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noun
- (heraldry) A wide inverted V placed on a shield.
- (informal) A háček, a diacritical mark that may resemble an inverted circumflex.
- A guillemet, either of the punctuation marks “«” or “»”, used in several languages to indicate passages of speech. Similar to typical quotation marks used in the English language such as ““” and “””.
- Synonym of arrowhead (“horse jump obstacle”).
- A wedge-shaped sediment deposit observed on coastlines and continental interiors around the world.
- A V-shaped pattern; used in architecture, and as an insignia of military or police rank, on the sleeve.
- An angle bracket, either used as a typographic or a scientific symbol.
- (chiefly British) One of the V-shaped markings on the surface of roads used to indicate minimum distances between vehicles.
- V-shaped sleeve badge indicating military rank and service
- an inverted V-shaped charge
verb
noun
- a shield; especially one displaying a coat of arms
- (heraldry) A small shield used to charge a larger one.
- a flat protective covering (on a door or wall etc.) to prevent soiling by dirty fingers
- (nautical) a plate on a ship's stern on which the name is inscribed
- (medicine) The pattern of distribution of hair upon the pubic mound.
- The depression behind the beak of certain bivalves; the ligamental area.
- A [[decorative] or protective plate or bezel designed to fill the gap between a switch, pipe, valve, control knob, etc., and the surface from which it protrudes.
- (nautical) The part of a ship's stern where its name is displayed.
- (heraldry) The shield on which a coat of arms is displayed, or, by extension, the coat of arms itself.
- The insignia around a doorknob's exterior hardware or a door lock's cosmetic plate.
- A marking upon the back of a cow's udder and the space above it (the perineum), formed by the hair growing upward or outward instead of downward. It was once taken as an index of milking qualities.
noun
- (heraldry) A green hillock in the base of a shield.
- A step or block to assist in mounting a horse.
- (martial arts) A dominant ground grappling position, where one combatant sits on the other combatants torso with the face pointing towards the opponent's head.
- A signal for mounting a horse.
- (gymnastics) The act of getting onto the apparatus.
- A mounting; an object on which another object is mounted.
- An animal, usually a horse, used to ride on.
- A hill or mountain.
- (palmistry) Any of seven fleshy prominences in the palm of the hand, taken to represent the influences of various heavenly bodies.
- (now only figurative) A car, bicycle, or motorcycle used for racing.
- a land mass that projects well above its surroundings; higher than a hill
- a lightweight horse kept for riding only
- something forming a back that is added for strengthening
- the act of climbing something
- a mounting consisting of a piece of metal (as in a ring or other jewelry) that holds a gem in place
verb
- (transitive) To get upon; to ascend; to climb.
- (intransitive, sometimes with up) To increase in quantity or intensity.
- (cooking) To incorporate fat, especially butter, into (a dish, especially a sauce to finish it).
- (transitive) To have or begin sexual intercourse with someone.
- (transitive) To get on top of (another) for the purpose of copulation.
- (transitive, computing) To attach (a drive or device) to the file system in order to make it available to the operating system.
- (transitive) To prepare and arrange the scenery, furniture, etc. for use in (a play or production).
- (transitive) To attach (an object) to a support, backing, framework etc.
- (transitive) To place oneself on (a horse, a bicycle, etc.); to bestride.
- (transitive) To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding.
- (transitive) To begin (a campaign, military assault, etc.); to launch.
- (intransitive, rare) To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; often with up.
- (transitive, martial arts) To sit on a combatant's torso with the face pointing towards the opponent's head; to assume the mount position in ground grappling.
- prepare and supply with the necessary equipment for execution or performance
- go up or advance
- fix onto a backing, setting, or support
- put up or launch
- go upward with gradual or continuous progress
- get up on the back of
- attach to a support
- copulate with
noun
- A spot resembling, or having the form of a shield.
- A broad piece of defensive armor, held in hand, formerly in general use in war, for the protection of the body.
- (transport) A sign or symbol, usually containing numbers and sometimes letters, identifying a highway route.
- (colloquial, law enforcement) A police badge.
- (heraldry) The escutcheon on which are placed the bearings in coats of arms.
- (geology) A large expanse of exposed stable Precambrian rock.
- (figurative) One who protects or defends.
- (science fiction) A field of energy that protects or defends.
- (lichenology) In lichens, a hardened cup or disk surrounded by a rim and containing the fructification, or asci.
- (geology) A wide and relatively low-profiled volcano, usually composed entirely of lava flows.
- (mining, tunnelling) A framework used to protect workmen in making an adit under ground, and capable of being pushed along as excavation progresses.
- (automotive, British English) Parts at the front and back of a vehicle which are meant to absorb the impact of a collision
- hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles
- a protective covering or structure
- armor carried on the arm to intercept blows
verb
noun
- Armor.
- Projectiles.
- A piece used for striking sparks from flint or ferrocerium.
- (countable, uncountable) An artificial metal produced from iron, harder and more elastic than elemental iron; used figuratively as a symbol of hardness.
- (figurative) Extreme hardness or resilience.
- (sewing, dialectal) A sewing needle; a knitting needle; a sharp metal stylus.
- (printing) An engraving plate.
- (uncountable, colors) The gray hue of this metal; steel-gray, or steel blue.
- Bladed or pointed weapons, as swords, javelins, daggers.
- (sewing) Pieces used to strengthen, support, or expand an item of clothing.
- (music, guitar) A type of slide used while playing the steel guitar.
- (sewing) A fringe of beads or decoration of this metal.
- (dialectal) A flat iron.
- A honing steel, a tool used to sharpen or hone metal blades.
- a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard
- knife sharpener consisting of a ridged steel rod
- an alloy of iron with small amounts of carbon; widely used in construction; mechanical properties can be varied over a wide range
adj
verb
- To harden or strengthen; to nerve or make obdurate; to fortify against.
- (dialectal) To press with a flat iron.
- To electroplate an item (particularly an engraving plate) with a layer of iron.
- To sharpen with a honing steel.
- To steelify; to turn iron into steel.
- To edge, cover, or point with steel.
- (literary or poetic) To give (something) the appearance of steel.
- cover, plate, or edge with steel
- get ready for something difficult or unpleasant
noun
- (historical) A small shield, especially one of an approximately elliptical form, or crescent-shaped.
- (microbiology) A crescent-shaped sheet of microtubules that encircles the base of the flagella of a protozoan.
- (art, historical) A crescent-shaped design used in mosaics.
- (botany) A flat apothecium with no rim.
noun
adj
- (of human skin) Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).
- Feeble, faint.
- Light in color.
- not full or rich
- very light colored; highly diluted with white
- (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble
- lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness
- abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress
verb
noun
- one of the rounded armor plates at the armpits of a suit of armor
- board that provides a flat surface on which artists mix paints and the range of colors used
- the range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or painting or school of art
- The range of tones or tone colors in a given musical composition or performance.
- (painting) A thin board on which a painter lays and mixes colours.
- (historical) A plate of armour covering the points of junction at the bend of the shoulders and elbows.
- The range of colors in a given work or item or body of work.
- (figurative, uncommon) Any set or group of limited choices, options, or tasks from all ones that are currently available.
- (computing, graphical user interface) A visual selection of colours, tools, commands, etc.
- A set of makeup including a variety of colors, often packaged together in a tray.
- A plate against which a person presses their chest to give force to a hand-operated drill.
- A set of colours available to be used (or mixed).
noun
- round piece of armor plate that protects the armpit
- A bastion of a circular form.
- A small circular shield, sometimes not more than a foot in diameter, used by soldiers in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
- (heraldry) a charge in the shape of a filled circle
- English form of rondeau having three triplets with a refrain after the first and third
- (heraldry) A circular spot; a charge in the form of a small coloured circle.
- (music) A roundelay or rondelay.
- Anything having a round form; a round figure; a circle.
- (aviation) A circular insignia painted on an aircraft to identify its nationality or service.
noun
verb
noun
- armor plate that protects the head
- (heraldry) Such a helm when placed above a shield on a coat of arms.
