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- A ragged edge in metalworking.
- (slang, derogatory) A newspaper or magazine, especially one whose journalism is considered to be of poor quality.
- A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture; ragstone.
- (poker) A poor, low-ranking kicker.
- (nautical, slang) A sail, or any piece of canvas.
- A piece of old cloth, especially one used for cleaning, patching, etc.; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred or tatter.
- (typography) An uneven vertical margin (of a block of type).
- (slang, theater) A curtain of various kinds.
- (UK, Ireland) A society run by university students for the purpose of charitable fundraising.
- A ragtime song, dance or piece of music.
- (derogatory) A shabby, beggarly person; synonym of ragamuffin.
- (singular or plural, slang) Sanitary napkins, pads, or other materials used to absorb menstrual discharge.
- (especially in the plural) Tattered clothes (clothing).
- newspaper with half-size pages
- a small piece of cloth
- a boisterous practical joke (especially by college students)
- music with a syncopated melody (usually for the piano)
- a week at British universities during which side-shows and processions of floats are organized to raise money for charities
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- (intransitive, informal) To dance to ragtime music.
- To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
- To tease or torment, especially at a university; to bully, to haze.
- To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.
- (intransitive, vulgar, slang, sometimes euphemistic) To menstruate.
- (intransitive) To become tattered.
- (transitive, informal) To play or compose (a piece, melody, etc.) in syncopated time.
- To scold or tell off; to torment; to banter.
- (transitive) To decorate (a wall, etc.) by applying paint with a rag.
- (British slang) To drive a car or another vehicle in a hard, fast or unsympathetic manner.
- cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
- censure severely or angrily
- play in ragtime
- harass with persistent criticism or carping
- break into lumps before sorting
- treat cruelly
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- (manufacturing) To perform the final welds on a manufactured item.
- (sports, bowling) To replace a pin to its correct position prior to a player bowling.
- (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) To replace a ball on its correct spot on a snooker, billiards or pool table.
- To move a commercial or military vehicle or vehicles into a new position in order to make room for other activity or to allow the moved vehicles to be worked on.
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- (cabinet-making) Work consisting of a series of cross-grained veneers united by glue, heat, and pressure.
- (metalwork) The act or process of pressing or drawing with dies or presses; or the product of such work.
- Printed material.
- Pottery produced by pressing clay into moulds.
- The operation of a printing press.
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- (ironworking) The process of building up, heating, and working fagots or piles to form bars, etc.
- The act of heaping up.
- A structural support comprising a length of wood, steel, or other construction material.
- a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure
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- heat a metal prior to working it
- make drunk (with alcoholic drinks)
- leave as a guarantee in return for money
- submerge in a liquid
- fill, soak, or imbue totally
- cover with liquid; pour liquid onto
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- beat severely
- become drunk or drink excessively
- (originally US slang, figurative, transitive) To overcharge or swindle out of a large amount of money.
- (transitive) To immerse in liquid to the point of saturation or thorough permeation.
- (figurative, transitive) To absorb; to drain.
- (transitive) (slang, boxing) To hit or strike.
- (metallurgy, transitive) To heat (a metal) before shaping it.
- (ceramics, transitive) To hold a kiln at a particular temperature for a given period of time.
- (intransitive) To penetrate or permeate by saturation.
- (transitive) To allow (especially a liquid) to be absorbed; to take in, receive. (usually + up)
- (slang, chiefly Mormonism) To engage in penetrative sex without hip thrusting.
- (intransitive) To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.
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- washing something by allowing it to soak
- the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid)
- (slang, British) A drunkard.
- An immersion in water etc.
- (slang) A carouse; a drinking session.
- (Australia) A low-lying depression that fills with water after rain.
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- a workplace where metal is worked by heating and hammering
- A workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them.
- furnace consisting of a special hearth where metal is heated before shaping
- (computing) A web-based collaborative platform for developing and sharing software.
- A furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape.
- The act of beating or working iron or steel.
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- create by hammering
- move ahead steadily
- come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort
- move or act with a sudden increase in speed or energy
- make out of components (often in an improvising manner)
- make something, usually for a specific function
- make a copy of with the intent to deceive
- (often as forge ahead) To move forward heavily and slowly (originally as a ship); to advance gradually but steadily; to proceed towards a goal in the face of resistance or difficulty.
- To form or create with concerted effort.
- (metallurgy, metalworking) To shape a metal by heating and hammering.
- To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate.
- To create a forgery of; to make a counterfeit item of; to copy or imitate unlawfully.
- (sometimes as forge ahead) To advance, move or act with an abrupt increase in speed or energy.
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- To strengthen or toughen a material, especially metal, by heat treatment; anneal.
- harden by reheating and cooling in oil
- bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling
- (cooking) To adjust the temperature of an ingredient (e.g. eggs or chocolate) gradually so that it remains smooth and pleasing.
- To mix clay, plaster or mortar with water to obtain the proper consistency.
- (music) To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.
- To sauté spices in ghee or oil to release essential oils for flavouring a dish in South Asian cuisine.
- To moderate or control.
- change by restraining or moderating
- make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else
- adjust the pitch (of pianos)
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- A general tendency or orientation towards a certain type of mood, a volatile state; a habitual way of thinking, behaving or reacting.
- State of mind; mood.
- Middle state or course; mean; medium.
- A tendency to become angry.
- The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating or cooling.
- Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure.
- Anger; a fit of anger.
- (sugar manufacture, historical) Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar.
- The heat treatment to which a metal or other material has been subjected; a material that has undergone a particular heat treatment.
- (pottery, architecture) A non-plastic material, such as sand, added to clay to prevent shrinkage and cracking during drying or firing; tempering.
- The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualities.
- the elasticity and hardness of a metal object; its ability to absorb considerable energy before cracking
- a sudden outburst of anger
- a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger
- a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
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- (metalworking) A person employed to separate sheets of hot metal that become stuck together.
- (fishing) A period of time when it is legal to commercially fish.
