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- Bone structure.
- The arrangement of bones in a corset.
- The removal of bones from a carcass; filleting.
- The fertilization of a field with bone meal.
- Placement of a curse by pointing with a bone, practiced by Australian aborigines; an act of pointing the bone.
- (slang, vulgar) An act of sexual intercourse.
- The process or result of leveling using a boning rod.
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noun
- the underlying structure
- (figurative) The framework underlying a structure.
- artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers
- A material made of fibers; especially, a woven one.
- (computing) Interconnected nodes that look like a textile fabric when diagrammed.
- (archaeology) The fired clay material of pottery artifacts.
- (petrology) The appearance of crystalline grains in a rock.
- The texture of a cloth.
- The physical material of a building.
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noun
- the underlying structure
- a structure supporting or containing something
- a hypothetical description of a complex entity or process
- (literally) The arrangement of support beams that represent a building's general shape and size.
- (figuratively) The larger branches of a tree that determine its shape.
- (software engineering) A reusable piece of code (and, sometimes, other utilities) providing a standard environment within which an application can be implemented.
- (figuratively) A basic conceptual structure.
- (grammar) An established and structured system of rules and principles used for analyzing and describing the structure of a language.
- (literally) A support structure comprising joined parts or conglomerated particles and intervening open spaces of similar or larger size.
noun
- a structure that encloses a body part
- a spacecraft designed to transport people and support human life in outer space
- a pilot's seat in an airplane that can be forcibly ejected in the case of an emergency; then the pilot descends by parachute
- a shortened version of a written work
- a dry dehiscent seed vessel or the spore-containing structure of e.g. mosses
- a small container
- a pill in the form of a small rounded gelatinous container with medicine inside
- (pharmacy) A small container containing a dose of medicine.
- (wine) The covering — formerly lead or tin, now often plastic — over the cork at the top of the wine bottle.
- One of the very small rooms for guests in a capsule hotel.
- (physiology) A membranous envelope.
- (anatomy) A membrane that surrounds the eyeball
- (botany) A sporangium, especially in bryophytes.
- A small, shallow evaporating dish, usually of porcelain.
- (anatomy) A tough, fibrous layer surrounding an organ such as the kidney or liver
- A small cup or shell, often of metal, for a percussion cap, cartridge, etc.
- (botany) A type of simple, dehiscent, dry fruit (seed-case) produced by many species of flowering plants, such as poppy, lily, orchid, willow and cotton.
- (astronautics) A detachable part of a rocket or spacecraft (usually in the nose) containing the crew's living space.
- (attributively, figuratively) in a brief, condensed or compact form
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- (biology) Any of several hollow structures as features of bones.
- (biology, medicine) A blister, vesicle, or other thin-walled cavity or lesion, as:
- (Catholicism, historical) A handwritten document from the papal chancellery.
- (historical) In ancient Rome, a kind of amulet or boss.
- (archaeology) A clay envelope or hollow ball, typically with seal impressions or writing on its outside indicating its contents.
- The tympanic part of a temporal bone (having a bubble-like appearance).
- (biology, medicine) (usually and especially) Such a blister that is more than 5 mm in diameter.
- A rich Jamaican cake made with molasses and spiced with ginger and nutmeg.
- the round leaden seal affixed to a papal bull
- (pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid
noun
- a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing and its construction and arrangement
- the complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations
- the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships
- a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts
- the manner of construction of something and the arrangement of its parts
- (fishing, uncountable) Underwater terrain or objects (such as a dead tree or a submerged car) that tend to attract fish
- A body, such as a political party, with a cohesive purpose or outlook.
- A cohesive whole built up of distinct parts.
- The overall form or organization of something.
- (computing) Several pieces of data treated as a unit.
- The underlying shape of a solid.
- A set of rules defining behaviour.
- (logic) A set along with a collection of finitary functions and relations.
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- the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal
- a structure supporting or containing something
- the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape
- an application that divides the user's display into two or more windows that can be scrolled independently
- (baseball) one of nine divisions of play during which each team has a turn at bat
- a single drawing in a comic strip
- a single one of a series of still transparent pictures forming a cinema, television or video film
- alternative names for the body of a human being
- a system of assumptions and standards that sanction behavior and give it meaning
- a framework that supports and protects a picture or a mirror
- the framework for a pair of eyeglasses
- one of the ten divisions into which bowling is divided
- (Internet) An individually scrollable region of a webpage.
- (mathematics) A complete lattice in which meets distribute over arbitrary joins.
- A piece of photographic film containing an image.
- A context for understanding or interpretation.
- (genetics, "reading frame") A way of dividing nucleotide sequences into a set of consecutive triplets.
- (computing) A form of knowledge representation in artificial intelligence.
- (electronics, film, animation, video games) A division of time on a multimedia timeline, such as 1/30 or 1/60 of a second.
- (snooker) A complete game of snooker, from break-off until all the balls (or as many as necessary to win) have been potted.
- (philately) The outer circle of a cancellation mark.
- (baseball, slang) An inning.
- (crime) A conspiracy to falsely incriminate an innocent person.
