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adj
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noun
- an electronic device that receives television signals and displays them on a screen
- broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects
- a telecommunication system that transmits images of objects (stationary or moving) between distant points
- (uncountable) Collectively, the programs broadcast via the medium of television.
- (countable) An electronic home entertainment device equipped with a screen and a speaker for receiving television signals and displaying them in audio-visual form.
- (uncountable, broadcasting) An electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound.
verb
noun
- (television) A low stand for a lamp etc.
- (dance) A breakdancing move consisting of a float during which the dancer's weight shifts from one hand to the other, producing rotation or a circular "walk".
- (military, historical) An Ancient Roman attack method, where the shields held by the soldiers hide them, not only left, right, front and back, but also from above.
- (printing, historical) The curved plate in which the form is held in a type-revolving cylinder press.
- (genericized trademark) A candy with pecans, caramel, and chocolate, often shaped like a turtle.
- (computing) An on-screen cursor that serves the same function as a turtle for drawing.
- (computing theory) A small element towards the end of a list of items to be bubble sorted, and thus tending to take a long time to be swapped into its correct position. Compare rabbit.
- (zoology, US, Canada) Any land or marine reptile of the order Testudines, characterised by a protective shell enclosing its body. See also tortoise.
- (zoology, Australia, British, specifically) A marine reptile of that order.
- (computing) A type of robot having a domed case (and so resembling the reptile), used in education, especially for making line drawings by means of a computer program.
- any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimming
- a sweater or jersey with a high close-fitting collar
verb
- (intransitive) To flip over onto the back or top; to turn upside down.
- (intransitive) To turn and swim upside down.
- (intransitive) To move along slowly.
- (video games, board games) To build up a large defense force and strike only occasionally, rather than going for an offensive strategy.
- (intransitive) To hunt turtles, especially in the water.
- overturn accidentally
- hunt for turtles, especially as an occupation
adj
- Of a television or monitor, displaying images in shades of grey rather than color.
- Of art, a photograph or photography, using shades of grey rather than shades of any other color.
- Alternative form of black and white (easily divided into diametrically opposing camps).
- (figurative, idiomatic) Classifying people, objects or concepts as two polar opposites, especially "right" and "wrong"; dichotomous and inflexible.
- of a situation that is sharply divided into mutually exclusive categories
- lacking hue or shades of grey; part white and part black
- not having or not capable of producing colors
noun
noun
noun
- (television) A kind of light diffuser.
- (figurative) Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character.
- The cold weather that causes these ice crystals to form.
- A shade of white, like that of frost.
- A cover of minute ice crystals on objects that are exposed to the air. Frost is formed by the same process as dew, except that the temperature of the frosted object is below freezing.
- ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)
- the formation of frost or ice on a surface
- weather cold enough to cause freezing
verb
- (transitive) To sharpen (the points of a horse's shoe) to prevent it from slipping on ice.
- (transitive) To coat (something, e.g. a cake) with icing to resemble frost.
- (transitive) To bleach individual strands of hair while leaving adjacent strands untouched.
- (transitive) To cover with frost.
- (transitive, informal) To anger or annoy.
- (intransitive) To become covered with frost.
- damage by frost
- decorate with frosting
- cover with frost
- provide with a rough or speckled surface or appearance
noun
noun
- (television) A tubular device used to support lights on a set.
- A weasel-like animal of the genus Mustela.
- (Texas, Appalachia) A skunk.
- notably, the European polecat, Mustela putorius.
- dark brown mustelid of woodlands of Eurasia that gives off an unpleasant odor when threatened
- American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae
symbol
noun
- (television) A set top box connecting a house to its cable service.
- (television) A device given out by some cable television services that allows the user to have more channels on their television than they would have without the cable box.
- (television) A descrambler used to descramble scrambled television channels on cable TV.
noun
- a television station and its programs
- a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record)
- a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through
- (often plural) a means of communication or access
- a path over which electrical signals can pass
- a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors
- a deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or a harbor or a strait linking two larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels
- a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance
- (communication) A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from other parallel paths.