- (cricket) A batsman or bowler who normally plays in the first two positions of an innings.
- (theater) The first act in a variety show or concert.
- A person who opens something.
- (baseball) A pitcher who specializes in getting the first outs of a game before being replaced, either by a long reliever or a pitcher who would normally start.
- (card games, in the plural) Cards of sufficient value to enable a player to open the betting.
- (sports) The first goal or point scored.
- A device that opens something; specifically a tin-opener/can-opener, or a bottle opener.
- (colloquial) The first in a series of events, items etc.; the first remark or sentence of a conversation.
- (sports) The first game played in a competition.
- (in combination) An establishment that opens.
- (card games) The player who starts the betting.
- the first event in a series
- a hand tool used for opening sealed containers (bottles or cans)
- a person who unfastens or unwraps or opens
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- The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.
- (Scotland) The act or operation of reaping.
- Deformation by forces acting in opposite directions.
- The material cut off in this way.
- The act or operation of dividing with shears.
- The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.
- (mining) The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.
- Alternative form of shearling.
- removing by cutting off or clipping
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- The mechanical process of eroding or grinding.
- The act by which something is worn.
- That which is worn; clothes; garments.
- (geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it), also figuratively
- the act of having on your person as a covering or adornment
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- Any of several processes to protect metal against rust.
- The ocean; deep waters.
- A blue dye or pigment.
- A bluefish.
- A blue cheese.
- Sporting colours awarded by a university or other institution for sporting achievement, such as representing one's university, especially and originally at Oxford and Cambridge Universities in England. See also full blue, half blue.
- The far distance; a remote or distant place.
- Anything coloured blue, especially to distinguish it from similar objects differing only in colour.
- (particle physics) One of the three colour charges for quarks.
- A member of a sports team that wears blue colours; (in the plural) a nickname for the team as a whole. See also blues.
- A person who has received such sporting colours.
- (countable and uncountable) The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea; the colour midway between green and violet in the visible spectrum and one of the primary additive colours.
- A liquid with an intense blue colour, added to a laundry wash to prevent yellowing of white clothes.
- (UK politics) A member or supporter of the Conservative Party.
- (baseball, slang) An umpire, in reference to the typical dark-blue colour of the umpire's uniform. Sometimes perceived by umpires as derogatory when used by players or coaches while disputing a call.
- (slang) A member of law enforcement.
- The sky, literally or figuratively.
- (British) A type of firecracker.
- (entomology) Any of the butterflies of the subfamily Polyommatinae in the family Lycaenidae, most of which have blue on their wings.
- (now historical) A bluestocking.
- A dog or cat with a slaty gray coat.
- (slang, uncountable) Risqué or pornographic material.
- (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of five points.
- (uncountable) Blue clothing.
- (in the plural) A blue uniform. See blues.
- (Australia, colloquial) An argument or brawl.
- used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge
- the sky as viewed during daylight
- the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic
- any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue
- any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
- blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime
- blue clothing
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- (UK politics) Supportive of or related to the Conservative Party.
- (informal) Depressed, melancholic, sad.
- (informal) Risqué; obscene; profane; pornographic.
- (US politics) Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by the Democratic Party.
- (of a dog or cat) Having a coat of fur of a slaty gray shade.
- (particle physics) Having a colour charge of blue.
- (astronomy) Of, dominated by, or shifted toward the higher-frequency, or "bluer", end of the electromagnetic spectrum.
- Of a blue hue.
- (of steak) Extra rare; left very raw and cold.
- Having a bluish or purplish shade to the skin due to a lack of oxygen to the normally deep-red red blood cells; cyanotic.
- (of a flame) Pale, without redness or glare.
- (Australian politics) Supportive of or related to the Liberal Party.
- suggestive of sexual impropriety
- filled with melancholy and despondency
- morally rigorous and strict
- used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms)
- characterized by profanity or cursing
- of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky
- causing dejection
- belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy
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- (transitive, laundry) To brighten by treating with blue (laundry aid).
- (ergative) To make or become blue; to turn blue.
- (transitive, metallurgy) To treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes more resistant to rust.
- (intransitive, Australia, slang) To fight, brawl, or argue.
- turn blue
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- To sharpen with a honing steel.
- To harden or strengthen; to nerve or make obdurate; to fortify against.
- (dialectal) To press with a flat iron.
- To electroplate an item (particularly an engraving plate) with a layer of iron.
- To steelify; to turn iron into steel.
- To edge, cover, or point with steel.
- (literary or poetic) To give (something) the appearance of steel.
- cover, plate, or edge with steel
- get ready for something difficult or unpleasant
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- Projectiles.
- A piece used for striking sparks from flint or ferrocerium.
- (countable, uncountable) An artificial metal produced from iron, harder and more elastic than elemental iron; used figuratively as a symbol of hardness.
- (figurative) Extreme hardness or resilience.
- (sewing, dialectal) A sewing needle; a knitting needle; a sharp metal stylus.
- (printing) An engraving plate.
- (uncountable, colors) The gray hue of this metal; steel-gray, or steel blue.
- Bladed or pointed weapons, as swords, javelins, daggers.
- (sewing) Pieces used to strengthen, support, or expand an item of clothing.
- (music, guitar) A type of slide used while playing the steel guitar.
- (sewing) A fringe of beads or decoration of this metal.
- Armor.
- (dialectal) A flat iron.
- A honing steel, a tool used to sharpen or hone metal blades.
- a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard
- knife sharpener consisting of a ridged steel rod
- an alloy of iron with small amounts of carbon; widely used in construction; mechanical properties can be varied over a wide range
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- The joint made by welding.
- a metal joint formed by softening with heat and fusing or hammering together
- A herb (Reseda luteola) related to mignonette, growing in Europe, and to some extent in America, used to make a yellow dye.
- The yellow coloring matter or dye extracted from this plant.
- European mignonette cultivated as a source of yellow dye; naturalized in North America
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- (engineering) An overheated shaft bearing.