- (operating systems) Clipping of page frame or memory frame.
- A rigid, generally rectangular mounting for paper, canvas or other flexible material.
- (philately) The outer decorated portion of a stamp's image, often repeated on several issues although the inner picture may change.
- (bowling) A set of balls whose results are added together for scoring purposes. Usually two balls, but only one ball in the case of a strike, and three balls in the case of a strike or a spare in the last frame of a game.
- A human body or the structure thereof; the size, shape, sturdiness etc. of a person's body as described in a certain way; one's build.
- (horticulture) A movable structure used for the cultivation or the sheltering of plants.
- Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure.
- The structural elements of a building or other constructed object.
- (networking) An independent chunk of data sent over a network.
- (bowling) The complete set of pins to be knocked down in their starting configuration.
verb
- construct by fitting or uniting parts together
- formulate in a particular style or language
- take or catch as if in a snare or trap
- make up plans or basic details for
- enclose in or as if in a frame
- enclose in a frame, as of a picture
- (transitive) To fit, as for a specific end or purpose; make suitable or comfortable; adapt; adjust.
- (transitive) To construct by fitting together or uniting various parts; fabricate by union of constituent parts.
- (transitive) Of a constructed object such as a building, to put together the structural elements.
- (intransitive, dialectal) To move.
- (tennis) To hit (the ball) with the frame of the racquet rather than the strings (normally a mishit).
- (transitive) Of a picture such as a painting or photograph, to place inside a decorative border.
- (intransitive, dialectal, mining) To wash ore with the aid of a frame.
- (transitive, criminology) Conspire to falsely incriminate an innocent person.
- (transitive) To bring or put into form or order; adjust the parts or elements of; compose; contrive; plan; devise.
- (transitive) To position visually within a fixed boundary.
- (transitive) To construct in words so as to establish a context for understanding or interpretation.
noun
- the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal
- (figuratively) The central core of something that gives shape to the entire structure.
- the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape
- An anthropomorphic representation of a skeleton.
- something reduced to its minimal form
- a scandal that is kept secret
- (sports, uncountable) A type of tobogganing in which competitors lie face down, and descend head first.
- (geometry) The vertices and edges of a polyhedron, taken collectively.
- (especially attributive) A minimum or bare essentials.
- (printing) A very thin form of light-faced type.
- (botany) The network of veins in a leaf.
- (computing, middleware) A client-helper procedure that communicates with a stub.
- (idiomatic) Clipping of skeleton in the closet (“a shameful secret”).
- (anatomy) The system that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and cartilage in vertebrates, external in some other animals.
- (figuratively) A very thin person.
- (countable) The form of toboggan used in this sport.
- (architecture) A frame that provides support to a building or other construction.
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- any tubular or pillar-like supporting structure in the body
- an article giving opinions or perspectives
- a vertical array of numbers or other information
- anything that approximates the shape of a column or tower
- a page or text that is vertically divided
- a vertical cylindrical structure standing alone and not supporting anything (such as a monument)
- a vertical glass tube used in column chromatography; a mixture is poured in the top and washed through a stationary substance where components of the mixture are adsorbed selectively to form colored bands
- (architecture) a tall vertical cylindrical structure standing upright and used to support a structure
- a line of units following one after another
- (architecture) A solid upright structure designed usually to support a larger structure above it, such as a roof or horizontal beam, but sometimes for decoration.
- A body of troops or army vehicles, usually strung out along a road.
- A vertical line of entries in a table, usually read from top to bottom.
- (by extension) A recurring feature in a periodical, especially an opinion piece, especially by a single author or small rotating group of authors, or on a single theme.
- (botany) The gynostemium
- A body of text meant to be read line by line, especially in printed material that has multiple adjacent such on a single page.
- Something having similar vertical form or structure to the things mentioned above, such as a spinal column.
- (chemistry) An instrument used to separate the different components of a liquid or to purify chemical compounds.
- A unit of width, especially of advertisements, in a periodical, equivalent to the width of a usual column of text.
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- A physical base or foundation.
- A starting point, base or foundation for an argument or hypothesis.
- (linear algebra) In a vector space, a linearly independent set of vectors spanning the whole vector space.
- (topology) A collection of subsets ("basis elements") of a set, such that this collection covers the set, and for any two basis elements which both contain an element of the set, there is a third basis element contained in the intersection of the first two, which also contains that element.
- An underlying condition or circumstance.
- (accounting) Amount paid for an investment, including commissions and other expenses.
- A regular frequency.
- (agriculture, trading) The difference between the cash price a dealer pays to a farmer for his produce and an agreed reference price, which is usually the futures price at which the given crop is trading at a commodity exchange.
- the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
- a relation that provides the foundation for something
- the most important or necessary part of something
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- a structural member used to stiffen a framework
- a rope on a square-rigged ship that is used to swing a yard about and secure it
- an appliance that corrects dental irregularities
- a set of two similar things considered as a unit
- a support that steadies or strengthens something else
- elastic straps that hold trousers up
- a carpenter's tool having a crank handle for turning and a socket to hold a bit for boring
- either of two punctuation marks (‘{’ or ‘}’) used to enclose textual material
- two items of the same kind
- The state of being braced or tight; tension.
