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noun
- A subsection of a prison, containing a number of inmates.
- (informal, Internet) Clipping of podcast.
- A tapered, cylindrical body of ore or minerals.
- (botany) A seed case for legumes (e.g. peas, beans, peppers); a seedpod.
- A lie-flat business or first class seat.
- (by extension) A group of people who regularly interact.
- A straight channel or groove in the body of certain forms of, usually tapered, augers and boring-bits.
- A nicotine cartridge.
- (collective, zoology) A group of whales, dolphins, seals, porpoises or hippopotami.
- (broadcasting) A set of commercials to be shown together.
- (informal) Clipping of isopod.
- In rugby union, a small group (usually 3 or 4) of forwards working together as a group in open play.
- A small section of a larger office, compartmentalised for a specific purpose.
- A small vehicle, especially used in emergency situations.
- A very small room or space for one person to inhabit, as in a capsule hotel.
- A self-contained unit, container, or enclosure that holds, protects, or transports something.
- a detachable container of fuel on an airplane
- a several-seeded dehiscent fruit as e.g. of a leguminous plant
- the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves)
- a group of aquatic mammals
verb
noun
- Prison.
- Debt.
- (card games) The last card turned up in the game of faro.
- Installment purchase.
- A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still, from the Hochheim region; often applied to all Rhenish wines.
- Meat from that part of a food animal.
- Alternative form of hawk (“cough”).
- Pawn, obligation as collateral for a loan.
- (countable) The tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped, such as a horse, pig or dog.
- (countable) The hollow behind the knee.
- tarsal joint of the hind leg of hoofed mammals; corresponds to the human ankle
- any of several white wines from the Rhine River valley in Germany (‘hock’ is British usage)
verb
- (US) To bother; to pester; to annoy incessantly.
- (transitive, colloquial) To leave with a pawnbroker as security for a loan.
- (transitive) To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough.
- Alternative form of hawk (“cough, clear one's throat of phlegm”).
- leave as a guarantee in return for money
- disable by cutting the hock
noun
- a cell in a jail or prison
- a stronghold
- a state of being confined (usually for a short time)
- time during which some action is awaited
- the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it
- power by which something or someone is affected or dominated
- the act of grasping
- the space in a ship or aircraft for storing cargo
- understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something
- A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
- (exercise) An exercise involving holding a position for a set time
- The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
- An act or instance of holding.
- A place where animals are held for safety
- Something reserved or kept.
- (tennis) An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
- The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when all lines are busy.
- The ability to persist.
- An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
- (baseball) A statistic awarded to a relief pitcher who is not still pitching at the end of the game and who records at least one out and maintains a lead for his team.
- (gambling) The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
- (gambling) The wager amount, the total hold.
- (aviation) A region of airspace reserved for aircraft being kept in a holding pattern.
- A grasp or grip.
- Power over someone or something.
- The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
- (nautical, aviation) The cargo area of a ship or aircraft (often holds or cargo hold).
- (wrestling, self-defense) A position or grip used to control the opponent.
verb
- secure and keep for possible future use or application
- keep from exhaling or expelling
- resist or confront with resistance
- be the physical support of; carry the weight of
- maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings)
- aim, point, or direct
- support or hold in a certain manner
- have room for; hold without crowding
- have rightfully; of rights, titles, and offices
- remain committed to
- be pertinent or relevant or applicable
- contain or hold; have within
- be valid, applicable, or true
- be in accord; be in agreement
- have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense
- hold the attention of
- have or hold in one's hands or grip
- assert or affirm
- keep from departing
- to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement
- remain in a certain state, position, or condition
- keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view
- drink alcohol without showing ill effects
- lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits
- cause to come to an abrupt stop
- protect against a challenge or attack
- take and maintain control over, often by violent means
- cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity
- bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted
- arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance
- declare to be
- cover as for protection against noise or smell
- stop dealing with
- organize or be responsible for
- have as a major characteristic
- be capable of holding or containing
- (transitive) To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain.
- To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain.
- (imperative) In a food or drink order at an informal restaurant etc., requesting that a component normally included in that order be omitted.
- To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
- (transitive) To reserve.
- (transitive) To bear, carry, or manage.
- (transitive) To have and keep possession of something.
- (transitive) To contain or store.
- (intransitive, copulative) To keep oneself in a particular state.
- (slang, intransitive) To be in possession of illicit drugs for sale.
- (intransitive, chiefly imperative) Not to move; to halt; to stop.
- (transitive) To bind (someone) to a consequence of his or her actions.
- To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain.
- (transitive) To detain.
- (transitive) To maintain, to consider, to opine.
- To take place, to occur.
- To remain continent; to control an excretory bodily function.
- (intransitive) Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or unsubdued.
- (tennis, ambitransitive) To win one's own service game.
- (transitive) To grasp or grip.
- (intransitive, copulative) To be or remain valid; to apply (usually in the third person).
- (transitive) To cause to wait or delay.
noun
- a cell in a jail or prison
- the financial means whereby one lives
- the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress
- The state of being kept; hence, the resulting condition; case.
- (engineering) A cap for holding something, such as a journal box, in place.
- (historical) The main tower of a castle or fortress, located within the castle walls.
- The food or money required to keep someone alive and healthy; one's support, maintenance.
verb
- hold and prevent from leaving
- supply with room and board
- retain possession of
- prevent the action or expression of
- behave as expected during holidays or rites
- stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state
- to rear
- store or keep customarily
- maintain for use and service
- retain rights to
- look after; be the keeper of; have charge of
- have as a supply
- supply with necessities and support
- maintain in safety from injury, harm, or danger
- fail to spoil or rot
- stick to correctly or closely
- maintain by writing regular records
- cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity
- allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature
- conform one's action or practice to
- continue a certain state, condition, or activity
- prevent (food) from rotting
- (transitive, Singapore, Wales) To put (something) back (to its original location or appropriate place); to put away.
- (transitive) To enter (accounts, records, etc.) in a book.
- (transitive) To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; to not swerve from or violate.
- To have habitually in stock for sale.
- (ditransitive) To maintain the condition of; to preserve in a certain state.
- (transitive) To continue in (a course or mode of action); to not intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain.
- (of living things) To raise; to care for.
- To restrain.
- (transitive) To remain faithful to a given promise or word.
- (transitive) To record transactions, accounts, or events in.
- (intransitive, cricket) To act as wicket-keeper.
- (with from) To watch over, look after, guard, protect.
- To maintain possession of.
- To supply with necessities and financially support (a person).
- To refrain from freely disclosing (a secret).
- To maintain (an establishment or institution); to conduct; to manage.
- To remain edible or otherwise usable.
- To continue.
