy objects
noun
- The way in which something hangs.
- (colloquial) The smallest amount of concern or consideration; a damn.
- (computing) An instance of ceasing to respond to input.
- (Ireland, informal, derogatory) Cheap processed ham (cured pork), often made specially for sandwiches.
- A slackening of motion.
- A hangout.
- A sharp or steep declivity or slope.
- A person that someone hangs out with.
- Alternative spelling of Hang (“musical instrument”).
- A mass of hanging material.
- (informal, figuratively) A grip, understanding.
- a gymnastic exercise performed on the rings or horizontal bar or parallel bars when the gymnast's weight is supported by the arms
- a special way of doing something
- the way a garment hangs
verb
- (intransitive) To veer in one direction.
- (intransitive) To be or remain suspended.
- (intransitive, chess) To be vulnerable to capture.
- (transitive, computing) To cause (a program or computer) to stop responding.
- (transitive, baseball, slang, of a pitcher) To throw a hittable off-speed pitch.
- (intransitive, law) To be executed by suspension by one's neck from a gallows, a tree, or other raised bar, attached by a rope tied into a noose.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To remain persistently in one's thoughts.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to be suspended, as from a hook, hanger, hinges, or the like.
- (intransitive, of a ball in cricket, tennis, etc.) To rebound unexpectedly or unusually slowly, due to backward spin on the ball or imperfections of the ground.
- (transitive, figurative) To attach or cause to stick (a charge or accusation, etc.).
- (transitive) To prevent from reaching a decision, especially by refusing to join in a verdict that must be unanimous.
- (transitive) To apply (wallpaper or drywall to a wall).
- (transitive) To hold or bear in a suspended or inclined manner or position instead of erect.
- (transitive, law) To kill (someone) by suspension from the neck, usually as a form of execution or suicide.
- (transitive) To exhibit (an object) by hanging.
- (intransitive, computing) To stop responding to manual input devices such as the keyboard and mouse.
- (intransitive) To float, as if suspended.
- (intransitive, informal) To loiter; to hang around; to spend time idly.
- (transitive, chess) To cause (a piece) to become vulnerable to capture.
- (transitive, informal) (used in maledictions) To damn.
- (transitive) To decorate (something) with hanging objects.
- be exhibited
- hold on tightly or tenaciously
- decorate or furnish with something suspended
- be suspended or poised
- be suspended or hanging
- be menacing, burdensome, or oppressive
- give heed (to)
- be placed in position as by a hinge
- let drop or droop
- suspend (meat) in order to get a gamey taste
- fall or flow in a certain way
- prevent from reaching a verdict, of a jury
- kill by hanging
- cause to be hanging or suspended
- place in position as by a hinge so as to allow free movement in one direction
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- a tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually wooden); used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing
- insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings
- A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; a beetling machine.
- A type of mallet with a large wooden head, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.
- Any of numerous species of insect in the order Coleoptera characterized by a pair of hard, shell-like front wings which cover and protect a pair of rear wings when at rest.
- Alternative letter-case form of Beetle (“car”).
- (uncountable) A game of chance in which players attempt to complete a drawing of a beetle, different dice rolls allowing them to add the various body parts.
verb
noun
- projection that extends beyond or hangs over something else
- A fatty roll of pubis flab that hangs over one's genitals; a FUPA.
- Anything that overhangs or protrudes over its base, such as a wave immediately before breaking, or a protruding cliff or rock wall.
- (architecture) That portion of the roof structure that extends beyond the exterior walls of a building.
- (economics) The volume that tips the balance between the demand and the supply toward demand lagging supply.
verb
- (nautical) To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free.
- (intransitive) To fall over or stumble over an object as a result of striking it with one's foot
- (intransitive) To be guilty of a misstep or mistake; to commit an offence against morality, propriety, etc
- (nautical) To pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it.
- (intransitive) To experience a state of reverie or to hallucinate, due to consuming psychoactive drugs.
- (transitive, sometimes followed by "up") To cause (a person or animal) to fall or stumble by knocking their feet from under them.
- (transitive) To activate or set in motion, as in the activation of a trap, explosive, or switch.
- (intransitive) To be activated, as by a signal or an event
- Of an electrical circuit, to trip out (through overload, a short circuit).
- (slang, African-American Vernacular, most commonly used in the form tripping) To become unreasonably upset, especially over something unimportant; to cause a scene or a disruption.
- (intransitive) To journey, to make a trip.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) To act foolishly or irrationally.
- get high, stoned, or drugged
- miss a step and fall or nearly fall
- make a trip for pleasure
- cause to stumble
- put in motion or move to act
adj
noun
- A faux pas, a social error.
- The act of tripping someone, or causing them to lose their footing.
- (engineering) A mechanical cutout device.
- A stumble or misstep.
- (colloquial) A period of time in which one experiences drug-induced reverie or hallucinations.
- (by extension) Intense involvement in or enjoyment of a condition.
- (electricity) A trip-switch or cut-out.
- A journey; an excursion or jaunt.
- A flock of wigeons.
- (nautical) A single tack while beating (sailing to windward).
- A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip.
- a journey for some purpose (usually including the return)
- a light or nimble tread
- an exciting or stimulating experience
- an unintentional but embarrassing blunder
- an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall
- a catch mechanism that acts as a switch
- a hallucinatory experience induced by drugs
noun
- a support consisting of an arrangement of straps for holding something to the body (especially one supporting a person suspended from a parachute)
- stable gear consisting of an arrangement of leather straps fitted to a draft animal so that it can be attached to and pull a cart
- Equipment for any kind of labour.
- The part of a loom comprising the heddles, with their means of support and motion, by which the threads of the warp are alternately raised and depressed for the passage of the shuttle.
- (countable) A collection of wires or cables bundled and routed according to their function: a wiring harness.
- (countable) A restraint or support, especially one consisting of a loop or network of rope or straps, and especially one worn by a working animal such as a horse pulling a carriage or farm implement.
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adj
- Hoisted, lifted off the ground, or propped up using a jack.
- (slang) Wrecked; damaged; ruined; injured.
- (slang) Reprehensible; objectionable.
- (slang, automotive) Describes a 4x4 automobile that has a "lift kit", raising the body and/or frame higher than stock.
- (slang) Stimulated, excited.
- (informal) Significantly increased or expanded.
- (slang) Under the influence of stimulants; high.
verb
noun
- A layer of trapped air that supports a hovercraft.
- the trapped air that supports a hovercraft a short distance above the water or ground
- A shock absorber that uses an air chamber.
- A rubber or plastic inflatable cushion.
- a mechanical device using confined air to absorb the shock of motion
- a cushion usually made of rubber or plastic that can be inflated
verb
- To allow to hang down.
- (transitive, usually with off) To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone.
- To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
- cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
- cut off from a whole
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adj
noun
- A light rope attached to an object being hoisted by a crane, used to guide it while lifting or lowering.
- The punch line of a joke.
- (computing) A pithy quotation habitually appended to a signature in email, newsgroups, etc.
- A line attached to a draft of cargo or a container to provide control and minimize pendulation of cargo during lifting operations.
- (marketing) An advertising slogan.
verb
noun
- (climbing) A handhold that allows one to pull oneself up from below.
- The act of pulling (any sense) insufficiently.
- (engineering) A driver for pumping that has the eccentrics under the gear wheel.
- (medicine) Failure to pull a muscle as far as it can contract.
- Synonym of undertow.
- A secret or indirect influence.
- (more generally) A downward pull or force.
- A negative influence.
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- a line that suspends the harness from the canopy of a parachute
- burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped
- (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind
- Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
- The branching top of a tree; foliage.