- A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock.
- (British, chiefly in the plural) Straps or bands to sustain trousers; suspenders.
- A cord, ligament, or rod, for producing or maintaining tension.
- A piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces, in a frame or truss, which divide the structure into triangular parts. It may act as a tie, or as a strut, and serves to prevent distortion of the structure, and transverse strains in its members. A boiler brace is a diagonal stay, connecting the head with the shell.
- That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop.
- (nautical) A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon.
- (soccer) Two goals scored by one player in a game.
- (typography) A curved, pointed line, also known as "curly bracket": { or } connecting two or more words or lines, which are to be considered together, such as in {role, roll}; in music, used to connect staves.
- (plural brace) A pair, a couple; originally used of dogs, and later of animals generally (e.g., a brace of conies) and then other things, but rarely human persons. (In British use (as plural), this is a particularly common reference to game birds.)
- Harness; warlike preparation.
- (plural in North America, singular or plural in the UK) A system of wires, brackets, and elastic bands used to correct crooked teeth or to reduce overbite.
- A thong used to regulate the tension of a drum.
- (British, Cornwall, mining) The mouth of a shaft.
- (cricket) Two wickets taken with two consecutive deliveries.
verb
- cause to be alert and energetic
- support by bracing
- support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace
- prepare (oneself), often but not necessarily for something unpleasant or difficult
- To place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold firmly.
- (transitive, intransitive) To prepare for something bad, such as an impact or blow.
- To stop someone for questioning, usually said of police.
- To draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen.
- To bind or tie closely; to fasten tightly.
- (nautical) To swing round the yards of a square rigged ship, using braces, to present a more efficient sail surface to the direction of the wind.
- To confront with questions, demands or requests.
- To furnish with braces; to support; to prop.
noun
- a framework of ribs
- the act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously (especially by ridicule); provoking someone with persistent annoyances
- (countable, uncountable) A rib, or the collective ribs, on an object.
- (countable) An instance of teasing.
- (uncountable) The action of the verb to rib; teasing.
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- the arrangement of the body and its limbs
- a theatrical pose created for effect
- position of aircraft or spacecraft relative to a frame of reference (the horizon or direction of motion)
- a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways
- (figurative) Disposition or state of mind.
- (Canada, US, UK, Philippines, informal) Unpleasant behavior.
- (ballet) A position similar to arabesque, but with the raised leg bent at the knee.
- (aeronautics, nautical, engineering) The orientation of a vehicle or other object relative to the horizon, direction of motion, other objects, etc.
- The position of the body or way of carrying oneself.
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- the arrangement of the body and its limbs
- the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another
- a way of regarding situations or topics etc.
- an item on a list or in a sequence
- the act of putting something in a certain place
- the particular portion of space occupied by something
- (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player
- an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute
- the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society
- a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons
- the act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom
- the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated
- a rationalized mental attitude
- a job in an organization
- the appropriate or customary location
- a condition or position in which you find yourself
- A place or location.
- (electronics) A pin; a connector.
- A posture.
- A status or rank.
- (figurative) A situation suitable to perform some action.
- (chess) The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
- An opinion, stand, or stance.
- A post of employment; a job.
- (finance) A commitment, or a group of commitments, such as options or futures, to buy or sell a given amount of financial instruments, such as securities, currencies or commodities, for a given price.
- (team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
- (poker) The order in which players are seated around the table.
- (arithmetic) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and error.
- (finance) An amount of securities, commodities, or other financial instruments held by a person, firm, or institution.
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- the arrangement of the body and its limbs
- characteristic way of bearing one's body
- a rationalized mental attitude
- capability in terms of personnel and materiel that affect the capacity to fight a war
- The way a person holds and positions their body.
- One's attitude or the social or political position one takes towards an issue or another person.
- (rare) The position of someone or something relative to another; position; situation.
- A situation or condition.
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- behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others
- assume a posture as for artistic purposes
- (intransitive) to put one's body into a posture or series of postures, especially hoping that one will be noticed and admired
- (transitive) To place in a particular position or attitude; to pose.
- (intransitive) to pretend to have an opinion or a conviction
noun
- The supporting part of a structure (either physical or organizational; the foundation).
- The earth or gravel that the railway tracks are embedded in.
- (Marxism) Synonym of base (“the forces and relations of production that produce the necessities and amenities of life”).
- lowest support of a structure
- the basic structure or features of a system or organization
noun
- A skeleton or frame with radiating arms or members, often connected by crosspieces, such as a casting forming the hub and spokes to which the rim of a fly wheel or large gear is bolted; the body of a piston head; or a frame for strengthening a core or mould for a casting.
- (sports) The network of wires separating the areas of a dartboard.
- (cycling) A part of a crank, to which the chainrings are attached.
- (cooking) Implement for moving food in and out of hot oil for deep frying, with a circular metal mesh attached to a long handle; a spider skimmer
- A bit for turning fasteners with 8-pointed heads.
