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- be almost asleep
- express or signify by nodding
- lower and raise the head, as to indicate assent or agreement or confirmation
- sway gently back and forth, as in a nodding motion
- let the head fall forward through drowsiness
- (ambitransitive) To briefly incline the head downwards as a cursory greeting.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To allude to something.
- (intransitive, slang) To fall asleep while under the influence of opiates.
- (ambitransitive) To sway, move up and down.
- (intransitive) To make a mistake by being temporarily inattentive or tired
- (transitive) To signify by a nod.
- (intransitive) To gradually fall asleep.
- (ambitransitive) To incline the head up and down, as to indicate agreement.
- (transitive, intransitive, soccer) To head; to strike the ball with one's head.
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- To raise a nap, providing with a soft, cottony texture.
- To give the appearance of being dotted with cotton balls.
- (transitive) To provide with cotton.
- (tar and cotton) To cover with cotton bolls over a layer of tar (analogous to tar and feather )
- To protect from harsh stimuli, coddle, or muffle.
- To get on with someone or something; to have a good relationship with someone.
- To enshroud with a layer of whiteness.
- To cover walls with fabric.
- (horticulture) To wrap with a protective layer of cotton fabric.
- To supply with a cotton wick.
- To develop a porous, cottony texture.
- To rub or burnish with cotton.
- To fill with a wad of cotton.
- take a liking to
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- (uncountable) Thread of such fiber.
- A plant of genus Gossypium, used as a source of such fiber.
- (countable) An item of clothing made from such textiles.
- (uncountable) A soft, fibrous, usually white substance consisting of fine hairs, especially the substance around the seeds of a plant of genus Gossypium.
- (addiction, recreational drugs) A small piece of cotton used as a filter when drawing up a drug into a syringe.
- (uncountable, textiles) Textiles made from the fiber harvested from a cotton plant, especially Gossypium.
- Any plant that encases its seed in a thin fiber that is harvested and used as a fabric or cloth.
- A liking.
- (uncountable) Any similar soft, fibrous, white substance of fine hairs, of any origin.
- fabric woven from cotton fibers
- erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers
- soft silky fibers from cotton plants in their raw state
- thread made of cotton fibers
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- be on the verge of sleeping
- sleep lightly or for a short period of time
- To make (someone or something) heavy with drowsiness or sleepiness.
- (figurative) To make (someone or something) dull or inactive, as if from sleepiness.
- Often followed by away or off: to be drowsy or sleepy; to be half-asleep.
- Followed by away: to pass (time) drowsily or in sleeping; also, to proceed (on a way) drowsily or sleepily.
- (figurative) To be dull or inactive, as if from sleepiness.
verb
- be asleep
- (transitive, dialectal, Scotland, Northern England) To snatch; take up hastily; filch
- (informal, chiefly UK) To sleep; often with the connotation of a temporary or charitable situation, or one borne out of necessity.
- (intransitive, dialectal, Northern England) To conduct oneself; act
- (gymnastics, intransitive) To perform the kip maneuver.
noun
- sleep
- a gymnastic exercise performed starting from a position with the legs over the upper body and moving to an erect position by arching the back and swinging the legs out and down while forcing the chest upright
- the basic unit of money in Laos
- A unit of force equal to 1000 pounds-force (lbf) (4.44822 kilonewtons or 4448.22 newtons); occasionally called the kilopound.
- The untanned hide of a young or small beast, such as a calf, lamb, or young goat.
- The unit of currency in Laos, divided into 100 att, symbol ₭, abbreviation LAK.
- (Scotland) A sharp-pointed hill; a projecting point, as on a hill.
- (informal, chiefly UK, Ireland) A very untidy house or room.
- (rare, nonstandard) A unit of mass equal to 1000 avoirdupois pounds.
- A bundle or set of such hides.
- (informal, chiefly UK, Ireland) A place to sleep; a rooming house; a bed.
- (Australia, games, two-up) A piece of flat wood used to throw the coins in a game of two-up.
- (informal, chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Sleep, snooze, nap, forty winks, doze.
- A unit of weight, used, for example, to calculate shipping charges, equal to half a US ton, or 1000 pounds.
- (gymnastics) A basic skill or maneuver in artistic gymnastics on the uneven bars, parallel bars, high bar and still rings used, for example, as a way of mounting the bar in a front support position, or achieving a handstand from a hanging position. In its basic form, the legs are swung forward and upward by bending the hips, then suddenly down again, which gives the upward impulse to the body.
- The leather made from such hide.
verb
- be asleep
- be able to accommodate for sleeping
- (intransitive, euphemistic, idiomatic) To be dead.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To be careless, inattentive, or unconcerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.
- (computing, transitive) To place into a state of hibernation.
- (intransitive) To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie dormant.
- (intransitive) To rest in a state of reduced consciousness.
- (computing, intransitive) To wait for a period of time without performing any action.
- (intransitive, mechanics, dynamics) To spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.
