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noun
- a swimmer who floats in the water
- an employee who is reassigned from job to job as needed
- a debt instrument with a variable interest rate tied to some other interest rate (e.g. the rate paid by T-bills)
- a voter who votes illegally at different polling places in the same election
- an object that floats or is capable of floating
- spots before the eyes caused by opaque cell fragments in the vitreous humor and lens
- a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support
- an insurance policy covering loss of movable property (e.g. jewelry) regardless of its location
- (US) A person, such as a delegate to a convention or a member of a legislature, who represents an irregular constituency, such as one formed by a union of the voters of two counties neither of which has a number sufficient to be allowed one (or an extra) representative of its own.
- (finance) Clipping of floating rate bond.
- (vulgar) A piece of faeces which floats.
- (slang) A person who attaches themselves to a group of people, and who repeatedly shows up at group activities even though this is undesired by the group; a hanger-on.
- (Australia) Ellipsis of pie floater (“a meat pie served floating in a bowl of thick green pea soup”).
- A voter who shifts their allegiance from one political party to another, especially (US) one whose vote can be illegally purchased.
- A river mussel (genus Anodonta).
- An employee of an organization who does not have fixed tasks to do but fills in wherever needed, usually when someone else is away; also, a short-term employee; a temporary, a temp.
- (prison slang) A book circulated between prisoners which is not part of the official prison library.
- A person who physically floats in a gas or liquid.
- (ophthalmology) A threadlike speck in the visual field which seems to move, possibly caused by degeneration of the vitreous humour of the eye.
- (cricket) A spinning delivery of the ball that travels in a high arched path.
- An "extra" (male) guest at a party who is asked by the host to entertain the other (often female) guests.
- (law enforcement, slang) A corpse floating in a body of water.
- A person who frequently changes where they live; a drifter, a vagrant.
- (insurance) An insurance policy covering movable property at more than one location or which may be in transit.
- A small suet dumpling put into soup.
- (US) A person who votes illegally in various electoral districts or polling places, either under a false voter registration or under the name of a properly registered voter who has not yet voted.
- (India) A waterproof sandal.
- (US, law) A criminal sentence which is suspended so long as the convicted person leaves an area.
- (sports) A ball that moves lightly through the air, as if floating; specifically (basketball), an early layup taken by a player moving towards the rim where, upon release, the ball floats in the air over the top of a defender before dropping softly into the hoop.
- A person who frequently changes employment.
- (surfing) A manoeuvre in which a surfer transitions above the unbroken face of a wave on to the lip, or on top of the breaking section of the wave.
- (sports) A player not affiliated with a team.
- (two-up) A coin which does not spin when thrown in the air.
noun
- (sports) A crawl swimmer.
- (Internet) A software bot that autonomously follows connected paths such as links between web pages.
- A child who is able to creep using its hands and knees but is not able to walk.
- Synonym of crawler crane.
- (UK, Australia, slang) A sycophant.
- A tractor crawler, a motorized vehicle that uses caterpillar tracks instead of wheels.
- A mobile stage in the development of stationary hemipteran insects such as scale insects—generally the first instar.
- terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers
- a person who crawls or creeps along the ground
- a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage
verb
noun
- (swimming) The upward motion of a swimmer's arm.
- An upward sweep or curve.
- (oceanography) The unidentified sound detected on the American NOAA's equatorial autonomous hydrophone arrays, consisting of a long train of narrow-band upsweeping sounds of several seconds in duration.
- A hairstyle where most of the hair is fastened into place at the top of the head.
verb
noun
- a brief swim in water
- a candle that is made by repeated dipping in a pool of wax or tallow
- a brief immersion
- tasty mixture or liquid into which bite-sized foods are dipped
- a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places
- a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
- a gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the body is lowered and raised by bending and straightening the arms
- a depression in an otherwise level surface
- (physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon
- (informal) A foolish person.
- (turpentine industry) The viscid exudation that is dipped out from incisions in the trees. Virgin dip is the runnings of the first year, yellow dip the runnings of subsequent years.
- A sauce for dipping.
- (geology) The angle from horizontal of a planar geologic surface, such as a fault line.
- A lower section of a road or geological feature.
- The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.
- A tank or trough where cattle or sheep are immersed in chemicals to kill parasites.