- a protective headgear made of hard material to resist blows
- A naked shield or protuberance on the top or fore part of the head of a bird.
- The glans penis.
- (by extension, derogatory) A contemptible or stupid person.
- (clothing) A hard, protective head covering, typically part of armour.
- The upper part of a chemist's retort.
- The hood-shaped upper sepal or petal of some flowers, as of the monkshood or the snapdragon.
verb
noun
- (heraldry) any of several conventional figures used on shields
- a judge of a probate court
- an early bicycle with a very large front wheel and small back wheel
- a clergyman appointed to prepare condemned prisoners for death
- the expected or commonplace condition or situation
- (ecclesiastical, law) A person having immediate jurisdiction in a given case of ecclesiastical law, such as the bishop within a diocese.
- (now historical) The chaplain of Newgate prison, who prepared condemned prisoners for death.
- (now Scotland, Ireland) The usual course of things; normal condition or health; a standard way of behaviour or action.
- (Christianity, especially Catholicism) A rule, or book of rules, prescribing the order of a liturgy, especially of Mass.
- (heraldry) One of the standard geometric designs placed across the center of a coat of arms, such as a pale or fess.
- An ordinary person or thing; something commonplace.
- (now chiefly historical) A meal provided for a set price at an eating establishment.
- (law) A judge with the authority to deal with cases himself or herself rather than by delegation.
- (Christianity) A part of the Christian liturgy that is reasonably constant without regard to the date on which the service is performed.
- (now historical) A penny farthing bicycle.
- (Catholicism) Alternative letter-case form of Ordinary (“those parts of the Mass which are consistent from day to day”).
adj
- lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered
- not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree
- Having no special characteristics or function; everyday, common, mundane; often deprecatory.
- (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, informal) Bad or undesirable.
- Being part of the natural order of things; normal, customary, routine.
- (law, of a judge) Having regular jurisdiction; now only used in certain phrases.
noun
- A coating or defensive armour of metal plates.
- The presentation of food that is ready to be served.
- A thin coating of metal laid upon another metal.
- (philately) An act of determining where a postage stamp is positioned on a sheet.
- the application of a thin coat of metal (as by electrolysis)
- a thin coating of metal deposited on a surface
verb
noun
- (historical) A medieval European shield having a rounded triangle shape like a clothes iron.
- (horse racing) A dead heat; a race in which two or more competitors reach the finish line simultaneously.
- (baseball, slang) A fastball, especially one thrown at high velocity.
- (gambling, slang) An extended winning streak.
- (slang) Synonym of banger (“a powerfully energetic or exceptional song”).
- A person who heats something, for example in metalworking.
- A device that produces and radiates heat, typically to raise the temperature of a room or building.
- (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity
- device that heats water or supplies warmth to a room
noun
- a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
- the positively charged electrode in a vacuum tube
- the thin under portion of the forequarter
- a shallow receptacle for collection in church
- any flat platelike body structure or part
- a flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded
- dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten
- a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic
- structural member consisting of a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchorage
- a dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth
- a rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly
- (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score
- a full-page illustration (usually on slick paper)
- the quantity contained in a plate
- a main course served on a plate
- (geology) A tectonic plate.
- (hat-making) The fine nap (as of beaver, musquash, etc.) on a hat whose body is made from inferior material.
- (music) A record, usually vinyl.
- (dentistry) A shaped and fitted surface, usually ceramic or metal that fits into the mouth and in which teeth are implanted; a dental plate.
- A prize given to the winner in a contest.
- (printing, photography) An image or copy.
- Precious metal, especially silver.
- A material covered with such a layer.
- (printing, publishing) An illustration in a book, either black and white, or colour, usually on a page of paper of different quality from the text pages.
- The contents of such a dish.
- (chemistry) Any flat piece of material such as coated glass or plastic.
- (historical) Plate armor.
- (engineering, electricity) A flat electrode such as can be found in an accumulator battery, or in an electrolysis tank.
- A slightly curved but almost flat dish from which food is served or eaten.
- (Australia) A VIN plate, particularly with regard to the car's year of manufacture.
- (aviation, travel industry, by extension) The ability of a travel agent to issue tickets on behalf of a particular airline.
- (uncountable) Such dishes collectively.
- (construction) A horizontal framing member at the top or bottom of a group of vertical studs.
- (baseball) Home plate.
- (military) trauma plate.
- (heraldry) A roundel of silver or argent.
- (especially Australia; metonymic, plural only) Vehicle license plates, registration plates.
- One of the thin parts of the brisket of an animal.
- (figuratively) An agenda of tasks, problems, or responsibilities
- A taxi permit, especially of a metal disc.
- (printing) An engraved surface used to transfer an image to paper.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A person's foot.
- (engineering, electricity) The anode of a vacuum tube.
- (herpetology) Any of various larger scales found in some reptiles.
- (weightlifting) A weighted disk, usually of metal, with a hole in the center for use with a barbell, dumbbell, or exercise machine.
- A flat object of uniform thickness.
- (slang, seduction community) Any of the potential romantic or sexual partners with whom a person keeps in touch as part of plate spinning.
- A course at a meal.
- (Lego building) A Lego piece that is thin, 1/3 the height of a brick, and has studs on top.
- (furriers' slang) Skins for fur linings of garments, sewn together and roughly shaped, but not finally cut or fitted.
- A layer of a material on the surface of something, usually qualified by the type of the material; plating
- A very light steel horseshoe for racehorses.
verb
- coat with a layer of metal
- (baseball) To score a run.
- (transitive) To beat into thin plates.
- (philately, particularly with early British stamps) To identify the printing plate used.
- (cooking, photography) To place the various elements of a meal on the diner's plate prior to serving.
- (transitive) To arm or defend with metal plates.
- (philately) to categorise stamps based on their position on the original sheet, in order to reconstruct an entire sheet.
- To cover the surface material of an object with a thin coat of another material, usually a metal.
- (aviation, travel industry) To specify which airline a ticket will be issued on behalf of.
noun
- a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
- an indicator having a graduated sequence of marks
- an ordered reference standard
- a measuring instrument for weighing; shows amount of mass
- relative magnitude
- a thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin
- the ratio between the size of something and a representation of it
- a specialized leaf or bract that protects a bud or catkin
- a flattened rigid plate forming part of the body covering of many animals
- (music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave)
- An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement; means of assigning a magnitude.
- (uncountable) Limescale.
- Size; scope.
- (uncountable) The flaky material sloughed off heated metal.
- A device to measure mass or weight.
- (uncountable, US) An infestation of scale insects on a plant; commonly thought of as, or mistaken for, a disease.
- A standard amount of money to be paid for a service, for example union-negotiated amounts received by a performer or writer; similar to wage scale or pay grade.
- (music) A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.
- Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance or scales.
- Scale mail (as opposed to chain mail).
- A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis.
- A mathematical base for a numeral system; radix.
- Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard pieces of keratin covering the skin of an animal, particularly a fish or reptile.
- A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color.
- The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife.
- A scale insect.
- A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced.
- The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.
- Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard protective layers forming a pinecone that flare when mature to release pine nut seeds.
- Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order.
verb
- measure by or as if by a scale
- climb up by means of a ladder
- take by attacking with scaling ladders
- reach the highest point of
- remove the scales from
- measure with or as if with scales
- pattern, make, regulate, set, measure, or estimate according to some rate or standard
- size or measure according to a scale
- (transitive) To change the size of something whilst maintaining proportion; especially to change a process in order to produce much larger amounts of the final product.
- (transitive) To climb to the top of.
- (transitive) To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.
- (transitive) To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.
- (intransitive) To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae.
- (transitive) To remove the scales of.
- (intransitive) To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) To scatter; to spread.
- (transitive) To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.
- (manufacturing, transitive) To take measurements from (an engineering drawing), treating them as (or as if) reliable dimensional instructions. This practice often works but can produce latently incorrect results and is thus usually deprecated.
- (intransitive, computing) To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.
