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verb
- level or smooth with a rake
- move through with or as if with a rake
- sweep the length of
- examine hastily
- gather with a rake
- scrape gently
- To pick (a lock) with a rake.
- (ambitransitive, figurative) Followed by up: to bring up or uncover (something), as embarrassing information, past misdeeds, etc.
- (military, nautical) To fire upon an enemy vessel from a position in line with its bow or stern, causing one's fire to travel through the length of the enemy vessel for maximum damage.
- (intransitive, chiefly Midlands, Northern England, Scotland) To move swiftly; to proceed rapidly.
- (transitive) To provide (the bow or stern of a watercraft) with a rake (“a slant that causes it to extend beyond the keel”).
- (intransitive, rare) Of a watercraft: to have a rake at its bow or stern.
- (ambitransitive, figurative) To claw at; to scrape, to scratch; followed by away: to erase, to obliterate.
- (intransitive, falconry) Of a bird of prey: to fly after a quarry; also, to fly away from the falconer, to go wide of the quarry being pursued.
- (ambitransitive, figurative) To search through (thoroughly).
- (transitive, chiefly Ireland, Northern England, Scotland, also figurative) To cover (something) by or as if by raking things over it.
- (transitive) Often followed by an adverb or preposition such as away, off, out, etc.: to drag or pull in a certain direction.
- (ambitransitive, also figurative) To move (a beam of light, a glance with the eyes, etc.) across (something) with a long side-to-side motion; specifically (often military) to use a weapon to fire at (something) with a side-to-side motion; to spray with gunfire.
- To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.
- (ambitransitive) To incline (something) from a perpendicular direction.
- (transitive, also figurative) Often followed by in: to gather (things which are apart) together, especially quickly.
- Alternative spelling of raik (“(intransitive, Midlands, Northern England, Scotland) to walk; to roam, to wander; of animals (especially sheep): to graze; (transitive, chiefly Scotland) to roam or wander through (somewhere)”)
noun
- a dissolute man in fashionable society
- a long-handled tool with a row of teeth at its head; used to move leaves or loosen soil
- degree of deviation from a horizontal plane
- (gambling) A tool with a straight edge at the end used by a croupier to move chips or money across a gaming table.
- (British, originally Northern England, Scotland) A series, a succession; specifically (rail transport) a set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons.
- A slant that causes the bow or stern of a watercraft to extend beyond the keel; also, the upper part of the bow or stern that extends beyond the keel.
- (specifically) In full, angle of rake or rake angle: the angle between the edge or face of a tool (especially a cutting tool) and a plane (usually one perpendicular to the object that the tool is being applied to).
- A slant of some other part of a watercraft (such as a funnel or mast) away from the perpendicular, usually towards the stern.
- (Northern England and climbing, also figurative) A course, a path, especially a narrow and steep path or route up a hillside.
- A share of profits, takings, etc., especially if obtained illegally; specifically (gambling) the scaled commission fee taken by a cardroom operating a poker game.
- (Scotland) Rate of progress; pace, speed.
- A divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular; a slant, a slope.
- (geology) The direction of slip during the movement of a fault, measured within the fault plane.
- (roofing) The sloped edge of a roof at or adjacent to the first or last rafter.
- (mining) A fissure or mineral vein of ore traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so.
- (chiefly Ireland, Scotland, slang) A lot, plenty.
- A person (usually a man) who is stylish but habituated to hedonistic and immoral conduct.
- A type of lockpick that has a ridged or notched blade that moves across the pins in a pin tumbler lock, causing them to settle into a shear line.
- (Midlands, Northern England) Alternative spelling of raik (“a course, a way; pastureland over which animals graze; a journey to transport something between two places; a run; also, the quantity of items so transported”).
- The act of raking.
- (agriculture, horticulture) A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting debris, grass, etc., for flattening the ground, or for loosening soil; also, a similar wheel-mounted tool drawn by a horse or a tractor.
- (cellular automata) A type of puffer train that leaves behind a stream of spaceships as it moves.
verb
- make the surface of level or smooth
- move lightly, as if suspended
- allow (currencies) to fluctuate
- put into the water
- be in motion due to some air or water current
- be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom
- convert from a fixed point notation to a floating point notation
- set afloat
- circulate or discuss tentatively; test the waters with
- (transitive, finance) To allow (the exchange value of a currency) to be determined by the markets.
- (transitive, finance) To issue or sell shares in a company (or units in a trust) to members of the public, followed by listing on a stock exchange.
- (intransitive) To drift or wander aimlessly.
- (transitive) To propose (an idea) for consideration.
- (intransitive, electronics) To be not connected or referenced to a known reference voltage.
- (poker) To perform a float.
- (transitive) To spread plaster over (a surface), using the tool called a float.
- (intransitive, colloquial) Of an idea or scheme, to be viable.
- (transitive) To cause to drift gently through the air, to waft.
- (intransitive) To move in a fluid manner.
- (intransitive) To be capable of floating.
- (transitive) To transport by float (vehicular trailer).
- (intransitive, aviation) To remain airborne, without touching down, for an excessive length of time during landing, due to excessive airspeed during the landing flare.
- (transitive, retail) To prepare a till (cash register) for operation, either by putting a float (cash amount) in the cash drawer to provide change for customers making cash payments or (by extension) by recording the time a till starts being used for card payments if it is card-only
- (transitive, colloquial) To extend a short-term loan to.
- (intransitive) To drift gently through the air.
- To be supported by a liquid of greater density, such that part (of the object or substance) remains above the surface.
- (intransitive) To move in a particular direction with the liquid in which one is floating.
- (intransitive, figurative) To circulate.
- (transitive) To use a float (rasp-like tool) upon.
- (transitive) To cause something to be suspended in a fluid of greater density.
- (computing, publishing, transitive) To cause (an element within a document) to float above or beside others.
- (intransitive)To automatically adjust a parameter as related parameters change.
- (intransitive, of an object or substance) To be supported by a fluid of greater density (than the object).
- (intransitive, finance) (of currencies) To have an exchange value determined by the markets, as opposed to by central fiat.
noun
- the time interval between the deposit of a check in a bank and its payment
- an elaborate display mounted on a platform carried by a truck (or pulled by a truck) in a procession or parade
- the number of shares outstanding and available for trading by the public
- an air-filled sac near the spinal column in many fishes that helps maintain buoyancy
- a drink with ice cream floating in it
- something that floats on the surface of water
- a hand tool with a flat face used for smoothing and finishing the surface of plaster or cement or stucco
- (poker) A maneuver where a player calls on the flop or turn with a weak hand, with the intention of bluffing after a subsequent community card.
- A breakdancing move in which the body is held parallel to the floor while balancing on one or both hands.
- (biology) The gas-filled sac, bag, or body of a siphonophore; a pneumatophore.
- A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.
- (automotive) A car carrier or car transporter truck or truck-and-trailer combination.
- A small sum of money put in a cashier's till, or otherwise secured, at the start of business, to enable change to be made.
- (weaving) A weft thread that passes over two or more warp threads (or less commonly, warp over weft).
- (publishing, digital typesetting) Any object (element) whose location in composition (page makeup, pagination) does not flow within body text but rather floats outside of it, usually anchored loosely (in buoy metaphor) to spots within it (citations, callouts): a figure (image), table, box, pull quote, ornament, or other floated element.
- A tool similar to a rasp, used in various trades.
- An elaborately decorated trailer or vehicle, intended for display in a parade or pageant.
- (knitting) A loose strand of yarn that passes behind one or more stitches when knitting with multiple yarns.
- (transport) A lowboy trailer.
- (insurance) Premiums taken in but not yet paid out.
- A soft beverage with a scoop of ice cream floating in it.
- A buoyant device used to support something in water or another liquid.
- (computing) A visual style on a web page that causes the styled elements to float above or beside others.
- (basketry) A decorative rod that extends over the body of a basket without being attached for part of its length.
- (programming) A floating-point number, especially one that has lower precision than a double.
- (finance) Funds committed to be paid but not yet paid.
- A floating toy made of foam, used in swimming pools.
- A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft.
- A sort of trowel used for finishing concrete surfaces or smoothing plaster.
- (banking) The total amount of checks/cheques or other drafts written against a bank account but not yet cleared and charged against the account.
- (finance, Australia, and other Commonwealth countries?) An offering of shares in a company (or units in a trust) to members of the public, normally followed by a listing on a stock exchange.
- A float board.
- (British) A small vehicle used for local deliveries, especially in the term milk float.
noun
- A level or flat surface.
- (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies, of various genera, having a slow gliding flight.
- (entomology) The butterfly Bindahara phocides, family Lycaenidae, of Asia and Australasia.
- (geometry) A flat surface extending infinitely in all directions (e.g. horizontal or vertical plane); a bounded portion thereof.
- A roughly flat, thin, often moveable structure used to create lateral force by the flow of air or water over its surface, found on aircraft, submarines, etc.
- (countable) A deciduous tree of the genus Platanus.
- (computing, Unicode) Any of 17 designated ranges of 2¹⁶ (65,536) sequential code points each.
- An airplane; an aeroplane.
- (countable, carpentry) A tool for smoothing wood by removing thin layers from the surface.
- (anatomy) An imaginary plane which divides the body into two portions.
- A level of existence or development.
- (Northern UK) A sycamore.
- an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets
- a level of existence or development
- (mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape
- a power tool for smoothing or shaping wood
- a carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood
adj
verb
verb
noun
- changing the ground level to a smooth horizontal or gently sloping surface
- the act of arranging in a graduated series
- evaluation of performance by assigning a grade or score
- (Philippines, education) Ellipsis of grading period.
- (mathematics) Gradation.
- The act of reshaping the contour of the landscape so as to provide rainwater drainage around buildings, create lawns and gardens, prepare roadbeds, and so on.
- A rank or grade.
verb
noun
- changing the ground level to a smooth horizontal or gently sloping surface
- the act of making equal or uniform
- complete destruction of a building
- (linguistics) Ellipsis of paradigm leveling, the replacement of irregular forms by regular forms.
- (surveying, archaeology) The process of measuring levels to establish heights and altitudes.
