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noun
- the sound of a bell ringing
- a strip of material attached to the leg of a bird to identify it (as in studies of bird migration)
- a platform usually marked off by ropes in which contestants box or wrestle
- (chemistry) a chain of atoms in a molecule that forms a closed loop
- an association of criminals
- a rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling
- a characteristic sound
- jewelry consisting of a circlet of precious metal (often set with jewels) worn on the finger
- a toroidal shape
- (colloquial) A telephone call.
- (typography) A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a kroužek.
- Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.
- In a jack plug, the connector between the tip and the sleeve.
- (Internet) Ellipsis of webring.
- A circular group of people or objects.
- (astronomy) A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet or young star.
- (vulgar) The rectum, anus, or anal sphincters.
- (historical) An instrument, formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the graduated inner surface opposite.
- (chemistry) A group of atoms linked by bonds to form a closed chain in a molecule.
- A piece of food in the shape of a ring.
- An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices.
- (mathematical analysis, measure theory) A family of sets that is closed under finite unions and set-theoretic differences.
- (geometry) A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.
- (historical) An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter.
- The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.
- A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.
- (algebra) An algebraic structure as above, but only required to be a semigroup under the multiplicative operation, that is, there need not be a multiplicative identity element.
- (figuratively) A sound or appearance that is characteristic of something.
- A long stripe of contrastive material, colour, etc, that encircles something.
- (computing theory) A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level, used to protect data and functionality (also protection ring).
- (British) A large circular prehistoric stone construction such as Stonehenge.
- A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.
- A place where some sports or exhibitions take place; notably a circular or comparable arena, such as a boxing ring or a circus ring; hence the field of a political contest.
- (jewelry) A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger or through the ear, nose, etc.
- (algebra) An algebraic structure which consists of a set with two binary operations: an additive operation and a multiplicative operation, such that the set is an abelian group under the additive operation, a monoid under the multiplicative operation, and such that the multiplicative operation is distributive with respect to the additive operation.
- (networking) A network topology where connected devices form a circular data channel. All computers on the ring can see every message, and there are no collisions, and a single point of failure will occur if any part of the ring breaks.
- (firearms) Either of the pair of clamps used to hold a telescopic sight to a rifle.
- (figuratively) A pleasant or correct sound.
- (UK) A burner on a kitchen stove.
- The open space in front of a racecourse stand, used for betting purposes.
- (cartomancy) The twenty-fifth Lenormand card.
- (botany) A flexible band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns.
- (UK) A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.
- (mathematics, order theory) A family of sets closed under finite union and finite intersection.
verb
- sound loudly and sonorously
- ring or echo with sound
- attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify
- get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone
- make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification
- extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle
- (transitive) To enclose or surround.
- (intransitive) to resound, reverberate, echo.
- (transitive) To attach a ring to, especially for identification.
- To ring up (enter into a cash register or till)
- (intransitive, figuratively) To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.
- (transitive, colloquial, British, Australia, New Zealand) To telephone (someone).
- (Australia, transitive) To ride around (a group of animals, especially cattle) to keep them milling in one place; hence (intransitive), to work as a drover, to muster cattle.
- (transitive, figuratively) To make an incision around; to girdle; to cut away a circular tract of bark from a tree in order to kill it.
- (transitive) To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound.
- (transitive) To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.
- (intransitive) Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound.
- (transitive) To steal and change the identity of (cars) in order to resell them.
- (transitive) To produce (a sound) by ringing.
- (falconry) To rise in the air spirally.
- (intransitive) To produce music with bells.
- (intransitive, figuratively) Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.
noun
- the sound of a bell ringing
- The sound of something that rings.
- having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant
- the giving of a ring as a token of engagement
- The quality of being resonant.
- The theft of cars and illegally changing their identities for resale.
- A technique used in the study of wild birds, by attaching a small, individually numbered, metal or plastic tag to their legs or wings.
adj
verb
noun
- The sounding of a bell as a signal.
- the sound of a bell being struck
- the shape of a bell
- (British, vulgar, slang) Clipping of bell-end (“stupid or contemptible person”).
- Anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower.
- (architecture) The part of the capital of a column included between the abacus and neck molding; also used for the naked core of nearly cylindrical shape, assumed to exist within the leafage of a capital.
- (computing) The bell character.
- An instrument that emits a ringing sound, situated on a bicycle's handlebar and used by the cyclist to warn of their presence.
- A signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending.
- (nautical) Any of a series of strokes on a bell (or similar), struck every half hour to indicate the time (within a four hour watch)
- The flared end of a pipe, designed to mate with a narrow spigot.
- (chiefly British, informal) A telephone call.
- (music) The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.
- (music) A percussive instrument made of metal or other hard material, typically but not always in the shape of an inverted cup with a flared rim, which resonates when struck.
- The rounded upper part of a jellyfish.
- The bellow or bay of certain animals, such as a hound on the hunt or a stag in rut.
- (nautical) each of the eight half-hour units of nautical time signaled by strokes of a ship's bell; eight bells signals 4:00, 8:00, or 12:00 o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.
- a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument
- a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck
- the flared opening of a tubular device
- a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed
verb
- To ring a bell.
- attach a bell to
- (transitive) To attach a bell to.
- (intransitive) To bellow or roar.
- (intransitive) To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom.
- (slang, transitive) To telephone.
- (transitive) To utter in a loud manner; to thunder forth.
- (transitive) To shape so that it flares out like a bell.
noun
- The clapper of a bell.
- The power of articulate utterance; speech generally.
- Any similar organ, such as the lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk; the proboscis of a moth or butterfly; or the lingua of an insect.
- (figuratively) An individual point of flame from a fire.
- Any large or long physical protrusion on an automotive or machine part or any other part that fits into a long groove on another part.
