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noun
adj
- operating with minimal human intervention; independent of external control
- resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine
- without volition or conscious control
- (mathematics, of a group) Having one or more finite-state automata.
- (of a handgun) An autoloader; a semi-automatic or self-loading pistol, as opposed to a revolver or other manually actuated handgun, which fires one shot per pull of the trigger; distinct from machine guns.
- Done out of habit or without conscious thought.
- Capable of operating without external control or intervention.
- Necessary, inevitable, prescribed by logic, law, etc.
- (of a firearm such as a machine gun) Firing continuously as long as the trigger is pressed until ammunition is exhausted.
- (programming, of a local variable) Automatically added to and removed from the stack during the course of function calls.
adj
noun
verb
noun
phrase
noun
- a firearm that can fire several rounds without reloading
- someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior)
- a person who repeats
- (electronics) electronic device that amplifies a signal before transmitting it again
- (nautical) A pennant used to indicate that a certain flag in a hoist of signal is duplicated.
- (horology) A watch with a striking apparatus which, upon pressure of a spring, will indicate the time, usually in hours and quarters.
- (nautical) A frigate appointed to attend an admiral in a fleet, and to repeat the admiral's signals.
- (ufology) A person who regularly sees unexplained sightings of paranormal phenomena.
- (textiles) In calico printing, a design repeated at equal intervals in a pattern.
- (electronics) An electronic device that receives a weak or low-level signal and retransmits it at a higher level or higher power.
- (telegraphy) A telegraphic instrument for automatically retransmitting a message.
- (marketing) A consumer who repeatedly purchases the same goods or services.
- (education) A student repeating a course, class, or grade.
- One who or that which repeats.
- (US) One who votes more than once at an election.
- (mathematics) A repeating decimal.
- (medicine) A patient who repeatedly presents with the same symptoms.
adj
noun
verb
noun
- (firearms) A semi-automatic firearm.
- a firearm that reloads itself
- (programming) A software mechanism that automatically locates and loads classes etc. as required at run time.
- (military) A mechanical device that loads ordnance into weapons such as tanks and artillery that would otherwise be loaded by a dedicated crew.
- (computing) A mechanical device that automatically loads storage media (such as tapes or disks) into the device that can read them.
noun
- firearm that is a double-barreled smoothbore shoulder weapon for firing shot at short ranges
- (attributive, as a modifier) Relating to the use of numerous, diverse or indiscriminate means to achieve a particular result.
- (firearms) A gun which fires loads typically consisting of small metal balls, called shot, from a cartridge.
- (attributive, as a modifier) Relating to the threat of force or dubious means.
- (American football) An offensive formation in which the quarterback receives the snap at a distance behind the center, often with a running back set to one or both sides of him.
- (US, especially Southern US) A one-story dwelling with no hallways or corridors, with the rooms arranged in a straight line.
- (slang) The front passenger seat in a vehicle, next to the driver; so called because the position of the shotgun-armed guard on a horse-drawn stage-coach, wagon train, or gold transport was next to the driver on a forward-mounted bench seat. Can also be used in situations of claiming other resources such as bedrooms.
- (attributive, as a modifier) Relating to shotguns, either in a present or past sense.
verb
- (US, slang) To rapidly drink a beverage from a can by making a hole in the bottom of the can, placing the hole above one's mouth, and opening the top.
- (slang, smoking) To inhale from a pipe or other smoking device, followed shortly by an exhalation into someone else’s mouth.
- (US, slang) To send out many (requests, answers to a question, etc), especially in the hope that one obtains a positive result (i.e. reveals useful information, is correct, etc), in the manner of a shotgun firing many balls of shot such that one may hit a target.
- (transitive, informal) To verbally lay claim to (something)
- (computing, slang) To employ the technique of shotgun debugging.
- (transitive, baseball) To hit the ball directly back at the pitcher.
noun
- (weaponry) A nine-millimeter semi-automatic pistol.
- The digit or figure 9.
- (card games) A playing card with nine pips.
- (baseball) A baseball club, team, or lineup (composed of nine players).
- (computing, engineering, usually in the plural) A statistical unit of proportion (of reliability, purity, etc.).
- a team of professional baseball players who play and travel together
- one of four playing cards in a deck with nine pips on the face
- the cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one
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adj
noun
- (firearms) A handgun with a revolving chamber enabling several shots to be fired without reloading.