- The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water.
- (biochemistry) An ion channel: pore-forming proteins located in a cell membrane that allow specific ions to pass through.
- (communication) The part that connects a data source to a data sink.
- (electronics) A connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit.
- The navigable part of a river.
- (communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via spectral or protocol separation, such as by frequency or time-division multiplexing.
- The part of a turbine pump where the pressure is built up.
- A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
- (storage) The portion of a storage medium, such as a track or a band, that is accessible to a given reading or writing station or head.
- (nautical) The wale of a sailing ship which projects beyond the gunwale and to which the shrouds attach via the chains. One of the flat ledges of heavy plank bolted edgewise to the outside of a vessel, to increase the spread of the shrouds and carry them clear of the bulwarks.
- Something through which another thing passes; a means of conveying or transmitting.
- (communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation, such as by multipair cable.
- A narrow body of water between two land masses.
- (broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television.
- A psychic or medium who temporarily takes on the personality of somebody else.
- (electronics) The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.
- (Internet, historical) A means of delivering up-to-date Internet content via a push mechanism.
- (construction, mechanical engineering) A structural member with a cross section shaped like a squared-off letter C.
- The hollow bed of running waters; (also) the bed of the sea or other body of water.
- (business, marketing) A distribution channel.
- (Internet) A particular area for conversations on an IRC or similar network, analogous to a chat room and often dedicated to a specific topic.
- (broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies, usually in conjunction with a predetermined letter, number, or codeword, and allocated by international agreement.
verb
- transmit or serve as the medium for transmission
- direct the flow of
- send from one person or place to another
- (transitive) To follow as a model, especially in a performance.
- (transitive, of a spirit, as of a dead person) To serve as a medium for.
- (transitive) To direct or guide along a desired course.
- (transitive) To make or cut a channel or groove in.
noun
- (television) The production control room.
- (computing) A browsable collection of images, font styles, etc.
- (entomology) The boring trails produced by an insect in wood.
- Ellipsis of gallery forest.
- An institution, building, or room for the exhibition and conservation of important objects, especially works of art.
- A roofed promenade, especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported by arches or columns on the outer side.
- A part of a monocle—a projection off the ring holding the lens—which helps secure the monocle in the eye socket.
- (automotive) A channel that carries engine oil to parts of the engine that need lubrication, such as the main bearings.
- (fortification) A covered passage cut through the earth or masonry.
- The uppermost seating area projecting from the rear or side walls of a theater, concert hall, or auditorium.
- (mining) A level or drive in a mine.
- (law) The part of a courtroom, often elevated and in the rear, where seating for the public audience is facilitated during trial.
- (by extension, metonymic) The spectators at an event, collectively.
- A part of a light fixture, forming part of its structure and often providing the mounting for the diffuser.
- An establishment that buys, sells, and displays works of art.
- a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed)
- a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine
- narrow recessed balcony area along an upper floor on the interior of a building; usually marked by a colonnade
- a covered corridor (especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported with arches or columns)
- spectators at a golf or tennis match
- a room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited
- a long usually narrow room used for some specific purpose
verb
noun
- (film, television) A set with three walls, allowing the camera to film in a room-like space.
- A set of such recordings made available to be watched or listened to online or on television, without existing in material box form.
- A set of related books from a particular author or genre that are marketed as a boxed collection.
- Related musical or video recordings that are gathered on multiple items of the same kind of media (compact discs, DVDs, VHS tapes, etc.) and placed in a box to be sold as a unit.
- (theater) A set with a proscenium arch stage and three walls, creating the appearance of an enclosed room.
noun
- A similar feature on a television display, allowing the viewer to navigate through the channels and programs on offer.
- Such a section in a more general publication, such as a newspaper.
- A usually weekly periodical that guides the reader through the programs being broadcast on radio or TV; often supplemented with celebrity gossip and other entertainment features.
noun
- (television, film) A backdrop.
- (music) Musicians and vocalists who support the main performer.
- The action of putting something back; a switching into reverse.