- (rail transport) An overheated axle box, bearing and bearing enclosure.
- A cold frame containing compost that provides a limited amount of warmth.
- A container maintained at elevated temperatures in order to heat or cook its contents.
- A room or house that becomes unbearably hot inside when the weather is hot.
- A small, hot, enclosure, used as a punishment for slaves or prisoners.
- (slang) A sexy woman.
- A room or compartment that is kept artificially warm for some purpose.
- A gas manifold that diverts hot gasses into a heat exchanger.
- A storage container for personal belongings of employees who are hot desking.
- A small, airtight space where people smoke marijuana in order to intensify the high.
- An oven.
- A location where controversial ideas are discussed or practiced.
- A furnace or heat source for a building.
- An incubator.
- (graphical user interface) A context-sensitive dialog that duplicates many of the commands on the menu for users of the Maya Embedded Language.
- A box for hot composting.
- A soundproof box used to hold a camera in order to prevent the sound of its operation interfering with the recording of a film.
- a journal bearing (as of a railroad car) that has overheated
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- (slang) To put out a cigarette just before entering a vehicle, then expel smoke in the vehicle.
- (slang) To fart in a small confined area, such as the inside of a car.
- (slang) To smoke a cigarette vigorously and rapidly.
- (transitive, slang) To smoke marijuana in a small confined area, such as the inside of a car, until it is full of smoke, thereby intensifying the drug's effects.
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- (metalworking) An accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf or dome-shaped obstruction above the tuyeres in a blast furnace.
- A structure made of scaffolding for workers to stand on while working on a building.
- (pedagogy) A device in scaffolding, i.e. the provision a framework or support for achieving an intended outcome of internalizing learnings by way of collaboration and later gradual withdrawal of support.
- An elevated platform on which dead bodies are ritually disposed of, as by some Native American tribes.
- An elevated platform on which a criminal is executed.
- (sciences) A structure that provides support for some other material.
- a temporary arrangement erected around a building for convenience of workers
- a platform from which criminals are executed (hanged or beheaded)
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- (transitive) To dispose of the bodies of the dead on a scaffold or raised platform, as by some Native American tribes.
- (transitive, pedagogy) To provide a framework or support for achieving an intended outcome of internalizing learnings by way of collaboration and later gradual withdrawal of support.
- (transitive) To set up a scaffolding; to surround a building with scaffolding.
- (transitive) To sustain; to provide support for.
- provide with a scaffold for support
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- Any of various pieces of heavy equipment for grinding.
- (lawyer slang) A low-ranking attorney with no clients who works very hard.
- (Northern US, especially Connecticut, Vermont) A sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll.
- One who grinds something, such as the teeth.
- (music, slang) A fan or performer of grindcore music.
- A grinding machine: any of various machine tools for grinding (either heavy or light grinding, but precise either way).
- (Pennsylvania) In particular, a submarine sandwich (hoagie) that is toasted or baked and typically does not contain lettuce.
- (ice hockey, slang) A hard-working, physical player with limited offensive ability.
- The restless flycatcher (Myiagra inquieta) of Australia, which makes a noise like a scissors grinder.
- (radio, informal) Atmospheric interference producing a roaring background noise.
- A kitchen gadget for processing coffee, herbs etc. into small or powdered pieces.
- (slang) A biohacker who uses cybernetic implants or biochemicals to enhance or change their own body.
- (anatomy) A molar.
- (slang) Any tooth.
- (US, military, slang) An outdoor space for drills and parades.
- Any of various power tools with a spinning abrasive disc, used for smoothing, shaping, or deburring materials, usually metal.
- machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing
- grinding tooth with a broad crown; located behind the premolars
- a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States
- a machine tool that polishes metal
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- The rubbing or polishing of a metal surface.
- (accounting) A form of fraud in which payments in the accounts are repeatedly delayed between periods, or diverted between customers, to conceal a theft.
- The process of forming a lap or fleece of fibrous material for the carding-machine.
- A kind of machine blanket or wrapping material used by calico printers.
- (firearms) The process of rubbing away the lands, or metal between the grooves of a rifled gun, to increase the bore.
- (lutherie) Lengths of fine silk, metal wire, or whalebone wrapped tightly around the stick of the bow of a string instrument adjacent to the leather part of the bow grip at the heel.
- The gentle, rhythmic sound of water splashing against a solid surface.
- covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles)
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- (metalworking, construction) The member of a hot-rivetting team who heats the rivets in a brazier, see rivet.
- (cooking) A person who prepares food.
- (slang) One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
- (cooking) The degree or quality of cookedness of food.
- (cooking) The head cook of a manor house.
- (slang) A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
- (chess) An unintended solution to a chess problem, considered to spoil the problem.
- A fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus.
- someone who cooks food
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- (transitive, military slang) To hold on to a grenade briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.
- (transitive, slang) To cause to be cooked, i.e. to put in a hopeless situation.
- (intransitive, slang, humorous) To proceed with some advantageous course of action; (more generally) to be successful.
- (transitive, slang) To tamper with or alter; to cook up.
- (transitive) To concoct or prepare.
- (intransitive, music, slang) To play music vigorously.
- (transitive, slang) To execute by electric chair.
- (intransitive, slang, derogatory, Australia) To develop insane or fringe ideas.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be uncomfortably hot.
- (intransitive, jazz, slang) To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way. (From 1930s jive talk.)
- (intransitive, slang, humorous) To proceed with some plan or course of action, or develop some train of thought towards its conclusion (whether this is advantageous, or comical, or digging into a hole).
- (transitive, slang) To kill, destroy, or otherwise render useless or inoperative through exposure to excessive heat or radiation.
- (intransitive) To be cooked.
- (transitive, slang) To defeat or humiliate.
- (ambitransitive) To prepare food for eating by heating it, often combining with other ingredients.
- (transitive, video games) To smelt.