- (transitive) To strip or clear of scale; to descale.
noun
- a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
- a rigid covering that envelops an object
- the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod
- the hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits especially nuts
- hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles
- the housing or outer covering of something
- the exterior covering of a bird's egg
- a very light narrow racing boat
- ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun
- the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals
- The covering, or outside part, of a nut.
- (architecture) Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in, as the shell of a house.
- The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
- A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that often fastens in the rear.
- (nautical, rigging) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
- (nautical) The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
- A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
- (figuratively) The empty outward form of someone or something.
- (music) A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
- In formal debating, a set of proposed rules to be followed, with set penalties for violating them.
- A psychological barrier to social interaction.
- (figuratively) The outward form independent of what is inside.
- (British, education) One or more school grades within secondary education, at certain public schools.
- The thin coating of copper on an electrotype.
- (chemistry) A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
- (music) The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims added for tuning and for attaching the drum head.
- One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
- An engraved copper roller used in print works.
- The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
- The conjoined scutes that constitute the "shell" (carapace) of a tortoise or turtle.
- (UK, slang) A person's ear.
- (geology) The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
- An emaciated person.
- (nautical) A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper; a racing shell or dragon boat.
- (computing) An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs and control their interactions; the user's command interpreter. Shell is a way to separate the internal complexity of the implementation of the command from the user. The internals can change while the user experience/interface remains the same.
- (weaponry) A hollow, usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon. It contains an explosive substance designed to be ignited by a fuse or by percussion at the target site so that it will burst and scatter at high velocity its contents and fragments. Formerly called a bomb.
- (business) A legal entity that has no operations.
- (in the plural) Husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is sometimes used as a substitute or adulterant for cocoa and its products such as chocolate.
- (by extension) Any mollusk having such a covering.
- (figuratively) A person otherwise diminished.
- The overlapping hard plates comprising the armor covering the armadillo's body.
- (weaponry) The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
- (weaponry) The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
- (phonology) The onset and coda of a syllable.
- A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
- A pod containing the seeds of certain plants, such as the legume Phaseolus vulgaris.
- An unmarked vehicle for carrying corpses from a crime scene.
- (entomology) The exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects.
- (engineering) A gouge bit or shell bit.
verb
- remove from its shell or outer covering
- use explosives on
- create by using explosives
- fall out of the pod or husk
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- look for and collect shells by the seashore
- remove the husks from
- hit the pitches of hard and regularly
- (topology) To form a shelling.
- To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
- (computing, intransitive) To switch to a shell or command line.
- (cricket, slang, transitive) To drop (the ball).
- (intransitive) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
- (intransitive) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
- (informal) To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
- To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
- To remove the outer covering or shell of something.
noun
noun
- (Middle Ages) a cylindrical piece of armor plate to protect the arm
- a shot in billiards in which the cue ball contacts one object ball and then the other
- heavy automatic gun fired from an airplane
- heavy gun fired from a tank
- a large artillery gun that is usually on wheels
- lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals
- (xiangqi) A piece which moves horizontally and vertically like a rook but captures another piece by jumping over a different piece in the line of attack.
- (US, slang) A pickpocket.
- Any similar device for shooting material out of a tube.
- (military, chiefly aviation) An autocannon.
- A complete assembly, consisting of an artillery tube and a breech mechanism, firing mechanism or base cap, which is a component of a gun, howitzer or mortar, which may include muzzle appendages.
- (historical) A large muzzle-loading artillery piece.
- (fandom slang) Misspelling of canon.
- (historical) A cylindrical item of plate armor protecting the arm, particularly one of a pair of such cylinders worn with a couter, the upper cannon protecting the upper arm and the lower cannon protecting the forearm.
- (baseball, figuratively, informal) The arm of a player who can throw well.
- (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) A carom.
- (cooking) A rolled and filleted loin of meat.
- A cannon bit.
- (engineering) A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently.
- A bone of a horse’s leg, between the fetlock joint and the knee or hock.
- (printing, uncountable) Alternative form of canon (“a large size of type”).
verb
adj
noun
- (heraldry) The background of the shield.
- (computing, object-oriented programming) An area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value, subject to virtual access controls.
- A place where competitive matches are carried out with figures, or playing area in a board game or a computer game.
- A wide, open space that is used to grow crops or to hold farm animals, usually enclosed by a fence, hedge or other barrier.
- (baseball) The outfield.
- (usually in the plural) The open country near or belonging to a town or city.
- A section of a form which is supposed to be filled with data.
- An airfield, airport or air base; especially, one with unpaved runways.
- A domain of study, knowledge or practice.
- (vexillology) The background of the flag.
- A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield.
- (numismatics) The part of a coin left unoccupied by the main device.
- A component of a database in which a single unit of information is stored.
- A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; an area of open country.
- (geology) A region containing a particular mineral.
- The extent of a given perception.
- (physics) A physical phenomenon (such as force, potential or fluid velocity) that pervades a region; a mathematical model of such a phenomenon that associates each point and time with a scalar, vector or tensor quantity.
- (algebra) A non-zero commutative ring in which all non-zero elements are invertible; a simple commutative ring.
- A competitive situation, circumstance in which one faces conflicting moves of rivals.
- A realm of practical, direct or natural operation, contrasted with an office, classroom, or laboratory.
- (electronics, film, animation) Part (usually one half) of a frame in an interlaced signal.
- (metonymic) All of the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or all except the favourites in the betting.
- An area reserved for playing a game or race with one’s physical force.
- An unrestricted or favourable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement.
- (mathematics) a set of elements such that addition and multiplication are commutative and associative and multiplication is distributive over addition and there are two elements 0 and 1
- the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)
- a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed
- a region in which active military operations are in progress
- a place where planes take off and land
- (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information
- somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected
- extensive tract of level open land
- a piece of land prepared for playing a game
- all of the horses in a particular horse race
- a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought
- a particular kind of commercial enterprise
- a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found
- a particular environment or walk of life
- the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it
- a branch of knowledge
- all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event
verb
- (transitive) To answer; to address.
- (transitive, sports) To place (a team, its players, etc.) in a game.
- (transitive) To execute research (in the field).
- (transitive, military) To deploy in the field.
- (transitive, sports) To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it.
- (intransitive, baseball, softball, cricket, and other batting sports) To be the team catching and throwing the ball, as opposed to hitting it.
- select (a team or individual player) for a game
- play as a fielder
- catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket
- answer adequately or successfully
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noun
- A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.
- A butt or mark to shoot at, as for practice, or to test the accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a projectile.
- An object of criticism or ridicule.
- A person, place, or thing that is frequently attacked, criticized, or ridiculed.
- (mathematics, category theory) The codomain of a function; the object at which a morphism points.
- (sports) The pattern or arrangement of a series of hits made by a marksman on a butt or mark.
- (linguistics) The tenor of a metaphor.
- (heraldry) A bearing representing a buckler.
- A person (or group of people) that a person or organization is trying to employ or to have as a customer, audience etc.
- (surveying) The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff.
- A goal or objective.
- (cricket) the number of runs that the side batting last needs to score in the final innings in order to win
- (translation studies) The translated version of a document, or the language into which translation occurs.
- (rail transport) A conspicuous disk attached to a switch lever to show its position, or for use as a signal.
- a reference point to shoot at
- a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence
- the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable)
- sports equipment consisting of an object set up for a marksman or archer to aim at
- the location of the target that is to be hit
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noun
- armor plate that protects the neck
- (historical) A crescent-shaped ornamental metal plate suspended around the neck from the crescent's points by a length of chain or ribbon, used to indicate rank or authority and was worn as part of a dress military uniform by officers.
- (zoology) A crescent-shaped coloured patch on the neck of a bird or mammal.
- (UK, dialect, Cornwall) A hake caught in a net set for other fish.
- (surgery) A cutting instrument used in lithotomy.
- (historical) A type of women's clothing covering the neck and breast; a wimple.
- An ornament for the neck; a necklace, ornamental collar, torque etc.
- (historical) A piece of armour protecting the throat and/or the upper part of the chest.
- A grooved instrument used in performing various operations; called also blunt gorget.
noun
- A defensive structure; a protective barrier; a bulwark.
