'Absence of stop or stoppage.'에 대한 English 단어
"Absence of stop or stoppage."에 가장 가까운 후보는 사전 정의와의 의미적 적합도 순으로 정렬됩니다.
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- the act of delaying; inactivity resulting in something being put off until a later time
- time during which some action is awaited
- A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity.
- (music) An audio effects unit that introduces a controlled delay.
- (programming, Clojure) Synonym of promise (“object representing delayed result”).
- (chess) An amount of time provided on each move before one's clock starts to tick; a less common time control than increment.
- stop or halt
- cause to be slowed down or delayed
- deprive of freedom; take into confinement
- (transitive) To keep someone from proceeding by holding them back or making claims on their attention.
- (transitive) To seize goods for official purposes.
- (transitive, law enforcement) To put someone under custody.
- (transitive) To keep something from proceeding or coming to completion; to delay.
- stop or halt
- stay the same; remain in a certain state
- continue in a place, position, or situation
- fasten with stays
- hang on during a trial of endurance
- overcome or allay
- stop a judicial process
- be in a certain place and not leave
- dwell
- (transitive, nautical) To incline forward, aft, or to one side by means of stays.
- (intransitive, Scotland, South Africa, India, Southern US, African-American Vernacular, Singapore, colloquial) To live; reside.
- (intransitive) To remain in a particular place, especially for a definite or short period of time; sojourn; abide.
- (intransitive, copulative) To continue to have a particular quality.
- (transitive) To prop; support; sustain; hold up; steady.
- (intransitive, nautical) To change; tack; go about; be in stays, as a ship.
- (transitive) To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time.
- (intransitive) To hold out, as in a race or contest; last or persevere to the end; to show staying power.
- To cause to cease; to put an end to.
- To stop; detain; keep back; delay; hinder.
- To brace or support with a stay or stays
- (transitive) To hold the attention of.
- (transitive, nautical) To tack; put on the other tack.
- To restrain; withhold; check; stop.
- To put off; defer; postpone; delay; keep back.
- (nautical) brace consisting of a heavy rope or wire cable used as a support for a mast or spar
- a judicial order forbidding some action until an event occurs or the order is lifted
- the state of inactivity following an interruption
- continuing or remaining in a place or state
- a thin strip of metal or bone that is used to stiffen a garment (e.g. a corset)
- A piece of stiff material, such as plastic or whalebone, used to stiffen a piece of clothing.
- Continuance or a period of time spent in a place; abode for an indefinite time.
- Restraint of passion; prudence; moderation; caution; steadiness; sobriety.
- (nautical) A strong rope or wire supporting a mast, and leading from one masthead down to some other, or other part of the vessel.
- (nautical) A station or fixed anchorage for vessels.
- The transverse piece in a chain-cable link.
- A guy, rope, or wire supporting or stabilizing a platform, such as a bridge, a pole, such as a tentpole, the mast of a derrick, or other structural element.
- (law) A postponement, especially of an execution or other punishment.
- A prop; a support.
- A fixed state; fixedness; stability; permanence.
- (in the plural) A corset.
- the complete stoppage of an action
- unerringly accurate
- out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown
- drained of electric charge; discharged
- not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat
- no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life
- physically inactive
- lacking resilience or bounce
- devoid of physical sensation; numb
- no longer having force or relevance
- (followed by ‘to’) not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive
- devoid of activity
- not circulating or flowing
- not surviving in active use
- lacking acoustic resonance
- not yielding a return
- very tired
- (of another person) So hated or offensive as to be absolutely shunned, ignored, or ostracized.
- Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.
- (not comparable) Broken or inoperable.
- (usually not comparable) Devoid of living things; barren.
- (usually not comparable) No longer living; deceased. (Also used as a noun.)
- Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).
- (of a place) Lacking usual activity; unexpectedly quiet or empty of people.
- (not comparable) No longer used or required.
- Past, bygone, vanished.
- (not comparable) Exact; on the dot.
- (not comparable) Full and complete (usually applied to nouns involving lack of motion, sound, activity, or other signs of life).
- (not comparable, sports) Not in play.
- (rare, especially religion, often with "to") Indifferent to; having no obligation toward; no longer subject to or ruled by (sin, guilt, pleasure, etc).
- (literal or hyperbolic) Doomed; marked for death; as good as dead.
- (of a battery) Unable to emit power, being discharged (flat) or faulty.
- (not comparable, baseball, slang, 1800s) Tagged out.
- Unproductive; fallow.
- (linguistics) Of a syllable in languages such as Thai and Burmese: ending abruptly.
- (acoustics) Constructed so as not to reflect or transmit sound; soundless; anechoic.
- (engineering) Intentionally designed so as not to impart motion or power.
- Without emotion; impassive.
- (not comparable, golf, of a golf ball) Lying so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in the next stroke.
- (law) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property.
- (hyperbolic) Dying of laughter.
- Stationary; static; immobile or immovable.
- (hyperbolic) Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.
- Utterly exhausted.
- (not comparable, of a machine, device, or electrical circuit) Completely inactive; currently without power; without a signal; not live.
- Expresses shock, second-hand embarrassment, etc.
- people who are no longer living
- a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense
- (bodybuilding, colloquial) Clipping of deadlift.
- (UK) (usually in the plural) Sterile mining waste, often present as many large rocks stacked inside the workings.
- (often with "the") Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.
- (with "the") Those who have died: dead people.
- The condition of being stopped, standstill.
- (law) The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.
- A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.
- (nautical) The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators.
- A device to physically arrest motion.
- (farriery) A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse
- A check; a stop; an act or instance of arresting something.
- the state of inactivity following an interruption
- the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
- cause to come to an abrupt stop
- (transitive) To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody.
- (transitive) To stop or slow (a process, course etc.).
- (transitive) To catch the attention of.
- (intransitive, medicine) To undergo cardiac arrest.
- hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
- take into custody
- attract and fix
- cease, stop
- penetrate injuriously
- function as a cutting instrument
- divide a deck of cards at random into two parts to make selection difficult
- form by probing, penetrating, or digging
- fell by sawing; hew
- refuse to acknowledge
- discharge from a group
- allow incision or separation
- record a performance on (a medium)
- hit (a ball) with a spin so that it turns in the opposite direction
- pass directly and often in haste
- stop filming
- intentionally fail to attend
- grow through the gums
- cut and assemble the components of
- lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
- give the appearance or impression of
- make an incision or separation
- make an abrupt change of image or sound
- cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses)
- style and tailor in a certain fashion
- form or shape by cutting or incising
- cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch
- have a reducing effect
- separate with or as if with an instrument
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
- pass through or across
- cut down on; make a reduction in
- make out and issue
- be able to manage or manage successfully
- turn sharply; change direction abruptly
- weed out unwanted or unnecessary things
- make a recording of
- reap or harvest
- create by duplicating data
- move (one's fist)
- shorten as if by severing the edges or ends of
- dissolve by breaking down the fat of
- perform or carry out
- have grow through the gums
- To absent oneself from (a class, an appointment, etc.).
- (intransitive) To enter a queue in the wrong place.
- (transitive, cricket) To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball while bowling it.
- (intransitive, slang) To leave abruptly.
- (intransitive) To engage in self-harm by making cuts in one's own skin.
- To perform an incision on, for example with a knife.
- To abridge or shorten a work; to remove a portion of a recording during editing.
- (slang) To wound with a knife.
- To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce.
- (transitive, film) To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
- (intransitive) To change direction suddenly.
- To separate or omit, in a situation where one was previously associated.
- (transitive, social) To ignore as a social rebuff or snub.
- To perform (an elaborate dancing movement etc.).
- (transitive) To exhibit (a figure having some trait).
- To reduce, especially intentionally.
- (ambitransitive) To deliver a stroke with a whip or like instrument to.
- (bodybuilding) To lose body mass, aiming to keep muscle but lose body fat.
- (transitive, cricket) To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
- (transitive, computing) To remove (text, a picture, etc.) and place in memory in order to paste at a later time.
- (sports) To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball, or (in tennis) striking it with the racket inclined.
- To castrate or geld.
- (intransitive) To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
- (slang, intransitive) To run or hurry.
- (transitive, slang) To dilute or adulterate something, especially a recreational drug.
- (intransitive, film) To make an abrupt transition from one scene or image to another.
- (transitive, slang) To make, negotiate; to finalise, conclude; to issue.
- (transitive, intransitive) To divide a pack of playing cards into two parts, often followed by placing the two parts back together in the opposite order.
- To form or shape by cutting.
- (intransitive) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
- (transitive) To renounce or give up.
- To interfere, as a horse; to strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs.
- To divide with a knife, scissors, or another sharp instrument.
- (transitive) To stop, disengage, or cease.
