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noun
- a boat for carrying mail
- a collection of things wrapped or boxed together
- (computer science) a message or message fragment
- a small package or bundle
- (networking) A protocol data unit of the Internet Protocol.
- (networking) A message sent over a transport layer protocol.
- (informal) A large amount of money.
- (nautical) Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed days of sailing; a mail boat. Packet boat, ship, vessel (Wikipedia).
- (networking) A small fragment of data as transmitted on some types of network, notably Ethernet networks (Wikipedia).
- (slang) Synonym of package (“male genitalia”).
- A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel
- (South Africa) A plastic bag.
- (botany) A specimen envelope containing small, dried plants or containing parts of plants when attached to a larger sheet.
verb
noun
- a boat for carrying mail
- (historical) An ocean-going ship chartered by the government to carry the mail and official communications.
- (historical) A boat that carried mail, cargo, and, in later years, some passengers along a regularly scheduled route up and down a river or canal.
- (historical) A boat specifically designed to provide transportation to passengers on a regular schedule up and down a river or canal.
noun
noun
- a boat for communication between ship and shore
- someone who carves the meat
- a cutting implement; a tool for cutting
- someone who cuts or carves stone
- someone whose work is cutting (as e.g. cutting cloth for garments)
- a sailing vessel with a single mast set further back than the mast of a sloop
- (television) A flag or similar instrument for blocking light.
- An animal yielding inferior meat, with little or no external fat and marbling.
- (Maine) An active child.
- (cricket) A ball that moves sideways in the air, or off the pitch, because it has been cut.
- (MLE) A knife.
- (informal) A person who practices self-injury by making cuts in the flesh.
- A light sleigh drawn by one horse.
- A foretooth; an incisor.
- A motorized vessel used in law enforcement purpose
- (wrestling) A three-quarters facelock bulldog move in which the attacker drives the opponent's head into the mat while falling onto their back.
- (medicine, colloquial, slang, humorous or derogatory) A surgeon.
- (slang) A ten-pence piece. So named because it is the coin most often sharpened by prison inmates to use as a weapon.
- (nautical) A ship's boat, used for transport ship-to-ship or ship-to-shore.
- (nautical) A single-masted, fore-and-aft rigged, sailing vessel with at least two headsails, and a mast set further aft than that of a sloop.
- (intactivism, derogatory) A supporter of infant circumcision or female genital mutilation; pro-circumcisionist.
- A person or device that cuts (in various senses).
- (baseball) A cut fastball.
noun
- a boat for communication between ship and shore
- (nautical) A smaller boat used for transportation between a large ship and the shore.
- something that can be used as an official medium of payment
- car attached to a locomotive to carry fuel and water
- someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another
- ship that usually provides supplies to other ships
- a formal proposal to buy at a specified price
- Anything which is offered, proffered, put forth or bid with the expectation of a response, answer, or reply.
- Ellipsis of water tender (“firefighting apparatus”).
- (archaic outside certain compounds) Someone who tends or waits on something or someone.
- The inner flight muscle (pectoralis minor) of poultry.
- (rail transport) A railroad car towed behind a steam engine to carry fuel and water.
- A means of payment such as a check or cheque, cash or credit card.
- Any offer or proposal made for acceptance.
- (diving) A member of a diving team who assists a diver during a dive but does not themselves go underwater.
- (nautical) A naval ship that functions as a mobile base for other ships.
- (law) A formal offer to buy or sell something.
adj
- easy to cut or chew
- given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality
- hurting
- young and immature
- (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail
- (of plants) not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition
- having or displaying warmth or affection
- physically untoughened
- Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
- Easily bruised or injured; not firm or hard; delicate.
- Fond, loving, gentle, or sweet.
- Physically weak; not able to endure hardship.
- Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic.
- (of food) Soft and easily chewed.
- Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate.
- Young and inexperienced.
- (nautical) Heeling over too easily when under sail; said of a vessel.
- Sensitive or painful to the touch.
verb
adv
noun
- A kind of flyboat; a storeship.
- A lengthwise groove, such as one of the lengthwise grooves on a classical column, or a groove on a cutting tool (such as a drill bit, endmill, or reamer), which helps to form both a cutting edge and a channel through which chips can escape.
- An organ stop with a flute-like sound.
- (music) A woodwind instrument consisting of a tube with a row of holes that produce sound through vibrations caused by air blown across the edge of the holes, often tuned by plugging one or more holes with a finger; the Western concert flute, a transverse side-blown flute of European origin.
- (colloquial) A recorder, also a woodwind instrument.
- (architecture, firearms) A semicylindrical vertical groove, as in a pillar, in plaited cloth, or in a rifle barrel to cut down the weight.
- A long French bread roll, baguette.
- A shuttle in weaving tapestry etc.
- A glass with a long, narrow bowl and a long stem, used for drinking wine, especially champagne.
- a high-pitched woodwind instrument; a slender tube closed at one end with finger holes on one end and an opening near the closed end across which the breath is blown
- a groove or furrow in cloth etc. (particularly a shallow concave groove on the shaft of a column)
- a tall narrow wineglass
verb
noun
- A ferryboat.