- (transitive, mechanics, dynamics) To cause (a spinning top or yo-yo) to spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.
- (transitive) To accommodate in beds.
- (idiomatic, euphemistic) To have sexual intercourse (see sleep with).
noun
- a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended
- a period of time spent sleeping
- a torpid state resembling deep sleep
- euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)
- The hibernation of animals.
- (botany) A state of plants, usually at night, when their leaflets approach each other and the flowers close and droop, or are covered by the folded leaves.
- (uncountable) The state of reduced consciousness during which a human or animal rests in a daily rhythm.
- (countable, informal) An act or instance of sleeping.
- (informal, metonymic) A night.
- (uncountable) Rheum, crusty or gummy discharge found in the corner of the eyes after waking, whether real or a figurative objectification of sleep (in the sense of reduced consciousness).
verb
noun
- A very light state of sleep, almost awake.
- a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended
- a dormant or quiescent state
- (loosely) A very heavy state of sleep.
- (rare, as used by Magnavox clock radios) The snooze button on an alarm clock.
- (figurative) A state of ignorance or inaction.
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adj
- Having a nap (of cloth etc.); downy; shaggy.
- (of a horse) Nervous, excitable.
- (rare) Inclined to sleep; sleepy.
- (Scotland) Brittle.
- (US, informal, sometimes offensive) Of hair: tightly curled or twisted; frizzy (often specifically in reference to Afro textured hair)
- (of a drink) Foamy; having a large head.
- (of hair) in small tight curls
noun
- (British, Ireland, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand) An absorbent garment worn by a baby or toddler who does not yet have voluntary control of their bladder and bowels or by someone who is incontinent; a diaper.
- A shallow, flat-bottomed earthenware or glass bowl with sloping sides.
- garment consisting of a folded cloth drawn up between the legs and fastened at the waist; worn by infants to catch excrement
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- sleep in a convenient place
- cause to crash
- hurl or thrust violently
- stop operating
- break violently or noisily; smash
- undergo a sudden and severe downturn
- move violently as through a barrier
- occupy, usually uninvited
- move with, or as if with, a crashing noise
- enter uninvited; informal
- fall or come down violently
- make a sudden loud sound
- undergo damage or destruction on impact
- (ambitransitive, slang) Ellipsis of gatecrash.
- (intransitive, slang) To lie down for a long rest, sleep or nap, as from tiredness or exhaustion.
- To make a sudden loud noise.
- To take a sudden and severe turn for the worse; to rapidly and catastrophically deteriorate.
- (computing, hardware, software, transitive) To cause an exception that terminates or halts execution.
- (transitive, Scotland, education) To take a subject at higher level without having previously studied it.
- (transitive) To cause something to collide with something else, especially when this results in damage.
- (transitive, slang) To give, as a favor.
- (intransitive) To experience a period of depression and/or lethargy after a period of euphoria, as after the euphoric effect of a psychotropic drug has dissipated.
- (transitive, management) To accelerate a project or a task or its schedule by devoting more resources to it.
- (intransitive) To collide with something destructively; to fall or come down violently.
- (transitive) To hit or strike with force.
- (computing, hardware, software, intransitive) To terminate or halt execution due to an exception.
- (intransitive, slang) To make or experience informal temporary living arrangements, especially overnight.
noun
- the act of colliding with something
- a sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures)
- (computer science) an event that causes a computer system to become inoperative
- a loud resonant repeating noise
- a serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles)
- (informal) A comedown from a drug.
- (finance) A sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures).
- An automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident.
- (collective) A group of rhinoceroses.
- (ecology) A sudden decline in any living form's population levels, often leading to extinction.
- (computing) A malfunction of computer software or hardware which causes it to shut down or become partially or totally inoperable.
- A sudden, intense, loud sound, as made for example by cymbals.
- (textiles) A type of rough linen.
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- lie down comfortably
- become longer by being stretched and pulled
- extend the scope or meaning of; often unduly
- extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length
- extend one's body or limbs
- corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
- make long or longer by pulling and stretching
- occupy a large, elongated area
- pull in opposite directions
- extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body
- increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance
- (figuratively, transitive) To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
- (figuratively, transitive) To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
- (intransitive) To increase, to grow.
- (physics, transitive) To make a pulse or particle bunch longer by applying dispersion to it.
- (nautical) To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
- (transitive) To increase.
- (transitive) To make great demands on the capacity or resources of something.
- (intransitive) To extend physically, especially from a limit point and/or to a limit point.
- (intransitive, transitive) To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body, for example in order to improve the elasticity of one's muscles.
- (transitive) To pull tight.
- (intransitive) To lengthen when pulled.
- (transitive) To lengthen by pulling.
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- an unbroken period of time during which you do something
- the capacity for being stretched
- exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent
- the act of physically reaching or thrusting out
- extension to or beyond the ordinary limit
- a large and unbroken expanse or distance
- a straightaway section of a racetrack
- Ellipsis of stretch limousine.
- A segment or length of material.