- One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
- (nautical) One of a set of ropes or cables (rigging) attaching a mast to the sides of a vessel or to another anchor point, serving to support the mast sideways; such rigging collectively.
- That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
- A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
- (astronautics) A streamlined protective covering used to protect the payload during a rocket-powered launch.
- That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
verb
verb
- hang down so as to drag along the ground
- to lag or linger behind
- go after with the intent to catch
- move, proceed, or walk draggingly or slowly
- drag loosely along a surface; allow to sweep the ground
- (transitive) To leave (a trail of).
- (military) To carry (a firearm) with the breech near the ground and the upper part inclined forward, the piece being held by the right hand near the middle.
- (transitive) To follow behind (someone or something); to tail (someone or something).
- (intransitive) To drag oneself lazily or reluctantly along.
- (intransitive) To run or climb like certain plants.
- To create a trail in.
- To transport (livestock) by herding it along a trail.
- (transitive) To drag (something) behind on the ground.
- (intransitive) To hang or drag loosely behind; to move with a slow sweeping motion.
- To be losing, to be behind in a competition.
- (transitive) To show a trailer of (a film, TV show etc.); to release or publish a preview of (a report etc.) in advance of the full publication.
- To travel by following or creating trails.
noun
- a track or mark left by something that has passed
- evidence pointing to a possible solution
- a path or track roughly blazed through wild or hilly country
- The track or indication marking the route followed by something that has passed, such as the footprints of animal on land or the contrail of an airplane in the sky.
- (television) A trailer broadcast on television for a forthcoming film or programme.
- The horizontal distance from where the wheel touches the ground to where the steering axis intersects the ground.
- A route or circuit generally.
- A route for travel over land, especially a narrow, unpaved pathway for use by hikers, horseback riders, etc.
- (graph theory) A walk in which all the edges are distinct.
noun
- a cord or rope or cable that is hanging loosely
- dust consisting of a mixture of small coal fragments and coal dust and dirt that sifts out when coal is passed over a sieve
- a stretch of water without current or movement
- a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality
- a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
- the quality of being loose (not taut)
- (rail transport) A temporary speed restriction where track maintenance or engineering work is being carried out at a particular place.
- (mining) Small coal; coal dust.
- (uncountable, psychotherapy) Unconditional listening attention given by client to patient.
- In particular, a shallow dell or hollow; a dip in the surface of terrain, such as between hills.
- (countable) A low-lying marsh or a pool, especially a tidal or intermittent one which periodically fills and drains.
- (uncountable) The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it.
- (countable) A valley, or small, shallow dell; a sag or saddle in a ridge.
- A flat-bottomed, hollow zone within a sand-dune system that has developed over impervious strata, sometimes due to erosion or blow-out of the dune system; its flat base level is therefore close to or at the permanent water-table level, and therefore has rich, marshy flora, with Salix species (willows) as typical woody colonisers.
- Attributive form of slacks (“semi-formal trousers”).
- A dip in a surface.
adj
- not tense or taut
- flowing with little speed as e.g. at the turning of the tide
- lacking in rigor or strictness
- (slang, Caribbean, Jamaica) Vulgar; sexually explicit, especially in dancehall music.
- Excess; surplus to requirements.
- Weak; not holding fast.
- Not active or busy, successful, or violent.
- Moderately warm.
- (linguistics) Lax.
- Moderate in speed.
- Lacking diligence or care; not earnest or eager.
- (normally said of a rope) Lax; not tense; not firmly extended.
verb
- become less in amount or intensity
- make less active or intense
- be inattentive to, or neglect
- avoid responsibilities and work, be idle
- become slow or slower
- cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water
- make less active or fast
- release tension on
- To refuse to work as hard as one is supposed to.
- (ambitransitive) To slacken.
- To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake.
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- To hold up; to lift on high; to elevate.
- To support by approval or encouragement; to vindicate; to confirm (something which has been questioned)
- To keep erect; to support; to sustain; to keep from falling
- stand up for; stick up for; of causes, principles, or ideals
- support against an opponent
- keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last
noun
verb
- go or move upward
- fly by means of a hang glider
- rise rapidly
- fly a plane without an engine
- fly upwards or high in the sky
- To rise, especially rapidly or unusually high.
- To remain aloft by means of a glider or other unpowered aircraft.
- (figuratively) To rise in thought, spirits, or imagination; to be exalted in mood.
- To mount upward on wings, or as on wings, especially by gliding while employing rising air currents.
- (intransitive) To fly high with little effort, like a bird.
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verb
- move along very quickly
- move with a low humming noise
- rise rapidly
- (transitive) To check someone out; to investigate someone that one is interested in.
- (aviation) To zoom climb.
- To manipulate a display so as to magnify or shrink it.
- To move rapidly.
- To participate in a video teleconferencing call.
- (photography) To change the focal length of a zoom lens.
- To move fast with a humming noise.
- To go up sharply.
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verb
- take and lift upward
- lift out or reflect from a background
- give a passenger or a hitchhiker a lift
- fill with high spirits; fill with optimism
- gather or collect
- register (perceptual input)
- perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily
- meet someone for sexual purposes
- improve significantly; go from bad to good
- take into custody
- gain or regain energy
- buy casually or spontaneously
- eat by pecking at, like a bird
- get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
- take up by hand
- get in addition, as an increase
- (intransitive) To improve, increase, or speed up.
- (intransitive) To restart or resume.
- (sports) To behave in a manner that results in a foul.
- (transitive and intransitive with on) To meet and seduce somebody for romantic purposes, especially in a social situation.
- (transitive or intransitive) To clean up; to return to an organized state.
- (transitive) To point out the behaviour, habits, or actions of (a person) in a critical manner; used with on.
- (transitive, media) To obtain and publish a story, news item, etc.
- To reach and continue along (a road).
- (transitive) To record; to notch up.
- (transitive) To acquire (something) accidentally; to catch or contract (a disease).
- (transitive) To reduce the despondency of.
- (transitive) To take control (physically) of something.
- (intransitive, of a phone) To receive calls; to function correctly.
- (transitive) To notice, detect or discern; to pick up on.
- (soccer, transitive) To mark, to defend against an opposition player by following them closely.
- (transitive) To collect and detain (a suspect).
- (transitive) To pay for.
- (transitive) To collect an object, especially in passing.
- (transitive) To learn, to grasp; to begin to understand; to realize.
- (transitive) To collect a passenger.
- (US, military, transitive) To promote somebody who was previously passed over.
- (transitive) To lift; to grasp and raise.
- (transitive or intransitive) To answer a telephone.
- (transitive) To receive (a radio signal or the like).
noun
adj
- raised above the ground
- of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style
- increased in amount or degree
- (linguistics) Of a higher register or style.
- Raised, usually above ground level.
- Of a higher rank or status.
- (computing) Running with administrator rights.
- Increased, particularly above a normal level.
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verb
verb
- hang loosely
- cause to dangle or hang freely
- (medicine, transitive) To position (a patient) in this way.
- (intransitive, slang, ice hockey, lacrosse) The action of performing a move or deke with the puck in order to get past a defender or goalie; perhaps because of the resemblance to dangling the puck on a string.
- (transitive, figurative, by extension) To put forth as a possibility.
- (intransitive) To hang loosely with the ability to swing.
- (medicine, intransitive) Of a patient: to be positioned with the legs hanging over the edge of the bed.
- (transitive) To hang or trail something loosely.
noun
- An agent of one intelligence agency or group who pretends to be interested in defecting or turning to another intelligence agency or group.