- (geology) A division of formation; A layer or member of a formation that pinches out in one direction.
- A small sole (type of fish).
- In a shoe, the flap of material that goes between the laces and the foot (so called because it resembles a tongue in the mouth).
- (synecdochic, usually in the plural) A person speaking in a specified manner.
- (religion, often in the plural) Glossolalia.
- A long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or lake.
- The pole of a towed or drawn vehicle or farm implement (e.g., trailer, cart, plow, harrow), by which it is pulled; for example, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked.
- The flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different sounds in speech.
- (nautical) A short piece of rope spliced into the upper part of standing backstays, etc.; also, the upper main piece of a mast composed of several pieces.
- A manner of speaking, often habitually.
- (countable, uncountable) Such an organ, as taken from animals and used for food (especially from cows).
- (metonymic) A language.
- (music) A reed.
- A projection, or slender appendage or fixture.
- (flags) The middle protrusion of a triple-tailed flag.
- metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side
- the tongue of certain animals used as meat
- a manner of speaking
- a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea
- a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity
- a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language
- any long thin projection that is transient
- the flap of material under the laces of a shoe or boot
verb
- To protrude in relatively long, narrow sections.
- (music, ambitransitive) On a wind instrument, to articulate a note by starting the air with a tap of the tongue, as though by speaking a 'd' or 't' sound (alveolar plosive).
- (transitive, slang, vulgar) To lick, penetrate or manipulate with the tongue during flirting or oral sex.
- (transitive) To manipulate with the tongue.
- To join by means of a tongue and groove.
- lick or explore with the tongue
- articulate by tonguing, as when playing wind instruments
noun
- the sound of a bell being struck
- value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something
- a fee levied for the use of roads or bridges
- (business, by extension) A fee for using any kind of material processing service.
- The act or sound of ringing a bell, especially slowly, as with a church or cemetery bell.
- A fee paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending goods in a fair, market, etc.
- (US) A tollbooth.
- Loss or damage incurred through a disaster.
- A fee paid by the owner of materials or other goods for processing such goods, as under a tolling agreement.
verb
- ring slowly
- charge a fee for using
- (transitive) To tear in pieces.
- (law) To suspend.
- (transitive) To lure with bait; tole (especially, fish and animals).
- (transitive) To summon by ringing a bell.
- (transitive) To draw; entice; invite; allure.
- (ambitransitive) To levy a toll on (someone or something).
- (transitive) To impose a fee for the use of.
- (transitive) To take as a toll.
- (ergative) To ring (a bell) slowly and repeatedly.
- (figuratively) To make a sound as if made by a bell.
- (African-American Vernacular) simple past and past participle of tell
- To pay a toll or tallage.
- (transitive) To announce by ringing a bell.
noun
adj
verb
noun
- A bell or chime.
- The suspended clapper of a bell.
- One who rings a bell.
- (Australia, slang) A condom.
- (Australia, slang) A catapult, a shanghai.
- (Canada, US, slang) The penis.
- (MLE, slang) An unregistered car.
- (Australia, slang) The buttocks, the anus.
- (US, slang) Something outstanding or exceptional, a humdinger.
- (baseball) A home run.
noun
- Someone who rings, especially a bell ringer.
- (mining) A crowbar.
- A person, animal, or entity which resembles another so closely as to be taken for the other; a look-alike (now usually in the phrase dead ringer).
- A ringer T-shirt.
- (games) In the game of horseshoes, the event of the horseshoe landing around the pole.
- (UK, dialect) A top performer.
- (Australia) The champion shearer of a shearing shed.
- (UK, slang) A fraudulently cloned (or cut-and-shut) motor vehicle.
- (slang) Any person or thing that is fraudulent; a fake or impostor.
- (horse racing) A horse fraudulently entered in a race using the name of another horse.
- (sports) A person highly proficient at a skill or sport who is brought in, often fraudulently, to supplement a team.
- (uncountable, games) A game of marbles where players attempt to knock each other's marbles out of a ring drawn on the ground.
- (UK, military, informal, in combination) An officer having the specified number of rings (denoting rank) on the uniform sleeve.
- (Australia) A stockman, a cowboy.
- (ornithology) A person who places rings or bands on a bird's leg.
- (horseshoes) the successful throw of a horseshoe or quoit so as to encircle a stake or peg
- a person who rings church bells (as for summoning the congregation)
- a person who is almost identical to another
- a contestant entered in a competition under false pretenses
verb
- To rouse by the ringing of a bell.
- (transitive) To make an adverse official decision concerning (a person).
- (transitive) To enter (a payment) into a cash register, or till in a shop, or record a credit- or debit-card payment.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To telephone; to call someone on the telephone.
- (baseball) To strikeout a batter and thereby send him or her back to the dugout.
- (transitive) To record the payment of.
- to perform and record a sale on a cash register
noun
- The high-pitched resonant sound of a bell.
- a ringing sound
- (Western Australia, offensive, ethnic slur) an Italian person, specifically an Italian Australian
- An ancient Chinese vessel with legs and a lid.
- (informal) Very minor damage caused by being struck; a small dent or chip.
- (colloquial, roleplaying games, especially video games) The act of levelling up.
- (colloquial) A rejection.
- (Hong Kong) An indigenous inhabitant of the New Territories entitled to the building a village house under the Small House Policy.
- an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)
verb
- (intransitive, colloquial, roleplaying games, especially video games) To level up.
- (transitive, golf) To mishit (a golf ball).
- To dash; to throw violently.
- (intransitive) To make a high-pitched resonant sound like a bell.
- (transitive) To inflict minor damage upon, especially by hitting or striking.
- (transitive, colloquial) To fire or reject.
- (transitive) To hit or strike.
- (transitive, colloquial) To deduct, as points, from (somebody), in the manner of a penalty; to penalize.