- (fly fishing, England) A soft-hackle fly.
- (photography) A support for a camera tripod, preventing it from sliding.
- (bowls) A competition in which several participants are spread evenly around the edges of the green, who all make one bowl towards the central jack at the same time; the winner being the person whose bowl ends up closest to the jack.
- (music) Part of a resonator instrument that transmits string vibrations from the bridge to a resonator cone at multiple points.
- (slang) A man who persistently approaches or accosts a woman in a public social setting, particularly in a bar.
- (mathematics) A spider graph or spider tree.
- (chiefly Australia and New Zealand) A float (drink) made by mixing ice-cream and a soda or fizzy drink (such as lemonade).
- (cooking, US, UK, chiefly historical and now dialectal) A cast-iron frying pan with three legs, once common in open-hearth cookery.
- (snooker, billiards) A stick with a convex arch-shaped notched head used to support the cue when the cue ball is out of reach at normal extension.
- Any of various eight-legged, predatory arthropods, of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs to catch prey.
- (slang) A spindly person.
- (slang, uncountable) Heroin.
- (Internet) A program which follows links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.
- a computer program that prowls the internet looking for publicly accessible resources that can be added to a database; the database can then be searched with a search engine
- a skillet made of cast iron
- predatory arachnid with eight legs, two poison fangs, two feelers, and usually two silk-spinning organs at the back end of the body; they spin silk to make cocoons for eggs or traps for prey
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- (figurative) The foundation, the basis, the undergirding.
- The sediment which subsides from turbid water; the alluvial deposit of muddy water artificially introduced into low lands in order to enrich or fertilise them.
- A situation or place which is or seems to be from another era; a time warp.
- (weaving) The threads that run lengthwise in a woven fabric; crossed by the woof or weft.
- (countable) A distortion or twist, such as in a piece of wood (also used figuratively).
- (countable) A mental or moral distortion, deviation, or aberration.
- (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being deviant from what is right or proper morally or mentally.
- (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being physically bent or twisted out of shape.
- (nautical) A line or cable or rode as is used in warping (mooring or hauling) a ship, and sometimes for other purposes such as deploying a seine or creating drag.
- A theoretical construct that permits travel across a medium without passing through it normally, such as a teleporter or time warp.
- a shape distorted by twisting or folding
- a moral or mental distortion
- yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof
- a twist or aberration; especially a perverse or abnormal way of judging or acting
verb
- (intransitive) To go astray or be deflected from a true, proper or moral course; to deviate.
- (ambitransitive, science fiction, video games) To travel or transport across a medium without passing through it normally, as by using a teleporter or time warp.
- (transitive, nautical) To move a vessel by hauling on a line or cable that is fastened to an anchor or pier; (especially) to move a sailing ship through a restricted place such as a harbour.
- (transitive) To deflect or turn (something) away from a true, proper or moral course; to pervert; to bias.
- (intransitive, nautical, of a ship) To move or be moved by this method.
- (intransitive) To become twisted out of shape; to deform.
- (ambitransitive, agriculture) To fertilize (low-lying land) by letting the tide, a river, or other water in upon it to deposit silt and alluvial matter.
- (transitive) To arrange (strands of thread, etc) so that they run lengthwise in weaving.
- (transitive) To twist or turn (something) out of shape; to deform.
- make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story
- bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat
noun
- A vertical component of a structure.
- A vertical geometrical figure; a perpendicular.
- (marketing) A vertical market.
- An individual slat in a set of vertical blinds.
- (politics) A command structure for exertion of political power.
- A vertex or zenith.
- something that is oriented vertically
- a vertical structural member as a post or stake
adj
- In a two-dimensional Cartesian co-ordinate system, describing the axis y oriented normal (perpendicular, at right angles) to the horizontal axis x.
- Standing, pointing, or moving straight up or down; parallel to the local direction of gravity; along the direction of a plumb line; perpendicular to something horizontal.
- (wine tasting) Involving different vintages of the same wine type from the same winery.
- (marketing) Of or pertaining to vertical markets.
- (music) Of an interval: having the two notes sound simultaneously.
- In a three-dimensional co-ordinate system, describing the axis z oriented normal (perpendicular, orthogonal) to the basic plane xy.
- at right angles to the plane of the horizon or a base line
- of or relating to different levels in a hierarchy (as levels of social class or income group)
- upright in position or posture
- relating to or involving all stages of a business from production to distribution
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adj
- (sex, euphemistic) Relating to sexual intercourse.
- (music, of an interval) Having the two notes sound successively.
- (marketing) Relating to horizontal markets
- (biology) Being or relating to the transmission of organisms between biotic and/or abiotic members of an ecosystem that are not in a parent-progeny relationship.
- (wine) Involving wines of the same vintages but from different wineries.
- Perpendicular to the vertical; parallel to the plane of the horizon; level, flat.
- parallel to or in the plane of the horizon or a base line
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- Bone structure.
- The arrangement of bones in a corset.
- The removal of bones from a carcass; filleting.
- The fertilization of a field with bone meal.