- (copulative) To remain in a state.
noun
- (uncountable) Confinement in a jail.
- A place or institution for the confinement of persons held against their will in lawful custody or detention, especially (in US usage) a place where people are held for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.
- In dodgeball and related games, the area where players who have been struck by the ball are confined.
- (computing, FreeBSD, usually uncountable) A kind of sandbox for running a guest operating system instance.
- (horse racing, uncountable) The condition created by the requirement that a horse claimed in a claiming race not be run at another track for some period of time (usually 30 days).
- a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)
verb
noun
- (slang) A prison cell.
- (baseball) The rectangle in which the batter stands.
- (music, slang) A musical instrument, especially one made from boxwood.
- (fencing) A device used in electric fencing to detect whether a weapon has struck an opponent, which connects to a fencer's weapon by a spool and body wire. It uses lights and sound to notify a hit, with different coloured lights for on target and off target hits.
- (geometry, by extension) A rectangular object in any number of dimensions.
- (slang) A cell used for solitary confinement.
- A cuboid container and its contents; as much as fills such a container.
- A cuboid space; a cuboid container, often with a hinged lid.
- (Australia) An evergreen tree of the genus Lophostemon (for example, box scrub, Brisbane box, brush box, pink box, or Queensland box, Lophostemon confertus).
- (juggling) A pattern usually performed with three balls where the movements of the balls make a boxlike shape.
- A compartment to sit inside in an auditorium, courtroom, theatre, or other building.
- The wood from a box tree: boxwood.
- A blow with the fist.
- (lacrosse, informal) Ellipsis of box lacrosse (“indoor form of lacrosse”).
- (rail transport) Ellipsis of signal box.
- (colloquial, chiefly UK, Ireland) Short for squeeze box (“accordion or concertina”)
- Ellipsis of horsebox (“container for transporting horses”).
- (cricket) A hard protector for the genitals worn inside the underpants by a batsman or close fielder.
- (colloquial, chiefly Southern US) A stringed instrument with a soundbox, especially a guitar.
- A compartment or receptacle for receiving items.
- (automotive) Ellipsis of gearbox.
- A numbered receptacle at a newspaper office for anonymous replies to advertisements; see also box number.
- (slang, preceded by the) The television.
- Any of various evergreen shrubs or trees of genus Buxus, especially common box, European box, or boxwood (Buxus sempervirens) which is often used for making hedges and topiary.
- (figuratively) A predicament or trap.
- (aviation) A diamond-shaped flying formation consisting of four aircraft.
- A compartment (as a drawer) of an item of furniture used for storage, such as a cupboard, a shelf, etc.
- (automotive) Ellipsis of stashbox.
- (Australia) Various species of Eucalyptus trees are popularly called various kinds of boxes, on the basis of the nature of their wood, bark, or appearance for example, drooping box (Eucalyptus bicolor), shiny-leaved box (Eucalyptus tereticornis), black box, or ironbark box trees.
- A rectangle: an oblong or a square.
- (motor racing) An area in the pit where the car is repaired and refueled.
- (genetics) One of two specific regions in a promoter.
- (soccer) The penalty area.
- (computing, slang) A computer, or the case in which it is housed.
- The driver’s seat on a horse-drawn coach.
- (engineering) A cylindrical casing around the axle of a wheel, a bearing, a gland, etc.
- (slang) A gym dedicated to the CrossFit exercise program.
- A small rectangular shelter.
- (cricket) Synonym of gully (“a certain fielding position”).
- (euphemistic) A coffin.
- (slang, vulgar) The vagina.
- the quantity contained in a box
- separate partitioned area in a public place for a few people
- a rectangular drawing
- evergreen shrubs or small trees
- a (usually rectangular) container; may have a lid
- any one of several designated areas on a ball field where the batter or catcher or coaches are positioned
- private area in a theater or grandstand where a small group can watch the performance
- a blow with the hand (usually on the ear)
- the driver's seat on a coach
- a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible
verb
- (transitive) To strike with the fists; to punch.
- (motor racing) To enter the pit.
- (transitive) To mix two containers of paint of similar colour to ensure that the color is identical.
- (transitive) Usually followed by in: to surround and enclose in a way that restricts movement; to corner, to hem in.
- (transitive, object-oriented programming) To place a value of a primitive type into a casing object.
- (transitive, boxing) To fight against (a person) in a boxing match.
- (transitive, agriculture) To make an incision or hole in (a tree) for the purpose of procuring the sap.
- (transitive, architecture) To enclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to conceal (for example, pipes) or to bring to a required form.
- (transitive) To place inside a box; to pack in one or more boxes.
- (transitive, engineering) To furnish (for example, the axle of a wheel) with a box.
- (intransitive, stative, boxing) To participate in boxing; to be a boxer.
- (transitive, graphic design, printing) To enclose (images, text, etc.) in a box.
- put into a box
- hit with the fist
- engage in a boxing match
noun
- (uncountable) Confinement in prison.
- a prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement
- a correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment
- (colloquial, figurative) Any restrictive environment, such as a harsh academy or home.
- A place or institution where people are held against their will, in the US especially for long-term confinement, as of those convicted of serious crimes or otherwise considered undesirable by the government.
verb
noun
- a dark cell (usually underground) where prisoners can be confined
- An underground prison or vault, typically built underneath a castle.
- the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress
- (BDSM) A room dedicated to sadomasochistic sexual activity.
- (roleplaying games) An area inhabited by enemies, containing story objectives, treasure, and bosses.
- The low area between two drumlins.
verb
noun
- A place of punitive confinement; a lockup or cell; a military guardroom.
- (aviation) A dangerous optical illusion that can occur on a nighttime approach with dark, featureless terrain between the aircraft and a brightly-lit runway, where the aircraft appears to the pilots to be higher up than it actually is, potentially triggering a premature or overly-steep descent and a crash short of the runway.
- (figuratively) A void into which things disappear for good; an inscrutable area or subject.
- (physics) A region of spacetime that exerts a gravitational pull strong enough that no matter or energy, not even light, can escape it.
- (Internet, often attributive) A place where incoming traffic is silently discarded.
- (programming) A bit bucket; a place of permanent oblivion for data.
- a region of space resulting from the collapse of a star; extremely high gravitational field
verb
noun
- a cell for violent prisoners
- (US, slang) A prison.
- a refrigerator for cooling liquids
- an iced drink especially white wine and fruit juice
- A device for refrigerating dead bodies in a morgue.
- (US, slang) A bouncer or doorman.
- Anything which cools.
- (India, countable) Ellipsis of air cooler, evaporative cooler, desert cooler, or swamp cooler.
- (poker, gambling, colloquial) A cold deck.