- (used of grass or vegetation) cut down with a hand implement or machine
- (of pages of a book) having the folds of the leaves trimmed or slit
- mixed with water
- separated into parts or laid open or penetrated with a sharp edge or instrument
- (of a male animal) having the testicles removed
- (used of rates or prices) reduced usually sharply
- with parts removed
- made neat and tidy by trimming
- fashioned or shaped by cutting
- (of a gem) Carved into a shape; not raw.
- (bodybuilding) Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among larger muscles.
- (slang, New Zealand, formerly UK) Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
- (participial adjective) Having been cut.
- (cricket, of a shot) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
- Reduced.
- (informal) Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Upset, angry; emotionally hurt.
- a wound made by cutting
- in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball
- the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage
- a refusal to recognize someone you know
- (sports) a stroke that puts reverse spin on the ball
- a distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc
- a remark capable of wounding mentally
- a canal made by erosion or excavation
- a share of the profits
- the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends
- the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge
- the act of cutting something into parts
- a piece of meat that has been cut from an animal carcass
- (film) an immediate transition from one shot to the next
- the style in which a garment is cut
- a step on some scale
- the act of reducing the amount or number
- an unexcused absence from class
- the division of a deck of cards before dealing
- a trench resembling a furrow that was made by erosion or excavation
- (slang, uncountable) That which is used to dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
- (card games) The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
- (slang) An insult.
- An opening of a living body resulting from cutting; an incision or wound.
- (slang) A hidden, secluded, or secure place.
- An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
- (card games) The card obtained by dividing the pack.
- The manner or style in which a garment, other article of clothing, or sail is fashioned.
- A decrease or deletion.
- (archaeology) A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits were removed for the creation of some feature such as a ditch or pit.
- (Internet) A dividing line in a Tumblr post, the content below which is hidden until the reader reveals it.
- A haircut.
- (bodybuilding) A time period when one attempts to lose fat while retaining muscle mass.
- (literal, figurative) The act of cutting.
- Such a wound through human skin.
- A sleeveless vest worn by members of a motorcycle club.
- (fashion) A notch shaved into an eyebrow.
- (fencing) An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
- (especially theater, film) A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play, movie script, speech, etc.
- (cricket) A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
- (graph theory) The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
- A skein of yarn.
- Such a passage dug for a roadway for a paved road or railroad, a canal, a runway, etc.
- A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
- (golf) In a stroke play competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained a preannounced score, so that the rest of the competition is less pressed for time and more entertaining for spectators.
- A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
- A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio tapes, CDs, etc.
- (literal, figurative) The result of cutting.
- (film) A particular version or edit of a film.
- (sports) In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also, the spin thus given to the ball.
- A slab or slice, especially of meat.
- (rail transport) A string of railway cars coupled together, shorter than a train.
- (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the ball.
- An unkind act; a cruelty.
- A share or portion of profits.
- An artificial channel for marine navigation, as distinguished from a navigable river.
- (petrochemistry) The range of temperatures used to distill a particular mixture of hydrocarbons from crude oil.
- cease, stop
- make a break in
- remove surgically
- remove by or as if by cutting
- break a small piece off from
- cut off and stop
- To stop the provision or supply of something, e.g. power, water.
- To swerve in front of (another car) while driving.
- (Southern US) To turn off or switch off (an electrical device).
- To move so as to block someone else's movement in a direction.
- To isolate or remove from contact.
- To end abruptly.
- To remove by cutting.
- (of a boundary) To exclude (something) from the field of view.
- To interrupt (someone speaking).
- To stop providing funds or something else to (someone).
- The act of something that stops; a halt.
- A pad or poultice of dung or other material applied to a horse's hoof to keep it moist.
- (mining) A partition or door to direct or prevent a current of air.
- the kind of playing that involves pressing the fingers on the strings of a stringed instrument to control the pitch
- fastener consisting of a narrow strip of welded metal used to join steel members
- An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
- (tennis) A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.
- (photography) A unit of exposure corresponding to a doubling of the brightness of an image.
- (architecture) A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts.
- (physics) The squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.
- (UK dialectal) A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
- A marking on a rabbit's hind foot.
- (music) A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
- (engineering) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought.
- (photography) A part of a photographic system that reduces the amount of light.
- (soccer) A save; preventing the opposition from scoring a goal
- A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.
- (fencing) A coup d'arret, or stop thrust.
- (zoology) The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
- A device intended to block the path of a moving object
- That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
- (music) One of the vent-holes in a wind instrument, or the place on the wire of a stringed instrument, by the stopping or pressing of which certain notes are produced.
- The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
- A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.
- (photography) An f-stop.
- (linguistics) A consonant sound in which the passage of air is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis.
- (UK, grammar, informal) Ellipsis of full stop.
- the event of something ending
- a brief stay in the course of a journey
- a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens
- a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
- an obstruction in a pipe or tube
- the state of inactivity following an interruption
- (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes
- the act of stopping something
- a restraint that checks the motion of something
- a punctuation mark (‘.’) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
- a spot where something halts or pauses
- (transitive) To cease; to no longer continue.
- (phonetics, transitive) To pronounce (a phoneme) as a stop.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to come to an end.
- (causative, transitive) To interrupt, prevent or end the activity of someone or something. [with direct object, along with gerund (chiefly UK) or direct object, along with from, along with gerund (chiefly US)]
- (music) To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.
- (transitive, intransitive, photography, often with "up" or "down") To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
- (intransitive) To cease moving.
- (intransitive) Not to continue.
- (intransitive) To stay; to spend a short time; to reside or tarry temporarily.
- (nautical) To make fast; to stopper.
- (transitive) To close or block an opening.
- (finance, transitive) To delay the purchase or sale of (a stock) while agreeing the price for later.
- hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
- come to a halt, stop moving
- stop from happening or developing
- cause to end
- seize on its way
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
- put an end to a state or an activity
- stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
- render unsuitable for passage
- interrupt a trip
- A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
- A short time for relaxing and doing something else.
- In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation mark.
- A break or paragraph in writing.
- (music) A sign indicating continuance of a note or rest.
- (figurative) Hesitation; suspense; doubt.
- Alternative letter-case form of Pause (“a button that pauses or resumes something”).
- temporary inactivity
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- (transitive) To stop (an activity) for a while.
- (intransitive) To interrupt an activity and wait.
- (transitive) To halt the play or playback of, temporarily, so that it can be resumed from the same point.
- (intransitive) To take a temporary rest, take a break for a short period after an effort.
- (intransitive) To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.
- interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing
- cease an action temporarily
- (law, chiefly attributive) A written demand that a party stops and does not resume a certain behavior, such as copyright infringement, slander, or libel, threatening legal action if the recipient fails to do so.
- (US, law, chiefly attributive) An order by a government agency, sanctioned by a court, that one must stop and not resume a certain (usually illegal) behavior.
- A sudden and obstinate stop.
- A hindrance or disappointment; a check.
- (fishing) The rope by which fishing nets are fastened together.
- (archaeology) The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation.
- (baseball) An illegal motion by the pitcher, intended to deceive a runner.
- Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when laid so as to form a loft, "the balks".
- (billiards) The area of the table lying behind the line from which the cue ball is initially shot, and from which a ball in hand must be played.
- (UK dialectal) A small brass ornament fixed at the top of a wand.
- (agriculture) An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing.
- (snooker) The area of the table lying behind the baulk line.
- (badminton) A motion used to deceive the opponent during a serve.
- an illegal pitching motion while runners are on base
- one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof
- the area on a billiard table behind the balkline
- something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
- To stop short and refuse to go on.
- To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.
- To stop, check, block; to hinder, impede.
- To leave or make balks in.
- (intransitive, sports) To make a deceptive motion to deceive another player.
- To disappoint; to frustrate.
- To omit, miss, or overlook by chance.
- To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.
- To refuse suddenly.
- refuse to comply
- Without stopping; without a break, cessation, or interruption.
- Without intervening space; continued.
- (grammar) Expressing an ongoing action or state.
- (mathematics, more generally, of a function between two topological spaces) Such that each open set in the target space has an open preimage (in the domain space, with respect to the given function).
- (botany) Not deviating or varying from uniformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated.
- (mathematical analysis, of a function) Such that, for every x in the domain, for each small open interval D about f(x), there's an interval containing x whose image is in D.
- of a function or curve; extending without break or irregularity
- continuing in time or space without interruption
- An interruption, break, pause or absence.
- An temporary break from work, especially one which is unexpected.
- (anatomy) An opening in an organ.
- A gap in a series, making it incomplete.
- (prosody, phonetics, sometimes uncountable) A syllable break between two vowels, without an intervening consonant.
- (geology) A gap in geological strata.
- a missing piece (as a gap in a manuscript)
- a natural opening or perforation through a bone or a membranous structure
- an interruption in the intensity or amount of something
- without unnecessary stops
- not tacit or implied
- (postpositive, retail) Providing a more limited but presumably faster service than a full or complete dealer of the same kind or type.
