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verb
noun
- An enclosed outdoors area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.
- (nautical) A long tapered timber hung on a mast to which is bent a sail, and may be further qualified as a square, lateen, or lug yard. The first is hung at right angles to the mast, the last two hang obliquely.
- (finance) 10⁹, A short scale billion; a long scale thousand millions or milliard.
- A unit of length equal to 3 feet in the US customary and British imperial systems of measurement, equal to precisely 0.9144 m since 1959 (US) or 1963 (UK).
- (US, Canada, Australia) The property surrounding one's house, typically dominated by one's lawn.
- (slang, drugs) One hundred, usually referring to currency or money's worth.
- (US, slang, uncommon) 100 dollars.
- A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc.
- (obsolete outside of fossil forms) A tall, slender, hollow receptacle or tool.
- Units of similar composition or length in other systems.
- (informal) Ellipsis of cubic yard, a unit of volume; common in mining and earthmoving.
- (nautical) Any spar carried aloft.
- (Jamaica, MLE) One’s house or home.
- (informal) Ellipsis of square yard, a unit of area; common with textiles.
- A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building.
- a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel)
- a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride
- the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
- an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines
- the enclosed land around a house or other building
- a tract of land enclosed for particular activities (sometimes paved and usually associated with buildings)
- an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock)
- a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen
- a tract of land where logs are accumulated
noun
verb
noun
- (England, historical or regional) An open space between woods.
- Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.
- (biology) An overgrown agar culture, such that no separation between single colonies exists.
- (uncountable) A type of thin linen or cotton fabric tightly woven of fine threads. (Traditionally expensive and luxurious in centuries past.)
- (in the plural) Pieces of this fabric, especially as used for the sleeves of a bishop.
- a field of cultivated and mowed grass
noun
- a yard or lawn adjoining a house
- a plot of ground where plants are cultivated
- the flowers or vegetables or fruits or herbs that are cultivated in a garden
- (in the plural, used in street names) A road, street, or similar thoroughfare, which sometimes occupies a former garden.
- (attributive) Taking place in, or used in, such a garden.
- An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes.
- (in the plural) Such an ornamental place to which the public have access.
- (slang) Pubic hair or the genitalia it masks.
- (figuratively) A cluster; a bunch.
- (cartomancy) The twentieth Lenormand card.
- (British, Ireland, Appalachia, New York City) The grounds at the front or back of a house.
adj
verb
verb
- To enclose or fence in (land) to form a paddock.
- (also intransitive) To excavate washdirt (“earth rich enough in metal to pay for washing”) from (a superficial deposit).
- (often passive voice) To place or keep (cattle, horses, sheep, or other animals) within a paddock (noun sense 1 or 2.4); hence, to provide (such animals) with pasture.
noun
- (derogatory) A contemptible, or malicious or nasty, person.
- (Scotland) A simple, usually triangular, sledge which is dragged along the ground to transport items.
- A toad.
- (also figuratively) A small enclosure or field of grassland, especially one used to exercise or graze horses or other animals.
- (horse racing) An enclosure next to a racecourse where horses are paraded and mounted before a race and unsaddled after a race.
- (sports, slang) A field on which a game is played; a playing field.
- (chiefly Australia, New Zealand, mining) A place in a superficial deposit where ore or washdirt (“earth rich enough in metal to pay for washing”) is excavated; also, a place for storing ore, washdirt, etc.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A field of grassland of any size, either enclosed by fences or delimited by geographical boundaries, especially a large area for keeping cattle or sheep.
- (motor racing) An area at a racing circuit where the racing vehicles are parked and worked on before and between races.
- A frog.
- pen where racehorses are saddled and paraded before a race
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noun
- (rail transport) The sorting of rolling stock in a marshalling yard.
- (heraldry) The arrangement of an escutcheon to exhibit the alliances of the owner.