- (poker) A loss suffered while holding a hand which is ordinarily strong, especially one which involves the loss of many chips.
- (Canada, South Africa, countable or uncountable) A type of drink made with alcohol, especially wine, mixed with fruit juice.
- An insulated bin or box used with ice or freezer packs to keep food or beverages cold while picnicking or camping.
- (Philippines, countable) samalamig drink (sweet chilled beverage, such as chilled fruit juice or other flavors like chocolate, coffee, sweet corn, etc., usually mixed with either shredded jelly and/or sago pearls or tapioca pearls)
adj
noun
- a cell for violent prisoners
- a large (usually metallic) vessel for holding gases or liquids
- an enclosed armored military vehicle; has a cannon and moves on caterpillar treads
- a freight car that transports liquids or gases in bulk
- as much as a tank will hold
- A small Indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in weight.
- (US, slang) A prison cell, or prison generally.
- (colloquial) A very muscular and physically imposing person; somebody who is built like a tank.
- (Australia, India) A reservoir or dam.
- (botany) A structure of tightly overlapping leaves used by some bromeliads to retain water.
- An open container or pool for storing water or other liquids.
- (rail transport) Ellipsis of tank engine or tank locomotive.
- (poker, slang) A metaphorical place where a player goes to contemplate a decision; see in the tank.
- The amount held by a container; a tankful.
- (clothing) Ellipsis of tank top.
- An armoured fighting vehicle, armed with a gun designed for direct fire, and moving on caterpillar tracks.
- A pond, pool, or small lake (either natural or artificial).
- The fuel reservoir of a vehicle.
- A closed container for liquids or gases.
- A Bombay weight of 72 grains, for pearls.
- (roleplaying games, board games, video games) A unit or character designed primarily around damage absorption and holding the attention of the enemy (as opposed to dealing damage, healing, or other tasks).
verb
- consume excessive amounts of alcohol
- store in a tank by causing (something) to flow into it
- treat in a tank
- (video games) To attract the attacks of an enemy target in cooperative team-based combat, so that one's teammates can defeat the enemy in question more efficiently.
- (fandom slang) To resist damage; to be attacked without being hurt.
- To fail or fall (often used in describing the economy or the stock market); to degenerate or decline rapidly; to plummet.
- (Singapore, colloquial) To willingly take on an undesirable task or burden.
- (Singapore, colloquial) To stand; to tolerate.
- (transitive) To put (fuel, etc.) into a tank.
- To deliberately lose a sports match with the intent of gaining a perceived future competitive advantage.
- (originally poker, slang) To contemplate a decision for a long time; to go in the tank.
noun
- (US) A jail or guardhouse, especially in a naval military prison or jail on a ship, navy base, or (in fiction) spacecraft.
- (nautical) A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on both foremast and mainmast
- (Scotland, Northern Ireland, Northern England) Bridge.
- Brigadier.
- a penal institution (especially on board a ship)
- two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on both masts
name
noun
- (slang) Jail.
- A serving vessel or container, typically circular in cross-section and typically higher than it is wide, with a relatively small mouth or spout, an ear handle and often a stopper or top.
- (vulgar, slang, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breasts.
- (US, Jesuit schools, countable or uncountable) Detention (after-school student punishment).
- (CB radio slang, chiefly in the plural) A kind of large, high-powered vacuum tube.
- (Australia, New Zealand) An upright electric kettle.
- (climbing) A hold large enough for both hands
- (US, slang) The P-47 Thunderbolt fighter aircraft.
- The amount that a jug can hold.
- (UK, informal) A traditional dimpled glass with a handle, for serving a pint of beer.
- A small mixed breed of dog created by mating a Jack Russell terrier and a pug.
- the quantity contained in a jug
- a large bottle with a narrow mouth
verb
- (slang) To acquire or obtain through force; snatch, steal; to rob, especially in reference to jugging (which see).
- (intransitive) To utter a sound like "jug", as certain birds do, especially the nightingale.
- (US, Jesuit schools, transitive) To issue a detention (to a student).
- (intransitive, of quails or partridges) To nestle or collect together in a covey.
- (transitive, slang) To put into jail.
- (transitive) To stew in an earthenware jug etc.
- (slang) To hustle or make money, usually aggressively.
- stew in an earthenware jug
- lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
noun
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noun
verb
noun
- The general population of a prison.
- (fishing) In longline fishing the central line to which the branch lines with baits are attached.
- (computing) The main repository for a software project, from which different versions (forks) may be split off.
- (slang) A principal vein into which a drug can be injected.
- (rail transport) The principal route or line of a railway.
- (plumbing) The pipeline carrying wastewater to the public drains or a septic tank.
- (chess) Alternative form of main line.
- (aviation) An airline's main operating unit, as opposed to codeshares or regional subsidiaries.
adj
- (rail transport) Of or pertaining to a surface railway as distinct from an underground, elevated or light rail one.
- (chess) Of a sequence of opening moves: being part of a main line ("a standard sequence of opening moves considered to be best play").
- Normal, principal or standard.
- (rail transport) Of or pertaining to the principal route or line of a railway.
verb
- (slang) To inject (a drug) directly into a vein.
- (transitive) To include (a prisoner) in the general population of a prison.
- (by extension, informal, transitive) To consume voraciously.
- (computing, transitive) To integrate (code, etc.) into the main repository for a software project, rather than separate forks.
- inject into the vein
noun
- A room in a prison or jail for one or more inmates.
- (cellular automata) The minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior.
- Each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb.
- (meteorology) A small thunderstorm, caused by convection, that forms ahead of a storm front.
- A small group of people forming part of a larger organization, often an outlawed one.
- (now historical) A small monastery or nunnery dependent on a larger religious establishment.
- (entomology) The discal cell of the wing of a lepidopteran insect.
- (biology) The basic unit of a living organism, consisting of a quantity of protoplasm surrounded by a cell membrane, which is able to synthesize proteins and replicate itself.
- A section or compartment of a larger structure.
- (communication) A region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network.
- (biology, now chiefly botany) Any of various chambers in a tissue or organism having specific functions.
- A small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person.
- A device which stores electrical power; used either singly or together in batteries; the basic unit of a battery.
- (architecture) A cella.
- (statistics) The unit in a statistical array (a spreadsheet, for example) where a row and a column intersect.
- (US, New Zealand, Australia, Philippines, informal) A cellular phone.
- A single-room dwelling for a hermit.
- (communication) A short, fixed-length packet, as in asynchronous transfer mode.
- (architecture) The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.
- (geometry) A three-dimensional facet of a polytope.
- (entomology) An area of an insect wing bounded by veins.
- (card games) In FreeCell-type games, a space where one card can be placed.