- (by extension) Any (personal) firearm with such a mechanism.
- (finance) Synonym of revolving line of credit, a form of credit permitting the holder to repeatedly borrow money.
- Agent noun of revolve; something that revolves.
- a door consisting of four orthogonal partitions that rotate about a central pivot; a door designed to equalize the air pressure in tall buildings
- a pistol with a revolving cylinder (usually having six chambers for bullets)
adj
noun
- (poker) A hand that consists of three of a kind and a pair.
- (rugby union) A single player scoring a try, conversion, penalty goal and drop goal in the same match
- A situation in which a place is filled with people to its maximum capacity.
- (by extension) (theater) An event for which every seat is sold out, completely filled with an audience for a play, concert, or movie, creating a successful, packed venue.
- a poker hand with 3 of a kind and a pair
noun
- A less portable, long firearm that fires bullets or projectiles; a rifle, either manual, automatic or semi-automatic; a flintlock, musket or shotgun.
- A very portable, short firearm, for hand use, which fires bullets or projectiles, such as a handgun, revolver, pistol, or Derringer.
- (colloquial, metonymic) A person who carries or uses a gun (rifle, shotgun or handgun), particularly with reference to how quickly the person can draw and fire the gun.
- A device for shooting projectiles or ditto (a shooter), functioning through stored energy: a firearm, cannon, harpoon gun/spear gun, raygun, etc, not a bow and arrow, or slingshot.
- A device or tool that projects a substance.
- (surfing) A long surfboard designed for surfing big waves (not the same as a longboard, a gun has a pointed nose and is generally a little narrower).
- (television) An electron gun.
- A device or tool that applies something rather than projecting it.
- (figurative) A firearm or cannon used for saluting or signalling.^(21-gun salute)
- (military) A cannon with a 6-inch/155mm minimum nominal bore diameter and tube length 30 calibers or more.
- Any implement designed to fire a projectile from a tube.
- (cellular automata) A pattern that "fires" out other patterns.
- (military) A cannon with relatively long barrel, operating with relatively low angle of fire, and having a high muzzle velocity.
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Someone excellent, surpassingly wonderful, skilful, or cool.
- (nautical, in the plural) Violent blasts of wind.
- (colloquial, usually in the plural) The biceps.
- the discharge of a firearm as signal or as a salute in military ceremonies
- a person who shoots a gun (as regards their ability)
- a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel)
- a pedal that controls the throttle valve
- a professional killer who uses a gun
- large but transportable armament
- a hand-operated pump that resembles a pistol; forces grease into parts of a machine
verb
- (ambitransitive, US, prison slang, of a male prisoner) Synonym of gun down (“to masturbate while making sustained eye contact with someone — typically a female prison officer — as a form of intimidation”).
- (transitive) To cause to speed up.
- Nonstandard spelling of going to.
- To seek to attack someone; to take aim at someone; used with for.
- (informal) (gunning for something or gunning to do something) make a great effort.
- To practice fowling or hunting small game; chiefly in participial form: to go gunning.
- (informal) To offer vigorous support to (a person or cause).
- shoot with a gun
noun
- (slang) An assault rifle or carbine, especially a fully-automatic one (e.g. an AK-47).
- (informal) A helicopter.
- (baseball) A high-bouncing batted ball.
- A tool for chopping wood; an axe/ax.
- A rapper who raps in a fast-paced rhyming style.
- (slang) The penis.
- A knife for chopping food, especially one with a large oblong blade.
- (informal, motorcycling) A type of road motorcycle, especially as used by biker or bikie gangs.
- (archaeology) A crude tool with an irregular cutting edge formed by removing flakes from one side of a stone.
- (Canada, US) The bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix).
- A kitchen appliance used for chopping various foods, akin to a small food processor.
- A thick mitten, usually with yellow leather on the outside.
- (electronics) Any of various electronic switches used to interrupt one signal under the control of another.
- a grounder that bounces high in the air
- an aircraft without wings that obtains its lift from the rotation of overhead blades
- a butcher's knife having a large square blade
- informal terms for a human ‘tooth’
verb
noun
- ammunition (usually of small caliber) loaded in flexible linked strips for use in a machine gun
- endless loop of flexible material between two rotating shafts or pulleys
- a band to tie or buckle around the body (usually at the waist)
- a path or strip (as cut by one course of mowing)
- a vigorous blow
- the act of hitting vigorously
- an elongated region where a specific condition or characteristic is found
- A quick drink of liquor.
