'Within a ripple'에 대한 English 단어
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- A ripple, as on the surface of water.
- A cloth which usually covers the head and is worn around the neck and chin. It was worn by women in medieval Europe and is still worn by nuns in certain orders.
- A flag or streamer.
- A fold or pleat in cloth.
- A curve or bend.
- headdress of cloth; worn over the head and around the neck and ears by medieval women
- (transitive) To shape into a series of ripples.
- stir up (water) so as to form ripples
- (intransitive) To propagate like a moving wave.
- (intransitive) To move like the undulating surface of a body of water; to undulate.
- To remove the seeds from (the stalks of flax, etc.), by means of a ripple.
- (transitive) To scratch, tear, or break slightly; graze
- (transitive) To launch or unleash in rapid succession.
- (intransitive) To make a sound as of water running gently over a rough bottom, or the breaking of ripples on the shore.
- flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise
- A style of ice cream in which flavors have been coarsely blended together.
- One of a series of corrugations in flat surface.
- (dialectal, historical) thripple, cart ladder (extension for cart or wagon)
- A sound similar to that of undulating water.
- (textiles) An implement, with teeth like those of a comb, for removing the seeds and seed vessels from flax, broom corn, etc.
- (figurative) A small spreading change, impact, or effect produced by a larger or more consequential action.
- A moving disturbance, or undulation, in the surface of a fluid.
- (electronics) A small oscillation of an otherwise steady signal.
- (electronics) an oscillation of small amplitude imposed on top of a steady value
- a small wave on the surface of a liquid
- To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
- (intransitive) To assume the shape of a curl or spiral.
- To deck with, or as if with, curls; to ornament.
- (intransitive) To move in curves.
- (intransitive, curling) To take part in the sport of curling.
- (transitive, weightlifting) To exercise by bending the arm, wrist, or leg on the exertion against resistance, especially of the biceps.
- (hat-making) To shape (the brim of a hat) into a curve.
- (transitive) To make into a curl or spiral.
- (transitive) To cause to move in a curve.
- To twist or form (the hair, etc.) into ringlets.
- wind around something in coils or loops
- play the Scottish game of curling
- twist or roll into coils or ringlets
- shape one's body into a curl
- form a curl, curve, or kink
- (baking, chiefly in the plural) A thin, curved piece of chocolate used as decoration.
- (calculus, proper noun) The vector operator, denoted rm curl; or ⃑∇×⃑(·), that generates this field.
- (American football) A pattern where the receiver appears to be running a fly pattern but after a set number of steps or yards quickly stops and turns around, looking for a pass.
- A curving piece or lock of hair; a ringlet.
- (calculus) The vector field denoting the rotationality of a given vector field.
- (music, chiefly lutherie) The contrasting light and dark figure seen in wood used for stringed instrument making; the flame.
- (surfing) The concave part of a breaking wave.
- (weightlifting) Any exercise performed by bending the arm, wrist, or leg on the exertion against resistance, especially those that train the biceps.
- A curved stroke or shape.
- (curling) Movement of a moving rock away from a straight line.
- A spin making the trajectory of an object curve.
- (agriculture, phytopathology, uncountable) Any of various diseases of plants causing the leaves or shoots to curl up; often specifically the potato curl.
- a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
- lock of hair in the shape of a spiral or curl
- A circle made by the motion of a fluid; an eddy; a ripple.
- A gentle murmuring sound, such as that produced by the running of a liquid among obstructions.
- An embroidered and puckered border; a hem or fringe, often of gold or silver twist; also, a pleat or fold, as of a band.
- A particular stitch in knitting in which the working yarn is pulled through an existing stitch from front to back.
- a heavy or headlong fall; an upset.
- The edge of lace trimmed with loops.
- a basic knitting stitch made by putting the needle through the front of the stitch from the righthand side
- gold or silver wire thread
- To rise in circles, ripples, or undulations; to curl; to mantle.
- (knitting) To use or create a purl stitch or stitches.
- To decorate with fringe or embroidered edge
- (intransitive) To flow with a murmuring sound in swirls and eddies.
- flow in a circular current, of liquids
- knit with a purl stitch
- embroider with gold or silver thread
- edge or border with gold or silver embroidery
- make a murmuring sound
- One of several people who take up arms against the local state authority; a participant in insurgency.
- a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment
- a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions)
- (of water) with few or no waves on the surface; not rippled.
- (slang, MLE) Good; alright; cool; OK.
- (of a person) Peaceful, quiet, especially free from anger and anxiety.
- (of weather) Without wind or storm.
- (of a place or situation) Free of noise and disturbance.
- not agitated; without losing self-possession
- (of weather) free from storm or wind
- (in a place or situation) The state of being calm; absence of noise and disturbance.
- (meteorology) The absence of wind; a period of time without wind.
- (in a person) The state of being calm; peacefulness; absence of worry, anger, fear or other strong negative emotion.
- steadiness of mind under stress
- wind moving at less than 1 knot; 0 on the Beaufort scale
- A rush of water; a rapid.
- An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, ore, etc., are caused to slide; a chute.
- A seismic survey carried out with geophones in an attempt to detect oil.
- The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.
- (card games) The act of taking all point cards in one hand.
- A hunt or shooting competition.
- The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot.
- (mining) A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.
- (professional wrestling, slang) An event that is unscripted or legitimate.
- A shoat; a young pig.
- A photography session.
- (weaving) A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
- the act of shooting at targets
- a new branch
- (wrestling) To lunge.
- To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.
- (transitive, intransitive, analogous) To photograph.
- (intransitive) To move very quickly and suddenly.
- (transitive) To fire (a projectile).
- (professional wrestling) To deviate from kayfabe, either intentionally or accidentally; to actually connect with unchoreographed fighting blows and maneuvers, or speak one's mind (instead of an agreed script).
- To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches. (See shot silk on Wikipedia)
- (surfing) To ride a wave.
- (intransitive) To cause a weapon to discharge a projectile.
- (intransitive) To hunt birds, etc. with a gun.
- (carpentry) To plane straight; to fit by planing.
- (aviation) To carry out, or attempt to carry out (an approach to an airport runway).
- To drink (a shot of an alcoholic beverage).
- (transitive, intransitive, colloquial) To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.
- (transitive, slang) To ejaculate.
- To go over or pass quickly through.
- (nautical) To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee.
- (surveying) To measure the distance and direction to (a point).
- (intransitive, usually, as imperative) To begin to speak.
- To germinate; to bud; to sprout.
- (transitive) To hunt on (a piece of land); to kill game in or on.
- (transitive) To fire a projectile at (a person or target).
- (transitive) To tip (something, especially coal) down a chute.
- To grow; to advance.
- (transitive) To penetrate, like a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation.
- (transitive) To push or thrust a bolt quickly; hence, to open a lock.
- To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; often with out.
- To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit.
- (transitive) To travel or ride on (breaking waves) rowards the shore.
- To carry out a seismic survey with geophones in an attempt to detect oil.
- (intransitive) To discharge a missile; said of a weapon.
- (informal, ditransitive) To send to someone.
- (transitive) To fire (a weapon that releases a projectile).
- To make the stated score.
- (transitive, intransitive, analogous, film, television) To film.
- (transitive, figurative) To dismiss or do away with.
- (card games) To shoot the moon.
- (gambling) To throw dice.