- (informal) Term of address for a tall person.
- The ability to lengthen when pulled.
- A segment of a journey or route.
- (baseball) A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman in order to catch the ball sooner.
- (slang) A jail or prison term of one year's duration.
- (horse racing) The homestretch, the final straight section of the track leading to the finish.
- (Ireland) Extended daylight hours, especially said of the evening in springtime when compared to the shorter winter days.
- (slang) A jail or prison term.
- A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief or exaggeration.
- (baseball) A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead of lifting it.
- (sports) The period of the season between the trade deadline and the beginning of the playoffs.
- An act of stretching.
- A length of time.
- A single uninterrupted sitting; a turn.
verb
- lie down comfortably
- extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length
- extend one's body or limbs
- thrust or extend out
- stretch (the neck) so as to see better
- (intransitive) To lie fully extended.
- (transitive, intransitive) To stretch (something or oneself) (To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body in order to improve the elasticity of one's muscles).
- (transitive) To extend (something) fully, in space, time or use.
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noun
- A short period of sleep, especially one during the day.
- (uncountable, card games) A card game in which players take tricks; properly Napoleon.
- A soft or fuzzy surface, generally on fabric or leather.
- (British) A type of bet in British horse racing, based on the experts' best tips.
- A bid to take five tricks in the card game Napoleon.
- The common direction, on some kinds of fabric, of the hairs making up the pile.
- (Northern England, Scotland) A cup, bowl.
- sleeping for a short period of time (usually not in bed)
- a period of time spent sleeping
- a soft or fuzzy surface texture
- the yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave
- a card game similar to whist; usually played for stakes
noun
- Someone who sleeps.
- a rester who is sleeping
- (science fiction) A pod or similar device containing a person in cryosleep.
- A spy, saboteur, or terrorist who lives unobtrusively in a community until activated by a prearranged signal; may be part of a sleeper cell.
- (rail transport, British) A railroad tie.
- (nautical) The lowest, or bottom, tier of casks.
- A small starter earring, worn to prevent a piercing from closing.
- (slang) A sedative.
- A railway sleeping car.
- (martial arts, wrestling) A sleeper hold.
- (nautical) A heavy floor timber in a ship's bottom.
- Something that achieves unexpected success after an interval of time.
- (automotive, slang) An automobile which has been internally modified to excess, while retaining a mostly stock appearance in order to fool opponents in a drag race, or to avoid the attention of the police.
- (slang, gambling) A bet placed on the gambling table and then forgotten about by the gambler.
- That which lies dormant, as a law.
- (carpentry) A structural beam in a floor running perpendicular to both the joists beneath and floorboards above.
- A type of pajama for a person, especially a child, that covers the whole body, including the feet.
- Any of family Odontobutidae of goby-like bottom-feeding freshwater fish.
- A nurse shark (family Ginglymostomatidae).
- a passenger car that has berths for sleeping
- a piece of furniture that can be opened up into a bed
- tropical fish that resembles a goby and rests quietly on the bottom in shallow water
- pajamas with feet; worn by children
- an unexpected hit
- a spy or saboteur or terrorist planted in an enemy country who lives there as a law-abiding citizen until activated by a prearranged signal
- one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track
- an unexpected achiever of success
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adv
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- An extremely efficient sleeper who does not require much sleep.
- A high-performance car that has an unassuming appearance.
- Someone or something that does not seem very impressive at first but that goes on to become a star.
- A luxury vehicle that allows passengers to sleep.
- One who is particularly good at falling asleep.
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- prepare for sleep
- put to bed
- have sexual intercourse with
- place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil
- furnish with a bed
- (intransitive, hunting) Of large game animals: to be at rest.
- (transitive) To place in a bed.
- (transitive) To dress or prepare the surface of (stone) so it can serve as a bed.
- (ambitransitive) To have sex (with).
- (intransitive) To go to bed; to put oneself to sleep.
- (transitive) To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or enclosed; to embed.
- (transitive) To set out (plants) in a garden bed.
- (transitive) To furnish with a bed or bedding.
- (transitive) To set in a soft matrix, as paving stones in sand, or tiles in cement.
- (transitive) To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position.
- To settle, as machinery.
noun
- a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit
- a depression forming the ground under a body of water
- (geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock)
- a plot of ground in which plants are growing
- the flat surface of a printing press on which the type form is laid in the last stage of producing a newspaper or magazine or book etc.
- a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep
- single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance
- a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track
- (countable) The bottom of a body of water, such as an ocean, sea, lake, or river.
- A shaped piece of timber to hold a cask clear of a ship’s floor; a pallet.
- A piece of music, normally instrumental, over which a radio DJ talks.
- A deposit of ore, coal, etc.
- (uncountable, usually after a preposition) Sleep; rest; getting to sleep.
- (uncountable) Time spent in a bed.
- (masonry) A course of stone or brick in a wall.
- The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.
- (uncountable, usually after a preposition) The time for going to sleep or resting in bed; bedtime.