- (baseball) The part of the strike zone at the height of the batter's waist.
- (weaponry) A device that holds and feeds cartridges into a belt-fed weapon.
- A powerful blow, often made with a fist or heavy object.
- A band used as a restraint for safety purposes, such as a seat belt.
- (usually capitalized) A geographical region known for a particular product, feature or demographic (Corn Belt, Bible Belt, Black Belt, Green Belt).
- (military, nautical) A band of armor along the sides of a warship, protecting the ship's vital spaces.
- (astronomy) A collection of small bodies (such as asteroids) which orbit a star.
- A band that is used in a machine to help transfer motion or power.
- (astronomy) One of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds.
- (geography, geology) A mostly-continuous, often curvilinear structure expressed on the surface or in the subsurface of a terrestrial planet or other solid planemo, such as a mountain belt, a fold and thrust belt, or an ore belt.
- (music) A vocal tone produced by singing with chest voice above the break (or passaggio), in a range typically sung in head voice.
- A trophy in the shape of a belt, generally awarded for martial arts.
- Anything that resembles a belt, or that encircles or crosses like a belt; a strip or stripe.
- (clothing) A band worn around the waist to hold clothing to one's body (usually pants), hold weapons (such as a gun or sword), or serve as a decorative piece of clothing.
verb
- deliver a blow to
- sing loudly and forcefully
- fasten with a belt
- (transitive, informal, normally belt out) To scream or sing in a loud, strong manner.
- (transitive) To drink quickly, often in gulps.
- (transitive) To invest (a person) with a belt as part of a formal ceremony such as knighthood.
- (transitive) To fasten a belt on; to encircle with a belt.
- (transitive, colloquial) To hit someone or something, especially forcefully; to bash.
- (transitive) To hit with a belt.
- (transitive, baseball) To hit a pitched ball a long distance, usually for a home run.
- (intransitive) To move, run, drive, etc., very fast.
- (transitive) To encircle; to surround.
noun
- (by extension) A sniper rifle.
- (ice hockey slang) A player who specializes in scoring goals.
- A person using long-range small arms for precise attacks from a concealed position.
- One who shoots from a concealed position.
- Any attacker using a non-contact weapon against a specific target from a concealed position.
- One who criticizes; a person who frequently snipes at others.
- A hunter of snipe (the bird).
- A person or automated process set up by a person who or which attempts to win an online auction by placing a bid only seconds before the auction ends, leaving no time for other bidders to respond
- a marksman who shoots at people from a concealed place
noun
adj
name
noun
- an enclosed firing range with targets for rifle or handgun practice
- a building (usually abandoned) where drug addicts buy and use heroin
- (slang, drugs) A room where recreational drug users inject themselves with a drug.
- (figuratively, sports) Any game or match with lots of shooting (e.g. at a goal)
- A carnival game typically featuring a pellet gun and numerous moving mechanical tracks with small targets to be shot for prizes.
verb
- To operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling).
- To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
- To let fly; to give expression to; to utter.
- (electricity) To release (an accumulated charge).
- To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
- To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to forgive; to clear.
- (military) To release (a member of the armed forces) from service.
- To unload a ship or another means of transport.
- (transitive, textiles) To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process.
- (medicine) To release (an inpatient) from hospital.
- To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.
- To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty.
- To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.
- To give forth; to emit or send out.
- To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled.
- (logic) To release (an auxiliary assumption) from the list of assumptions used in arguments, and return to the main argument.
- To expel or let go.
- To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.
- remove the charge from
- remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave
- release from military service
- complete or carry out
- become empty or void of its content
- free from obligations or duties
- pronounce not guilty of criminal charges
- eliminate (a substance)
- go off or discharge
- cause to go off
- pour forth or release
noun
- (military) The act of releasing a member of the armed forces from service.
- (medicine) The act of releasing an inpatient from hospital.
- The process of flowing out.
- (medicine, uncountable) Pus or exudate or mucus (but in modern usage not exclusively blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to pathological or hormonal changes.
- (hydrology) The volume of water transported by a river in a certain amount of time, usually in units of m³/s (cubic meters per second).
- The act of firing a projectile, especially from a firearm.