- (slang, ice hockey, lacrosse) The action of dangling; a series of complex stick tricks and fakes in order to defeat the defender in style.
- A dangling ornament or decoration.
verb
- hang loosely
- pay out
- utter with seeming casualness
- take (a drug, especially LSD), by mouth
- change from one level to another
- remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave
- lower the pitch of (musical notes)
- fall or descend to a lower place or level
- stop pursuing or acting
- to fall vertically
- let fall to the ground
- cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow
- fall or sink into a state of exhaustion or death
- grow progressively worse
- stop associating with
- leave undone or leave out
- let or cause to fall in drops
- to remove
- go down in value
- lose (a game)
- omit (a letter or syllable) in speaking or writing
- give birth; used for animals
- terminate an association with
- (cooking) To cook (food, especially fast food), particularly by lowering into hot oil to deep-fry, or by grilling.
- (transitive, music) To tune (a guitar string, etc.) to a lower note.
- (intransitive) Of a liquid: to fall in drops or droplets.
- (transitive) To cease concerning oneself over (someone or something); to have nothing more to do with (a discussion, subject, etc.).
- (intransitive, computing) To enter a more basic interface.
- (transitive) To make (someone or something) fall to the ground from a blow, gunshot, etc.; to bring down, to shoot down; to kill.
- (intransitive, physiology, informal) Of the testicles: to hang further away from the body and begin producing sperm due to puberty.
- (transitive) To reduce; to make smaller.
- Especially in drop acid: to swallow (a drug, particularly LSD).
- (intransitive) Of a voice: to lower in timbre, often due to puberty.
- (transitive, computing, music, television, colloquial) To release (a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.) to the public.
- (intransitive) To decrease, diminish, or lessen in condition, degree, value, etc.
- (intransitive, computing, music, television, colloquial) Of a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.: to enter public distribution.
- (transitive) To drip (a liquid) in drops or small amounts.
- (originally US) To (unexpectedly) lose (a competition, game, etc.).
- To lose, spend, or otherwise part with (money).
- (intransitive, also figuratively) To fall (straight down) under the influence of gravity, like a drop of liquid.
- (intransitive) To come to an end (by not being kept up); to lapse, to stop.
- (intransitive) To fall into a particular condition or state.
- (intransitive, online gaming, video games) Of an item: To appear for the player to pick up, usually after an enemy has been defeated.
- To impart (something).
- (intransitive) Usually followed by by, in, or into: of a person: to visit someone or somewhere informally or without a prior appointment.
- (intransitive) To fall or sink quickly or suddenly to the ground.
- (rugby) To score (a goal) by means of a drop kick.
- (transitive) To cancel or cease to participate in (a scheduled course, event, or project).
- To perform (rap music).
- (transitive) To mention (something) casually or incidentally, usually in conversation.
- (transitive) To set down (someone or something) from a vehicle; to stop and deliver or deposit (someone or something); to drop off.
- (transitive) To lower (a sound, a voice, etc.) in pitch or volume.
- (transitive, computing) To present (the user) with a more basic interface.
- (transitive) To cease to include (something), as if on a list; to dismiss, to eject, to expel.
- To quickly lower or take down (one's trousers), especially in public.
- (cricket) Of a fielder: to fail to dismiss (a batsman) by accidentally dropping a batted ball that had initially been caught.
- (transitive, linguistics) To fail to write, or (especially) to pronounce (a syllable, letter, etc.).
- To pass or use (counterfeit cheques, money, etc.).
- (intransitive) To collapse in exhaustion or injury; also, to fall dead, or to fall in death.
- (transitive, ergative, also figuratively) To let (something) fall; to allow (something) to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip on).
- (transitive) To move to a lower position; to allow to hang downwards; to lower.
- (intransitive) Of a song or sound: to lower in key, pitch, tempo, or other quality.
- (transitive, online gaming, video games) Of a defeated enemy or container: To leave behind an item that the player can collect.
- To play (a portion of music) in the manner of a disc jockey.
- (intransitive, gambling) To drop out of the betting.
- (transitive) Of an animal (usually a sheep): to give birth to (young); of a bird: to lay (an egg).
- (transitive) To let (a letter, etc.) fall into a postbox; hence, to send (a letter, email, or other message) in an offhand manner.
- (transitive) To dispose or get rid of (something); to lose, to remove.
- (US, Singapore, ergative, military, slang) To make someone, or be made to do push-ups or some other form of exercise on the ground as punishment.
- (intransitive) To fall behind or to the rear of a group of people, etc., as a result of not keeping up with those at the front.
noun
- a shape that is spherical and small
- a central depository where things can be left or picked up
- a steep high face of rock
- a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity
- a predetermined hiding place for the deposit and distribution of illicit goods (such as drugs or stolen property)
- the act of dropping something
- a curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies; often used as background scenery
- a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
- a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid)
- Of women's clothes: the difference between the bust circumference and hip circumference.
- (online gaming, video games) An item made available for the player to pick up from the remains of a defeated enemy.
- (pinball) Ellipsis of drop target.
- (rugby) Ellipsis of drop kick.
- (pharmacology, chiefly in the plural) A liquid medicine that is intended to be administered in drops (sense 1).
- (agriculture) A fruit which has fallen off a tree, etc., or has been knocked off accidentally, rather than picked.
- (informal) Only used in get the drop on, have the drop on: an advantage.
- A decline in degree, quality, quantity, or rate.
- (nautical) The depth of a (square) sail (generally applied to the courses only); the vertical dimension of a sail.
- (electrics, telecommunications) An overhead electrical line running from a utility pole to a customer's building or other premises.
- (American football) A dropped pass.
- Usually preceded by the: relegation from one division to a lower one.
- (law enforcement) The distance that a person drops when being executed by hanging.
- Often preceded by a defining word: a small, round piece of hard candy, such as a lemon drop; a lozenge.
- (theater) A curtain which falls in front of a theatrical stage; also, a section of (cloth) scenery lowered on to the stage like a curtain.
- (slang, US) An automobile with a drop-top roof, a convertible.
- Licorice in confectionery form.
- Ellipsis of drop hammer or drop press.
- The distance below a cliff or other high position through which someone or something could fall; hence, a steep slope.
- (also figuratively) A small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own rounded shape through surface tension, especially one that falls from a source of liquid.
- (law enforcement, informal) Preceded by the: execution by hanging.
- (music) A point in a song, usually electronic music such as dubstep, house, trance, or trap, where there is a very noticeable and pleasing change in bass, tempo, and/or overall tone; a climax, a highlight.
- A release (of music, a video game, etc).
- (Ireland, informal) A single measure of whisky.
- Of men's clothes: the difference between the chest circumference and waist circumference.
- (figuratively) A very small quantity of liquid, or (by extension) of anything.
- (law enforcement) A trapdoor (“hinged platform”) on a gallows; a gallows itself.
- An act of moving downwards under the force of gravity; a descent, a fall.
- The vertical length of a hanging curtain.
- A mechanism for lowering something, such as a machine for lowering heavy weights on to a ship's deck, or a device for temporarily lowering a gas jet, etc.
- (pharmacology) A dose of liquid medicine in the form of a drop (sense 1).
- (engineering) The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.
- (surfing) A near vertical decent down the face of a breaking wave.
- (cricket) A place (specified by an ordinal) in the batting order after the openers.
- (architecture) An ornament resembling a pendant; a gutta.
- (American football) Ellipsis of drop-back.
- (gambling) The amount of money that a gambler exchanges for chips in a casino.
- (chiefly British) Usually preceded by the: alcoholic spirits in general.