- The process of making something level.
verb
verb
- drag loosely along a surface; allow to sweep the ground
- to lag or linger behind
- hang down so as to drag along the ground
- go after with the intent to catch
- move, proceed, or walk draggingly or slowly
- (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
- drag loosely along a surface; allow to sweep the ground
- exercise in order to prepare for an event or competition
- develop (a child's or animal's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control
- undergo training or instruction in preparation for a particular role, function, or profession
- point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards
- cause to grow in a certain way by tying and pruning it
- teach and supervise (someone); act as a trainer or coach (to), as in sports
- travel by rail or train
- create by training and teaching
- teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
- educate for a future role or function
- (transitive) To move (a gun) laterally so that it points in a different direction.
- (intransitive) To proceed in sequence.
- (transitive, horticulture) To encourage (a plant or branch) to grow in a particular direction or shape, usually by pruning and bending.
- (transitive, machine learning) To feed data into an algorithm, usually based on a neural network, to create a machine learning model that can perform some task.
- (transitive, video games) To create a trainer (cheat patch) for; to apply cheats to (a game).
- (intransitive) To improve one's fitness.
- (intransitive) To practice an ability.
- (transitive) To teach and form (someone) by practice; to educate (someone).
- (transitive, mining) To trace (a lode or any mineral appearance) to its head.
- (transitive) To transport (something) by train.
noun
- public transport provided by a line of railway cars coupled together and drawn by a locomotive
- wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed
- piece of cloth forming the long back section of a gown that is drawn along the floor
- a series of consequences wrought by an event
- a procession (of wagons or mules or camels) traveling together in single file
- a sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding
- (sex, slang) An act wherein series of men line up and then penetrate a person, especially as a form of gang rape.
- A trail or line of something, especially gunpowder.
- A series of electrical pulses.
- A set of interconnected mechanical parts which operate each other in sequence.
- A group of people following an important figure such as a king or noble; a retinue, a group of retainers.
- (figuratively, poetic) A group or class of people.
- The elongated back portion of a dress or skirt (or an ornamental piece of material added to similar effect), which drags along the ground.
- A series of specified vehicles (originally tramcars in a mine as usual, later especially railway carriages) coupled together.
- A long, heavy sleigh used in Canada for the transportation of merchandise, wood, etc.
- (computing) A software release schedule.
- A group of animals, vehicles, or people that follow one another in a line, such as a wagon train; a caravan or procession.
- (astronomy) A transient trail of glowing ions behind a large meteor as it falls through the atmosphere or accompanying a comet as it nears the sun; tail.
- A sequence of events or ideas which are interconnected; a course or procedure of something.
- (informal) A service on a railway line.
- The tail of a bird.
- (military) The men and vehicles following an army, which carry artillery and other equipment for battle or siege.
- A mechanical (originally steam-powered, now typically diesel or electrical) vehicle carrying a large number of passengers and freight along a designated track or path; a line of connected wagons considered overall as a mode of transport; (as uncountable noun) rail or road travel.
- A set of things, events, or circumstances that follow after or as a consequence; aftermath, wake.
- (poetic) The elongated body or form of something narrow and winding, such as the course of a river or the body of a snake.
noun
- Any level line or surface.
- The visible horizontal line (in all directions) where the sky appears to meet the earth in the distance.
- (computer chess) The point at which a computer chess algorithm stops searching for further moves.
- (figuratively) The range or limit of one's knowledge, experience or interest; a boundary or threshold.
- (archaeology, chiefly US) A cultural sub-period or level within a more encompassing time period.
- The range or limit of any dimension in which one exists.
- (geology) A specific layer of soil, or stratum
- a specific layer or stratum of soil or subsoil in a vertical cross section of land
- the line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet
- the great circle on the celestial sphere whose plane passes through the sensible horizon and the center of the Earth
- the range of interest or activity that can be anticipated
adv
adj
noun
- The act of overflushing.
- The act or process of forcing overflush into a system in order to clear out active fluids.
- Surplus assets.
- A flush (series of obstacles to ski between) that covers a slope
- A displacement fluid that is forced into a system in order to clear out active fluids that are used in a treatment, such as fracking, desalinization, etc.
- An excess of something.
- A flush or tinge of color that appears over the base color.
- A sudden rush of feeling that appears expressed in the face.
verb
adj
noun
- The act or process of using a rake; the going over a space with a rake.
- (music) a bass guitar playing technique in which multiple notes are played rapidly from one string to another.
- A space gone over with a rake; also, the work done, or the quantity of hay, grain, etc., collected, by going once over a space with a rake.
verb
adj
- Having an even, smooth surface; smooth
- Not rough or harsh.
- Glossy.
- Slim and streamlined; not plump, thick, or stocky.
- (of stock animals) Healthy, well-fed and well-groomed; in good condition.
- designed or arranged to offer the least resistance to fluid flow
- well-groomed and neatly tailored; especially too well-groomed
- having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light; being of a smooth, soft and lustrous quality, resembling silk
verb
noun
verb
noun
- a tool used in a foundry to shape a mold in sand
- a tool or rod used to level off grain or other granular material that is heaped in a measure
- an implement for sharpening scythes
- (husbandry) A tool for sharpening scythes, composed typically of a piece of wood smeared with grease and sand.
- An instrument used in dressing flax.
- (metallurgy) A bevel-edged finishing tool used for smoothing the surface of a mold, core, or mold in sand or loam.
- A rod used to level off heaped grain etc. when being measured, or concrete after pouring.
- (carpentry, masonry) A template; a pattern.
verb
- smooth with a strickle
- To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level of the top.
- deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon
- form by stamping, punching, or printing
- cause to experience suddenly
- hit against; come into sudden contact with
- affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely
- make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target
- arrive at after reckoning, deliberating, and weighing
- hook by a pull on the line
- drive something violently into a location
- have an emotional or cognitive impact upon
- pierce with force
- cause to form (an electric arc) between electrodes of an arc lamp
- touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly
- remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line
- produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments
- find unexpectedly
- disassemble a temporary structure, such as a tent or a theatrical set
- occupy or take on
- stop work in order to press demands
- produce by ignition or a blow
- indicate (a certain time) by striking
- attain
- (transitive) To make and ratify; to reach; to find.
- (intransitive) To sound by percussion, with blows, or as if with blows.
- (transitive) To create an impression.
- (transitive, sometimes with out or through) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
- (intransitive) To carry out a violent or illegal action.
- (transitive) To cause to ignite by friction.
- To touch; to act by appulse.
- (transitive) To punish; to afflict; to smite.
- To unfasten, to loosen (chains, bonds, etc.).
- (transitive) To hit.
- (transitive, figurative) To impinge upon.
- To affect by a sudden impression or impulse.
- (intransitive) To act suddenly, especially in a violent or criminal way.
- To make a sudden impression upon, as if by a blow; to affect with some strong emotion.
- (sports) To score a goal.
- (transitive) To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.
- (transitive) To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke.
- To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
- (nautical) To haul down or lower (a flag, mast, etc.)
- (intransitive, by extension) To stop working as a protest to achieve better working conditions.
- (intransitive) To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
- (by extension) To capitulate; to signal a surrender by hauling down the colours.
- (intransitive) To set off on a walk or trip.
- (transitive, finance) To balance (a ledger or account).
- To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.
- (transitive) To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes. Of a clock, to announce (an hour of the day), usually by one or more sounds.
- (transitive) To impress, seem or appear to (a person).
- (masonry) To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
- To discover a source of something, often a buried raw material such as ore (especially gold) or crude oil.
- (intransitive) To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
- (transitive) To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.
- To infest the flesh of a living vertebrate.
- (transitive) To manufacture, as by stamping.
- To dismantle and take away (a theater set; a tent; etc.).
- (intransitive) To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.
- (transitive, fishing) To hook (a fish) by a quick turn of the wrist.
noun
- An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle.
- a score in tenpins: knocking down all ten with the first ball
- a group's refusal to work in protest against low pay or bad work conditions
- a conspicuous success
- (baseball) a pitch that the batter swings at and misses, or that the batter hits into foul territory, or that the batter does not swing at but the umpire judges to be in the area over home plate and between the batter's knees and shoulders
- a gentle blow
- an attack that is intended to seize or inflict damage on or destroy an objective
- (cricket) The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.
- A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.
- The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.
- (fishing) A nibble on the bait by a fish.
- (baseball) A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when the ball goes in the strike zone, or hitting a foul ball that is not caught.
- (geology) The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the Earth or another solid celestial body.
- The discovery of a source of something.
- (bowling) The act of knocking down all ten pins on the first roll of a frame.
- (philately) A cancellation postmark.
- (printing, historical) An imperfect matrix for type.
- (military, by extension) An attack, not necessarily physical.
- An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
- The strike plate of a door.
- (finance) In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise the option.
- (ironworking) A puddler's stirrer.
- A blow or application of physical force against something.
- (historical) An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
noun
- A tool used to make something smooth or even.
- (printing) A camera-ready image to be used by a printer. The "slick" is photographed to produce a negative image which is then used to burn a positive offset plate or other printing device.
- (fandom slang) In omegaverse fiction, the copious, lubricating bodily fluid produced by an omega in heat.
- A wide paring chisel used in joinery.
- (sports, automotive) A tire with a smooth surface instead of a tread pattern, often used in auto racing.
- Someone who is clever and untrustworthy.
- Alternative form of schlich.
- (slang) A silver coin that has been worn to the point its surface feels smooth to the touch.
- (US, military slang) A helicopter.
- A covering of liquid, particularly oil.
- (publishing, slang) A glossy magazine.
- a slippery smoothness
- a film of oil or garbage floating on top of water
- a trowel used to make a surface slick
- a magazine printed on good quality paper
verb
adj
- Slippery or smooth due to a covering of liquid; often used to describe appearances.
- Sleek; smooth.
- Superficially convincing but actually untrustworthy.
- (US, West Coast slang) Extraordinarily great or special.
- Appearing expensive or sophisticated.
- (often sarcastic) Clever, making an apparently hard task look easy.