- (transitive) To keep repeating; impress by reiteration, with reference to the monotonous striking of a bell.
- (Scotland, of rain) To fall heavily and continually, with great force.
- go ‘ding dong’, like a bell
noun
- The thickened rim of a bell, struck by the clapper.
- The contents of this stomach in a slaughtered animal, viewed as food or a byproduct.
- (nautical) A paunch mat.
- The first compartment of the stomach of a ruminant, the rumen.
- The belly of a human, especially a large, fat protruding one.
- a protruding abdomen
verb
noun
noun
- The sound made by a bell, an onomatopœia.
- (British, chiefly Scotland) A heap or pile, especially of metallic ore.
- A bounce.
- (chiefly Scotland) A slag heap, i.e. a man-made mound or heap formed with the waste material (slag) as a by-product of coal mining or the shale oil industry.
- The sound made by a bounce.
- (prison slang, with "the") Solitary confinement.
- (chiefly Scotland) The waste by-product from a foundry or furnace, formed into such a mound.
intj
verb
noun
- A particular style of ringing changes on bells.
- (slang) An unspecified amount of money.
- A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist.
- A bobbing motion; a quick up and down movement.
- The docked tail of a horse.
- A bobsleigh.
- A curtsy.
- Clipping of shishkabob.
- Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
- A bob haircut.
- The short runner of a sled.
- A short line ending a stanza of a poem.
- A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc.
- Any round object attached loosely to a flexible line, a rod, a body part etc., so that it may swing when hanging from it.
- A bobber (buoyant fishing device).
- The dangling mass of a pendulum or plumb line.
- A working beam in a steam engine.
- (computer graphics, demoscene) A graphical element, resembling a hardware sprite, that can be blitted around the screen in large numbers.
- a hanging weight, especially a metal ball on a string
- a long racing sled (for 2 or more people) with a steering mechanism
- a short or shortened tail of certain animals
- a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line
- a hair style for women and children; a short haircut all around
- a former monetary unit in Great Britain
- a short abrupt inclination (as of the head)
verb
- (transitive) To shorten by cutting; to dock; to crop.
- (transitive) To cut (hair) into a bob haircut.
- To bobsleigh.
- (intransitive) Synonym of blob (“catch eels using worms strung on thread”).
- To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.
- (intransitive) To move gently and vertically, in either a single motion or repeatedly up and down, at or near the surface of a body of water, or similar medium.
- (transitive) To move (something) as though it were bobbing in water.
- (with on) To perform oral sex on someone.
- To curtsy.
- remove or shorten the tail of an animal
- ride a bobsled
- cut hair in the style of a bob
- make a curtsy; usually done only by girls and women; as a sign of respect
- move up and down repeatedly in a quick, short movement
verb
- To produce a high-pitched ringing sound, like a small bell.
- (transitive) To cause to dry up or wither.
- (transitive) To cause to adhere to, especially by twining round or embracing.
- (figurative, with preposition to) To be fond of, to feel strongly about and dependent on.
- (intransitive) To dry up or wither.
- To hold very tightly, as to not fall off.
- To adhere to an object, without being affixed, in such a way as to follow its contours. Used especially of fabrics and films.
- hold on tightly or tenaciously
- to remain emotionally or intellectually attached
- come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation
intj
noun
noun
- (bellringing) The pull on the tail of the rope that swings the bell through a full circle (compare handstroke)
- (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.
- a swimming stroke that resembles the crawl except the swimmer lies on his or her back
verb
noun
- A high-pitched sharp sound like a small bell being struck.
- a light clear metallic sound as of a small bell
- An ancient Chinese vessel with legs and a lid.
- (Caribbean creoles, MLE, MTE) thing, person (often referring to an attractive woman or a relation engaged in criminal schemes or disreputable connections).
intj
verb
noun
- An object so suspended inside a bell that it may hit the bell and cause it to ring; a clanger or tongue.
- (cinematography) The hinged part of a clapperboard, used to synchronise images and soundtrack, or the clapperboard itself.
- A clapstick (musical instrument).
- A wooden mechanical device used as a scarecrow; bird-scaring rattle, a wind-rattle or a wind-clapper.
- (slang) A person's tongue.
- The chattering damsel of a mill.
- (ice hockey) A slapshot
- One who claps; a person who applauds by clapping the hands.
- (sewing) A pounding block.
- metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side
- someone who applauds
- a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity
verb
noun
- The clapper of a bell, anything that strikes a bell or other metal object to make a ringing sound.
- Something that clangs; an alarm bell (also figuratively).
- (Australia, Australian rules football) A mistake made by a player; counted in the game statistics in the category "errors including frees against".
- An early hi-hat consisting of cymbals mounted on the rim of a bass drum and struck with an arm on the drum's pedal.
- Short for Bedfordshire clanger.
- (Australia, entomology) A cicada, Psaltoda claripennis, of New South Wales and Queensland, having an upper body of green and brown and clear wings with green veins.
- (chiefly UK, Commonwealth, Ireland, informal, often in the phrase drop a clanger) A very noticeable mistake; an attention-getting faux pas.
- a conspicuous mistake whose effects seem to reverberate
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noun
noun
noun
- A trembler, as of an electric bell.
- A vibrating reed for transmitting or receiving pulsating currents in a harmonic telegraph system.
- An attachment, usually pneumatic, in a moulding machine to shake the pattern loose.
- (historical) A device designed to electromechanically interrupt current flowing to the step-up transformer which was used to generate the high tension positive supply in old battery-operated (automotive) valve radios.
- A vibrating device used for massage or sexual stimulation.
- A device for vibrating the pen of a siphon recorder to diminish frictional resistance on the paper.
- An oscillator.
- A vibrating reed in a musical instrument, especially a reed organ.
- An ink-distributing roller in a printing machine, having an additional vibratory motion.
