'The process or practice of ostracizing.'에 대한 English 단어
위에서 "The process or practice of ostracizing."에 관련된 단어를 찾으실 수 있습니다. 단어 위에 마우스를 올리면 정의를 볼 수 있습니다. 검색 아이콘을 클릭하면 더 적합한 단어를 찾을 수 있습니다.
검색 결과
verb
noun
- (countable) A black ball used to indicate such a negative vote.
- (countable) A kind of large black sweet, a black-colored gobstopper.
- (countable) A rejection; a vote against admitting someone.
- A substance for blacking shoes, boots, etc. or for taking impressions of engraved work.
- (uncountable) A game, a standardized version of the English version of eight-ball.
- the act of excluding someone by a negative vote or veto
noun
name
- A town in Tolland County, Connecticut.
- A town in Kent County, Rhode Island.
- A surname.
- A township in Summit County, Ohio.
- A town and census-designated place therein, in Orleans County, Vermont.
- A town in Chenango County, New York.
- A cathedral city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, central England, historically in Warwickshire.
noun
- the state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent)
- Temporary exclusion from a community or society.
- the act of excluding someone from society by general consent
- (historical) In ancient Athens (and some other cities), the temporary banishment by popular vote of a citizen considered dangerous to the state.
- (figuratively) Banishment by some general consent.
noun
- The act of isolating.
- the act of isolating something; setting something apart from others
- (databases) A database property that determines when and how changes made in one transaction are visible to other concurrent transactions.
- (medicine) The separation of a patient, suffering from a contagious disease, from contact with others (compare: quarantine)
- (psychology) A Freudian defense mechanism in which a person suppresses a harmful thought from developing into a train of thought.
- (chemistry) The obtaining of an element from one of its compounds, or of a compound from a mixture
- (chiefly uncountable) The state of being isolated, detached, or separated; the state of being away from other people.
- (diplomacy, of a country) The state of not having diplomatic relations with other countries (either with most or all other countries, or with specified other countries).
- a state of separation between persons or groups
- a feeling of being disliked and alone
- (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which memory of an unacceptable act or impulse is separated from the emotion originally associated with it
- a country's withdrawal from international politics
verb
adj
- (baseball, of a pitch) Away (far) from the batter as it crosses home plate.
- Of, pertaining to or originating from beyond the outer surface, limit or boundary.
- Reaching the extreme or farthest limit, as to extent, quantity, etc; maximum.
- Extending or going beyond the borders or scope of an organization, group, etc.
- (chiefly UK) Positioned towards the central division of a road: towards the right-hand side if one drives on the left, or left-hand side if one drives on the right.
- (chiefly US) Positioned towards the shoulder of a road: towards the left-hand side if one drives on the left, or right-hand side if one drives on the right.
- Originating from, arranged by, or being someone outside an organization, group, etc.
- (of a person) Not legally married to or related to (e.g. not born in wedlock to), and/or not residing with, a specified other person (parent, child, or partner); (of a marriage, relationship, etc) existing between two such people. (Compare out of wedlock, nonresidential.)
- Away from the interior or center of something.
- Of or pertaining to the outer surface, limit or boundary.
- from or between other countries
- relating to or being on or near the outer side or limit
- on or toward an outer edge
- unlikely to occur
- coming from the outside
- originating or belonging beyond some bounds
- functioning outside the boundaries or precincts of an organized unit
- leading to or from the outside
- located, suited for, or taking place in the open air
- (of a baseball pitch) on the far side of home plate from the batter
adv
noun
- The side of a curved road, racetrack etc. that has the longer arc length; the side of a racetrack furthest from the interior of the course or some other point of reference.
- The space beyond some limit or boundary.
- The furthest limit, as to number, quantity, extent, etc.
- (surfing) The outer part of the sea, away from the peak of a wave.
- The part of a road towards the central division: towards the right if one drives on the left, or towards the left if one drives on the right.
- The external appearance of someone or something.
- The part of something that faces out; the outer surface.
- the outer side or surface of something
- the region that is outside of something
prep
noun
- the act of secluding yourself from others
- The act of secluding, shutting out or keeping apart.
- the quality of being secluded from the presence or view of others
- A secluded, isolated or private place.
- (meteorology) The mature phase of the extratropical cyclone life cycle.