- a room where a prisoner is kept
- a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver
- any small compartment
- a device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction
- small room in which a monk or nun lives
- a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement
- (biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals
verb
noun
- A section or subdivision of a prison.
- a division of a prison (usually consisting of several cells)
- 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.)
- 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.
- An object used for guarding.
- 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 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
- A type of prison where all the cells are visible from the center, particularly if it is not possible for those in a cell to know if they are being watched.
- a circular prison with cells distributed around a central surveillance station; proposed by Jeremy Bentham in 1791
- A room for the exhibition of novelties.
- (figurative, by extension) A place in which people are subject to constant surveillance at totalitarian command.
- (historical) A kind of projector in the 18th and 19th centuries.
- an area where everything is visible
noun
- a jail or prison (especially one that is run in a tyrannical manner)
- A jail or prison, especially one regarded as mistreating its prisoners.
- (British, derogatory) Synonym of workhouse (“an institution for homeless poor people funded by the local parish, where the able-bodied were required to work”).
- (military, historical) The fortified encampment of an army besieging a place; also, any of the buildings in such an encampment.
- Chiefly in French contexts: a bastion (“projecting part of a rampart or other fortification”) or tower of a castle; also, a fortified tower or other building; or a small citadel or fortress.
verb
noun
- A small overheated cell or room used for solitary confinement or torture.
- (US, slang) A jail cell.
- (animation) The review process that takes place in a sweat box.
- (UK, slang) A compartment in a police van to hold a prisoner being transported.
- (slang) A small nightclub packed to capacity where people get hot and sweaty.
- Any box or boxlike structure used to induce sweating, such as of hides or tobacco
- (animation) The room where a scene is reviewed.
- a device that causes tobacco leaves or fruit or hides to sweat
- small or narrow cell
verb
noun
- (US, slang) A prison.
- A box or compartment containing ice, typically used to keep provisions cool.
- (UK) A compartment in a refrigerator that is colder than the rest of the refrigerator and is used as a freezer.
- (US, slang) A city with a cold or snowy climate.
- (US, slang) A morgue.
- white goods in which food can be stored at low temperatures
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noun
- A concentration camp.
- a large cell where prisoners (people awaiting trial or sentence or refugees or illegal immigrants) are confined together temporarily
- (Australia) An immigration detention facility; a facility in which people who have attempted to enter Australia without prior authorisation are detained, pending a decision on whether they are to be accepted as refugees or returned to their country of origin.
- A facility in which people are detained (held in custody); a jail.
noun
- A circular prison, especially a small local lockup or station house.
- A traditional circular dwelling elevated on stilts with a conical roof found in part of Southeast Asia.
- (rail transport) A circular building in which locomotives are housed, sometimes with a turntable.
- (chiefly US) A punch or kick delivered with an exaggerated sweeping movement.
- (nautical, now historical) A privy near the bow of a vessel, especially as reserved for officers.
- (card games) In the game of pinochle, a meld consisting of a queen and king in each of the four suits.
- (nautical, now chiefly historical) The uppermost room or cabin of any note upon the stern of a ship.
- (archaeology) A prehistoric dwelling typical of northwest Europe in the Iron Age and Bronze Age.
- workplace consisting of a circular building for repairing locomotives
- a hook delivered with an exaggerated swing
verb
noun
- a large cell where prisoners (people awaiting trial or sentence or refugees or illegal immigrants) are confined together temporarily
- a place on a baseball field where relief pitchers can warm up during a game
- (US, military slang) A military prison or its enclosing stockade.
- An enclosed area used to hold bulls.
- (figurative) A place for someone or something to get ready.
- (baseball) An enclosed area for pitchers to warm up in during a game.
- An open seating arrangement where project teams can communicate openly with minimal effort.
- (baseball) The relief pitchers of a team collectively.
noun
- a correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes
- a writing implement with a point from which ink flows
- an enclosure for confining livestock
- female swan
- a portable enclosure in which babies may be left to play
- (zoology) The internal cartilage skeleton of a squid, shaped like a pen.
- (slang) A penitentiary, i.e. a state or federal prison for convicted felons.
- A female swan.
- (humorous) plural of pan
- Ellipsis of vapor pen (“electronic cigarette”).
- (baseball) The bullpen.
- (figurative) A writer, or their style.
- A light pen.
- (computing, informal) Penetration.
- A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks.
- An enclosure (enclosed area) used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.
- A syringe-like device for injecting a dose of medication such as insulin or epinephrine. (See Injector pen.)
- (soccer, slang) Penalty.
- (colloquial) Marks of ink left by a pen.
- (poetic) A wing.
verb
noun
adj
noun
- A prison camp, especially one used to hold political prisoners.
- (also figuratively) A place where, or political system in which, people with dissident views are routinely oppressed.
- (historical) Also GULAG: the system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s).
- a Russian prison camp for political prisoners
verb
noun
- (prison slang) Any prison or prison camp.
- (Australia) A site where kangaroos and other macropods rest during the day.
- A place of politically motivated confinement in outdoorsy conditions, usually also leading to slave labor and death.
- (British India) Anywhere that a colonist stayed when away from their permanent residence; such places collectively.
- The company or body of persons encamped.
- An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other simple structures.
- A single hut or shelter.
- (agriculture, catachresis) Misconstruction of clamp (“mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored”).
- (uncommon) Clipping of campus
- (slang, Falkland Islands) The areas of the Falkland Islands situated outside the capital and largest settlement, Stanley.
- A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary.
- (slang, Anglo-Argentines) The pampas, which are the vast grassy areas situated in the rural areas beyond Argentine cities such as Buenos Aires.
- An organised event, often taking place in tents or temporary accommodation.
- A group of people with the same strong ideals or political leanings.
- An electoral constituency of the legislative assembly of the Falkland Islands that comprises all territory more than 3.5 miles from the spire of the Christ Church Cathedral in Stanley.
- An online game, in some cases roleplay, in which people compete against each other, usually in a structure similar to that of a competition show.
- An affected, exaggerated, or intentionally tasteless style.
- a penal institution (often for forced labor)
- temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers
- shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs
- an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
- something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality
- temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers
- a group of people living together in a camp
- a site where care and activities are provided for children during the summer months
adj
verb
- (transitive, video games) Ellipsis of corpse camp.
- To set up a camp.
- (transitive, video games) To stay beside (something) to gain an advantage.
- (intransitive, sports, video games) To stay in an advantageous location.
- To behave in a camp manner.
- To live in a tent or similar temporary accommodation.
- (transitive) To afford rest or lodging for.
- (Australia, intransitive) Of stock animals, to assemble or rest temporarily at a particular place.
- establish or set up a camp
- give an artificially banal or sexual quality to
- live in or as if in a tent
noun
- A subsection of a prison, containing a number of inmates.