- (comparable) Specific or precise; directly and distinctly stated; not merely implied.
- Truly depicted; exactly resembling.
- (not comparable) Moving or operating quickly, as a train not making local stops.
- mail that is distributed by a rapid and efficient system
- public transport consisting of a fast train or bus that makes only a few scheduled stops
- rapid transport of goods
- A service that allows mail or money to be sent rapidly from one destination to another.
- An express office.
- A messenger sent on a special errand; a courier.
- (Philippines, chiefly Metro Manila) a public utility vehicle, typically a jeepney, that traverses through an expressway
- That which is sent by an express messenger or message.
- A mode of transportation, often a train, that travels quickly or directly, either on a regular schedule or as a special or excursion. Express trains often pass through stations along the way without stopping at them.
- An express rifle.
- send by rapid transport or special messenger service
- give expression to
- serve as a means for expressing something
- articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise
- obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action
- manifest the effects of (a gene or genetic trait)
- indicate through a symbol, formula, etc.
- (transitive) To press, squeeze out (especially said of milk).
- (biochemistry) To translate messenger RNA into protein.
- (transitive) To convey or communicate; to make known or explicit.
- (biochemistry) To transcribe deoxyribonucleic acid into messenger RNA.
- To halt something temporarily.
- To bring a solid substance, usually in powder form, into suspension in a liquid.
- (travel, aviation) To remove the value of an unused coupon from an air ticket, typically so as to allow continuation of the next sectors' travel.
- To hold in an undetermined or undecided state.
- To hang freely; underhang.
- To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of income, etc.
- (chemistry) To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.
- To discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event.
- hang freely
- bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.
- cause to be held in suspension in a fluid
- make inoperative or stop
- stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it
- render temporarily ineffective
- cause (a vehicle) to stop
- (transitive) To cause to come to a halt.
- come to a halt after driving somewhere
- make up plans or basic details for
- form or arrange in order or formation, as of a body of soldiers
- straighten oneself
- To withdraw upwards.
- (transitive) To compose (a document), especially following a standard form; prepare a plan.
- (intransitive) To come to a halt.
- (transitive) To arrange in order or formation.
- cause (a vehicle) to stop
- come to a halt after driving somewhere
- straighten oneself
- remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense
- (by extension, slang, originally African-American Vernacular) To travel somewhere, especially to meet someone else; to come to.
- (idiomatic, Australia) To fare after a party, an illness, or a strenuous effort; to attempt to recover.
- (idiomatic, especially of a vehicle) To arrive at a halt; to approach and stop at a particular point.
- (ballet) To adopt a posture with straight back and shoulders down, but ribcage and sternum lifted.
- (transitive, horse racing) To intentionally take a racehorse out of a race, usually as a result of the horse's tiredness or concerns of potential injury (in reference to the act of pulling up the reins).
- To pull forward.
- (transitive, intransitive) To lift upwards or vertically.
- (idiomatic) To cause (a horse) to stop when riding.
- (rare) To improve; to get better; to lift one's game.
- (intransitive, aviation) To raise the nose of an aircraft.
- (idiomatic, British) To admonish or criticize someone for their actions.
- (idiomatic) To cause (a person) to stop.
- (idiomatic) To fetch for display on a screen.
- A stationary condition; a standstill.
- One who jibs or balks, refusing to continue forward.
- The projecting arm of a crane.
- (slang, especially African-American Vernacular) The mouth, sometimes particularly the tongue, underlip, or tooth.
- An object that is used for performing tricks while skiing, snowboarding, skateboarding, in-line skating, or biking. These objects are usually found in a terrain park or skate park.
- (slang) Crystal meth.
- (metonymic, cinematography, film) A crane used for mounting and moving a video camera.
- (nautical) A triangular staysail set forward of the foremast. In a sloop (see image) the basic jib reaches back roughly to the level of the mast.
- (slang) A person's face.
- (nautical, usually with a modifier) Any of a variety of specialty triangular staysails set forward of the foremast.
- any triangular fore-and-aft sail (set forward of the foremast)
- cause to come to an abrupt stop
- (intransitive, chiefly imperative) Not to move; to halt; to stop.
- secure and keep for possible future use or application
- keep from exhaling or expelling
- resist or confront with resistance
- be the physical support of; carry the weight of
- maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings)
- aim, point, or direct
- support or hold in a certain manner
- have room for; hold without crowding
- have rightfully; of rights, titles, and offices
- remain committed to
- be pertinent or relevant or applicable
- contain or hold; have within
- be valid, applicable, or true
- be in accord; be in agreement
- have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense
- hold the attention of
- have or hold in one's hands or grip
- assert or affirm
- keep from departing
- to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement
- remain in a certain state, position, or condition
- keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view
- drink alcohol without showing ill effects
- lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits
- protect against a challenge or attack
- take and maintain control over, often by violent means
- cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity
- bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted
- arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance
- declare to be
- cover as for protection against noise or smell
- stop dealing with
- organize or be responsible for
- have as a major characteristic
- be capable of holding or containing
- (transitive) To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain.
- To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain.
- (imperative) In a food or drink order at an informal restaurant etc., requesting that a component normally included in that order be omitted.
- To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
- (transitive) To reserve.
- (transitive) To bear, carry, or manage.
- (transitive) To have and keep possession of something.
- (transitive) To contain or store.
- (intransitive, copulative) To keep oneself in a particular state.
- (slang, intransitive) To be in possession of illicit drugs for sale.
- (transitive) To bind (someone) to a consequence of his or her actions.
- To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain.
- (transitive) To detain.
- (transitive) To maintain, to consider, to opine.
- To take place, to occur.
- To remain continent; to control an excretory bodily function.
- (intransitive) Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or unsubdued.
- (tennis, ambitransitive) To win one's own service game.
- (transitive) To grasp or grip.
- (intransitive, copulative) To be or remain valid; to apply (usually in the third person).
- (transitive) To cause to wait or delay.
- a stronghold
- a state of being confined (usually for a short time)
- time during which some action is awaited
- the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it
- a cell in a jail or prison
- power by which something or someone is affected or dominated
- the act of grasping
- the space in a ship or aircraft for storing cargo
- understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something
- A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
- (exercise) An exercise involving holding a position for a set time
- The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
- An act or instance of holding.
- A place where animals are held for safety
- Something reserved or kept.
- (tennis) An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
- The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when all lines are busy.
- The ability to persist.
- An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
- (baseball) A statistic awarded to a relief pitcher who is not still pitching at the end of the game and who records at least one out and maintains a lead for his team.
- (gambling) The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
- (gambling) The wager amount, the total hold.
- (aviation) A region of airspace reserved for aircraft being kept in a holding pattern.
- A grasp or grip.
- Power over someone or something.
- The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
- (nautical, aviation) The cargo area of a ship or aircraft (often holds or cargo hold).
- (wrestling, self-defense) A position or grip used to control the opponent.
- A temporary or conditional delay, interruption or discontinuation.
- (Scots law) A stay or postponement of the execution of a sentence, usually by letters of suspension granted on application to the Lord Ordinary.
- Thus a kind of silt or sludge.
- The temporary barring of a person from a workplace, society, etc. pending investigation into alleged misconduct.
- (chemistry, physics) The state of a solid or substance produced when its particles are mixed with, but not dissolved in, a fluid, and are capable of separation by straining.
- (topology) A function derived, in a standard way, from another, such that the instant function’s domain and codomain are suspensions of the original function’s.
- (education) The process of barring a student from school grounds as a form of punishment (particularly out-of-school suspension).
- (music) The act of or discord produced by prolonging one or more tones of a chord into the chord which follows, thus producing a momentary discord, suspending the concord which the ear expects.
- (vehicles) The system of springs and shock absorbers connected to the wheels in an automobile, which allows the vehicle to move smoothly with reduced shock to its occupants.
- (topology) A topological space derived from another by taking the product of the original space with an interval and collapsing each end of the product to a point.
- The act of keeping a person who is listening in doubt and expectation of what is to follow.
- The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended.
- the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely)
- a temporary debarment (from a privilege or position etc.)
- a mechanical system of springs or shock absorbers connecting the wheels and axles to the chassis of a wheeled vehicle
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- temporary cessation or suspension
- an interruption in the intensity or amount of something
- a mixture in which fine particles are suspended in a fluid where they are supported by buoyancy
- an interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement
- fixing (of prices or wages etc.) at a particular level
- weather cold enough to cause freezing
- the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid
- (computing) The state when either a single computer program, or the whole system ceases to respond to inputs.
- A halt of a regular operation.
- (curling) A precise draw weight shot where a delivered stone comes to a stand-still against a stationary stone, making it nearly impossible to knock out.
- (business, finance) A block on pay rises or on the hiring of new employees etc.
- A period of intensely cold weather.