- Clipping of bedroom.
- (countable, geology) The smallest division of a geologic formation or stratigraphic rock series marked by well-defined divisional planes (bedding planes) separating it from layers above and below.
- An area where a large number of oysters, mussels, other sessile shellfish, or a large amount of seaweed is found.
- (countable) A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep.
- (US, Canada, automotive) The platform of a truck, trailer, wagon, railcar, or other vehicle that supports the load to be hauled.
- (usually after a preposition) One's place of sleep or rest.
- A garden plot.
- (figurative) Marriage.
- (trampoline) The taut surface of a trampoline.
- A foundation or supporting surface formed of a fluid.
- (figurative, uncountable) Sexual activity.
- A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.
- (masonry) The horizontal surface of a building stone.
- A prepared spot in which to spend the night.
- (computing) The flat surface of a scanner on which a document is placed to be scanned.
- (masonry) The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile.
- (darts) Any of the sections of a dartboard with a point value, delimited by a wire.
verb
- prepare for sleep
- cause to get out
- withdraw from active participation
- cause to be out on a fielding play
- dispose of (something no longer useful or needed)
- withdraw from circulation or from the market, as of bills, shares, and bonds
- lose interest
- break from a meeting or gathering
- make (someone) retire
- pull back or move away or backward
- go into retirement; stop performing one's work or withdraw from one's position
- (transitive, baseball, of a fielder) To make a play which results in a runner or the batter being out, either by means of a put out, fly out or strikeout. Also, when such an event ends a team's turn at bat.
- (intransitive, sports) To stop playing their sport and in competitions a sports player.
- (transitive) To cause to retire; specifically, to designate as no longer qualified for active service; to place on the retired list.
- (intransitive) To go back or return; to withdraw or retreat, especially from public view; to go into privacy.
- (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To voluntarily stop batting before being dismissed so that the next batsman can bat.
- (intransitive) To retreat from action or danger; to withdraw for safety or pleasure.
- (transitive, sometimes reflexive) To withdraw; to take away.
- (transitive, American spelling) To fit (a vehicle) with new tires.
- (transitive) To withdraw from circulation, or from the market; to take up and pay.
- (intransitive) To go to bed.
- (intransitive) To stop working on a permanent basis, usually because of old age or illness.
- (transitive) To cease use or production of something.
- (intransitive) To recede; to fall or bend back.
noun
verb
- prepare for sleep
- to surrender someone or something to another
- make an entrance by turning from a road
- carry out (performances)
- (weaving) To reverse the ends of threads and insert them back into the piece being woven so they do not protrude and eventually unravel.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To relinquish; give up; to tell on someone to the authorities (especially to turn someone in).
- (transitive, idiomatic) To submit something; to give.
- (soccer) To convert a goal using a turning motion of the body.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To go to bed; to retire to bed.
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verb
- To copy (a drawing) by rubbing the back of it with red or black chalk, and then passing a blunt stylus or needle over the lines, so as to leave a tracing on the paper or other thing against which it is laid or held.
- Alternative form of caulk (“to take a short sleep, nap”).
- To make an indentation in the edge of a metal plate, as along a seam in a steam boiler or an iron ship, to force the edge of the upper plate hard against the lower and so fill the crevice.
- injure with a calk
- provide with calks
- seal with caulking
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- be on the verge of sleeping
- sleep lightly or for a short period of time
- To make (someone or something) heavy with drowsiness or sleepiness.
- (figurative) To make (someone or something) dull or inactive, as if from sleepiness.
- Often followed by away or off: to be drowsy or sleepy; to be half-asleep.
- Followed by away: to pass (time) drowsily or in sleeping; also, to proceed (on a way) drowsily or sleepily.
- (figurative) To be dull or inactive, as if from sleepiness.
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verb
noun
- Someone who sleeps.
- a rester who is sleeping
- (science fiction) A pod or similar device containing a person in cryosleep.
- A spy, saboteur, or terrorist who lives unobtrusively in a community until activated by a prearranged signal; may be part of a sleeper cell.
- (rail transport, British) A railroad tie.
- (nautical) The lowest, or bottom, tier of casks.
- A small starter earring, worn to prevent a piercing from closing.
- (slang) A sedative.
- A railway sleeping car.
- (martial arts, wrestling) A sleeper hold.
- (nautical) A heavy floor timber in a ship's bottom.
- Something that achieves unexpected success after an interval of time.
- (automotive, slang) An automobile which has been internally modified to excess, while retaining a mostly stock appearance in order to fool opponents in a drag race, or to avoid the attention of the police.
- (slang, gambling) A bet placed on the gambling table and then forgotten about by the gambler.
- That which lies dormant, as a law.
- (carpentry) A structural beam in a floor running perpendicular to both the joists beneath and floorboards above.
- A type of pajama for a person, especially a child, that covers the whole body, including the feet.
- Any of family Odontobutidae of goby-like bottom-feeding freshwater fish.
- A nurse shark (family Ginglymostomatidae).