- (bodybuilding) A gymnastic or bodybuilding exercise on parallel bars in which the performer, resting on his hands, lets his arms bend and his body sink until his chin is level with the bars, and then raises himself by straightening his arms.
- (computer graphics) Initialism of device-independent pixel.
- (finance, informal) A financial asset in decline, seen as an investment opportunity.
- (uncountable) Finely ground tobacco, consumed by placing a small amount between the lip and gum.
- (aeronautics) A sudden drop followed by a climb, usually to avoid obstacles or as the result of getting into an airhole.
- A swim, usually a short swim to refresh.
- A dip stick.
- (ABDL, informal, uncommon) A diaper; diap, dipe.
- (informal) A diplomat.
- Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.
- (dance) A move in many different styles of partner dances, often performed at the end of a dance, in which the follower leans far to the side and is supported by the leader.
- (birdwatching, colloquial) The act of missing out on seeing a sought after bird.
- (UK, dialect, uncountable, Birmingham) Fried bread.
verb
- dip into a liquid
- immerse in a disinfectant solution
- dip into a liquid while eating
- place (candle wicks) into hot, liquid wax
- stain an object by immersing it in a liquid
- slope downwards
- immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
- appear to move downward
- lower briefly
- take a small amount from
- plunge (one's hand or a receptacle) into a container
- scoop up by plunging one's hand or a ladle below the surface
- switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam
- go down momentarily
- (intransitive) (of a value or rate) To decrease slightly.
- (transitive) To treat cattle or sheep by immersion in chemical solution.
- (transitive) To perform (a bow or curtsey) by inclining the body.
- (transitive) To lower into a liquid.
- (intransitive) To perform the action of plunging a dipper, ladle. etc. into a liquid or soft substance and removing a part.
- (transitive) To use a dip stick to check oil level in an engine.
- (transitive) To lower a light's beam.
- (birdwatching, colloquial) To miss out on seeing a sought after bird.
- (transitive) To briefly lower the body by bending the knees while keeping the body in an upright position, usually in rhythm, as when singing or dancing.
- (transitive) To lower (a flag), particularly a national ensign, to a partially hoisted position in order to render or to return a salute. While lowered, the flag is said to be “at the dip.” A flag being carried on a staff may be dipped by leaning it forward at an approximate angle of 45 degrees.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To leave; to quit or abandon.
- (transitive) To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part; often with out.
- (intransitive) To incline downward from the plane of the horizon.
- To consume snuff by placing a pinch behind the lip or under the tongue so that the active chemical constituents of the snuff may be absorbed into the system for their narcotic effect.
- (transitive) To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.
- (transitive) To immerse for baptism.
- (intransitive) To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
- (intransitive) To immerse oneself; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.
- (transitive) To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.
- (transitive, dance) To perform a dip dance move (often phrased with the leader as the subject noun and the follower as the subject noun being dipped)
- (intransitive) To sink, drop, or slope downwards.
noun
- a brief swim in water
- a steep and rapid fall
- A dive, leap, rush, or pitch into (into water).
- The act of plunging or submerging.
- (figuratively) The act of pitching or throwing oneself headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse.
- (slang) Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation.
verb
- thrust or throw into
- drop steeply
- dash violently or with great speed or impetuosity
- cause to be immersed
- begin with vigor
- immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
- devote (oneself) fully to
- fall abruptly
- (intransitive, slang) To bet heavily and recklessly; to risk large sums in gambling.
- (figuratively, transitive) To cast, stab or throw deep and fast into some thing, state, condition or action.
- (intransitive) To pitch or throw oneself headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.
- (figuratively, intransitive) To fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state or condition.
- (transitive) To remove a blockage by suction.
- (transitive) To thrust into liquid, or into any penetrable substance; to immerse.
- (intransitive) To dive, leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge oneself.
noun
- (swimming) A fifty-metre freestyle swimming event.
- (motor racing) A quick stop for fuel near the end of a race, so as to be able to cross the finish line without running out of fuel.
- (aviation) A ballooning maneuver whereby a Montgolfier balloon is lowered down to touch a body of water and lifts off again.
verb
noun
- (swimming) A stroke swum lying on one's back, while rotating both arms through the water as to propel the swimmer backwards.
- A backhanded stroke or blow.