- (golf) Ellipsis of drop shot.
- The cover mounted on a swivel over a keyhole that rests over the keyhole when not in use to keep out debris, but is swiveled out of the way before inserting the key.
- (chiefly Australia, British) A small amount of an alcoholic beverage.
- A place where items or supplies may be left for others to collect, whether openly (as with a mail drop), or secretly or illegally (as in crime or espionage); a drop-off point.
- An instance of making a delivery of people, supplies, or things, especially by parachute out of an aircraft (an airdrop), but also by truck, etc.
verb
- hang loosely
- hit or aim at with a sweeping arm movement
- make a big sweeping gesture or movement
- play with a subtle and intuitively felt sense of rhythm
- have a certain musical rhythm
- move in a curve or arc, usually with the intent of hitting
- be a social swinger; socialize a lot
- move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner
- engage freely in promiscuous sex, often with the husband or wife of one's friends
- influence decisively
- change direction with a swinging motion; turn
- alternate dramatically between high and low values
- live in a lively, modern, and relaxed style
- (intransitive) To hang from the gallows; to be punished by hanging, swing for something or someone; (often hyperbolic) to be severely punished.
- (intransitive, cricket, of a ball) To move sideways in its trajectory.
- (transitive and intransitive, boxing) To move one's arm in a punching motion.
- (transitive) To change (a numerical result); especially to change the outcome of an election.
- To be sexually oriented.
- To turn in a different direction.
- (transitive, engineering) To admit or turn something for the purpose of shaping it; said of a lathe.
- (intransitive) To ride on a swing.
- (transitive) To move (an object) backward and forward; to wave.
- (transitive, music) To play notes that are in pairs by making the first of the pair slightly longer than written (augmentation) and the second shorter, resulting in a bouncy, uneven rhythm.
- (transitive, cricket) (of a bowler) To make the ball move sideways in its trajectory.
- (intransitive, sex) To participate in the swinging lifestyle; to participate in wifeswapping.
- (intransitive) To rotate about an off-centre fixed point.
- (intransitive) To dance.
- (intransitive) To fluctuate or change.
- (transitive, carpentry) To put (a door, gate, etc.) on hinges so that it can swing or turn.
- (transitive) In dancing, to turn around in a small circle with one's partner, holding hands or arms.
- (nautical) To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor.
- (transitive, slang) To make (something) work; especially to afford (something) financially.
noun
- a state of steady vigorous action that is characteristic of an activity
- in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball
- a sweeping blow or stroke
- a jaunty rhythm in music
- mechanical device used as a plaything to support someone swinging back and forth
- the act of swinging a golf club at a golf ball and (usually) hitting it
- changing location by moving back and forth
- a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz
- a square dance figure; a pair of dancers join hands and dance around a point between them
- (boxing) A type of hook with the arm more extended.
- (music) The genre of music associated with this dance style.
- The sweep or compass of a swinging body.
- (politics) In an election, the increase or decrease in the number of votes for opposition parties compared with votes for the incumbent party.
- (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball as it flies through the air.
- A basic dance step in which a pair link hands and turn round together in a circle.
- Influence or power of anything put in motion.
- (theater) In a musical theater production, a performer who understudies several roles.
- The act, or an instance, of swinging.
- The manner in which something is swung.
- Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in it.
- The amount of change towards or away from something.
- A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing.
- A hanging seat that can swing back and forth, in a children's playground, for acrobats in a circus, or on a porch for relaxing.
- An energetic and acrobatic late-1930s partner-based dance style, also known as jitterbug and lindy-hop.
- The maximum amount of change that has occurred or can occur; the sum of the maximum changes in any direction.
noun
- the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely)
- decoration that is hung (as a tapestry) on a wall or over a window
- a form of capital punishment; victim is suspended by the neck from a gallows or gibbet until dead
- (countable, uncountable) The act of hanging a person (or oneself) by the neck in order to kill that person (or to commit suicide).
- (countable) Anything that is hung as a decorative element (such as curtains, gobelins, or posters).
- (uncountable) The way in which hangings (decorations) are arranged.
adj
- (UK, slang, of a person, originally Manchester) Ugly; very unattractive; disgusting.
- Suspended.
- (typography, of a punctuation mark) Extending beyond the margins of a page.
- (baseball, slang, of an off-speed pitch) Hittable; poorly executed by the pitcher, hence relatively easy to hit.
- (chess, of a piece) Unprotected and exposed to capture.
verb
noun
- the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely)
- a temporary debarment (from a privilege or position etc.)
- a mechanical system of springs or shock absorbers connecting the wheels and axles to the chassis of a wheeled vehicle
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- temporary cessation or suspension
- an interruption in the intensity or amount of something
- a mixture in which fine particles are suspended in a fluid where they are supported by buoyancy
- (Scots law) A stay or postponement of the execution of a sentence, usually by letters of suspension granted on application to the Lord Ordinary.
- A temporary or conditional delay, interruption or discontinuation.
- Thus a kind of silt or sludge.
- The temporary barring of a person from a workplace, society, etc. pending investigation into alleged misconduct.
- (chemistry, physics) The state of a solid or substance produced when its particles are mixed with, but not dissolved in, a fluid, and are capable of separation by straining.
- (topology) A function derived, in a standard way, from another, such that the instant function’s domain and codomain are suspensions of the original function’s.
- (education) The process of barring a student from school grounds as a form of punishment (particularly out-of-school suspension).
- (music) The act of or discord produced by prolonging one or more tones of a chord into the chord which follows, thus producing a momentary discord, suspending the concord which the ear expects.
- (vehicles) The system of springs and shock absorbers connected to the wheels in an automobile, which allows the vehicle to move smoothly with reduced shock to its occupants.
- (topology) A topological space derived from another by taking the product of the original space with an interval and collapsing each end of the product to a point.
- The act of keeping a person who is listening in doubt and expectation of what is to follow.
- The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended.
noun
- A hook imagined to be suspended in midair.
- a hook that is imagined to be suspended from the sky
- (slang) A CB radio antenna.
- A helicopter that lifts and transports heavy objects suspended by a heavy cable.
- An overhead winch.
- (climbing) A small hook for gripping small and slippery protrusions.
- (tennis) A form of the overhead smash in which the eastern grip is used to hit the ball farther behind the body than usually possible.
- (astronautics) A proposed momentum-exchange tether for launching payloads into low Earth orbit by hooking them to the end of a cable that reaches down from an orbiting station into the upper atmosphere.
- (board sports) A device covering the rider's boot and sometimes screwed to the board, to facilitate jumping and enhance stability.
- helicopter carrying a reel of steel cable that can be used to lift and transport heavy objects
noun
- The way in which something hangs.
- (colloquial) The smallest amount of concern or consideration; a damn.
- (computing) An instance of ceasing to respond to input.
- (Ireland, informal, derogatory) Cheap processed ham (cured pork), often made specially for sandwiches.
- A slackening of motion.
- A hangout.
- A sharp or steep declivity or slope.
- A person that someone hangs out with.
- Alternative spelling of Hang (“musical instrument”).
- A mass of hanging material.
- (informal, figuratively) A grip, understanding.
- a gymnastic exercise performed on the rings or horizontal bar or parallel bars when the gymnast's weight is supported by the arms
- a special way of doing something
- the way a garment hangs
verb
- (intransitive) To veer in one direction.
- (intransitive) To be or remain suspended.
- (intransitive, chess) To be vulnerable to capture.
- (transitive, computing) To cause (a program or computer) to stop responding.
- (transitive, baseball, slang, of a pitcher) To throw a hittable off-speed pitch.