- (software) The process of transforming the memory representation of an object to a data format suitable for storage or transmission, which is typically used when data must be moved between different parts of a computer program, or from one program to another.
verb
noun
- a masonry fence (as around an estate or garden)
- an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure
- an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes
- a vertical (or almost vertical) smooth rock face (as of a cave or mountain)
- a difficult or awkward situation
- (anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure
- a layer of material that encloses space
- anything that suggests a wall in structure or function or effect
- An impediment to free movement.
- A structure built for defense surrounding a city, castle etc.
- A point of defeat or extinction.
- (figurative) A means of defence or security.
- Something with the apparent solidity, opacity, or dimensions of a building wall.
- Each of the substantial structures acting either as the exterior of or divisions within a structure.
- A point of desperation.
- (cycling) A very steep slope.
- (historical) The right or privilege of taking the side of the road near the wall when encountering another pedestrian; said to be taken or given.
- (chiefly dialectal) A spring of water.
- (mahjong) Face-down tiles arranged in stacked rows from which players draw new tiles.
- (nautical) A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot or wale.
- (roller derby) Two or more blockers skating together so as to impede the opposing team.
- (slang, seduction community, chiefly definite) The stage of biological aging where physical appearance and attractiveness start to deteriorate rapidly.
- (Internet) A personal notice board listing messages of interest to a particular user.
- (soccer) A line of defenders set up between an opposing free-kick taker and the goal.
- (US, slang, medicine) A doctor who tries to admit as few patients as possible.
- The butterfly Lasiommata megera.
- (mining) Any of the surfaces of rock enclosing the lode.
- One of the vertical sides of a container.
- (often in combination) A barrier.
- (roleplaying games) A character that has high defenses, thereby reducing the amount of damage taken from the opponent’s attacks.
- A fictional bidder used to increase the price at an auction.
- (anatomy, zoology, botany) A dividing or containing structure in an organ or cavity.
- A rampart of earth, stones etc. built up for defensive purposes.
verb
intj
verb
- (transitive) To cover with grass or with turf.
- (transitive or intransitive, slang) To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.
- (transitive) To feed with grass.
- (transitive) To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).
- (transitive) To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
- (transitive) To bring to the grass or ground; to land.
- feed with grass
- cover with grass
- give away information about somebody
- spread out clothes on the grass to let it dry and bleach
- shoot down, of birds
noun
- (countable, folk etymology) Asparagus; "sparrowgrass".
- (uncountable) A lawn.
- (uncountable, physics) Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.
- (uncountable, slang) Marijuana.
- (countable, uncountable) Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.
- (uncountable, slang) Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.
- (uncountable) The outside world, especially in the phrase "touch grass".
- (countable, uncountable) The season of fresh grass; spring or summer.
- (countable, mining) The surface of a mine.
- (countable) Any of the various plants that are not in the family Poaceae that resemble grasses.
- (countable, British, slang) An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.
- narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay
- street names for marijuana
- bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle
- a police informer who implicates many people
noun
- An outdoor garden frame that can be used for partitioning a common area.
- (computing theory, telecommunications) A kind of graph, used in communication theory and encryption, whose nodes are ordered into vertical slices by time, with each node at each time connected to at least one node at an earlier and at least one node at a later time.
- An outdoor garden frame that can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants.
- latticework used to support climbing plants
verb
verb
- To cover with turf; to create a lawn by laying turfs.
- (business) To cancel a project or product.
- (business) To fire from a job or dismiss from a task.
- (Ultimate Frisbee) To throw a frisbee well short of its intended target, usually causing it to hit the ground within 10 yards of its release.
- (medical slang, transitive) To transfer or attempt to transfer (a patient or case); to eschew or avoid responsibility for.
- (informal, transitive) To expel, eject, or throw out; to turf out.
- cover (the ground) with a surface layer of grass or grass roots
noun
- (uncountable) A layer of earth covered with grass; sod.
- (uncountable, with "the", sports) A racetrack, hippodrome.
- (uncountable, countable) A thick, carpet-like bed of algae.
- (uncountable, by extension) A person's domain or sphere of influence.