- Placement of a curse by pointing with a bone, practiced by Australian aborigines; an act of pointing the bone.
- (slang, vulgar) An act of sexual intercourse.
- The process or result of leveling using a boning rod.
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noun
- the underlying structure
- (figurative) The framework underlying a structure.
- artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers
- A material made of fibers; especially, a woven one.
- (computing) Interconnected nodes that look like a textile fabric when diagrammed.
- (archaeology) The fired clay material of pottery artifacts.
- (petrology) The appearance of crystalline grains in a rock.
- The texture of a cloth.
- The physical material of a building.
verb
noun
- the underlying structure
- a structure supporting or containing something
- a hypothetical description of a complex entity or process
- (literally) The arrangement of support beams that represent a building's general shape and size.
- (figuratively) The larger branches of a tree that determine its shape.
- (software engineering) A reusable piece of code (and, sometimes, other utilities) providing a standard environment within which an application can be implemented.
- (figuratively) A basic conceptual structure.
- (grammar) An established and structured system of rules and principles used for analyzing and describing the structure of a language.
- (literally) A support structure comprising joined parts or conglomerated particles and intervening open spaces of similar or larger size.
noun
- a structure that encloses a body part
- a spacecraft designed to transport people and support human life in outer space
- a pilot's seat in an airplane that can be forcibly ejected in the case of an emergency; then the pilot descends by parachute
- a shortened version of a written work
- a dry dehiscent seed vessel or the spore-containing structure of e.g. mosses
- a small container
- a pill in the form of a small rounded gelatinous container with medicine inside
- (pharmacy) A small container containing a dose of medicine.
- (wine) The covering — formerly lead or tin, now often plastic — over the cork at the top of the wine bottle.
- One of the very small rooms for guests in a capsule hotel.
- (physiology) A membranous envelope.
- (anatomy) A membrane that surrounds the eyeball
- (botany) A sporangium, especially in bryophytes.
- A small, shallow evaporating dish, usually of porcelain.
- (anatomy) A tough, fibrous layer surrounding an organ such as the kidney or liver
- A small cup or shell, often of metal, for a percussion cap, cartridge, etc.
- (botany) A type of simple, dehiscent, dry fruit (seed-case) produced by many species of flowering plants, such as poppy, lily, orchid, willow and cotton.
- (astronautics) A detachable part of a rocket or spacecraft (usually in the nose) containing the crew's living space.
- (attributively, figuratively) in a brief, condensed or compact form
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noun
- (biology) Any of several hollow structures as features of bones.
- (biology, medicine) A blister, vesicle, or other thin-walled cavity or lesion, as:
- (Catholicism, historical) A handwritten document from the papal chancellery.
- (historical) In ancient Rome, a kind of amulet or boss.
- (archaeology) A clay envelope or hollow ball, typically with seal impressions or writing on its outside indicating its contents.
- The tympanic part of a temporal bone (having a bubble-like appearance).
- (biology, medicine) (usually and especially) Such a blister that is more than 5 mm in diameter.
- A rich Jamaican cake made with molasses and spiced with ginger and nutmeg.
- the round leaden seal affixed to a papal bull
- (pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid
noun
- a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing and its construction and arrangement
- the complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations
- the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships
- a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts
- the manner of construction of something and the arrangement of its parts
- (fishing, uncountable) Underwater terrain or objects (such as a dead tree or a submerged car) that tend to attract fish
- A body, such as a political party, with a cohesive purpose or outlook.
- A cohesive whole built up of distinct parts.
- The overall form or organization of something.
- (computing) Several pieces of data treated as a unit.
- The underlying shape of a solid.
- A set of rules defining behaviour.
- (logic) A set along with a collection of finitary functions and relations.
verb
noun
- the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal
- a structure supporting or containing something
- the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape
- an application that divides the user's display into two or more windows that can be scrolled independently
- (baseball) one of nine divisions of play during which each team has a turn at bat
- a single drawing in a comic strip
- a single one of a series of still transparent pictures forming a cinema, television or video film
- alternative names for the body of a human being
- a system of assumptions and standards that sanction behavior and give it meaning
- a framework that supports and protects a picture or a mirror
- the framework for a pair of eyeglasses
- one of the ten divisions into which bowling is divided
- (Internet) An individually scrollable region of a webpage.
- (mathematics) A complete lattice in which meets distribute over arbitrary joins.
- A piece of photographic film containing an image.
- A context for understanding or interpretation.
- (genetics, "reading frame") A way of dividing nucleotide sequences into a set of consecutive triplets.
- (computing) A form of knowledge representation in artificial intelligence.
- (electronics, film, animation, video games) A division of time on a multimedia timeline, such as 1/30 or 1/60 of a second.
- (snooker) A complete game of snooker, from break-off until all the balls (or as many as necessary to win) have been potted.
- (philately) The outer circle of a cancellation mark.
- (baseball, slang) An inning.
- (crime) A conspiracy to falsely incriminate an innocent person.
- (operating systems) Clipping of page frame or memory frame.