- (mining) The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
- (swimming) Clipping of backstroke.
- (slang, uncountable) Effort, usually physical.
- (sports) In some team sports, a position behind most players on the team.
- (figuratively) The upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal’s back.
- (slang, uncountable) Large and attractive buttocks.
- A support or resource in reserve.
- Area behind, such as the backyard of a house or the rear storeroom of a retail store.
- The reverse side; the side that is not normally seen.
- The side of a blade opposite the side used for cutting.
- Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
- The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
- The part of something that goes last.
- The backrest, the part of a piece of furniture which receives the human back.
- (nautical) The keel and keelson of a ship.
- (figurative) The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back.
- A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
- The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side.
- The spine and associated tissues.
- The edge of a book which is bound.
- A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
- (printing) The inside margin of a page.
- That which is farthest away from the front.
- (football) a person who plays in the backfield
- the part of a garment that covers the back of your body
- (American football) the position of a player on a football team who is stationed behind the line of scrimmage
- the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book
- the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord
- the part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer
- the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine
- the side that goes last or is not normally seen
- a support that you can lean against while sitting
adj
- (comparable, phonetics) Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel).
- At or near the rear.
- Not current.
- (predicative) Returned or restored to a previous place or condition.
- Situated away from the main or most frequented areas.
- Moving or operating backward.
- In arrears; overdue.
- located at or near the back of an animal
- of an earlier date
- related to or located at the back
adv
- In a manner that impedes.
- To a later point in time. See also put back.
- Towards, into or in the past.
- In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
- Away from someone or something; at a distance.
- So as to shrink, recede or move aside, or cause to do so.
- (not comparable) To or in a previous condition or place.
- (not comparable) In a reciprocal manner; in return.
- (postpositive) Earlier, ago.
- In a direction opposite to the usual or desired direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively.
- Away from the front or from an edge.
- in or to or toward a former location
- in reply
- at or to or toward the back or rear
- in repayment or retaliation
- in or to or toward a past time
- in or to or toward an original condition
verb
- (transitive) To push or force backwards.
- (law, of a justice of the peace) To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender).
- (transitive) To support.
- (MLE, transitive) To draw from behind the back (a knife etc.) (as also back out).
- (intransitive) To go in the reverse direction.
- (nautical, of the wind) To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
- (UK, of a hunting dog) To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
- To row backward with (oars).
- (nautical, of a square sail) To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship.
- To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
- To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
- (nautical, of an anchor) To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
- (Nigeria, transitive) To carry an infant on one’s back.
- To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.
- be in back of
- travel backward
- establish as valid or genuine
- place a bet on
- give support or one's approval to
- strengthen by providing with a back or backing
- shift to a counterclockwise direction
- support financial backing for
- be behind; approve of
- cause to travel backward
noun
noun
- a cargo ship
- the second half of an inning; while the home team is at bat
- low-lying alluvial land near a river
- a depression forming the ground under a body of water
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- the lowest part of anything
- the lower side of anything
- (baseball) The second half of an inning, the home team's turn at bat.
- (countable, colloquial, by extension) A sexual submissive.
- (heraldry, rare) A trundle or spindle of thread.
- Spirits poured into a glass before adding soda water.
- The bed of a body of water.
- An abyss.
- (particle physics) Ellipsis of bottom quark.
- (often figuratively) The lowest part of a container.
- (uncountable, British, slang) Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment.
- The lowest part of anything.
- (euphemistic) The buttocks or anus.
- The fundamental part; a basic aspect.
- (usually in the plural) Low-lying land near a river with alluvial soil.
- (clothing, often plural) A garment worn to cover the body below the torso.
- (nautical) Certain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always underwater.
- The lowest or last position in a rank.
- (now chiefly US) Low-lying land; a valley or hollow.
- (music) The bass or baritone instruments of a band.
- The remotest or innermost part of something.
- (nautical) A cargo vessel, a ship.
- A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
- (countable, slang, especially LGBTQ slang) A person who has a receptive role or has a preference for that role during intercourse.
- (agriculture) The working portion of a moldboard-style plow.
adj
verb
- strike the ground, as with a ship's bottom
- come to understand
- provide with a bottom or a seat
- (intransitive, especially LGBTQ slang) To take on the receptive role during intercourse.
- To fall to the lowest point.
- (transitive) To pour spirits into (a glass to be topped up with soda water).
- (mechanics, intransitive) To reach or strike against the bottom of something, so as to impede free action.
- (transitive, chiefly passive voice) To lie on the bottom of; to underlie, to lie beneath.
- (transitive) To reach the bottom of something.
- (transitive) To furnish (something) with a bottom.
- (transitive) To establish or found (something) on or upon.
noun
adv
noun
noun
- a vessel that carries passengers or freight
- (nautical) A water-borne vessel generally larger than a boat.
- (cellular automata, chiefly in combination) A spaceship.
- A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship) used to hold incense.