- The mounting of a horse or other animal.
- Support, especially financial.
- A liner or other material added behind or underneath.
- financial resources provided to make some project possible
- the act of providing approval and support
- something forming a back that is added for strengthening
adj
verb
noun
- (television editing) A black screen used to separate broadcast items.
- A hard blow, usually with the fist.
- A solid block or piece of roughly shaped metal.
- A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines.
- (regional) A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes.
- (journalism) A title, name or header, a catchline, a short phrase or title to indicate the content of a newspaper or magazine story for editing use.
- (herpetology) An infertile egg of a reptile.
- A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together.
- (web development, SEO) The last part of a clean URL, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename.
- A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material.
- (US, slang, District of Columbia) A hitchhiking commuter.
- A ship that sails slowly.
- (rail transport) An accessory to a diesel-electric locomotive, used to increase adhesive weight and allow full power to be applied at a lower speed. It has trucks with traction motors, but lacks a prime mover, being powered by electricity from the mother locomotive, and may or may not have a control cab.
- Any of many gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell.
- (screenwriting) A block of text at the beginning of a scene that sets up the scene's location, characters, etc.
- A bullet or other projectile fired from a firearm; in modern usage, generally refers to a shotgun slug.
- A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic.
- (physics, rare) The imperial (English) unit of mass that accelerates by 1 foot per second squared (1 ft/s²) when a force of one pound-force (lbf) is exerted on it.
- (letterpress typography) A piece of type metal imprinted by a linotype machine; also a black mark placed in the margin to indicate an error; also said in application to typewriters; type slug.
- any of various terrestrial gastropods having an elongated slimy body and no external shell
- (boxing) a blow with the fist
- a projectile that is fired from a gun
- an amount of an alcoholic drink (usually liquor) that is poured or gulped
- a unit of mass equal to the mass that accelerates at 1 foot/sec/sec when acted upon by a force of 1 pound; approximately 14.5939 kilograms
- a counterfeit coin
- a strip of type metal used for spacing
- an idle slothful person
verb
- (intransitive, of a bullet) To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel.
- (transitive) To load with a slug or slugs.
- To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking.
- To drink quickly; to gulp; to down.
- To make sluggish.
- (transitive) To hit very hard, usually with the fist.
- be idle; exist in a changeless situation
- strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat
verb
- switch channels, on television
- ride the waves of the sea with a surfboard
- look around casually and randomly, without seeking anything in particular
- (ambitransitive) To browse the Internet, television, etc.
- To ride a wave on a surfboard; to pursue or take part in the sport of surfing.
- To surf at a specified place.
- To bodysurf; to swim in the surf at a beach.
noun
noun
- set that receives radio or tv signals
- a football player who catches (or is supposed to catch) a forward pass
- a person who receives something
- earphone that converts electrical signals into sounds
- the tennis player who receives the serve
- (law) a person (usually appointed by a court of law) who liquidates assets or preserves them for the benefit of affected parties
- (finance) A swaption which gives its holder the option to enter into a swap in which they pay the floating leg and receive the fixed leg.
- The part of a telephone handset contained in the earpiece; (hence) the handset itself; an earpiece.
- (firearms) The part of a firearm containing the action.
- (American football) An offensive player who catches the ball after it has been passed.
- A person who receives something in a general sense; a recipient.
- Something which receives some substance or object, in a general sense; a receptacle.
- (now historical) An official whose job is to receive taxes or other monies; a tax collector, a treasurer.
- (chemistry) A vessel for receiving and holding the products of distillation, or for containing gases.
- (now chiefly historical) An airtight vessel from which air is pumped in order to form a vacuum.
- (racquet sports) A person who attempts to return the serve.
- Any of several electronic devices that receive electromagnetic waves, or signals transmitted as such.
- A person or company appointed to settle the affairs of an insolvent entity.
- A person who accepts stolen goods.