- a passenger car that has berths for sleeping
- a piece of furniture that can be opened up into a bed
- tropical fish that resembles a goby and rests quietly on the bottom in shallow water
- pajamas with feet; worn by children
- an unexpected hit
- a spy or saboteur or terrorist planted in an enemy country who lives there as a law-abiding citizen until activated by a prearranged signal
- one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track
- an unexpected achiever of success
verb
noun
- An extremely efficient sleeper who does not require much sleep.
- A high-performance car that has an unassuming appearance.
- Someone or something that does not seem very impressive at first but that goes on to become a star.
- A luxury vehicle that allows passengers to sleep.
- One who is particularly good at falling asleep.
verb
noun
- A very light state of sleep, almost awake.
- a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended
- a dormant or quiescent state
- (loosely) A very heavy state of sleep.
- (rare, as used by Magnavox clock radios) The snooze button on an alarm clock.
- (figurative) A state of ignorance or inaction.
verb
- be asleep
- (transitive, dialectal, Scotland, Northern England) To snatch; take up hastily; filch
- (informal, chiefly UK) To sleep; often with the connotation of a temporary or charitable situation, or one borne out of necessity.
- (intransitive, dialectal, Northern England) To conduct oneself; act
- (gymnastics, intransitive) To perform the kip maneuver.
noun
- sleep
- a gymnastic exercise performed starting from a position with the legs over the upper body and moving to an erect position by arching the back and swinging the legs out and down while forcing the chest upright
- the basic unit of money in Laos
- A unit of force equal to 1000 pounds-force (lbf) (4.44822 kilonewtons or 4448.22 newtons); occasionally called the kilopound.
- The untanned hide of a young or small beast, such as a calf, lamb, or young goat.
- The unit of currency in Laos, divided into 100 att, symbol ₭, abbreviation LAK.
- (Scotland) A sharp-pointed hill; a projecting point, as on a hill.
- (informal, chiefly UK, Ireland) A very untidy house or room.
- (rare, nonstandard) A unit of mass equal to 1000 avoirdupois pounds.
- A bundle or set of such hides.
- (informal, chiefly UK, Ireland) A place to sleep; a rooming house; a bed.
- (Australia, games, two-up) A piece of flat wood used to throw the coins in a game of two-up.
- (informal, chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Sleep, snooze, nap, forty winks, doze.
- A unit of weight, used, for example, to calculate shipping charges, equal to half a US ton, or 1000 pounds.
- (gymnastics) A basic skill or maneuver in artistic gymnastics on the uneven bars, parallel bars, high bar and still rings used, for example, as a way of mounting the bar in a front support position, or achieving a handstand from a hanging position. In its basic form, the legs are swung forward and upward by bending the hips, then suddenly down again, which gives the upward impulse to the body.
- The leather made from such hide.
noun
verb
- To copy (a drawing) by rubbing the back of it with red or black chalk, and then passing a blunt stylus or needle over the lines, so as to leave a tracing on the paper or other thing against which it is laid or held.
- Alternative form of caulk (“to take a short sleep, nap”).
- To make an indentation in the edge of a metal plate, as along a seam in a steam boiler or an iron ship, to force the edge of the upper plate hard against the lower and so fill the crevice.
- injure with a calk
- provide with calks
- seal with caulking
verb
noun
- A short period of sleep, especially one during the day.
- (uncountable, card games) A card game in which players take tricks; properly Napoleon.
- A soft or fuzzy surface, generally on fabric or leather.
- (British) A type of bet in British horse racing, based on the experts' best tips.
- A bid to take five tricks in the card game Napoleon.
- The common direction, on some kinds of fabric, of the hairs making up the pile.
- (Northern England, Scotland) A cup, bowl.
- sleeping for a short period of time (usually not in bed)
- a period of time spent sleeping
- a soft or fuzzy surface texture
- the yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave
- a card game similar to whist; usually played for stakes
verb
- be almost asleep
- express or signify by nodding
- lower and raise the head, as to indicate assent or agreement or confirmation
- sway gently back and forth, as in a nodding motion
- let the head fall forward through drowsiness
- (ambitransitive) To briefly incline the head downwards as a cursory greeting.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To allude to something.
- (intransitive, slang) To fall asleep while under the influence of opiates.
- (ambitransitive) To sway, move up and down.
- (intransitive) To make a mistake by being temporarily inattentive or tired
- (transitive) To signify by a nod.
- (intransitive) To gradually fall asleep.
- (ambitransitive) To incline the head up and down, as to indicate agreement.
- (transitive, intransitive, soccer) To head; to strike the ball with one's head.
noun
verb
- To raise a nap, providing with a soft, cottony texture.
- To give the appearance of being dotted with cotton balls.
- (transitive) To provide with cotton.
- (tar and cotton) To cover with cotton bolls over a layer of tar (analogous to tar and feather )
- To protect from harsh stimuli, coddle, or muffle.
- To get on with someone or something; to have a good relationship with someone.