- (informal, Internet) Clipping of podcast.
- A tapered, cylindrical body of ore or minerals.
- (botany) A seed case for legumes (e.g. peas, beans, peppers); a seedpod.
- A lie-flat business or first class seat.
- (by extension) A group of people who regularly interact.
- A straight channel or groove in the body of certain forms of, usually tapered, augers and boring-bits.
- A nicotine cartridge.
- (collective, zoology) A group of whales, dolphins, seals, porpoises or hippopotami.
- (broadcasting) A set of commercials to be shown together.
- (informal) Clipping of isopod.
- In rugby union, a small group (usually 3 or 4) of forwards working together as a group in open play.
- A small section of a larger office, compartmentalised for a specific purpose.
- A small vehicle, especially used in emergency situations.
- A very small room or space for one person to inhabit, as in a capsule hotel.
- A self-contained unit, container, or enclosure that holds, protects, or transports something.
- a detachable container of fuel on an airplane
- a several-seeded dehiscent fruit as e.g. of a leguminous plant
- the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves)
- a group of aquatic mammals
verb
noun
- Prison.
- Debt.
- (card games) The last card turned up in the game of faro.
- Installment purchase.
- A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still, from the Hochheim region; often applied to all Rhenish wines.
- Meat from that part of a food animal.
- Alternative form of hawk (“cough”).
- Pawn, obligation as collateral for a loan.
- (countable) The tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped, such as a horse, pig or dog.
- (countable) The hollow behind the knee.
- tarsal joint of the hind leg of hoofed mammals; corresponds to the human ankle
- any of several white wines from the Rhine River valley in Germany (‘hock’ is British usage)
verb
- (US) To bother; to pester; to annoy incessantly.
- (transitive, colloquial) To leave with a pawnbroker as security for a loan.
- (transitive) To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough.
- Alternative form of hawk (“cough, clear one's throat of phlegm”).
- leave as a guarantee in return for money
- disable by cutting the hock
noun
- a cell in a jail or prison
- a stronghold
- a state of being confined (usually for a short time)
- time during which some action is awaited
- the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it
- power by which something or someone is affected or dominated
- the act of grasping
- the space in a ship or aircraft for storing cargo
- understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something
- A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
- (exercise) An exercise involving holding a position for a set time
- The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
- An act or instance of holding.
- A place where animals are held for safety
- Something reserved or kept.
- (tennis) An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
- The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when all lines are busy.
- The ability to persist.
- An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
- (baseball) A statistic awarded to a relief pitcher who is not still pitching at the end of the game and who records at least one out and maintains a lead for his team.
- (gambling) The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
- (gambling) The wager amount, the total hold.
- (aviation) A region of airspace reserved for aircraft being kept in a holding pattern.
- A grasp or grip.
- Power over someone or something.
- The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
- (nautical, aviation) The cargo area of a ship or aircraft (often holds or cargo hold).
- (wrestling, self-defense) A position or grip used to control the opponent.
verb
- secure and keep for possible future use or application
- keep from exhaling or expelling
- resist or confront with resistance
- be the physical support of; carry the weight of
- maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings)
- aim, point, or direct
- support or hold in a certain manner
- have room for; hold without crowding
- have rightfully; of rights, titles, and offices
- remain committed to
- be pertinent or relevant or applicable
- contain or hold; have within
- be valid, applicable, or true
- be in accord; be in agreement
- have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense
- hold the attention of
- have or hold in one's hands or grip
- assert or affirm
- keep from departing
- to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement
- remain in a certain state, position, or condition
- keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view
- drink alcohol without showing ill effects
- lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits
- cause to come to an abrupt stop
- protect against a challenge or attack
- take and maintain control over, often by violent means
- cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity
- bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted
- arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance
- declare to be
- cover as for protection against noise or smell
- stop dealing with
- organize or be responsible for
- have as a major characteristic
- be capable of holding or containing
- (transitive) To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain.
- To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain.
- (imperative) In a food or drink order at an informal restaurant etc., requesting that a component normally included in that order be omitted.
- To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
- (transitive) To reserve.
- (transitive) To bear, carry, or manage.
- (transitive) To have and keep possession of something.
- (transitive) To contain or store.
- (intransitive, copulative) To keep oneself in a particular state.
- (slang, intransitive) To be in possession of illicit drugs for sale.
- (intransitive, chiefly imperative) Not to move; to halt; to stop.
- (transitive) To bind (someone) to a consequence of his or her actions.
- To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain.
- (transitive) To detain.
- (transitive) To maintain, to consider, to opine.
- To take place, to occur.
- To remain continent; to control an excretory bodily function.
- (intransitive) Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or unsubdued.
- (tennis, ambitransitive) To win one's own service game.
- (transitive) To grasp or grip.
- (intransitive, copulative) To be or remain valid; to apply (usually in the third person).
- (transitive) To cause to wait or delay.
noun
- a cell in a jail or prison
- the financial means whereby one lives
- the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress
- The state of being kept; hence, the resulting condition; case.
- (engineering) A cap for holding something, such as a journal box, in place.
- (historical) The main tower of a castle or fortress, located within the castle walls.
- The food or money required to keep someone alive and healthy; one's support, maintenance.
verb
- hold and prevent from leaving
- supply with room and board
- retain possession of
- prevent the action or expression of
- behave as expected during holidays or rites
- stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state
- to rear
- store or keep customarily
- maintain for use and service
- retain rights to
- look after; be the keeper of; have charge of
- have as a supply
- supply with necessities and support
- maintain in safety from injury, harm, or danger
- fail to spoil or rot
- stick to correctly or closely
- maintain by writing regular records
- cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity
- allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature
- conform one's action or practice to
- continue a certain state, condition, or activity
- prevent (food) from rotting
- (transitive, Singapore, Wales) To put (something) back (to its original location or appropriate place); to put away.
- (transitive) To enter (accounts, records, etc.) in a book.
- (transitive) To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; to not swerve from or violate.
- To have habitually in stock for sale.
- (ditransitive) To maintain the condition of; to preserve in a certain state.
- (transitive) To continue in (a course or mode of action); to not intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain.
- (of living things) To raise; to care for.
- To restrain.
- (transitive) To remain faithful to a given promise or word.
- (transitive) To record transactions, accounts, or events in.
- (intransitive, cricket) To act as wicket-keeper.
- (with from) To watch over, look after, guard, protect.
- To maintain possession of.
- To supply with necessities and financially support (a person).
- To refrain from freely disclosing (a secret).
- To maintain (an establishment or institution); to conduct; to manage.
- To remain edible or otherwise usable.
- To continue.