- (weaving) Any of various vibrating devices, such as one for slackening the warp as a shed opens.
- a mechanical device that vibrates
- mechanical device that produces vibratory motion; used for massage
verb
noun
noun
- A small bell or other ringing or tone-making device as a component of some other device.
- An individual ringing component of such a set.
- A small hammer or other device used to strike a bell.
- (music) A musical instrument producing a sound when struck, similar to a bell (e.g. a tubular metal bar) or actually a bell. Often used in the plural to refer to the set: the chimes.
- Alternative form of chine (“edge of a cask; part of a ship; etc.”).
- The sound of such an instrument or device.
- a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument
verb
- (transitive) To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.
- To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming.
- (intransitive) To make the sound of a chime.
- (transitive) To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.
- (intransitive) To agree; to correspond.
- emit a sound
noun
verb
verb
noun
- a dull resonant sound as of a bell
- An act of smoking one serving of drugs from a bong.
- A very wide piton.
- A device for rapidly consuming beer, usually consisting of a funnel or reservoir of beer and a length of tubing.
- (slang) Doorbell chimes.
- (ethnic slur) An Australian Aboriginal person.
- (Internet slang, derogatory) Clipping of Britbong
- A vessel, usually made of glass or ceramic and filled with water, used in smoking various substances, especially cannabis.
- Alternative spelling of bung (“purse”).
- (slang) The clang of a large bell.
adj
- (campanology) Bell changes rung on eight bells.
- Containing the major term in a categorical syllogism. (of a premise)
- Having intervals of a semitone between the third and fourth, and seventh and eighth degrees. (of a scale)
- Greater in dignity, rank, importance, significance, or interest.
- Greater in number, quantity, or extent.
- (postpositive) (of a key) Based on a major scale, tending to produce a bright or joyful effect.
- Prominent or significant in size, amount, or degree.
- Having a major third above the root.
- Notable or conspicuous in effect or scope.
- Of full legal age, having attained majority.
- Equivalent to that between the tonic and another note of a major scale, and greater by a semitone than the corresponding minor interval. (of an interval)
- (medicine) Involving great risk, serious, life-threatening.
- (education) Of or relating to a subject of academic study chosen as a field of specialization.
- Occurring as the predicate in the conclusion of a categorical syllogism. (of a term)
- greater in scope or effect
- (of a scale or mode) having half steps between the third and fourth degrees and the seventh and eighth degrees
- of the elder of two boys with the same family name
- of greater seriousness or danger
- greater in number or size or amount
- of full legal age
- of the field of academic study in which one concentrates or specializes
- of greater importance or stature or rank
noun
- Ellipsis of major premise.
- Ellipsis of major key.
- (Canadian football) A touchdown, or major score.
- (military) A rank of officer in the army and the US air force, between captain and lieutenant colonel.
- An officer in charge of a section of band instruments, used with a modifier.
- (education, Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand) The principal subject or course of a student working toward a degree at a college or university.
- (campanology) A system of change-ringing using eight bells.
- (Australian rules football) A goal.
- Ellipsis of major scale.
- A large, commercially successful company, especially a record label that is bigger than an indie.
- A student at a college or university specializing on a given area of study.
- Ellipsis of major term.
- (bridge) Ellipsis of major suit.
- Ellipsis of major interval.
- (entomology) A large leaf-cutter ant that acts as a soldier, defending the nest.
- A person of legal age.
- a commissioned military officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines; below lieutenant colonel and above captain
- the principal field of study of a student at a university
- a university student who is studying a particular field as the principal subject
verb
verb
noun
- A sharp, twanging sound; an unpleasant tone; a twang.
- (uncountable) Sexual intercourse with a woman
- A refreshingly sharp aroma or flavor.
- (by extension) Anything resembling a tongue in form or position, such as the tongue of a buckle.
- (firearms) The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock.
- (zoology) Any of a group of saltwater fish from the family Acanthuridae, especially the genus Zebrasoma.
- (countable) The vagina or vulva.
- The part of a sword blade to which the handle is fastened.
- A projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part.
- (figuratively) A sharp, specific flavor or tinge.
- (rare) knotted wrack, Ascophyllum nodosum (coarse blackish seaweed)
- A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself.
- The part of a knife, fork, file, or other instrument or hand tool, which is inserted into the handle.
- (games) A shuffleboard paddle.
- any of various kelps especially of the genus Laminaria
- the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth
- brown algae seaweed with serrated edges
- a common rockweed used in preparing kelp and as manure
- any of various coarse seaweeds
- a tart spicy quality
noun
- the sound of a bell ringing
- a strip of material attached to the leg of a bird to identify it (as in studies of bird migration)
- a platform usually marked off by ropes in which contestants box or wrestle
- (chemistry) a chain of atoms in a molecule that forms a closed loop
- an association of criminals
- a rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling
- a characteristic sound
- jewelry consisting of a circlet of precious metal (often set with jewels) worn on the finger
- a toroidal shape
- (colloquial) A telephone call.
- (typography) A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a kroužek.
- Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.
- In a jack plug, the connector between the tip and the sleeve.
- (Internet) Ellipsis of webring.
- A circular group of people or objects.
- (astronomy) A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet or young star.
- (vulgar) The rectum, anus, or anal sphincters.
- (historical) An instrument, formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the graduated inner surface opposite.
- (chemistry) A group of atoms linked by bonds to form a closed chain in a molecule.
- A piece of food in the shape of a ring.
- An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices.
- (mathematical analysis, measure theory) A family of sets that is closed under finite unions and set-theoretic differences.
- (geometry) A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.
- (historical) An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter.
- The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.
- A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.
- (algebra) An algebraic structure as above, but only required to be a semigroup under the multiplicative operation, that is, there need not be a multiplicative identity element.