- (uncountable, slang) A territory claimed by a gang as their own.
- (countable) A piece of such a layer cut from the soil. May be used as sod to make a lawn, dried for peat, stacked to form earthen structures, etc.
- (uncountable, specifically) A surface of synthetic fibers made to look like grass; artificial turf.
- (uncountable, with "the", sports) The sport of racing horses.
- (countable) A block of peat used as fuel.
- the territory claimed by a juvenile gang as its own
- surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots
- range of jurisdiction or influence
noun
- An area or land used for building on or planting on.
- (narratology) The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.
- Participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.
- A secret plan to achieve an end, the end or means usually being illegal or otherwise questionable.
- A grave.
- A plan; a purpose.
- Contrivance; deep reach thought; ability to plot or intrigue.
- (fandom slang, euphemistic) Attractive physical attributes of a fictional character; assets.
- A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device.
- a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal)
- the story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc.
- a chart or graph showing the movements or progress of an object
- a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation
verb
- (transitive) To trace out (a graph or diagram).
- (transitive) To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc).
- (transitive, intransitive) To conceive (a crime, misdeed etc).
- devise the sequence of events in (a literary work or a play, movie, or ballet)
- plan secretly, usually something illegal
- make a plot of
- make a schematic or technical drawing that shows interactions among variables or how something is constructed
noun
adj
- Involving competition between institutions, especially sports competitions.
- (art) Originating as street art but being curated and displayed in a gallery or museum.
- In house; internal to an organization.
- Occurring within the walls or boundaries of an organ or other biological structure.
- Between walls; enclosed by walls.
- Local to an exhibit or exhibition.
- between two or more institutions etc
noun
- Any enclosed piece of land belonging to a farm or mill; yard, farmyard.
- (Christianity) A church congregation, a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church; also, the Christian church as a whole, the flock of Christ.
- (collective) A group of sheep or goats, particularly those kept in a given enclosure.
- (geology) The bending or curving of one or a stack of originally flat and planar surfaces, such as sedimentary strata, as a result of plastic (i.e. permanent) deformation.
- One individual part of something described as manifold, twofold, fourfold, etc.
- One of the doorleaves of a folding door.
- An enclosure or dwelling generally.
- (by extension, web design) The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window without scrolling; usually the fold.
- A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.
- A gentle curve of the ground; gentle hill or valley.
- An act of folding.
- A clasp, embrace.
- (functional programming) Any of a family of higher-order functions that process a data structure recursively to build up a value.
- A bend or crease.
- (newspapers) The division between the top and bottom halves of a broadsheet: headlines above the fold will be readable in a newsstand display; usually the fold.
- (figuratively) Home, family.
- (figuratively) A group of people with shared ideas or goals or who live or work together.
- (programming) A section of source code that can be collapsed out of view in an editor to aid readability.
- Any correct move in origami.
- A coil of a snake’s body.
- A layer, typically of folded or wrapped cloth.
- a group of sheep or goats
- the act of folding
- an angular or rounded shape made by folding
- a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church
- a geological process that causes a bend in a stratum of rock
- a pen for sheep
- a folded part (as in skin or muscle)
verb
- (transitive) To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
- (transitive) To double or lay together (one’s arms, hands, wings, etc.) so as to overlap with each other.
- (intransitive, poker) To withdraw from betting.
- (intransitive) To fail, to collapse, to disband.
- (transitive) To enclose within folded arms, to clasp, to embrace (see also enfold).
- (transitive, computing) To split (a line of text) across multiple lines, to obey line length limitations.
- (intransitive, business) Of a company, to cease to trade.
- (intransitive) To give way on a point or in an argument.
- (intransitive) To become folded; to form folds.
- (intransitive, informal) To fall over; to collapse or give way; to be crushed.
- (transitive) To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.
- (transitive) To confine (animals) in a fold, to pen in.
- (transitive) To place sheep on (a piece of land) in order to manure it.
- (transitive, cooking) To stir (semisolid ingredients) gently, with an action as if folding over a solid.