- The state of being secluded or shut out, as from company, society, the world, etc.; solitude.
noun
- The act of alienating.
- the action of alienating; the action of causing to become unfriendly
- (theater) Verfremdungseffekt.
- Emotional isolation or dissociation.
- The state of being alienated.
- (Marxism) The estrangement of people from aspects of their human nature as a consequence of the division of labour and living in a society of stratified social classes.
- (property law) The transfer of property to another person.
- (law) the voluntary and absolute transfer of title and possession of real property from one person to another
- the feeling of being alienated from other people
- separation resulting from hostility
noun
- The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off.
- (biology) The act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.
- (mathematics) The act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation; especially, in the operation of deducing from several equations containing several unknown quantities a less number of equations containing a less number of unknown quantities.
- (television) The act of voting off or throwing off a contestant in a reality television competition.
- (accounting) The act of recording amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.
- (logic) The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction.
- The act of excluding a losing contestant from a match, tournament, or other competition.
- the murder of a competitor
- the act of removing or getting rid of something
- analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic rejection of unacceptable alternatives
- the bodily process of discharging waste matter
- the act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations
noun
- the act of ejecting someone or forcing them out
- a person who ousts or supplants someone else
- a wrongful dispossession
- (UK) Someone who ousts.
- (now chiefly US) The forceful removal of a politician or regime from power; a coup; an ousting.
- (property law) Action by a cotenant that prevents another cotenant from enjoying the use of jointly owned property.
- (historical) A putting out of possession; dispossession; ejection.
verb
noun
verb
- (by extension) To exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence; to refuse to associate with or talk to; to shun.
- expel from a community or group
- (transitive, Ancient Greece, historical) To ban a person from a city for five or ten years through the procedure of ostracism.
- avoid speaking to or dealing with
noun
- (by extension) The exclusion of certain people from a place, event, situation, etc.
- (computing) A situation where the system is not responding to input.
- (weightlifting) An exercise meant to increase strength in the lockout portion of a lifting motion.
- (industrial operations) A safety device designed to prevent touching a moving part when it is under operation; a safety device to keep the power supply turned off during repairs; the standardized practice and method whereby such devices are deployed.
- (politics) A form of vote splitting in a two-round voting system which a large number of candidates with similar politics prevent each other from advancing to the second round, allowing a pair of opposition candidates to face each other in the runoff.
- The situation of being locked out of a building.
- The action of installing a lock to keep someone out of an area, such as eviction of a tenant by changing the lock.
- (weightlifting) The final portion of a weightlifting motion where all applicable limbs or joints are fully extended or "locked out".
- (labour) The opposite of a strike; a labor disruption where management refuses to allow workers into a plant to work even if they are willing.
- The restriction of a population to a certain area, but allowing free movement within that region, in order to prevent the spread of disease. Compare lockdown.
- a management action resisting employee's demands; employees are barred from entering the workplace until they agree to terms
noun
- (informal) Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
- (music) A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
- (boxing) a type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly horizontally mesially along an arc
- (bowling) A ball that is rolled in a curved line.
- (programming) Part of a system's operation that can be intercepted to change or augment its behaviour.
- (typography) A diacritical mark shaped like the upper part of a question mark, as in ỏ.
- (Scrabble) An instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter to the start or the end of the word to form a new word.
- (nautical, chiefly historical) A knee-shaped wooden join connecting the keel to the stem (post forming the frontmost part of the bow) or the sternpost in cog-like vessels or similar vessels.
- The amount of spin placed on a bowling ball.
- (geography) A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook in New Jersey.
- (authorship) A brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make them want to continue to listen to a speech, read a book, or watch a play.
- (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. (See draw, slice, fade.)
- (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the air to the leg side, often played to balls which bounce around head height.
- A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.
- (slang) A prostitute.
- The part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
- (agriculture) A field sown two years in succession.
- The curved needle used in the art of crochet.
- Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.
- (informal) A grasp (of), an attachment (to).
- A snare; a trap.
- A sharp bend or angle in the course or length of an object (e.g. a bend in a river, etc.).
- (narratology) A gimmick or element of a creative work intended to be attention-grabbing for the audience; a compelling idea for a story that will be sure to attract people's attention.