- (fandom slang) A fictional romantic relationship between two characters, either real or themselves fictional, especially one explored in fan fiction.
- (chiefly in combination) A vessel which travels through any medium other than across land, such as an airship or spaceship.
- (uncommon) Clipping of relationship.
- (cartomancy) The third card of the Lenormand deck.
- (cellular automata) A particular still life consisting of an empty cell surrounded by six live cells.
verb
- transport commercially
- travel by ship
- place on board a ship
- hire for work on a ship
- go on board
- (transitive, rugby) To draw (a penalty) by bungling a kick and giving the opposing team possession.
- (transitive, nautical) To put or secure in its place.
- (intransitive) To embark on a ship.
- (transitive, sports) To trade or send (a player) to another team.
- (fandom slang, transitive) To support or approve of a fictional romantic relationship between two characters, typically in fan fiction or other fandom contexts.
- (transitive) To send (a parcel or container) to a recipient (by any means of transport).
- (ambitransitive, poker slang) To go all in.
- (colloquial, with dummy it) To leave, depart, scram.
- (ergative) To engage to serve on board a vessel.
- (transitive) To take in or take on (water) over the sides of a vessel.
- (ditransitive, colloquial) To pass (from one person to another).
- (transitive) To send by water-borne transport.
- (ergative) To release (a product, not necessarily physical) to vendors or customers; to launch.
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noun
verb
noun
- a device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires
- a substance used to ignite or kindle a fire
- a flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals)
- A flat-bottomed boat for carrying heavy loads across short distances (especially for canals or for loading or unloading larger boats).
- A person who lights things.
- A device used to light things, especially a reusable handheld device for creating fire to light cigarettes.
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verb
noun
noun
noun
- A transportation ship that is water-based.
- (usually historical) A person who carries water from a spring or well, especially in antiquity and pre-modern era when it was a common job.
- (figuratively, colloquial) A person doing simple, ordinary work, usually in opposition to somebody considered more valuable.
- A pipe or tube that conveys water.
- An arrangement of wires on which a bucket of water, raised from a well, etc., may be conveyed wherever required, as to a house.
- (cycling) A domestique.
- (astronomy, astrology) Aquarius, or a symbol for it.
noun
- a small vessel for travel on water
- a dish (often boat-shaped) for serving gravy or sauce
- (organic chemistry, physical chemistry) One of two possible conformations of cyclohexane rings (the other being chair), shaped roughly like a boat.
- A craft used for transportation of goods, fishing, racing, recreational cruising, or military use on or in the water, propelled by oars or outboard motor or inboard motor or by wind.
- Alternative form of BOAT.
- (poker slang) A full house.
- A conveyance, utensil, or dish somewhat resembling a boat in shape.
- (Australian politics, informal) The refugee boats arriving in Australian waters, and by extension, refugees generally.
- (informal) A large and heavy car; the term connotes wasteful size.
- (cellular automata) In Conway’s Game of Life, a particular still life consisting of a dead cell surrounded by five living cells.
verb
noun
- a flat-bottomed boat used on upper Great Lakes
- a heavy woolen cloth heavily napped and felted, often with a plaid design
- a short plaid coat made of made of thick woolen material
- a thick plaid blanket formerly used in the northwestern United States
- (countable) A blanket made of wool, formerly distributed to the Amerindians by the U.S. government.
- (countable) Synonym of mackinaw boat.
- A heavy woolen cloth.
noun
- (nautical) A boat used to convey guests to and from a yacht.
- An event held to celebrate the launch of a ship/vessel, project, a new book, etc.; a launch party.
- The act or fact of launching (a ship/vessel, a project, a new book, etc.).
- (nautical) The boat of the largest size and/or of most importance belonging to a ship of war, and often called the "captain's boat" or "captain's launch".
- (nautical) An open boat of any size powered by steam, petrol, electricity, etc.
- The movement of a vessel from land into the water; especially, the sliding on ways from the stocks on which it is built. (Compare: to splash a ship.)
- the act of propelling with force
- a motorboat with an open deck or a half deck
verb
- (transitive) To cause (a rocket, balloon, etc., or the payload thereof) to begin its flight upward from the ground.
- (intransitive, often with out) To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the stocks into the water; to plunge; to begin.
- (transitive) To throw (a projectile such as a lance, dart or ball); to hurl; to propel with force.
- (intransitive) Of a ship, rocket, balloon, etc.: to depart on a voyage; to take off.
- (transitive) To send out; to start (someone) on a mission or project; to give a start to (something); to put in operation
- (intransitive, computing, of a program) To start to operate.
- (transitive, computing) To start (a program or feature); to execute or bring into operation.
- (transitive) To release; to put onto the market for sale
- (transitive) To cause (a vessel) to move or slide from the land or a larger vessel into the water; to set afloat.
- set up or found
- launch for the first time; launch on a maiden voyage
- propel with force
- smoothen the surface of
- begin with vigor
- get going; give impetus to
noun
- a sailing vessel with a specified rig
- a long slender pointed sable brush used by artists
- someone who rigs ships
- someone who works on an oil rig
- One who rigs or manipulates (an election, etc).