- A rigid, generally rectangular mounting for paper, canvas or other flexible material.
- (philately) The outer decorated portion of a stamp's image, often repeated on several issues although the inner picture may change.
- (bowling) A set of balls whose results are added together for scoring purposes. Usually two balls, but only one ball in the case of a strike, and three balls in the case of a strike or a spare in the last frame of a game.
- A human body or the structure thereof; the size, shape, sturdiness etc. of a person's body as described in a certain way; one's build.
- (horticulture) A movable structure used for the cultivation or the sheltering of plants.
- Anything composed of parts fitted and united together; a fabric; a structure.
- The structural elements of a building or other constructed object.
- (networking) An independent chunk of data sent over a network.
- (bowling) The complete set of pins to be knocked down in their starting configuration.
verb
- construct by fitting or uniting parts together
- formulate in a particular style or language
- take or catch as if in a snare or trap
- make up plans or basic details for
- enclose in or as if in a frame
- enclose in a frame, as of a picture
- (transitive) To fit, as for a specific end or purpose; make suitable or comfortable; adapt; adjust.
- (transitive) To construct by fitting together or uniting various parts; fabricate by union of constituent parts.
- (transitive) Of a constructed object such as a building, to put together the structural elements.
- (intransitive, dialectal) To move.
- (tennis) To hit (the ball) with the frame of the racquet rather than the strings (normally a mishit).
- (transitive) Of a picture such as a painting or photograph, to place inside a decorative border.
- (intransitive, dialectal, mining) To wash ore with the aid of a frame.
- (transitive, criminology) Conspire to falsely incriminate an innocent person.
- (transitive) To bring or put into form or order; adjust the parts or elements of; compose; contrive; plan; devise.
- (transitive) To position visually within a fixed boundary.
- (transitive) To construct in words so as to establish a context for understanding or interpretation.
noun
- the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal
- (figuratively) The central core of something that gives shape to the entire structure.
- the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape
- An anthropomorphic representation of a skeleton.
- something reduced to its minimal form
- a scandal that is kept secret
- (sports, uncountable) A type of tobogganing in which competitors lie face down, and descend head first.
- (geometry) The vertices and edges of a polyhedron, taken collectively.
- (especially attributive) A minimum or bare essentials.
- (printing) A very thin form of light-faced type.
- (botany) The network of veins in a leaf.
- (computing, middleware) A client-helper procedure that communicates with a stub.
- (idiomatic) Clipping of skeleton in the closet (“a shameful secret”).
- (anatomy) The system that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and cartilage in vertebrates, external in some other animals.
- (figuratively) A very thin person.
- (countable) The form of toboggan used in this sport.
- (architecture) A frame that provides support to a building or other construction.
noun
- any tubular or pillar-like supporting structure in the body
- an article giving opinions or perspectives
- a vertical array of numbers or other information
- anything that approximates the shape of a column or tower
- a page or text that is vertically divided
- a vertical cylindrical structure standing alone and not supporting anything (such as a monument)
- a vertical glass tube used in column chromatography; a mixture is poured in the top and washed through a stationary substance where components of the mixture are adsorbed selectively to form colored bands
- (architecture) a tall vertical cylindrical structure standing upright and used to support a structure
- a line of units following one after another
- (architecture) A solid upright structure designed usually to support a larger structure above it, such as a roof or horizontal beam, but sometimes for decoration.
- A body of troops or army vehicles, usually strung out along a road.
- A vertical line of entries in a table, usually read from top to bottom.
- (by extension) A recurring feature in a periodical, especially an opinion piece, especially by a single author or small rotating group of authors, or on a single theme.
- (botany) The gynostemium
- A body of text meant to be read line by line, especially in printed material that has multiple adjacent such on a single page.
- Something having similar vertical form or structure to the things mentioned above, such as a spinal column.
- (chemistry) An instrument used to separate the different components of a liquid or to purify chemical compounds.
- A unit of width, especially of advertisements, in a periodical, equivalent to the width of a usual column of text.
noun
- A physical base or foundation.
- A starting point, base or foundation for an argument or hypothesis.
- (linear algebra) In a vector space, a linearly independent set of vectors spanning the whole vector space.
- (topology) A collection of subsets ("basis elements") of a set, such that this collection covers the set, and for any two basis elements which both contain an element of the set, there is a third basis element contained in the intersection of the first two, which also contains that element.
- An underlying condition or circumstance.
- (accounting) Amount paid for an investment, including commissions and other expenses.
- A regular frequency.
- (agriculture, trading) The difference between the cash price a dealer pays to a farmer for his produce and an agreed reference price, which is usually the futures price at which the given crop is trading at a commodity exchange.
- the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained
- a relation that provides the foundation for something
- the most important or necessary part of something
noun
- a structural member used to stiffen a framework
- a rope on a square-rigged ship that is used to swing a yard about and secure it
- an appliance that corrects dental irregularities
- a set of two similar things considered as a unit
- a support that steadies or strengthens something else
- elastic straps that hold trousers up
- a carpenter's tool having a crank handle for turning and a socket to hold a bit for boring
- either of two punctuation marks (‘{’ or ‘}’) used to enclose textual material
- two items of the same kind
- The state of being braced or tight; tension.