- (transitive, figuratively) To cover up, to conceal.
- (transitive, figuratively) To include in a spiritual ‘flock’ or group of the saved, etc.
- (intransitive, by extension) To withdraw or quit in general.
- (transitive) To draw or coil (one’s arms, a snake’s body, etc.) around something so as to enclose or embrace it.
- (transitive) To enclose in a fold of material, to swathe, wrap up, cover, enwrap.
- bend or lay so that one part covers the other
- cease to operate or cause to cease operating
- become folded or folded up
- confine in a fold, like sheep
- incorporate a food ingredient into a mixture by repeatedly turning it over without stirring or beating
noun
verb
noun
- (rail transport, military, British) A marshalling yard, classification yard.
- That which is picked out, especially broken coffee beans.
- (computing, by extension) The process of prioritizing bugs to be fixed.
- (medicine) The process of sorting patients so as to determine the order in which they will be treated (for example, by assigning precedence according to the urgency of illness or injury).
- Assessment or sorting according to quality, need, etc., especially to determine how resources will be allocated.
- sorting and allocating aid on the basis of need for or likely benefit from medical treatment or food
verb
noun
noun
- a yard or lawn adjoining a house
- a plot of ground where plants are cultivated
- the flowers or vegetables or fruits or herbs that are cultivated in a garden
- (in the plural, used in street names) A road, street, or similar thoroughfare, which sometimes occupies a former garden.
- (attributive) Taking place in, or used in, such a garden.
- An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes.
- (in the plural) Such an ornamental place to which the public have access.
- (slang) Pubic hair or the genitalia it masks.
- (figuratively) A cluster; a bunch.
- (cartomancy) The twentieth Lenormand card.
- (British, Ireland, Appalachia, New York City) The grounds at the front or back of a house.
adj
verb
verb
noun
- An enclosed outdoors area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.
- (nautical) A long tapered timber hung on a mast to which is bent a sail, and may be further qualified as a square, lateen, or lug yard. The first is hung at right angles to the mast, the last two hang obliquely.
- (finance) 10⁹, A short scale billion; a long scale thousand millions or milliard.
- A unit of length equal to 3 feet in the US customary and British imperial systems of measurement, equal to precisely 0.9144 m since 1959 (US) or 1963 (UK).
- (US, Canada, Australia) The property surrounding one's house, typically dominated by one's lawn.
- (slang, drugs) One hundred, usually referring to currency or money's worth.
- (US, slang, uncommon) 100 dollars.
- A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc.
- (obsolete outside of fossil forms) A tall, slender, hollow receptacle or tool.
- Units of similar composition or length in other systems.
- (informal) Ellipsis of cubic yard, a unit of volume; common in mining and earthmoving.
- (nautical) Any spar carried aloft.
- (Jamaica, MLE) One’s house or home.
- (informal) Ellipsis of square yard, a unit of area; common with textiles.
- A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building.
- a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel)
- a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride
- the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
- an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines
- the enclosed land around a house or other building
- a tract of land enclosed for particular activities (sometimes paved and usually associated with buildings)
- an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock)
- a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen
- a tract of land where logs are accumulated
noun
- (rail transport) The sorting of rolling stock in a marshalling yard.
- (heraldry) The arrangement of an escutcheon to exhibit the alliances of the owner.
- (software) The process of transforming the memory representation of an object to a data format suitable for storage or transmission, which is typically used when data must be moved between different parts of a computer program, or from one program to another.
verb
noun
- a masonry fence (as around an estate or garden)
- an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure
- an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes
- a vertical (or almost vertical) smooth rock face (as of a cave or mountain)
- a difficult or awkward situation
- (anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure
- a layer of material that encloses space
- anything that suggests a wall in structure or function or effect
- An impediment to free movement.
- A structure built for defense surrounding a city, castle etc.
- A point of defeat or extinction.
- (figurative) A means of defence or security.
- Something with the apparent solidity, opacity, or dimensions of a building wall.