- One whose occupation is to fit the rigging of a ship or of a counterweight system.
- (paraskiing) Ellipsis of outrigger.
- (BDSM) A person who applies functional or artistic rope bondage to another person's body.
- (in combination) A ship with a certain type of rigging.
- (New Zealand) A plastic bottle of beer, typically between 1 L to 2.5 L volume.
- A long, slender, pointed sable paintbrush for making fine lines, etc.; said to be so called from its use for drawing the lines of the rigging of ships.
- A part of a rowing boat's equipment used to provide leverage for a rowing blade or oar around a fixed fulcrum.
- A worker on an oil rig.
- A cylindrical pulley or drum in machinery.
- (animation) One whose occupation is to outfit a computer model with controls for animation.
- One whose occupation is to lift and move large and heavy objects (such as industrial machinery) with the help of cables, hoists, and other equipment.
noun
- (nautical) A bulk dry goods cargo ship.
- Anything, such as a dietary supplement or an exercise, that helps a person to gain body mass.
- A person who bulks (gains body mass).
- (nautical) A person employed to ascertain the bulk or size of goods, in order to fix the amount of freight or dues payable on them.
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phrase
noun
- (nautical) In full tabloid cruiser: a small yacht used for cruising.
- (Canada, US, printing) A paper size 11 × 17 inches (279 × 432 millimetres) in dimensions.
- (newspapers) A newspaper having pages half the dimensions of a broadsheet, especially characterized as favouring stories of a popular or sensational nature over serious news.
- newspaper with half-size pages
- sensationalist journalism
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verb
noun
- (informal) A stowaway on a seagoing vessel.
- (nautical) A boat that can go underwater.
- Any submarine plant or animal.
- (baseball) A pitch delivered with an underhand motion.
- Alternative form of submarine sandwich.
- a submersible warship usually armed with torpedoes
- a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States
adj
verb
- (intransitive, automotive) To slide forwards underneath one's seat belt (during a crash or sudden stop).
- (transitive) To torpedo; to destroy with a sudden sneak attack.
- (intransitive) To operate or serve on a submarine.
- (intransitive, sometimes figurative) To sink or submerge oneself.
- control a submarine
- throw with an underhand motion
- attack by submarine
- bring down with a blow to the legs
- move forward or under in a sliding motion
adj
noun
noun
- The enclosed structure around the paddlewheel of a steamboat.
- (archaeology) A prehistoric structure from the Iron Age found in Scotland, characteristically including an outer wall within which a circle of stone piers (resembling the spokes of a wheel) form the basis for lintel arches supporting corbelled roofing with a hearth at the hub.
- (Canada, US, baseball, by extension from sense 1.2) A pitch location which is favourable to the hitter.
- A building or other structure containing a (large) wheel, such as the water wheel of a mill.
- An enclosed compartment on the deck of a vessel such as a fishing boat, originally housing its helm or steering wheel, from which it may be navigated; on a larger vessel it is the bridge.
- The partially enclosed structure above and around a wheel of an automobile, typically partly formed by a portion of a fender panel that has been extended outward beyond the plane of the rest of the panel.
- (Canada, US, figuratively) A person's area of authority or expertise.
- (Canada, US, figuratively) A set of skills necessitated by a situation.
- one's area of interest or expertise
- an enclosed compartment from which a vessel can be navigated
noun
- a craft designed for water transportation
- a tube in which a body fluid circulates
- an object used as a container (especially for liquids)
- (biology) A tube or canal that carries fluid in an animal or plant.
- (figurative) A person as a container of qualities or feelings.
- (nautical) Any craft designed for transportation on or in water, such as a ship, boat, or submarine.
- A container of liquid or other substance, such as a glass, goblet, cup, bottle, bowl, or pitcher.
- A craft designed for transportation through air or space.
verb
noun
- a craft designed for water transportation
- skill in the management of boats
- (countable and uncountable) Any vessel with implements designed to move it in arbitrary direction through one or various bodies of water: a boat, ship, sea scooter, or similar vehicle.
- (uncountable, rare) Skill in boating, swimming, or other water-related sports.
noun
- (nautical) A tugboat.
- (mining) An iron hook of a hoisting tub, to which a tackle is affixed.
- (UK, slang) A foundationer or colleger at Eton.
- (slang) An act of male masturbation.
- A type of tractor used for moving trailers.
- A sudden powerful pull.
- A trace, or drawing strap, of a harness.
- A dog toy consisting of a rope, often with a knot in it.
- a powerful small boat designed to pull or push larger ships
- a sudden abrupt pull
verb
- (transitive) To pull hard repeatedly.
- (transitive) To pull or drag with great effort.
- (slang, ambitransitive) To masturbate.
- (transitive) To tow by tugboat.
- strive and make an effort to reach a goal
- move by pulling hard
- struggle in opposition
- pull or strain hard at
- tow (a vessel) with a tug
- carry with difficulty
- pull hard
noun
noun
- a boat for carrying mail
- a collection of things wrapped or boxed together
- (computer science) a message or message fragment
- a small package or bundle
- (networking) A protocol data unit of the Internet Protocol.