- having only superficial plausibility
- marked by skill in deception
- made slick by e.g. ice or grease
- superficially impressive, but lacking depth and attention to the true complexities of a subject
- having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light; being of a smooth, soft and lustrous quality, resembling silk
adv
adj
- Flat and level.
- (colloquial) On equal terms of a moral sort; quits.
- Equal in proportion, quantity, size, etc.
- Parallel; on a level; reaching the same limit.
- (informal) Of a number, convenient for rounding other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero.
- On equal monetary terms; neither owing nor being owed.
- (mathematics, not comparable) Of an integer, divisible by two.
- Without great variation.
- being level or straight or regular and without variation as e.g. in shape or texture; or being in the same plane or at the same height as something else (i.e. even with)
- symmetrically arranged
- equal in degree or extent or amount; or equally matched or balanced
- divisible by two
- of the score in a contest
- occurring at fixed intervals
adv
- Used to emphasise a comparative.
- Used to indicate a further degree of comparison.
- Rather; that is (used to signal a correction of a previous utterance).
- In reality (used to imply an extreme example in the case mentioned).
- to a greater degree or extent; used with comparisons
- to the full extent
- used as an intensive especially to indicate something unexpected
- in spite of; notwithstanding
noun
verb
adj
- Not level or smooth.
- Varying in quality.
- Not uniform.
- Of a surface, not even; covered with raised spots, pits and grooves.
- (mathematics, rare) Odd.
- not even or uniform as e.g. in shape or texture
- not divisible by two
- (of a contest or contestants) not fairly matched as opponents
- lacking consistency
- variable and recurring at irregular intervals
verb
verb
noun
verb
- smoothen the surface of
- set up or found
- launch for the first time; launch on a maiden voyage
- propel with force
- begin with vigor
- get going; give impetus to
- (transitive) To cause (a rocket, balloon, etc., or the payload thereof) to begin its flight upward from the ground.
- (intransitive, often with out) To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the stocks into the water; to plunge; to begin.
- (transitive) To throw (a projectile such as a lance, dart or ball); to hurl; to propel with force.
- (intransitive) Of a ship, rocket, balloon, etc.: to depart on a voyage; to take off.
- (transitive) To send out; to start (someone) on a mission or project; to give a start to (something); to put in operation
- (intransitive, computing, of a program) To start to operate.
- (transitive, computing) To start (a program or feature); to execute or bring into operation.
- (transitive) To release; to put onto the market for sale
- (transitive) To cause (a vessel) to move or slide from the land or a larger vessel into the water; to set afloat.
noun
- the act of propelling with force
- a motorboat with an open deck or a half deck
- An event held to celebrate the launch of a ship/vessel, project, a new book, etc.; a launch party.
- The act or fact of launching (a ship/vessel, a project, a new book, etc.).
- (nautical) The boat of the largest size and/or of most importance belonging to a ship of war, and often called the "captain's boat" or "captain's launch".
- (nautical) An open boat of any size powered by steam, petrol, electricity, etc.
- The movement of a vessel from land into the water; especially, the sliding on ways from the stocks on which it is built. (Compare: to splash a ship.)
- (nautical) A boat used to convey guests to and from a yacht.
verb
adj
noun
- One who or that which slicks.
- (metalworking) A curved tool for smoothing the surfaces of a mould after the withdrawal of the pattern.
- A symmetrical knife with a handle at each end, used for burnishing leather.
- A person who is perceived as clever, urbane and possibly disreputable. (abbreviation of city slicker.)
- Synonym of slicker brush
- (slang) A swindler or conman.
- (originally Canada, US) A waterproof coat or jacket.
- A two-handled tool for finishing concrete or mortar; a darby.
- someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
- a person with good manners and stylish clothing
- a macintosh made from cotton fabric treated with oil and pigment to make it waterproof
verb
- To flatten, level, or smooth a large surface, especially with a grader.
- (linguistics) To describe, modify or inflect so as to classify as to degree.
- (sewing) To remove or trim part of a seam allowance from a finished seam so as to reduce bulk and make the finished piece more even when turned right side out.
- (chiefly Canada, US) To assign scores to the components of an academic test, or to overall academic performance.
- (intransitive) To pass imperceptibly from one grade into another.
- To organize in grades.
- To apply classifying labels to data (typically by a manual rather than automatic process).
- (patternmaking) To increase or decrease the dimensions of a garment pattern from the initial base size in such a way that the overall proportions of the silhouette are maintained across all sizes.
- assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation
- determine the grade of or assign a grade to
- assign a rank or rating to
- level to the right gradient
noun
- The level of the ground.
- (Canada, education) A student of a particular grade (used with the grade level).
- (systematics) A taxon united by a level of morphological or physiological complexity that is not a clade.
- A rating.
- (Canada, US, Philippines, education) A level of primary and secondary education.
- (medicine) The degree of malignity of a tumor expressed on a scale.
- A slope (up or down) of a roadway or other passage
- (geometry) In a linear system of divisors on an n-dimensional variety, the number of free intersection points of n generic divisors.
- A degree or level of something; a position within a scale; a degree of quality.
- An area that has been flattened by a grader (construction machine).
- (mathematics) A gradian.
- A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating.
- (linguistics) Degree (any of the three stages (positive, comparative, superlative) in the comparison of an adjective or an adverb).
- (Philippines, ophthalmology) An eyeglass prescription.
- (chiefly Canada, US, Philippines) Performance on a test or other evaluation(s), expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a score.
- a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality
- a variety of cattle produced by crossbreeding with a superior breed
- a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance)
- a relative position or degree of value in a graded group
- the gradient of a slope or road or other surface
- a degree of ablaut
- the height of the ground on which something stands
- one-hundredth of a right angle
- a body of students who are taught together
noun
- A sloped surface or line.
- (Australia, slang) A crime committed for the purpose of being apprehended and transported to a major settlement.
- (typography) Synonym of slash ⟨ / ⟩, particularly in its use to set off pronunciations from other text.
- (US) A look, a glance.
- A pan with a sloped bottom used for holding paintbrushes.
- A depression on a palette with a sloping bottom for holding and mixing watercolours.
- A palette or similar container with slants or sloping depressions.
- (slang) An opportunity, particularly to go somewhere.
- (US, ethnic slur, derogatory) A person with slanting eyes, particularly an East Asian.
- An oblique movement or course.
- (originally US) A point of view, an angle.
- (mining) A run: a heading driven diagonally between the dip and strike of a coal seam.
- (biology) A sloping surface in a culture medium.
- A slope; an incline, inclination.
- a biased way of looking at or presenting something
- degree of deviation from a horizontal plane
adj
verb
adj
- (of lumber or stone) to trim and smooth
- dressed in fancy or formal clothing
- treated with medications and protective covering
- dressed or clothed especially in fine attire; often used in combination
- Prepared for eating, especially by the addition of specific condiments or dressing.
- Wearing clothes; attired (now often with qualifying word).
- (in combination) Wearing a dress.
- Having been subjected to a preparatory process or treatment; treated, prepared.
verb
adj
verb
noun
- A light-weight harvest rake.
- A hipped gable.
- (UK, dialect, childish) A cow.
- A mixture of clay and loam.
- (UK, dialect) A mule.
- A giant Asian catfish, Wallagonia Attu found in India, Sri Lanka, Burma, Indochina, Thailand, Java, and Sumatra.
- (US) A hornless or polled animal.
- An upright crank-driven saw with no gate or sash.
adj
noun
- the quality of having a level and even surface
- a texture without roughness; smooth to the touch
- the quality of being free from errors or interruptions
- powerful and effective language
- the quality of being bland and gracious or ingratiating in manner
- (approximation theory, numerical analysis, of a function) The quantity measured by the modulus of smoothness.
- (mathematical analysis, of a function) The highest order of derivative (the differentiability class) over a given domain.
- The condition of being smooth; the degree or measure of said condition.
verb
noun
- (countable) A slope made up of scree at the base of a cliff, mountain, etc.
- (uncountable) Loose stony debris on a slope.
- (uncountable, by extension) Similar debris made up of broken building material such as bricks, concrete, etc.
- A harsh, high-pitched sound or cry (as of a hawk).
- (Scotland) A coarse sieve.
- a sloping mass of loose rocks at the base of a cliff
noun
- A device used to trim the edges of a lawn in a clean manner, down through to the dirt
- A device used to harvest peat, built-up organic detritus from a bog
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see turf, cutter.; that which cuts turf
- A device used to harvest sod, living grass mats complete with its roots in soil
- A person who harvests sod
- A person who harvests peat
noun
- a coarse sieve (as for gravel)
- a difficult problem
- A board with a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
- (religious) One of the pair of curtains enclosing an altar on the north and south.
- A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.
- A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature.
- An ancient verbal, poetic, or literary form, in which, rather than a rhyme scheme, there are parallel opposing expressions with a hidden meaning.
verb
- spread or diffuse through
- set a difficult problem or riddle
- separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff
- speak in riddles
- explain a riddle
- pierce with many holes
- To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
- To put something through a riddle or sieve; to sieve; to sift.
- (transitive) To solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question.
- To fill with holes like a riddle.
- (figuratively) To fill or spread throughout; to pervade (with something destructive or weakening).
verb
- make smooth or smoother, as if by rubbing
- free from obstructions
- make (a surface) shine
- (transitive) To make straightforward or easy.
- (transitive) To make smooth or even.
- (West Country) To stroke; especially to stroke an animal's fur.
- (transitive) To calm or palliate.
- (transitive) To reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure; to press, to flatten.
- (statistics, image processing, digital audio) To capture important patterns in the data, while leaving out noise.
adj
- smooth and unconstrained in movement
- of the margin of a leaf shape; not broken up into teeth
- smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication
- lacking obstructions or difficulties
- (of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves
- having a surface free from roughness or bumps or ridges or irregularities
- of motion that runs or flows or proceeds without jolts or turbulence
- (music) without breaks between notes; smooth and connected
- (of muscles, medicine) Involuntary and non-striated.
- (of an action) Natural; unconstrained.
- (mathematics, of a function) Having derivatives of all finite orders at all points within the function’s domain.