- (bellringing) The pull on the tail of the rope that swings the bell through a full circle (compare handstroke)
- a swimming stroke that resembles the crawl except the swimmer lies on his or her back
noun
- (sports) Initialism of critical swim speed.
- (medicine) Initialism of Churg-Strauss syndrome.
- (military) Initialism of Chinese surface-to-surface (missile), a NATO prefix-code for systems developed by the People's Republic of China.
- (genetics) Initialism of chromosome substitution strain.
- (aviation, travel) Initialism of change segment status, a GDS code used on older types of airline keyboards.
- (medicine) Initialism of Coffin-Siris syndrome.
- (nautical) Initialism of Canadian Survey Ship (the designation for a survey ship operated by the Canadian Hydrographic Service).
- (historical, nautical, military) Initialism of Confederate States Ship (the designation for a commissioned warship operated by the Confederate States Navy).
- (media, DVD) Initialism of Content Scramble System, a DRM and encryption system for DVDs.
- (web design) Initialism of cascading style sheet.
- (space flight) Initialism of control stick steering, a method of Space Shuttle flight control.
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phrase
noun
- A swimming costume.
- An outfit or a disguise worn as fancy dress etc.
- A style of dress, including garments, accessories and hairstyle, especially as characteristic of a particular country, period or people.
- A set of clothes appropriate for a particular occasion or season.
- unusual or period attire not characteristic of or appropriate to the time and place
- the prevalent fashion of dress (including accessories and hair style as well as garments)
- the attire worn in a play or at a fancy dress ball
- the attire characteristic of a country or a time or a social class
verb
prep_phrase
noun
- a person who travels through the water by swimming
- a person who takes a bath
- One who bathes (cleans oneself with water, for example in a bathtub).
- A bathing costume
- One who gives a bath to another.
- A sunbather
- One who immerses oneself in water for pleasure or refreshment: one who swims (for example at a lake or beach).
noun
- Someone who dives, especially as a sport.
- someone who dives (into water)
- Someone who works underwater; a frogman.
- The long-finned sand diver.
- The New Zealand sand diver.
- (sports) A competitor in certain sports who is known to regularly imitate being fouled, with the purpose of getting his/her opponent penalised.
- (UK, Ireland) loon (Gavia)
- large somewhat primitive fish-eating diving bird of the Northern Hemisphere having webbed feet placed far back; related to the grebes
- someone who works underwater
noun
- An act or instance of swimming.
- the act of swimming
- (Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of someone who isn't me, used as a way to avoid self-designation or self-incrimination, especially in online drug forums.
- The sound, or air bladder, of a fish.
- A dizziness; swoon.
- (UK) A part of a stream much frequented by fish.
- A dance or dance move of the 1960s in which the arms are moved in imitation of various swimming strokes, such as freestyle, breaststroke, etc.
- (figurative) The flow of events; being in the swim of things.
verb
- (intransitive) To have a great quantity of something.
- (transitive, uncommon) To cause to swim.
- (intransitive) To become immersed in, or as if in, or flooded with, or as if with, a liquid.
- (intransitive) To glide along with a waving motion.
- (intransitive) To be dizzy or vertiginous; have a giddy sensation; to have, or appear to have, a whirling motion.
- (transitive) To traverse (a specific body of water, or a specific distance) by swimming; or, to use a specific swimming stroke; or, to compete in a specific swimming event.
- (intransitive) To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means.
- (intransitive) To be overflowed or drenched.
- (transitive, historical) To test (a suspected witch) by throwing into a river; those who floated rather than sinking were deemed to be witches.
- (intransitive) To move around freely because of excess space.
- (transitive) To immerse in water to make the lighter parts float.
- travel through water
- be covered with or submerged in a liquid
- be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom
- move as if gliding through water
- be dizzy or giddy
noun
verb
verb
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noun
- (sports) An athlete or swimmer who has competed in more than one of open water swimming, pool swimming, triathlon, and endurance sports.
- A move in sports that involves crossing one hand or foot in front of another, as in ice skating.
- (basketball) A crossover dribble.
- (sometimes derogatory) An SUV-like automobile built on a passenger car platform, e.g. the Pontiac Torrent.
- (rail transport) A pair of switches and a short, diagonal length of track which together connect two parallel tracks and allow passage between them.
- A place where one thing crosses over another.