- A defensive mound of earth or a wall with a broad top and usually a stone parapet; a wall-like ridge of earth, stones or debris; an embankment for defensive purpose.
- That which defends against intrusion from outside; a protection.
- (usually in the plural) A steep bank of a river or gorge.
- an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes
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noun
- A gousset, a piece of mail providing protection where armor plates meet.
- (heraldry) An ordinary on a coat of arms, resembling a gusset (see usage notes).
- (mechanical engineering) A kind of bracket, or angular part, fastened in the angles of a structure to give strength or stiffness; especially, the part joining the barrel and the fire box of a locomotive boiler.
- (roofing) A large flat metal piece wider than the valley to help prevent build-up at the base of the valley, either from debris or ice dam formations.
- (botany) An intercellular space at an angle where more than two cells meet.
- A small piece of cloth inserted in a garment, for the purpose of strengthening some part or giving it a tapering enlargement cf. godet.
- a piece of material used to strengthen or enlarge a garment
- a metal plate used to strengthen a joist
- a piece of chain mail covering a place unprotected by armor plate
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- (heraldry) To display different coats of arms in the quarters of a shield.
- (intransitive) To lodge; to have a temporary residence.
- (transitive) To provide housing for military personnel or other equipment.
- (transitive, historical) To execute (someone) by tying each limb to a different animal (such as a horse) and driving them in different directions.
- (transitive) To divide into quarters; to divide by four.
- (transitive) To range to and fro over an area; to move from point to point.
- (transitive) To quartersaw.
- pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to their extremities, so as to execute them
- divide into quarters
- provide housing for (military personnel)
- divide by four; divide into quarters
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- One's residence or dwelling-place; (in plural) rooms, lodgings, especially as allocated to soldiers or domestic staff.
- (farriery) The part on either side of a horse's hoof between the toe and heel, the side of its coffin.
- (now chiefly historical) A measure of capacity used chiefly for grain or coal, varying greatly in quantity by time and location.
- (in general sense) Each of four equal parts into which something can be divided; a fourth part.
- Each of four parts into which the earth or sky is divided, corresponding to the four cardinal points of the compass.
- (historical) A measure of length; originally a fourth part of an ell, now chiefly a fourth part of a yard.
- (now chiefly historical) A fourth part of a hundredweight.
- A division or section of a town or city, especially having a particular character of its own, or associated with a particular group etc.
- (often plural) A section (of a population), especially one having a particular set of values or interests.
- (Chester, historical) A quarter of an acre or 40 roods.
- Accommodation given to a defeated opponent; mercy; exemption from being killed.
- (now chiefly finance) A fourth part of the year; 3 months; a term or season.
- (nautical) The aftmost part of a vessel's side, roughly from the last mast to the stern.
- A quarterfinal.
- The back and sides of the upper of a shoe, extending around the wearer's heel to meet the vamp.
- (now historical) A fourth part of the night; one of the watches or divisions of the night.
- A fourth part of a pound; approximately 113 grams.
- (heraldry) A fourth part of a coat of arms, or the charge on it, larger than a canton and normally on the upper dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from the top meeting a horizontal line from the side.
- A region or place.
- (sports) One of four equal periods into which a game is divided.
- (time) A fourth part of an hour; a period of fifteen minutes, especially with reference to the quarter before or after the hour.
- (Canada, US) A quarter-dollar, divided into 25 cents; the coin of that value minted in the United States or Canada.
- piece of leather that comprises the part of a shoe or boot covering the heel and joining the vamp
- clemency or mercy shown to a defeated opponent
- an unspecified person
- one of four equal parts
- the rear part of a ship
- one of four periods into which the school year is divided
- a fourth part of a year; three months
- a United States or Canadian coin worth one fourth of a dollar
- (football, professional basketball) one of four divisions into which some games are divided
- a quarter of a hundredweight (28 pounds)
- a district of a city having some distinguishing character
- one of the four major division of the compass
- a quarter of a hundredweight (25 pounds)
- a unit of time equal to 15 minutes or a quarter of an hour
noun
- An object used for guarding.
- An area of a castle, corresponding to a circuit of the walls.
- (fantasy) An enchantment or spell placed over a designated area or social unit, that prevents any tresspasser from entering; approaching; or even being able to locate said protected premises or demographic.
- The action of a watchman; monitoring, surveillance (usually in phrases keep ward etc.)
- A section or subdivision of a prison.
- An administrative division of a borough, city or council.
- (historical, Scots law) Land tenure through military service.
- A part of a hospital, with beds, where patients reside.
- (fencing) A guarding or defensive motion or position.
- Guardianship, especially of a child or prisoner.
- (UK) A division of a forest.
- A minor looked after by a guardian.
- (Mormonism) A subdivision of the LDS Church, smaller than and part of a stake, but larger than a branch.
- The ridges on the inside of a lock, or the incisions on a key.
- block forming a division of a hospital (or a suite of rooms) shared by patients who need a similar kind of care
- a district into which a city or town is divided for the purpose of administration and elections
- a division of a prison (usually consisting of several cells)
- a person who is under the protection or in the custody of another
verb
- (transitive) To fend off, to repel, to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches. (usually followed by off)
- (intransitive) To be vigilant; to keep guard.
- (intransitive) To act on the defensive with a weapon.
- (transitive) To keep in safety, to watch over, to guard.
- (transitive) To defend, to protect.
- watch over or shield from danger or harm; protect
noun
- Protective armor for the hands, formerly thrown down as a challenge to combat.
- A long glove covering the wrist.
- (rail transport) Overlapping parallel rail tracks; either to allowing passage through a narrow opening in each direction without switching, or to allow vehicles of a larger gauge to pass through a station without hitting the platforms.
- A simultaneous attack from two or more sides.
- (nautical) A rope on which hammocks or clothes are hung for drying.
- (medicine) An eruption of pellagra on the hands.
- (figuratively) Any challenging, difficult, or painful ordeal, often one performed for atonement or punishment.
- (video games) A fight against swarms of relatively minor enemies in the form of multiple waves, often but not always preceding a boss.
- a glove with long sleeve
- a form of punishment in which a person is forced to run between two lines of men facing each other and armed with clubs or whips to beat the victim
- a glove of armored leather; protects the hand
- to offer or accept a challenge
noun
- A piece of armor that covers the chest.
- A piece of silicone in the shape of women's breasts worn by drag queens and other female impersonators to simulate a female body shape.
- A piece of horse tack designed to prevent the saddle slipping backwards.
- A piece of armor that covers the torso; a cuirass, the breast- (front) and back-plate, taken together as a unit.
- (Judaism) An embroidered square of linen worn on the breast of the Jewish high priest, bearing twelve precious stones, each inscribed with the name of one of the tribes of Israel.
- armor plate that protects the chest; the front part of a cuirass
noun
- (architecture) An ornamental figure, often on an oval shield.
- (Egyptology, hieroglyphs) An oval figure containing the characters of an important personal name, such as that of royal or divine people.
- (firearms) A wooden case filled with balls, to be shot from a cannon.
- (cartography) A decorative emblem on a globe or map.
- (firearms) A gunner's bag for ammunition.
- (military) A military pass for a soldier on furlough.
- (cooking) A parchment disc placed on top of food to limit evaporation, or to prevent a skin forming on soups and stews.
- (firearms) A paper cartridge.
- a cartridge (usually with paper casing)
noun
- An armor panel on a helmet which protects the neck.
- A small, typically rectangular plate on the neck of a guitar (or bass, etc) through which screws are threaded to attach the neck to the body.
- A plate, used in tracheostomy, which prevents the tube from descending into the trachea.
- A piece of armour worn around the throat or neck; a gorget.
noun
- (historical) A piece of defensive armour for the arm.
- The strap of a wristwatch, used to secure it around the wrist.
- A band or chain worn around the wrist as jewelry/jewellery or an ornament.
- a band of cloth or leather or metal links attached to a wristwatch and wrapped around the wrist
- jewelry worn around the wrist for decoration
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- (heraldry) A wide inverted V placed on a shield.