- kill by firing a missile
- variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors
- record on photographic film
- send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly
- move quickly and violently
- throw dice, as in a crap game
- spend frivolously and unwisely
- measure the altitude of by using a sextant
- force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing
- utter fast and forcefully
- run or move very quickly or hastily
- hit with a missile from a weapon
- give an injection to
- cause a sharp and sudden pain in
- produce buds, branches, or germinate
- make a film or photograph of something
- throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective
- emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully
- fire a shot; release
- score
- (figurative) An insignificant indirect result; a ripple.
- (poetry) A device in verse in which a line ends with a word which recalls the sound of the last word of the preceding line.
- (computing) An individual discussion forum using the echomail system.
- (figurative) Something that reflects or hearkens back to an earlier thing.
- (whist, bridge) A signal, played in the same manner as a trump signal, made by a player who holds four or more trumps (or, as played by some, exactly three trumps) and whose partner has led trumps or signalled for trumps.
- An antisemitic punctuation symbol or marking, ((( ))), placed around a name or phrase to indicate the person is Jewish or the entity is controlled by Jewish people; or repurposed or reclaimed to proudly declare one's Jewishness or solidarity with Jews.
- (medicine, colloquial, uncountable) Clipping of echocardiography.
- (figurative) Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.
- An utterance repeating what has just been said.
- (computing) The displaying on the command line of the command that has just been executed.
- (medicine, colloquial, countable) Clipping of echocardiogram.
- (whist, bridge) A signal showing the number held of a plain suit when a high card in that suit is led by one's partner.
- (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Echo from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
- A reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer.
- a reflected television or radio or radar beam
- an imitation or repetition
- a close parallel of a feeling, idea, style, etc.
- the repetition of a sound resulting from reflection of the sound waves
- a reply that repeats what has just been said
- (transitive, figuratively) To repeat (another’s speech, opinion, etc.).
- (transitive) To reflect back (a sound).
- (intransitive, figuratively) Of a rumour, opinion, etc.: to spread or reverberate.
- (intransitive, whist, bridge) To give the echo signal, informing one's partner about cards one holds.
- (intransitive) Of a sound or sound waves: to reflect off a surface and return; to reverberate or resound.
- (computing, transitive) To repeat its input as input to some other device or system.
- ring or echo with sound
- to say again or imitate
- bring to mind
- a sudden rapid flow (as of water)
- a poker hand with all 5 cards in the same suit
- the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
- the swift release of a store of affective force
- sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty)
- sudden brief sensation of heat (associated with menopause and some mental disorders)
- a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health
- A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind; a blush; a glow.
- A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement, animation, etc.
- Particularly, such a cleansing of a toilet.
- A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes.
- A group of birds that have suddenly started up from undergrowth, trees, etc.
- Any tinge of red color like that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood.
- (skiing) A line of poles or obstacles that a skier must weave between.
- A groundwater-fed marsh or peaty mire (which may be acidic or basic, nutrient-rich or poor); (originally especially Scotland and Northern England) a (marshy) pool or seep, as in a field.
- (poker) A hand consisting of all cards with the same suit.
- (computing) The process of clearing the contents of a buffer or cache.
- having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value
- of a surface exactly even with an adjoining one, forming the same plane
- Wealthy or well off.
- (typography) Ellipsis of flush left and right: a body of text aligned with both its left and right margins.
- Full of vigor; fresh; glowing; bright.
- Smooth, even, aligned; not sticking out.
- Affluent; abounding; well furnished or supplied; hence, liberal; prodigal.
- cause to flow through something
- rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid
- cause to flow or flood with or as if with water
- make level or straight
- irrigate with water from a sluice
- glow or cause to glow with warm color or light
- turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame
- (intransitive) To take suddenly to flight, especially from cover.
- (transitive, computing) To clear (a buffer or cache) of its contents.
- To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water.
- (intransitive) To become suffused with reddish color due to embarrassment, excitement, overheating, or other systemic disturbance, to blush.
- To flow and spread suddenly; to rush.
- (transitive) To cause to take flight from concealment.
- (intransitive, of a toilet) To be cleansed by being flooded with generous quantities of water.
- (mining, intransitive) To operate a placer mine, where the continuous supply of water is insufficient, by holding back the water, and releasing it periodically in a flood.
- (transitive) Particularly, to cleanse a toilet by introducing a large amount of water.
- (transitive) To cleanse by flooding with generous quantities of a fluid.
- (Singapore, chiefly military) To move, shift or align to one side.
- (transitive) To excite, inflame.
- (intransitive, transitive) To dispose or be disposed of by flushing down a toilet.
- (masonry) To fill in (joints); to point the level; to make them flush.
- To show red; to shine suddenly; to glow.
- (mining) To fill underground spaces, especially in coal mines, with material carried by water, which, after drainage, constitutes a compact mass.
- (transitive) To cause to blush.
- (transitive, computing, of data held in a buffer or cache) To write (the data) to primary storage, clearing it from the buffer or cache.
- praise enthusiastically
- issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth
- gush forth in a sudden stream or jet
- (intransitive, especially of a woman) To ejaculate during orgasm.
- (intransitive, also figurative) To flow forth suddenly, in great volume.
- (transitive, also figurative) To send (something) flowing forth suddenly in great volume.
- (intransitive, transitive, figurative) To make an excessive display of enthusiasm, praise, or sentiment.
- common edible, burrowing European bivalve mollusk that has a strong, rounded shell with radiating ribs
- common edible European bivalve
- A kiln for drying hops; an oast.
- (figurative, in the plural) Chiefly in cockles of someone's heart: a person's innermost feelings.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A £10 note; a tenner.
- (directly from French coquille) A wrinkle, pucker
- Any of various edible European bivalve mollusks, of the family Cardiidae, having heart-shaped shells.
- The fire chamber of a furnace.
- The shell of such a mollusk.
- Any of several field weeds, such as the common corncockle (Agrostemma githago) and darnel ryegrass (Lolium temulentum).
- The dome of a heating furnace.
- (by extension) A defect in sheepskin; firm dark nodules caused by the bites of keds on live sheep
- (Cornwall, mining) The mineral black tourmaline or schorl.
- stir up (water) so as to form ripples
- (transitive) To ruffle with a rippling action.
- look through a book or other written material
- twitch or flutter
- shuffle (playing cards) by separating the deck into two parts and riffling with the thumbs so the cards intermix
- (transitive) To idly manipulate objects with the fingers.
- (transitive) To shuffle playing cards by separating the deck in two and sliding the thumbs along the edges of the cards to mix the two parts.
- (intransitive) To skim or flick through the pages of a book.
- (transitive) To leaf through rapidly.
- (transitive) To prepare samples of material using a riffler.
- (intransitive) To flow over a swift, shallow part of a stream.
- A succession of small waves.
- shuffling by splitting the pack and interweaving the two halves at their corners
- a small wave on the surface of a liquid
- In seal engraving, a small metal disc at the end of a tool.
- A swift, shallow part of a stream causing broken water.
- The sound made while shuffling cards.
- (mining) A trough or sluice having cleats, grooves, or steps across the bottom for holding quicksilver and catching particles of gold when auriferous earth is washed. Also one of the cleats, grooves or steps in such trough.
- A quick skim through the pages of a book.
- Synonym of riffle shuffle
- stir up (water) so as to form ripples
- disturb the smoothness of
- pleat or gather into a ruffle
- mix so as to make a random order or arrangement
- erect or fluff up
- twitch or flutter
- trouble or vex
- discompose
- to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others
- To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.
- (intransitive) To grow rough, boisterous, or turbulent.
- (intransitive) To be rough; to jar; to be in contention; hence, to put on airs; to swagger.
- (transitive) To make a ruffle in; to curl or flute, as an edge of fabric.
- To erect in a ruff, as feathers.
- (intransitive) To become disordered; to play loosely; to flutter.