- (electricity) The act of releasing an accumulated charge.
- The process of removing the load borne by something.
- (law) Release from liability, as granted to someone having served in a position of trust, such as to the officers and governors of a corporate body.
- The material thus released.
- The act of accomplishing (an obligation) or repaying a debt etc.; performance.
- the pouring forth of a fluid
- the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
- the sudden giving off of energy
- the act of discharging a gun
- any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body
- a formal written statement of relinquishment
- a substance that is emitted or released
- electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field
- the act of venting
noun
- (firearms) The firing mechanism.
- Something used for fastening, which can only be opened with a key or combination.
- A segment of a canal or other navigable waterway enclosed by gates, used for raising and lowering boats between levels.
- (computing, by extension) A mutex or other token restricting access to a resource.
- A device for keeping a wheel from turning.
- Something sure to be a success.
- A small quantity of straw etc.
- A tuft or length of hair, wool, etc.
- A place impossible to get out of, as by a lock.
- (Scots law, historical) A quantity of meal, the perquisite of a mill-servant.
- Complete control over a situation.
- A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.
- A grapple in wrestling.
- (rugby) A player in the scrum behind the front row, usually the tallest members of the team.
- (gambling) Synonym of Dutch book.
- any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured
- a strand or cluster of hair
- a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun
- a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed
- enclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level; used to raise or lower vessels that pass through it
- a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key
verb
- (intransitive, break dancing) To freeze one's body or a part thereof in place.
- (transitive) To fasten with a lock.
- To seize (e.g. the sword arm of an antagonist) by turning one's left arm around it, to disarm them.
- (transitive) To intertwine or dovetail.
- (intransitive, rugby) To play in the position of lock.
- (Internet, wiki jargon, transitive) To prevent a page from being edited by other users.
- (Internet, transitive) To modify (a thread) so that users cannot make new posts in it.
- (intransitive) To be capable of becoming fastened in place.
- To raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.
- To furnish (a canal) with locks.
- (intransitive) To become fastened in place.
- build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels
- become engaged or intermeshed with one another
- pass by means through a lock in a waterway
- become rigid or immoveable
- keep engaged
- place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape
- fasten with a lock
- hold fast (in a certain state)
- hold in a locking position
noun
adj
- operating with minimal human intervention; independent of external control
- resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine
- without volition or conscious control
- (mathematics, of a group) Having one or more finite-state automata.
- (of a handgun) An autoloader; a semi-automatic or self-loading pistol, as opposed to a revolver or other manually actuated handgun, which fires one shot per pull of the trigger; distinct from machine guns.
- Done out of habit or without conscious thought.
- Capable of operating without external control or intervention.
- Necessary, inevitable, prescribed by logic, law, etc.
- (of a firearm such as a machine gun) Firing continuously as long as the trigger is pressed until ammunition is exhausted.
- (programming, of a local variable) Automatically added to and removed from the stack during the course of function calls.
noun
phrase
noun
- a firearm that can fire several rounds without reloading
- someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior)
- a person who repeats
- (electronics) electronic device that amplifies a signal before transmitting it again
- (nautical) A pennant used to indicate that a certain flag in a hoist of signal is duplicated.
- (horology) A watch with a striking apparatus which, upon pressure of a spring, will indicate the time, usually in hours and quarters.
- (nautical) A frigate appointed to attend an admiral in a fleet, and to repeat the admiral's signals.
- (ufology) A person who regularly sees unexplained sightings of paranormal phenomena.
- (textiles) In calico printing, a design repeated at equal intervals in a pattern.
- (electronics) An electronic device that receives a weak or low-level signal and retransmits it at a higher level or higher power.
- (telegraphy) A telegraphic instrument for automatically retransmitting a message.
- (marketing) A consumer who repeatedly purchases the same goods or services.
- (education) A student repeating a course, class, or grade.
- One who or that which repeats.
- (US) One who votes more than once at an election.
- (mathematics) A repeating decimal.
- (medicine) A patient who repeatedly presents with the same symptoms.
noun
- (firearms) A semi-automatic firearm.
- a firearm that reloads itself
- (programming) A software mechanism that automatically locates and loads classes etc. as required at run time.
- (military) A mechanical device that loads ordnance into weapons such as tanks and artillery that would otherwise be loaded by a dedicated crew.