- prepare for eating by applying heat
- prepare a hot meal
- transform by heating
- transform and make suitable for consumption by heating
- tamper, with the purpose of deception
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- That has been pressed or smoothed with a hot iron; pressed.
- Proivided with, or strengthened by, iron; shod with iron.
- (Of hair) Treated as with a hair iron; curled with a curling iron, or straightened with a straightening-iron or with electric straighteners.
- That has been put in irons; shackled.
- (of linens or clothes) smoothed with a hot iron
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- harden by reheating and cooling in oil
- become hard or harder
- cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate
- make hard or harder
- make healthy
- (Slavic phonology) To unpalatalize or velarize.
- (transitive, computing) To modify (a website or other system) to make it resistant to malicious attacks.
- (intransitive, informal) To get an erection.
- (transitive, ergative) To make something hard or harder.
- (ambitransitive) To become or make (a person or thing) resistant or less sensitive.
- (transitive, figurative) To strengthen.
- (intransitive) To become hard.
- (ambitransitive, phonology) To become or make (a consonant) more fortis; to (cause to) undergo fortition.
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- prepare (a metal) for soldering or brazing by applying a thin layer of solder to the surface
- plate with tin
- preserve in a can or tin
- (transitive) To place into a metal can (ie. a tin; be it tin, steel, aluminum) in order to preserve.
- To coat with solder, in preparation for soldering, to ensure a good solder joint
- (transitive) To cover with tin.
- To coat with solder, in order to consolidate braided wire, so as to make contact with all strands and reduce fragility of the fraying wire
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- a vessel (box, can, pan, etc.) made of tinplate and used mainly in baking
- airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc.
- a silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion; used in many alloys and to coat other metals to prevent corrosion; obtained chiefly from cassiterite where it occurs as tin oxide
- metal container for storing dry foods such as tea or flour
- (countable, squash) The bottom part of the front wall, which is "out" if a player strikes it with the ball.
- (slang, uncountable) computer hardware.
- (countable) A metal pan used for baking, roasting, storing food, etc.
- (metonymic) Iron or steel sheet metal that is coated with tin as an anticorrosion protectant.
- (uncountable) A malleable, ductile, metallic element, resistant to corrosion, with atomic number 50 and symbol Sn.
- (chiefly UK, Commonwealth, countable) An airtight container, made of tin-coated steel (called tinplate or tin), (formerly) tin, aluminium, or another metal, used to preserve food, or hold a liquid or some other product.
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- Stress cracks produced in metal ingots as they cool after being cast.
- (onomatopoeia) The sound of metal on metal, or glass on glass.
- a short light metallic sound
- a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)
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- bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling
- Alternative form of anele (“anoint”).
- To cool glass slowly, to minimize internal stress.
- (genetics, ambitransitive) To make a double-stranded nucleic acid by pairing a single strand with a complementary strand.
- (metallurgy) To subject to great heat and then (often slow) cooling, and sometimes reheating and further cooling, for the purpose of rendering less brittle; to temper; to toughen.
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- bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling
- become normal or return to its normal state
- make normal or cause to conform to a norm or standard
- (transitive) To consider normal, to treat as standard in the face of older norms.
- (transitive) To make normal, to bring into alignment with an established standard.
- (intransitive) To become normal; to return to a normal state.
- (mathematics, transitive) To divide a vector by its magnitude to produce a unit vector.
- (transitive) To format in a standardized manner, to make consistent.
- (rail transport, intransitive, of points) To return to the normal position from the reverse position.
- (metallurgy, transitive) To anneal (steel) for the purpose of decreasing brittleness and increasing ductility.
- (statistics, transitive) To reduce the variations by excluding irrelevant aspects.
- (rail transport, transitive) To return a set of points (switches) to the normal position.
- (computing, databases, transitive) To subject to normalization; to eliminate redundancy in (a model for storing data).
- (mathematics, transitive) To constrain a number's absolute value to be 1 at maximum. More generally, to constrain the magnitude of a mathematical quantity to be 1 at maximum.
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- (intransitive, metallurgy) To become hard by rapid cooling.
- (transitive, metallurgy) To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling.
- (intransitive, slang) To smoke marijuana.
- (transitive, figurative) To discourage, depress.
- (intransitive, slang) To "hang", hang out; to spend time with another person or group.
- (intransitive) To become cold.
- (intransitive, slang) To relax; to lie back; to take things easy.
- (transitive) To lower the temperature of something; to cool.
- make cool or cooler
- depress or discourage
- loose heat
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- A sense of style; trendiness; savoir faire.
- A lack of warmth and cordiality; unfriendliness.
- A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.
- An uncomfortable and numbing sense of fear, dread, anxiety, or alarm, often one that is sudden and usually accompanied by a trembling nerve response resembling the body's response to biting cold.
- Calmness; equanimity.
- The hardened part of a casting, such as the tread of a carriage wheel.
- An iron mould or portion of a mould, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it.
- A chilling effect; an atmosphere of this.
- A sudden penetrating sense of cold, especially one that causes a brief trembling nerve response through the body; the trembling response itself; often associated with illness: fevers and chills, or susceptibility to illness.
- coldness due to a cold environment
- a sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever
- an almost pleasurable sensation of fright
- a sudden numbing dread
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- (intransitive) To let saliva or other liquid fall from the mouth carelessly; drivel; slaver.
- (transitive) To eat hastily or in a slovenly manner, as liquid food.
- (transitive) To wet and befoul by liquids falling carelessly from the mouth; slaver; slobber.
- (transitive) To cover, as with a liquid spill; soil; befoul.
- let saliva drivel from the mouth
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- A ragged edge in metalworking.
- (slang, derogatory) A newspaper or magazine, especially one whose journalism is considered to be of poor quality.
- A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture; ragstone.
- (poker) A poor, low-ranking kicker.
- (nautical, slang) A sail, or any piece of canvas.
- A piece of old cloth, especially one used for cleaning, patching, etc.; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred or tatter.
- (typography) An uneven vertical margin (of a block of type).