- (intransitive, law) To be executed by suspension by one's neck from a gallows, a tree, or other raised bar, attached by a rope tied into a noose.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To remain persistently in one's thoughts.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to be suspended, as from a hook, hanger, hinges, or the like.
- (intransitive, of a ball in cricket, tennis, etc.) To rebound unexpectedly or unusually slowly, due to backward spin on the ball or imperfections of the ground.
- (transitive, figurative) To attach or cause to stick (a charge or accusation, etc.).
- (transitive) To prevent from reaching a decision, especially by refusing to join in a verdict that must be unanimous.
- (transitive) To apply (wallpaper or drywall to a wall).
- (transitive) To hold or bear in a suspended or inclined manner or position instead of erect.
- (transitive, law) To kill (someone) by suspension from the neck, usually as a form of execution or suicide.
- (transitive) To exhibit (an object) by hanging.
- (intransitive, computing) To stop responding to manual input devices such as the keyboard and mouse.
- (intransitive) To float, as if suspended.
- (intransitive, informal) To loiter; to hang around; to spend time idly.
- (transitive, chess) To cause (a piece) to become vulnerable to capture.
- (transitive, informal) (used in maledictions) To damn.
- (transitive) To decorate (something) with hanging objects.
- be exhibited
- hold on tightly or tenaciously
- decorate or furnish with something suspended
- be suspended or poised
- be suspended or hanging
- be menacing, burdensome, or oppressive
- give heed (to)
- be placed in position as by a hinge
- let drop or droop
- suspend (meat) in order to get a gamey taste
- fall or flow in a certain way
- prevent from reaching a verdict, of a jury
- kill by hanging
- cause to be hanging or suspended
- place in position as by a hinge so as to allow free movement in one direction
noun
- a support consisting of an arrangement of straps for holding something to the body (especially one supporting a person suspended from a parachute)
- stable gear consisting of an arrangement of leather straps fitted to a draft animal so that it can be attached to and pull a cart
- Equipment for any kind of labour.
- The part of a loom comprising the heddles, with their means of support and motion, by which the threads of the warp are alternately raised and depressed for the passage of the shuttle.
- (countable) A collection of wires or cables bundled and routed according to their function: a wiring harness.
- (countable) A restraint or support, especially one consisting of a loop or network of rope or straps, and especially one worn by a working animal such as a horse pulling a carriage or farm implement.
verb
noun
- A layer of trapped air that supports a hovercraft.
- the trapped air that supports a hovercraft a short distance above the water or ground
- A shock absorber that uses an air chamber.
- A rubber or plastic inflatable cushion.
- a mechanical device using confined air to absorb the shock of motion
- a cushion usually made of rubber or plastic that can be inflated
noun
adj
noun
- A light rope attached to an object being hoisted by a crane, used to guide it while lifting or lowering.
- The punch line of a joke.
- (computing) A pithy quotation habitually appended to a signature in email, newsgroups, etc.
- A line attached to a draft of cargo or a container to provide control and minimize pendulation of cargo during lifting operations.
- (marketing) An advertising slogan.
verb
noun
- (climbing) A handhold that allows one to pull oneself up from below.
- The act of pulling (any sense) insufficiently.
- (engineering) A driver for pumping that has the eccentrics under the gear wheel.
- (medicine) Failure to pull a muscle as far as it can contract.
- Synonym of undertow.
- A secret or indirect influence.
- (more generally) A downward pull or force.
- A negative influence.
adj
verb
noun
- a line that suspends the harness from the canopy of a parachute
- burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped
- (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind
- Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
- The branching top of a tree; foliage.
- One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
- (nautical) One of a set of ropes or cables (rigging) attaching a mast to the sides of a vessel or to another anchor point, serving to support the mast sideways; such rigging collectively.
- That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
- A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
- (astronautics) A streamlined protective covering used to protect the payload during a rocket-powered launch.
- That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
verb
noun
- a cord or rope or cable that is hanging loosely
- dust consisting of a mixture of small coal fragments and coal dust and dirt that sifts out when coal is passed over a sieve
- a stretch of water without current or movement
- a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality
- a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
- the quality of being loose (not taut)
- (rail transport) A temporary speed restriction where track maintenance or engineering work is being carried out at a particular place.
- (mining) Small coal; coal dust.
- (uncountable, psychotherapy) Unconditional listening attention given by client to patient.
- In particular, a shallow dell or hollow; a dip in the surface of terrain, such as between hills.
- (countable) A low-lying marsh or a pool, especially a tidal or intermittent one which periodically fills and drains.
- (uncountable) The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it.
- (countable) A valley, or small, shallow dell; a sag or saddle in a ridge.
- A flat-bottomed, hollow zone within a sand-dune system that has developed over impervious strata, sometimes due to erosion or blow-out of the dune system; its flat base level is therefore close to or at the permanent water-table level, and therefore has rich, marshy flora, with Salix species (willows) as typical woody colonisers.
- Attributive form of slacks (“semi-formal trousers”).
- A dip in a surface.
adj
- not tense or taut
- flowing with little speed as e.g. at the turning of the tide
- lacking in rigor or strictness
- (slang, Caribbean, Jamaica) Vulgar; sexually explicit, especially in dancehall music.
- Excess; surplus to requirements.
- Weak; not holding fast.
- Not active or busy, successful, or violent.
- Moderately warm.
- (linguistics) Lax.
- Moderate in speed.
- Lacking diligence or care; not earnest or eager.
- (normally said of a rope) Lax; not tense; not firmly extended.
verb
- become less in amount or intensity
- make less active or intense
- be inattentive to, or neglect
- avoid responsibilities and work, be idle
- become slow or slower
- cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water
- make less active or fast
- release tension on
- To refuse to work as hard as one is supposed to.
- (ambitransitive) To slacken.
- To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake.
adv
noun
verb
- go or move upward
- fly by means of a hang glider
- rise rapidly
- fly a plane without an engine
- fly upwards or high in the sky
- To rise, especially rapidly or unusually high.
- To remain aloft by means of a glider or other unpowered aircraft.
- (figuratively) To rise in thought, spirits, or imagination; to be exalted in mood.
- To mount upward on wings, or as on wings, especially by gliding while employing rising air currents.
- (intransitive) To fly high with little effort, like a bird.
noun
verb
- move along very quickly
- move with a low humming noise
- rise rapidly
- (transitive) To check someone out; to investigate someone that one is interested in.
- (aviation) To zoom climb.
- To manipulate a display so as to magnify or shrink it.
- To move rapidly.
- To participate in a video teleconferencing call.
- (photography) To change the focal length of a zoom lens.
- To move fast with a humming noise.
- To go up sharply.
intj
verb
- hang in the air; fly or be suspended above
- be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity
- hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing
- to hang about in a place beyond the proper or usual time
- be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action
- Of a bird: to shelter (chicks) under its body and wings; (by extension) of a thing: to cover or surround (something).
- (computing) Chiefly followed by over: to use a mouse or other device to place a cursor over something on a screen such as a hyperlink or icon without clicking, so as to produce a result (such as the appearance of a tooltip).
- To keep (something, such as an aircraft) in a stationary state in the air.
- Sometimes followed by over: to hang around or linger in a place, especially in an uncertain manner.
- To be indecisive or uncertain; to vacillate, to waver.
- To remain stationary or float in the air.
- (nautical) To travel in a hovercraft as it moves above a water surface.
noun
- An act, or the state, of remaining stationary in the air or some other place.
- (figuratively) An act, or the state, of being suspended; a suspension.
- A flock of birds fluttering in the air in one place.