- (computing) A mechanical device that automatically loads storage media (such as tapes or disks) into the device that can read them.
noun
- firearm that is a double-barreled smoothbore shoulder weapon for firing shot at short ranges
- (attributive, as a modifier) Relating to the use of numerous, diverse or indiscriminate means to achieve a particular result.
- (firearms) A gun which fires loads typically consisting of small metal balls, called shot, from a cartridge.
- (attributive, as a modifier) Relating to the threat of force or dubious means.
- (American football) An offensive formation in which the quarterback receives the snap at a distance behind the center, often with a running back set to one or both sides of him.
- (US, especially Southern US) A one-story dwelling with no hallways or corridors, with the rooms arranged in a straight line.
- (slang) The front passenger seat in a vehicle, next to the driver; so called because the position of the shotgun-armed guard on a horse-drawn stage-coach, wagon train, or gold transport was next to the driver on a forward-mounted bench seat. Can also be used in situations of claiming other resources such as bedrooms.
- (attributive, as a modifier) Relating to shotguns, either in a present or past sense.
verb
- (US, slang) To rapidly drink a beverage from a can by making a hole in the bottom of the can, placing the hole above one's mouth, and opening the top.
- (slang, smoking) To inhale from a pipe or other smoking device, followed shortly by an exhalation into someone else’s mouth.
- (US, slang) To send out many (requests, answers to a question, etc), especially in the hope that one obtains a positive result (i.e. reveals useful information, is correct, etc), in the manner of a shotgun firing many balls of shot such that one may hit a target.
- (transitive, informal) To verbally lay claim to (something)
- (computing, slang) To employ the technique of shotgun debugging.
- (transitive, baseball) To hit the ball directly back at the pitcher.
noun
- (weaponry) A nine-millimeter semi-automatic pistol.
- The digit or figure 9.
- (card games) A playing card with nine pips.
- (baseball) A baseball club, team, or lineup (composed of nine players).
- (computing, engineering, usually in the plural) A statistical unit of proportion (of reliability, purity, etc.).
- a team of professional baseball players who play and travel together
- one of four playing cards in a deck with nine pips on the face
- the cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one
num
adj
noun
- (firearms) A handgun with a revolving chamber enabling several shots to be fired without reloading.
- (by extension) Any (personal) firearm with such a mechanism.
- (finance) Synonym of revolving line of credit, a form of credit permitting the holder to repeatedly borrow money.
- Agent noun of revolve; something that revolves.
- a door consisting of four orthogonal partitions that rotate about a central pivot; a door designed to equalize the air pressure in tall buildings
- a pistol with a revolving cylinder (usually having six chambers for bullets)
noun
- A less portable, long firearm that fires bullets or projectiles; a rifle, either manual, automatic or semi-automatic; a flintlock, musket or shotgun.
- A very portable, short firearm, for hand use, which fires bullets or projectiles, such as a handgun, revolver, pistol, or Derringer.
- (colloquial, metonymic) A person who carries or uses a gun (rifle, shotgun or handgun), particularly with reference to how quickly the person can draw and fire the gun.
- A device for shooting projectiles or ditto (a shooter), functioning through stored energy: a firearm, cannon, harpoon gun/spear gun, raygun, etc, not a bow and arrow, or slingshot.
- A device or tool that projects a substance.
- (surfing) A long surfboard designed for surfing big waves (not the same as a longboard, a gun has a pointed nose and is generally a little narrower).
- (television) An electron gun.
- A device or tool that applies something rather than projecting it.
- (figurative) A firearm or cannon used for saluting or signalling.^(21-gun salute)
- (military) A cannon with a 6-inch/155mm minimum nominal bore diameter and tube length 30 calibers or more.
- Any implement designed to fire a projectile from a tube.
- (cellular automata) A pattern that "fires" out other patterns.
- (military) A cannon with relatively long barrel, operating with relatively low angle of fire, and having a high muzzle velocity.
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Someone excellent, surpassingly wonderful, skilful, or cool.
- (nautical, in the plural) Violent blasts of wind.
- (colloquial, usually in the plural) The biceps.
- the discharge of a firearm as signal or as a salute in military ceremonies
- a person who shoots a gun (as regards their ability)
- a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel)
- a pedal that controls the throttle valve
- a professional killer who uses a gun
- large but transportable armament
- a hand-operated pump that resembles a pistol; forces grease into parts of a machine
verb
- (ambitransitive, US, prison slang, of a male prisoner) Synonym of gun down (“to masturbate while making sustained eye contact with someone — typically a female prison officer — as a form of intimidation”).