- To throw together in a disorderly manner.
- (military) To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
- (transitive) To disturb; especially, to cause to flutter.
- a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim
- a noisy fight
- a high tight collar
- Disturbance; agitation; commotion.
- Any gathered or curled strip of fabric added as trim or decoration.
- (military) A low, vibrating beat of a drum, quieter than a roll; a ruff.
- (zoology) The connected series of large egg capsules, or oothecae, of several species of American marine gastropods of the genus Fulgur.
- stir up (water) so as to form ripples
- occur in soft rounded shapes
- increase and decrease in volume or pitch, as if in waves
- move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion
- (transitive) To cause to resemble a wave.
- (intransitive) To move in wavelike motions.
- (intransitive) To appear wavelike.
- (transitive) To cause to move in a wavelike motion.
- A motion like that of waves; a moving in this and that direction; an irregular rising and falling.
- a wave motion
- In medicine, a wave-like motion or undulation of a fluid in a natural or abnormal cavity (e.g. pus in an abscess), which is felt during palpation or percussion.
- A wavering; unsteadiness.
- an instance of change; the rate or magnitude of change
- the quality of being unsteady and subject to changes
- (countable) A break in the smooth surface of a body of water, such as a ripple, whitecap, or the roughness that results from water flowing over an uneven surface.
- (countable) A breakwater.
- (countable, more generally) Any artificially constructed system or device to halt the destructive flow of water.
- (countable) A barrier built across a steeply sloping road or trail in order to direct the flow of water and prevent erosion.
- (uncountable) The formation of beads of water on a smooth surface, especially when used as an indicator of impurities on the surface.
- (countable) The time elapsed from an underwater explosion or seismic event until the arrival of the resulting energy wave at a hydrophonic detector.
- A burst of water.
- A showerhead.
- A water main
- (uncountable) Hydrocephalus
- The amount of water or water pressure provided by a waterhead (reservoir or portion of a device that stores water).
- A reservoir or natural source of water that is put to use.
- A spring or headwater.
- A stupid and/or ugly person.
- The enlarged head of a person or animal with hydrocephalus.
- A hydrocephalic person or animal
- The place where water enters or exits a device or system
- An area of high elevation, viewed as the catchment basin for a region.
- A portion of a device or system where water is stored before it is used, such as a header tank.
- rise and move, as in waves or billows
- make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit
- lift or elevate
- breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted
- move or cause to move in a specified way, direction, or position
- bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat
- utter a sound, as with obvious effort
- throw with great effort
- (intransitive) To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.
- (transitive) To utter with effort.
- (intransitive) To rise and fall.
- (transitive, mining, geology) To displace (a vein, stratum).
- (intransitive) To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.
- (transitive) To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).
- (transitive, nautical) To pull up with a rope or cable.
- (ambitransitive, nautical) To move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation.
- (transitive) To throw, cast.
- (intransitive) To retch, to make an effort to vomit; to vomit.
- (geology) a horizontal dislocation
- the act of raising something
- the act of lifting something with great effort
- throwing something heavy (with great effort)
- an involuntary spasm of ineffectual vomiting
- an upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling)
- (rare, only used attributively as in "heave line" or "heave horse") Broken wind in horses.
- (cricket) A forceful shot in which the ball follows a high trajectory
- An effort to vomit; retching.
- An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake, etc.
- (countable) An effort to raise something, such as a weight or one's own body, or to move something heavy.
- (nautical) The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time.
- A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.
- rise and move, as in waves or billows
- see one's performance improve
- rise or heave upward under the influence of a natural force such as a wave
- rise or move forward
- rise rapidly
- (intransitive) To rush, flood, or increase suddenly.
- To accelerate forwards, particularly suddenly.
- (transitive, nautical) To slack off a line.
- (intransitive, aviation, of a jet engine) To experience a momentary reversal of airflow through the compressor section due to disruption of intake airflow.
- a sudden forceful flow
- a large sea wave
- a sudden or abrupt strong increase
- (electricity) A sudden electrical spike or increase of voltage and current.
- The tapered part of a windlass barrel or a capstan, upon which the cable surges, or slips.
- (US, naval, often attributive) A deployment in large numbers at short notice.
- (nautical) The swell or heave of the sea.
- The maximum amplitude of a vehicle's forward/backward oscillation.
- (aviation) A momentary reversal of the airflow through the compressor section of a jet engine due to disruption of the airflow entering the engine's air intake, accompanied by loud banging noises, emission of flame, and temporary loss of thrust.
- A sudden transient rush, flood or increase.
- A single wave; billow.
- (planetology) A very large lake of liquid hydrocarbon.
- A lake, especially if large or if salty or brackish.
- (physics) A constant flux of gluons splitting into quarks, which annihilate to produce further gluons.
- A large body of salt water.
- A body of salt water smaller than an ocean, generally forming part of, or connecting with, an ocean or a larger sea.
- (attributive, in combination) Living or used in or on the sea; of, near, or like the sea.
- (figurative) Anything resembling the vastness or turbulence of the sea in mass, size or quantity.
- The swell of the sea, especially when high or rough.
- (planetology) A large, dark plain of rock; a mare.
- The ocean; the continuous body of salt water covering a majority of the Earth's surface.
- anything apparently limitless in quantity or volume
- a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land
- turbulent water with swells of considerable size
- the act of scattering water about haphazardly
- a prominent or sensational but short-lived news event
- the sound like water splashing
- a small quantity of something moist or liquid
- the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface
- a patch of bright color
- An impact or impression.
- (wrestling) A body press; a move where the wrestler jumps forward from a raised platform such as the top turnbuckle, landing stomach first across an opponent lying on the ground below.
- (computing, informal) A splash screen.
- (MLE, slang) A knife.
- (comics) A splash page.
- (onomatopoeia) The sound made by an object hitting a liquid.
- (journalism) A large, prominent headline or article.
- A mark or stain made from a small amount of liquid.
- (military, slang) The shooting down of an aircraft over water.
- A small amount of liquid.
- A small amount (of color).
- (MLE, slang) The bleeding caused by a knife wound.
- cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force
- mark or overlay with patches of contrasting color or texture; cause to appear splashed or spattered
- dash a liquid upon or against
- soil or stain with a splashed liquid
- make a splashing sound
- walk through mud or mire
- strike and dash about in a liquid
- (transitive) To hit or expel liquid at.
- (transitive, MLE) To stab (a person), causing them to bleed.
- (intransitive) To hit or agitate liquid so that part of it separates from the principal liquid mass.
- (transitive) To hit or agitate (liquid) so that part of it separates from the principal liquid mass.
- (transitive) To spend (money).
- (transitive, nautical) To launch a ship.
- (military, slang) To shoot down (an aircraft) over water.
- (figurative) To roughly fill with color.
- (transitive) To create an impact or impression; to print, post, or publicize prominently.
- (intransitive) (of a liquid) To disperse suddenly as a result of an impulse; to splatter.
- a flowing together
- a coming together of people
- a place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers)
- The place where two rivers, streams, or other continuously flowing bodies of water meet and become one, especially where a tributary joins a river.
- The act of combining that occurs where two rivers meet.
- The stream or body formed by the junction of two or more streams; a combined flood.
- A convergence or combination of forces, people, or things.
- (biology) The proportion of cells, in a culture medium, that adhere to each other.
- (computer science, in rewriting systems) A property describing which terms can be rewritten with other, equivalent terms.
- (nautical) A minor breeze that ripples the surface of a body of water.
- (historical weaponry, torture) A metal set of claws worn over the hand or wielded in the hand used to remove skin and flesh.