- Bland; glib.
- (mathematics, of a number) That factors completely into small prime numbers.
- Having a texture that lacks friction. Not rough.
- (of a motion) Unbroken.
- (linguistics, classical studies, of a vowel) Lacking marked aspiration.
- (of food or drink) Not grainy; having an even texture.
- (of an edge) Lacking projections or indentations; not serrated.
- Without difficulty, problems, or unexpected consequences or incidents.
- (of a beverage) Having a pleasantly rounded flavor; neither rough nor astringent.
- Flowing or uttered without check, obstruction, or hesitation; not harsh; fluent.
- Suave; sophisticated.
- (chiefly of water) Placid, calm.
noun
adv
noun
noun
- a smooth surface (as of a bone or cut gemstone)
- a distinct feature or element in a problem
- One of a series of things, such as steps in a project.
- Any one of the flat surfaces cut into a gem.
- (anatomy) Any of the small joints at each segment of the spine that provide stability and help guide motion
- (mathematics) A face of codimension 1 of a polytope.
- (anatomy) One member of a compound eye, as found in insects and crustaceans.
- (architecture) The narrow plane surface between flutings of a column; a fillet.
- (figurative) One among many similar or related, yet still distinct things.
- (anatomy) A smooth circumscribed surface.
- (computing) A criterion that can be used to sort and filter, such as the colour or size of products in an online store.
verb
verb
noun
verb
- rub the dust over a surface so as to blur the outlines of a shape
- remove the dust from
- distribute loosely
- cover with a light dusting of a substance
- (transitive) To spray or cover (something) with fine powder or liquid, to sprinkle.
- (transitive) To remove dust from.
- (transitive, chiefly US slang) To kill.
- (transitive, now colloquial or dialectal) To strike, beat, thrash.
- (transitive, chiefly US slang) To defeat badly, to thrash.
- (intransitive, chiefly US slang) To leave quickly; to rush off.
- (intransitive) To remove dust; to clean by removing dust.
- (transitive, baseball) To deliberately pitch a ball close to (a batter); to brush back.
- (intransitive or reflexive) Of a bird, to cover itself in sand or dry, dusty earth.
- (transitive) To sprinkle (a substance) in the form of dust.
- (cryptocurrencies) To attempt to identify the owner of (a cryptocurrency wallet) by sending tiny amounts of cryptocurrency.
noun
- free microscopic particles of solid material
- fine powdery material such as dry earth or pollen that can be blown about in the air
- the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up
- (cryptocurrencies) Tiny amounts of cryptocurrency left over after a transaction due to rounding error.
- (countable) The act of cleaning by dusting.
- (figurative) Something worthless.
- (uncountable, astronomy) Submicron particles in outer space, largely silicates and carbon compounds, that contribute greatly to extinction at visible wavelengths.
- (countable, figurative) A tumult, disturbance, commotion, uproar.
- (countable, mathematics) A totally disconnected set of points with a fractal structure.
- (British, colloquial) Rubbish, garbage, refuse.
- The earthly remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body.
- (figurative) A low or mean condition.
- (countable) A cloud of dust.
- (countable, colloquial) A fight or row.
- The earth as the resting place of the dead.
- (figurative) The substance of the human body or mortal frame.
- (uncountable) Fine, dry particles of matter found in the air and covering the surface of objects, typically consisting of soil lifted up by the wind, pollen, hair, etc.
- (uncountable) Any substance reduced to fine particles; powder.
- (poetic) Earth, ground, soil, sediment.
- (countable) The act of sprinkling dust, or a sprinkle of dust itself.
- (uncountable, occupational health) Disintegration of a solid, like silica.
adj
- Rough (of a surface).
- (grammar, of a word) Not following the regular or expected patterns of inflection in a given language.
- Nonstandard; not conforming to rules or expectations.
- (geometry, of a polygon) Not regular; having sides that are not equal or angles that are not equal.
- Without symmetry, regularity, or uniformity.
- (geometry, of a polyhedron) Whose faces are not all regular polygons (or are not equally inclined to each other).
- lacking continuity or regularity
- contrary to rule or accepted order or general practice
- not occurring at a regular rate or fixed intervals
- (of a surface or shape); not level or flat or symmetrical
- (used of the military) not belonging to or engaged in by regular army forces
- independent in behavior or thought
- deviating from normal expectations; somewhat odd, strange, or abnormal
- (of solids) not having clear dimensions that can be measured; volume must be determined with the principle of liquid displacement
- failing to meet a standard of manufacture due to an imperfection
noun
- One who does not regularly attend a venue.
- A soldier who is not a member of an official military force and who may not use regular army tactics.
- a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment
- merchandise that has imperfections; usually sold at a reduced price without the brand name
noun
adj
- (law) Unreasonably long in coming, in reference to claims and actions.
- No longer fresh, new, or interesting, in reference to ideas and immaterial things; clichéd, hackneyed, dated.
- No longer fresh, in reference to food, urine, straw, wounds, etc.
- (in general) Not new or recent; having been in place or in effect for some time.
- Worn out, particularly due to age or over-exertion, in reference to athletes and animals in competition.
- (computing) Of data: out of date; not synchronized with the newest copy.
- (finance) Out of date, unpaid for an unreasonable amount of time, particularly in reference to checks.
- lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age
- lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new
verb
- (chess, uncommon, transitive) To stalemate.
- (transitive) To make stale; to cause to go out of fashion or currency; to diminish the novelty or interest of, particularly by excessive exposure or consumption.
- (intransitive) To become stale; to grow odious from excessive exposure or consumption.
- (intransitive, of alcohol) To become stale; to grow unpleasant from age.
- urinate, of cattle and horses
adj
noun
- a sloop with a simplified rig and no bowsprit
- (sailing) A small sailboat lacking a bowsprit, of a type found primarily in the Massachusetts area.
- A person living in rough, violent conditions.
- (entertainment) A slapstick comedian or comedy.
- (circus) A tumbler.
- A worker habitually engaged in casual employment.
- Clothing suitable for rough use.
- (sports, informal) An act of playing a sport casually or informally.
noun
- A level or flat surface.
- (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies, of various genera, having a slow gliding flight.
- (entomology) The butterfly Bindahara phocides, family Lycaenidae, of Asia and Australasia.
- (geometry) A flat surface extending infinitely in all directions (e.g. horizontal or vertical plane); a bounded portion thereof.
- A roughly flat, thin, often moveable structure used to create lateral force by the flow of air or water over its surface, found on aircraft, submarines, etc.
- (countable) A deciduous tree of the genus Platanus.
- (computing, Unicode) Any of 17 designated ranges of 2¹⁶ (65,536) sequential code points each.
- An airplane; an aeroplane.
- (countable, carpentry) A tool for smoothing wood by removing thin layers from the surface.
- (anatomy) An imaginary plane which divides the body into two portions.
- A level of existence or development.
- (Northern UK) A sycamore.
- an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets
- a level of existence or development
- (mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape
- a power tool for smoothing or shaping wood
- a carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood
adj
verb
noun
- changing the ground level to a smooth horizontal or gently sloping surface
- the act of arranging in a graduated series
- evaluation of performance by assigning a grade or score
- (Philippines, education) Ellipsis of grading period.
- (mathematics) Gradation.
- The act of reshaping the contour of the landscape so as to provide rainwater drainage around buildings, create lawns and gardens, prepare roadbeds, and so on.
- A rank or grade.
verb
noun
- changing the ground level to a smooth horizontal or gently sloping surface
- the act of making equal or uniform
- complete destruction of a building
- (linguistics) Ellipsis of paradigm leveling, the replacement of irregular forms by regular forms.
- (surveying, archaeology) The process of measuring levels to establish heights and altitudes.
- The process of making something level.
verb
noun
- Any level line or surface.
- The visible horizontal line (in all directions) where the sky appears to meet the earth in the distance.
- (computer chess) The point at which a computer chess algorithm stops searching for further moves.
- (figuratively) The range or limit of one's knowledge, experience or interest; a boundary or threshold.
- (archaeology, chiefly US) A cultural sub-period or level within a more encompassing time period.
- The range or limit of any dimension in which one exists.
- (geology) A specific layer of soil, or stratum
- a specific layer or stratum of soil or subsoil in a vertical cross section of land
- the line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet
- the great circle on the celestial sphere whose plane passes through the sensible horizon and the center of the Earth
- the range of interest or activity that can be anticipated
noun
- A tool used to make something smooth or even.
- (printing) A camera-ready image to be used by a printer. The "slick" is photographed to produce a negative image which is then used to burn a positive offset plate or other printing device.
- (fandom slang) In omegaverse fiction, the copious, lubricating bodily fluid produced by an omega in heat.
- A wide paring chisel used in joinery.
- (sports, automotive) A tire with a smooth surface instead of a tread pattern, often used in auto racing.
- Someone who is clever and untrustworthy.
- Alternative form of schlich.
- (slang) A silver coin that has been worn to the point its surface feels smooth to the touch.
- (US, military slang) A helicopter.
- A covering of liquid, particularly oil.
- (publishing, slang) A glossy magazine.
- a slippery smoothness
- a film of oil or garbage floating on top of water
- a trowel used to make a surface slick
- a magazine printed on good quality paper
verb
adj
- Slippery or smooth due to a covering of liquid; often used to describe appearances.
- Sleek; smooth.
- Superficially convincing but actually untrustworthy.
- (US, West Coast slang) Extraordinarily great or special.
- Appearing expensive or sophisticated.
- (often sarcastic) Clever, making an apparently hard task look easy.
- having only superficial plausibility
- marked by skill in deception
- made slick by e.g. ice or grease
- superficially impressive, but lacking depth and attention to the true complexities of a subject
- having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light; being of a smooth, soft and lustrous quality, resembling silk
adv
noun
- A sloped surface or line.
- (Australia, slang) A crime committed for the purpose of being apprehended and transported to a major settlement.
- (typography) Synonym of slash ⟨ / ⟩, particularly in its use to set off pronunciations from other text.
- (US) A look, a glance.
- A pan with a sloped bottom used for holding paintbrushes.
- A depression on a palette with a sloping bottom for holding and mixing watercolours.