- To enshroud with a layer of whiteness.
- To cover walls with fabric.
- (horticulture) To wrap with a protective layer of cotton fabric.
- To supply with a cotton wick.
- To develop a porous, cottony texture.
- To rub or burnish with cotton.
- To fill with a wad of cotton.
- take a liking to
adj
noun
- (uncountable) Thread of such fiber.
- A plant of genus Gossypium, used as a source of such fiber.
- (countable) An item of clothing made from such textiles.
- (uncountable) A soft, fibrous, usually white substance consisting of fine hairs, especially the substance around the seeds of a plant of genus Gossypium.
- (addiction, recreational drugs) A small piece of cotton used as a filter when drawing up a drug into a syringe.
- (uncountable, textiles) Textiles made from the fiber harvested from a cotton plant, especially Gossypium.
- Any plant that encases its seed in a thin fiber that is harvested and used as a fabric or cloth.
- A liking.
- (uncountable) Any similar soft, fibrous, white substance of fine hairs, of any origin.
- fabric woven from cotton fibers
- erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers
- soft silky fibers from cotton plants in their raw state
- thread made of cotton fibers
verb
verb
- be asleep
- (transitive, dialectal, Scotland, Northern England) To snatch; take up hastily; filch
- (informal, chiefly UK) To sleep; often with the connotation of a temporary or charitable situation, or one borne out of necessity.
- (intransitive, dialectal, Northern England) To conduct oneself; act
- (gymnastics, intransitive) To perform the kip maneuver.
noun
- sleep
- a gymnastic exercise performed starting from a position with the legs over the upper body and moving to an erect position by arching the back and swinging the legs out and down while forcing the chest upright
- the basic unit of money in Laos
- A unit of force equal to 1000 pounds-force (lbf) (4.44822 kilonewtons or 4448.22 newtons); occasionally called the kilopound.
- The untanned hide of a young or small beast, such as a calf, lamb, or young goat.
- The unit of currency in Laos, divided into 100 att, symbol ₭, abbreviation LAK.
- (Scotland) A sharp-pointed hill; a projecting point, as on a hill.
- (informal, chiefly UK, Ireland) A very untidy house or room.
- (rare, nonstandard) A unit of mass equal to 1000 avoirdupois pounds.
- A bundle or set of such hides.
- (informal, chiefly UK, Ireland) A place to sleep; a rooming house; a bed.
- (Australia, games, two-up) A piece of flat wood used to throw the coins in a game of two-up.
- (informal, chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Sleep, snooze, nap, forty winks, doze.
- A unit of weight, used, for example, to calculate shipping charges, equal to half a US ton, or 1000 pounds.
- (gymnastics) A basic skill or maneuver in artistic gymnastics on the uneven bars, parallel bars, high bar and still rings used, for example, as a way of mounting the bar in a front support position, or achieving a handstand from a hanging position. In its basic form, the legs are swung forward and upward by bending the hips, then suddenly down again, which gives the upward impulse to the body.
- The leather made from such hide.
verb
- be asleep
- be able to accommodate for sleeping
- (intransitive, euphemistic, idiomatic) To be dead.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To be careless, inattentive, or unconcerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.
- (computing, transitive) To place into a state of hibernation.
- (intransitive) To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie dormant.
- (intransitive) To rest in a state of reduced consciousness.
- (computing, intransitive) To wait for a period of time without performing any action.
- (intransitive, mechanics, dynamics) To spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.
- (transitive, mechanics, dynamics) To cause (a spinning top or yo-yo) to spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.
- (transitive) To accommodate in beds.
- (idiomatic, euphemistic) To have sexual intercourse (see sleep with).
noun
- a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended
- a period of time spent sleeping
- a torpid state resembling deep sleep
- euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)
- The hibernation of animals.
- (botany) A state of plants, usually at night, when their leaflets approach each other and the flowers close and droop, or are covered by the folded leaves.
- (uncountable) The state of reduced consciousness during which a human or animal rests in a daily rhythm.
- (countable, informal) An act or instance of sleeping.
- (informal, metonymic) A night.
- (uncountable) Rheum, crusty or gummy discharge found in the corner of the eyes after waking, whether real or a figurative objectification of sleep (in the sense of reduced consciousness).
verb
noun
- A very light state of sleep, almost awake.
- a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended
- a dormant or quiescent state
- (loosely) A very heavy state of sleep.
- (rare, as used by Magnavox clock radios) The snooze button on an alarm clock.
- (figurative) A state of ignorance or inaction.
verb
verb
- sleep in a convenient place
- cause to crash
- hurl or thrust violently
- stop operating
- break violently or noisily; smash
- undergo a sudden and severe downturn
- move violently as through a barrier
- occupy, usually uninvited
- move with, or as if with, a crashing noise
- enter uninvited; informal
- fall or come down violently
- make a sudden loud sound
- undergo damage or destruction on impact
- (ambitransitive, slang) Ellipsis of gatecrash.