- (informal) A háček, a diacritical mark that may resemble an inverted circumflex.
- A guillemet, either of the punctuation marks “«” or “»”, used in several languages to indicate passages of speech. Similar to typical quotation marks used in the English language such as ““” and “””.
- Synonym of arrowhead (“horse jump obstacle”).
- A wedge-shaped sediment deposit observed on coastlines and continental interiors around the world.
- A V-shaped pattern; used in architecture, and as an insignia of military or police rank, on the sleeve.
- An angle bracket, either used as a typographic or a scientific symbol.
- (chiefly British) One of the V-shaped markings on the surface of roads used to indicate minimum distances between vehicles.
- V-shaped sleeve badge indicating military rank and service
- an inverted V-shaped charge
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- a shield; especially one displaying a coat of arms
- (heraldry) A small shield used to charge a larger one.
- a flat protective covering (on a door or wall etc.) to prevent soiling by dirty fingers
- (nautical) a plate on a ship's stern on which the name is inscribed
- (medicine) The pattern of distribution of hair upon the pubic mound.
- The depression behind the beak of certain bivalves; the ligamental area.
- A [[decorative] or protective plate or bezel designed to fill the gap between a switch, pipe, valve, control knob, etc., and the surface from which it protrudes.
- (nautical) The part of a ship's stern where its name is displayed.
- (heraldry) The shield on which a coat of arms is displayed, or, by extension, the coat of arms itself.
- The insignia around a doorknob's exterior hardware or a door lock's cosmetic plate.
- A marking upon the back of a cow's udder and the space above it (the perineum), formed by the hair growing upward or outward instead of downward. It was once taken as an index of milking qualities.
noun
- (heraldry) A green hillock in the base of a shield.
- A step or block to assist in mounting a horse.
- (martial arts) A dominant ground grappling position, where one combatant sits on the other combatants torso with the face pointing towards the opponent's head.
- A signal for mounting a horse.
- (gymnastics) The act of getting onto the apparatus.
- A mounting; an object on which another object is mounted.
- An animal, usually a horse, used to ride on.
- A hill or mountain.
- (palmistry) Any of seven fleshy prominences in the palm of the hand, taken to represent the influences of various heavenly bodies.
- (now only figurative) A car, bicycle, or motorcycle used for racing.
- a land mass that projects well above its surroundings; higher than a hill
- a lightweight horse kept for riding only
- something forming a back that is added for strengthening
- the act of climbing something
- a mounting consisting of a piece of metal (as in a ring or other jewelry) that holds a gem in place
verb
- (transitive) To get upon; to ascend; to climb.
- (intransitive, sometimes with up) To increase in quantity or intensity.
- (cooking) To incorporate fat, especially butter, into (a dish, especially a sauce to finish it).
- (transitive) To have or begin sexual intercourse with someone.
- (transitive) To get on top of (another) for the purpose of copulation.
- (transitive, computing) To attach (a drive or device) to the file system in order to make it available to the operating system.
- (transitive) To prepare and arrange the scenery, furniture, etc. for use in (a play or production).
- (transitive) To attach (an object) to a support, backing, framework etc.
- (transitive) To place oneself on (a horse, a bicycle, etc.); to bestride.
- (transitive) To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding.
- (transitive) To begin (a campaign, military assault, etc.); to launch.
- (intransitive, rare) To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; often with up.
- (transitive, martial arts) To sit on a combatant's torso with the face pointing towards the opponent's head; to assume the mount position in ground grappling.
- prepare and supply with the necessary equipment for execution or performance
- go up or advance
- fix onto a backing, setting, or support
- put up or launch
- go upward with gradual or continuous progress
- get up on the back of
- attach to a support
- copulate with
noun
- A spot resembling, or having the form of a shield.
- A broad piece of defensive armor, held in hand, formerly in general use in war, for the protection of the body.
- (transport) A sign or symbol, usually containing numbers and sometimes letters, identifying a highway route.
- (colloquial, law enforcement) A police badge.
- (heraldry) The escutcheon on which are placed the bearings in coats of arms.
- (geology) A large expanse of exposed stable Precambrian rock.
- (figurative) One who protects or defends.
- (science fiction) A field of energy that protects or defends.
- (lichenology) In lichens, a hardened cup or disk surrounded by a rim and containing the fructification, or asci.
- (geology) A wide and relatively low-profiled volcano, usually composed entirely of lava flows.
- (mining, tunnelling) A framework used to protect workmen in making an adit under ground, and capable of being pushed along as excavation progresses.
- (automotive, British English) Parts at the front and back of a vehicle which are meant to absorb the impact of a collision
- hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles
- a protective covering or structure
- armor carried on the arm to intercept blows
verb
noun
- Armor.
- Projectiles.
- A piece used for striking sparks from flint or ferrocerium.
- (countable, uncountable) An artificial metal produced from iron, harder and more elastic than elemental iron; used figuratively as a symbol of hardness.
- (figurative) Extreme hardness or resilience.
- (sewing, dialectal) A sewing needle; a knitting needle; a sharp metal stylus.
- (printing) An engraving plate.
- (uncountable, colors) The gray hue of this metal; steel-gray, or steel blue.
- Bladed or pointed weapons, as swords, javelins, daggers.
- (sewing) Pieces used to strengthen, support, or expand an item of clothing.
- (music, guitar) A type of slide used while playing the steel guitar.
- (sewing) A fringe of beads or decoration of this metal.
- (dialectal) A flat iron.
- A honing steel, a tool used to sharpen or hone metal blades.
- a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard
- knife sharpener consisting of a ridged steel rod
- an alloy of iron with small amounts of carbon; widely used in construction; mechanical properties can be varied over a wide range
adj
verb
- To harden or strengthen; to nerve or make obdurate; to fortify against.
- (dialectal) To press with a flat iron.
- To electroplate an item (particularly an engraving plate) with a layer of iron.
- To sharpen with a honing steel.
- To steelify; to turn iron into steel.
- To edge, cover, or point with steel.
- (literary or poetic) To give (something) the appearance of steel.
- cover, plate, or edge with steel
- get ready for something difficult or unpleasant
noun
- (historical) A small shield, especially one of an approximately elliptical form, or crescent-shaped.
- (microbiology) A crescent-shaped sheet of microtubules that encircles the base of the flagella of a protozoan.
- (art, historical) A crescent-shaped design used in mosaics.
- (botany) A flat apothecium with no rim.
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adj
- (of human skin) Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).
- Feeble, faint.
- Light in color.
- not full or rich
- very light colored; highly diluted with white
- (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble
- lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness
- abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress
verb
noun
- one of the rounded armor plates at the armpits of a suit of armor
- board that provides a flat surface on which artists mix paints and the range of colors used
- the range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or painting or school of art
- The range of tones or tone colors in a given musical composition or performance.
- (painting) A thin board on which a painter lays and mixes colours.
- (historical) A plate of armour covering the points of junction at the bend of the shoulders and elbows.
- The range of colors in a given work or item or body of work.
- (figurative, uncommon) Any set or group of limited choices, options, or tasks from all ones that are currently available.
- (computing, graphical user interface) A visual selection of colours, tools, commands, etc.
- A set of makeup including a variety of colors, often packaged together in a tray.
- A plate against which a person presses their chest to give force to a hand-operated drill.
- A set of colours available to be used (or mixed).
noun
- round piece of armor plate that protects the armpit
- A bastion of a circular form.
- A small circular shield, sometimes not more than a foot in diameter, used by soldiers in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
- (heraldry) a charge in the shape of a filled circle
- English form of rondeau having three triplets with a refrain after the first and third
- (heraldry) A circular spot; a charge in the form of a small coloured circle.
- (music) A roundelay or rondelay.
- Anything having a round form; a round figure; a circle.
- (aviation) A circular insignia painted on an aircraft to identify its nationality or service.
noun
verb
noun
- armor plate that protects the head
- (heraldry) Such a helm when placed above a shield on a coat of arms.
- a protective headgear made of hard material to resist blows
- A naked shield or protuberance on the top or fore part of the head of a bird.