- (US law) A supervisor whose reliance on a subordinate's analysis is so complete as to render him or her liable for the subordinate's animus or other misconduct towards a third employee.
- (figuratively) Someone who acts in another's interest, (properly) unknowingly or through trickery.
- Any of several species of North American freshwater mussels of the genus Epioblasma, especially E. obliquata.
- (nautical) A twisting variant of the lark's-foot hitch which forms two small bights used to hook a pair of tackles to a rope.
- A paw of a cat.
- (figuratively, uncommon) Someone or something that comes down quickly upon a victim in the manner of a cat's paw.
- (US carpentry) A small crowbar with a handle at a right angle to a blade with a V-shaped notch, principally used by carpenters to remove nails.
- Any of several species of Australian bloodworts of the genus Anigozanthos, especially A. humilis.
- a hitch in the middle of rope that has two eyes into which tackle can be hooked
- a person used by another to gain an end
- The disturbance which follows an object, person or animal moving through water.
- (nautical) The path left behind a ship on the surface of the water.
- (historical, Church of England) A yearly parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication of a church. Originally, prayers were said on the evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church; subsequently, these vigils were discontinued, and the day itself, often with succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and exercises, attended by eating and drinking.
- (physics) The perturbation behind a body moving through a fluid.
- (aviation) The turbulent air left behind a flying aircraft.
- (figuratively) The area behind a moving person or object.
- A period after a person's death before or after the body is buried, cremated, etc.; in some cultures accompanied by a party or collectively sorting through the deceased's personal effects.
- The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil.
- (collective) A number of vultures assembled together.
- a vigil held over a corpse the night before burial
- the wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward
- the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event)
- (intransitive, figurative) To be excited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.
- To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.
- (intransitive) (often followed by up) To stop sleeping.
- (transitive, figurative) To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.
- To be or remain awake; not to sleep.
- (transitive) (often followed by up) To make somebody stop sleeping; to rouse from sleep.
- cause to become awake or conscious
- be awake, be alert, be there
- to alert someone to something
- stop sleeping
- arouse or excite feelings and passions
- (canoeing) A standing wave in a rapid.
- A dish composed of a starchy food (rice, tortillas, crackers, etc.) topped by a protein (beans, cheese, meat, etc.) in combination with fresh vegetables, assembled on the plate by the diner.
- A mound, pile, or stack of stored hay.
- (programming) The text string within which another string is searched for. (see: needle in a haystack)
- (more generally) Any place or collection of items through which one searches for something that is rare and hard to find.
- a stack of hay
- wavelike motion; a gentle rising and falling in the manner of waves
- (physics) a movement up and down or back and forth
- an undulating curve
- A wavy appearance or outline; waviness.
- A wavelike curve; a smooth and regular rise and fall.
- An instance or act of undulating.
- A wavelike motion of the air; electromagnetic radiation.
- (music) A tremulous tone produced by a peculiar pressure of the finger on a string.
- A waterspout (whirlwind).
- A framework or initiative that focuses on water resources in sustainable development and climate action.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see water, pillar.; a pillar formed of water.
- A power-generation mechanism that makes use of the pressure differential created by changing water levels due to tide action, which is used to drive turbines or pumps.
- Synonym of water crane.
- the movement of a wave through a medium
- the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions
- the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production
- The dissemination of something to a larger area or greater number.
- (physics) The act of propagating, especially the movement of a wave.
- (genetics) The elongation part of transcription.
- The multiplication or natural increase in a population.
- (religion) The winning of new converts.
- The curling crest of a wave; a comber.
- (music) The main body of a harmonica containing the air chambers and to which the reed plates are attached.
- (rare) Abbreviation of combination.
- A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place.
- A ctene.
- Alternative form of combe.
- (weaving) A toothed wooden pick used to push the weft thread tightly against the previous pass of thread to create a tight weave.
- The top part of a gun’s stock.
- An old English measure of corn equal to the half quarter.
- A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
- One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen in scorpions, with which they comb substrate.
- The toothed plate at the top and bottom of an escalator that prevents objects getting trapped between the moving stairs and fixed landings.
- A fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles; crest.
- The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
- A toothed plate used for creating wells in agar gels for electrophoresis.
- (algebraic geometry) A connected and reduced curve with irreducible components consisting of a smooth subcurve (called the handle) and one or more additional irreducible components (called teeth) that each intersect the handle in a single point that is unequal to the unique point of intersection for any of the other teeth.
- A toothed tool used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.
- The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.
- (dialectal) Alternative form of coomb.
- A structure of hexagon cells made by bees for storing honey; honeycomb.
- (by extension) A crest (of metal, leather, etc) on a piece of armor, especially on a helmet.
- A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening soft fibre.
- a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair
- ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore
- any of several tools for straightening fibers
- the act of drawing a comb through hair
- the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds
- (transitive) To search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb.
- (transitive, especially of hair or fur) To groom with a toothed implement, especially a comb.
- (nautical, intransitive) To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.
- (naval, transitive) To turn a vessel parallel to (the track of) (a torpedo) so as to reduce one's size as a target.
- (transitive) To separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
- smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb
- straighten with a comb
- search thoroughly
- the outward flow of the tide
- a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)
- A gradual decline.
- A European bunting, the corn bunting (Emberiza calandra, syns. Emberiza miliaria, Milaria calandra).
- (especially in the phrase 'at a low ebb') A low state; a state of depression.
- The receding movement of the tide.
- flow back or recede
- hem in fish with stakes and nets so as to prevent them from going back into the sea with the ebb
- fall away or decline
- (intransitive) to fish with stakes and nets that serve to prevent the fish from getting back into the sea with the ebb
- (intransitive) to flow back or recede
- (transitive) To cause to flow back.
- (intransitive) to fall away or decline
- A breaking of waters, as over a vessel or a coastal defence; the waters themselves.
- The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
- (figurative) A difference in opinions, social class, etc.
- (law) A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment.
- A gap or opening made by breaking or battering, as in a wall, fortification or levee / embankment; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence.
- A breaking up of amicable relations, a falling out.
- A breaking out upon; an assault.
- a failure to perform some promised act or obligation
- an opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification)
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- (transitive) To make a breach in.
- (transitive) To violate or break.
- (intransitive, of a whale or other sea creature) To leap out of the water.
- (intransitive) To suffer a breach.
- (law, informal, transitive, usually passive) To charge, convict or take legal action against someone due to not meeting a legal obligation.
- (transitive, nautical, of the sea) To break into a ship or into a coastal defence.
- make an opening or gap in
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
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- A ripple, as on the surface of water.
- A cloth which usually covers the head and is worn around the neck and chin. It was worn by women in medieval Europe and is still worn by nuns in certain orders.
- A flag or streamer.
- A fold or pleat in cloth.
- A curve or bend.
- headdress of cloth; worn over the head and around the neck and ears by medieval women
- A circle made by the motion of a fluid; an eddy; a ripple.
- A gentle murmuring sound, such as that produced by the running of a liquid among obstructions.
- An embroidered and puckered border; a hem or fringe, often of gold or silver twist; also, a pleat or fold, as of a band.
- A particular stitch in knitting in which the working yarn is pulled through an existing stitch from front to back.
- a heavy or headlong fall; an upset.
- The edge of lace trimmed with loops.
- a basic knitting stitch made by putting the needle through the front of the stitch from the righthand side
- gold or silver wire thread
- To rise in circles, ripples, or undulations; to curl; to mantle.
- (knitting) To use or create a purl stitch or stitches.