- A palette or similar container with slants or sloping depressions.
- (slang) An opportunity, particularly to go somewhere.
- (US, ethnic slur, derogatory) A person with slanting eyes, particularly an East Asian.
- An oblique movement or course.
- (originally US) A point of view, an angle.
- (mining) A run: a heading driven diagonally between the dip and strike of a coal seam.
- (biology) A sloping surface in a culture medium.
- A slope; an incline, inclination.
- a biased way of looking at or presenting something
- degree of deviation from a horizontal plane
adj
verb
verb
- smooth with a strickle
- To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level of the top.
- deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon
- form by stamping, punching, or printing
- cause to experience suddenly
- hit against; come into sudden contact with
- affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely
- make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target
- arrive at after reckoning, deliberating, and weighing
- hook by a pull on the line
- drive something violently into a location
- have an emotional or cognitive impact upon
- pierce with force
- cause to form (an electric arc) between electrodes of an arc lamp
- touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly
- remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line
- produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments
- find unexpectedly
- disassemble a temporary structure, such as a tent or a theatrical set
- occupy or take on
- stop work in order to press demands
- produce by ignition or a blow
- indicate (a certain time) by striking
- attain
- (transitive) To make and ratify; to reach; to find.
- (intransitive) To sound by percussion, with blows, or as if with blows.
- (transitive) To create an impression.
- (transitive, sometimes with out or through) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
- (intransitive) To carry out a violent or illegal action.
- (transitive) To cause to ignite by friction.
- To touch; to act by appulse.
- (transitive) To punish; to afflict; to smite.
- To unfasten, to loosen (chains, bonds, etc.).
- (transitive) To hit.
- (transitive, figurative) To impinge upon.
- To affect by a sudden impression or impulse.
- (intransitive) To act suddenly, especially in a violent or criminal way.
- To make a sudden impression upon, as if by a blow; to affect with some strong emotion.
- (sports) To score a goal.
- (transitive) To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.
- (transitive) To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke.
- To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
- (nautical) To haul down or lower (a flag, mast, etc.)
- (intransitive, by extension) To stop working as a protest to achieve better working conditions.
- (intransitive) To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
- (by extension) To capitulate; to signal a surrender by hauling down the colours.
- (intransitive) To set off on a walk or trip.
- (transitive, finance) To balance (a ledger or account).
- To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.
- (transitive) To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes. Of a clock, to announce (an hour of the day), usually by one or more sounds.
- (transitive) To impress, seem or appear to (a person).
- (masonry) To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
- To discover a source of something, often a buried raw material such as ore (especially gold) or crude oil.
- (intransitive) To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
- (transitive) To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.
- To infest the flesh of a living vertebrate.
- (transitive) To manufacture, as by stamping.
- To dismantle and take away (a theater set; a tent; etc.).
- (intransitive) To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.
- (transitive, fishing) To hook (a fish) by a quick turn of the wrist.
noun
- An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle.
- a score in tenpins: knocking down all ten with the first ball
- a group's refusal to work in protest against low pay or bad work conditions
- a conspicuous success
- (baseball) a pitch that the batter swings at and misses, or that the batter hits into foul territory, or that the batter does not swing at but the umpire judges to be in the area over home plate and between the batter's knees and shoulders
- a gentle blow
- an attack that is intended to seize or inflict damage on or destroy an objective
- (cricket) The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.
- A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.
- The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.
- (fishing) A nibble on the bait by a fish.
- (baseball) A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when the ball goes in the strike zone, or hitting a foul ball that is not caught.
- (geology) The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the Earth or another solid celestial body.
- The discovery of a source of something.
- (bowling) The act of knocking down all ten pins on the first roll of a frame.
- (philately) A cancellation postmark.
- (printing, historical) An imperfect matrix for type.
- (military, by extension) An attack, not necessarily physical.
- An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
- The strike plate of a door.
- (finance) In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise the option.
- (ironworking) A puddler's stirrer.
- A blow or application of physical force against something.
- (historical) An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
noun
- A light-weight harvest rake.
- A hipped gable.
- (UK, dialect, childish) A cow.
- A mixture of clay and loam.
- (UK, dialect) A mule.
- A giant Asian catfish, Wallagonia Attu found in India, Sri Lanka, Burma, Indochina, Thailand, Java, and Sumatra.
- (US) A hornless or polled animal.
- An upright crank-driven saw with no gate or sash.
adj
verb
- To flatten, level, or smooth a large surface, especially with a grader.
- (linguistics) To describe, modify or inflect so as to classify as to degree.
- (sewing) To remove or trim part of a seam allowance from a finished seam so as to reduce bulk and make the finished piece more even when turned right side out.
- (chiefly Canada, US) To assign scores to the components of an academic test, or to overall academic performance.
- (intransitive) To pass imperceptibly from one grade into another.
- To organize in grades.
- To apply classifying labels to data (typically by a manual rather than automatic process).
- (patternmaking) To increase or decrease the dimensions of a garment pattern from the initial base size in such a way that the overall proportions of the silhouette are maintained across all sizes.
- assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation
- determine the grade of or assign a grade to
- assign a rank or rating to
- level to the right gradient
noun
- The level of the ground.
- (Canada, education) A student of a particular grade (used with the grade level).
- (systematics) A taxon united by a level of morphological or physiological complexity that is not a clade.
- A rating.
- (Canada, US, Philippines, education) A level of primary and secondary education.
- (medicine) The degree of malignity of a tumor expressed on a scale.
- A slope (up or down) of a roadway or other passage
- (geometry) In a linear system of divisors on an n-dimensional variety, the number of free intersection points of n generic divisors.
- A degree or level of something; a position within a scale; a degree of quality.
- An area that has been flattened by a grader (construction machine).
- (mathematics) A gradian.
- A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating.
- (linguistics) Degree (any of the three stages (positive, comparative, superlative) in the comparison of an adjective or an adverb).
- (Philippines, ophthalmology) An eyeglass prescription.
- (chiefly Canada, US, Philippines) Performance on a test or other evaluation(s), expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a score.
- a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality
- a variety of cattle produced by crossbreeding with a superior breed
- a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance)
- a relative position or degree of value in a graded group
- the gradient of a slope or road or other surface
- a degree of ablaut
- the height of the ground on which something stands
- one-hundredth of a right angle
- a body of students who are taught together
noun
- the quality of having a level and even surface
- a texture without roughness; smooth to the touch
- the quality of being free from errors or interruptions
- powerful and effective language
- the quality of being bland and gracious or ingratiating in manner
- (approximation theory, numerical analysis, of a function) The quantity measured by the modulus of smoothness.
- (mathematical analysis, of a function) The highest order of derivative (the differentiability class) over a given domain.
- The condition of being smooth; the degree or measure of said condition.
noun
- A device used to trim the edges of a lawn in a clean manner, down through to the dirt
- A device used to harvest peat, built-up organic detritus from a bog
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see turf, cutter.; that which cuts turf
- A device used to harvest sod, living grass mats complete with its roots in soil
- A person who harvests sod
- A person who harvests peat
noun
- a coarse sieve (as for gravel)
- a difficult problem
- A board with a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
- (religious) One of the pair of curtains enclosing an altar on the north and south.
- A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.
- A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature.
- An ancient verbal, poetic, or literary form, in which, rather than a rhyme scheme, there are parallel opposing expressions with a hidden meaning.
verb
- spread or diffuse through
- set a difficult problem or riddle
- separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff
- speak in riddles
- explain a riddle
- pierce with many holes
- To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
- To put something through a riddle or sieve; to sieve; to sift.
- (transitive) To solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question.
- To fill with holes like a riddle.
- (figuratively) To fill or spread throughout; to pervade (with something destructive or weakening).
noun
noun
- a smooth surface (as of a bone or cut gemstone)
- a distinct feature or element in a problem
- One of a series of things, such as steps in a project.
- Any one of the flat surfaces cut into a gem.
- (anatomy) Any of the small joints at each segment of the spine that provide stability and help guide motion
- (mathematics) A face of codimension 1 of a polytope.
- (anatomy) One member of a compound eye, as found in insects and crustaceans.
- (architecture) The narrow plane surface between flutings of a column; a fillet.
- (figurative) One among many similar or related, yet still distinct things.
- (anatomy) A smooth circumscribed surface.
- (computing) A criterion that can be used to sort and filter, such as the colour or size of products in an online store.
verb
noun
adj
- (law) Unreasonably long in coming, in reference to claims and actions.
- No longer fresh, new, or interesting, in reference to ideas and immaterial things; clichéd, hackneyed, dated.
- No longer fresh, in reference to food, urine, straw, wounds, etc.
- (in general) Not new or recent; having been in place or in effect for some time.
- Worn out, particularly due to age or over-exertion, in reference to athletes and animals in competition.
- (computing) Of data: out of date; not synchronized with the newest copy.
- (finance) Out of date, unpaid for an unreasonable amount of time, particularly in reference to checks.
- lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age
- lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new
verb
- (chess, uncommon, transitive) To stalemate.
- (transitive) To make stale; to cause to go out of fashion or currency; to diminish the novelty or interest of, particularly by excessive exposure or consumption.
- (intransitive) To become stale; to grow odious from excessive exposure or consumption.
- (intransitive, of alcohol) To become stale; to grow unpleasant from age.
- urinate, of cattle and horses
verb
- level or smooth with a rake
- move through with or as if with a rake
- sweep the length of
- examine hastily
- gather with a rake
- scrape gently
- To pick (a lock) with a rake.
- (ambitransitive, figurative) Followed by up: to bring up or uncover (something), as embarrassing information, past misdeeds, etc.
- (military, nautical) To fire upon an enemy vessel from a position in line with its bow or stern, causing one's fire to travel through the length of the enemy vessel for maximum damage.
- (intransitive, chiefly Midlands, Northern England, Scotland) To move swiftly; to proceed rapidly.
- (transitive) To provide (the bow or stern of a watercraft) with a rake (“a slant that causes it to extend beyond the keel”).
- (intransitive, rare) Of a watercraft: to have a rake at its bow or stern.