- (transitive) To cause to speed up.
- Nonstandard spelling of going to.
- To seek to attack someone; to take aim at someone; used with for.
- (informal) (gunning for something or gunning to do something) make a great effort.
- To practice fowling or hunting small game; chiefly in participial form: to go gunning.
- (informal) To offer vigorous support to (a person or cause).
- shoot with a gun
noun
- (slang) An assault rifle or carbine, especially a fully-automatic one (e.g. an AK-47).
- (informal) A helicopter.
- (baseball) A high-bouncing batted ball.
- A tool for chopping wood; an axe/ax.
- A rapper who raps in a fast-paced rhyming style.
- (slang) The penis.
- A knife for chopping food, especially one with a large oblong blade.
- (informal, motorcycling) A type of road motorcycle, especially as used by biker or bikie gangs.
- (archaeology) A crude tool with an irregular cutting edge formed by removing flakes from one side of a stone.
- (Canada, US) The bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix).
- A kitchen appliance used for chopping various foods, akin to a small food processor.
- A thick mitten, usually with yellow leather on the outside.
- (electronics) Any of various electronic switches used to interrupt one signal under the control of another.
- a grounder that bounces high in the air
- an aircraft without wings that obtains its lift from the rotation of overhead blades
- a butcher's knife having a large square blade
- informal terms for a human ‘tooth’
verb
noun
- ammunition (usually of small caliber) loaded in flexible linked strips for use in a machine gun
- endless loop of flexible material between two rotating shafts or pulleys
- a band to tie or buckle around the body (usually at the waist)
- a path or strip (as cut by one course of mowing)
- a vigorous blow
- the act of hitting vigorously
- an elongated region where a specific condition or characteristic is found
- A quick drink of liquor.
- (baseball) The part of the strike zone at the height of the batter's waist.
- (weaponry) A device that holds and feeds cartridges into a belt-fed weapon.
- A powerful blow, often made with a fist or heavy object.
- A band used as a restraint for safety purposes, such as a seat belt.
- (usually capitalized) A geographical region known for a particular product, feature or demographic (Corn Belt, Bible Belt, Black Belt, Green Belt).
- (military, nautical) A band of armor along the sides of a warship, protecting the ship's vital spaces.
- (astronomy) A collection of small bodies (such as asteroids) which orbit a star.
- A band that is used in a machine to help transfer motion or power.
- (astronomy) One of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds.
- (geography, geology) A mostly-continuous, often curvilinear structure expressed on the surface or in the subsurface of a terrestrial planet or other solid planemo, such as a mountain belt, a fold and thrust belt, or an ore belt.
- (music) A vocal tone produced by singing with chest voice above the break (or passaggio), in a range typically sung in head voice.
- A trophy in the shape of a belt, generally awarded for martial arts.
- Anything that resembles a belt, or that encircles or crosses like a belt; a strip or stripe.
- (clothing) A band worn around the waist to hold clothing to one's body (usually pants), hold weapons (such as a gun or sword), or serve as a decorative piece of clothing.
verb
- deliver a blow to
- sing loudly and forcefully
- fasten with a belt
- (transitive, informal, normally belt out) To scream or sing in a loud, strong manner.
- (transitive) To drink quickly, often in gulps.
- (transitive) To invest (a person) with a belt as part of a formal ceremony such as knighthood.
- (transitive) To fasten a belt on; to encircle with a belt.
- (transitive, colloquial) To hit someone or something, especially forcefully; to bash.
- (transitive) To hit with a belt.
- (transitive, baseball) To hit a pitched ball a long distance, usually for a home run.
- (intransitive) To move, run, drive, etc., very fast.
- (transitive) To encircle; to surround.
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- (by extension) A sniper rifle.
- (ice hockey slang) A player who specializes in scoring goals.
- A person using long-range small arms for precise attacks from a concealed position.
- One who shoots from a concealed position.
- Any attacker using a non-contact weapon against a specific target from a concealed position.
- One who criticizes; a person who frequently snipes at others.
- A hunter of snipe (the bird).