- (networking) A message sent over a transport layer protocol.
- (informal) A large amount of money.
- (nautical) Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed days of sailing; a mail boat. Packet boat, ship, vessel (Wikipedia).
- (networking) A small fragment of data as transmitted on some types of network, notably Ethernet networks (Wikipedia).
- (slang) Synonym of package (“male genitalia”).
- A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel
- (South Africa) A plastic bag.
- (botany) A specimen envelope containing small, dried plants or containing parts of plants when attached to a larger sheet.
verb
noun
- a boat for carrying mail
- (historical) An ocean-going ship chartered by the government to carry the mail and official communications.
- (historical) A boat that carried mail, cargo, and, in later years, some passengers along a regularly scheduled route up and down a river or canal.
- (historical) A boat specifically designed to provide transportation to passengers on a regular schedule up and down a river or canal.
noun
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- a boat for communication between ship and shore
- someone who carves the meat
- a cutting implement; a tool for cutting
- someone who cuts or carves stone
- someone whose work is cutting (as e.g. cutting cloth for garments)
- a sailing vessel with a single mast set further back than the mast of a sloop
- (television) A flag or similar instrument for blocking light.
- An animal yielding inferior meat, with little or no external fat and marbling.
- (Maine) An active child.
- (cricket) A ball that moves sideways in the air, or off the pitch, because it has been cut.
- (MLE) A knife.
- (informal) A person who practices self-injury by making cuts in the flesh.
- A light sleigh drawn by one horse.
- A foretooth; an incisor.
- A motorized vessel used in law enforcement purpose
- (wrestling) A three-quarters facelock bulldog move in which the attacker drives the opponent's head into the mat while falling onto their back.
- (medicine, colloquial, slang, humorous or derogatory) A surgeon.
- (slang) A ten-pence piece. So named because it is the coin most often sharpened by prison inmates to use as a weapon.
- (nautical) A ship's boat, used for transport ship-to-ship or ship-to-shore.
- (nautical) A single-masted, fore-and-aft rigged, sailing vessel with at least two headsails, and a mast set further aft than that of a sloop.
- (intactivism, derogatory) A supporter of infant circumcision or female genital mutilation; pro-circumcisionist.
- A person or device that cuts (in various senses).
- (baseball) A cut fastball.
noun
- a boat for communication between ship and shore
- (nautical) A smaller boat used for transportation between a large ship and the shore.
- something that can be used as an official medium of payment
- car attached to a locomotive to carry fuel and water
- someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another
- ship that usually provides supplies to other ships
- a formal proposal to buy at a specified price
- Anything which is offered, proffered, put forth or bid with the expectation of a response, answer, or reply.
- Ellipsis of water tender (“firefighting apparatus”).
- (archaic outside certain compounds) Someone who tends or waits on something or someone.
- The inner flight muscle (pectoralis minor) of poultry.
- (rail transport) A railroad car towed behind a steam engine to carry fuel and water.
- A means of payment such as a check or cheque, cash or credit card.
- Any offer or proposal made for acceptance.
- (diving) A member of a diving team who assists a diver during a dive but does not themselves go underwater.
- (nautical) A naval ship that functions as a mobile base for other ships.
- (law) A formal offer to buy or sell something.
adj
- easy to cut or chew
- given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality
- hurting
- young and immature
- (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail
- (of plants) not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition
- having or displaying warmth or affection
- physically untoughened
- Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
- Easily bruised or injured; not firm or hard; delicate.
- Fond, loving, gentle, or sweet.
- Physically weak; not able to endure hardship.
- Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic.
- (of food) Soft and easily chewed.
- Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate.
- Young and inexperienced.
- (nautical) Heeling over too easily when under sail; said of a vessel.
- Sensitive or painful to the touch.
verb
adv
noun
- A kind of flyboat; a storeship.
- A lengthwise groove, such as one of the lengthwise grooves on a classical column, or a groove on a cutting tool (such as a drill bit, endmill, or reamer), which helps to form both a cutting edge and a channel through which chips can escape.
- An organ stop with a flute-like sound.
- (music) A woodwind instrument consisting of a tube with a row of holes that produce sound through vibrations caused by air blown across the edge of the holes, often tuned by plugging one or more holes with a finger; the Western concert flute, a transverse side-blown flute of European origin.
- (colloquial) A recorder, also a woodwind instrument.
- (architecture, firearms) A semicylindrical vertical groove, as in a pillar, in plaited cloth, or in a rifle barrel to cut down the weight.
- A long French bread roll, baguette.
- A shuttle in weaving tapestry etc.
- A glass with a long, narrow bowl and a long stem, used for drinking wine, especially champagne.
- a high-pitched woodwind instrument; a slender tube closed at one end with finger holes on one end and an opening near the closed end across which the breath is blown
- a groove or furrow in cloth etc. (particularly a shallow concave groove on the shaft of a column)
- a tall narrow wineglass
verb
noun
- A ferryboat.