- To decorate with fringe or embroidered edge
- (intransitive) To flow with a murmuring sound in swirls and eddies.
- flow in a circular current, of liquids
- knit with a purl stitch
- embroider with gold or silver thread
- edge or border with gold or silver embroidery
- make a murmuring sound
- A rush of water; a rapid.
- An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, ore, etc., are caused to slide; a chute.
- A seismic survey carried out with geophones in an attempt to detect oil.
- The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.
- (card games) The act of taking all point cards in one hand.
- A hunt or shooting competition.
- The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot.
- (mining) A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.
- (professional wrestling, slang) An event that is unscripted or legitimate.
- A shoat; a young pig.
- A photography session.
- (weaving) A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
- the act of shooting at targets
- a new branch
- (wrestling) To lunge.
- To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.
- (transitive, intransitive, analogous) To photograph.
- (intransitive) To move very quickly and suddenly.
- (transitive) To fire (a projectile).
- (professional wrestling) To deviate from kayfabe, either intentionally or accidentally; to actually connect with unchoreographed fighting blows and maneuvers, or speak one's mind (instead of an agreed script).
- To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches. (See shot silk on Wikipedia)
- (surfing) To ride a wave.
- (intransitive) To cause a weapon to discharge a projectile.
- (intransitive) To hunt birds, etc. with a gun.
- (carpentry) To plane straight; to fit by planing.
- (aviation) To carry out, or attempt to carry out (an approach to an airport runway).
- To drink (a shot of an alcoholic beverage).
- (transitive, intransitive, colloquial) To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.
- (transitive, slang) To ejaculate.
- To go over or pass quickly through.
- (nautical) To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee.
- (surveying) To measure the distance and direction to (a point).
- (intransitive, usually, as imperative) To begin to speak.
- To germinate; to bud; to sprout.
- (transitive) To hunt on (a piece of land); to kill game in or on.
- (transitive) To fire a projectile at (a person or target).
- (transitive) To tip (something, especially coal) down a chute.
- To grow; to advance.
- (transitive) To penetrate, like a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation.
- (transitive) To push or thrust a bolt quickly; hence, to open a lock.
- To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; often with out.
- To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit.
- (transitive) To travel or ride on (breaking waves) rowards the shore.
- To carry out a seismic survey with geophones in an attempt to detect oil.
- (intransitive) To discharge a missile; said of a weapon.
- (informal, ditransitive) To send to someone.
- (transitive) To fire (a weapon that releases a projectile).
- To make the stated score.
- (transitive, intransitive, analogous, film, television) To film.
- (transitive, figurative) To dismiss or do away with.
- (card games) To shoot the moon.
- (gambling) To throw dice.
- kill by firing a missile
- variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors
- record on photographic film
- send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly
- move quickly and violently
- throw dice, as in a crap game
- spend frivolously and unwisely
- measure the altitude of by using a sextant
- force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing
- utter fast and forcefully
- run or move very quickly or hastily
- hit with a missile from a weapon
- give an injection to
- cause a sharp and sudden pain in
- produce buds, branches, or germinate
- make a film or photograph of something
- throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective
- emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully
- fire a shot; release
- score
- (figurative) An insignificant indirect result; a ripple.
- (poetry) A device in verse in which a line ends with a word which recalls the sound of the last word of the preceding line.
- (computing) An individual discussion forum using the echomail system.
- (figurative) Something that reflects or hearkens back to an earlier thing.
- (whist, bridge) A signal, played in the same manner as a trump signal, made by a player who holds four or more trumps (or, as played by some, exactly three trumps) and whose partner has led trumps or signalled for trumps.
- An antisemitic punctuation symbol or marking, ((( ))), placed around a name or phrase to indicate the person is Jewish or the entity is controlled by Jewish people; or repurposed or reclaimed to proudly declare one's Jewishness or solidarity with Jews.
- (medicine, colloquial, uncountable) Clipping of echocardiography.
- (figurative) Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.
- An utterance repeating what has just been said.
- (computing) The displaying on the command line of the command that has just been executed.
- (medicine, colloquial, countable) Clipping of echocardiogram.
- (whist, bridge) A signal showing the number held of a plain suit when a high card in that suit is led by one's partner.
- (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Echo from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
- A reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer.
- a reflected television or radio or radar beam
- an imitation or repetition
- a close parallel of a feeling, idea, style, etc.
- the repetition of a sound resulting from reflection of the sound waves
- a reply that repeats what has just been said
- (transitive, figuratively) To repeat (another’s speech, opinion, etc.).
- (transitive) To reflect back (a sound).
- (intransitive, figuratively) Of a rumour, opinion, etc.: to spread or reverberate.
- (intransitive, whist, bridge) To give the echo signal, informing one's partner about cards one holds.
- (intransitive) Of a sound or sound waves: to reflect off a surface and return; to reverberate or resound.
- (computing, transitive) To repeat its input as input to some other device or system.
- ring or echo with sound
- to say again or imitate
- bring to mind
- a sudden rapid flow (as of water)
- a poker hand with all 5 cards in the same suit
- the period of greatest prosperity or productivity
- the swift release of a store of affective force
- sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty)
- sudden brief sensation of heat (associated with menopause and some mental disorders)
- a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health
- A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind; a blush; a glow.
- A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement, animation, etc.
- Particularly, such a cleansing of a toilet.
- A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes.
- A group of birds that have suddenly started up from undergrowth, trees, etc.
- Any tinge of red color like that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood.
- (skiing) A line of poles or obstacles that a skier must weave between.
- A groundwater-fed marsh or peaty mire (which may be acidic or basic, nutrient-rich or poor); (originally especially Scotland and Northern England) a (marshy) pool or seep, as in a field.
- (poker) A hand consisting of all cards with the same suit.
- (computing) The process of clearing the contents of a buffer or cache.
- having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value
- of a surface exactly even with an adjoining one, forming the same plane
- Wealthy or well off.
- (typography) Ellipsis of flush left and right: a body of text aligned with both its left and right margins.
- Full of vigor; fresh; glowing; bright.
- Smooth, even, aligned; not sticking out.
- Affluent; abounding; well furnished or supplied; hence, liberal; prodigal.
- cause to flow through something
- rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid
- cause to flow or flood with or as if with water
- make level or straight
- irrigate with water from a sluice
- glow or cause to glow with warm color or light
- turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame
- (intransitive) To take suddenly to flight, especially from cover.
- (transitive, computing) To clear (a buffer or cache) of its contents.
- To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water.
- (intransitive) To become suffused with reddish color due to embarrassment, excitement, overheating, or other systemic disturbance, to blush.
- To flow and spread suddenly; to rush.
- (transitive) To cause to take flight from concealment.
- (intransitive, of a toilet) To be cleansed by being flooded with generous quantities of water.
- (mining, intransitive) To operate a placer mine, where the continuous supply of water is insufficient, by holding back the water, and releasing it periodically in a flood.
- (transitive) Particularly, to cleanse a toilet by introducing a large amount of water.
- (transitive) To cleanse by flooding with generous quantities of a fluid.
- (Singapore, chiefly military) To move, shift or align to one side.
- (transitive) To excite, inflame.
- (intransitive, transitive) To dispose or be disposed of by flushing down a toilet.
- (masonry) To fill in (joints); to point the level; to make them flush.
- To show red; to shine suddenly; to glow.
- (mining) To fill underground spaces, especially in coal mines, with material carried by water, which, after drainage, constitutes a compact mass.
- (transitive) To cause to blush.
- (transitive, computing, of data held in a buffer or cache) To write (the data) to primary storage, clearing it from the buffer or cache.