- (now historical) A vessel for receiving the exhaust steam from the high-pressure cylinder before it enters the low-pressure cylinder, in a compound steam engine.
noun
adj
noun
- an electronic device that receives television signals and displays them on a screen
- broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects
- a telecommunication system that transmits images of objects (stationary or moving) between distant points
- (uncountable) Collectively, the programs broadcast via the medium of television.
- (countable) An electronic home entertainment device equipped with a screen and a speaker for receiving television signals and displaying them in audio-visual form.
- (uncountable, broadcasting) An electronic communication medium that allows the transmission of real-time visual images, and often sound.
verb
noun
- (television) A low stand for a lamp etc.
- (dance) A breakdancing move consisting of a float during which the dancer's weight shifts from one hand to the other, producing rotation or a circular "walk".
- (military, historical) An Ancient Roman attack method, where the shields held by the soldiers hide them, not only left, right, front and back, but also from above.
- (printing, historical) The curved plate in which the form is held in a type-revolving cylinder press.
- (genericized trademark) A candy with pecans, caramel, and chocolate, often shaped like a turtle.
- (computing) An on-screen cursor that serves the same function as a turtle for drawing.
- (computing theory) A small element towards the end of a list of items to be bubble sorted, and thus tending to take a long time to be swapped into its correct position. Compare rabbit.
- (zoology, US, Canada) Any land or marine reptile of the order Testudines, characterised by a protective shell enclosing its body. See also tortoise.
- (zoology, Australia, British, specifically) A marine reptile of that order.
- (computing) A type of robot having a domed case (and so resembling the reptile), used in education, especially for making line drawings by means of a computer program.
- any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimming
- a sweater or jersey with a high close-fitting collar
verb
- (intransitive) To flip over onto the back or top; to turn upside down.
- (intransitive) To turn and swim upside down.
- (intransitive) To move along slowly.
- (video games, board games) To build up a large defense force and strike only occasionally, rather than going for an offensive strategy.
- (intransitive) To hunt turtles, especially in the water.
- overturn accidentally
- hunt for turtles, especially as an occupation
noun
noun
- (television) A kind of light diffuser.
- (figurative) Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character.
- The cold weather that causes these ice crystals to form.
- A shade of white, like that of frost.
- A cover of minute ice crystals on objects that are exposed to the air. Frost is formed by the same process as dew, except that the temperature of the frosted object is below freezing.
- ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)
- the formation of frost or ice on a surface
- weather cold enough to cause freezing
verb
- (transitive) To sharpen (the points of a horse's shoe) to prevent it from slipping on ice.
- (transitive) To coat (something, e.g. a cake) with icing to resemble frost.
- (transitive) To bleach individual strands of hair while leaving adjacent strands untouched.
- (transitive) To cover with frost.
- (transitive, informal) To anger or annoy.
- (intransitive) To become covered with frost.
- damage by frost
- decorate with frosting
- cover with frost
- provide with a rough or speckled surface or appearance
noun
noun
- (television) A tubular device used to support lights on a set.
- A weasel-like animal of the genus Mustela.
- (Texas, Appalachia) A skunk.
- notably, the European polecat, Mustela putorius.
- dark brown mustelid of woodlands of Eurasia that gives off an unpleasant odor when threatened
- American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae
noun
- (television) A set top box connecting a house to its cable service.
- (television) A device given out by some cable television services that allows the user to have more channels on their television than they would have without the cable box.
- (television) A descrambler used to descramble scrambled television channels on cable TV.
noun
- a television station and its programs
- a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record)
- a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through
- (often plural) a means of communication or access
- a path over which electrical signals can pass
- a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors
- a deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or a harbor or a strait linking two larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels
- a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance
- (communication) A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from other parallel paths.
- The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water.
- (biochemistry) An ion channel: pore-forming proteins located in a cell membrane that allow specific ions to pass through.
- (communication) The part that connects a data source to a data sink.
- (electronics) A connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit.
- The navigable part of a river.
- (communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via spectral or protocol separation, such as by frequency or time-division multiplexing.
- The part of a turbine pump where the pressure is built up.
- A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
- (storage) The portion of a storage medium, such as a track or a band, that is accessible to a given reading or writing station or head.