- (ambitransitive, figurative) To claw at; to scrape, to scratch; followed by away: to erase, to obliterate.
- (intransitive, falconry) Of a bird of prey: to fly after a quarry; also, to fly away from the falconer, to go wide of the quarry being pursued.
- (ambitransitive, figurative) To search through (thoroughly).
- (transitive, chiefly Ireland, Northern England, Scotland, also figurative) To cover (something) by or as if by raking things over it.
- (transitive) Often followed by an adverb or preposition such as away, off, out, etc.: to drag or pull in a certain direction.
- (ambitransitive, also figurative) To move (a beam of light, a glance with the eyes, etc.) across (something) with a long side-to-side motion; specifically (often military) to use a weapon to fire at (something) with a side-to-side motion; to spray with gunfire.
- To act upon with a rake, or as if with a rake.
- (ambitransitive) To incline (something) from a perpendicular direction.
- (transitive, also figurative) Often followed by in: to gather (things which are apart) together, especially quickly.
- Alternative spelling of raik (“(intransitive, Midlands, Northern England, Scotland) to walk; to roam, to wander; of animals (especially sheep): to graze; (transitive, chiefly Scotland) to roam or wander through (somewhere)”)
noun
- a dissolute man in fashionable society
- a long-handled tool with a row of teeth at its head; used to move leaves or loosen soil
- degree of deviation from a horizontal plane
- (gambling) A tool with a straight edge at the end used by a croupier to move chips or money across a gaming table.
- (British, originally Northern England, Scotland) A series, a succession; specifically (rail transport) a set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons.
- A slant that causes the bow or stern of a watercraft to extend beyond the keel; also, the upper part of the bow or stern that extends beyond the keel.
- (specifically) In full, angle of rake or rake angle: the angle between the edge or face of a tool (especially a cutting tool) and a plane (usually one perpendicular to the object that the tool is being applied to).
- A slant of some other part of a watercraft (such as a funnel or mast) away from the perpendicular, usually towards the stern.
- (Northern England and climbing, also figurative) A course, a path, especially a narrow and steep path or route up a hillside.
- A share of profits, takings, etc., especially if obtained illegally; specifically (gambling) the scaled commission fee taken by a cardroom operating a poker game.
- (Scotland) Rate of progress; pace, speed.
- A divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular; a slant, a slope.
- (geology) The direction of slip during the movement of a fault, measured within the fault plane.
- (roofing) The sloped edge of a roof at or adjacent to the first or last rafter.
- (mining) A fissure or mineral vein of ore traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so.
- (chiefly Ireland, Scotland, slang) A lot, plenty.
- A person (usually a man) who is stylish but habituated to hedonistic and immoral conduct.
- A type of lockpick that has a ridged or notched blade that moves across the pins in a pin tumbler lock, causing them to settle into a shear line.
- (Midlands, Northern England) Alternative spelling of raik (“a course, a way; pastureland over which animals graze; a journey to transport something between two places; a run; also, the quantity of items so transported”).
- The act of raking.
- (agriculture, horticulture) A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting debris, grass, etc., for flattening the ground, or for loosening soil; also, a similar wheel-mounted tool drawn by a horse or a tractor.
- (cellular automata) A type of puffer train that leaves behind a stream of spaceships as it moves.
verb
- make the surface of level or smooth
- move lightly, as if suspended
- allow (currencies) to fluctuate
- put into the water
- be in motion due to some air or water current
- be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom
- convert from a fixed point notation to a floating point notation
- set afloat
- circulate or discuss tentatively; test the waters with
- (transitive, finance) To allow (the exchange value of a currency) to be determined by the markets.
- (transitive, finance) To issue or sell shares in a company (or units in a trust) to members of the public, followed by listing on a stock exchange.
- (intransitive) To drift or wander aimlessly.
- (transitive) To propose (an idea) for consideration.
- (intransitive, electronics) To be not connected or referenced to a known reference voltage.
- (poker) To perform a float.
- (transitive) To spread plaster over (a surface), using the tool called a float.
- (intransitive, colloquial) Of an idea or scheme, to be viable.
- (transitive) To cause to drift gently through the air, to waft.
- (intransitive) To move in a fluid manner.
- (intransitive) To be capable of floating.
- (transitive) To transport by float (vehicular trailer).
- (intransitive, aviation) To remain airborne, without touching down, for an excessive length of time during landing, due to excessive airspeed during the landing flare.
- (transitive, retail) To prepare a till (cash register) for operation, either by putting a float (cash amount) in the cash drawer to provide change for customers making cash payments or (by extension) by recording the time a till starts being used for card payments if it is card-only
- (transitive, colloquial) To extend a short-term loan to.
- (intransitive) To drift gently through the air.
- To be supported by a liquid of greater density, such that part (of the object or substance) remains above the surface.
- (intransitive) To move in a particular direction with the liquid in which one is floating.
- (intransitive, figurative) To circulate.
- (transitive) To use a float (rasp-like tool) upon.
- (transitive) To cause something to be suspended in a fluid of greater density.
- (computing, publishing, transitive) To cause (an element within a document) to float above or beside others.
- (intransitive)To automatically adjust a parameter as related parameters change.
- (intransitive, of an object or substance) To be supported by a fluid of greater density (than the object).
- (intransitive, finance) (of currencies) To have an exchange value determined by the markets, as opposed to by central fiat.
noun
- the time interval between the deposit of a check in a bank and its payment
- an elaborate display mounted on a platform carried by a truck (or pulled by a truck) in a procession or parade
- the number of shares outstanding and available for trading by the public
- an air-filled sac near the spinal column in many fishes that helps maintain buoyancy
- a drink with ice cream floating in it
- something that floats on the surface of water
- a hand tool with a flat face used for smoothing and finishing the surface of plaster or cement or stucco
- (poker) A maneuver where a player calls on the flop or turn with a weak hand, with the intention of bluffing after a subsequent community card.
- A breakdancing move in which the body is held parallel to the floor while balancing on one or both hands.
- (biology) The gas-filled sac, bag, or body of a siphonophore; a pneumatophore.
- A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.
- (automotive) A car carrier or car transporter truck or truck-and-trailer combination.
- A small sum of money put in a cashier's till, or otherwise secured, at the start of business, to enable change to be made.
- (weaving) A weft thread that passes over two or more warp threads (or less commonly, warp over weft).
- (publishing, digital typesetting) Any object (element) whose location in composition (page makeup, pagination) does not flow within body text but rather floats outside of it, usually anchored loosely (in buoy metaphor) to spots within it (citations, callouts): a figure (image), table, box, pull quote, ornament, or other floated element.
- A tool similar to a rasp, used in various trades.
- An elaborately decorated trailer or vehicle, intended for display in a parade or pageant.
- (knitting) A loose strand of yarn that passes behind one or more stitches when knitting with multiple yarns.
- (transport) A lowboy trailer.
- (insurance) Premiums taken in but not yet paid out.
- A soft beverage with a scoop of ice cream floating in it.
- A buoyant device used to support something in water or another liquid.
- (computing) A visual style on a web page that causes the styled elements to float above or beside others.
- (basketry) A decorative rod that extends over the body of a basket without being attached for part of its length.
- (programming) A floating-point number, especially one that has lower precision than a double.
- (finance) Funds committed to be paid but not yet paid.
- A floating toy made of foam, used in swimming pools.
- A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft.
- A sort of trowel used for finishing concrete surfaces or smoothing plaster.
- (banking) The total amount of checks/cheques or other drafts written against a bank account but not yet cleared and charged against the account.
- (finance, Australia, and other Commonwealth countries?) An offering of shares in a company (or units in a trust) to members of the public, normally followed by a listing on a stock exchange.
- A float board.
- (British) A small vehicle used for local deliveries, especially in the term milk float.
verb
verb
- drag loosely along a surface; allow to sweep the ground
- to lag or linger behind
- hang down so as to drag along the ground
- go after with the intent to catch
- move, proceed, or walk draggingly or slowly
- (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
- drag loosely along a surface; allow to sweep the ground
- exercise in order to prepare for an event or competition
- develop (a child's or animal's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control
- undergo training or instruction in preparation for a particular role, function, or profession
- point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards
- cause to grow in a certain way by tying and pruning it
- teach and supervise (someone); act as a trainer or coach (to), as in sports
- travel by rail or train
- create by training and teaching
- teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
- educate for a future role or function
- (transitive) To move (a gun) laterally so that it points in a different direction.
- (intransitive) To proceed in sequence.
- (transitive, horticulture) To encourage (a plant or branch) to grow in a particular direction or shape, usually by pruning and bending.
- (transitive, machine learning) To feed data into an algorithm, usually based on a neural network, to create a machine learning model that can perform some task.
- (transitive, video games) To create a trainer (cheat patch) for; to apply cheats to (a game).
- (intransitive) To improve one's fitness.
- (intransitive) To practice an ability.
- (transitive) To teach and form (someone) by practice; to educate (someone).
- (transitive, mining) To trace (a lode or any mineral appearance) to its head.
- (transitive) To transport (something) by train.
noun
- public transport provided by a line of railway cars coupled together and drawn by a locomotive
- wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed
- piece of cloth forming the long back section of a gown that is drawn along the floor
- a series of consequences wrought by an event
- a procession (of wagons or mules or camels) traveling together in single file
- a sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding
- (sex, slang) An act wherein series of men line up and then penetrate a person, especially as a form of gang rape.
- A trail or line of something, especially gunpowder.
- A series of electrical pulses.
- A set of interconnected mechanical parts which operate each other in sequence.
- A group of people following an important figure such as a king or noble; a retinue, a group of retainers.
- (figuratively, poetic) A group or class of people.
- The elongated back portion of a dress or skirt (or an ornamental piece of material added to similar effect), which drags along the ground.
- A series of specified vehicles (originally tramcars in a mine as usual, later especially railway carriages) coupled together.
- A long, heavy sleigh used in Canada for the transportation of merchandise, wood, etc.
- (computing) A software release schedule.
- A group of animals, vehicles, or people that follow one another in a line, such as a wagon train; a caravan or procession.