- (copulative) To remain in a state.
noun
- (uncountable) Confinement in a jail.
- A place or institution for the confinement of persons held against their will in lawful custody or detention, especially (in US usage) a place where people are held for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.
- In dodgeball and related games, the area where players who have been struck by the ball are confined.
- (computing, FreeBSD, usually uncountable) A kind of sandbox for running a guest operating system instance.
- (horse racing, uncountable) The condition created by the requirement that a horse claimed in a claiming race not be run at another track for some period of time (usually 30 days).
- a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)
verb
noun
- (slang) A prison cell.
- (baseball) The rectangle in which the batter stands.
- (music, slang) A musical instrument, especially one made from boxwood.
- (fencing) A device used in electric fencing to detect whether a weapon has struck an opponent, which connects to a fencer's weapon by a spool and body wire. It uses lights and sound to notify a hit, with different coloured lights for on target and off target hits.
- (geometry, by extension) A rectangular object in any number of dimensions.
- (slang) A cell used for solitary confinement.
- A cuboid container and its contents; as much as fills such a container.
- A cuboid space; a cuboid container, often with a hinged lid.
- (Australia) An evergreen tree of the genus Lophostemon (for example, box scrub, Brisbane box, brush box, pink box, or Queensland box, Lophostemon confertus).
- (juggling) A pattern usually performed with three balls where the movements of the balls make a boxlike shape.
- A compartment to sit inside in an auditorium, courtroom, theatre, or other building.
- The wood from a box tree: boxwood.
- A blow with the fist.
- (lacrosse, informal) Ellipsis of box lacrosse (“indoor form of lacrosse”).
- (rail transport) Ellipsis of signal box.
- (colloquial, chiefly UK, Ireland) Short for squeeze box (“accordion or concertina”)
- Ellipsis of horsebox (“container for transporting horses”).
- (cricket) A hard protector for the genitals worn inside the underpants by a batsman or close fielder.
- (colloquial, chiefly Southern US) A stringed instrument with a soundbox, especially a guitar.
- A compartment or receptacle for receiving items.
- (automotive) Ellipsis of gearbox.
- A numbered receptacle at a newspaper office for anonymous replies to advertisements; see also box number.
- (slang, preceded by the) The television.
- Any of various evergreen shrubs or trees of genus Buxus, especially common box, European box, or boxwood (Buxus sempervirens) which is often used for making hedges and topiary.
- (figuratively) A predicament or trap.
- (aviation) A diamond-shaped flying formation consisting of four aircraft.
- A compartment (as a drawer) of an item of furniture used for storage, such as a cupboard, a shelf, etc.
- (automotive) Ellipsis of stashbox.
- (Australia) Various species of Eucalyptus trees are popularly called various kinds of boxes, on the basis of the nature of their wood, bark, or appearance for example, drooping box (Eucalyptus bicolor), shiny-leaved box (Eucalyptus tereticornis), black box, or ironbark box trees.
- A rectangle: an oblong or a square.
- (motor racing) An area in the pit where the car is repaired and refueled.
- (genetics) One of two specific regions in a promoter.
- (soccer) The penalty area.
- (computing, slang) A computer, or the case in which it is housed.
- The driver’s seat on a horse-drawn coach.
- (engineering) A cylindrical casing around the axle of a wheel, a bearing, a gland, etc.
- (slang) A gym dedicated to the CrossFit exercise program.
- A small rectangular shelter.
- (cricket) Synonym of gully (“a certain fielding position”).
- (euphemistic) A coffin.
- (slang, vulgar) The vagina.
- the quantity contained in a box
- separate partitioned area in a public place for a few people
- a rectangular drawing
- evergreen shrubs or small trees
- a (usually rectangular) container; may have a lid
- any one of several designated areas on a ball field where the batter or catcher or coaches are positioned
- private area in a theater or grandstand where a small group can watch the performance
- a blow with the hand (usually on the ear)
- the driver's seat on a coach
- a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible
verb
- (transitive) To strike with the fists; to punch.
- (motor racing) To enter the pit.
- (transitive) To mix two containers of paint of similar colour to ensure that the color is identical.
- (transitive) Usually followed by in: to surround and enclose in a way that restricts movement; to corner, to hem in.
- (transitive, object-oriented programming) To place a value of a primitive type into a casing object.
- (transitive, boxing) To fight against (a person) in a boxing match.
- (transitive, agriculture) To make an incision or hole in (a tree) for the purpose of procuring the sap.
- (transitive, architecture) To enclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to conceal (for example, pipes) or to bring to a required form.
- (transitive) To place inside a box; to pack in one or more boxes.
- (transitive, engineering) To furnish (for example, the axle of a wheel) with a box.
- (intransitive, stative, boxing) To participate in boxing; to be a boxer.
- (transitive, graphic design, printing) To enclose (images, text, etc.) in a box.
- put into a box
- hit with the fist
- engage in a boxing match
noun
- (uncountable) Confinement in prison.
- a prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement
- a correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment
- (colloquial, figurative) Any restrictive environment, such as a harsh academy or home.
- A place or institution where people are held against their will, in the US especially for long-term confinement, as of those convicted of serious crimes or otherwise considered undesirable by the government.
verb
noun
- a dark cell (usually underground) where prisoners can be confined
- An underground prison or vault, typically built underneath a castle.
- the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress
- (BDSM) A room dedicated to sadomasochistic sexual activity.
- (roleplaying games) An area inhabited by enemies, containing story objectives, treasure, and bosses.
- The low area between two drumlins.
verb
noun
- A place of punitive confinement; a lockup or cell; a military guardroom.
- (aviation) A dangerous optical illusion that can occur on a nighttime approach with dark, featureless terrain between the aircraft and a brightly-lit runway, where the aircraft appears to the pilots to be higher up than it actually is, potentially triggering a premature or overly-steep descent and a crash short of the runway.
- (figuratively) A void into which things disappear for good; an inscrutable area or subject.
- (physics) A region of spacetime that exerts a gravitational pull strong enough that no matter or energy, not even light, can escape it.
- (Internet, often attributive) A place where incoming traffic is silently discarded.
- (programming) A bit bucket; a place of permanent oblivion for data.
- a region of space resulting from the collapse of a star; extremely high gravitational field
verb
noun
- a cell for violent prisoners
- (US, slang) A prison.
- a refrigerator for cooling liquids
- an iced drink especially white wine and fruit juice
- A device for refrigerating dead bodies in a morgue.
- (US, slang) A bouncer or doorman.
- Anything which cools.
- (India, countable) Ellipsis of air cooler, evaporative cooler, desert cooler, or swamp cooler.
- (poker, gambling, colloquial) A cold deck.