- (mining) The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
- (swimming) Clipping of backstroke.
- (slang, uncountable) Effort, usually physical.
- (sports) In some team sports, a position behind most players on the team.
- (figuratively) The upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal’s back.
- (slang, uncountable) Large and attractive buttocks.
- A support or resource in reserve.
- Area behind, such as the backyard of a house or the rear storeroom of a retail store.
- The reverse side; the side that is not normally seen.
- The side of a blade opposite the side used for cutting.
- Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
- The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
- The part of something that goes last.
- The backrest, the part of a piece of furniture which receives the human back.
- (nautical) The keel and keelson of a ship.
- (figurative) The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back.
- A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
- The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side.
- The spine and associated tissues.
- The edge of a book which is bound.
- A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
- (printing) The inside margin of a page.
- That which is farthest away from the front.
- (football) a person who plays in the backfield
- the part of a garment that covers the back of your body
- (American football) the position of a player on a football team who is stationed behind the line of scrimmage
- the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book
- the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord
- the part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer
- the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine
- the side that goes last or is not normally seen
- a support that you can lean against while sitting
adj
- (comparable, phonetics) Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel).
- At or near the rear.
- Not current.
- (predicative) Returned or restored to a previous place or condition.
- Situated away from the main or most frequented areas.
- Moving or operating backward.
- In arrears; overdue.
- located at or near the back of an animal
- of an earlier date
- related to or located at the back
adv
- In a manner that impedes.
- To a later point in time. See also put back.
- Towards, into or in the past.
- In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
- Away from someone or something; at a distance.
- So as to shrink, recede or move aside, or cause to do so.
- (not comparable) To or in a previous condition or place.
- (not comparable) In a reciprocal manner; in return.
- (postpositive) Earlier, ago.
- In a direction opposite to the usual or desired direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively.
- Away from the front or from an edge.
- in or to or toward a former location
- in reply
- at or to or toward the back or rear
- in repayment or retaliation
- in or to or toward a past time
- in or to or toward an original condition
verb
- (transitive) To push or force backwards.
- (law, of a justice of the peace) To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender).
- (transitive) To support.
- (MLE, transitive) To draw from behind the back (a knife etc.) (as also back out).
- (intransitive) To go in the reverse direction.
- (nautical, of the wind) To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
- (UK, of a hunting dog) To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
- To row backward with (oars).
- (nautical, of a square sail) To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship.
- To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
- To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
- (nautical, of an anchor) To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
- (Nigeria, transitive) To carry an infant on one’s back.
- To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.
- be in back of
- travel backward
- establish as valid or genuine
- place a bet on
- give support or one's approval to
- strengthen by providing with a back or backing
- shift to a counterclockwise direction
- support financial backing for
- be behind; approve of
- cause to travel backward
noun
noun
- a cargo ship
- the second half of an inning; while the home team is at bat
- low-lying alluvial land near a river
- a depression forming the ground under a body of water
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- the lowest part of anything
- the lower side of anything
- (baseball) The second half of an inning, the home team's turn at bat.
- (countable, colloquial, by extension) A sexual submissive.
- (heraldry, rare) A trundle or spindle of thread.
- Spirits poured into a glass before adding soda water.
- The bed of a body of water.
- An abyss.
- (particle physics) Ellipsis of bottom quark.
- (often figuratively) The lowest part of a container.
- (uncountable, British, slang) Character, reliability, staying power, dignity, integrity or sound judgment.
- The lowest part of anything.
- (euphemistic) The buttocks or anus.
- The fundamental part; a basic aspect.
- (usually in the plural) Low-lying land near a river with alluvial soil.
- (clothing, often plural) A garment worn to cover the body below the torso.
- (nautical) Certain parts of a vessel, particularly the cargo hold or the portion of the ship that is always underwater.
- The lowest or last position in a rank.
- (now chiefly US) Low-lying land; a valley or hollow.
- (music) The bass or baritone instruments of a band.
- The remotest or innermost part of something.
- (nautical) A cargo vessel, a ship.
- A ball or skein of thread; a cocoon.
- (countable, slang, especially LGBTQ slang) A person who has a receptive role or has a preference for that role during intercourse.
- (agriculture) The working portion of a moldboard-style plow.
adj
verb
- strike the ground, as with a ship's bottom
- come to understand
- provide with a bottom or a seat
- (intransitive, especially LGBTQ slang) To take on the receptive role during intercourse.
- To fall to the lowest point.
- (transitive) To pour spirits into (a glass to be topped up with soda water).
- (mechanics, intransitive) To reach or strike against the bottom of something, so as to impede free action.
- (transitive, chiefly passive voice) To lie on the bottom of; to underlie, to lie beneath.
- (transitive) To reach the bottom of something.
- (transitive) To furnish (something) with a bottom.
- (transitive) To establish or found (something) on or upon.
noun
adv
noun
noun
- a vessel that carries passengers or freight
- (nautical) A water-borne vessel generally larger than a boat.
- (cellular automata, chiefly in combination) A spaceship.