- praise enthusiastically
- issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth
- gush forth in a sudden stream or jet
- (intransitive, especially of a woman) To ejaculate during orgasm.
- (intransitive, also figurative) To flow forth suddenly, in great volume.
- (transitive, also figurative) To send (something) flowing forth suddenly in great volume.
- (intransitive, transitive, figurative) To make an excessive display of enthusiasm, praise, or sentiment.
- A motion like that of waves; a moving in this and that direction; an irregular rising and falling.
- a wave motion
- In medicine, a wave-like motion or undulation of a fluid in a natural or abnormal cavity (e.g. pus in an abscess), which is felt during palpation or percussion.
- A wavering; unsteadiness.
- an instance of change; the rate or magnitude of change
- the quality of being unsteady and subject to changes
- (countable) A break in the smooth surface of a body of water, such as a ripple, whitecap, or the roughness that results from water flowing over an uneven surface.
- (countable) A breakwater.
- (countable, more generally) Any artificially constructed system or device to halt the destructive flow of water.
- (countable) A barrier built across a steeply sloping road or trail in order to direct the flow of water and prevent erosion.
- (uncountable) The formation of beads of water on a smooth surface, especially when used as an indicator of impurities on the surface.
- (countable) The time elapsed from an underwater explosion or seismic event until the arrival of the resulting energy wave at a hydrophonic detector.
- A burst of water.
- A showerhead.
- A water main
- (uncountable) Hydrocephalus
- The amount of water or water pressure provided by a waterhead (reservoir or portion of a device that stores water).
- A reservoir or natural source of water that is put to use.
- A spring or headwater.
- A stupid and/or ugly person.
- The enlarged head of a person or animal with hydrocephalus.
- A hydrocephalic person or animal
- The place where water enters or exits a device or system
- An area of high elevation, viewed as the catchment basin for a region.
- A portion of a device or system where water is stored before it is used, such as a header tank.
- stir up (water) so as to form ripples
- (transitive) To ruffle with a rippling action.
- look through a book or other written material
- twitch or flutter
- shuffle (playing cards) by separating the deck into two parts and riffling with the thumbs so the cards intermix
- (transitive) To idly manipulate objects with the fingers.
- (transitive) To shuffle playing cards by separating the deck in two and sliding the thumbs along the edges of the cards to mix the two parts.
- (intransitive) To skim or flick through the pages of a book.
- (transitive) To leaf through rapidly.
- (transitive) To prepare samples of material using a riffler.
- (intransitive) To flow over a swift, shallow part of a stream.
- A succession of small waves.
- shuffling by splitting the pack and interweaving the two halves at their corners
- a small wave on the surface of a liquid
- In seal engraving, a small metal disc at the end of a tool.
- A swift, shallow part of a stream causing broken water.
- The sound made while shuffling cards.
- (mining) A trough or sluice having cleats, grooves, or steps across the bottom for holding quicksilver and catching particles of gold when auriferous earth is washed. Also one of the cleats, grooves or steps in such trough.
- A quick skim through the pages of a book.
- Synonym of riffle shuffle
- A single wave; billow.
- (planetology) A very large lake of liquid hydrocarbon.
- A lake, especially if large or if salty or brackish.
- (physics) A constant flux of gluons splitting into quarks, which annihilate to produce further gluons.
- A large body of salt water.
- A body of salt water smaller than an ocean, generally forming part of, or connecting with, an ocean or a larger sea.
- (attributive, in combination) Living or used in or on the sea; of, near, or like the sea.
- (figurative) Anything resembling the vastness or turbulence of the sea in mass, size or quantity.
- The swell of the sea, especially when high or rough.
- (planetology) A large, dark plain of rock; a mare.
- The ocean; the continuous body of salt water covering a majority of the Earth's surface.
- anything apparently limitless in quantity or volume
- a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land
- turbulent water with swells of considerable size
- the act of scattering water about haphazardly
- a prominent or sensational but short-lived news event
- the sound like water splashing
- a small quantity of something moist or liquid
- the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface
- a patch of bright color
- An impact or impression.
- (wrestling) A body press; a move where the wrestler jumps forward from a raised platform such as the top turnbuckle, landing stomach first across an opponent lying on the ground below.
- (computing, informal) A splash screen.
- (MLE, slang) A knife.
- (comics) A splash page.
- (onomatopoeia) The sound made by an object hitting a liquid.
- (journalism) A large, prominent headline or article.
- A mark or stain made from a small amount of liquid.
- (military, slang) The shooting down of an aircraft over water.
- A small amount of liquid.
- A small amount (of color).
- (MLE, slang) The bleeding caused by a knife wound.
- cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force
- mark or overlay with patches of contrasting color or texture; cause to appear splashed or spattered
- dash a liquid upon or against
- soil or stain with a splashed liquid
- make a splashing sound
- walk through mud or mire
- strike and dash about in a liquid
- (transitive) To hit or expel liquid at.
- (transitive, MLE) To stab (a person), causing them to bleed.
- (intransitive) To hit or agitate liquid so that part of it separates from the principal liquid mass.
- (transitive) To hit or agitate (liquid) so that part of it separates from the principal liquid mass.
- (transitive) To spend (money).
- (transitive, nautical) To launch a ship.
- (military, slang) To shoot down (an aircraft) over water.
- (figurative) To roughly fill with color.
- (transitive) To create an impact or impression; to print, post, or publicize prominently.
- (intransitive) (of a liquid) To disperse suddenly as a result of an impulse; to splatter.
- a flowing together
- a coming together of people
- a place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers)
- The place where two rivers, streams, or other continuously flowing bodies of water meet and become one, especially where a tributary joins a river.
- The act of combining that occurs where two rivers meet.
- The stream or body formed by the junction of two or more streams; a combined flood.
- A convergence or combination of forces, people, or things.
- (biology) The proportion of cells, in a culture medium, that adhere to each other.
- (computer science, in rewriting systems) A property describing which terms can be rewritten with other, equivalent terms.
- (nautical) A minor breeze that ripples the surface of a body of water.
- (historical weaponry, torture) A metal set of claws worn over the hand or wielded in the hand used to remove skin and flesh.
- (US law) A supervisor whose reliance on a subordinate's analysis is so complete as to render him or her liable for the subordinate's animus or other misconduct towards a third employee.
- (figuratively) Someone who acts in another's interest, (properly) unknowingly or through trickery.
- Any of several species of North American freshwater mussels of the genus Epioblasma, especially E. obliquata.
- (nautical) A twisting variant of the lark's-foot hitch which forms two small bights used to hook a pair of tackles to a rope.
- A paw of a cat.
- (figuratively, uncommon) Someone or something that comes down quickly upon a victim in the manner of a cat's paw.
- (US carpentry) A small crowbar with a handle at a right angle to a blade with a V-shaped notch, principally used by carpenters to remove nails.
- Any of several species of Australian bloodworts of the genus Anigozanthos, especially A. humilis.
- a hitch in the middle of rope that has two eyes into which tackle can be hooked
- a person used by another to gain an end
- The disturbance which follows an object, person or animal moving through water.
- (nautical) The path left behind a ship on the surface of the water.
- (historical, Church of England) A yearly parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication of a church. Originally, prayers were said on the evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church; subsequently, these vigils were discontinued, and the day itself, often with succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and exercises, attended by eating and drinking.
- (physics) The perturbation behind a body moving through a fluid.
- (aviation) The turbulent air left behind a flying aircraft.
- (figuratively) The area behind a moving person or object.
- A period after a person's death before or after the body is buried, cremated, etc.; in some cultures accompanied by a party or collectively sorting through the deceased's personal effects.