- (baseball) A curveball.
- A barbed metal hook used for fishing; a fishhook.
- (basketball) a basketball shot in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket, gently throws the ball with a sweeping motion of his arm in an upward arc with a follow-through which ends over his head. Also called hook shot.
- (bridge, slang) A finesse.
- A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
- (card games, slang) A jack (the playing card).
- (typography, rare) A háček.
- An advantageous hold.
- A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, for example, g and j.
- (surfing) Synonym of shoulder (“the part of a wave that has not yet broken”).
- (Canada, Australia, military) Any of the chevrons denoting rank.
- (in the plural) The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
- (nautical, informal) A ship's anchor.
- a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer
- a short swinging punch delivered from the side with the elbow bent
- a catch for locking a door
- anything that serves as an enticement
- a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook
- a basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket
- a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something
- a curved or bent implement for suspending or pulling something
verb
- (usually passive voice) To make addicted; to captivate.
- (transitive) To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
- (soccer, bowling) To swerve a ball; kick or throw a ball so it swerves or bends.
- (intransitive) To become attached, as by a hook.
- (field hockey, ice hockey) To use the hockey stick to trip or block another player
- To acquire as a spouse.
- (transitive) To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
- (cricket, golf, basketball) To play a hook shot.
- (transitive) To connect (hook into, hook together).
- (intransitive) To move or go with a sudden turn.
- (transitive) To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
- (transitive) To ensnare or obligate someone, as if with a hook.
- (Scrabble) To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
- (transitive) To attach a hook to.
- (bridge, slang) To finesse.
- (transitive) To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
- (intransitive) To bend; to be curved.
- (rugby) To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated hooker).
- (intransitive, slang) To engage in prostitution.
- hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left
- make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle
- catch with a hook
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug)
- secure with the foot
- take by theft
- hit with a hook
- entice and trap
- approach with an offer of sexual favors
- fasten with a hook
- make off with belongings of others
noun
- The act of repressing; state of being repressed.
- (psychology) The involuntary rejection from consciousness of painful or disagreeable ideas, memories, feelings, or impulses.
- the act of repressing; control by holding down
- a state of forcible subjugation
- (psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious
verb
- expel from a community or group
- ban from a place of residence, as for punishment
- prohibit especially by legal means or social pressure
- forbid the public distribution of (a movie or a newspaper)
- (transitive) To curse; to execrate.
- (transitive) To anathematize; to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; to place under a ban.
- (transitive) To prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from participation.
- (ambitransitive) To curse; to utter curses or maledictions.
noun
- 100 bani equal 1 leu in Romania
- a logarithmic unit which measures information or entropy, based on base 10 logarithms and powers of 10.
- 100 bani equal 1 leu in Moldova
- an official prohibition or edict against something
- a decree that prohibits something
- The gathering of the (French) king’s vassals for war; the whole body of vassals assembled this way, or liable to be summoned; originally the same as arriere-ban, but distinct since the 16th century, following French usage—see arriere-ban.
- A title used in several states in central and south-eastern Europe between the 7th century and the 20th century.
- A public proclamation or edict; also, a summons by public proclamation, and in early use especially a summons to arms.
- A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Romanian leu.
- A prohibition.
- A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban, such as a mulct paid to a bishop by one guilty of sacrilege or other crimes.
- A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Moldovan leu.
- A unit measuring information or entropy based on base-ten logarithms, rather than the base-two logarithms that define the bit.
noun
- The act of dissimilating, of making dissimilar.
- Misspelling of dissimulation.
- (phonology, phonetics) A phenomenon where one of a pair of similar adjacent consonant or vowel sounds in a word becomes less similar.
- (microbiology) A dissimilatory process that supply a cell with energy only without the assimilation of nutrients.
- breakdown in living organisms of more complex substances into simpler ones together with release of energy
- a linguistic process by which one of two similar sounds in a word becomes less like the other
noun
- the act of stigmatizing
- The promotion of a commercial brand of product or service in order to give it greater public awareness.
- The process in which a mark, usually a symbol or ornamental pattern, is burned into the skin of a living animal or person (usually a livestock animal).