- (slang, theater) A curtain of various kinds.
- (UK, Ireland) A society run by university students for the purpose of charitable fundraising.
- A ragtime song, dance or piece of music.
- (derogatory) A shabby, beggarly person; synonym of ragamuffin.
- (singular or plural, slang) Sanitary napkins, pads, or other materials used to absorb menstrual discharge.
- (especially in the plural) Tattered clothes (clothing).
- newspaper with half-size pages
- a small piece of cloth
- a boisterous practical joke (especially by college students)
- music with a syncopated melody (usually for the piano)
- a week at British universities during which side-shows and processions of floats are organized to raise money for charities
verb
- (intransitive, informal) To dance to ragtime music.
- To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
- To tease or torment, especially at a university; to bully, to haze.
- To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.
- (intransitive, vulgar, slang, sometimes euphemistic) To menstruate.
- (intransitive) To become tattered.
- (transitive, informal) To play or compose (a piece, melody, etc.) in syncopated time.
- To scold or tell off; to torment; to banter.
- (transitive) To decorate (a wall, etc.) by applying paint with a rag.
- (British slang) To drive a car or another vehicle in a hard, fast or unsympathetic manner.
- cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
- censure severely or angrily
- play in ragtime
- harass with persistent criticism or carping
- break into lumps before sorting
- treat cruelly
noun
verb
- (manufacturing) To perform the final welds on a manufactured item.
- (sports, bowling) To replace a pin to its correct position prior to a player bowling.
- (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) To replace a ball on its correct spot on a snooker, billiards or pool table.
- To move a commercial or military vehicle or vehicles into a new position in order to make room for other activity or to allow the moved vehicles to be worked on.
noun
verb
noun
- (cabinet-making) Work consisting of a series of cross-grained veneers united by glue, heat, and pressure.
- (metalwork) The act or process of pressing or drawing with dies or presses; or the product of such work.
- Printed material.
- Pottery produced by pressing clay into moulds.
- The operation of a printing press.
noun
- (ironworking) The process of building up, heating, and working fagots or piles to form bars, etc.
- The act of heaping up.
- A structural support comprising a length of wood, steel, or other construction material.
- a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure
verb
noun
- a workplace where metal is worked by heating and hammering
- A workshop in which metals are shaped by heating and hammering them.
- furnace consisting of a special hearth where metal is heated before shaping
- (computing) A web-based collaborative platform for developing and sharing software.
- A furnace or hearth where metals are heated prior to hammering them into shape.
- The act of beating or working iron or steel.
verb
- create by hammering
- move ahead steadily
- come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort
- move or act with a sudden increase in speed or energy
- make out of components (often in an improvising manner)
- make something, usually for a specific function
- make a copy of with the intent to deceive
- (often as forge ahead) To move forward heavily and slowly (originally as a ship); to advance gradually but steadily; to proceed towards a goal in the face of resistance or difficulty.
- To form or create with concerted effort.
- (metallurgy, metalworking) To shape a metal by heating and hammering.
- To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate.
- To create a forgery of; to make a counterfeit item of; to copy or imitate unlawfully.
- (sometimes as forge ahead) To advance, move or act with an abrupt increase in speed or energy.
noun
- (metalworking) A person employed to separate sheets of hot metal that become stuck together.
- (fishing) A period of time when it is legal to commercially fish.
- (cricket) A batsman or bowler who normally plays in the first two positions of an innings.
- (theater) The first act in a variety show or concert.
- A person who opens something.
- (baseball) A pitcher who specializes in getting the first outs of a game before being replaced, either by a long reliever or a pitcher who would normally start.
- (card games, in the plural) Cards of sufficient value to enable a player to open the betting.
- (sports) The first goal or point scored.
- A device that opens something; specifically a tin-opener/can-opener, or a bottle opener.
- (colloquial) The first in a series of events, items etc.; the first remark or sentence of a conversation.
- (sports) The first game played in a competition.
- (in combination) An establishment that opens.
- (card games) The player who starts the betting.
- the first event in a series
- a hand tool used for opening sealed containers (bottles or cans)
- a person who unfastens or unwraps or opens
adj
noun
- The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.
- (Scotland) The act or operation of reaping.
- Deformation by forces acting in opposite directions.
- The material cut off in this way.
- The act or operation of dividing with shears.
- The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.
- (mining) The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.
- Alternative form of shearling.
- removing by cutting off or clipping
adj
verb
noun
- The mechanical process of eroding or grinding.
- The act by which something is worn.
- That which is worn; clothes; garments.
- (geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it), also figuratively
- the act of having on your person as a covering or adornment
adj
verb
noun
- Any of several processes to protect metal against rust.
- The ocean; deep waters.
- A blue dye or pigment.
- A bluefish.
- A blue cheese.
- Sporting colours awarded by a university or other institution for sporting achievement, such as representing one's university, especially and originally at Oxford and Cambridge Universities in England. See also full blue, half blue.
- The far distance; a remote or distant place.
- Anything coloured blue, especially to distinguish it from similar objects differing only in colour.
- (particle physics) One of the three colour charges for quarks.
- A member of a sports team that wears blue colours; (in the plural) a nickname for the team as a whole. See also blues.
- A person who has received such sporting colours.
- (countable and uncountable) The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea; the colour midway between green and violet in the visible spectrum and one of the primary additive colours.
- A liquid with an intense blue colour, added to a laundry wash to prevent yellowing of white clothes.
- (UK politics) A member or supporter of the Conservative Party.
- (baseball, slang) An umpire, in reference to the typical dark-blue colour of the umpire's uniform. Sometimes perceived by umpires as derogatory when used by players or coaches while disputing a call.
- (slang) A member of law enforcement.
- The sky, literally or figuratively.
- (British) A type of firecracker.
- (entomology) Any of the butterflies of the subfamily Polyommatinae in the family Lycaenidae, most of which have blue on their wings.
- (now historical) A bluestocking.
- A dog or cat with a slaty gray coat.