- (nautical) The wale of a sailing ship which projects beyond the gunwale and to which the shrouds attach via the chains. One of the flat ledges of heavy plank bolted edgewise to the outside of a vessel, to increase the spread of the shrouds and carry them clear of the bulwarks.
- Something through which another thing passes; a means of conveying or transmitting.
- (communication) A single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation, such as by multipair cable.
- A narrow body of water between two land masses.
- (broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television.
- A psychic or medium who temporarily takes on the personality of somebody else.
- (electronics) The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.
- (Internet, historical) A means of delivering up-to-date Internet content via a push mechanism.
- (construction, mechanical engineering) A structural member with a cross section shaped like a squared-off letter C.
- The hollow bed of running waters; (also) the bed of the sea or other body of water.
- (business, marketing) A distribution channel.
- (Internet) A particular area for conversations on an IRC or similar network, analogous to a chat room and often dedicated to a specific topic.
- (broadcasting) A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies, usually in conjunction with a predetermined letter, number, or codeword, and allocated by international agreement.
verb
- transmit or serve as the medium for transmission
- direct the flow of
- send from one person or place to another
- (transitive) To follow as a model, especially in a performance.
- (transitive, of a spirit, as of a dead person) To serve as a medium for.
- (transitive) To direct or guide along a desired course.
- (transitive) To make or cut a channel or groove in.
noun
- (television) The production control room.
- (computing) A browsable collection of images, font styles, etc.
- (entomology) The boring trails produced by an insect in wood.
- Ellipsis of gallery forest.
- An institution, building, or room for the exhibition and conservation of important objects, especially works of art.
- A roofed promenade, especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported by arches or columns on the outer side.
- A part of a monocle—a projection off the ring holding the lens—which helps secure the monocle in the eye socket.
- (automotive) A channel that carries engine oil to parts of the engine that need lubrication, such as the main bearings.
- (fortification) A covered passage cut through the earth or masonry.
- The uppermost seating area projecting from the rear or side walls of a theater, concert hall, or auditorium.
- (mining) A level or drive in a mine.
- (law) The part of a courtroom, often elevated and in the rear, where seating for the public audience is facilitated during trial.
- (by extension, metonymic) The spectators at an event, collectively.
- A part of a light fixture, forming part of its structure and often providing the mounting for the diffuser.
- An establishment that buys, sells, and displays works of art.
- a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed)
- a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine
- narrow recessed balcony area along an upper floor on the interior of a building; usually marked by a colonnade
- a covered corridor (especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported with arches or columns)
- spectators at a golf or tennis match
- a room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited
- a long usually narrow room used for some specific purpose
verb
noun
- (film, television) A set with three walls, allowing the camera to film in a room-like space.
- A set of such recordings made available to be watched or listened to online or on television, without existing in material box form.
- A set of related books from a particular author or genre that are marketed as a boxed collection.
- Related musical or video recordings that are gathered on multiple items of the same kind of media (compact discs, DVDs, VHS tapes, etc.) and placed in a box to be sold as a unit.
- (theater) A set with a proscenium arch stage and three walls, creating the appearance of an enclosed room.
noun
- A similar feature on a television display, allowing the viewer to navigate through the channels and programs on offer.
- Such a section in a more general publication, such as a newspaper.
- A usually weekly periodical that guides the reader through the programs being broadcast on radio or TV; often supplemented with celebrity gossip and other entertainment features.
noun
- (television, film) A backdrop.
- (music) Musicians and vocalists who support the main performer.
- The action of putting something back; a switching into reverse.
- The mounting of a horse or other animal.
- Support, especially financial.
- A liner or other material added behind or underneath.
- financial resources provided to make some project possible
- the act of providing approval and support
- something forming a back that is added for strengthening
adj
verb
noun
- (television editing) A black screen used to separate broadcast items.
- A hard blow, usually with the fist.
- A solid block or piece of roughly shaped metal.
- A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines.
- (regional) A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes.