- change to ice
- stop moving or become immobilized
- change from a liquid to a solid when cold
- stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it
- be very cold, below the freezing point
- prohibit the conversion or use of (assets)
- cause to freeze
- anesthetize by cold
- be cold
- suddenly behave coldly and formally
- (intransitive, idiomatic) Of a person or other animal, to stop (become motionless) or be stopped due to attentiveness, fear, surprise, etc.
- (figuratively) To lose or cause to lose warmth of feeling; to shut out; to ostracize.
- (transitive, ice hockey) To trap (the puck) so that it cannot be played.
- (intransitive, computing, software, idiomatic) Of a machine or system, to come to a sudden halt, to stop working (functioning).
- To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill.
- (transitive) To cause someone to become motionless.
- (intransitive) To drop to a temperature below zero degrees celsius, where water turns to ice.
- (intransitive, copulative) Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature.
- (ambitransitive) To prevent from showing any visible change.
- (transitive) To lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes or becomes hard.
- Of prices, spending etc., to keep at the same level, without any increase.
- (transitive) To prevent the movement or liquidation of a person's financial assets
- (intransitive, informal) To be affected by extreme cold.
- cause to come to a sudden stop
- summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
- put forward for consideration or discussion
- promote from a lower position or rank
- make reference to
- raise from a lower to a higher position
- cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial processes
- look after a child until it is an adult
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bring, up: To bring from a lower to a higher position.
- (transitive) To prepare a vein for an injection.
- To mention.
- To legally charge and put on trial; to position (someone) for judgement or examination by authority.
- (electronics) To check (a newly-assembled printed circuit board) for errors.
- To uncover, to bring from obscurity; to resurface (e.g. a memory)
- To stop or interrupt a flow or steady motion.
- To turn on power or start, as of a machine.
- To vomit.
- (cricket) To reach a particular score, especially a milestone.
- To raise or rear (children).
- (countable) A temporary stoppage of an activity; a break, a pause.
- (government) A period of time when the proceedings of a committee, court of law, parliament, or other official body are temporarily suspended.
- (countable, historical) A decree or resolution of the diet of the Holy Roman Empire or the Hanseatic League.
- (Australia, British, Canada, US, Philippines, education) A time away from studying during the school day for a meal or recreation.
- (countable, geology) An overall-concave, reentrant section of a sinuous fold and thrust belt, thrust sheet, or a single thrust fault, caused by one or more of: deformation (folding and faulting) of strata and geologic structures during orogenesis, differences in the angle of critical taper during orogenesis, or differing erosional level of the present geomorphological surface.
- (countable) A hidden, innermost, or inaccessible place or part of a place.
- (figuratively, usually in the plural) An obscure, remote, or secret situation.
- (countable) A depressed, hollow, or indented space; also, a hole or opening.
- (criminal slang, usually in the plural) The place in a prison where the communal lavatories are located.
- (architecture) A small space created by building part of a wall further back from the rest; a niche.
- (countable, anatomy) An extension or outpouching of a cavity (e.g. articular recess, peritoneal recess,...)
- an enclosure that is set back or indented
- an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands)
- a small concavity
- a state of abeyance or suspended business
- a pause from doing something (as work)
- To position (something) a distance behind another thing; to set back.
- To temporarily suspend (a meeting, the proceedings of an official body, etc.).
- (also reflexive) Often preceded by in or into: to inset (something) into a recess or niche.
- To make a recess (noun noun sense 1 and noun sense 1.1) in (something).
- (figuratively) To conceal, to hide.
- Of an official body: to suspend proceedings for a period of time.
- Of a meeting, the proceedings of an official body, etc.: to adjourn, to take a break.
- (informal) To make a recess appointment in respect of (someone).
- put into a recess
- make a recess in
- close at the end of a session
- To stop; to fix or rest.
- To provide emotional stability for a person in distress.
- To perform as an anchorman or anchorwoman.
- To be stuck; to be unable to move away from a position.
- To connect an object, especially a ship or a boat, to a fixed point.
- To cast anchor; to come to anchor.
- fix firmly and stably
- secure a vessel with an anchor
- (cricket) A batter who remains in for a long time.
- (architecture) A metal tie holding adjoining parts of a building together.
- (nautical) The combined anchoring gear (anchor, rode, bill/peak and fittings such as bitts, cat, and windlass.)
- (Internet) A marked point in a document that can be the target of a hyperlink.
- (economics) A superstore or other facility that serves as a focus to bring customers into an area.
- (archery) A point that is touched by the draw hand or string when the bow is fully drawn and ready to shoot.
- (heraldry) Representation of the nautical tool, used as a heraldic charge.
- One of the calcareous spinules of certain holothurians, as in species of Synapta.
- (cartomancy) The thirty-fifth Lenormand card.
- (figurative) That which gives stability or security.
- (US) A screw anchor.
- (slang) The brake of a vehicle.
- (soccer) A defensive player, especially one who counters the opposition's best offensive player.
- Any instrument serving a purpose like that of a ship's anchor, such as an arrangement of timber to hold a dam fast; a device to hold the end of a bridge cable etc.; or a device used in metalworking to hold the core of a mould in place.
- (television) An anchorman or anchorwoman.
- (computing) A line of code in a program which acts as a reference point for further code to be added immediately before or after, usually via copy and paste.
- (nautical) A tool used to moor a vessel to the bottom of a sea or river to resist movement.
- One of the anchor-shaped spicules of certain sponges.
- (climbing) A device for attaching a climber at the top of a climb, such as a chain or ring or a natural feature.
- (nautical) An iron device so shaped as to grip the bottom and hold a vessel at her berth by the chain or rope attached.
- (athletics) The final runner in a relay race.
- Alternative form of anker.
- (architecture) Carved work, somewhat resembling an anchor or arrowhead; part of the ornaments of certain mouldings. It is seen in the echinus, or egg-and-anchor (called also egg-and-dart, egg-and-tongue) ornament.
- a mechanical device that prevents a vessel from moving
- a television reporter who coordinates a broadcast to which several correspondents contribute
- a central cohesive source of support and stability
- To stop (a course of action, proceedings, etc.)
- To stop taking an addictive drug or substance; to undergo withdrawal.
- To take back (a comment, something written, etc.); to recant, to retract.
- (specifically, military) Of soldiers: to leave a battle or position where they are stationed; to retreat.
- To take (one's eyes) off something; to look away.
- To cause or help (someone) to stop taking an addictive drug or substance; to dry out.
- To disregard (something) as belonging to a certain group.
- Chiefly followed by from: to leave a place, someone's presence, etc., to go to another room or place.
- Chiefly followed by from: to stop taking part in some activity; also, to remove oneself from the company of others, from publicity, etc.
- To stop talking to or interacting with other people and start thinking thoughts not related to what is happening.
- To take away or take back (something previously given or permitted); to remove, to retract.
- Of a man: to remove the penis from a partner's body orifice before ejaculation; to engage in coitus interruptus.
- To remove (a topic) from discussion or inquiry.
- To remove (someone or (reflexive, archaic) oneself) from a position or situation; specifically (military), to remove (soldiers) from a battle or position where they are stationed.
- To draw or pull (something) away or back from its original position or situation.
- (banking, finance) To extract (money) from a bank account or other financial deposit.
- keep away from others
- withdraw from active participation
- remove (a commodity) from (a supply source)
- remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
- release from something that holds fast, connects, or entangles
- take back what one has said
- cause to be returned
- lose interest
- retire gracefully
- break from a meeting or gathering
- make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity
- pull back or move away or backward
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- The condition of being stopped, standstill.
- (law) The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.
- A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.
- (nautical) The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators.
- A device to physically arrest motion.
- (farriery) A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse
- A check; a stop; an act or instance of arresting something.
- the state of inactivity following an interruption
- the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
- cause to come to an abrupt stop
- (transitive) To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody.
- (transitive) To stop or slow (a process, course etc.).
- (transitive) To catch the attention of.
- (intransitive, medicine) To undergo cardiac arrest.
- hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
- take into custody
- attract and fix
- The act of something that stops; a halt.
- A pad or poultice of dung or other material applied to a horse's hoof to keep it moist.
- (mining) A partition or door to direct or prevent a current of air.
- the kind of playing that involves pressing the fingers on the strings of a stringed instrument to control the pitch
- fastener consisting of a narrow strip of welded metal used to join steel members
- An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
- (tennis) A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.
- (photography) A unit of exposure corresponding to a doubling of the brightness of an image.
- (architecture) A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts.
- (physics) The squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.
- (UK dialectal) A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
- A marking on a rabbit's hind foot.
- (music) A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
- (engineering) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought.
- (photography) A part of a photographic system that reduces the amount of light.
- (soccer) A save; preventing the opposition from scoring a goal
- A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.
- (fencing) A coup d'arret, or stop thrust.