- A piece of fiction that borrows elements from two or more fictional universes.
- (forestry) The point at which the relative humidity is less than, or equal to, the ambient air temperature.
- (fiction) Meeting of various characters.
- A blend of multiple styles of music or multiple film genres, intended to appeal to a wider audience.
- (genetics) The result of the exchange of genetic material during meiosis.
- The means by which the crossing is made.
- a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other
- the appropriation of a new style (especially in popular music) by combining elements of different genres in order to appeal to a wider audience
- the interchange of sections between pairing homologous chromosomes during the prophase of meiosis
- a voter who is registered as a member of one political party but who votes in the primary of another party
adj
- Of an electrical cable, having connector pins at one end wired to different pins at the other; for example, pin 1 to pin 2, pin 2 to pin 4 etc.; contrasted with straight-through.
- (in particular, computing, of an Ethernet cable) Configured so that the transmit signals at one end are connected to the receive signals at the other.
noun
- someone who dives (into water)
- hand tool consisting of a stick with a rubber suction cup at one end; used to clean clogged drains
- mechanical device that has a plunging or thrusting motion
- someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains
- (firearms) The firing pin of a breechloader.
- A device similar to a piston but without a mechanism; a long solid cylinder used, instead of a piston or bucket, as a forcer in pumps.
- (pottery) A boiler in which clay is beaten by a wheel to a creamy consistency.
- A cafetière, through abbreviation of coffee plunger.
- The part of a cafetière that is pushed down to remove grounds from coffee.
- One who plunges; a diver.
- (military) A cavalryman.
- (pinball) The spring-loaded assembly that propels the ball onto the table.
- A device that is used to remove blockages from the drain of a basin or tub, by suction.
- The sliding activator of an exploder, an electrical generator used to trigger electrical detonators such as blasting caps.
- A horse that plunges, or throws itself suddenly forward.
- The moving portion of a solenoid.
- The internal piece of a syringe that pushes out or pulls in any contents.
noun
- (sports) An assistant in the sport of paraswimming who taps blind or visually impaired swimmers with a pole to indicate when they should turn around.
- One who makes a tapping noise.
- A wiretapper.
- (US) A tapster.
- (baseball, slang) A weakly hit ground ball.
- (British, dialect) The lesser spotted woodpecker.
- (telegraphy) In early wireless telegraphs, a device used to shake loose the filings of a coherer.
- A tap-dancer.
- a worker who uses a tap to cut screw threads
- a person who strikes a surface lightly and usually repeatedly
- a dancer who sounds out rhythms by using metal taps on the toes and heels of the shoes
- a tavern keeper who taps kegs or casks
- someone who wiretaps a telephone or telegraph wire
noun
- A swim under water.
- (slang) A seedy bar, nightclub, etc.
- plural of diva
- A downward swooping motion.
- A jump or plunge into water.
- A decline.
- (sports) A deliberate fall after a challenge.
- A headfirst jump toward the ground or into another substance.
- (aviation) Aerial descent with the nose pointed down.
- a steep nose-down descent by an aircraft
- a headlong plunge into water
- a cheap disreputable nightclub or dance hall
verb
- (sports) To deliberately fall down after a challenge, imitating being fouled, in the hope of getting one's opponent penalised.
- (intransitive) To jump into water head-first.
- (cricket) To leap while fielding to take a brilliant catch which usually results in a wicket and appreciation.
- (intransitive) To jump headfirst toward the ground or into another substance.
- (transitive) To cause to descend, dunk; to plunge something into water.
- (transitive) To explore by diving; to plunge into.
- (intransitive) To lose altitude quickly by pointing downwards, as with a bird or aircraft.
- (intransitive) To swim under water.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore.
- (intransitive) To descend sharply or steeply.
- (intransitive, especially with in) To undertake with enthusiasm.
- swim under water
- drop steeply
- plunge into water
noun
- an athletic competition that involves diving into water
- a headlong plunge into water
- The action of the verb to dive in any sense.
- The sport of jumping into water, often acrobatically.
- Descending below the surface of the water to interact with the environment.