- (journalism) A title, name or header, a catchline, a short phrase or title to indicate the content of a newspaper or magazine story for editing use.
- (herpetology) An infertile egg of a reptile.
- A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together.
- (web development, SEO) The last part of a clean URL, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename.
- A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material.
- (US, slang, District of Columbia) A hitchhiking commuter.
- A ship that sails slowly.
- (rail transport) An accessory to a diesel-electric locomotive, used to increase adhesive weight and allow full power to be applied at a lower speed. It has trucks with traction motors, but lacks a prime mover, being powered by electricity from the mother locomotive, and may or may not have a control cab.
- Any of many gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell.
- (screenwriting) A block of text at the beginning of a scene that sets up the scene's location, characters, etc.
- A bullet or other projectile fired from a firearm; in modern usage, generally refers to a shotgun slug.
- A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic.
- (physics, rare) The imperial (English) unit of mass that accelerates by 1 foot per second squared (1 ft/s²) when a force of one pound-force (lbf) is exerted on it.
- (letterpress typography) A piece of type metal imprinted by a linotype machine; also a black mark placed in the margin to indicate an error; also said in application to typewriters; type slug.
- any of various terrestrial gastropods having an elongated slimy body and no external shell
- (boxing) a blow with the fist
- a projectile that is fired from a gun
- an amount of an alcoholic drink (usually liquor) that is poured or gulped
- a unit of mass equal to the mass that accelerates at 1 foot/sec/sec when acted upon by a force of 1 pound; approximately 14.5939 kilograms
- a counterfeit coin
- a strip of type metal used for spacing
- an idle slothful person
verb
- (intransitive, of a bullet) To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel.
- (transitive) To load with a slug or slugs.
- To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking.
- To drink quickly; to gulp; to down.
- To make sluggish.
- (transitive) To hit very hard, usually with the fist.
- be idle; exist in a changeless situation
- strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat
noun
- set that receives radio or tv signals
- a football player who catches (or is supposed to catch) a forward pass
- a person who receives something
- earphone that converts electrical signals into sounds
- the tennis player who receives the serve
- (law) a person (usually appointed by a court of law) who liquidates assets or preserves them for the benefit of affected parties
- (finance) A swaption which gives its holder the option to enter into a swap in which they pay the floating leg and receive the fixed leg.
- The part of a telephone handset contained in the earpiece; (hence) the handset itself; an earpiece.
- (firearms) The part of a firearm containing the action.
- (American football) An offensive player who catches the ball after it has been passed.
- A person who receives something in a general sense; a recipient.
- Something which receives some substance or object, in a general sense; a receptacle.
- (now historical) An official whose job is to receive taxes or other monies; a tax collector, a treasurer.
- (chemistry) A vessel for receiving and holding the products of distillation, or for containing gases.
- (now chiefly historical) An airtight vessel from which air is pumped in order to form a vacuum.
- (racquet sports) A person who attempts to return the serve.
- Any of several electronic devices that receive electromagnetic waves, or signals transmitted as such.
- A person or company appointed to settle the affairs of an insolvent entity.
- A person who accepts stolen goods.
- (now historical) A vessel for receiving the exhaust steam from the high-pressure cylinder before it enters the low-pressure cylinder, in a compound steam engine.
verb
- switch channels, on television
- ride the waves of the sea with a surfboard
- look around casually and randomly, without seeking anything in particular
- (ambitransitive) To browse the Internet, television, etc.
- To ride a wave on a surfboard; to pursue or take part in the sport of surfing.
- To surf at a specified place.
- To bodysurf; to swim in the surf at a beach.
noun
adj
- Of a television or monitor, displaying images in shades of grey rather than color.
- Of art, a photograph or photography, using shades of grey rather than shades of any other color.
- Alternative form of black and white (easily divided into diametrically opposing camps).
- (figurative, idiomatic) Classifying people, objects or concepts as two polar opposites, especially "right" and "wrong"; dichotomous and inflexible.
- of a situation that is sharply divided into mutually exclusive categories
- lacking hue or shades of grey; part white and part black
- not having or not capable of producing colors