- (poker) A loss suffered while holding a hand which is ordinarily strong, especially one which involves the loss of many chips.
- (Canada, South Africa, countable or uncountable) A type of drink made with alcohol, especially wine, mixed with fruit juice.
- An insulated bin or box used with ice or freezer packs to keep food or beverages cold while picnicking or camping.
- (Philippines, countable) samalamig drink (sweet chilled beverage, such as chilled fruit juice or other flavors like chocolate, coffee, sweet corn, etc., usually mixed with either shredded jelly and/or sago pearls or tapioca pearls)
adj
noun
- a cell for violent prisoners
- a large (usually metallic) vessel for holding gases or liquids
- an enclosed armored military vehicle; has a cannon and moves on caterpillar treads
- a freight car that transports liquids or gases in bulk
- as much as a tank will hold
- A small Indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in weight.
- (US, slang) A prison cell, or prison generally.
- (colloquial) A very muscular and physically imposing person; somebody who is built like a tank.
- (Australia, India) A reservoir or dam.
- (botany) A structure of tightly overlapping leaves used by some bromeliads to retain water.
- An open container or pool for storing water or other liquids.
- (rail transport) Ellipsis of tank engine or tank locomotive.
- (poker, slang) A metaphorical place where a player goes to contemplate a decision; see in the tank.
- The amount held by a container; a tankful.
- (clothing) Ellipsis of tank top.
- An armoured fighting vehicle, armed with a gun designed for direct fire, and moving on caterpillar tracks.
- A pond, pool, or small lake (either natural or artificial).
- The fuel reservoir of a vehicle.
- A closed container for liquids or gases.
- A Bombay weight of 72 grains, for pearls.
- (roleplaying games, board games, video games) A unit or character designed primarily around damage absorption and holding the attention of the enemy (as opposed to dealing damage, healing, or other tasks).
verb
- consume excessive amounts of alcohol
- store in a tank by causing (something) to flow into it
- treat in a tank
- (video games) To attract the attacks of an enemy target in cooperative team-based combat, so that one's teammates can defeat the enemy in question more efficiently.
- (fandom slang) To resist damage; to be attacked without being hurt.
- To fail or fall (often used in describing the economy or the stock market); to degenerate or decline rapidly; to plummet.
- (Singapore, colloquial) To willingly take on an undesirable task or burden.
- (Singapore, colloquial) To stand; to tolerate.
- (transitive) To put (fuel, etc.) into a tank.
- To deliberately lose a sports match with the intent of gaining a perceived future competitive advantage.
- (originally poker, slang) To contemplate a decision for a long time; to go in the tank.
noun
- (US) A jail or guardhouse, especially in a naval military prison or jail on a ship, navy base, or (in fiction) spacecraft.
- (nautical) A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on both foremast and mainmast
- (Scotland, Northern Ireland, Northern England) Bridge.
- Brigadier.
- a penal institution (especially on board a ship)
- two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on both masts
noun
- (slang) Jail.
- A serving vessel or container, typically circular in cross-section and typically higher than it is wide, with a relatively small mouth or spout, an ear handle and often a stopper or top.
- (vulgar, slang, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breasts.
- (US, Jesuit schools, countable or uncountable) Detention (after-school student punishment).
- (CB radio slang, chiefly in the plural) A kind of large, high-powered vacuum tube.
- (Australia, New Zealand) An upright electric kettle.
- (climbing) A hold large enough for both hands
- (US, slang) The P-47 Thunderbolt fighter aircraft.
- The amount that a jug can hold.
- (UK, informal) A traditional dimpled glass with a handle, for serving a pint of beer.
- A small mixed breed of dog created by mating a Jack Russell terrier and a pug.
- the quantity contained in a jug
- a large bottle with a narrow mouth
verb
- (slang) To acquire or obtain through force; snatch, steal; to rob, especially in reference to jugging (which see).
- (intransitive) To utter a sound like "jug", as certain birds do, especially the nightingale.
- (US, Jesuit schools, transitive) To issue a detention (to a student).
- (intransitive, of quails or partridges) To nestle or collect together in a covey.
- (transitive, slang) To put into jail.
- (transitive) To stew in an earthenware jug etc.
- (slang) To hustle or make money, usually aggressively.
- stew in an earthenware jug
- lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
noun
adj
noun
verb
noun
- The general population of a prison.
- (fishing) In longline fishing the central line to which the branch lines with baits are attached.
- (computing) The main repository for a software project, from which different versions (forks) may be split off.
- (slang) A principal vein into which a drug can be injected.
- (rail transport) The principal route or line of a railway.
- (plumbing) The pipeline carrying wastewater to the public drains or a septic tank.
- (chess) Alternative form of main line.
- (aviation) An airline's main operating unit, as opposed to codeshares or regional subsidiaries.
adj
- (rail transport) Of or pertaining to a surface railway as distinct from an underground, elevated or light rail one.
- (chess) Of a sequence of opening moves: being part of a main line ("a standard sequence of opening moves considered to be best play").
- Normal, principal or standard.
- (rail transport) Of or pertaining to the principal route or line of a railway.
verb
- (slang) To inject (a drug) directly into a vein.
- (transitive) To include (a prisoner) in the general population of a prison.
- (by extension, informal, transitive) To consume voraciously.
- (computing, transitive) To integrate (code, etc.) into the main repository for a software project, rather than separate forks.
- inject into the vein
noun
- A room in a prison or jail for one or more inmates.
- (cellular automata) The minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior.
- Each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb.
- (meteorology) A small thunderstorm, caused by convection, that forms ahead of a storm front.
- A small group of people forming part of a larger organization, often an outlawed one.
- (now historical) A small monastery or nunnery dependent on a larger religious establishment.
- (entomology) The discal cell of the wing of a lepidopteran insect.
- (biology) The basic unit of a living organism, consisting of a quantity of protoplasm surrounded by a cell membrane, which is able to synthesize proteins and replicate itself.
- A section or compartment of a larger structure.
- (communication) A region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network.
- (biology, now chiefly botany) Any of various chambers in a tissue or organism having specific functions.
- A small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person.
- A device which stores electrical power; used either singly or together in batteries; the basic unit of a battery.
- (architecture) A cella.
- (statistics) The unit in a statistical array (a spreadsheet, for example) where a row and a column intersect.
- (US, New Zealand, Australia, Philippines, informal) A cellular phone.
- A single-room dwelling for a hermit.
- (communication) A short, fixed-length packet, as in asynchronous transfer mode.
- (architecture) The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.
- (geometry) A three-dimensional facet of a polytope.
- (entomology) An area of an insect wing bounded by veins.
- (card games) In FreeCell-type games, a space where one card can be placed.