- (slang, uncountable) Risqué or pornographic material.
- (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of five points.
- (uncountable) Blue clothing.
- (in the plural) A blue uniform. See blues.
- (Australia, colloquial) An argument or brawl.
- used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge
- the sky as viewed during daylight
- the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic
- any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue
- any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
- blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime
- blue clothing
adj
- (UK politics) Supportive of or related to the Conservative Party.
- (informal) Depressed, melancholic, sad.
- (informal) Risqué; obscene; profane; pornographic.
- (US politics) Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by the Democratic Party.
- (of a dog or cat) Having a coat of fur of a slaty gray shade.
- (particle physics) Having a colour charge of blue.
- (astronomy) Of, dominated by, or shifted toward the higher-frequency, or "bluer", end of the electromagnetic spectrum.
- Of a blue hue.
- (of steak) Extra rare; left very raw and cold.
- Having a bluish or purplish shade to the skin due to a lack of oxygen to the normally deep-red red blood cells; cyanotic.
- (of a flame) Pale, without redness or glare.
- (Australian politics) Supportive of or related to the Liberal Party.
- suggestive of sexual impropriety
- filled with melancholy and despondency
- morally rigorous and strict
- used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms)
- characterized by profanity or cursing
- of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky
- causing dejection
- belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy
verb
- (transitive, laundry) To brighten by treating with blue (laundry aid).
- (ergative) To make or become blue; to turn blue.
- (transitive, metallurgy) To treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes more resistant to rust.
- (intransitive, Australia, slang) To fight, brawl, or argue.
- turn blue
noun
- The joint made by welding.
- a metal joint formed by softening with heat and fusing or hammering together
- A herb (Reseda luteola) related to mignonette, growing in Europe, and to some extent in America, used to make a yellow dye.
- The yellow coloring matter or dye extracted from this plant.
- European mignonette cultivated as a source of yellow dye; naturalized in North America
verb
noun
name
noun
- (engineering) An overheated shaft bearing.
- (rail transport) An overheated axle box, bearing and bearing enclosure.
- A cold frame containing compost that provides a limited amount of warmth.
- A container maintained at elevated temperatures in order to heat or cook its contents.
- A room or house that becomes unbearably hot inside when the weather is hot.
- A small, hot, enclosure, used as a punishment for slaves or prisoners.
- (slang) A sexy woman.
- A room or compartment that is kept artificially warm for some purpose.
- A gas manifold that diverts hot gasses into a heat exchanger.
- A storage container for personal belongings of employees who are hot desking.
- A small, airtight space where people smoke marijuana in order to intensify the high.
- An oven.
- A location where controversial ideas are discussed or practiced.
- A furnace or heat source for a building.
- An incubator.
- (graphical user interface) A context-sensitive dialog that duplicates many of the commands on the menu for users of the Maya Embedded Language.
- A box for hot composting.
- A soundproof box used to hold a camera in order to prevent the sound of its operation interfering with the recording of a film.
- a journal bearing (as of a railroad car) that has overheated
verb
- (slang) To put out a cigarette just before entering a vehicle, then expel smoke in the vehicle.
- (slang) To fart in a small confined area, such as the inside of a car.
- (slang) To smoke a cigarette vigorously and rapidly.
- (transitive, slang) To smoke marijuana in a small confined area, such as the inside of a car, until it is full of smoke, thereby intensifying the drug's effects.
noun
- (metalworking) An accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf or dome-shaped obstruction above the tuyeres in a blast furnace.
- A structure made of scaffolding for workers to stand on while working on a building.
- (pedagogy) A device in scaffolding, i.e. the provision a framework or support for achieving an intended outcome of internalizing learnings by way of collaboration and later gradual withdrawal of support.
- An elevated platform on which dead bodies are ritually disposed of, as by some Native American tribes.
- An elevated platform on which a criminal is executed.
- (sciences) A structure that provides support for some other material.
- a temporary arrangement erected around a building for convenience of workers
- a platform from which criminals are executed (hanged or beheaded)
verb
- (transitive) To dispose of the bodies of the dead on a scaffold or raised platform, as by some Native American tribes.
- (transitive, pedagogy) To provide a framework or support for achieving an intended outcome of internalizing learnings by way of collaboration and later gradual withdrawal of support.
- (transitive) To set up a scaffolding; to surround a building with scaffolding.
- (transitive) To sustain; to provide support for.
- provide with a scaffold for support
adj
noun
noun
- Any of various pieces of heavy equipment for grinding.
- (lawyer slang) A low-ranking attorney with no clients who works very hard.
- (Northern US, especially Connecticut, Vermont) A sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll.
- One who grinds something, such as the teeth.
- (music, slang) A fan or performer of grindcore music.
- A grinding machine: any of various machine tools for grinding (either heavy or light grinding, but precise either way).
- (Pennsylvania) In particular, a submarine sandwich (hoagie) that is toasted or baked and typically does not contain lettuce.
- (ice hockey, slang) A hard-working, physical player with limited offensive ability.
- The restless flycatcher (Myiagra inquieta) of Australia, which makes a noise like a scissors grinder.
- (radio, informal) Atmospheric interference producing a roaring background noise.
- A kitchen gadget for processing coffee, herbs etc. into small or powdered pieces.
- (slang) A biohacker who uses cybernetic implants or biochemicals to enhance or change their own body.
- (anatomy) A molar.
- (slang) Any tooth.
- (US, military, slang) An outdoor space for drills and parades.
- Any of various power tools with a spinning abrasive disc, used for smoothing, shaping, or deburring materials, usually metal.
- machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing
- grinding tooth with a broad crown; located behind the premolars
- a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States
- a machine tool that polishes metal
noun
- The rubbing or polishing of a metal surface.
- (accounting) A form of fraud in which payments in the accounts are repeatedly delayed between periods, or diverted between customers, to conceal a theft.
- The process of forming a lap or fleece of fibrous material for the carding-machine.