- The trade dress thus presented (trademarks, wordmarks, colorways, liveries, and so on).
verb
noun
- a state of social isolation
- a screen used in India to separate women from men or strangers
- the traditional Hindu or Muslim system of keeping women secluded
- (countable, chiefly South Asia, also figuratively) A curtain, especially one used in some Hindu or Muslim traditions to conceal women from the gaze of people, particularly men and strangers.
- (countable) A long veil or other attire covering most of the body, worn by women in some Muslim societies.
- (uncountable, figuratively) Keeping apart; isolation, seclusion; also, concealment, secrecy.
- (countable, UK politics) The period between the announcement of an election or referendum and its conclusion, during which civil servants refrain from making policy announcements or taking actions that could be seen as advantageous to certain candidates in the election.
- (uncountable) The situation or system of secluding women from the gaze of people, particularly men and strangers, in some Muslim and Hindu traditions, by using a curtain or screen, and/or wearing a face veil or attire covering most of the body.
noun
- (by extension) The isolation of a person or group of people to achieve a specific end.
- (rare) Segregationism; the support or practice of segregating racial, ethnic, or religious groups.
- (linguistics) The stance that linguistic signs act (or approach acting) as fixed codes with invariant pairings of form and meaning.
- (by extension) The conflation of sign and meaning.
noun
- the act of breaking away or withdrawing from
- (Australia) An animal that breaks away from a herd.
- (boxing) The act of getting away from one's opponent; the separation of the boxers after a spell of infighting.
- (Australia) A stampede of animals.
- (Australia, geography) An eroding steep slope on the edge of a plateau; an escarpment.
- (ice hockey) A situation in the game where one or more players of a team attack towards the goal of the other team without having any defenders in front of them.
- A swing dance in which the leader occasionally swings the follower out into an open position.
- (cycle racing) A group of riders which has gone ahead of the peloton.
- (Australia) A channel of floodwater that has burst from its usual course; or the track or channel eroded by the water.
- The act of breaking away from something.
- A particular yo-yo trick http://yoyo.wikia.com/wiki/Breakaway.
- (theater) An item of scenery designed to be broken or destroyed during the performance.
adj
- having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude
- Capable of breaking off without damaging the larger structure.
- (ice hockey) Occurring during or as a result of a breakaway (see Noun)
- (entertainment industry) Enjoying rapid popular success.
- Having broken away from a larger unit.
noun
name
- A town in Tolland County, Connecticut.
- A town in Kent County, Rhode Island.
- A surname.
- A township in Summit County, Ohio.
- A town and census-designated place therein, in Orleans County, Vermont.
- A town in Chenango County, New York.
- A cathedral city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, central England, historically in Warwickshire.
noun
- the state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent)
- Temporary exclusion from a community or society.
- the act of excluding someone from society by general consent
- (historical) In ancient Athens (and some other cities), the temporary banishment by popular vote of a citizen considered dangerous to the state.
- (figuratively) Banishment by some general consent.
noun
- The act of isolating.
- the act of isolating something; setting something apart from others
- (databases) A database property that determines when and how changes made in one transaction are visible to other concurrent transactions.
- (medicine) The separation of a patient, suffering from a contagious disease, from contact with others (compare: quarantine)
- (psychology) A Freudian defense mechanism in which a person suppresses a harmful thought from developing into a train of thought.
- (chemistry) The obtaining of an element from one of its compounds, or of a compound from a mixture
- (chiefly uncountable) The state of being isolated, detached, or separated; the state of being away from other people.
- (diplomacy, of a country) The state of not having diplomatic relations with other countries (either with most or all other countries, or with specified other countries).
- a state of separation between persons or groups
- a feeling of being disliked and alone
- (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which memory of an unacceptable act or impulse is separated from the emotion originally associated with it
- a country's withdrawal from international politics
noun
- the act of secluding yourself from others
- The act of secluding, shutting out or keeping apart.
- the quality of being secluded from the presence or view of others
- A secluded, isolated or private place.
- (meteorology) The mature phase of the extratropical cyclone life cycle.
- The state of being secluded or shut out, as from company, society, the world, etc.; solitude.
noun
- The act of alienating.
- the action of alienating; the action of causing to become unfriendly
- (theater) Verfremdungseffekt.
- Emotional isolation or dissociation.
- The state of being alienated.