- a room where a prisoner is kept
- a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver
- any small compartment
- a device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction
- small room in which a monk or nun lives
- a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement
- (biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals
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- A section or subdivision of a prison.
- a division of a prison (usually consisting of several cells)
- 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.)
- 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.
- An object used for guarding.
- 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 person who is under the protection or in the custody of another
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- (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
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- A type of prison where all the cells are visible from the center, particularly if it is not possible for those in a cell to know if they are being watched.
- a circular prison with cells distributed around a central surveillance station; proposed by Jeremy Bentham in 1791
- A room for the exhibition of novelties.
- (figurative, by extension) A place in which people are subject to constant surveillance at totalitarian command.
- (historical) A kind of projector in the 18th and 19th centuries.
- an area where everything is visible
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- a jail or prison (especially one that is run in a tyrannical manner)
- A jail or prison, especially one regarded as mistreating its prisoners.
- (British, derogatory) Synonym of workhouse (“an institution for homeless poor people funded by the local parish, where the able-bodied were required to work”).
- (military, historical) The fortified encampment of an army besieging a place; also, any of the buildings in such an encampment.
- Chiefly in French contexts: a bastion (“projecting part of a rampart or other fortification”) or tower of a castle; also, a fortified tower or other building; or a small citadel or fortress.
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- A small overheated cell or room used for solitary confinement or torture.
- (US, slang) A jail cell.
- (animation) The review process that takes place in a sweat box.
- (UK, slang) A compartment in a police van to hold a prisoner being transported.
- (slang) A small nightclub packed to capacity where people get hot and sweaty.
- Any box or boxlike structure used to induce sweating, such as of hides or tobacco
- (animation) The room where a scene is reviewed.
- a device that causes tobacco leaves or fruit or hides to sweat
- small or narrow cell
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- (US, slang) A prison.
- A box or compartment containing ice, typically used to keep provisions cool.
- (UK) A compartment in a refrigerator that is colder than the rest of the refrigerator and is used as a freezer.
- (US, slang) A city with a cold or snowy climate.
- (US, slang) A morgue.
- white goods in which food can be stored at low temperatures
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- A concentration camp.
- a large cell where prisoners (people awaiting trial or sentence or refugees or illegal immigrants) are confined together temporarily
- (Australia) An immigration detention facility; a facility in which people who have attempted to enter Australia without prior authorisation are detained, pending a decision on whether they are to be accepted as refugees or returned to their country of origin.
- A facility in which people are detained (held in custody); a jail.
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- A circular prison, especially a small local lockup or station house.
- A traditional circular dwelling elevated on stilts with a conical roof found in part of Southeast Asia.
- (rail transport) A circular building in which locomotives are housed, sometimes with a turntable.
- (chiefly US) A punch or kick delivered with an exaggerated sweeping movement.
- (nautical, now historical) A privy near the bow of a vessel, especially as reserved for officers.
- (card games) In the game of pinochle, a meld consisting of a queen and king in each of the four suits.
- (nautical, now chiefly historical) The uppermost room or cabin of any note upon the stern of a ship.
- (archaeology) A prehistoric dwelling typical of northwest Europe in the Iron Age and Bronze Age.
- workplace consisting of a circular building for repairing locomotives
- a hook delivered with an exaggerated swing
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- a large cell where prisoners (people awaiting trial or sentence or refugees or illegal immigrants) are confined together temporarily
- a place on a baseball field where relief pitchers can warm up during a game
- (US, military slang) A military prison or its enclosing stockade.
- An enclosed area used to hold bulls.
- (figurative) A place for someone or something to get ready.
- (baseball) An enclosed area for pitchers to warm up in during a game.
- An open seating arrangement where project teams can communicate openly with minimal effort.
- (baseball) The relief pitchers of a team collectively.
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- a correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes
- a writing implement with a point from which ink flows
- an enclosure for confining livestock
- female swan
- a portable enclosure in which babies may be left to play
- (zoology) The internal cartilage skeleton of a squid, shaped like a pen.
- (slang) A penitentiary, i.e. a state or federal prison for convicted felons.
- A female swan.
- (humorous) plural of pan
- Ellipsis of vapor pen (“electronic cigarette”).
- (baseball) The bullpen.
- (figurative) A writer, or their style.
- A light pen.
- (computing, informal) Penetration.
- A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks.
- An enclosure (enclosed area) used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.
- A syringe-like device for injecting a dose of medication such as insulin or epinephrine. (See Injector pen.)
- (soccer, slang) Penalty.
- (colloquial) Marks of ink left by a pen.
- (poetic) A wing.
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- A prison camp, especially one used to hold political prisoners.
- (also figuratively) A place where, or political system in which, people with dissident views are routinely oppressed.
- (historical) Also GULAG: the system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s).
- a Russian prison camp for political prisoners
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- (prison slang) Any prison or prison camp.
- (Australia) A site where kangaroos and other macropods rest during the day.
- A place of politically motivated confinement in outdoorsy conditions, usually also leading to slave labor and death.
- (British India) Anywhere that a colonist stayed when away from their permanent residence; such places collectively.
- The company or body of persons encamped.
- An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other simple structures.
- A single hut or shelter.
- (agriculture, catachresis) Misconstruction of clamp (“mound of earth in which potatoes and other vegetables are stored”).
- (uncommon) Clipping of campus
- (slang, Falkland Islands) The areas of the Falkland Islands situated outside the capital and largest settlement, Stanley.
- A base of a military group, not necessarily temporary.
- (slang, Anglo-Argentines) The pampas, which are the vast grassy areas situated in the rural areas beyond Argentine cities such as Buenos Aires.
- An organised event, often taking place in tents or temporary accommodation.
- A group of people with the same strong ideals or political leanings.
- An electoral constituency of the legislative assembly of the Falkland Islands that comprises all territory more than 3.5 miles from the spire of the Christ Church Cathedral in Stanley.
- An online game, in some cases roleplay, in which people compete against each other, usually in a structure similar to that of a competition show.
- An affected, exaggerated, or intentionally tasteless style.
- a penal institution (often for forced labor)
- temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers
- shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs
- an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
- something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality
- temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers
- a group of people living together in a camp
- a site where care and activities are provided for children during the summer months
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- (transitive, video games) Ellipsis of corpse camp.
- To set up a camp.
- (transitive, video games) To stay beside (something) to gain an advantage.
- (intransitive, sports, video games) To stay in an advantageous location.
- To behave in a camp manner.
- To live in a tent or similar temporary accommodation.
- (transitive) To afford rest or lodging for.
- (Australia, intransitive) Of stock animals, to assemble or rest temporarily at a particular place.
- establish or set up a camp
- give an artificially banal or sexual quality to
- live in or as if in a tent
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