- A kind of machine blanket or wrapping material used by calico printers.
- (firearms) The process of rubbing away the lands, or metal between the grooves of a rifled gun, to increase the bore.
- (lutherie) Lengths of fine silk, metal wire, or whalebone wrapped tightly around the stick of the bow of a string instrument adjacent to the leather part of the bow grip at the heel.
- The gentle, rhythmic sound of water splashing against a solid surface.
- covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles)
verb
noun
- (metalworking, construction) The member of a hot-rivetting team who heats the rivets in a brazier, see rivet.
- (cooking) A person who prepares food.
- (slang) One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
- (cooking) The degree or quality of cookedness of food.
- (cooking) The head cook of a manor house.
- (slang) A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
- (chess) An unintended solution to a chess problem, considered to spoil the problem.
- A fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus.
- someone who cooks food
verb
- (transitive, military slang) To hold on to a grenade briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.
- (transitive, slang) To cause to be cooked, i.e. to put in a hopeless situation.
- (intransitive, slang, humorous) To proceed with some advantageous course of action; (more generally) to be successful.
- (transitive, slang) To tamper with or alter; to cook up.
- (transitive) To concoct or prepare.
- (intransitive, music, slang) To play music vigorously.
- (transitive, slang) To execute by electric chair.
- (intransitive, slang, derogatory, Australia) To develop insane or fringe ideas.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be uncomfortably hot.
- (intransitive, jazz, slang) To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way. (From 1930s jive talk.)
- (intransitive, slang, humorous) To proceed with some plan or course of action, or develop some train of thought towards its conclusion (whether this is advantageous, or comical, or digging into a hole).
- (transitive, slang) To kill, destroy, or otherwise render useless or inoperative through exposure to excessive heat or radiation.
- (intransitive) To be cooked.
- (transitive, slang) To defeat or humiliate.
- (ambitransitive) To prepare food for eating by heating it, often combining with other ingredients.
- (transitive, video games) To smelt.
- prepare for eating by applying heat
- prepare a hot meal
- transform by heating
- transform and make suitable for consumption by heating
- tamper, with the purpose of deception
noun
- Stress cracks produced in metal ingots as they cool after being cast.
- (onomatopoeia) The sound of metal on metal, or glass on glass.
- a short light metallic sound
- a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)
verb
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To let saliva or other liquid fall from the mouth carelessly; drivel; slaver.
- (transitive) To eat hastily or in a slovenly manner, as liquid food.
- (transitive) To wet and befoul by liquids falling carelessly from the mouth; slaver; slobber.
- (transitive) To cover, as with a liquid spill; soil; befoul.
- let saliva drivel from the mouth
verb
verb
- heat a metal prior to working it
- make drunk (with alcoholic drinks)
- leave as a guarantee in return for money
- submerge in a liquid
- fill, soak, or imbue totally
- cover with liquid; pour liquid onto
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- beat severely
- become drunk or drink excessively
- (originally US slang, figurative, transitive) To overcharge or swindle out of a large amount of money.
- (transitive) To immerse in liquid to the point of saturation or thorough permeation.
- (figurative, transitive) To absorb; to drain.
- (transitive) (slang, boxing) To hit or strike.
- (metallurgy, transitive) To heat (a metal) before shaping it.
- (ceramics, transitive) To hold a kiln at a particular temperature for a given period of time.
- (intransitive) To penetrate or permeate by saturation.
- (transitive) To allow (especially a liquid) to be absorbed; to take in, receive. (usually + up)
- (slang, chiefly Mormonism) To engage in penetrative sex without hip thrusting.
- (intransitive) To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.
noun
- washing something by allowing it to soak
- the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid)
- (slang, British) A drunkard.
- An immersion in water etc.
- (slang) A carouse; a drinking session.
- (Australia) A low-lying depression that fills with water after rain.
noun
verb
- (manufacturing) To perform the final welds on a manufactured item.
- (sports, bowling) To replace a pin to its correct position prior to a player bowling.
- (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) To replace a ball on its correct spot on a snooker, billiards or pool table.
- To move a commercial or military vehicle or vehicles into a new position in order to make room for other activity or to allow the moved vehicles to be worked on.
verb
- To strengthen or toughen a material, especially metal, by heat treatment; anneal.
- harden by reheating and cooling in oil
- bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling
- (cooking) To adjust the temperature of an ingredient (e.g. eggs or chocolate) gradually so that it remains smooth and pleasing.
- To mix clay, plaster or mortar with water to obtain the proper consistency.
- (music) To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.
- To sauté spices in ghee or oil to release essential oils for flavouring a dish in South Asian cuisine.
- To moderate or control.
- change by restraining or moderating
- make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else
- adjust the pitch (of pianos)
noun
- A general tendency or orientation towards a certain type of mood, a volatile state; a habitual way of thinking, behaving or reacting.
- State of mind; mood.
- Middle state or course; mean; medium.
- A tendency to become angry.
- The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating or cooling.
- Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure.
- Anger; a fit of anger.
- (sugar manufacture, historical) Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar.
- The heat treatment to which a metal or other material has been subjected; a material that has undergone a particular heat treatment.
- (pottery, architecture) A non-plastic material, such as sand, added to clay to prevent shrinkage and cracking during drying or firing; tempering.
- The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualities.
- the elasticity and hardness of a metal object; its ability to absorb considerable energy before cracking
- a sudden outburst of anger
- a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger
- a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
verb
- To sharpen with a honing steel.
- To harden or strengthen; to nerve or make obdurate; to fortify against.
- (dialectal) To press with a flat iron.
- To electroplate an item (particularly an engraving plate) with a layer of iron.
- To steelify; to turn iron into steel.
- To edge, cover, or point with steel.
- (literary or poetic) To give (something) the appearance of steel.
- cover, plate, or edge with steel
- get ready for something difficult or unpleasant
adj
noun
- Projectiles.
- A piece used for striking sparks from flint or ferrocerium.