- (soccer, sports) The act of pretending to be tripped or brought to the ground by an opposition player in order to secure an undeserved penalty.
adj
verb
noun
- a swimmer who floats in the water
- an employee who is reassigned from job to job as needed
- a debt instrument with a variable interest rate tied to some other interest rate (e.g. the rate paid by T-bills)
- a voter who votes illegally at different polling places in the same election
- an object that floats or is capable of floating
- spots before the eyes caused by opaque cell fragments in the vitreous humor and lens
- a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support
- an insurance policy covering loss of movable property (e.g. jewelry) regardless of its location
- (US) A person, such as a delegate to a convention or a member of a legislature, who represents an irregular constituency, such as one formed by a union of the voters of two counties neither of which has a number sufficient to be allowed one (or an extra) representative of its own.
- (finance) Clipping of floating rate bond.
- (vulgar) A piece of faeces which floats.
- (slang) A person who attaches themselves to a group of people, and who repeatedly shows up at group activities even though this is undesired by the group; a hanger-on.
- (Australia) Ellipsis of pie floater (“a meat pie served floating in a bowl of thick green pea soup”).
- A voter who shifts their allegiance from one political party to another, especially (US) one whose vote can be illegally purchased.
- A river mussel (genus Anodonta).
- An employee of an organization who does not have fixed tasks to do but fills in wherever needed, usually when someone else is away; also, a short-term employee; a temporary, a temp.
- (prison slang) A book circulated between prisoners which is not part of the official prison library.
- A person who physically floats in a gas or liquid.
- (ophthalmology) A threadlike speck in the visual field which seems to move, possibly caused by degeneration of the vitreous humour of the eye.
- (cricket) A spinning delivery of the ball that travels in a high arched path.
- An "extra" (male) guest at a party who is asked by the host to entertain the other (often female) guests.
- (law enforcement, slang) A corpse floating in a body of water.
- A person who frequently changes where they live; a drifter, a vagrant.
- (insurance) An insurance policy covering movable property at more than one location or which may be in transit.
- A small suet dumpling put into soup.
- (US) A person who votes illegally in various electoral districts or polling places, either under a false voter registration or under the name of a properly registered voter who has not yet voted.
- (India) A waterproof sandal.
- (US, law) A criminal sentence which is suspended so long as the convicted person leaves an area.
- (sports) A ball that moves lightly through the air, as if floating; specifically (basketball), an early layup taken by a player moving towards the rim where, upon release, the ball floats in the air over the top of a defender before dropping softly into the hoop.
- A person who frequently changes employment.
- (surfing) A manoeuvre in which a surfer transitions above the unbroken face of a wave on to the lip, or on top of the breaking section of the wave.
- (sports) A player not affiliated with a team.
- (two-up) A coin which does not spin when thrown in the air.
noun
- (sports) A crawl swimmer.
- (Internet) A software bot that autonomously follows connected paths such as links between web pages.
- A child who is able to creep using its hands and knees but is not able to walk.
- Synonym of crawler crane.
- (UK, Australia, slang) A sycophant.
- A tractor crawler, a motorized vehicle that uses caterpillar tracks instead of wheels.
- A mobile stage in the development of stationary hemipteran insects such as scale insects—generally the first instar.
- terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers
- a person who crawls or creeps along the ground
- a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage
noun
- (swimming) The upward motion of a swimmer's arm.
- An upward sweep or curve.
- (oceanography) The unidentified sound detected on the American NOAA's equatorial autonomous hydrophone arrays, consisting of a long train of narrow-band upsweeping sounds of several seconds in duration.
- A hairstyle where most of the hair is fastened into place at the top of the head.
verb
noun
- a brief swim in water
- a candle that is made by repeated dipping in a pool of wax or tallow
- a brief immersion
- tasty mixture or liquid into which bite-sized foods are dipped
- a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places
- a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
- a gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the body is lowered and raised by bending and straightening the arms
- a depression in an otherwise level surface
- (physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon
- (informal) A foolish person.
- (turpentine industry) The viscid exudation that is dipped out from incisions in the trees. Virgin dip is the runnings of the first year, yellow dip the runnings of subsequent years.
- A sauce for dipping.
- (geology) The angle from horizontal of a planar geologic surface, such as a fault line.
- A lower section of a road or geological feature.
- The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.
- A tank or trough where cattle or sheep are immersed in chemicals to kill parasites.
- (bodybuilding) A gymnastic or bodybuilding exercise on parallel bars in which the performer, resting on his hands, lets his arms bend and his body sink until his chin is level with the bars, and then raises himself by straightening his arms.