- (chiefly Southern England) A cover; a protection; a shelter; specifically, an overhanging bank or stone under which fish can shelter; also, a shelter for hens brooding their eggs.
verb
noun
- either of the rudimentary hind wings of dipterous insects; used for maintaining equilibrium during flight
- a rope that is used by a hangman to execute persons who have been condemned to death by hanging
- rope or canvas headgear for a horse, with a rope for leading
- a woman's top that fastens behind the back and neck leaving the back and arms uncovered
- A rope with a noose, for hanging criminals; the gallows rope.
- Alternative form of haltere.
- A bitless headpiece of rope or straps, placed on the head of animals such as cattle or horses to lead or tie them.
- One who halts or limps; a cripple.
- A halter top.
verb
adj
noun
- a tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually wooden); used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing
- insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings
- A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; a beetling machine.
- A type of mallet with a large wooden head, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.
- Any of numerous species of insect in the order Coleoptera characterized by a pair of hard, shell-like front wings which cover and protect a pair of rear wings when at rest.
- Alternative letter-case form of Beetle (“car”).
- (uncountable) A game of chance in which players attempt to complete a drawing of a beetle, different dice rolls allowing them to add the various body parts.
verb
noun
- projection that extends beyond or hangs over something else
- A fatty roll of pubis flab that hangs over one's genitals; a FUPA.
- Anything that overhangs or protrudes over its base, such as a wave immediately before breaking, or a protruding cliff or rock wall.
- (architecture) That portion of the roof structure that extends beyond the exterior walls of a building.
- (economics) The volume that tips the balance between the demand and the supply toward demand lagging supply.
verb
- (nautical) To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free.
- (intransitive) To fall over or stumble over an object as a result of striking it with one's foot
- (intransitive) To be guilty of a misstep or mistake; to commit an offence against morality, propriety, etc
- (nautical) To pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it.
- (intransitive) To experience a state of reverie or to hallucinate, due to consuming psychoactive drugs.
- (transitive, sometimes followed by "up") To cause (a person or animal) to fall or stumble by knocking their feet from under them.
- (transitive) To activate or set in motion, as in the activation of a trap, explosive, or switch.
- (intransitive) To be activated, as by a signal or an event
- Of an electrical circuit, to trip out (through overload, a short circuit).
- (slang, African-American Vernacular, most commonly used in the form tripping) To become unreasonably upset, especially over something unimportant; to cause a scene or a disruption.
- (intransitive) To journey, to make a trip.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) To act foolishly or irrationally.
- get high, stoned, or drugged
- miss a step and fall or nearly fall
- make a trip for pleasure
- cause to stumble
- put in motion or move to act
adj
noun
- A faux pas, a social error.
- The act of tripping someone, or causing them to lose their footing.
- (engineering) A mechanical cutout device.
- A stumble or misstep.
- (colloquial) A period of time in which one experiences drug-induced reverie or hallucinations.
- (by extension) Intense involvement in or enjoyment of a condition.
- (electricity) A trip-switch or cut-out.
- A journey; an excursion or jaunt.
- A flock of wigeons.
- (nautical) A single tack while beating (sailing to windward).
- A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip.
- a journey for some purpose (usually including the return)
- a light or nimble tread
- an exciting or stimulating experience
- an unintentional but embarrassing blunder
- an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall
- a catch mechanism that acts as a switch
- a hallucinatory experience induced by drugs
verb
- To allow to hang down.
- (transitive, usually with off) To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone.
- To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
- cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
- cut off from a whole
noun
verb
- hang down so as to drag along the ground
- to lag or linger behind
- go after with the intent to catch
- move, proceed, or walk draggingly or slowly
- drag loosely along a surface; allow to sweep the ground
- (transitive) To leave (a trail of).
- (military) To carry (a firearm) with the breech near the ground and the upper part inclined forward, the piece being held by the right hand near the middle.
- (transitive) To follow behind (someone or something); to tail (someone or something).
- (intransitive) To drag oneself lazily or reluctantly along.
- (intransitive) To run or climb like certain plants.
- To create a trail in.
- To transport (livestock) by herding it along a trail.
- (transitive) To drag (something) behind on the ground.
- (intransitive) To hang or drag loosely behind; to move with a slow sweeping motion.
- To be losing, to be behind in a competition.
- (transitive) To show a trailer of (a film, TV show etc.); to release or publish a preview of (a report etc.) in advance of the full publication.
- To travel by following or creating trails.
noun
- a track or mark left by something that has passed
- evidence pointing to a possible solution
- a path or track roughly blazed through wild or hilly country
- The track or indication marking the route followed by something that has passed, such as the footprints of animal on land or the contrail of an airplane in the sky.
- (television) A trailer broadcast on television for a forthcoming film or programme.
- The horizontal distance from where the wheel touches the ground to where the steering axis intersects the ground.
- A route or circuit generally.
- A route for travel over land, especially a narrow, unpaved pathway for use by hikers, horseback riders, etc.
- (graph theory) A walk in which all the edges are distinct.
verb
- To hold up; to lift on high; to elevate.
- To support by approval or encouragement; to vindicate; to confirm (something which has been questioned)
- To keep erect; to support; to sustain; to keep from falling
- stand up for; stick up for; of causes, principles, or ideals
- support against an opponent
- keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last
verb
- take and lift upward
- lift out or reflect from a background
- give a passenger or a hitchhiker a lift
- fill with high spirits; fill with optimism
- gather or collect
- register (perceptual input)
- perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily
- meet someone for sexual purposes
- improve significantly; go from bad to good
- take into custody
- gain or regain energy
- buy casually or spontaneously
- eat by pecking at, like a bird
- get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
- take up by hand
- get in addition, as an increase
- (intransitive) To improve, increase, or speed up.
- (intransitive) To restart or resume.
- (sports) To behave in a manner that results in a foul.
- (transitive and intransitive with on) To meet and seduce somebody for romantic purposes, especially in a social situation.
- (transitive or intransitive) To clean up; to return to an organized state.
- (transitive) To point out the behaviour, habits, or actions of (a person) in a critical manner; used with on.
- (transitive, media) To obtain and publish a story, news item, etc.
- To reach and continue along (a road).
- (transitive) To record; to notch up.
- (transitive) To acquire (something) accidentally; to catch or contract (a disease).
- (transitive) To reduce the despondency of.
- (transitive) To take control (physically) of something.
- (intransitive, of a phone) To receive calls; to function correctly.
- (transitive) To notice, detect or discern; to pick up on.
- (soccer, transitive) To mark, to defend against an opposition player by following them closely.
- (transitive) To collect and detain (a suspect).
- (transitive) To pay for.
- (transitive) To collect an object, especially in passing.
- (transitive) To learn, to grasp; to begin to understand; to realize.
- (transitive) To collect a passenger.
- (US, military, transitive) To promote somebody who was previously passed over.
- (transitive) To lift; to grasp and raise.
- (transitive or intransitive) To answer a telephone.
- (transitive) To receive (a radio signal or the like).
noun
verb
- hang loosely
- cause to dangle or hang freely
- (medicine, transitive) To position (a patient) in this way.
- (intransitive, slang, ice hockey, lacrosse) The action of performing a move or deke with the puck in order to get past a defender or goalie; perhaps because of the resemblance to dangling the puck on a string.
- (transitive, figurative, by extension) To put forth as a possibility.
- (intransitive) To hang loosely with the ability to swing.
- (medicine, intransitive) Of a patient: to be positioned with the legs hanging over the edge of the bed.
- (transitive) To hang or trail something loosely.
noun
- An agent of one intelligence agency or group who pretends to be interested in defecting or turning to another intelligence agency or group.