- Each of the substantial structures acting either as the exterior of or divisions within a structure.
- A point of desperation.
- (cycling) A very steep slope.
- (historical) The right or privilege of taking the side of the road near the wall when encountering another pedestrian; said to be taken or given.
- (chiefly dialectal) A spring of water.
- (mahjong) Face-down tiles arranged in stacked rows from which players draw new tiles.
- (nautical) A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot or wale.
- (roller derby) Two or more blockers skating together so as to impede the opposing team.
- (slang, seduction community, chiefly definite) The stage of biological aging where physical appearance and attractiveness start to deteriorate rapidly.
- (Internet) A personal notice board listing messages of interest to a particular user.
- (soccer) A line of defenders set up between an opposing free-kick taker and the goal.
- (US, slang, medicine) A doctor who tries to admit as few patients as possible.
- The butterfly Lasiommata megera.
- (mining) Any of the surfaces of rock enclosing the lode.
- One of the vertical sides of a container.
- (often in combination) A barrier.
- (roleplaying games) A character that has high defenses, thereby reducing the amount of damage taken from the opponent’s attacks.
- A fictional bidder used to increase the price at an auction.
- (anatomy, zoology, botany) A dividing or containing structure in an organ or cavity.
- A rampart of earth, stones etc. built up for defensive purposes.
verb
intj
noun
- An outdoor garden frame that can be used for partitioning a common area.
- (computing theory, telecommunications) A kind of graph, used in communication theory and encryption, whose nodes are ordered into vertical slices by time, with each node at each time connected to at least one node at an earlier and at least one node at a later time.
- An outdoor garden frame that can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants.
- latticework used to support climbing plants
verb
noun
- An area or land used for building on or planting on.
- (narratology) The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.
- Participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.
- A secret plan to achieve an end, the end or means usually being illegal or otherwise questionable.
- A grave.
- A plan; a purpose.
- Contrivance; deep reach thought; ability to plot or intrigue.
- (fandom slang, euphemistic) Attractive physical attributes of a fictional character; assets.
- A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device.
- a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal)
- the story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc.
- a chart or graph showing the movements or progress of an object
- a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation
verb
- (transitive) To trace out (a graph or diagram).
- (transitive) To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc).
- (transitive, intransitive) To conceive (a crime, misdeed etc).
- devise the sequence of events in (a literary work or a play, movie, or ballet)
- plan secretly, usually something illegal
- make a plot of
- make a schematic or technical drawing that shows interactions among variables or how something is constructed
noun
adj
- Involving competition between institutions, especially sports competitions.
- (art) Originating as street art but being curated and displayed in a gallery or museum.
- In house; internal to an organization.
- Occurring within the walls or boundaries of an organ or other biological structure.
- Between walls; enclosed by walls.
- Local to an exhibit or exhibition.
- between two or more institutions etc
noun
- Any enclosed piece of land belonging to a farm or mill; yard, farmyard.
- (Christianity) A church congregation, a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church; also, the Christian church as a whole, the flock of Christ.
- (collective) A group of sheep or goats, particularly those kept in a given enclosure.
- (geology) The bending or curving of one or a stack of originally flat and planar surfaces, such as sedimentary strata, as a result of plastic (i.e. permanent) deformation.
- One individual part of something described as manifold, twofold, fourfold, etc.
- One of the doorleaves of a folding door.
- An enclosure or dwelling generally.
- (by extension, web design) The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window without scrolling; usually the fold.
- A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.
- A gentle curve of the ground; gentle hill or valley.
- An act of folding.
- A clasp, embrace.
- (functional programming) Any of a family of higher-order functions that process a data structure recursively to build up a value.
- A bend or crease.
- (newspapers) The division between the top and bottom halves of a broadsheet: headlines above the fold will be readable in a newsstand display; usually the fold.
- (figuratively) Home, family.
- (figuratively) A group of people with shared ideas or goals or who live or work together.
- (programming) A section of source code that can be collapsed out of view in an editor to aid readability.