- (Marxism) The estrangement of people from aspects of their human nature as a consequence of the division of labour and living in a society of stratified social classes.
- (property law) The transfer of property to another person.
- (law) the voluntary and absolute transfer of title and possession of real property from one person to another
- the feeling of being alienated from other people
- separation resulting from hostility
noun
- The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off.
- (biology) The act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.
- (mathematics) The act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation; especially, in the operation of deducing from several equations containing several unknown quantities a less number of equations containing a less number of unknown quantities.
- (television) The act of voting off or throwing off a contestant in a reality television competition.
- (accounting) The act of recording amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.
- (logic) The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction.
- The act of excluding a losing contestant from a match, tournament, or other competition.
- the murder of a competitor
- the act of removing or getting rid of something
- analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic rejection of unacceptable alternatives
- the bodily process of discharging waste matter
- the act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations
noun
- the act of ejecting someone or forcing them out
- a person who ousts or supplants someone else
- a wrongful dispossession
- (UK) Someone who ousts.
- (now chiefly US) The forceful removal of a politician or regime from power; a coup; an ousting.
- (property law) Action by a cotenant that prevents another cotenant from enjoying the use of jointly owned property.
- (historical) A putting out of possession; dispossession; ejection.
verb
noun
noun
- (by extension) The exclusion of certain people from a place, event, situation, etc.
- (computing) A situation where the system is not responding to input.
- (weightlifting) An exercise meant to increase strength in the lockout portion of a lifting motion.
- (industrial operations) A safety device designed to prevent touching a moving part when it is under operation; a safety device to keep the power supply turned off during repairs; the standardized practice and method whereby such devices are deployed.
- (politics) A form of vote splitting in a two-round voting system which a large number of candidates with similar politics prevent each other from advancing to the second round, allowing a pair of opposition candidates to face each other in the runoff.
- The situation of being locked out of a building.
- The action of installing a lock to keep someone out of an area, such as eviction of a tenant by changing the lock.
- (weightlifting) The final portion of a weightlifting motion where all applicable limbs or joints are fully extended or "locked out".
- (labour) The opposite of a strike; a labor disruption where management refuses to allow workers into a plant to work even if they are willing.
- The restriction of a population to a certain area, but allowing free movement within that region, in order to prevent the spread of disease. Compare lockdown.
- a management action resisting employee's demands; employees are barred from entering the workplace until they agree to terms
noun
- (informal) Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
- (music) A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
- (boxing) a type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly horizontally mesially along an arc
- (bowling) A ball that is rolled in a curved line.
- (programming) Part of a system's operation that can be intercepted to change or augment its behaviour.
- (typography) A diacritical mark shaped like the upper part of a question mark, as in ỏ.
- (Scrabble) An instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter to the start or the end of the word to form a new word.
- (nautical, chiefly historical) A knee-shaped wooden join connecting the keel to the stem (post forming the frontmost part of the bow) or the sternpost in cog-like vessels or similar vessels.
- The amount of spin placed on a bowling ball.
- (geography) A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook in New Jersey.
- (authorship) A brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make them want to continue to listen to a speech, read a book, or watch a play.
- (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. (See draw, slice, fade.)
- (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the air to the leg side, often played to balls which bounce around head height.
- A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.
- (slang) A prostitute.
- The part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
- (agriculture) A field sown two years in succession.
- The curved needle used in the art of crochet.
- Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.
- (informal) A grasp (of), an attachment (to).
- A snare; a trap.
- A sharp bend or angle in the course or length of an object (e.g. a bend in a river, etc.).
- (narratology) A gimmick or element of a creative work intended to be attention-grabbing for the audience; a compelling idea for a story that will be sure to attract people's attention.
- (baseball) A curveball.
- A barbed metal hook used for fishing; a fishhook.
- (basketball) a basketball shot in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket, gently throws the ball with a sweeping motion of his arm in an upward arc with a follow-through which ends over his head. Also called hook shot.
- (bridge, slang) A finesse.
- A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
- (card games, slang) A jack (the playing card).
- (typography, rare) A háček.
- An advantageous hold.
- A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, for example, g and j.
- (surfing) Synonym of shoulder (“the part of a wave that has not yet broken”).
- (Canada, Australia, military) Any of the chevrons denoting rank.