- (computer graphics) Initialism of device-independent pixel.
- (finance, informal) A financial asset in decline, seen as an investment opportunity.
- (uncountable) Finely ground tobacco, consumed by placing a small amount between the lip and gum.
- (aeronautics) A sudden drop followed by a climb, usually to avoid obstacles or as the result of getting into an airhole.
- A swim, usually a short swim to refresh.
- A dip stick.
- (ABDL, informal, uncommon) A diaper; diap, dipe.
- (informal) A diplomat.
- Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.
- (dance) A move in many different styles of partner dances, often performed at the end of a dance, in which the follower leans far to the side and is supported by the leader.
- (birdwatching, colloquial) The act of missing out on seeing a sought after bird.
- (UK, dialect, uncountable, Birmingham) Fried bread.
verb
- dip into a liquid
- immerse in a disinfectant solution
- dip into a liquid while eating
- place (candle wicks) into hot, liquid wax
- stain an object by immersing it in a liquid
- slope downwards
- immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
- appear to move downward
- lower briefly
- take a small amount from
- plunge (one's hand or a receptacle) into a container
- scoop up by plunging one's hand or a ladle below the surface
- switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam
- go down momentarily
- (intransitive) (of a value or rate) To decrease slightly.
- (transitive) To treat cattle or sheep by immersion in chemical solution.
- (transitive) To perform (a bow or curtsey) by inclining the body.
- (transitive) To lower into a liquid.
- (intransitive) To perform the action of plunging a dipper, ladle. etc. into a liquid or soft substance and removing a part.
- (transitive) To use a dip stick to check oil level in an engine.
- (transitive) To lower a light's beam.
- (birdwatching, colloquial) To miss out on seeing a sought after bird.
- (transitive) To briefly lower the body by bending the knees while keeping the body in an upright position, usually in rhythm, as when singing or dancing.
- (transitive) To lower (a flag), particularly a national ensign, to a partially hoisted position in order to render or to return a salute. While lowered, the flag is said to be “at the dip.” A flag being carried on a staff may be dipped by leaning it forward at an approximate angle of 45 degrees.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To leave; to quit or abandon.
- (transitive) To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part; often with out.
- (intransitive) To incline downward from the plane of the horizon.
- To consume snuff by placing a pinch behind the lip or under the tongue so that the active chemical constituents of the snuff may be absorbed into the system for their narcotic effect.
- (transitive) To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.
- (transitive) To immerse for baptism.
- (intransitive) To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
- (intransitive) To immerse oneself; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.
- (transitive) To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.
- (transitive, dance) To perform a dip dance move (often phrased with the leader as the subject noun and the follower as the subject noun being dipped)
- (intransitive) To sink, drop, or slope downwards.
noun
- a brief swim in water
- a steep and rapid fall
- A dive, leap, rush, or pitch into (into water).
- The act of plunging or submerging.
- (figuratively) The act of pitching or throwing oneself headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse.
- (slang) Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation.
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- thrust or throw into
- drop steeply
- dash violently or with great speed or impetuosity
- cause to be immersed
- begin with vigor
- immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
- devote (oneself) fully to
- fall abruptly
- (intransitive, slang) To bet heavily and recklessly; to risk large sums in gambling.
- (figuratively, transitive) To cast, stab or throw deep and fast into some thing, state, condition or action.
- (intransitive) To pitch or throw oneself headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.
- (figuratively, intransitive) To fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state or condition.
- (transitive) To remove a blockage by suction.
- (transitive) To thrust into liquid, or into any penetrable substance; to immerse.
- (intransitive) To dive, leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge oneself.
noun
- (swimming) A fifty-metre freestyle swimming event.
- (motor racing) A quick stop for fuel near the end of a race, so as to be able to cross the finish line without running out of fuel.
- (aviation) A ballooning maneuver whereby a Montgolfier balloon is lowered down to touch a body of water and lifts off again.
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- (sports) Initialism of critical swim speed.
- (medicine) Initialism of Churg-Strauss syndrome.
- (military) Initialism of Chinese surface-to-surface (missile), a NATO prefix-code for systems developed by the People's Republic of China.
- (genetics) Initialism of chromosome substitution strain.