- (slang, ice hockey, lacrosse) The action of dangling; a series of complex stick tricks and fakes in order to defeat the defender in style.
- A dangling ornament or decoration.
verb
- hang loosely
- pay out
- utter with seeming casualness
- take (a drug, especially LSD), by mouth
- change from one level to another
- remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave
- lower the pitch of (musical notes)
- fall or descend to a lower place or level
- stop pursuing or acting
- to fall vertically
- let fall to the ground
- cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow
- fall or sink into a state of exhaustion or death
- grow progressively worse
- stop associating with
- leave undone or leave out
- let or cause to fall in drops
- to remove
- go down in value
- lose (a game)
- omit (a letter or syllable) in speaking or writing
- give birth; used for animals
- terminate an association with
- (cooking) To cook (food, especially fast food), particularly by lowering into hot oil to deep-fry, or by grilling.
- (transitive, music) To tune (a guitar string, etc.) to a lower note.
- (intransitive) Of a liquid: to fall in drops or droplets.
- (transitive) To cease concerning oneself over (someone or something); to have nothing more to do with (a discussion, subject, etc.).
- (intransitive, computing) To enter a more basic interface.
- (transitive) To make (someone or something) fall to the ground from a blow, gunshot, etc.; to bring down, to shoot down; to kill.
- (intransitive, physiology, informal) Of the testicles: to hang further away from the body and begin producing sperm due to puberty.
- (transitive) To reduce; to make smaller.
- Especially in drop acid: to swallow (a drug, particularly LSD).
- (intransitive) Of a voice: to lower in timbre, often due to puberty.
- (transitive, computing, music, television, colloquial) To release (a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.) to the public.
- (intransitive) To decrease, diminish, or lessen in condition, degree, value, etc.
- (intransitive, computing, music, television, colloquial) Of a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.: to enter public distribution.
- (transitive) To drip (a liquid) in drops or small amounts.
- (originally US) To (unexpectedly) lose (a competition, game, etc.).
- To lose, spend, or otherwise part with (money).
- (intransitive, also figuratively) To fall (straight down) under the influence of gravity, like a drop of liquid.
- (intransitive) To come to an end (by not being kept up); to lapse, to stop.
- (intransitive) To fall into a particular condition or state.
- (intransitive, online gaming, video games) Of an item: To appear for the player to pick up, usually after an enemy has been defeated.
- To impart (something).
- (intransitive) Usually followed by by, in, or into: of a person: to visit someone or somewhere informally or without a prior appointment.
- (intransitive) To fall or sink quickly or suddenly to the ground.
- (rugby) To score (a goal) by means of a drop kick.
- (transitive) To cancel or cease to participate in (a scheduled course, event, or project).
- To perform (rap music).
- (transitive) To mention (something) casually or incidentally, usually in conversation.
- (transitive) To set down (someone or something) from a vehicle; to stop and deliver or deposit (someone or something); to drop off.
- (transitive) To lower (a sound, a voice, etc.) in pitch or volume.
- (transitive, computing) To present (the user) with a more basic interface.
- (transitive) To cease to include (something), as if on a list; to dismiss, to eject, to expel.
- To quickly lower or take down (one's trousers), especially in public.
- (cricket) Of a fielder: to fail to dismiss (a batsman) by accidentally dropping a batted ball that had initially been caught.
- (transitive, linguistics) To fail to write, or (especially) to pronounce (a syllable, letter, etc.).
- To pass or use (counterfeit cheques, money, etc.).
- (intransitive) To collapse in exhaustion or injury; also, to fall dead, or to fall in death.
- (transitive, ergative, also figuratively) To let (something) fall; to allow (something) to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip on).
- (transitive) To move to a lower position; to allow to hang downwards; to lower.
- (intransitive) Of a song or sound: to lower in key, pitch, tempo, or other quality.
- (transitive, online gaming, video games) Of a defeated enemy or container: To leave behind an item that the player can collect.
- To play (a portion of music) in the manner of a disc jockey.
- (intransitive, gambling) To drop out of the betting.
- (transitive) Of an animal (usually a sheep): to give birth to (young); of a bird: to lay (an egg).
- (transitive) To let (a letter, etc.) fall into a postbox; hence, to send (a letter, email, or other message) in an offhand manner.
- (transitive) To dispose or get rid of (something); to lose, to remove.
- (US, Singapore, ergative, military, slang) To make someone, or be made to do push-ups or some other form of exercise on the ground as punishment.
- (intransitive) To fall behind or to the rear of a group of people, etc., as a result of not keeping up with those at the front.
noun
- a shape that is spherical and small
- a central depository where things can be left or picked up
- a steep high face of rock
- a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity
- a predetermined hiding place for the deposit and distribution of illicit goods (such as drugs or stolen property)
- the act of dropping something
- a curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies; often used as background scenery
- a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
- a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid)
- Of women's clothes: the difference between the bust circumference and hip circumference.
- (online gaming, video games) An item made available for the player to pick up from the remains of a defeated enemy.
- (pinball) Ellipsis of drop target.
- (rugby) Ellipsis of drop kick.
- (pharmacology, chiefly in the plural) A liquid medicine that is intended to be administered in drops (sense 1).
- (agriculture) A fruit which has fallen off a tree, etc., or has been knocked off accidentally, rather than picked.
- (informal) Only used in get the drop on, have the drop on: an advantage.
- A decline in degree, quality, quantity, or rate.
- (nautical) The depth of a (square) sail (generally applied to the courses only); the vertical dimension of a sail.
- (electrics, telecommunications) An overhead electrical line running from a utility pole to a customer's building or other premises.
- (American football) A dropped pass.
- Usually preceded by the: relegation from one division to a lower one.
- (law enforcement) The distance that a person drops when being executed by hanging.
- Often preceded by a defining word: a small, round piece of hard candy, such as a lemon drop; a lozenge.
- (theater) A curtain which falls in front of a theatrical stage; also, a section of (cloth) scenery lowered on to the stage like a curtain.
- (slang, US) An automobile with a drop-top roof, a convertible.
- Licorice in confectionery form.
- Ellipsis of drop hammer or drop press.
- The distance below a cliff or other high position through which someone or something could fall; hence, a steep slope.
- (also figuratively) A small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own rounded shape through surface tension, especially one that falls from a source of liquid.
- (law enforcement, informal) Preceded by the: execution by hanging.
- (music) A point in a song, usually electronic music such as dubstep, house, trance, or trap, where there is a very noticeable and pleasing change in bass, tempo, and/or overall tone; a climax, a highlight.
- A release (of music, a video game, etc).
- (Ireland, informal) A single measure of whisky.
- Of men's clothes: the difference between the chest circumference and waist circumference.
- (figuratively) A very small quantity of liquid, or (by extension) of anything.
- (law enforcement) A trapdoor (“hinged platform”) on a gallows; a gallows itself.
- An act of moving downwards under the force of gravity; a descent, a fall.
- The vertical length of a hanging curtain.
- A mechanism for lowering something, such as a machine for lowering heavy weights on to a ship's deck, or a device for temporarily lowering a gas jet, etc.
- (pharmacology) A dose of liquid medicine in the form of a drop (sense 1).
- (engineering) The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.
- (surfing) A near vertical decent down the face of a breaking wave.
- (cricket) A place (specified by an ordinal) in the batting order after the openers.
- (architecture) An ornament resembling a pendant; a gutta.
- (American football) Ellipsis of drop-back.
- (gambling) The amount of money that a gambler exchanges for chips in a casino.