- The glans penis.
- (by extension, derogatory) A contemptible or stupid person.
- (clothing) A hard, protective head covering, typically part of armour.
- The upper part of a chemist's retort.
- The hood-shaped upper sepal or petal of some flowers, as of the monkshood or the snapdragon.
verb
noun
- (heraldry) any of several conventional figures used on shields
- a judge of a probate court
- an early bicycle with a very large front wheel and small back wheel
- a clergyman appointed to prepare condemned prisoners for death
- the expected or commonplace condition or situation
- (ecclesiastical, law) A person having immediate jurisdiction in a given case of ecclesiastical law, such as the bishop within a diocese.
- (now historical) The chaplain of Newgate prison, who prepared condemned prisoners for death.
- (now Scotland, Ireland) The usual course of things; normal condition or health; a standard way of behaviour or action.
- (Christianity, especially Catholicism) A rule, or book of rules, prescribing the order of a liturgy, especially of Mass.
- (heraldry) One of the standard geometric designs placed across the center of a coat of arms, such as a pale or fess.
- An ordinary person or thing; something commonplace.
- (now chiefly historical) A meal provided for a set price at an eating establishment.
- (law) A judge with the authority to deal with cases himself or herself rather than by delegation.
- (Christianity) A part of the Christian liturgy that is reasonably constant without regard to the date on which the service is performed.
- (now historical) A penny farthing bicycle.
- (Catholicism) Alternative letter-case form of Ordinary (“those parts of the Mass which are consistent from day to day”).
adj
- lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered
- not exceptional in any way especially in quality or ability or size or degree
- Having no special characteristics or function; everyday, common, mundane; often deprecatory.
- (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial, informal) Bad or undesirable.
- Being part of the natural order of things; normal, customary, routine.
- (law, of a judge) Having regular jurisdiction; now only used in certain phrases.
noun
- A coating or defensive armour of metal plates.
- The presentation of food that is ready to be served.
- A thin coating of metal laid upon another metal.
- (philately) An act of determining where a postage stamp is positioned on a sheet.
- the application of a thin coat of metal (as by electrolysis)
- a thin coating of metal deposited on a surface
verb
noun
- (historical) A medieval European shield having a rounded triangle shape like a clothes iron.
- (horse racing) A dead heat; a race in which two or more competitors reach the finish line simultaneously.
- (baseball, slang) A fastball, especially one thrown at high velocity.
- (gambling, slang) An extended winning streak.
- (slang) Synonym of banger (“a powerfully energetic or exceptional song”).
- A person who heats something, for example in metalworking.
- A device that produces and radiates heat, typically to raise the temperature of a room or building.
- (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity
- device that heats water or supplies warmth to a room
noun
- a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
- the positively charged electrode in a vacuum tube
- the thin under portion of the forequarter
- a shallow receptacle for collection in church
- any flat platelike body structure or part
- a flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded
- dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten
- a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic
- structural member consisting of a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchorage
- a dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth
- a rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly
- (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score
- a full-page illustration (usually on slick paper)
- the quantity contained in a plate
- a main course served on a plate
- (geology) A tectonic plate.
- (hat-making) The fine nap (as of beaver, musquash, etc.) on a hat whose body is made from inferior material.
- (music) A record, usually vinyl.
- (dentistry) A shaped and fitted surface, usually ceramic or metal that fits into the mouth and in which teeth are implanted; a dental plate.
- A prize given to the winner in a contest.
- (printing, photography) An image or copy.
- Precious metal, especially silver.
- A material covered with such a layer.
- (printing, publishing) An illustration in a book, either black and white, or colour, usually on a page of paper of different quality from the text pages.
- The contents of such a dish.
- (chemistry) Any flat piece of material such as coated glass or plastic.
- (historical) Plate armor.
- (engineering, electricity) A flat electrode such as can be found in an accumulator battery, or in an electrolysis tank.
- A slightly curved but almost flat dish from which food is served or eaten.
- (Australia) A VIN plate, particularly with regard to the car's year of manufacture.
- (aviation, travel industry, by extension) The ability of a travel agent to issue tickets on behalf of a particular airline.
- (uncountable) Such dishes collectively.
- (construction) A horizontal framing member at the top or bottom of a group of vertical studs.
- (baseball) Home plate.
- (military) trauma plate.
- (heraldry) A roundel of silver or argent.
- (especially Australia; metonymic, plural only) Vehicle license plates, registration plates.
- One of the thin parts of the brisket of an animal.
- (figuratively) An agenda of tasks, problems, or responsibilities
- A taxi permit, especially of a metal disc.
- (printing) An engraved surface used to transfer an image to paper.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A person's foot.
- (engineering, electricity) The anode of a vacuum tube.
- (herpetology) Any of various larger scales found in some reptiles.
- (weightlifting) A weighted disk, usually of metal, with a hole in the center for use with a barbell, dumbbell, or exercise machine.
- A flat object of uniform thickness.
- (slang, seduction community) Any of the potential romantic or sexual partners with whom a person keeps in touch as part of plate spinning.
- A course at a meal.
- (Lego building) A Lego piece that is thin, 1/3 the height of a brick, and has studs on top.
- (furriers' slang) Skins for fur linings of garments, sewn together and roughly shaped, but not finally cut or fitted.
- A layer of a material on the surface of something, usually qualified by the type of the material; plating
- A very light steel horseshoe for racehorses.
verb
- coat with a layer of metal
- (baseball) To score a run.
- (transitive) To beat into thin plates.
- (philately, particularly with early British stamps) To identify the printing plate used.
- (cooking, photography) To place the various elements of a meal on the diner's plate prior to serving.
- (transitive) To arm or defend with metal plates.
- (philately) to categorise stamps based on their position on the original sheet, in order to reconstruct an entire sheet.
- To cover the surface material of an object with a thin coat of another material, usually a metal.
- (aviation, travel industry) To specify which airline a ticket will be issued on behalf of.
noun
- a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
- an indicator having a graduated sequence of marks
- an ordered reference standard
- a measuring instrument for weighing; shows amount of mass
- relative magnitude
- a thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin
- the ratio between the size of something and a representation of it
- a specialized leaf or bract that protects a bud or catkin
- a flattened rigid plate forming part of the body covering of many animals
- (music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave)
- An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement; means of assigning a magnitude.
- (uncountable) Limescale.
- Size; scope.
- (uncountable) The flaky material sloughed off heated metal.
- A device to measure mass or weight.
- (uncountable, US) An infestation of scale insects on a plant; commonly thought of as, or mistaken for, a disease.
- A standard amount of money to be paid for a service, for example union-negotiated amounts received by a performer or writer; similar to wage scale or pay grade.
- (music) A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.
- Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance or scales.
- Scale mail (as opposed to chain mail).
- A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis.
- A mathematical base for a numeral system; radix.
- Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard pieces of keratin covering the skin of an animal, particularly a fish or reptile.
- A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color.
- The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife.
- A scale insect.
- A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced.
- The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.
- Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard protective layers forming a pinecone that flare when mature to release pine nut seeds.
- Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order.
verb
- measure by or as if by a scale
- climb up by means of a ladder
- take by attacking with scaling ladders
- reach the highest point of
- remove the scales from
- measure with or as if with scales
- pattern, make, regulate, set, measure, or estimate according to some rate or standard
- size or measure according to a scale
- (transitive) To change the size of something whilst maintaining proportion; especially to change a process in order to produce much larger amounts of the final product.
- (transitive) To climb to the top of.
- (transitive) To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.
- (transitive) To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.
- (intransitive) To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae.
- (transitive) To remove the scales of.
- (intransitive) To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) To scatter; to spread.
- (transitive) To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.
- (manufacturing, transitive) To take measurements from (an engineering drawing), treating them as (or as if) reliable dimensional instructions. This practice often works but can produce latently incorrect results and is thus usually deprecated.
- (intransitive, computing) To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.