- (zoology) The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
- A device intended to block the path of a moving object
- That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
- (music) One of the vent-holes in a wind instrument, or the place on the wire of a stringed instrument, by the stopping or pressing of which certain notes are produced.
- The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
- A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.
- (photography) An f-stop.
- (linguistics) A consonant sound in which the passage of air is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis.
- (UK, grammar, informal) Ellipsis of full stop.
- the event of something ending
- a brief stay in the course of a journey
- a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens
- a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
- an obstruction in a pipe or tube
- the state of inactivity following an interruption
- (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes
- the act of stopping something
- a restraint that checks the motion of something
- a punctuation mark (‘.’) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
- a spot where something halts or pauses
- (transitive) To cease; to no longer continue.
- (phonetics, transitive) To pronounce (a phoneme) as a stop.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to come to an end.
- (causative, transitive) To interrupt, prevent or end the activity of someone or something. [with direct object, along with gerund (chiefly UK) or direct object, along with from, along with gerund (chiefly US)]
- (music) To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.
- (transitive, intransitive, photography, often with "up" or "down") To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
- (intransitive) To cease moving.
- (intransitive) Not to continue.
- (intransitive) To stay; to spend a short time; to reside or tarry temporarily.
- (nautical) To make fast; to stopper.
- (transitive) To close or block an opening.
- (finance, transitive) To delay the purchase or sale of (a stock) while agreeing the price for later.
- hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
- come to a halt, stop moving
- stop from happening or developing
- cause to end
- seize on its way
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
- put an end to a state or an activity
- stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
- render unsuitable for passage
- interrupt a trip
- A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
- A short time for relaxing and doing something else.
- In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation mark.
- A break or paragraph in writing.
- (music) A sign indicating continuance of a note or rest.
- (figurative) Hesitation; suspense; doubt.
- Alternative letter-case form of Pause (“a button that pauses or resumes something”).
- temporary inactivity
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- (transitive) To stop (an activity) for a while.
- (intransitive) To interrupt an activity and wait.
- (transitive) To halt the play or playback of, temporarily, so that it can be resumed from the same point.
- (intransitive) To take a temporary rest, take a break for a short period after an effort.
- (intransitive) To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.
- interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing
- cease an action temporarily
- A sudden and obstinate stop.
- A hindrance or disappointment; a check.
- (fishing) The rope by which fishing nets are fastened together.
- (archaeology) The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation.
- (baseball) An illegal motion by the pitcher, intended to deceive a runner.
- Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when laid so as to form a loft, "the balks".
- (billiards) The area of the table lying behind the line from which the cue ball is initially shot, and from which a ball in hand must be played.
- (UK dialectal) A small brass ornament fixed at the top of a wand.
- (agriculture) An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing.
- (snooker) The area of the table lying behind the baulk line.
- (badminton) A motion used to deceive the opponent during a serve.
- an illegal pitching motion while runners are on base
- one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof
- the area on a billiard table behind the balkline
- something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
- To stop short and refuse to go on.
- To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.
- To stop, check, block; to hinder, impede.
- To leave or make balks in.
- (intransitive, sports) To make a deceptive motion to deceive another player.
- To disappoint; to frustrate.
- To omit, miss, or overlook by chance.
- To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.
- To refuse suddenly.
- refuse to comply
- An interruption, break, pause or absence.
- An temporary break from work, especially one which is unexpected.
- (anatomy) An opening in an organ.
- A gap in a series, making it incomplete.
- (prosody, phonetics, sometimes uncountable) A syllable break between two vowels, without an intervening consonant.
- (geology) A gap in geological strata.
- a missing piece (as a gap in a manuscript)
- a natural opening or perforation through a bone or a membranous structure
- an interruption in the intensity or amount of something
- A stationary condition; a standstill.
- One who jibs or balks, refusing to continue forward.
- The projecting arm of a crane.
- (slang, especially African-American Vernacular) The mouth, sometimes particularly the tongue, underlip, or tooth.
- An object that is used for performing tricks while skiing, snowboarding, skateboarding, in-line skating, or biking. These objects are usually found in a terrain park or skate park.
- (slang) Crystal meth.
- (metonymic, cinematography, film) A crane used for mounting and moving a video camera.
- (nautical) A triangular staysail set forward of the foremast. In a sloop (see image) the basic jib reaches back roughly to the level of the mast.
- (slang) A person's face.
- (nautical, usually with a modifier) Any of a variety of specialty triangular staysails set forward of the foremast.
- any triangular fore-and-aft sail (set forward of the foremast)
- A temporary or conditional delay, interruption or discontinuation.
- (Scots law) A stay or postponement of the execution of a sentence, usually by letters of suspension granted on application to the Lord Ordinary.
- Thus a kind of silt or sludge.
- The temporary barring of a person from a workplace, society, etc. pending investigation into alleged misconduct.
- (chemistry, physics) The state of a solid or substance produced when its particles are mixed with, but not dissolved in, a fluid, and are capable of separation by straining.
- (topology) A function derived, in a standard way, from another, such that the instant function’s domain and codomain are suspensions of the original function’s.
- (education) The process of barring a student from school grounds as a form of punishment (particularly out-of-school suspension).
- (music) The act of or discord produced by prolonging one or more tones of a chord into the chord which follows, thus producing a momentary discord, suspending the concord which the ear expects.
- (vehicles) The system of springs and shock absorbers connected to the wheels in an automobile, which allows the vehicle to move smoothly with reduced shock to its occupants.
- (topology) A topological space derived from another by taking the product of the original space with an interval and collapsing each end of the product to a point.
- The act of keeping a person who is listening in doubt and expectation of what is to follow.
- The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended.
- the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely)
- a temporary debarment (from a privilege or position etc.)
- a mechanical system of springs or shock absorbers connecting the wheels and axles to the chassis of a wheeled vehicle
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- temporary cessation or suspension
- an interruption in the intensity or amount of something
- a mixture in which fine particles are suspended in a fluid where they are supported by buoyancy
- an interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement
- fixing (of prices or wages etc.) at a particular level
- weather cold enough to cause freezing
- the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid
- (computing) The state when either a single computer program, or the whole system ceases to respond to inputs.
- A halt of a regular operation.
- (curling) A precise draw weight shot where a delivered stone comes to a stand-still against a stationary stone, making it nearly impossible to knock out.
- (business, finance) A block on pay rises or on the hiring of new employees etc.
- A period of intensely cold weather.
- change to ice
- stop moving or become immobilized
- change from a liquid to a solid when cold
- stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it
- be very cold, below the freezing point
- prohibit the conversion or use of (assets)
- cause to freeze
- anesthetize by cold
- be cold
- suddenly behave coldly and formally
- (intransitive, idiomatic) Of a person or other animal, to stop (become motionless) or be stopped due to attentiveness, fear, surprise, etc.
- (figuratively) To lose or cause to lose warmth of feeling; to shut out; to ostracize.
- (transitive, ice hockey) To trap (the puck) so that it cannot be played.
- (intransitive, computing, software, idiomatic) Of a machine or system, to come to a sudden halt, to stop working (functioning).
- To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill.
- (transitive) To cause someone to become motionless.
- (intransitive) To drop to a temperature below zero degrees celsius, where water turns to ice.
- (intransitive, copulative) Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature.
- (ambitransitive) To prevent from showing any visible change.
- (transitive) To lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes or becomes hard.
- Of prices, spending etc., to keep at the same level, without any increase.
- (transitive) To prevent the movement or liquidation of a person's financial assets
- (intransitive, informal) To be affected by extreme cold.
- (countable) A temporary stoppage of an activity; a break, a pause.
- (government) A period of time when the proceedings of a committee, court of law, parliament, or other official body are temporarily suspended.
- (countable, historical) A decree or resolution of the diet of the Holy Roman Empire or the Hanseatic League.
- (Australia, British, Canada, US, Philippines, education) A time away from studying during the school day for a meal or recreation.
- (countable, geology) An overall-concave, reentrant section of a sinuous fold and thrust belt, thrust sheet, or a single thrust fault, caused by one or more of: deformation (folding and faulting) of strata and geologic structures during orogenesis, differences in the angle of critical taper during orogenesis, or differing erosional level of the present geomorphological surface.
- (countable) A hidden, innermost, or inaccessible place or part of a place.
- (figuratively, usually in the plural) An obscure, remote, or secret situation.
- (countable) A depressed, hollow, or indented space; also, a hole or opening.
- (criminal slang, usually in the plural) The place in a prison where the communal lavatories are located.
- (architecture) A small space created by building part of a wall further back from the rest; a niche.
- (countable, anatomy) An extension or outpouching of a cavity (e.g. articular recess, peritoneal recess,...)
- an enclosure that is set back or indented
- an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands)
- a small concavity
- a state of abeyance or suspended business
- a pause from doing something (as work)
- To position (something) a distance behind another thing; to set back.