- (astronomy) A transient trail of glowing ions behind a large meteor as it falls through the atmosphere or accompanying a comet as it nears the sun; tail.
- A sequence of events or ideas which are interconnected; a course or procedure of something.
- (informal) A service on a railway line.
- The tail of a bird.
- (military) The men and vehicles following an army, which carry artillery and other equipment for battle or siege.
- A mechanical (originally steam-powered, now typically diesel or electrical) vehicle carrying a large number of passengers and freight along a designated track or path; a line of connected wagons considered overall as a mode of transport; (as uncountable noun) rail or road travel.
- A set of things, events, or circumstances that follow after or as a consequence; aftermath, wake.
- (poetic) The elongated body or form of something narrow and winding, such as the course of a river or the body of a snake.
verb
noun
- a tool used in a foundry to shape a mold in sand
- a tool or rod used to level off grain or other granular material that is heaped in a measure
- an implement for sharpening scythes
- (husbandry) A tool for sharpening scythes, composed typically of a piece of wood smeared with grease and sand.
- An instrument used in dressing flax.
- (metallurgy) A bevel-edged finishing tool used for smoothing the surface of a mold, core, or mold in sand or loam.
- A rod used to level off heaped grain etc. when being measured, or concrete after pouring.
- (carpentry, masonry) A template; a pattern.
verb
- smooth with a strickle
- To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level of the top.
- deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon
- form by stamping, punching, or printing
- cause to experience suddenly
- hit against; come into sudden contact with
- affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely
- make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target
- arrive at after reckoning, deliberating, and weighing
- hook by a pull on the line
- drive something violently into a location
- have an emotional or cognitive impact upon
- pierce with force
- cause to form (an electric arc) between electrodes of an arc lamp
- touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly
- remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line
- produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments
- find unexpectedly
- disassemble a temporary structure, such as a tent or a theatrical set
- occupy or take on
- stop work in order to press demands
- produce by ignition or a blow
- indicate (a certain time) by striking
- attain
- (transitive) To make and ratify; to reach; to find.
- (intransitive) To sound by percussion, with blows, or as if with blows.
- (transitive) To create an impression.
- (transitive, sometimes with out or through) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
- (intransitive) To carry out a violent or illegal action.
- (transitive) To cause to ignite by friction.
- To touch; to act by appulse.
- (transitive) To punish; to afflict; to smite.
- To unfasten, to loosen (chains, bonds, etc.).
- (transitive) To hit.
- (transitive, figurative) To impinge upon.
- To affect by a sudden impression or impulse.
- (intransitive) To act suddenly, especially in a violent or criminal way.
- To make a sudden impression upon, as if by a blow; to affect with some strong emotion.
- (sports) To score a goal.
- (transitive) To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.
- (transitive) To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke.
- To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
- (nautical) To haul down or lower (a flag, mast, etc.)
- (intransitive, by extension) To stop working as a protest to achieve better working conditions.
- (intransitive) To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
- (by extension) To capitulate; to signal a surrender by hauling down the colours.
- (intransitive) To set off on a walk or trip.
- (transitive, finance) To balance (a ledger or account).
- To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.
- (transitive) To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes. Of a clock, to announce (an hour of the day), usually by one or more sounds.
- (transitive) To impress, seem or appear to (a person).
- (masonry) To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
- To discover a source of something, often a buried raw material such as ore (especially gold) or crude oil.
- (intransitive) To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
- (transitive) To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.
- To infest the flesh of a living vertebrate.
- (transitive) To manufacture, as by stamping.
- To dismantle and take away (a theater set; a tent; etc.).
- (intransitive) To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.
- (transitive, fishing) To hook (a fish) by a quick turn of the wrist.
noun
- An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle.
- a score in tenpins: knocking down all ten with the first ball
- a group's refusal to work in protest against low pay or bad work conditions
- a conspicuous success
- (baseball) a pitch that the batter swings at and misses, or that the batter hits into foul territory, or that the batter does not swing at but the umpire judges to be in the area over home plate and between the batter's knees and shoulders
- a gentle blow
- an attack that is intended to seize or inflict damage on or destroy an objective
- (cricket) The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.
- A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.
- The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.
- (fishing) A nibble on the bait by a fish.
- (baseball) A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when the ball goes in the strike zone, or hitting a foul ball that is not caught.
- (geology) The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the Earth or another solid celestial body.
- The discovery of a source of something.
- (bowling) The act of knocking down all ten pins on the first roll of a frame.
- (philately) A cancellation postmark.
- (printing, historical) An imperfect matrix for type.
- (military, by extension) An attack, not necessarily physical.
- An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
- The strike plate of a door.
- (finance) In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise the option.
- (ironworking) A puddler's stirrer.
- A blow or application of physical force against something.
- (historical) An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
verb
noun
verb
- smoothen the surface of
- set up or found
- launch for the first time; launch on a maiden voyage
- propel with force
- begin with vigor
- get going; give impetus to
- (transitive) To cause (a rocket, balloon, etc., or the payload thereof) to begin its flight upward from the ground.
- (intransitive, often with out) To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the stocks into the water; to plunge; to begin.
- (transitive) To throw (a projectile such as a lance, dart or ball); to hurl; to propel with force.
- (intransitive) Of a ship, rocket, balloon, etc.: to depart on a voyage; to take off.
- (transitive) To send out; to start (someone) on a mission or project; to give a start to (something); to put in operation
- (intransitive, computing, of a program) To start to operate.
- (transitive, computing) To start (a program or feature); to execute or bring into operation.
- (transitive) To release; to put onto the market for sale
- (transitive) To cause (a vessel) to move or slide from the land or a larger vessel into the water; to set afloat.
noun
- the act of propelling with force
- a motorboat with an open deck or a half deck
- An event held to celebrate the launch of a ship/vessel, project, a new book, etc.; a launch party.
- The act or fact of launching (a ship/vessel, a project, a new book, etc.).
- (nautical) The boat of the largest size and/or of most importance belonging to a ship of war, and often called the "captain's boat" or "captain's launch".
- (nautical) An open boat of any size powered by steam, petrol, electricity, etc.
- The movement of a vessel from land into the water; especially, the sliding on ways from the stocks on which it is built. (Compare: to splash a ship.)
- (nautical) A boat used to convey guests to and from a yacht.
verb
adj
noun
- One who or that which slicks.
- (metalworking) A curved tool for smoothing the surfaces of a mould after the withdrawal of the pattern.
- A symmetrical knife with a handle at each end, used for burnishing leather.
- A person who is perceived as clever, urbane and possibly disreputable. (abbreviation of city slicker.)
- Synonym of slicker brush
- (slang) A swindler or conman.
- (originally Canada, US) A waterproof coat or jacket.
- A two-handled tool for finishing concrete or mortar; a darby.
- someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
- a person with good manners and stylish clothing
- a macintosh made from cotton fabric treated with oil and pigment to make it waterproof
verb
- To flatten, level, or smooth a large surface, especially with a grader.
- (linguistics) To describe, modify or inflect so as to classify as to degree.
- (sewing) To remove or trim part of a seam allowance from a finished seam so as to reduce bulk and make the finished piece more even when turned right side out.
- (chiefly Canada, US) To assign scores to the components of an academic test, or to overall academic performance.
- (intransitive) To pass imperceptibly from one grade into another.
- To organize in grades.
- To apply classifying labels to data (typically by a manual rather than automatic process).
- (patternmaking) To increase or decrease the dimensions of a garment pattern from the initial base size in such a way that the overall proportions of the silhouette are maintained across all sizes.
- assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation
- determine the grade of or assign a grade to
- assign a rank or rating to
- level to the right gradient
noun
- The level of the ground.
- (Canada, education) A student of a particular grade (used with the grade level).
- (systematics) A taxon united by a level of morphological or physiological complexity that is not a clade.
- A rating.
- (Canada, US, Philippines, education) A level of primary and secondary education.
- (medicine) The degree of malignity of a tumor expressed on a scale.
- A slope (up or down) of a roadway or other passage
- (geometry) In a linear system of divisors on an n-dimensional variety, the number of free intersection points of n generic divisors.
- A degree or level of something; a position within a scale; a degree of quality.
- An area that has been flattened by a grader (construction machine).
- (mathematics) A gradian.
- A harsh scraping or cutting; a grating.
- (linguistics) Degree (any of the three stages (positive, comparative, superlative) in the comparison of an adjective or an adverb).
- (Philippines, ophthalmology) An eyeglass prescription.
- (chiefly Canada, US, Philippines) Performance on a test or other evaluation(s), expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a score.
- a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality
- a variety of cattle produced by crossbreeding with a superior breed
- a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance)
- a relative position or degree of value in a graded group
- the gradient of a slope or road or other surface
- a degree of ablaut
- the height of the ground on which something stands
- one-hundredth of a right angle
- a body of students who are taught together
verb
noun
- (countable) A slope made up of scree at the base of a cliff, mountain, etc.
- (uncountable) Loose stony debris on a slope.
- (uncountable, by extension) Similar debris made up of broken building material such as bricks, concrete, etc.
- A harsh, high-pitched sound or cry (as of a hawk).
- (Scotland) A coarse sieve.
- a sloping mass of loose rocks at the base of a cliff
verb
- make smooth or smoother, as if by rubbing
- free from obstructions
- make (a surface) shine
- (transitive) To make straightforward or easy.
- (transitive) To make smooth or even.
- (West Country) To stroke; especially to stroke an animal's fur.
- (transitive) To calm or palliate.
- (transitive) To reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure; to press, to flatten.
- (statistics, image processing, digital audio) To capture important patterns in the data, while leaving out noise.
adj
- smooth and unconstrained in movement
- of the margin of a leaf shape; not broken up into teeth
- smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication
- lacking obstructions or difficulties
- (of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves
- having a surface free from roughness or bumps or ridges or irregularities
- of motion that runs or flows or proceeds without jolts or turbulence
- (music) without breaks between notes; smooth and connected
- (of muscles, medicine) Involuntary and non-striated.
- (of an action) Natural; unconstrained.