- (countable, uncountable) An artificial metal produced from iron, harder and more elastic than elemental iron; used figuratively as a symbol of hardness.
- (figurative) Extreme hardness or resilience.
- (sewing, dialectal) A sewing needle; a knitting needle; a sharp metal stylus.
- (printing) An engraving plate.
- (uncountable, colors) The gray hue of this metal; steel-gray, or steel blue.
- Bladed or pointed weapons, as swords, javelins, daggers.
- (sewing) Pieces used to strengthen, support, or expand an item of clothing.
- (music, guitar) A type of slide used while playing the steel guitar.
- (sewing) A fringe of beads or decoration of this metal.
- Armor.
- (dialectal) A flat iron.
- A honing steel, a tool used to sharpen or hone metal blades.
- a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard
- knife sharpener consisting of a ridged steel rod
- an alloy of iron with small amounts of carbon; widely used in construction; mechanical properties can be varied over a wide range
verb
- harden by reheating and cooling in oil
- become hard or harder
- cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate
- make hard or harder
- make healthy
- (Slavic phonology) To unpalatalize or velarize.
- (transitive, computing) To modify (a website or other system) to make it resistant to malicious attacks.
- (intransitive, informal) To get an erection.
- (transitive, ergative) To make something hard or harder.
- (ambitransitive) To become or make (a person or thing) resistant or less sensitive.
- (transitive, figurative) To strengthen.
- (intransitive) To become hard.
- (ambitransitive, phonology) To become or make (a consonant) more fortis; to (cause to) undergo fortition.
noun
verb
- prepare (a metal) for soldering or brazing by applying a thin layer of solder to the surface
- plate with tin
- preserve in a can or tin
- (transitive) To place into a metal can (ie. a tin; be it tin, steel, aluminum) in order to preserve.
- To coat with solder, in preparation for soldering, to ensure a good solder joint
- (transitive) To cover with tin.
- To coat with solder, in order to consolidate braided wire, so as to make contact with all strands and reduce fragility of the fraying wire
noun
- a vessel (box, can, pan, etc.) made of tinplate and used mainly in baking
- airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc.
- a silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion; used in many alloys and to coat other metals to prevent corrosion; obtained chiefly from cassiterite where it occurs as tin oxide
- metal container for storing dry foods such as tea or flour
- (countable, squash) The bottom part of the front wall, which is "out" if a player strikes it with the ball.
- (slang, uncountable) computer hardware.
- (countable) A metal pan used for baking, roasting, storing food, etc.
- (metonymic) Iron or steel sheet metal that is coated with tin as an anticorrosion protectant.
- (uncountable) A malleable, ductile, metallic element, resistant to corrosion, with atomic number 50 and symbol Sn.
- (chiefly UK, Commonwealth, countable) An airtight container, made of tin-coated steel (called tinplate or tin), (formerly) tin, aluminium, or another metal, used to preserve food, or hold a liquid or some other product.
adj
verb
- bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling
- Alternative form of anele (“anoint”).
- To cool glass slowly, to minimize internal stress.
- (genetics, ambitransitive) To make a double-stranded nucleic acid by pairing a single strand with a complementary strand.
- (metallurgy) To subject to great heat and then (often slow) cooling, and sometimes reheating and further cooling, for the purpose of rendering less brittle; to temper; to toughen.
noun
verb
- bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling
- become normal or return to its normal state
- make normal or cause to conform to a norm or standard
- (transitive) To consider normal, to treat as standard in the face of older norms.
- (transitive) To make normal, to bring into alignment with an established standard.
- (intransitive) To become normal; to return to a normal state.
- (mathematics, transitive) To divide a vector by its magnitude to produce a unit vector.
- (transitive) To format in a standardized manner, to make consistent.
- (rail transport, intransitive, of points) To return to the normal position from the reverse position.
- (metallurgy, transitive) To anneal (steel) for the purpose of decreasing brittleness and increasing ductility.
- (statistics, transitive) To reduce the variations by excluding irrelevant aspects.
- (rail transport, transitive) To return a set of points (switches) to the normal position.
- (computing, databases, transitive) To subject to normalization; to eliminate redundancy in (a model for storing data).
- (mathematics, transitive) To constrain a number's absolute value to be 1 at maximum. More generally, to constrain the magnitude of a mathematical quantity to be 1 at maximum.
verb
- (intransitive, metallurgy) To become hard by rapid cooling.
- (transitive, metallurgy) To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling.
- (intransitive, slang) To smoke marijuana.
- (transitive, figurative) To discourage, depress.
- (intransitive, slang) To "hang", hang out; to spend time with another person or group.
- (intransitive) To become cold.
- (intransitive, slang) To relax; to lie back; to take things easy.
- (transitive) To lower the temperature of something; to cool.
- make cool or cooler
- depress or discourage
- loose heat
adj
noun
- A sense of style; trendiness; savoir faire.
- A lack of warmth and cordiality; unfriendliness.
- A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.
- An uncomfortable and numbing sense of fear, dread, anxiety, or alarm, often one that is sudden and usually accompanied by a trembling nerve response resembling the body's response to biting cold.
- Calmness; equanimity.
- The hardened part of a casting, such as the tread of a carriage wheel.
- An iron mould or portion of a mould, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it.
- A chilling effect; an atmosphere of this.
- A sudden penetrating sense of cold, especially one that causes a brief trembling nerve response through the body; the trembling response itself; often associated with illness: fevers and chills, or susceptibility to illness.
- coldness due to a cold environment
- a sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever
- an almost pleasurable sensation of fright
- a sudden numbing dread
Nessuna parola corrispondente trovata. Prova una descrizione più ampia.
adj
noun
adj
- That has been pressed or smoothed with a hot iron; pressed.
- Proivided with, or strengthened by, iron; shod with iron.
- (Of hair) Treated as with a hair iron; curled with a curling iron, or straightened with a straightening-iron or with electric straighteners.
- That has been put in irons; shackled.
- (of linens or clothes) smoothed with a hot iron