- To temporarily suspend (a meeting, the proceedings of an official body, etc.).
- (also reflexive) Often preceded by in or into: to inset (something) into a recess or niche.
- To make a recess (noun noun sense 1 and noun sense 1.1) in (something).
- (figuratively) To conceal, to hide.
- Of an official body: to suspend proceedings for a period of time.
- Of a meeting, the proceedings of an official body, etc.: to adjourn, to take a break.
- (informal) To make a recess appointment in respect of (someone).
- put into a recess
- make a recess in
- close at the end of a session
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- the act of delaying; inactivity resulting in something being put off until a later time
- time during which some action is awaited
- A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity.
- (music) An audio effects unit that introduces a controlled delay.
- (programming, Clojure) Synonym of promise (“object representing delayed result”).
- (chess) An amount of time provided on each move before one's clock starts to tick; a less common time control than increment.
- stop or halt
- cause to be slowed down or delayed
- deprive of freedom; take into confinement
- (transitive) To keep someone from proceeding by holding them back or making claims on their attention.
- (transitive) To seize goods for official purposes.
- (transitive, law enforcement) To put someone under custody.
- (transitive) To keep something from proceeding or coming to completion; to delay.
- stop or halt
- stay the same; remain in a certain state
- continue in a place, position, or situation
- fasten with stays
- hang on during a trial of endurance
- overcome or allay
- stop a judicial process
- be in a certain place and not leave
- dwell
- (transitive, nautical) To incline forward, aft, or to one side by means of stays.
- (intransitive, Scotland, South Africa, India, Southern US, African-American Vernacular, Singapore, colloquial) To live; reside.
- (intransitive) To remain in a particular place, especially for a definite or short period of time; sojourn; abide.
- (intransitive, copulative) To continue to have a particular quality.
- (transitive) To prop; support; sustain; hold up; steady.
- (intransitive, nautical) To change; tack; go about; be in stays, as a ship.
- (transitive) To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time.
- (intransitive) To hold out, as in a race or contest; last or persevere to the end; to show staying power.
- To cause to cease; to put an end to.
- To stop; detain; keep back; delay; hinder.
- To brace or support with a stay or stays
- (transitive) To hold the attention of.
- (transitive, nautical) To tack; put on the other tack.
- To restrain; withhold; check; stop.
- To put off; defer; postpone; delay; keep back.
- (nautical) brace consisting of a heavy rope or wire cable used as a support for a mast or spar
- a judicial order forbidding some action until an event occurs or the order is lifted
- the state of inactivity following an interruption
- continuing or remaining in a place or state
- a thin strip of metal or bone that is used to stiffen a garment (e.g. a corset)
- A piece of stiff material, such as plastic or whalebone, used to stiffen a piece of clothing.
- Continuance or a period of time spent in a place; abode for an indefinite time.
- Restraint of passion; prudence; moderation; caution; steadiness; sobriety.
- (nautical) A strong rope or wire supporting a mast, and leading from one masthead down to some other, or other part of the vessel.
- (nautical) A station or fixed anchorage for vessels.
- The transverse piece in a chain-cable link.
- A guy, rope, or wire supporting or stabilizing a platform, such as a bridge, a pole, such as a tentpole, the mast of a derrick, or other structural element.
- (law) A postponement, especially of an execution or other punishment.
- A prop; a support.
- A fixed state; fixedness; stability; permanence.
- (in the plural) A corset.
- cease, stop
- penetrate injuriously
- function as a cutting instrument
- divide a deck of cards at random into two parts to make selection difficult
- form by probing, penetrating, or digging
- fell by sawing; hew
- refuse to acknowledge
- discharge from a group
- allow incision or separation
- record a performance on (a medium)
- hit (a ball) with a spin so that it turns in the opposite direction
- pass directly and often in haste
- stop filming
- intentionally fail to attend
- grow through the gums
- cut and assemble the components of
- lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
- give the appearance or impression of
- make an incision or separation
- make an abrupt change of image or sound
- cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses)
- style and tailor in a certain fashion
- form or shape by cutting or incising
- cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch
- have a reducing effect
- separate with or as if with an instrument
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
- pass through or across
- cut down on; make a reduction in
- make out and issue
- be able to manage or manage successfully
- turn sharply; change direction abruptly
- weed out unwanted or unnecessary things
- make a recording of
- reap or harvest
- create by duplicating data
- move (one's fist)
- shorten as if by severing the edges or ends of
- dissolve by breaking down the fat of
- perform or carry out
- have grow through the gums
- To absent oneself from (a class, an appointment, etc.).
- (intransitive) To enter a queue in the wrong place.
- (transitive, cricket) To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball while bowling it.
- (intransitive, slang) To leave abruptly.
- (intransitive) To engage in self-harm by making cuts in one's own skin.
- To perform an incision on, for example with a knife.
- To abridge or shorten a work; to remove a portion of a recording during editing.
- (slang) To wound with a knife.
- To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce.
- (transitive, film) To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
- (intransitive) To change direction suddenly.
- To separate or omit, in a situation where one was previously associated.
- (transitive, social) To ignore as a social rebuff or snub.
- To perform (an elaborate dancing movement etc.).
- (transitive) To exhibit (a figure having some trait).
- To reduce, especially intentionally.
- (ambitransitive) To deliver a stroke with a whip or like instrument to.
- (bodybuilding) To lose body mass, aiming to keep muscle but lose body fat.
- (transitive, cricket) To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
- (transitive, computing) To remove (text, a picture, etc.) and place in memory in order to paste at a later time.
- (sports) To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball, or (in tennis) striking it with the racket inclined.
- To castrate or geld.
- (intransitive) To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
- (slang, intransitive) To run or hurry.
- (transitive, slang) To dilute or adulterate something, especially a recreational drug.
- (intransitive, film) To make an abrupt transition from one scene or image to another.
- (transitive, slang) To make, negotiate; to finalise, conclude; to issue.
- (transitive, intransitive) To divide a pack of playing cards into two parts, often followed by placing the two parts back together in the opposite order.
- To form or shape by cutting.
- (intransitive) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
- (transitive) To renounce or give up.
- To interfere, as a horse; to strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs.
- To divide with a knife, scissors, or another sharp instrument.
- (transitive) To stop, disengage, or cease.
- (used of grass or vegetation) cut down with a hand implement or machine
- (of pages of a book) having the folds of the leaves trimmed or slit
- mixed with water
- separated into parts or laid open or penetrated with a sharp edge or instrument
- (of a male animal) having the testicles removed
- (used of rates or prices) reduced usually sharply
- with parts removed
- made neat and tidy by trimming
- fashioned or shaped by cutting
- (of a gem) Carved into a shape; not raw.
- (bodybuilding) Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among larger muscles.
- (slang, New Zealand, formerly UK) Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
- (participial adjective) Having been cut.
- (cricket, of a shot) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
- Reduced.
- (informal) Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Upset, angry; emotionally hurt.
- a wound made by cutting
- in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball
- the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage
- a refusal to recognize someone you know
- (sports) a stroke that puts reverse spin on the ball
- a distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc
- a remark capable of wounding mentally
- a canal made by erosion or excavation
- a share of the profits
- the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends
- the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge
- the act of cutting something into parts
- a piece of meat that has been cut from an animal carcass
- (film) an immediate transition from one shot to the next
- the style in which a garment is cut
- a step on some scale
- the act of reducing the amount or number
- an unexcused absence from class
- the division of a deck of cards before dealing
- a trench resembling a furrow that was made by erosion or excavation
- (slang, uncountable) That which is used to dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
- (card games) The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
- (slang) An insult.
- An opening of a living body resulting from cutting; an incision or wound.
- (slang) A hidden, secluded, or secure place.
- An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
- (card games) The card obtained by dividing the pack.
- The manner or style in which a garment, other article of clothing, or sail is fashioned.
- A decrease or deletion.
- (archaeology) A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits were removed for the creation of some feature such as a ditch or pit.
- (Internet) A dividing line in a Tumblr post, the content below which is hidden until the reader reveals it.
- A haircut.
- (bodybuilding) A time period when one attempts to lose fat while retaining muscle mass.
- (literal, figurative) The act of cutting.
- Such a wound through human skin.
- A sleeveless vest worn by members of a motorcycle club.
- (fashion) A notch shaved into an eyebrow.
- (fencing) An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
- (especially theater, film) A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play, movie script, speech, etc.
- (cricket) A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
- (graph theory) The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
- A skein of yarn.
- Such a passage dug for a roadway for a paved road or railroad, a canal, a runway, etc.
- A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
- (golf) In a stroke play competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained a preannounced score, so that the rest of the competition is less pressed for time and more entertaining for spectators.
- A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
- A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio tapes, CDs, etc.
- (literal, figurative) The result of cutting.
- (film) A particular version or edit of a film.