- (mathematics, of a function) Having derivatives of all finite orders at all points within the function’s domain.
- Bland; glib.
- (mathematics, of a number) That factors completely into small prime numbers.
- Having a texture that lacks friction. Not rough.
- (of a motion) Unbroken.
- (linguistics, classical studies, of a vowel) Lacking marked aspiration.
- (of food or drink) Not grainy; having an even texture.
- (of an edge) Lacking projections or indentations; not serrated.
- Without difficulty, problems, or unexpected consequences or incidents.
- (of a beverage) Having a pleasantly rounded flavor; neither rough nor astringent.
- Flowing or uttered without check, obstruction, or hesitation; not harsh; fluent.
- Suave; sophisticated.
- (chiefly of water) Placid, calm.
noun
adv
verb
noun
adj
- Having an even, smooth surface; smooth
- Not rough or harsh.
- Glossy.
- Slim and streamlined; not plump, thick, or stocky.
- (of stock animals) Healthy, well-fed and well-groomed; in good condition.
- designed or arranged to offer the least resistance to fluid flow
- well-groomed and neatly tailored; especially too well-groomed
- having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light; being of a smooth, soft and lustrous quality, resembling silk
verb
noun
noun
- A tool used to make something smooth or even.
- (printing) A camera-ready image to be used by a printer. The "slick" is photographed to produce a negative image which is then used to burn a positive offset plate or other printing device.
- (fandom slang) In omegaverse fiction, the copious, lubricating bodily fluid produced by an omega in heat.
- A wide paring chisel used in joinery.
- (sports, automotive) A tire with a smooth surface instead of a tread pattern, often used in auto racing.
- Someone who is clever and untrustworthy.
- Alternative form of schlich.
- (slang) A silver coin that has been worn to the point its surface feels smooth to the touch.
- (US, military slang) A helicopter.
- A covering of liquid, particularly oil.
- (publishing, slang) A glossy magazine.
- a slippery smoothness
- a film of oil or garbage floating on top of water
- a trowel used to make a surface slick
- a magazine printed on good quality paper
verb
adj
- Slippery or smooth due to a covering of liquid; often used to describe appearances.
- Sleek; smooth.
- Superficially convincing but actually untrustworthy.
- (US, West Coast slang) Extraordinarily great or special.
- Appearing expensive or sophisticated.
- (often sarcastic) Clever, making an apparently hard task look easy.
- having only superficial plausibility
- marked by skill in deception
- made slick by e.g. ice or grease
- superficially impressive, but lacking depth and attention to the true complexities of a subject
- having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light; being of a smooth, soft and lustrous quality, resembling silk
adv
verb
- rub the dust over a surface so as to blur the outlines of a shape
- remove the dust from
- distribute loosely
- cover with a light dusting of a substance
- (transitive) To spray or cover (something) with fine powder or liquid, to sprinkle.
- (transitive) To remove dust from.
- (transitive, chiefly US slang) To kill.
- (transitive, now colloquial or dialectal) To strike, beat, thrash.
- (transitive, chiefly US slang) To defeat badly, to thrash.
- (intransitive, chiefly US slang) To leave quickly; to rush off.
- (intransitive) To remove dust; to clean by removing dust.
- (transitive, baseball) To deliberately pitch a ball close to (a batter); to brush back.
- (intransitive or reflexive) Of a bird, to cover itself in sand or dry, dusty earth.
- (transitive) To sprinkle (a substance) in the form of dust.
- (cryptocurrencies) To attempt to identify the owner of (a cryptocurrency wallet) by sending tiny amounts of cryptocurrency.
noun
- free microscopic particles of solid material
- fine powdery material such as dry earth or pollen that can be blown about in the air
- the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up
- (cryptocurrencies) Tiny amounts of cryptocurrency left over after a transaction due to rounding error.
- (countable) The act of cleaning by dusting.
- (figurative) Something worthless.
- (uncountable, astronomy) Submicron particles in outer space, largely silicates and carbon compounds, that contribute greatly to extinction at visible wavelengths.
- (countable, figurative) A tumult, disturbance, commotion, uproar.
- (countable, mathematics) A totally disconnected set of points with a fractal structure.
- (British, colloquial) Rubbish, garbage, refuse.
- The earthly remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body.
- (figurative) A low or mean condition.
- (countable) A cloud of dust.
- (countable, colloquial) A fight or row.
- The earth as the resting place of the dead.
- (figurative) The substance of the human body or mortal frame.
- (uncountable) Fine, dry particles of matter found in the air and covering the surface of objects, typically consisting of soil lifted up by the wind, pollen, hair, etc.
- (uncountable) Any substance reduced to fine particles; powder.
- (poetic) Earth, ground, soil, sediment.
- (countable) The act of sprinkling dust, or a sprinkle of dust itself.
- (uncountable, occupational health) Disintegration of a solid, like silica.
adv
adj
noun
- The act of overflushing.
- The act or process of forcing overflush into a system in order to clear out active fluids.
- Surplus assets.
- A flush (series of obstacles to ski between) that covers a slope
- A displacement fluid that is forced into a system in order to clear out active fluids that are used in a treatment, such as fracking, desalinization, etc.
- An excess of something.
- A flush or tinge of color that appears over the base color.
- A sudden rush of feeling that appears expressed in the face.
verb
noun
- A level or flat surface.
- (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies, of various genera, having a slow gliding flight.
- (entomology) The butterfly Bindahara phocides, family Lycaenidae, of Asia and Australasia.
- (geometry) A flat surface extending infinitely in all directions (e.g. horizontal or vertical plane); a bounded portion thereof.
- A roughly flat, thin, often moveable structure used to create lateral force by the flow of air or water over its surface, found on aircraft, submarines, etc.
- (countable) A deciduous tree of the genus Platanus.
- (computing, Unicode) Any of 17 designated ranges of 2¹⁶ (65,536) sequential code points each.
- An airplane; an aeroplane.
- (countable, carpentry) A tool for smoothing wood by removing thin layers from the surface.
- (anatomy) An imaginary plane which divides the body into two portions.
- A level of existence or development.
- (Northern UK) A sycamore.
- an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets
- a level of existence or development
- (mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape
- a power tool for smoothing or shaping wood
- a carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood
adj
verb
adj
noun
- The act or process of using a rake; the going over a space with a rake.
- (music) a bass guitar playing technique in which multiple notes are played rapidly from one string to another.
- A space gone over with a rake; also, the work done, or the quantity of hay, grain, etc., collected, by going once over a space with a rake.
verb
adj
- Having an even, smooth surface; smooth
- Not rough or harsh.
- Glossy.
- Slim and streamlined; not plump, thick, or stocky.
- (of stock animals) Healthy, well-fed and well-groomed; in good condition.
- designed or arranged to offer the least resistance to fluid flow
- well-groomed and neatly tailored; especially too well-groomed
- having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light; being of a smooth, soft and lustrous quality, resembling silk
verb
noun
adj
- Flat and level.
- (colloquial) On equal terms of a moral sort; quits.
- Equal in proportion, quantity, size, etc.
- Parallel; on a level; reaching the same limit.
- (informal) Of a number, convenient for rounding other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero.
- On equal monetary terms; neither owing nor being owed.
- (mathematics, not comparable) Of an integer, divisible by two.
- Without great variation.
- being level or straight or regular and without variation as e.g. in shape or texture; or being in the same plane or at the same height as something else (i.e. even with)
- symmetrically arranged
- equal in degree or extent or amount; or equally matched or balanced
- divisible by two
- of the score in a contest
- occurring at fixed intervals
adv
- Used to emphasise a comparative.
- Used to indicate a further degree of comparison.
- Rather; that is (used to signal a correction of a previous utterance).
- In reality (used to imply an extreme example in the case mentioned).
- to a greater degree or extent; used with comparisons
- to the full extent
- used as an intensive especially to indicate something unexpected
- in spite of; notwithstanding
noun
verb
adj
- Not level or smooth.
- Varying in quality.
- Not uniform.
- Of a surface, not even; covered with raised spots, pits and grooves.
- (mathematics, rare) Odd.
- not even or uniform as e.g. in shape or texture
- not divisible by two
- (of a contest or contestants) not fairly matched as opponents
- lacking consistency
- variable and recurring at irregular intervals
verb
adj
- (of lumber or stone) to trim and smooth
- dressed in fancy or formal clothing
- treated with medications and protective covering
- dressed or clothed especially in fine attire; often used in combination
- Prepared for eating, especially by the addition of specific condiments or dressing.
- Wearing clothes; attired (now often with qualifying word).
- (in combination) Wearing a dress.
- Having been subjected to a preparatory process or treatment; treated, prepared.
verb
adj
verb
adj
- Rough (of a surface).
- (grammar, of a word) Not following the regular or expected patterns of inflection in a given language.
- Nonstandard; not conforming to rules or expectations.
- (geometry, of a polygon) Not regular; having sides that are not equal or angles that are not equal.
- Without symmetry, regularity, or uniformity.
- (geometry, of a polyhedron) Whose faces are not all regular polygons (or are not equally inclined to each other).
- lacking continuity or regularity
- contrary to rule or accepted order or general practice
- not occurring at a regular rate or fixed intervals
- (of a surface or shape); not level or flat or symmetrical
- (used of the military) not belonging to or engaged in by regular army forces
- independent in behavior or thought
- deviating from normal expectations; somewhat odd, strange, or abnormal
- (of solids) not having clear dimensions that can be measured; volume must be determined with the principle of liquid displacement
- failing to meet a standard of manufacture due to an imperfection
noun
- One who does not regularly attend a venue.
- A soldier who is not a member of an official military force and who may not use regular army tactics.
- a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment
- merchandise that has imperfections; usually sold at a reduced price without the brand name
adj
noun
- a sloop with a simplified rig and no bowsprit
- (sailing) A small sailboat lacking a bowsprit, of a type found primarily in the Massachusetts area.
- A person living in rough, violent conditions.
- (entertainment) A slapstick comedian or comedy.
- (circus) A tumbler.
- A worker habitually engaged in casual employment.
- Clothing suitable for rough use.
- (sports, informal) An act of playing a sport casually or informally.