- (intransitive, slang) To lie down for a long rest, sleep or nap, as from tiredness or exhaustion.
- To make a sudden loud noise.
- To take a sudden and severe turn for the worse; to rapidly and catastrophically deteriorate.
- (computing, hardware, software, transitive) To cause an exception that terminates or halts execution.
- (transitive, Scotland, education) To take a subject at higher level without having previously studied it.
- (transitive) To cause something to collide with something else, especially when this results in damage.
- (transitive, slang) To give, as a favor.
- (intransitive) To experience a period of depression and/or lethargy after a period of euphoria, as after the euphoric effect of a psychotropic drug has dissipated.
- (transitive, management) To accelerate a project or a task or its schedule by devoting more resources to it.
- (intransitive) To collide with something destructively; to fall or come down violently.
- (transitive) To hit or strike with force.
- (computing, hardware, software, intransitive) To terminate or halt execution due to an exception.
- (intransitive, slang) To make or experience informal temporary living arrangements, especially overnight.
noun
- the act of colliding with something
- a sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures)
- (computer science) an event that causes a computer system to become inoperative
- a loud resonant repeating noise
- a serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles)
- (informal) A comedown from a drug.
- (finance) A sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures).
- An automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident.
- (collective) A group of rhinoceroses.
- (ecology) A sudden decline in any living form's population levels, often leading to extinction.
- (computing) A malfunction of computer software or hardware which causes it to shut down or become partially or totally inoperable.
- A sudden, intense, loud sound, as made for example by cymbals.
- (textiles) A type of rough linen.
adj
verb
adj
noun
noun
verb
verb
- lie down comfortably
- become longer by being stretched and pulled
- extend the scope or meaning of; often unduly
- extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length
- extend one's body or limbs
- corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
- make long or longer by pulling and stretching
- occupy a large, elongated area
- pull in opposite directions
- extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body
- increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance
- (figuratively, transitive) To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
- (figuratively, transitive) To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
- (intransitive) To increase, to grow.
- (physics, transitive) To make a pulse or particle bunch longer by applying dispersion to it.
- (nautical) To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
- (transitive) To increase.
- (transitive) To make great demands on the capacity or resources of something.
- (intransitive) To extend physically, especially from a limit point and/or to a limit point.
- (intransitive, transitive) To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body, for example in order to improve the elasticity of one's muscles.
- (transitive) To pull tight.
- (intransitive) To lengthen when pulled.
- (transitive) To lengthen by pulling.
adj
noun
- an unbroken period of time during which you do something
- the capacity for being stretched
- exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent
- the act of physically reaching or thrusting out
- extension to or beyond the ordinary limit
- a large and unbroken expanse or distance
- a straightaway section of a racetrack
- Ellipsis of stretch limousine.
- A segment or length of material.
- (informal) Term of address for a tall person.
- The ability to lengthen when pulled.
- A segment of a journey or route.
- (baseball) A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman in order to catch the ball sooner.
- (slang) A jail or prison term of one year's duration.
- (horse racing) The homestretch, the final straight section of the track leading to the finish.
- (Ireland) Extended daylight hours, especially said of the evening in springtime when compared to the shorter winter days.
- (slang) A jail or prison term.
- A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief or exaggeration.
- (baseball) A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead of lifting it.
- (sports) The period of the season between the trade deadline and the beginning of the playoffs.
- An act of stretching.
- A length of time.
- A single uninterrupted sitting; a turn.
verb
- lie down comfortably
- extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length
- extend one's body or limbs
- thrust or extend out
- stretch (the neck) so as to see better
- (intransitive) To lie fully extended.
- (transitive, intransitive) To stretch (something or oneself) (To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body in order to improve the elasticity of one's muscles).
- (transitive) To extend (something) fully, in space, time or use.
verb
noun
- A short period of sleep, especially one during the day.
- (uncountable, card games) A card game in which players take tricks; properly Napoleon.
- A soft or fuzzy surface, generally on fabric or leather.
- (British) A type of bet in British horse racing, based on the experts' best tips.
- A bid to take five tricks in the card game Napoleon.
- The common direction, on some kinds of fabric, of the hairs making up the pile.
- (Northern England, Scotland) A cup, bowl.
- sleeping for a short period of time (usually not in bed)
- a period of time spent sleeping
- a soft or fuzzy surface texture
- the yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave
- a card game similar to whist; usually played for stakes
noun
verb
verb
- prepare for sleep
- put to bed
- have sexual intercourse with
- place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil
- furnish with a bed
- (intransitive, hunting) Of large game animals: to be at rest.
- (transitive) To place in a bed.
- (transitive) To dress or prepare the surface of (stone) so it can serve as a bed.
- (ambitransitive) To have sex (with).
- (intransitive) To go to bed; to put oneself to sleep.
- (transitive) To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or enclosed; to embed.
- (transitive) To set out (plants) in a garden bed.
- (transitive) To furnish with a bed or bedding.