- (sports) In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also, the spin thus given to the ball.
- A slab or slice, especially of meat.
- (rail transport) A string of railway cars coupled together, shorter than a train.
- (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the ball.
- An unkind act; a cruelty.
- A share or portion of profits.
- An artificial channel for marine navigation, as distinguished from a navigable river.
- (petrochemistry) The range of temperatures used to distill a particular mixture of hydrocarbons from crude oil.
- cease, stop
- make a break in
- remove surgically
- remove by or as if by cutting
- break a small piece off from
- cut off and stop
- To stop the provision or supply of something, e.g. power, water.
- To swerve in front of (another car) while driving.
- (Southern US) To turn off or switch off (an electrical device).
- To move so as to block someone else's movement in a direction.
- To isolate or remove from contact.
- To end abruptly.
- To remove by cutting.
- (of a boundary) To exclude (something) from the field of view.
- To interrupt (someone speaking).
- To stop providing funds or something else to (someone).
- (law, chiefly attributive) A written demand that a party stops and does not resume a certain behavior, such as copyright infringement, slander, or libel, threatening legal action if the recipient fails to do so.
- (US, law, chiefly attributive) An order by a government agency, sanctioned by a court, that one must stop and not resume a certain (usually illegal) behavior.
- To halt something temporarily.
- To bring a solid substance, usually in powder form, into suspension in a liquid.
- (travel, aviation) To remove the value of an unused coupon from an air ticket, typically so as to allow continuation of the next sectors' travel.
- To hold in an undetermined or undecided state.
- To hang freely; underhang.
- To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of income, etc.
- (chemistry) To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.
- To discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event.
- hang freely
- bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.
- cause to be held in suspension in a fluid
- make inoperative or stop
- stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it
- render temporarily ineffective
- cause (a vehicle) to stop
- (transitive) To cause to come to a halt.
- come to a halt after driving somewhere
- make up plans or basic details for
- form or arrange in order or formation, as of a body of soldiers
- straighten oneself
- To withdraw upwards.
- (transitive) To compose (a document), especially following a standard form; prepare a plan.
- (intransitive) To come to a halt.
- (transitive) To arrange in order or formation.
- cause (a vehicle) to stop
- come to a halt after driving somewhere
- straighten oneself
- remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense
- (by extension, slang, originally African-American Vernacular) To travel somewhere, especially to meet someone else; to come to.
- (idiomatic, Australia) To fare after a party, an illness, or a strenuous effort; to attempt to recover.
- (idiomatic, especially of a vehicle) To arrive at a halt; to approach and stop at a particular point.
- (ballet) To adopt a posture with straight back and shoulders down, but ribcage and sternum lifted.
- (transitive, horse racing) To intentionally take a racehorse out of a race, usually as a result of the horse's tiredness or concerns of potential injury (in reference to the act of pulling up the reins).
- To pull forward.
- (transitive, intransitive) To lift upwards or vertically.
- (idiomatic) To cause (a horse) to stop when riding.
- (rare) To improve; to get better; to lift one's game.
- (intransitive, aviation) To raise the nose of an aircraft.
- (idiomatic, British) To admonish or criticize someone for their actions.
- (idiomatic) To cause (a person) to stop.
- (idiomatic) To fetch for display on a screen.
- The condition of being stopped, standstill.
- (law) The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.
- A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.
- (nautical) The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators.
- A device to physically arrest motion.
- (farriery) A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse
- A check; a stop; an act or instance of arresting something.
- the state of inactivity following an interruption
- the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
- cause to come to an abrupt stop
- (transitive) To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody.
- (transitive) To stop or slow (a process, course etc.).
- (transitive) To catch the attention of.
- (intransitive, medicine) To undergo cardiac arrest.
- hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
- take into custody
- attract and fix
- cause to come to an abrupt stop
- (intransitive, chiefly imperative) Not to move; to halt; to stop.
- secure and keep for possible future use or application
- keep from exhaling or expelling
- resist or confront with resistance
- be the physical support of; carry the weight of
- maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings)
- aim, point, or direct
- support or hold in a certain manner
- have room for; hold without crowding
- have rightfully; of rights, titles, and offices
- remain committed to
- be pertinent or relevant or applicable
- contain or hold; have within
- be valid, applicable, or true
- be in accord; be in agreement
- have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense
- hold the attention of
- have or hold in one's hands or grip
- assert or affirm
- keep from departing
- to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement
- remain in a certain state, position, or condition
- keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view
- drink alcohol without showing ill effects
- lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits
- protect against a challenge or attack
- take and maintain control over, often by violent means
- cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity
- bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted
- arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance
- declare to be
- cover as for protection against noise or smell
- stop dealing with
- organize or be responsible for
- have as a major characteristic
- be capable of holding or containing
- (transitive) To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain.
- To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain.
- (imperative) In a food or drink order at an informal restaurant etc., requesting that a component normally included in that order be omitted.
- To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
- (transitive) To reserve.
- (transitive) To bear, carry, or manage.
- (transitive) To have and keep possession of something.
- (transitive) To contain or store.
- (intransitive, copulative) To keep oneself in a particular state.
- (slang, intransitive) To be in possession of illicit drugs for sale.
- (transitive) To bind (someone) to a consequence of his or her actions.
- To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain.
- (transitive) To detain.
- (transitive) To maintain, to consider, to opine.
- To take place, to occur.
- To remain continent; to control an excretory bodily function.
- (intransitive) Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or unsubdued.
- (tennis, ambitransitive) To win one's own service game.
- (transitive) To grasp or grip.
- (intransitive, copulative) To be or remain valid; to apply (usually in the third person).
- (transitive) To cause to wait or delay.
- a stronghold
- a state of being confined (usually for a short time)
- time during which some action is awaited
- the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it
- a cell in a jail or prison
- power by which something or someone is affected or dominated
- the act of grasping
- the space in a ship or aircraft for storing cargo
- understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something
- A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
- (exercise) An exercise involving holding a position for a set time
- The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
- An act or instance of holding.
- A place where animals are held for safety
- Something reserved or kept.
- (tennis) An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
- The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when all lines are busy.
- The ability to persist.
- An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
- (baseball) A statistic awarded to a relief pitcher who is not still pitching at the end of the game and who records at least one out and maintains a lead for his team.
- (gambling) The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
- (gambling) The wager amount, the total hold.
- (aviation) A region of airspace reserved for aircraft being kept in a holding pattern.
- A grasp or grip.
- Power over someone or something.
- The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
- (nautical, aviation) The cargo area of a ship or aircraft (often holds or cargo hold).
- (wrestling, self-defense) A position or grip used to control the opponent.
- cause to come to a sudden stop
- summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
- put forward for consideration or discussion
- promote from a lower position or rank
- make reference to
- raise from a lower to a higher position
- cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial processes
- look after a child until it is an adult
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bring, up: To bring from a lower to a higher position.
- (transitive) To prepare a vein for an injection.
- To mention.
- To legally charge and put on trial; to position (someone) for judgement or examination by authority.
- (electronics) To check (a newly-assembled printed circuit board) for errors.
- To uncover, to bring from obscurity; to resurface (e.g. a memory)
- To stop or interrupt a flow or steady motion.
- To turn on power or start, as of a machine.
- To vomit.
- (cricket) To reach a particular score, especially a milestone.
- To raise or rear (children).
- the complete stoppage of an action
- unerringly accurate
- out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown
- drained of electric charge; discharged
- not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat
- no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life
- physically inactive
- lacking resilience or bounce
- devoid of physical sensation; numb
- no longer having force or relevance
- (followed by ‘to’) not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive
- devoid of activity
- not circulating or flowing
- not surviving in active use
- lacking acoustic resonance
- not yielding a return
- very tired
- (of another person) So hated or offensive as to be absolutely shunned, ignored, or ostracized.
- Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.
- (not comparable) Broken or inoperable.
- (usually not comparable) Devoid of living things; barren.
- (usually not comparable) No longer living; deceased. (Also used as a noun.)
- Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).
- (of a place) Lacking usual activity; unexpectedly quiet or empty of people.
- (not comparable) No longer used or required.
- Past, bygone, vanished.
- (not comparable) Exact; on the dot.
- (not comparable) Full and complete (usually applied to nouns involving lack of motion, sound, activity, or other signs of life).
- (not comparable, sports) Not in play.
- (rare, especially religion, often with "to") Indifferent to; having no obligation toward; no longer subject to or ruled by (sin, guilt, pleasure, etc).
- (literal or hyperbolic) Doomed; marked for death; as good as dead.
- (of a battery) Unable to emit power, being discharged (flat) or faulty.
- (not comparable, baseball, slang, 1800s) Tagged out.
- Unproductive; fallow.
- (linguistics) Of a syllable in languages such as Thai and Burmese: ending abruptly.