- (figuratively) A sound or appearance that is characteristic of something.
- A long stripe of contrastive material, colour, etc, that encircles something.
- (computing theory) A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level, used to protect data and functionality (also protection ring).
- (British) A large circular prehistoric stone construction such as Stonehenge.
- A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.
- A place where some sports or exhibitions take place; notably a circular or comparable arena, such as a boxing ring or a circus ring; hence the field of a political contest.
- (jewelry) A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger or through the ear, nose, etc.
- (algebra) An algebraic structure which consists of a set with two binary operations: an additive operation and a multiplicative operation, such that the set is an abelian group under the additive operation, a monoid under the multiplicative operation, and such that the multiplicative operation is distributive with respect to the additive operation.
- (networking) A network topology where connected devices form a circular data channel. All computers on the ring can see every message, and there are no collisions, and a single point of failure will occur if any part of the ring breaks.
- (firearms) Either of the pair of clamps used to hold a telescopic sight to a rifle.
- (figuratively) A pleasant or correct sound.
- (UK) A burner on a kitchen stove.
- The open space in front of a racecourse stand, used for betting purposes.
- (cartomancy) The twenty-fifth Lenormand card.
- (botany) A flexible band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns.
- (UK) A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.
- (mathematics, order theory) A family of sets closed under finite union and finite intersection.
verb
- sound loudly and sonorously
- ring or echo with sound
- attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify
- get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone
- make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification
- extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle
- (transitive) To enclose or surround.
- (intransitive) to resound, reverberate, echo.
- (transitive) To attach a ring to, especially for identification.
- To ring up (enter into a cash register or till)
- (intransitive, figuratively) To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.
- (transitive, colloquial, British, Australia, New Zealand) To telephone (someone).
- (Australia, transitive) To ride around (a group of animals, especially cattle) to keep them milling in one place; hence (intransitive), to work as a drover, to muster cattle.
- (transitive, figuratively) To make an incision around; to girdle; to cut away a circular tract of bark from a tree in order to kill it.
- (transitive) To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound.
- (transitive) To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.
- (intransitive) Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound.
- (transitive) To steal and change the identity of (cars) in order to resell them.
- (transitive) To produce (a sound) by ringing.
- (falconry) To rise in the air spirally.
- (intransitive) To produce music with bells.
- (intransitive, figuratively) Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.
noun
- the sound of a bell ringing
- The sound of something that rings.
- having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant
- the giving of a ring as a token of engagement
- The quality of being resonant.
- The theft of cars and illegally changing their identities for resale.
- A technique used in the study of wild birds, by attaching a small, individually numbered, metal or plastic tag to their legs or wings.
adj
verb
noun
- The sounding of a bell as a signal.
- the sound of a bell being struck
- the shape of a bell
- (British, vulgar, slang) Clipping of bell-end (“stupid or contemptible person”).
- Anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower.
- (architecture) The part of the capital of a column included between the abacus and neck molding; also used for the naked core of nearly cylindrical shape, assumed to exist within the leafage of a capital.
- (computing) The bell character.
- An instrument that emits a ringing sound, situated on a bicycle's handlebar and used by the cyclist to warn of their presence.
- A signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending.
- (nautical) Any of a series of strokes on a bell (or similar), struck every half hour to indicate the time (within a four hour watch)
- The flared end of a pipe, designed to mate with a narrow spigot.
- (chiefly British, informal) A telephone call.
- (music) The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.
- (music) A percussive instrument made of metal or other hard material, typically but not always in the shape of an inverted cup with a flared rim, which resonates when struck.
- The rounded upper part of a jellyfish.
- The bellow or bay of certain animals, such as a hound on the hunt or a stag in rut.
- (nautical) each of the eight half-hour units of nautical time signaled by strokes of a ship's bell; eight bells signals 4:00, 8:00, or 12:00 o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.
- a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument
- a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck
- the flared opening of a tubular device
- a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed
verb
- To ring a bell.
- attach a bell to
- (transitive) To attach a bell to.
- (intransitive) To bellow or roar.
- (intransitive) To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom.
- (slang, transitive) To telephone.
- (transitive) To utter in a loud manner; to thunder forth.
- (transitive) To shape so that it flares out like a bell.
noun
- The clapper of a bell.
- The power of articulate utterance; speech generally.
- Any similar organ, such as the lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk; the proboscis of a moth or butterfly; or the lingua of an insect.
- (figuratively) An individual point of flame from a fire.
- Any large or long physical protrusion on an automotive or machine part or any other part that fits into a long groove on another part.
- (geology) A division of formation; A layer or member of a formation that pinches out in one direction.
- A small sole (type of fish).
- In a shoe, the flap of material that goes between the laces and the foot (so called because it resembles a tongue in the mouth).
- (synecdochic, usually in the plural) A person speaking in a specified manner.
- (religion, often in the plural) Glossolalia.
- A long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or lake.
- The pole of a towed or drawn vehicle or farm implement (e.g., trailer, cart, plow, harrow), by which it is pulled; for example, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked.
- The flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different sounds in speech.
- (nautical) A short piece of rope spliced into the upper part of standing backstays, etc.; also, the upper main piece of a mast composed of several pieces.
- A manner of speaking, often habitually.
- (countable, uncountable) Such an organ, as taken from animals and used for food (especially from cows).
- (metonymic) A language.
- (music) A reed.
- A projection, or slender appendage or fixture.
- (flags) The middle protrusion of a triple-tailed flag.
- metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side
- the tongue of certain animals used as meat
- a manner of speaking
- a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea
- a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity
- a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language
- any long thin projection that is transient
- the flap of material under the laces of a shoe or boot
verb
- To protrude in relatively long, narrow sections.