- (transitive) To set in a soft matrix, as paving stones in sand, or tiles in cement.
- (transitive) To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position.
- To settle, as machinery.
noun
- a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit
- a depression forming the ground under a body of water
- (geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock)
- a plot of ground in which plants are growing
- the flat surface of a printing press on which the type form is laid in the last stage of producing a newspaper or magazine or book etc.
- a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep
- single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance
- a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track
- (countable) The bottom of a body of water, such as an ocean, sea, lake, or river.
- A shaped piece of timber to hold a cask clear of a ship’s floor; a pallet.
- A piece of music, normally instrumental, over which a radio DJ talks.
- A deposit of ore, coal, etc.
- (uncountable, usually after a preposition) Sleep; rest; getting to sleep.
- (uncountable) Time spent in a bed.
- (masonry) A course of stone or brick in a wall.
- The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.
- (uncountable, usually after a preposition) The time for going to sleep or resting in bed; bedtime.
- Clipping of bedroom.
- (countable, geology) The smallest division of a geologic formation or stratigraphic rock series marked by well-defined divisional planes (bedding planes) separating it from layers above and below.
- An area where a large number of oysters, mussels, other sessile shellfish, or a large amount of seaweed is found.
- (countable) A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep.
- (US, Canada, automotive) The platform of a truck, trailer, wagon, railcar, or other vehicle that supports the load to be hauled.
- (usually after a preposition) One's place of sleep or rest.
- A garden plot.
- (figurative) Marriage.
- (trampoline) The taut surface of a trampoline.
- A foundation or supporting surface formed of a fluid.
- (figurative, uncountable) Sexual activity.
- A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.
- (masonry) The horizontal surface of a building stone.
- A prepared spot in which to spend the night.
- (computing) The flat surface of a scanner on which a document is placed to be scanned.
- (masonry) The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile.
- (darts) Any of the sections of a dartboard with a point value, delimited by a wire.
verb
- prepare for sleep
- cause to get out
- withdraw from active participation
- cause to be out on a fielding play
- dispose of (something no longer useful or needed)
- withdraw from circulation or from the market, as of bills, shares, and bonds
- lose interest
- break from a meeting or gathering
- make (someone) retire
- pull back or move away or backward
- go into retirement; stop performing one's work or withdraw from one's position
- (transitive, baseball, of a fielder) To make a play which results in a runner or the batter being out, either by means of a put out, fly out or strikeout. Also, when such an event ends a team's turn at bat.
- (intransitive, sports) To stop playing their sport and in competitions a sports player.
- (transitive) To cause to retire; specifically, to designate as no longer qualified for active service; to place on the retired list.
- (intransitive) To go back or return; to withdraw or retreat, especially from public view; to go into privacy.
- (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To voluntarily stop batting before being dismissed so that the next batsman can bat.
- (intransitive) To retreat from action or danger; to withdraw for safety or pleasure.
- (transitive, sometimes reflexive) To withdraw; to take away.
- (transitive, American spelling) To fit (a vehicle) with new tires.
- (transitive) To withdraw from circulation, or from the market; to take up and pay.
- (intransitive) To go to bed.
- (intransitive) To stop working on a permanent basis, usually because of old age or illness.
- (transitive) To cease use or production of something.
- (intransitive) To recede; to fall or bend back.
noun
verb
- prepare for sleep
- to surrender someone or something to another
- make an entrance by turning from a road
- carry out (performances)
- (weaving) To reverse the ends of threads and insert them back into the piece being woven so they do not protrude and eventually unravel.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To relinquish; give up; to tell on someone to the authorities (especially to turn someone in).
- (transitive, idiomatic) To submit something; to give.
- (soccer) To convert a goal using a turning motion of the body.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To go to bed; to retire to bed.
noun
verb
- be on the verge of sleeping
- sleep lightly or for a short period of time
- To make (someone or something) heavy with drowsiness or sleepiness.
- (figurative) To make (someone or something) dull or inactive, as if from sleepiness.
- Often followed by away or off: to be drowsy or sleepy; to be half-asleep.
- Followed by away: to pass (time) drowsily or in sleeping; also, to proceed (on a way) drowsily or sleepily.
- (figurative) To be dull or inactive, as if from sleepiness.
adv
adj
- Having a nap (of cloth etc.); downy; shaggy.
- (of a horse) Nervous, excitable.
- (rare) Inclined to sleep; sleepy.
- (Scotland) Brittle.
- (US, informal, sometimes offensive) Of hair: tightly curled or twisted; frizzy (often specifically in reference to Afro textured hair)
- (of a drink) Foamy; having a large head.
- (of hair) in small tight curls
noun
- (British, Ireland, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand) An absorbent garment worn by a baby or toddler who does not yet have voluntary control of their bladder and bowels or by someone who is incontinent; a diaper.
- A shallow, flat-bottomed earthenware or glass bowl with sloping sides.
- garment consisting of a folded cloth drawn up between the legs and fastened at the waist; worn by infants to catch excrement