- A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock.
- (British, chiefly in the plural) Straps or bands to sustain trousers; suspenders.
- A cord, ligament, or rod, for producing or maintaining tension.
- A piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces, in a frame or truss, which divide the structure into triangular parts. It may act as a tie, or as a strut, and serves to prevent distortion of the structure, and transverse strains in its members. A boiler brace is a diagonal stay, connecting the head with the shell.
- That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop.
- (nautical) A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon.
- (soccer) Two goals scored by one player in a game.
- (typography) A curved, pointed line, also known as "curly bracket": { or } connecting two or more words or lines, which are to be considered together, such as in {role, roll}; in music, used to connect staves.
- (plural brace) A pair, a couple; originally used of dogs, and later of animals generally (e.g., a brace of conies) and then other things, but rarely human persons. (In British use (as plural), this is a particularly common reference to game birds.)
- Harness; warlike preparation.
- (plural in North America, singular or plural in the UK) A system of wires, brackets, and elastic bands used to correct crooked teeth or to reduce overbite.
- A thong used to regulate the tension of a drum.
- (British, Cornwall, mining) The mouth of a shaft.
- (cricket) Two wickets taken with two consecutive deliveries.
verb
- cause to be alert and energetic
- support by bracing
- support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace
- prepare (oneself), often but not necessarily for something unpleasant or difficult
- To place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold firmly.
- (transitive, intransitive) To prepare for something bad, such as an impact or blow.
- To stop someone for questioning, usually said of police.
- To draw tight; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen.
- To bind or tie closely; to fasten tightly.
- (nautical) To swing round the yards of a square rigged ship, using braces, to present a more efficient sail surface to the direction of the wind.
- To confront with questions, demands or requests.
- To furnish with braces; to support; to prop.
noun
- a framework of ribs
- the act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously (especially by ridicule); provoking someone with persistent annoyances
- (countable, uncountable) A rib, or the collective ribs, on an object.
- (countable) An instance of teasing.
- (uncountable) The action of the verb to rib; teasing.
adj
verb
noun
- the arrangement of the body and its limbs
- a theatrical pose created for effect
- position of aircraft or spacecraft relative to a frame of reference (the horizon or direction of motion)
- a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways
- (figurative) Disposition or state of mind.
- (Canada, US, UK, Philippines, informal) Unpleasant behavior.
- (ballet) A position similar to arabesque, but with the raised leg bent at the knee.
- (aeronautics, nautical, engineering) The orientation of a vehicle or other object relative to the horizon, direction of motion, other objects, etc.
- The position of the body or way of carrying oneself.
verb
noun
- the arrangement of the body and its limbs
- the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another
- a way of regarding situations or topics etc.
- an item on a list or in a sequence
- the act of putting something in a certain place
- the particular portion of space occupied by something
- (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player
- an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute
- the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society
- a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons
- the act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom
- the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated
- a rationalized mental attitude
- a job in an organization
- the appropriate or customary location
- a condition or position in which you find yourself
- A place or location.
- (electronics) A pin; a connector.
- A posture.
- A status or rank.
- (figurative) A situation suitable to perform some action.
- (chess) The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
- An opinion, stand, or stance.
- A post of employment; a job.
- (finance) A commitment, or a group of commitments, such as options or futures, to buy or sell a given amount of financial instruments, such as securities, currencies or commodities, for a given price.
- (team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
- (poker) The order in which players are seated around the table.
- (arithmetic) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and error.
- (finance) An amount of securities, commodities, or other financial instruments held by a person, firm, or institution.
verb
noun
- the arrangement of the body and its limbs
- characteristic way of bearing one's body
- a rationalized mental attitude
- capability in terms of personnel and materiel that affect the capacity to fight a war
- The way a person holds and positions their body.
- One's attitude or the social or political position one takes towards an issue or another person.
- (rare) The position of someone or something relative to another; position; situation.
- A situation or condition.
verb
- behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others
- assume a posture as for artistic purposes
- (intransitive) to put one's body into a posture or series of postures, especially hoping that one will be noticed and admired
- (transitive) To place in a particular position or attitude; to pose.
- (intransitive) to pretend to have an opinion or a conviction
noun
- The supporting part of a structure (either physical or organizational; the foundation).
- The earth or gravel that the railway tracks are embedded in.
- (Marxism) Synonym of base (“the forces and relations of production that produce the necessities and amenities of life”).
- lowest support of a structure
- the basic structure or features of a system or organization
noun
- A skeleton or frame with radiating arms or members, often connected by crosspieces, such as a casting forming the hub and spokes to which the rim of a fly wheel or large gear is bolted; the body of a piston head; or a frame for strengthening a core or mould for a casting.
- (sports) The network of wires separating the areas of a dartboard.
- (cycling) A part of a crank, to which the chainrings are attached.
- (cooking) Implement for moving food in and out of hot oil for deep frying, with a circular metal mesh attached to a long handle; a spider skimmer
- A bit for turning fasteners with 8-pointed heads.