- (music, ambitransitive) On a wind instrument, to articulate a note by starting the air with a tap of the tongue, as though by speaking a 'd' or 't' sound (alveolar plosive).
- (transitive, slang, vulgar) To lick, penetrate or manipulate with the tongue during flirting or oral sex.
- (transitive) To manipulate with the tongue.
- To join by means of a tongue and groove.
- lick or explore with the tongue
- articulate by tonguing, as when playing wind instruments
noun
- the sound of a bell being struck
- value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something
- a fee levied for the use of roads or bridges
- (business, by extension) A fee for using any kind of material processing service.
- The act or sound of ringing a bell, especially slowly, as with a church or cemetery bell.
- A fee paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending goods in a fair, market, etc.
- (US) A tollbooth.
- Loss or damage incurred through a disaster.
- A fee paid by the owner of materials or other goods for processing such goods, as under a tolling agreement.
verb
- ring slowly
- charge a fee for using
- (transitive) To tear in pieces.
- (law) To suspend.
- (transitive) To lure with bait; tole (especially, fish and animals).
- (transitive) To summon by ringing a bell.
- (transitive) To draw; entice; invite; allure.
- (ambitransitive) To levy a toll on (someone or something).
- (transitive) To impose a fee for the use of.
- (transitive) To take as a toll.
- (ergative) To ring (a bell) slowly and repeatedly.
- (figuratively) To make a sound as if made by a bell.
- (African-American Vernacular) simple past and past participle of tell
- To pay a toll or tallage.
- (transitive) To announce by ringing a bell.
noun
adj
verb
noun
- A bell or chime.
- The suspended clapper of a bell.
- One who rings a bell.
- (Australia, slang) A condom.
- (Australia, slang) A catapult, a shanghai.
- (Canada, US, slang) The penis.
- (MLE, slang) An unregistered car.
- (Australia, slang) The buttocks, the anus.
- (US, slang) Something outstanding or exceptional, a humdinger.
- (baseball) A home run.
noun
- Someone who rings, especially a bell ringer.
- (mining) A crowbar.
- A person, animal, or entity which resembles another so closely as to be taken for the other; a look-alike (now usually in the phrase dead ringer).
- A ringer T-shirt.
- (games) In the game of horseshoes, the event of the horseshoe landing around the pole.
- (UK, dialect) A top performer.
- (Australia) The champion shearer of a shearing shed.
- (UK, slang) A fraudulently cloned (or cut-and-shut) motor vehicle.
- (slang) Any person or thing that is fraudulent; a fake or impostor.
- (horse racing) A horse fraudulently entered in a race using the name of another horse.
- (sports) A person highly proficient at a skill or sport who is brought in, often fraudulently, to supplement a team.
- (uncountable, games) A game of marbles where players attempt to knock each other's marbles out of a ring drawn on the ground.
- (UK, military, informal, in combination) An officer having the specified number of rings (denoting rank) on the uniform sleeve.
- (Australia) A stockman, a cowboy.
- (ornithology) A person who places rings or bands on a bird's leg.
- (horseshoes) the successful throw of a horseshoe or quoit so as to encircle a stake or peg
- a person who rings church bells (as for summoning the congregation)
- a person who is almost identical to another
- a contestant entered in a competition under false pretenses
noun
- The high-pitched resonant sound of a bell.
- a ringing sound
- (Western Australia, offensive, ethnic slur) an Italian person, specifically an Italian Australian
- An ancient Chinese vessel with legs and a lid.
- (informal) Very minor damage caused by being struck; a small dent or chip.
- (colloquial, roleplaying games, especially video games) The act of levelling up.
- (colloquial) A rejection.
- (Hong Kong) An indigenous inhabitant of the New Territories entitled to the building a village house under the Small House Policy.
- an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)
verb
- (intransitive, colloquial, roleplaying games, especially video games) To level up.
- (transitive, golf) To mishit (a golf ball).
- To dash; to throw violently.
- (intransitive) To make a high-pitched resonant sound like a bell.
- (transitive) To inflict minor damage upon, especially by hitting or striking.
- (transitive, colloquial) To fire or reject.
- (transitive) To hit or strike.
- (transitive, colloquial) To deduct, as points, from (somebody), in the manner of a penalty; to penalize.
- (transitive) To keep repeating; impress by reiteration, with reference to the monotonous striking of a bell.
- (Scotland, of rain) To fall heavily and continually, with great force.
- go ‘ding dong’, like a bell
noun
- The thickened rim of a bell, struck by the clapper.
- The contents of this stomach in a slaughtered animal, viewed as food or a byproduct.
- (nautical) A paunch mat.
- The first compartment of the stomach of a ruminant, the rumen.
- The belly of a human, especially a large, fat protruding one.
- a protruding abdomen
verb
noun
noun
- The sound made by a bell, an onomatopœia.
- (British, chiefly Scotland) A heap or pile, especially of metallic ore.
- A bounce.
- (chiefly Scotland) A slag heap, i.e. a man-made mound or heap formed with the waste material (slag) as a by-product of coal mining or the shale oil industry.
- The sound made by a bounce.
- (prison slang, with "the") Solitary confinement.
- (chiefly Scotland) The waste by-product from a foundry or furnace, formed into such a mound.
intj
verb
noun
- A particular style of ringing changes on bells.
- (slang) An unspecified amount of money.
- A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist.
- A bobbing motion; a quick up and down movement.
- The docked tail of a horse.
- A bobsleigh.
- A curtsy.
- Clipping of shishkabob.
- Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
- A bob haircut.
- The short runner of a sled.
- A short line ending a stanza of a poem.
- A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc.
- Any round object attached loosely to a flexible line, a rod, a body part etc., so that it may swing when hanging from it.
- A bobber (buoyant fishing device).
- The dangling mass of a pendulum or plumb line.
- A working beam in a steam engine.