- (in the plural) The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
- (nautical, informal) A ship's anchor.
- a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer
- a short swinging punch delivered from the side with the elbow bent
- a catch for locking a door
- anything that serves as an enticement
- a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook
- a basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket
- a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something
- a curved or bent implement for suspending or pulling something
verb
- (usually passive voice) To make addicted; to captivate.
- (transitive) To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
- (soccer, bowling) To swerve a ball; kick or throw a ball so it swerves or bends.
- (intransitive) To become attached, as by a hook.
- (field hockey, ice hockey) To use the hockey stick to trip or block another player
- To acquire as a spouse.
- (transitive) To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
- (cricket, golf, basketball) To play a hook shot.
- (transitive) To connect (hook into, hook together).
- (intransitive) To move or go with a sudden turn.
- (transitive) To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
- (transitive) To ensnare or obligate someone, as if with a hook.
- (Scrabble) To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
- (transitive) To attach a hook to.
- (bridge, slang) To finesse.
- (transitive) To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
- (intransitive) To bend; to be curved.
- (rugby) To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated hooker).
- (intransitive, slang) To engage in prostitution.
- hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left
- make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle
- catch with a hook
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug)
- secure with the foot
- take by theft
- hit with a hook
- entice and trap
- approach with an offer of sexual favors
- fasten with a hook
- make off with belongings of others
noun
- The act of repressing; state of being repressed.
- (psychology) The involuntary rejection from consciousness of painful or disagreeable ideas, memories, feelings, or impulses.
- the act of repressing; control by holding down
- a state of forcible subjugation
- (psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious
noun
- The act of dissimilating, of making dissimilar.
- Misspelling of dissimulation.
- (phonology, phonetics) A phenomenon where one of a pair of similar adjacent consonant or vowel sounds in a word becomes less similar.
- (microbiology) A dissimilatory process that supply a cell with energy only without the assimilation of nutrients.
- breakdown in living organisms of more complex substances into simpler ones together with release of energy
- a linguistic process by which one of two similar sounds in a word becomes less like the other
noun
- the act of stigmatizing
- The promotion of a commercial brand of product or service in order to give it greater public awareness.
- The process in which a mark, usually a symbol or ornamental pattern, is burned into the skin of a living animal or person (usually a livestock animal).
- The trade dress thus presented (trademarks, wordmarks, colorways, liveries, and so on).
verb
noun
- a state of social isolation
- a screen used in India to separate women from men or strangers
- the traditional Hindu or Muslim system of keeping women secluded
- (countable, chiefly South Asia, also figuratively) A curtain, especially one used in some Hindu or Muslim traditions to conceal women from the gaze of people, particularly men and strangers.
- (countable) A long veil or other attire covering most of the body, worn by women in some Muslim societies.
- (uncountable, figuratively) Keeping apart; isolation, seclusion; also, concealment, secrecy.
- (countable, UK politics) The period between the announcement of an election or referendum and its conclusion, during which civil servants refrain from making policy announcements or taking actions that could be seen as advantageous to certain candidates in the election.
- (uncountable) The situation or system of secluding women from the gaze of people, particularly men and strangers, in some Muslim and Hindu traditions, by using a curtain or screen, and/or wearing a face veil or attire covering most of the body.
noun
- (by extension) The isolation of a person or group of people to achieve a specific end.
- (rare) Segregationism; the support or practice of segregating racial, ethnic, or religious groups.
- (linguistics) The stance that linguistic signs act (or approach acting) as fixed codes with invariant pairings of form and meaning.
- (by extension) The conflation of sign and meaning.
noun
- the act of breaking away or withdrawing from
- (Australia) An animal that breaks away from a herd.
- (boxing) The act of getting away from one's opponent; the separation of the boxers after a spell of infighting.
- (Australia) A stampede of animals.
- (Australia, geography) An eroding steep slope on the edge of a plateau; an escarpment.
- (ice hockey) A situation in the game where one or more players of a team attack towards the goal of the other team without having any defenders in front of them.
- A swing dance in which the leader occasionally swings the follower out into an open position.
- (cycle racing) A group of riders which has gone ahead of the peloton.
- (Australia) A channel of floodwater that has burst from its usual course; or the track or channel eroded by the water.
- The act of breaking away from something.