- (aviation, travel) Initialism of change segment status, a GDS code used on older types of airline keyboards.
- (medicine) Initialism of Coffin-Siris syndrome.
- (nautical) Initialism of Canadian Survey Ship (the designation for a survey ship operated by the Canadian Hydrographic Service).
- (historical, nautical, military) Initialism of Confederate States Ship (the designation for a commissioned warship operated by the Confederate States Navy).
- (media, DVD) Initialism of Content Scramble System, a DRM and encryption system for DVDs.
- (web design) Initialism of cascading style sheet.
- (space flight) Initialism of control stick steering, a method of Space Shuttle flight control.
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- A swimming costume.
- An outfit or a disguise worn as fancy dress etc.
- A style of dress, including garments, accessories and hairstyle, especially as characteristic of a particular country, period or people.
- A set of clothes appropriate for a particular occasion or season.
- unusual or period attire not characteristic of or appropriate to the time and place
- the prevalent fashion of dress (including accessories and hair style as well as garments)
- the attire worn in a play or at a fancy dress ball
- the attire characteristic of a country or a time or a social class
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- a person who travels through the water by swimming
- a person who takes a bath
- One who bathes (cleans oneself with water, for example in a bathtub).
- A bathing costume
- One who gives a bath to another.
- A sunbather
- One who immerses oneself in water for pleasure or refreshment: one who swims (for example at a lake or beach).
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- Someone who dives, especially as a sport.
- someone who dives (into water)
- Someone who works underwater; a frogman.
- The long-finned sand diver.
- The New Zealand sand diver.
- (sports) A competitor in certain sports who is known to regularly imitate being fouled, with the purpose of getting his/her opponent penalised.
- (UK, Ireland) loon (Gavia)
- large somewhat primitive fish-eating diving bird of the Northern Hemisphere having webbed feet placed far back; related to the grebes
- someone who works underwater
noun
- An act or instance of swimming.
- the act of swimming
- (Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of someone who isn't me, used as a way to avoid self-designation or self-incrimination, especially in online drug forums.
- The sound, or air bladder, of a fish.
- A dizziness; swoon.
- (UK) A part of a stream much frequented by fish.
- A dance or dance move of the 1960s in which the arms are moved in imitation of various swimming strokes, such as freestyle, breaststroke, etc.
- (figurative) The flow of events; being in the swim of things.
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- (intransitive) To have a great quantity of something.
- (transitive, uncommon) To cause to swim.
- (intransitive) To become immersed in, or as if in, or flooded with, or as if with, a liquid.
- (intransitive) To glide along with a waving motion.
- (intransitive) To be dizzy or vertiginous; have a giddy sensation; to have, or appear to have, a whirling motion.
- (transitive) To traverse (a specific body of water, or a specific distance) by swimming; or, to use a specific swimming stroke; or, to compete in a specific swimming event.
- (intransitive) To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means.
- (intransitive) To be overflowed or drenched.
- (transitive, historical) To test (a suspected witch) by throwing into a river; those who floated rather than sinking were deemed to be witches.
- (intransitive) To move around freely because of excess space.
- (transitive) To immerse in water to make the lighter parts float.
- travel through water
- be covered with or submerged in a liquid
- be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom
- move as if gliding through water
- be dizzy or giddy
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- (swimming) A stroke swum lying on one's back, while rotating both arms through the water as to propel the swimmer backwards.
- A backhanded stroke or blow.
- (bellringing) The pull on the tail of the rope that swings the bell through a full circle (compare handstroke)
- a swimming stroke that resembles the crawl except the swimmer lies on his or her back
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- (sports) An athlete or swimmer who has competed in more than one of open water swimming, pool swimming, triathlon, and endurance sports.
- A move in sports that involves crossing one hand or foot in front of another, as in ice skating.
- (basketball) A crossover dribble.
- (sometimes derogatory) An SUV-like automobile built on a passenger car platform, e.g. the Pontiac Torrent.
- (rail transport) A pair of switches and a short, diagonal length of track which together connect two parallel tracks and allow passage between them.
- A place where one thing crosses over another.
- A piece of fiction that borrows elements from two or more fictional universes.
- (forestry) The point at which the relative humidity is less than, or equal to, the ambient air temperature.
- (fiction) Meeting of various characters.