- A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship) used to hold incense.
- (fandom slang) A fictional romantic relationship between two characters, either real or themselves fictional, especially one explored in fan fiction.
- (chiefly in combination) A vessel which travels through any medium other than across land, such as an airship or spaceship.
- (uncommon) Clipping of relationship.
- (cartomancy) The third card of the Lenormand deck.
- (cellular automata) A particular still life consisting of an empty cell surrounded by six live cells.
verb
- transport commercially
- travel by ship
- place on board a ship
- hire for work on a ship
- go on board
- (transitive, rugby) To draw (a penalty) by bungling a kick and giving the opposing team possession.
- (transitive, nautical) To put or secure in its place.
- (intransitive) To embark on a ship.
- (transitive, sports) To trade or send (a player) to another team.
- (fandom slang, transitive) To support or approve of a fictional romantic relationship between two characters, typically in fan fiction or other fandom contexts.
- (transitive) To send (a parcel or container) to a recipient (by any means of transport).
- (ambitransitive, poker slang) To go all in.
- (colloquial, with dummy it) To leave, depart, scram.
- (ergative) To engage to serve on board a vessel.
- (transitive) To take in or take on (water) over the sides of a vessel.
- (ditransitive, colloquial) To pass (from one person to another).
- (transitive) To send by water-borne transport.
- (ergative) To release (a product, not necessarily physical) to vendors or customers; to launch.
noun
noun
noun
noun
- A transportation ship that is water-based.
- (usually historical) A person who carries water from a spring or well, especially in antiquity and pre-modern era when it was a common job.
- (figuratively, colloquial) A person doing simple, ordinary work, usually in opposition to somebody considered more valuable.
- A pipe or tube that conveys water.
- An arrangement of wires on which a bucket of water, raised from a well, etc., may be conveyed wherever required, as to a house.
- (cycling) A domestique.
- (astronomy, astrology) Aquarius, or a symbol for it.
noun
- a small vessel for travel on water
- a dish (often boat-shaped) for serving gravy or sauce
- (organic chemistry, physical chemistry) One of two possible conformations of cyclohexane rings (the other being chair), shaped roughly like a boat.
- A craft used for transportation of goods, fishing, racing, recreational cruising, or military use on or in the water, propelled by oars or outboard motor or inboard motor or by wind.
- Alternative form of BOAT.
- (poker slang) A full house.
- A conveyance, utensil, or dish somewhat resembling a boat in shape.
- (Australian politics, informal) The refugee boats arriving in Australian waters, and by extension, refugees generally.
- (informal) A large and heavy car; the term connotes wasteful size.
- (cellular automata) In Conway’s Game of Life, a particular still life consisting of a dead cell surrounded by five living cells.
verb
noun
- a flat-bottomed boat used on upper Great Lakes
- a heavy woolen cloth heavily napped and felted, often with a plaid design
- a short plaid coat made of made of thick woolen material
- a thick plaid blanket formerly used in the northwestern United States
- (countable) A blanket made of wool, formerly distributed to the Amerindians by the U.S. government.
- (countable) Synonym of mackinaw boat.
- A heavy woolen cloth.
noun
- (nautical) A boat used to convey guests to and from a yacht.
- An event held to celebrate the launch of a ship/vessel, project, a new book, etc.; a launch party.
- The act or fact of launching (a ship/vessel, a project, a new book, etc.).
- (nautical) The boat of the largest size and/or of most importance belonging to a ship of war, and often called the "captain's boat" or "captain's launch".
- (nautical) An open boat of any size powered by steam, petrol, electricity, etc.
- The movement of a vessel from land into the water; especially, the sliding on ways from the stocks on which it is built. (Compare: to splash a ship.)
- the act of propelling with force
- a motorboat with an open deck or a half deck
verb
- (transitive) To cause (a rocket, balloon, etc., or the payload thereof) to begin its flight upward from the ground.
- (intransitive, often with out) To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the stocks into the water; to plunge; to begin.
- (transitive) To throw (a projectile such as a lance, dart or ball); to hurl; to propel with force.
- (intransitive) Of a ship, rocket, balloon, etc.: to depart on a voyage; to take off.
- (transitive) To send out; to start (someone) on a mission or project; to give a start to (something); to put in operation
- (intransitive, computing, of a program) To start to operate.
- (transitive, computing) To start (a program or feature); to execute or bring into operation.
- (transitive) To release; to put onto the market for sale
- (transitive) To cause (a vessel) to move or slide from the land or a larger vessel into the water; to set afloat.
- set up or found
- launch for the first time; launch on a maiden voyage
- propel with force
- smoothen the surface of
- begin with vigor
- get going; give impetus to
noun
- a sailing vessel with a specified rig
- a long slender pointed sable brush used by artists
- someone who rigs ships
- someone who works on an oil rig
- One who rigs or manipulates (an election, etc).
- One whose occupation is to fit the rigging of a ship or of a counterweight system.
- (paraskiing) Ellipsis of outrigger.
- (BDSM) A person who applies functional or artistic rope bondage to another person's body.