- A particular yo-yo trick http://yoyo.wikia.com/wiki/Breakaway.
- (theater) An item of scenery designed to be broken or destroyed during the performance.
adj
- having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude
- Capable of breaking off without damaging the larger structure.
- (ice hockey) Occurring during or as a result of a breakaway (see Noun)
- (entertainment industry) Enjoying rapid popular success.
- Having broken away from a larger unit.
verb
noun
- (countable) A black ball used to indicate such a negative vote.
- (countable) A kind of large black sweet, a black-colored gobstopper.
- (countable) A rejection; a vote against admitting someone.
- A substance for blacking shoes, boots, etc. or for taking impressions of engraved work.
- (uncountable) A game, a standardized version of the English version of eight-ball.
- the act of excluding someone by a negative vote or veto
verb
adj
- (baseball, of a pitch) Away (far) from the batter as it crosses home plate.
- Of, pertaining to or originating from beyond the outer surface, limit or boundary.
- Reaching the extreme or farthest limit, as to extent, quantity, etc; maximum.
- Extending or going beyond the borders or scope of an organization, group, etc.
- (chiefly UK) Positioned towards the central division of a road: towards the right-hand side if one drives on the left, or left-hand side if one drives on the right.
- (chiefly US) Positioned towards the shoulder of a road: towards the left-hand side if one drives on the left, or right-hand side if one drives on the right.
- Originating from, arranged by, or being someone outside an organization, group, etc.
- (of a person) Not legally married to or related to (e.g. not born in wedlock to), and/or not residing with, a specified other person (parent, child, or partner); (of a marriage, relationship, etc) existing between two such people. (Compare out of wedlock, nonresidential.)
- Away from the interior or center of something.
- Of or pertaining to the outer surface, limit or boundary.
- from or between other countries
- relating to or being on or near the outer side or limit
- on or toward an outer edge
- unlikely to occur
- coming from the outside
- originating or belonging beyond some bounds
- functioning outside the boundaries or precincts of an organized unit
- leading to or from the outside
- located, suited for, or taking place in the open air
- (of a baseball pitch) on the far side of home plate from the batter
adv
noun
- The side of a curved road, racetrack etc. that has the longer arc length; the side of a racetrack furthest from the interior of the course or some other point of reference.
- The space beyond some limit or boundary.
- The furthest limit, as to number, quantity, extent, etc.
- (surfing) The outer part of the sea, away from the peak of a wave.
- The part of a road towards the central division: towards the right if one drives on the left, or towards the left if one drives on the right.
- The external appearance of someone or something.
- The part of something that faces out; the outer surface.
- the outer side or surface of something
- the region that is outside of something
prep
verb
- (by extension) To exclude a person from a community or from society by not communicating with them or by refusing to acknowledge their presence; to refuse to associate with or talk to; to shun.
- expel from a community or group
- (transitive, Ancient Greece, historical) To ban a person from a city for five or ten years through the procedure of ostracism.
- avoid speaking to or dealing with
verb
- expel from a community or group
- ban from a place of residence, as for punishment
- prohibit especially by legal means or social pressure
- forbid the public distribution of (a movie or a newspaper)
- (transitive) To curse; to execrate.
- (transitive) To anathematize; to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; to place under a ban.
- (transitive) To prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from participation.
- (ambitransitive) To curse; to utter curses or maledictions.
noun
- 100 bani equal 1 leu in Romania
- a logarithmic unit which measures information or entropy, based on base 10 logarithms and powers of 10.
- 100 bani equal 1 leu in Moldova
- an official prohibition or edict against something
- a decree that prohibits something
- The gathering of the (French) king’s vassals for war; the whole body of vassals assembled this way, or liable to be summoned; originally the same as arriere-ban, but distinct since the 16th century, following French usage—see arriere-ban.
- A title used in several states in central and south-eastern Europe between the 7th century and the 20th century.
- A public proclamation or edict; also, a summons by public proclamation, and in early use especially a summons to arms.
- A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Romanian leu.
- A prohibition.
- A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban, such as a mulct paid to a bishop by one guilty of sacrilege or other crimes.
- A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Moldovan leu.
- A unit measuring information or entropy based on base-ten logarithms, rather than the base-two logarithms that define the bit.