- (transitive) To strip or clear of scale; to descale.
noun
- a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
- a rigid covering that envelops an object
- the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod
- the hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits especially nuts
- hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles
- the housing or outer covering of something
- the exterior covering of a bird's egg
- a very light narrow racing boat
- ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun
- the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals
- The covering, or outside part, of a nut.
- (architecture) Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in, as the shell of a house.
- The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
- A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that often fastens in the rear.
- (nautical, rigging) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
- (nautical) The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
- A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
- (figuratively) The empty outward form of someone or something.
- (music) A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
- In formal debating, a set of proposed rules to be followed, with set penalties for violating them.
- A psychological barrier to social interaction.
- (figuratively) The outward form independent of what is inside.
- (British, education) One or more school grades within secondary education, at certain public schools.
- The thin coating of copper on an electrotype.
- (chemistry) A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
- (music) The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims added for tuning and for attaching the drum head.
- One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
- An engraved copper roller used in print works.
- The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
- The conjoined scutes that constitute the "shell" (carapace) of a tortoise or turtle.
- (UK, slang) A person's ear.
- (geology) The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
- An emaciated person.
- (nautical) A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper; a racing shell or dragon boat.
- (computing) An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs and control their interactions; the user's command interpreter. Shell is a way to separate the internal complexity of the implementation of the command from the user. The internals can change while the user experience/interface remains the same.
- (weaponry) A hollow, usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon. It contains an explosive substance designed to be ignited by a fuse or by percussion at the target site so that it will burst and scatter at high velocity its contents and fragments. Formerly called a bomb.
- (business) A legal entity that has no operations.
- (in the plural) Husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is sometimes used as a substitute or adulterant for cocoa and its products such as chocolate.
- (by extension) Any mollusk having such a covering.
- (figuratively) A person otherwise diminished.
- The overlapping hard plates comprising the armor covering the armadillo's body.
- (weaponry) The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
- (weaponry) The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
- (phonology) The onset and coda of a syllable.
- A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
- A pod containing the seeds of certain plants, such as the legume Phaseolus vulgaris.
- An unmarked vehicle for carrying corpses from a crime scene.
- (entomology) The exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects.
- (engineering) A gouge bit or shell bit.
verb
- remove from its shell or outer covering
- use explosives on
- create by using explosives
- fall out of the pod or husk
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- look for and collect shells by the seashore
- remove the husks from
- hit the pitches of hard and regularly
- (topology) To form a shelling.
- To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
- (computing, intransitive) To switch to a shell or command line.
- (cricket, slang, transitive) To drop (the ball).
- (intransitive) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
- (intransitive) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
- (informal) To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
- To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
- To remove the outer covering or shell of something.
noun
noun
- (Middle Ages) a cylindrical piece of armor plate to protect the arm
- a shot in billiards in which the cue ball contacts one object ball and then the other
- heavy automatic gun fired from an airplane
- heavy gun fired from a tank
- a large artillery gun that is usually on wheels
- lower part of the leg extending from the hock to the fetlock in hoofed mammals
- (xiangqi) A piece which moves horizontally and vertically like a rook but captures another piece by jumping over a different piece in the line of attack.
- (US, slang) A pickpocket.
- Any similar device for shooting material out of a tube.
- (military, chiefly aviation) An autocannon.
- A complete assembly, consisting of an artillery tube and a breech mechanism, firing mechanism or base cap, which is a component of a gun, howitzer or mortar, which may include muzzle appendages.
- (historical) A large muzzle-loading artillery piece.
- (fandom slang) Misspelling of canon.
- (historical) A cylindrical item of plate armor protecting the arm, particularly one of a pair of such cylinders worn with a couter, the upper cannon protecting the upper arm and the lower cannon protecting the forearm.
- (baseball, figuratively, informal) The arm of a player who can throw well.
- (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) A carom.
- (cooking) A rolled and filleted loin of meat.
- A cannon bit.
- (engineering) A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently.
- A bone of a horse’s leg, between the fetlock joint and the knee or hock.
- (printing, uncountable) Alternative form of canon (“a large size of type”).
verb
adj
noun
- (heraldry) The background of the shield.
- (computing, object-oriented programming) An area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value, subject to virtual access controls.
- A place where competitive matches are carried out with figures, or playing area in a board game or a computer game.
- A wide, open space that is used to grow crops or to hold farm animals, usually enclosed by a fence, hedge or other barrier.
- (baseball) The outfield.
- (usually in the plural) The open country near or belonging to a town or city.
- A section of a form which is supposed to be filled with data.
- An airfield, airport or air base; especially, one with unpaved runways.
- A domain of study, knowledge or practice.
- (vexillology) The background of the flag.
- A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield.
- (numismatics) The part of a coin left unoccupied by the main device.
- A component of a database in which a single unit of information is stored.
- A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; an area of open country.
- (geology) A region containing a particular mineral.
- The extent of a given perception.
- (physics) A physical phenomenon (such as force, potential or fluid velocity) that pervades a region; a mathematical model of such a phenomenon that associates each point and time with a scalar, vector or tensor quantity.
- (algebra) A non-zero commutative ring in which all non-zero elements are invertible; a simple commutative ring.
- A competitive situation, circumstance in which one faces conflicting moves of rivals.
- A realm of practical, direct or natural operation, contrasted with an office, classroom, or laboratory.
- (electronics, film, animation) Part (usually one half) of a frame in an interlaced signal.
- (metonymic) All of the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or all except the favourites in the betting.
- An area reserved for playing a game or race with one’s physical force.
- An unrestricted or favourable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement.
- (mathematics) a set of elements such that addition and multiplication are commutative and associative and multiplication is distributive over addition and there are two elements 0 and 1
- the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)
- a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed
- a region in which active military operations are in progress
- a place where planes take off and land
- (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information
- somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected
- extensive tract of level open land
- a piece of land prepared for playing a game
- all of the horses in a particular horse race
- a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought
- a particular kind of commercial enterprise
- a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found
- a particular environment or walk of life
- the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it
- a branch of knowledge
- all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event
verb
- (transitive) To answer; to address.
- (transitive, sports) To place (a team, its players, etc.) in a game.
- (transitive) To execute research (in the field).
- (transitive, military) To deploy in the field.
- (transitive, sports) To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it.
- (intransitive, baseball, softball, cricket, and other batting sports) To be the team catching and throwing the ball, as opposed to hitting it.
- select (a team or individual player) for a game
- play as a fielder
- catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket
- answer adequately or successfully
noun
- A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.
- A butt or mark to shoot at, as for practice, or to test the accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a projectile.
- An object of criticism or ridicule.
- A person, place, or thing that is frequently attacked, criticized, or ridiculed.
- (mathematics, category theory) The codomain of a function; the object at which a morphism points.
- (sports) The pattern or arrangement of a series of hits made by a marksman on a butt or mark.
- (linguistics) The tenor of a metaphor.
- (heraldry) A bearing representing a buckler.
- A person (or group of people) that a person or organization is trying to employ or to have as a customer, audience etc.
- (surveying) The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff.
- A goal or objective.
- (cricket) the number of runs that the side batting last needs to score in the final innings in order to win
- (translation studies) The translated version of a document, or the language into which translation occurs.
- (rail transport) A conspicuous disk attached to a switch lever to show its position, or for use as a signal.
- a reference point to shoot at
- a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence
- the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable)
- sports equipment consisting of an object set up for a marksman or archer to aim at
- the location of the target that is to be hit
verb
noun
- armor plate that protects the neck
- (historical) A crescent-shaped ornamental metal plate suspended around the neck from the crescent's points by a length of chain or ribbon, used to indicate rank or authority and was worn as part of a dress military uniform by officers.
- (zoology) A crescent-shaped coloured patch on the neck of a bird or mammal.
- (UK, dialect, Cornwall) A hake caught in a net set for other fish.
- (surgery) A cutting instrument used in lithotomy.
- (historical) A type of women's clothing covering the neck and breast; a wimple.
- An ornament for the neck; a necklace, ornamental collar, torque etc.
- (historical) A piece of armour protecting the throat and/or the upper part of the chest.
- A grooved instrument used in performing various operations; called also blunt gorget.
noun
- A defensive structure; a protective barrier; a bulwark.