- (computer graphics, demoscene) A graphical element, resembling a hardware sprite, that can be blitted around the screen in large numbers.
- a hanging weight, especially a metal ball on a string
- a long racing sled (for 2 or more people) with a steering mechanism
- a short or shortened tail of certain animals
- a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line
- a hair style for women and children; a short haircut all around
- a former monetary unit in Great Britain
- a short abrupt inclination (as of the head)
verb
- (transitive) To shorten by cutting; to dock; to crop.
- (transitive) To cut (hair) into a bob haircut.
- To bobsleigh.
- (intransitive) Synonym of blob (“catch eels using worms strung on thread”).
- To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.
- (intransitive) To move gently and vertically, in either a single motion or repeatedly up and down, at or near the surface of a body of water, or similar medium.
- (transitive) To move (something) as though it were bobbing in water.
- (with on) To perform oral sex on someone.
- To curtsy.
- remove or shorten the tail of an animal
- ride a bobsled
- cut hair in the style of a bob
- make a curtsy; usually done only by girls and women; as a sign of respect
- move up and down repeatedly in a quick, short movement
noun
- (bellringing) The pull on the tail of the rope that swings the bell through a full circle (compare handstroke)
- (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.
- a swimming stroke that resembles the crawl except the swimmer lies on his or her back
verb
noun
- A high-pitched sharp sound like a small bell being struck.
- a light clear metallic sound as of a small bell
- An ancient Chinese vessel with legs and a lid.
- (Caribbean creoles, MLE, MTE) thing, person (often referring to an attractive woman or a relation engaged in criminal schemes or disreputable connections).
intj
verb
noun
- An object so suspended inside a bell that it may hit the bell and cause it to ring; a clanger or tongue.
- (cinematography) The hinged part of a clapperboard, used to synchronise images and soundtrack, or the clapperboard itself.
- A clapstick (musical instrument).
- A wooden mechanical device used as a scarecrow; bird-scaring rattle, a wind-rattle or a wind-clapper.
- (slang) A person's tongue.
- The chattering damsel of a mill.
- (ice hockey) A slapshot
- One who claps; a person who applauds by clapping the hands.
- (sewing) A pounding block.
- metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side
- someone who applauds
- a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity
verb
noun
- The clapper of a bell, anything that strikes a bell or other metal object to make a ringing sound.
- Something that clangs; an alarm bell (also figuratively).
- (Australia, Australian rules football) A mistake made by a player; counted in the game statistics in the category "errors including frees against".
- An early hi-hat consisting of cymbals mounted on the rim of a bass drum and struck with an arm on the drum's pedal.
- Short for Bedfordshire clanger.
- (Australia, entomology) A cicada, Psaltoda claripennis, of New South Wales and Queensland, having an upper body of green and brown and clear wings with green veins.
- (chiefly UK, Commonwealth, Ireland, informal, often in the phrase drop a clanger) A very noticeable mistake; an attention-getting faux pas.
- a conspicuous mistake whose effects seem to reverberate
noun
noun
noun
- A trembler, as of an electric bell.
- A vibrating reed for transmitting or receiving pulsating currents in a harmonic telegraph system.
- An attachment, usually pneumatic, in a moulding machine to shake the pattern loose.
- (historical) A device designed to electromechanically interrupt current flowing to the step-up transformer which was used to generate the high tension positive supply in old battery-operated (automotive) valve radios.
- A vibrating device used for massage or sexual stimulation.
- A device for vibrating the pen of a siphon recorder to diminish frictional resistance on the paper.
- An oscillator.
- A vibrating reed in a musical instrument, especially a reed organ.
- An ink-distributing roller in a printing machine, having an additional vibratory motion.
- (weaving) Any of various vibrating devices, such as one for slackening the warp as a shed opens.
- a mechanical device that vibrates
- mechanical device that produces vibratory motion; used for massage
noun
- A small bell or other ringing or tone-making device as a component of some other device.
- An individual ringing component of such a set.
- A small hammer or other device used to strike a bell.
- (music) A musical instrument producing a sound when struck, similar to a bell (e.g. a tubular metal bar) or actually a bell. Often used in the plural to refer to the set: the chimes.
- Alternative form of chine (“edge of a cask; part of a ship; etc.”).
- The sound of such an instrument or device.
- a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument
verb
- (transitive) To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.
- To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming.
- (intransitive) To make the sound of a chime.
- (transitive) To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.
- (intransitive) To agree; to correspond.
- emit a sound
noun
verb
verb
noun
- a dull resonant sound as of a bell
- An act of smoking one serving of drugs from a bong.
- A very wide piton.
- A device for rapidly consuming beer, usually consisting of a funnel or reservoir of beer and a length of tubing.
- (slang) Doorbell chimes.
- (ethnic slur) An Australian Aboriginal person.
- (Internet slang, derogatory) Clipping of Britbong
- A vessel, usually made of glass or ceramic and filled with water, used in smoking various substances, especially cannabis.
- Alternative spelling of bung (“purse”).
- (slang) The clang of a large bell.
noun
- The sounding of a bell as a signal.
- the sound of a bell being struck
- the shape of a bell
- (British, vulgar, slang) Clipping of bell-end (“stupid or contemptible person”).
- Anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower.
- (architecture) The part of the capital of a column included between the abacus and neck molding; also used for the naked core of nearly cylindrical shape, assumed to exist within the leafage of a capital.
- (computing) The bell character.
- An instrument that emits a ringing sound, situated on a bicycle's handlebar and used by the cyclist to warn of their presence.
- A signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending.
- (nautical) Any of a series of strokes on a bell (or similar), struck every half hour to indicate the time (within a four hour watch)
- The flared end of a pipe, designed to mate with a narrow spigot.
- (chiefly British, informal) A telephone call.
- (music) The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.