- The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil.
- (collective) A number of vultures assembled together.
- a vigil held over a corpse the night before burial
- the wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward
- the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event)
- (intransitive, figurative) To be excited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.
- To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.
- (intransitive) (often followed by up) To stop sleeping.
- (transitive, figurative) To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.
- To be or remain awake; not to sleep.
- (transitive) (often followed by up) To make somebody stop sleeping; to rouse from sleep.
- cause to become awake or conscious
- be awake, be alert, be there
- to alert someone to something
- stop sleeping
- arouse or excite feelings and passions
- (canoeing) A standing wave in a rapid.
- A dish composed of a starchy food (rice, tortillas, crackers, etc.) topped by a protein (beans, cheese, meat, etc.) in combination with fresh vegetables, assembled on the plate by the diner.
- A mound, pile, or stack of stored hay.
- (programming) The text string within which another string is searched for. (see: needle in a haystack)
- (more generally) Any place or collection of items through which one searches for something that is rare and hard to find.
- a stack of hay
- wavelike motion; a gentle rising and falling in the manner of waves
- (physics) a movement up and down or back and forth
- an undulating curve
- A wavy appearance or outline; waviness.
- A wavelike curve; a smooth and regular rise and fall.
- An instance or act of undulating.
- A wavelike motion of the air; electromagnetic radiation.
- (music) A tremulous tone produced by a peculiar pressure of the finger on a string.
- A waterspout (whirlwind).
- A framework or initiative that focuses on water resources in sustainable development and climate action.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see water, pillar.; a pillar formed of water.
- A power-generation mechanism that makes use of the pressure differential created by changing water levels due to tide action, which is used to drive turbines or pumps.
- Synonym of water crane.
- the movement of a wave through a medium
- the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions
- the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production
- The dissemination of something to a larger area or greater number.
- (physics) The act of propagating, especially the movement of a wave.
- (genetics) The elongation part of transcription.
- The multiplication or natural increase in a population.
- (religion) The winning of new converts.
- The curling crest of a wave; a comber.
- (music) The main body of a harmonica containing the air chambers and to which the reed plates are attached.
- (rare) Abbreviation of combination.
- A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place.
- A ctene.
- Alternative form of combe.
- (weaving) A toothed wooden pick used to push the weft thread tightly against the previous pass of thread to create a tight weave.
- The top part of a gun’s stock.
- An old English measure of corn equal to the half quarter.
- A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
- One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen in scorpions, with which they comb substrate.
- The toothed plate at the top and bottom of an escalator that prevents objects getting trapped between the moving stairs and fixed landings.
- A fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles; crest.
- The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
- A toothed plate used for creating wells in agar gels for electrophoresis.
- (algebraic geometry) A connected and reduced curve with irreducible components consisting of a smooth subcurve (called the handle) and one or more additional irreducible components (called teeth) that each intersect the handle in a single point that is unequal to the unique point of intersection for any of the other teeth.
- A toothed tool used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.
- The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.
- (dialectal) Alternative form of coomb.
- A structure of hexagon cells made by bees for storing honey; honeycomb.
- (by extension) A crest (of metal, leather, etc) on a piece of armor, especially on a helmet.
- A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening soft fibre.
- a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair
- ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore
- any of several tools for straightening fibers
- the act of drawing a comb through hair
- the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds
- (transitive) To search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb.
- (transitive, especially of hair or fur) To groom with a toothed implement, especially a comb.
- (nautical, intransitive) To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.
- (naval, transitive) To turn a vessel parallel to (the track of) (a torpedo) so as to reduce one's size as a target.
- (transitive) To separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
- smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb
- straighten with a comb
- search thoroughly
- the outward flow of the tide
- a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)
- A gradual decline.
- A European bunting, the corn bunting (Emberiza calandra, syns. Emberiza miliaria, Milaria calandra).
- (especially in the phrase 'at a low ebb') A low state; a state of depression.
- The receding movement of the tide.
- flow back or recede
- hem in fish with stakes and nets so as to prevent them from going back into the sea with the ebb
- fall away or decline
- (intransitive) to fish with stakes and nets that serve to prevent the fish from getting back into the sea with the ebb
- (intransitive) to flow back or recede
- (transitive) To cause to flow back.
- (intransitive) to fall away or decline
- A breaking of waters, as over a vessel or a coastal defence; the waters themselves.
- The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
- (figurative) A difference in opinions, social class, etc.
- (law) A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment.
- A gap or opening made by breaking or battering, as in a wall, fortification or levee / embankment; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence.
- A breaking up of amicable relations, a falling out.
- A breaking out upon; an assault.
- a failure to perform some promised act or obligation
- an opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification)
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- (transitive) To make a breach in.
- (transitive) To violate or break.
- (intransitive, of a whale or other sea creature) To leap out of the water.
- (intransitive) To suffer a breach.
- (law, informal, transitive, usually passive) To charge, convict or take legal action against someone due to not meeting a legal obligation.
- (transitive, nautical, of the sea) To break into a ship or into a coastal defence.
- make an opening or gap in
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
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- (transitive) To shape into a series of ripples.
- stir up (water) so as to form ripples
- (intransitive) To propagate like a moving wave.
- (intransitive) To move like the undulating surface of a body of water; to undulate.
- To remove the seeds from (the stalks of flax, etc.), by means of a ripple.
- (transitive) To scratch, tear, or break slightly; graze
- (transitive) To launch or unleash in rapid succession.
- (intransitive) To make a sound as of water running gently over a rough bottom, or the breaking of ripples on the shore.
- flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise
- A style of ice cream in which flavors have been coarsely blended together.
- One of a series of corrugations in flat surface.
- (dialectal, historical) thripple, cart ladder (extension for cart or wagon)
- A sound similar to that of undulating water.
- (textiles) An implement, with teeth like those of a comb, for removing the seeds and seed vessels from flax, broom corn, etc.
- (figurative) A small spreading change, impact, or effect produced by a larger or more consequential action.
- A moving disturbance, or undulation, in the surface of a fluid.
- (electronics) A small oscillation of an otherwise steady signal.
- (electronics) an oscillation of small amplitude imposed on top of a steady value
- a small wave on the surface of a liquid
- To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
- (intransitive) To assume the shape of a curl or spiral.
- To deck with, or as if with, curls; to ornament.
- (intransitive) To move in curves.
- (intransitive, curling) To take part in the sport of curling.
- (transitive, weightlifting) To exercise by bending the arm, wrist, or leg on the exertion against resistance, especially of the biceps.
- (hat-making) To shape (the brim of a hat) into a curve.
- (transitive) To make into a curl or spiral.
- (transitive) To cause to move in a curve.
- To twist or form (the hair, etc.) into ringlets.
- wind around something in coils or loops
- play the Scottish game of curling
- twist or roll into coils or ringlets
- shape one's body into a curl
- form a curl, curve, or kink
- (baking, chiefly in the plural) A thin, curved piece of chocolate used as decoration.
- (calculus, proper noun) The vector operator, denoted rm curl; or ⃑∇×⃑(·), that generates this field.
- (American football) A pattern where the receiver appears to be running a fly pattern but after a set number of steps or yards quickly stops and turns around, looking for a pass.
- A curving piece or lock of hair; a ringlet.
- (calculus) The vector field denoting the rotationality of a given vector field.
- (music, chiefly lutherie) The contrasting light and dark figure seen in wood used for stringed instrument making; the flame.
- (surfing) The concave part of a breaking wave.
- (weightlifting) Any exercise performed by bending the arm, wrist, or leg on the exertion against resistance, especially those that train the biceps.