- Any correct move in origami.
- A coil of a snake’s body.
- A layer, typically of folded or wrapped cloth.
- a group of sheep or goats
- the act of folding
- an angular or rounded shape made by folding
- a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church
- a geological process that causes a bend in a stratum of rock
- a pen for sheep
- a folded part (as in skin or muscle)
verb
- (transitive) To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
- (transitive) To double or lay together (one’s arms, hands, wings, etc.) so as to overlap with each other.
- (intransitive, poker) To withdraw from betting.
- (intransitive) To fail, to collapse, to disband.
- (transitive) To enclose within folded arms, to clasp, to embrace (see also enfold).
- (transitive, computing) To split (a line of text) across multiple lines, to obey line length limitations.
- (intransitive, business) Of a company, to cease to trade.
- (intransitive) To give way on a point or in an argument.
- (intransitive) To become folded; to form folds.
- (intransitive, informal) To fall over; to collapse or give way; to be crushed.
- (transitive) To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.
- (transitive) To confine (animals) in a fold, to pen in.
- (transitive) To place sheep on (a piece of land) in order to manure it.
- (transitive, cooking) To stir (semisolid ingredients) gently, with an action as if folding over a solid.
- (transitive, figuratively) To cover up, to conceal.
- (transitive, figuratively) To include in a spiritual ‘flock’ or group of the saved, etc.
- (intransitive, by extension) To withdraw or quit in general.
- (transitive) To draw or coil (one’s arms, a snake’s body, etc.) around something so as to enclose or embrace it.
- (transitive) To enclose in a fold of material, to swathe, wrap up, cover, enwrap.
- bend or lay so that one part covers the other
- cease to operate or cause to cease operating
- become folded or folded up
- confine in a fold, like sheep
- incorporate a food ingredient into a mixture by repeatedly turning it over without stirring or beating
noun
verb
noun
- (rail transport, military, British) A marshalling yard, classification yard.
- That which is picked out, especially broken coffee beans.
- (computing, by extension) The process of prioritizing bugs to be fixed.
- (medicine) The process of sorting patients so as to determine the order in which they will be treated (for example, by assigning precedence according to the urgency of illness or injury).
- Assessment or sorting according to quality, need, etc., especially to determine how resources will be allocated.
- sorting and allocating aid on the basis of need for or likely benefit from medical treatment or food
verb
verb
noun
- An enclosed outdoors area designated for a specific purpose, e.g. on farms, railways etc.
- (nautical) A long tapered timber hung on a mast to which is bent a sail, and may be further qualified as a square, lateen, or lug yard. The first is hung at right angles to the mast, the last two hang obliquely.
- (finance) 10⁹, A short scale billion; a long scale thousand millions or milliard.
- A unit of length equal to 3 feet in the US customary and British imperial systems of measurement, equal to precisely 0.9144 m since 1959 (US) or 1963 (UK).
- (US, Canada, Australia) The property surrounding one's house, typically dominated by one's lawn.
- (slang, drugs) One hundred, usually referring to currency or money's worth.
- (US, slang, uncommon) 100 dollars.
- A place where moose or deer herd together in winter for pasture, protection, etc.
- (obsolete outside of fossil forms) A tall, slender, hollow receptacle or tool.
- Units of similar composition or length in other systems.
- (informal) Ellipsis of cubic yard, a unit of volume; common in mining and earthmoving.
- (nautical) Any spar carried aloft.
- (Jamaica, MLE) One’s house or home.
- (informal) Ellipsis of square yard, a unit of area; common with textiles.
- A small, usually uncultivated area adjoining or (now especially) within the precincts of a house or other building.
- a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel)
- a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride
- the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
- an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines
- the enclosed land around a house or other building
- a tract of land enclosed for particular activities (sometimes paved and usually associated with buildings)
- an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock)
- a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen
- a tract of land where logs are accumulated
verb
noun
- (England, historical or regional) An open space between woods.
- Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.