- A person or automated process set up by a person who or which attempts to win an online auction by placing a bid only seconds before the auction ends, leaving no time for other bidders to respond
- a marksman who shoots at people from a concealed place
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- an enclosed firing range with targets for rifle or handgun practice
- a building (usually abandoned) where drug addicts buy and use heroin
- (slang, drugs) A room where recreational drug users inject themselves with a drug.
- (figuratively, sports) Any game or match with lots of shooting (e.g. at a goal)
- A carnival game typically featuring a pellet gun and numerous moving mechanical tracks with small targets to be shot for prizes.
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- (firearms) The firing mechanism.
- Something used for fastening, which can only be opened with a key or combination.
- A segment of a canal or other navigable waterway enclosed by gates, used for raising and lowering boats between levels.
- (computing, by extension) A mutex or other token restricting access to a resource.
- A device for keeping a wheel from turning.
- Something sure to be a success.
- A small quantity of straw etc.
- A tuft or length of hair, wool, etc.
- A place impossible to get out of, as by a lock.
- (Scots law, historical) A quantity of meal, the perquisite of a mill-servant.
- Complete control over a situation.
- A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.
- A grapple in wrestling.
- (rugby) A player in the scrum behind the front row, usually the tallest members of the team.
- (gambling) Synonym of Dutch book.
- any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured
- a strand or cluster of hair
- a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun
- a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed
- enclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level; used to raise or lower vessels that pass through it
- a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key
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- (intransitive, break dancing) To freeze one's body or a part thereof in place.
- (transitive) To fasten with a lock.
- To seize (e.g. the sword arm of an antagonist) by turning one's left arm around it, to disarm them.
- (transitive) To intertwine or dovetail.
- (intransitive, rugby) To play in the position of lock.
- (Internet, wiki jargon, transitive) To prevent a page from being edited by other users.
- (Internet, transitive) To modify (a thread) so that users cannot make new posts in it.
- (intransitive) To be capable of becoming fastened in place.
- To raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.
- To furnish (a canal) with locks.
- (intransitive) To become fastened in place.
- build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels
- become engaged or intermeshed with one another
- pass by means through a lock in a waterway
- become rigid or immoveable
- keep engaged
- place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape
- fasten with a lock
- hold fast (in a certain state)
- hold in a locking position
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- To operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling).
- To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
- To let fly; to give expression to; to utter.
- (electricity) To release (an accumulated charge).
- To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
- To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to forgive; to clear.
- (military) To release (a member of the armed forces) from service.
- To unload a ship or another means of transport.
- (transitive, textiles) To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process.
- (medicine) To release (an inpatient) from hospital.
- To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.
- To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty.
- To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.
- To give forth; to emit or send out.
- To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled.
- (logic) To release (an auxiliary assumption) from the list of assumptions used in arguments, and return to the main argument.
- To expel or let go.
- To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.
- remove the charge from
- remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave
- release from military service
- complete or carry out
- become empty or void of its content
- free from obligations or duties
- pronounce not guilty of criminal charges
- eliminate (a substance)
- go off or discharge
- cause to go off
- pour forth or release
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- (military) The act of releasing a member of the armed forces from service.
- (medicine) The act of releasing an inpatient from hospital.
- The process of flowing out.
- (medicine, uncountable) Pus or exudate or mucus (but in modern usage not exclusively blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to pathological or hormonal changes.
- (hydrology) The volume of water transported by a river in a certain amount of time, usually in units of m³/s (cubic meters per second).
- The act of firing a projectile, especially from a firearm.
- (electricity) The act of releasing an accumulated charge.
- The process of removing the load borne by something.
- (law) Release from liability, as granted to someone having served in a position of trust, such as to the officers and governors of a corporate body.
- The material thus released.
- The act of accomplishing (an obligation) or repaying a debt etc.; performance.
- the pouring forth of a fluid
- the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
- the sudden giving off of energy
- the act of discharging a gun
- any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body
- a formal written statement of relinquishment
- a substance that is emitted or released
- electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field
- the act of venting
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- (poker) A hand that consists of three of a kind and a pair.
- (rugby union) A single player scoring a try, conversion, penalty goal and drop goal in the same match
- A situation in which a place is filled with people to its maximum capacity.
- (by extension) (theater) An event for which every seat is sold out, completely filled with an audience for a play, concert, or movie, creating a successful, packed venue.
- a poker hand with 3 of a kind and a pair