- A curved stroke or shape.
- (curling) Movement of a moving rock away from a straight line.
- A spin making the trajectory of an object curve.
- (agriculture, phytopathology, uncountable) Any of various diseases of plants causing the leaves or shoots to curl up; often specifically the potato curl.
- a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
- lock of hair in the shape of a spiral or curl
- common edible, burrowing European bivalve mollusk that has a strong, rounded shell with radiating ribs
- common edible European bivalve
- A kiln for drying hops; an oast.
- (figurative, in the plural) Chiefly in cockles of someone's heart: a person's innermost feelings.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A £10 note; a tenner.
- (directly from French coquille) A wrinkle, pucker
- Any of various edible European bivalve mollusks, of the family Cardiidae, having heart-shaped shells.
- The fire chamber of a furnace.
- The shell of such a mollusk.
- Any of several field weeds, such as the common corncockle (Agrostemma githago) and darnel ryegrass (Lolium temulentum).
- The dome of a heating furnace.
- (by extension) A defect in sheepskin; firm dark nodules caused by the bites of keds on live sheep
- (Cornwall, mining) The mineral black tourmaline or schorl.
- stir up (water) so as to form ripples
- (transitive) To ruffle with a rippling action.
- look through a book or other written material
- twitch or flutter
- shuffle (playing cards) by separating the deck into two parts and riffling with the thumbs so the cards intermix
- (transitive) To idly manipulate objects with the fingers.
- (transitive) To shuffle playing cards by separating the deck in two and sliding the thumbs along the edges of the cards to mix the two parts.
- (intransitive) To skim or flick through the pages of a book.
- (transitive) To leaf through rapidly.
- (transitive) To prepare samples of material using a riffler.
- (intransitive) To flow over a swift, shallow part of a stream.
- A succession of small waves.
- shuffling by splitting the pack and interweaving the two halves at their corners
- a small wave on the surface of a liquid
- In seal engraving, a small metal disc at the end of a tool.
- A swift, shallow part of a stream causing broken water.
- The sound made while shuffling cards.
- (mining) A trough or sluice having cleats, grooves, or steps across the bottom for holding quicksilver and catching particles of gold when auriferous earth is washed. Also one of the cleats, grooves or steps in such trough.
- A quick skim through the pages of a book.
- Synonym of riffle shuffle
- stir up (water) so as to form ripples
- disturb the smoothness of
- pleat or gather into a ruffle
- mix so as to make a random order or arrangement
- erect or fluff up
- twitch or flutter
- trouble or vex
- discompose
- to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others
- To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.
- (intransitive) To grow rough, boisterous, or turbulent.
- (intransitive) To be rough; to jar; to be in contention; hence, to put on airs; to swagger.
- (transitive) To make a ruffle in; to curl or flute, as an edge of fabric.
- To erect in a ruff, as feathers.
- (intransitive) To become disordered; to play loosely; to flutter.
- To throw together in a disorderly manner.
- (military) To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
- (transitive) To disturb; especially, to cause to flutter.
- a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim
- a noisy fight
- a high tight collar
- Disturbance; agitation; commotion.
- Any gathered or curled strip of fabric added as trim or decoration.
- (military) A low, vibrating beat of a drum, quieter than a roll; a ruff.
- (zoology) The connected series of large egg capsules, or oothecae, of several species of American marine gastropods of the genus Fulgur.
- stir up (water) so as to form ripples
- occur in soft rounded shapes
- increase and decrease in volume or pitch, as if in waves
- move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion
- (transitive) To cause to resemble a wave.
- (intransitive) To move in wavelike motions.
- (intransitive) To appear wavelike.
- (transitive) To cause to move in a wavelike motion.
- rise and move, as in waves or billows
- make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit
- lift or elevate
- breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted
- move or cause to move in a specified way, direction, or position
- bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat
- utter a sound, as with obvious effort
- throw with great effort
- (intransitive) To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.
- (transitive) To utter with effort.
- (intransitive) To rise and fall.
- (transitive, mining, geology) To displace (a vein, stratum).
- (intransitive) To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.
- (transitive) To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).
- (transitive, nautical) To pull up with a rope or cable.
- (ambitransitive, nautical) To move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation.
- (transitive) To throw, cast.
- (intransitive) To retch, to make an effort to vomit; to vomit.
- (geology) a horizontal dislocation
- the act of raising something
- the act of lifting something with great effort
- throwing something heavy (with great effort)
- an involuntary spasm of ineffectual vomiting
- an upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling)
- (rare, only used attributively as in "heave line" or "heave horse") Broken wind in horses.
- (cricket) A forceful shot in which the ball follows a high trajectory
- An effort to vomit; retching.
- An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake, etc.
- (countable) An effort to raise something, such as a weight or one's own body, or to move something heavy.
- (nautical) The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time.
- A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.
- rise and move, as in waves or billows
- see one's performance improve
- rise or heave upward under the influence of a natural force such as a wave
- rise or move forward
- rise rapidly
- (intransitive) To rush, flood, or increase suddenly.
- To accelerate forwards, particularly suddenly.
- (transitive, nautical) To slack off a line.
- (intransitive, aviation, of a jet engine) To experience a momentary reversal of airflow through the compressor section due to disruption of intake airflow.
- a sudden forceful flow
- a large sea wave
- a sudden or abrupt strong increase
- (electricity) A sudden electrical spike or increase of voltage and current.
- The tapered part of a windlass barrel or a capstan, upon which the cable surges, or slips.
- (US, naval, often attributive) A deployment in large numbers at short notice.
- (nautical) The swell or heave of the sea.
- The maximum amplitude of a vehicle's forward/backward oscillation.
- (aviation) A momentary reversal of the airflow through the compressor section of a jet engine due to disruption of the airflow entering the engine's air intake, accompanied by loud banging noises, emission of flame, and temporary loss of thrust.
- A sudden transient rush, flood or increase.
- A circle made by the motion of a fluid; an eddy; a ripple.
- A gentle murmuring sound, such as that produced by the running of a liquid among obstructions.
- An embroidered and puckered border; a hem or fringe, often of gold or silver twist; also, a pleat or fold, as of a band.
- A particular stitch in knitting in which the working yarn is pulled through an existing stitch from front to back.
- a heavy or headlong fall; an upset.
- The edge of lace trimmed with loops.
- a basic knitting stitch made by putting the needle through the front of the stitch from the righthand side
- gold or silver wire thread
- To rise in circles, ripples, or undulations; to curl; to mantle.
- (knitting) To use or create a purl stitch or stitches.
- To decorate with fringe or embroidered edge
- (intransitive) To flow with a murmuring sound in swirls and eddies.
- flow in a circular current, of liquids
- knit with a purl stitch
- embroider with gold or silver thread
- edge or border with gold or silver embroidery
- make a murmuring sound
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- One of several people who take up arms against the local state authority; a participant in insurgency.
- a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment
- a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions)
- (of water) with few or no waves on the surface; not rippled.
- (slang, MLE) Good; alright; cool; OK.
- (of a person) Peaceful, quiet, especially free from anger and anxiety.
- (of weather) Without wind or storm.
- (of a place or situation) Free of noise and disturbance.
- not agitated; without losing self-possession
- (of weather) free from storm or wind
- (in a place or situation) The state of being calm; absence of noise and disturbance.
- (meteorology) The absence of wind; a period of time without wind.
- (in a person) The state of being calm; peacefulness; absence of worry, anger, fear or other strong negative emotion.
- steadiness of mind under stress
- wind moving at less than 1 knot; 0 on the Beaufort scale