- (fly fishing, England) A soft-hackle fly.
- (photography) A support for a camera tripod, preventing it from sliding.
- (bowls) A competition in which several participants are spread evenly around the edges of the green, who all make one bowl towards the central jack at the same time; the winner being the person whose bowl ends up closest to the jack.
- (music) Part of a resonator instrument that transmits string vibrations from the bridge to a resonator cone at multiple points.
- (slang) A man who persistently approaches or accosts a woman in a public social setting, particularly in a bar.
- (mathematics) A spider graph or spider tree.
- (chiefly Australia and New Zealand) A float (drink) made by mixing ice-cream and a soda or fizzy drink (such as lemonade).
- (cooking, US, UK, chiefly historical and now dialectal) A cast-iron frying pan with three legs, once common in open-hearth cookery.
- (snooker, billiards) A stick with a convex arch-shaped notched head used to support the cue when the cue ball is out of reach at normal extension.
- Any of various eight-legged, predatory arthropods, of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs to catch prey.
- (slang) A spindly person.
- (slang, uncountable) Heroin.
- (Internet) A program which follows links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.
- a computer program that prowls the internet looking for publicly accessible resources that can be added to a database; the database can then be searched with a search engine
- a skillet made of cast iron
- predatory arachnid with eight legs, two poison fangs, two feelers, and usually two silk-spinning organs at the back end of the body; they spin silk to make cocoons for eggs or traps for prey
verb
noun
- (figurative) The foundation, the basis, the undergirding.
- The sediment which subsides from turbid water; the alluvial deposit of muddy water artificially introduced into low lands in order to enrich or fertilise them.
- A situation or place which is or seems to be from another era; a time warp.
- (weaving) The threads that run lengthwise in a woven fabric; crossed by the woof or weft.
- (countable) A distortion or twist, such as in a piece of wood (also used figuratively).
- (countable) A mental or moral distortion, deviation, or aberration.
- (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being deviant from what is right or proper morally or mentally.
- (uncountable) The state, quality, or condition of being physically bent or twisted out of shape.
- (nautical) A line or cable or rode as is used in warping (mooring or hauling) a ship, and sometimes for other purposes such as deploying a seine or creating drag.
- A theoretical construct that permits travel across a medium without passing through it normally, such as a teleporter or time warp.
- a shape distorted by twisting or folding
- a moral or mental distortion
- yarn arranged lengthways on a loom and crossed by the woof
- a twist or aberration; especially a perverse or abnormal way of judging or acting
verb
- (intransitive) To go astray or be deflected from a true, proper or moral course; to deviate.
- (ambitransitive, science fiction, video games) To travel or transport across a medium without passing through it normally, as by using a teleporter or time warp.
- (transitive, nautical) To move a vessel by hauling on a line or cable that is fastened to an anchor or pier; (especially) to move a sailing ship through a restricted place such as a harbour.
- (transitive) To deflect or turn (something) away from a true, proper or moral course; to pervert; to bias.
- (intransitive, nautical, of a ship) To move or be moved by this method.
- (intransitive) To become twisted out of shape; to deform.
- (ambitransitive, agriculture) To fertilize (low-lying land) by letting the tide, a river, or other water in upon it to deposit silt and alluvial matter.
- (transitive) To arrange (strands of thread, etc) so that they run lengthwise in weaving.
- (transitive) To twist or turn (something) out of shape; to deform.
- make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story
- bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat
noun
- A vertical component of a structure.
- A vertical geometrical figure; a perpendicular.
- (marketing) A vertical market.
- An individual slat in a set of vertical blinds.
- (politics) A command structure for exertion of political power.
- A vertex or zenith.
- something that is oriented vertically
- a vertical structural member as a post or stake
adj
- In a two-dimensional Cartesian co-ordinate system, describing the axis y oriented normal (perpendicular, at right angles) to the horizontal axis x.
- Standing, pointing, or moving straight up or down; parallel to the local direction of gravity; along the direction of a plumb line; perpendicular to something horizontal.
- (wine tasting) Involving different vintages of the same wine type from the same winery.
- (marketing) Of or pertaining to vertical markets.
- (music) Of an interval: having the two notes sound simultaneously.
- In a three-dimensional co-ordinate system, describing the axis z oriented normal (perpendicular, orthogonal) to the basic plane xy.
- at right angles to the plane of the horizon or a base line
- of or relating to different levels in a hierarchy (as levels of social class or income group)
- upright in position or posture
- relating to or involving all stages of a business from production to distribution
noun
adj
- (sex, euphemistic) Relating to sexual intercourse.
- (music, of an interval) Having the two notes sound successively.
- (marketing) Relating to horizontal markets
- (biology) Being or relating to the transmission of organisms between biotic and/or abiotic members of an ecosystem that are not in a parent-progeny relationship.
- (wine) Involving wines of the same vintages but from different wineries.
- Perpendicular to the vertical; parallel to the plane of the horizon; level, flat.
- parallel to or in the plane of the horizon or a base line
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