- A blend of multiple styles of music or multiple film genres, intended to appeal to a wider audience.
- (genetics) The result of the exchange of genetic material during meiosis.
- The means by which the crossing is made.
- a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other
- the appropriation of a new style (especially in popular music) by combining elements of different genres in order to appeal to a wider audience
- the interchange of sections between pairing homologous chromosomes during the prophase of meiosis
- a voter who is registered as a member of one political party but who votes in the primary of another party
adj
- Of an electrical cable, having connector pins at one end wired to different pins at the other; for example, pin 1 to pin 2, pin 2 to pin 4 etc.; contrasted with straight-through.
- (in particular, computing, of an Ethernet cable) Configured so that the transmit signals at one end are connected to the receive signals at the other.
noun
- someone who dives (into water)
- hand tool consisting of a stick with a rubber suction cup at one end; used to clean clogged drains
- mechanical device that has a plunging or thrusting motion
- someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains
- (firearms) The firing pin of a breechloader.
- A device similar to a piston but without a mechanism; a long solid cylinder used, instead of a piston or bucket, as a forcer in pumps.
- (pottery) A boiler in which clay is beaten by a wheel to a creamy consistency.
- A cafetière, through abbreviation of coffee plunger.
- The part of a cafetière that is pushed down to remove grounds from coffee.
- One who plunges; a diver.
- (military) A cavalryman.
- (pinball) The spring-loaded assembly that propels the ball onto the table.
- A device that is used to remove blockages from the drain of a basin or tub, by suction.
- The sliding activator of an exploder, an electrical generator used to trigger electrical detonators such as blasting caps.
- A horse that plunges, or throws itself suddenly forward.
- The moving portion of a solenoid.
- The internal piece of a syringe that pushes out or pulls in any contents.
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- (sports) An assistant in the sport of paraswimming who taps blind or visually impaired swimmers with a pole to indicate when they should turn around.
- One who makes a tapping noise.
- A wiretapper.
- (US) A tapster.
- (baseball, slang) A weakly hit ground ball.
- (British, dialect) The lesser spotted woodpecker.
- (telegraphy) In early wireless telegraphs, a device used to shake loose the filings of a coherer.
- A tap-dancer.
- a worker who uses a tap to cut screw threads
- a person who strikes a surface lightly and usually repeatedly
- a dancer who sounds out rhythms by using metal taps on the toes and heels of the shoes
- a tavern keeper who taps kegs or casks
- someone who wiretaps a telephone or telegraph wire
noun
- A swim under water.
- (slang) A seedy bar, nightclub, etc.
- plural of diva
- A downward swooping motion.
- A jump or plunge into water.
- A decline.
- (sports) A deliberate fall after a challenge.
- A headfirst jump toward the ground or into another substance.
- (aviation) Aerial descent with the nose pointed down.
- a steep nose-down descent by an aircraft
- a headlong plunge into water
- a cheap disreputable nightclub or dance hall
verb
- (sports) To deliberately fall down after a challenge, imitating being fouled, in the hope of getting one's opponent penalised.
- (intransitive) To jump into water head-first.
- (cricket) To leap while fielding to take a brilliant catch which usually results in a wicket and appreciation.
- (intransitive) To jump headfirst toward the ground or into another substance.
- (transitive) To cause to descend, dunk; to plunge something into water.
- (transitive) To explore by diving; to plunge into.
- (intransitive) To lose altitude quickly by pointing downwards, as with a bird or aircraft.
- (intransitive) To swim under water.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore.
- (intransitive) To descend sharply or steeply.
- (intransitive, especially with in) To undertake with enthusiasm.
- swim under water
- drop steeply
- plunge into water
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- an athletic competition that involves diving into water
- a headlong plunge into water
- The action of the verb to dive in any sense.
- The sport of jumping into water, often acrobatically.
- Descending below the surface of the water to interact with the environment.
- (soccer, sports) The act of pretending to be tripped or brought to the ground by an opposition player in order to secure an undeserved penalty.
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- (swimming) A stroke swum lying on one's back, while rotating both arms through the water as to propel the swimmer backwards.
- A backhanded stroke or blow.
- (bellringing) The pull on the tail of the rope that swings the bell through a full circle (compare handstroke)
- a swimming stroke that resembles the crawl except the swimmer lies on his or her back