- A defensive mound of earth or a wall with a broad top and usually a stone parapet; a wall-like ridge of earth, stones or debris; an embankment for defensive purpose.
- That which defends against intrusion from outside; a protection.
- (usually in the plural) A steep bank of a river or gorge.
- an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes
verb
noun
- A gousset, a piece of mail providing protection where armor plates meet.
- (heraldry) An ordinary on a coat of arms, resembling a gusset (see usage notes).
- (mechanical engineering) A kind of bracket, or angular part, fastened in the angles of a structure to give strength or stiffness; especially, the part joining the barrel and the fire box of a locomotive boiler.
- (roofing) A large flat metal piece wider than the valley to help prevent build-up at the base of the valley, either from debris or ice dam formations.
- (botany) An intercellular space at an angle where more than two cells meet.
- A small piece of cloth inserted in a garment, for the purpose of strengthening some part or giving it a tapering enlargement cf. godet.
- a piece of material used to strengthen or enlarge a garment
- a metal plate used to strengthen a joist
- a piece of chain mail covering a place unprotected by armor plate
verb
noun
- An object used for guarding.
- An area of a castle, corresponding to a circuit of the walls.
- (fantasy) An enchantment or spell placed over a designated area or social unit, that prevents any tresspasser from entering; approaching; or even being able to locate said protected premises or demographic.
- The action of a watchman; monitoring, surveillance (usually in phrases keep ward etc.)
- A section or subdivision of a prison.
- An administrative division of a borough, city or council.
- (historical, Scots law) Land tenure through military service.
- A part of a hospital, with beds, where patients reside.
- (fencing) A guarding or defensive motion or position.
- Guardianship, especially of a child or prisoner.
- (UK) A division of a forest.
- A minor looked after by a guardian.
- (Mormonism) A subdivision of the LDS Church, smaller than and part of a stake, but larger than a branch.
- The ridges on the inside of a lock, or the incisions on a key.
- block forming a division of a hospital (or a suite of rooms) shared by patients who need a similar kind of care
- a district into which a city or town is divided for the purpose of administration and elections
- a division of a prison (usually consisting of several cells)
- a person who is under the protection or in the custody of another
verb
- (transitive) To fend off, to repel, to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches. (usually followed by off)
- (intransitive) To be vigilant; to keep guard.
- (intransitive) To act on the defensive with a weapon.
- (transitive) To keep in safety, to watch over, to guard.
- (transitive) To defend, to protect.
- watch over or shield from danger or harm; protect
noun
- Protective armor for the hands, formerly thrown down as a challenge to combat.
- A long glove covering the wrist.
- (rail transport) Overlapping parallel rail tracks; either to allowing passage through a narrow opening in each direction without switching, or to allow vehicles of a larger gauge to pass through a station without hitting the platforms.
- A simultaneous attack from two or more sides.
- (nautical) A rope on which hammocks or clothes are hung for drying.
- (medicine) An eruption of pellagra on the hands.
- (figuratively) Any challenging, difficult, or painful ordeal, often one performed for atonement or punishment.
- (video games) A fight against swarms of relatively minor enemies in the form of multiple waves, often but not always preceding a boss.
- a glove with long sleeve
- a form of punishment in which a person is forced to run between two lines of men facing each other and armed with clubs or whips to beat the victim
- a glove of armored leather; protects the hand
- to offer or accept a challenge
noun
- A piece of armor that covers the chest.
- A piece of silicone in the shape of women's breasts worn by drag queens and other female impersonators to simulate a female body shape.
- A piece of horse tack designed to prevent the saddle slipping backwards.
- A piece of armor that covers the torso; a cuirass, the breast- (front) and back-plate, taken together as a unit.
- (Judaism) An embroidered square of linen worn on the breast of the Jewish high priest, bearing twelve precious stones, each inscribed with the name of one of the tribes of Israel.
- armor plate that protects the chest; the front part of a cuirass
noun
- (architecture) An ornamental figure, often on an oval shield.
- (Egyptology, hieroglyphs) An oval figure containing the characters of an important personal name, such as that of royal or divine people.
- (firearms) A wooden case filled with balls, to be shot from a cannon.
- (cartography) A decorative emblem on a globe or map.
- (firearms) A gunner's bag for ammunition.
- (military) A military pass for a soldier on furlough.
- (cooking) A parchment disc placed on top of food to limit evaporation, or to prevent a skin forming on soups and stews.
- (firearms) A paper cartridge.
- a cartridge (usually with paper casing)
noun
- An armor panel on a helmet which protects the neck.
- A small, typically rectangular plate on the neck of a guitar (or bass, etc) through which screws are threaded to attach the neck to the body.
- A plate, used in tracheostomy, which prevents the tube from descending into the trachea.
- A piece of armour worn around the throat or neck; a gorget.
noun
- (historical) A piece of defensive armour for the arm.
- The strap of a wristwatch, used to secure it around the wrist.
- A band or chain worn around the wrist as jewelry/jewellery or an ornament.
- a band of cloth or leather or metal links attached to a wristwatch and wrapped around the wrist
- jewelry worn around the wrist for decoration
verb
verb
- (heraldry) To display different coats of arms in the quarters of a shield.
- (intransitive) To lodge; to have a temporary residence.
- (transitive) To provide housing for military personnel or other equipment.
- (transitive, historical) To execute (someone) by tying each limb to a different animal (such as a horse) and driving them in different directions.
- (transitive) To divide into quarters; to divide by four.
- (transitive) To range to and fro over an area; to move from point to point.
- (transitive) To quartersaw.
- pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to their extremities, so as to execute them
- divide into quarters
- provide housing for (military personnel)
- divide by four; divide into quarters
adj
noun
- One's residence or dwelling-place; (in plural) rooms, lodgings, especially as allocated to soldiers or domestic staff.
- (farriery) The part on either side of a horse's hoof between the toe and heel, the side of its coffin.
- (now chiefly historical) A measure of capacity used chiefly for grain or coal, varying greatly in quantity by time and location.
- (in general sense) Each of four equal parts into which something can be divided; a fourth part.
- Each of four parts into which the earth or sky is divided, corresponding to the four cardinal points of the compass.
- (historical) A measure of length; originally a fourth part of an ell, now chiefly a fourth part of a yard.
- (now chiefly historical) A fourth part of a hundredweight.
- A division or section of a town or city, especially having a particular character of its own, or associated with a particular group etc.
- (often plural) A section (of a population), especially one having a particular set of values or interests.
- (Chester, historical) A quarter of an acre or 40 roods.
- Accommodation given to a defeated opponent; mercy; exemption from being killed.
- (now chiefly finance) A fourth part of the year; 3 months; a term or season.
- (nautical) The aftmost part of a vessel's side, roughly from the last mast to the stern.
- A quarterfinal.
- The back and sides of the upper of a shoe, extending around the wearer's heel to meet the vamp.
- (now historical) A fourth part of the night; one of the watches or divisions of the night.
- A fourth part of a pound; approximately 113 grams.
- (heraldry) A fourth part of a coat of arms, or the charge on it, larger than a canton and normally on the upper dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from the top meeting a horizontal line from the side.
- A region or place.
- (sports) One of four equal periods into which a game is divided.
- (time) A fourth part of an hour; a period of fifteen minutes, especially with reference to the quarter before or after the hour.
- (Canada, US) A quarter-dollar, divided into 25 cents; the coin of that value minted in the United States or Canada.
- piece of leather that comprises the part of a shoe or boot covering the heel and joining the vamp
- clemency or mercy shown to a defeated opponent
- an unspecified person
- one of four equal parts
- the rear part of a ship
- one of four periods into which the school year is divided
- a fourth part of a year; three months
- a United States or Canadian coin worth one fourth of a dollar
- (football, professional basketball) one of four divisions into which some games are divided
- a quarter of a hundredweight (28 pounds)
- a district of a city having some distinguishing character
- one of the four major division of the compass
- a quarter of a hundredweight (25 pounds)
- a unit of time equal to 15 minutes or a quarter of an hour