- (biology) An overgrown agar culture, such that no separation between single colonies exists.
- (uncountable) A type of thin linen or cotton fabric tightly woven of fine threads. (Traditionally expensive and luxurious in centuries past.)
- (in the plural) Pieces of this fabric, especially as used for the sleeves of a bishop.
- a field of cultivated and mowed grass
verb
- To enclose or fence in (land) to form a paddock.
- (also intransitive) To excavate washdirt (“earth rich enough in metal to pay for washing”) from (a superficial deposit).
- (often passive voice) To place or keep (cattle, horses, sheep, or other animals) within a paddock (noun sense 1 or 2.4); hence, to provide (such animals) with pasture.
noun
- (derogatory) A contemptible, or malicious or nasty, person.
- (Scotland) A simple, usually triangular, sledge which is dragged along the ground to transport items.
- A toad.
- (also figuratively) A small enclosure or field of grassland, especially one used to exercise or graze horses or other animals.
- (horse racing) An enclosure next to a racecourse where horses are paraded and mounted before a race and unsaddled after a race.
- (sports, slang) A field on which a game is played; a playing field.
- (chiefly Australia, New Zealand, mining) A place in a superficial deposit where ore or washdirt (“earth rich enough in metal to pay for washing”) is excavated; also, a place for storing ore, washdirt, etc.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A field of grassland of any size, either enclosed by fences or delimited by geographical boundaries, especially a large area for keeping cattle or sheep.
- (motor racing) An area at a racing circuit where the racing vehicles are parked and worked on before and between races.
- A frog.
- pen where racehorses are saddled and paraded before a race
verb
- (transitive) To cover with grass or with turf.
- (transitive or intransitive, slang) To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.
- (transitive) To feed with grass.
- (transitive) To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.).
- (transitive) To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.
- (transitive) To bring to the grass or ground; to land.
- feed with grass
- cover with grass
- give away information about somebody
- spread out clothes on the grass to let it dry and bleach
- shoot down, of birds
noun
- (countable, folk etymology) Asparagus; "sparrowgrass".
- (uncountable) A lawn.
- (uncountable, physics) Sharp, closely spaced discontinuities in the trace of a cathode-ray tube, produced by random interference.
- (uncountable, slang) Marijuana.
- (countable, uncountable) Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.
- (uncountable, slang) Noise on an A-scope or similar type of radar display.
- (uncountable) The outside world, especially in the phrase "touch grass".
- (countable, uncountable) The season of fresh grass; spring or summer.
- (countable, mining) The surface of a mine.
- (countable) Any of the various plants that are not in the family Poaceae that resemble grasses.
- (countable, British, slang) An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.
- narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay
- street names for marijuana
- bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle
- a police informer who implicates many people
verb
- To cover with turf; to create a lawn by laying turfs.
- (business) To cancel a project or product.
- (business) To fire from a job or dismiss from a task.
- (Ultimate Frisbee) To throw a frisbee well short of its intended target, usually causing it to hit the ground within 10 yards of its release.
- (medical slang, transitive) To transfer or attempt to transfer (a patient or case); to eschew or avoid responsibility for.
- (informal, transitive) To expel, eject, or throw out; to turf out.
- cover (the ground) with a surface layer of grass or grass roots
noun
- (uncountable) A layer of earth covered with grass; sod.
- (uncountable, with "the", sports) A racetrack, hippodrome.
- (uncountable, countable) A thick, carpet-like bed of algae.
- (uncountable, by extension) A person's domain or sphere of influence.
- (uncountable, slang) A territory claimed by a gang as their own.
- (countable) A piece of such a layer cut from the soil. May be used as sod to make a lawn, dried for peat, stacked to form earthen structures, etc.
- (uncountable, specifically) A surface of synthetic fibers made to look like grass; artificial turf.
- (uncountable, with "the", sports) The sport of racing horses.
- (countable) A block of peat used as fuel.
- the territory claimed by a juvenile gang as its own
- surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots
- range of jurisdiction or influence