- (chiefly British) Usually preceded by the: alcoholic spirits in general.
- (golf) Ellipsis of drop shot.
- The cover mounted on a swivel over a keyhole that rests over the keyhole when not in use to keep out debris, but is swiveled out of the way before inserting the key.
- (chiefly Australia, British) A small amount of an alcoholic beverage.
- A place where items or supplies may be left for others to collect, whether openly (as with a mail drop), or secretly or illegally (as in crime or espionage); a drop-off point.
- An instance of making a delivery of people, supplies, or things, especially by parachute out of an aircraft (an airdrop), but also by truck, etc.
verb
- hang loosely
- hit or aim at with a sweeping arm movement
- make a big sweeping gesture or movement
- play with a subtle and intuitively felt sense of rhythm
- have a certain musical rhythm
- move in a curve or arc, usually with the intent of hitting
- be a social swinger; socialize a lot
- move or walk in a swinging or swaying manner
- engage freely in promiscuous sex, often with the husband or wife of one's friends
- influence decisively
- change direction with a swinging motion; turn
- alternate dramatically between high and low values
- live in a lively, modern, and relaxed style
- (intransitive) To hang from the gallows; to be punished by hanging, swing for something or someone; (often hyperbolic) to be severely punished.
- (intransitive, cricket, of a ball) To move sideways in its trajectory.
- (transitive and intransitive, boxing) To move one's arm in a punching motion.
- (transitive) To change (a numerical result); especially to change the outcome of an election.
- To be sexually oriented.
- To turn in a different direction.
- (transitive, engineering) To admit or turn something for the purpose of shaping it; said of a lathe.
- (intransitive) To ride on a swing.
- (transitive) To move (an object) backward and forward; to wave.
- (transitive, music) To play notes that are in pairs by making the first of the pair slightly longer than written (augmentation) and the second shorter, resulting in a bouncy, uneven rhythm.
- (transitive, cricket) (of a bowler) To make the ball move sideways in its trajectory.
- (intransitive, sex) To participate in the swinging lifestyle; to participate in wifeswapping.
- (intransitive) To rotate about an off-centre fixed point.
- (intransitive) To dance.
- (intransitive) To fluctuate or change.
- (transitive, carpentry) To put (a door, gate, etc.) on hinges so that it can swing or turn.
- (transitive) In dancing, to turn around in a small circle with one's partner, holding hands or arms.
- (nautical) To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor.
- (transitive, slang) To make (something) work; especially to afford (something) financially.
noun
- a state of steady vigorous action that is characteristic of an activity
- in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball
- a sweeping blow or stroke
- a jaunty rhythm in music
- mechanical device used as a plaything to support someone swinging back and forth
- the act of swinging a golf club at a golf ball and (usually) hitting it
- changing location by moving back and forth
- a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz
- a square dance figure; a pair of dancers join hands and dance around a point between them
- (boxing) A type of hook with the arm more extended.
- (music) The genre of music associated with this dance style.
- The sweep or compass of a swinging body.
- (politics) In an election, the increase or decrease in the number of votes for opposition parties compared with votes for the incumbent party.
- (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball as it flies through the air.
- A basic dance step in which a pair link hands and turn round together in a circle.
- Influence or power of anything put in motion.
- (theater) In a musical theater production, a performer who understudies several roles.
- The act, or an instance, of swinging.
- The manner in which something is swung.
- Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in it.
- The amount of change towards or away from something.
- A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing.
- A hanging seat that can swing back and forth, in a children's playground, for acrobats in a circus, or on a porch for relaxing.
- An energetic and acrobatic late-1930s partner-based dance style, also known as jitterbug and lindy-hop.
- The maximum amount of change that has occurred or can occur; the sum of the maximum changes in any direction.
adj
- held from above and hanging down
- Hanging down.
- addicted to a drug
- relying on or requiring a person or thing for support, supply, or what is needed
- (of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence
- contingent on something else
- being under the power or sovereignty of another or others
- Relying upon; depending upon.
- (of Irish/Manx/Scottish (Gaelic) verb forms) Used after a particle (with one or two exceptions), such as those which express questions, subordinate clauses, and negative sentences.
- (medicine) Of part of the body: positioned lower than the heart, like the legs while standing up, or the back while supine.
- (statistics) Having a probability that is affected by the outcome of a separate event.
noun
- a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support)
- (grammar) An element in phrase or clause structure that is not the head. Includes complements, modifiers and determiners.
- A person who relies on another for support or sustenance, particularly financial support.
- (philosophy) dependent (origination), in Buddhism, the idea that the existence of everything is conditional and dependent on a cause, and that nothing happens fortuitously or by chance.
- (grammar) The aorist subjunctive or subjunctive perfective: a form of a verb not used independently but preceded by a particle to form the negative or a tense form. Found in Greek and in the Gaelic languages.
adj
noun
- branched lighting fixture; often ornate; hangs from the ceiling
- an adornment that hangs from a piece of jewelry (necklace or earring)
- The dangling part of an earring.
- A lamp hanging from the roof.
- (fine arts) One of a pair; a counterpart.
- (architecture) A supporting post attached to the main rafter.
- (nautical) A short rope hanging down, used to attach hooks for tackles; a pennant.
- A long narrow flag at the head of the principal mast in a royal ship.
- A piece of jewellery which hangs down as an ornament, especially worn on a chain around the neck.
- An ornament of wood or of stone hanging downwards from a roof.
- (US) The stem and ring of a watch, by which it is suspended.
adj
- held from above and hanging down
- Dangling, drooping, hanging down or suspended.
- Pending (in various senses).
- (architecture, of a structure) Either hanging in some sense, or constructed of multiple elements such as the voussoirs of an arch or the pendentives of a dome, none of which can stand on its own, but which in combination are stable.
- (heraldry) Hanging or pointed downward; (of a crescent) with its horns pointing downward.
- (grammar, of a sentence) Incomplete in some sense, such as lacking a finite verb.
noun
adj
- Hung from above.
- (law) suspended sentence
- (medicine) suspended animation
- (of coffee, food, etc.) Paid for but not consumed by a customer, so that it can be given to a less fortunate person.
- (botany, of an ovule) Attached slightly below the summit of the ovary.
- (chemistry) A chemical suspension
- (music, of a chord) Having had its third omitted and replaced with a major second or perfect fourth.
- (of undissolved particles in a fluid) supported or kept from sinking or falling by buoyancy and without apparent attachment
verb
adj
noun
verb
adj
adj
noun
adj
- Hoisted, lifted off the ground, or propped up using a jack.
- (slang) Wrecked; damaged; ruined; injured.
- (slang) Reprehensible; objectionable.
- (slang, automotive) Describes a 4x4 automobile that has a "lift kit", raising the body and/or frame higher than stock.
- (slang) Stimulated, excited.
- (informal) Significantly increased or expanded.
- (slang) Under the influence of stimulants; high.
verb
verb
adj
noun
- a tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually wooden); used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing
- insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings
- A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; a beetling machine.
- A type of mallet with a large wooden head, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.
- Any of numerous species of insect in the order Coleoptera characterized by a pair of hard, shell-like front wings which cover and protect a pair of rear wings when at rest.
- Alternative letter-case form of Beetle (“car”).
- (uncountable) A game of chance in which players attempt to complete a drawing of a beetle, different dice rolls allowing them to add the various body parts.
adj
noun
verb
adj
- raised above the ground
- of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style
- increased in amount or degree
- (linguistics) Of a higher register or style.
- Raised, usually above ground level.
- Of a higher rank or status.
- (computing) Running with administrator rights.
- Increased, particularly above a normal level.