- (acoustics) Constructed so as not to reflect or transmit sound; soundless; anechoic.
- (engineering) Intentionally designed so as not to impart motion or power.
- Without emotion; impassive.
- (not comparable, golf, of a golf ball) Lying so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in the next stroke.
- (law) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property.
- (hyperbolic) Dying of laughter.
- Stationary; static; immobile or immovable.
- (hyperbolic) Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.
- Utterly exhausted.
- (not comparable, of a machine, device, or electrical circuit) Completely inactive; currently without power; without a signal; not live.
- Expresses shock, second-hand embarrassment, etc.
- people who are no longer living
- a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense
- (bodybuilding, colloquial) Clipping of deadlift.
- (UK) (usually in the plural) Sterile mining waste, often present as many large rocks stacked inside the workings.
- (often with "the") Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.
- (with "the") Those who have died: dead people.
- To stop; to fix or rest.
- To provide emotional stability for a person in distress.
- To perform as an anchorman or anchorwoman.
- To be stuck; to be unable to move away from a position.
- To connect an object, especially a ship or a boat, to a fixed point.
- To cast anchor; to come to anchor.
- fix firmly and stably
- secure a vessel with an anchor
- (cricket) A batter who remains in for a long time.
- (architecture) A metal tie holding adjoining parts of a building together.
- (nautical) The combined anchoring gear (anchor, rode, bill/peak and fittings such as bitts, cat, and windlass.)
- (Internet) A marked point in a document that can be the target of a hyperlink.
- (economics) A superstore or other facility that serves as a focus to bring customers into an area.
- (archery) A point that is touched by the draw hand or string when the bow is fully drawn and ready to shoot.
- (heraldry) Representation of the nautical tool, used as a heraldic charge.
- One of the calcareous spinules of certain holothurians, as in species of Synapta.
- (cartomancy) The thirty-fifth Lenormand card.
- (figurative) That which gives stability or security.
- (US) A screw anchor.
- (slang) The brake of a vehicle.
- (soccer) A defensive player, especially one who counters the opposition's best offensive player.
- Any instrument serving a purpose like that of a ship's anchor, such as an arrangement of timber to hold a dam fast; a device to hold the end of a bridge cable etc.; or a device used in metalworking to hold the core of a mould in place.
- (television) An anchorman or anchorwoman.
- (computing) A line of code in a program which acts as a reference point for further code to be added immediately before or after, usually via copy and paste.
- (nautical) A tool used to moor a vessel to the bottom of a sea or river to resist movement.
- One of the anchor-shaped spicules of certain sponges.
- (climbing) A device for attaching a climber at the top of a climb, such as a chain or ring or a natural feature.
- (nautical) An iron device so shaped as to grip the bottom and hold a vessel at her berth by the chain or rope attached.
- (athletics) The final runner in a relay race.
- Alternative form of anker.
- (architecture) Carved work, somewhat resembling an anchor or arrowhead; part of the ornaments of certain mouldings. It is seen in the echinus, or egg-and-anchor (called also egg-and-dart, egg-and-tongue) ornament.
- a mechanical device that prevents a vessel from moving
- a television reporter who coordinates a broadcast to which several correspondents contribute
- a central cohesive source of support and stability
- To stop (a course of action, proceedings, etc.)
- To stop taking an addictive drug or substance; to undergo withdrawal.
- To take back (a comment, something written, etc.); to recant, to retract.
- (specifically, military) Of soldiers: to leave a battle or position where they are stationed; to retreat.
- To take (one's eyes) off something; to look away.
- To cause or help (someone) to stop taking an addictive drug or substance; to dry out.
- To disregard (something) as belonging to a certain group.
- Chiefly followed by from: to leave a place, someone's presence, etc., to go to another room or place.
- Chiefly followed by from: to stop taking part in some activity; also, to remove oneself from the company of others, from publicity, etc.
- To stop talking to or interacting with other people and start thinking thoughts not related to what is happening.
- To take away or take back (something previously given or permitted); to remove, to retract.
- Of a man: to remove the penis from a partner's body orifice before ejaculation; to engage in coitus interruptus.
- To remove (a topic) from discussion or inquiry.
- To remove (someone or (reflexive, archaic) oneself) from a position or situation; specifically (military), to remove (soldiers) from a battle or position where they are stationed.
- To draw or pull (something) away or back from its original position or situation.
- (banking, finance) To extract (money) from a bank account or other financial deposit.
- keep away from others
- withdraw from active participation
- remove (a commodity) from (a supply source)
- remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
- release from something that holds fast, connects, or entangles
- take back what one has said
- cause to be returned
- lose interest
- retire gracefully
- break from a meeting or gathering
- make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity
- pull back or move away or backward
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- the complete stoppage of an action
- unerringly accurate
- out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown
- drained of electric charge; discharged
- not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat
- no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life
- physically inactive
- lacking resilience or bounce
- devoid of physical sensation; numb
- no longer having force or relevance
- (followed by ‘to’) not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive
- devoid of activity
- not circulating or flowing
- not surviving in active use
- lacking acoustic resonance
- not yielding a return
- very tired
- (of another person) So hated or offensive as to be absolutely shunned, ignored, or ostracized.
- Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.
- (not comparable) Broken or inoperable.
- (usually not comparable) Devoid of living things; barren.
- (usually not comparable) No longer living; deceased. (Also used as a noun.)
- Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).
- (of a place) Lacking usual activity; unexpectedly quiet or empty of people.
- (not comparable) No longer used or required.
- Past, bygone, vanished.
- (not comparable) Exact; on the dot.
- (not comparable) Full and complete (usually applied to nouns involving lack of motion, sound, activity, or other signs of life).
- (not comparable, sports) Not in play.
- (rare, especially religion, often with "to") Indifferent to; having no obligation toward; no longer subject to or ruled by (sin, guilt, pleasure, etc).
- (literal or hyperbolic) Doomed; marked for death; as good as dead.
- (of a battery) Unable to emit power, being discharged (flat) or faulty.
- (not comparable, baseball, slang, 1800s) Tagged out.
- Unproductive; fallow.
- (linguistics) Of a syllable in languages such as Thai and Burmese: ending abruptly.
- (acoustics) Constructed so as not to reflect or transmit sound; soundless; anechoic.
- (engineering) Intentionally designed so as not to impart motion or power.
- Without emotion; impassive.
- (not comparable, golf, of a golf ball) Lying so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in the next stroke.
- (law) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property.
- (hyperbolic) Dying of laughter.
- Stationary; static; immobile or immovable.
- (hyperbolic) Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.
- Utterly exhausted.
- (not comparable, of a machine, device, or electrical circuit) Completely inactive; currently without power; without a signal; not live.
- Expresses shock, second-hand embarrassment, etc.
- people who are no longer living
- a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense
- (bodybuilding, colloquial) Clipping of deadlift.
- (UK) (usually in the plural) Sterile mining waste, often present as many large rocks stacked inside the workings.
- (often with "the") Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.
- (with "the") Those who have died: dead people.
- Without stopping; without a break, cessation, or interruption.
- Without intervening space; continued.
- (grammar) Expressing an ongoing action or state.
- (mathematics, more generally, of a function between two topological spaces) Such that each open set in the target space has an open preimage (in the domain space, with respect to the given function).
- (botany) Not deviating or varying from uniformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated.
- (mathematical analysis, of a function) Such that, for every x in the domain, for each small open interval D about f(x), there's an interval containing x whose image is in D.
- of a function or curve; extending without break or irregularity
- continuing in time or space without interruption
- without unnecessary stops
- not tacit or implied
- (postpositive, retail) Providing a more limited but presumably faster service than a full or complete dealer of the same kind or type.
- (comparable) Specific or precise; directly and distinctly stated; not merely implied.
- Truly depicted; exactly resembling.
- (not comparable) Moving or operating quickly, as a train not making local stops.
- mail that is distributed by a rapid and efficient system
- public transport consisting of a fast train or bus that makes only a few scheduled stops
- rapid transport of goods
- A service that allows mail or money to be sent rapidly from one destination to another.
- An express office.
- A messenger sent on a special errand; a courier.
- (Philippines, chiefly Metro Manila) a public utility vehicle, typically a jeepney, that traverses through an expressway
- That which is sent by an express messenger or message.
- A mode of transportation, often a train, that travels quickly or directly, either on a regular schedule or as a special or excursion. Express trains often pass through stations along the way without stopping at them.
- An express rifle.
- send by rapid transport or special messenger service
- give expression to
- serve as a means for expressing something
- articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise
- obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action
- manifest the effects of (a gene or genetic trait)
- indicate through a symbol, formula, etc.
- (transitive) To press, squeeze out (especially said of milk).
- (biochemistry) To translate messenger RNA into protein.
- (transitive) To convey or communicate; to make known or explicit.
- (biochemistry) To transcribe deoxyribonucleic acid into messenger RNA.