- (music) A percussive instrument made of metal or other hard material, typically but not always in the shape of an inverted cup with a flared rim, which resonates when struck.
- The rounded upper part of a jellyfish.
- The bellow or bay of certain animals, such as a hound on the hunt or a stag in rut.
- (nautical) each of the eight half-hour units of nautical time signaled by strokes of a ship's bell; eight bells signals 4:00, 8:00, or 12:00 o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.
- a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument
- a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck
- the flared opening of a tubular device
- a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed
verb
- To ring a bell.
- attach a bell to
- (transitive) To attach a bell to.
- (intransitive) To bellow or roar.
- (intransitive) To develop bells or corollas; to take the form of a bell; to blossom.
- (slang, transitive) To telephone.
- (transitive) To utter in a loud manner; to thunder forth.
- (transitive) To shape so that it flares out like a bell.
verb
- To rouse by the ringing of a bell.
- (transitive) To make an adverse official decision concerning (a person).
- (transitive) To enter (a payment) into a cash register, or till in a shop, or record a credit- or debit-card payment.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To telephone; to call someone on the telephone.
- (baseball) To strikeout a batter and thereby send him or her back to the dugout.
- (transitive) To record the payment of.
- to perform and record a sale on a cash register
verb
- To produce a high-pitched ringing sound, like a small bell.
- (transitive) To cause to dry up or wither.
- (transitive) To cause to adhere to, especially by twining round or embracing.
- (figurative, with preposition to) To be fond of, to feel strongly about and dependent on.
- (intransitive) To dry up or wither.
- To hold very tightly, as to not fall off.
- To adhere to an object, without being affixed, in such a way as to follow its contours. Used especially of fabrics and films.
- hold on tightly or tenaciously
- to remain emotionally or intellectually attached
- come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation
intj
noun
verb
noun
verb
noun
- a dull resonant sound as of a bell
- An act of smoking one serving of drugs from a bong.
- A very wide piton.
- A device for rapidly consuming beer, usually consisting of a funnel or reservoir of beer and a length of tubing.
- (slang) Doorbell chimes.
- (ethnic slur) An Australian Aboriginal person.
- (Internet slang, derogatory) Clipping of Britbong
- A vessel, usually made of glass or ceramic and filled with water, used in smoking various substances, especially cannabis.
- Alternative spelling of bung (“purse”).
- (slang) The clang of a large bell.
verb
noun
- A sharp, twanging sound; an unpleasant tone; a twang.
- (uncountable) Sexual intercourse with a woman
- A refreshingly sharp aroma or flavor.
- (by extension) Anything resembling a tongue in form or position, such as the tongue of a buckle.
- (firearms) The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock.
- (zoology) Any of a group of saltwater fish from the family Acanthuridae, especially the genus Zebrasoma.
- (countable) The vagina or vulva.
- The part of a sword blade to which the handle is fastened.
- A projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part.
- (figuratively) A sharp, specific flavor or tinge.
- (rare) knotted wrack, Ascophyllum nodosum (coarse blackish seaweed)
- A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself.
- The part of a knife, fork, file, or other instrument or hand tool, which is inserted into the handle.
- (games) A shuffleboard paddle.
- any of various kelps especially of the genus Laminaria
- the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth
- brown algae seaweed with serrated edges
- a common rockweed used in preparing kelp and as manure
- any of various coarse seaweeds
- a tart spicy quality
noun
- A high-pitched sharp sound like a small bell being struck.
- a light clear metallic sound as of a small bell
- An ancient Chinese vessel with legs and a lid.
- (Caribbean creoles, MLE, MTE) thing, person (often referring to an attractive woman or a relation engaged in criminal schemes or disreputable connections).
intj
verb
adj
adj
- (campanology) Bell changes rung on eight bells.
- Containing the major term in a categorical syllogism. (of a premise)
- Having intervals of a semitone between the third and fourth, and seventh and eighth degrees. (of a scale)
- Greater in dignity, rank, importance, significance, or interest.
- Greater in number, quantity, or extent.
- (postpositive) (of a key) Based on a major scale, tending to produce a bright or joyful effect.
- Prominent or significant in size, amount, or degree.
- Having a major third above the root.
- Notable or conspicuous in effect or scope.
- Of full legal age, having attained majority.
- Equivalent to that between the tonic and another note of a major scale, and greater by a semitone than the corresponding minor interval. (of an interval)
- (medicine) Involving great risk, serious, life-threatening.
- (education) Of or relating to a subject of academic study chosen as a field of specialization.
- Occurring as the predicate in the conclusion of a categorical syllogism. (of a term)
- greater in scope or effect
- (of a scale or mode) having half steps between the third and fourth degrees and the seventh and eighth degrees
- of the elder of two boys with the same family name
- of greater seriousness or danger
- greater in number or size or amount
- of full legal age
- of the field of academic study in which one concentrates or specializes
- of greater importance or stature or rank
noun
- Ellipsis of major premise.
- Ellipsis of major key.
- (Canadian football) A touchdown, or major score.
- (military) A rank of officer in the army and the US air force, between captain and lieutenant colonel.
- An officer in charge of a section of band instruments, used with a modifier.
- (education, Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand) The principal subject or course of a student working toward a degree at a college or university.
- (campanology) A system of change-ringing using eight bells.
- (Australian rules football) A goal.
- Ellipsis of major scale.
- A large, commercially successful company, especially a record label that is bigger than an indie.
- A student at a college or university specializing on a given area of study.
- Ellipsis of major term.
- (bridge) Ellipsis of major suit.
- Ellipsis of major interval.
- (entomology) A large leaf-cutter ant that acts as a soldier, defending the nest.
- A person of legal age.
- a commissioned military officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines; below lieutenant colonel and above captain
- the principal field of study of a student at a university
- a university student who is studying a particular field as the principal subject