- (in combination) A ship with a certain type of rigging.
- (New Zealand) A plastic bottle of beer, typically between 1 L to 2.5 L volume.
- A long, slender, pointed sable paintbrush for making fine lines, etc.; said to be so called from its use for drawing the lines of the rigging of ships.
- A part of a rowing boat's equipment used to provide leverage for a rowing blade or oar around a fixed fulcrum.
- A worker on an oil rig.
- A cylindrical pulley or drum in machinery.
- (animation) One whose occupation is to outfit a computer model with controls for animation.
- One whose occupation is to lift and move large and heavy objects (such as industrial machinery) with the help of cables, hoists, and other equipment.
noun
- (nautical) A bulk dry goods cargo ship.
- Anything, such as a dietary supplement or an exercise, that helps a person to gain body mass.
- A person who bulks (gains body mass).
- (nautical) A person employed to ascertain the bulk or size of goods, in order to fix the amount of freight or dues payable on them.
noun
name
phrase
noun
- (nautical) In full tabloid cruiser: a small yacht used for cruising.
- (Canada, US, printing) A paper size 11 × 17 inches (279 × 432 millimetres) in dimensions.
- (newspapers) A newspaper having pages half the dimensions of a broadsheet, especially characterized as favouring stories of a popular or sensational nature over serious news.
- newspaper with half-size pages
- sensationalist journalism
adj
verb
noun
- (informal) A stowaway on a seagoing vessel.
- (nautical) A boat that can go underwater.
- Any submarine plant or animal.
- (baseball) A pitch delivered with an underhand motion.
- Alternative form of submarine sandwich.
- a submersible warship usually armed with torpedoes
- a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States
adj
verb
- (intransitive, automotive) To slide forwards underneath one's seat belt (during a crash or sudden stop).
- (transitive) To torpedo; to destroy with a sudden sneak attack.
- (intransitive) To operate or serve on a submarine.
- (intransitive, sometimes figurative) To sink or submerge oneself.
- control a submarine
- throw with an underhand motion
- attack by submarine
- bring down with a blow to the legs
- move forward or under in a sliding motion
noun
- The enclosed structure around the paddlewheel of a steamboat.
- (archaeology) A prehistoric structure from the Iron Age found in Scotland, characteristically including an outer wall within which a circle of stone piers (resembling the spokes of a wheel) form the basis for lintel arches supporting corbelled roofing with a hearth at the hub.
- (Canada, US, baseball, by extension from sense 1.2) A pitch location which is favourable to the hitter.
- A building or other structure containing a (large) wheel, such as the water wheel of a mill.
- An enclosed compartment on the deck of a vessel such as a fishing boat, originally housing its helm or steering wheel, from which it may be navigated; on a larger vessel it is the bridge.
- The partially enclosed structure above and around a wheel of an automobile, typically partly formed by a portion of a fender panel that has been extended outward beyond the plane of the rest of the panel.
- (Canada, US, figuratively) A person's area of authority or expertise.
- (Canada, US, figuratively) A set of skills necessitated by a situation.
- one's area of interest or expertise
- an enclosed compartment from which a vessel can be navigated
noun
- a craft designed for water transportation
- a tube in which a body fluid circulates
- an object used as a container (especially for liquids)
- (biology) A tube or canal that carries fluid in an animal or plant.
- (figurative) A person as a container of qualities or feelings.
- (nautical) Any craft designed for transportation on or in water, such as a ship, boat, or submarine.
- A container of liquid or other substance, such as a glass, goblet, cup, bottle, bowl, or pitcher.
- A craft designed for transportation through air or space.
verb
noun
- a craft designed for water transportation
- skill in the management of boats
- (countable and uncountable) Any vessel with implements designed to move it in arbitrary direction through one or various bodies of water: a boat, ship, sea scooter, or similar vehicle.
- (uncountable, rare) Skill in boating, swimming, or other water-related sports.
noun
- (nautical) A tugboat.
- (mining) An iron hook of a hoisting tub, to which a tackle is affixed.
- (UK, slang) A foundationer or colleger at Eton.
- (slang) An act of male masturbation.
- A type of tractor used for moving trailers.
- A sudden powerful pull.
- A trace, or drawing strap, of a harness.
- A dog toy consisting of a rope, often with a knot in it.
- a powerful small boat designed to pull or push larger ships
- a sudden abrupt pull
verb
- (transitive) To pull hard repeatedly.
- (transitive) To pull or drag with great effort.
- (slang, ambitransitive) To masturbate.
- (transitive) To tow by tugboat.
- strive and make an effort to reach a goal
- move by pulling hard
- struggle in opposition
- pull or strain hard at
- tow (a vessel) with a tug
- carry with difficulty
- pull hard
noun
verb
noun
- a device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires
- a substance used to ignite or kindle a fire
- a flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals)
- A flat-bottomed boat for carrying heavy loads across short distances (especially for canals or for loading or unloading larger boats).
- A person who lights things.
- A device used to light things, especially a reusable handheld device for creating fire to light cigarettes.