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- Something that does not match the things it is with or cannot easily be categorized; a miscellaneous item.
- (printing) A part of a book that is not a portion of the text, such as the title, index, etc. (usually plural).
- Something strange or unusual.
- (commerce) An item that was originally part of a set but is sold individually; an excess item of stock.
- A remaining number or amount (after a calculation).
- A part of something that is left over, such as a piece of cloth.
- A varied collection (of items).
- A person who does not fit in with others or is considered to be strange in some way.
- a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold
- something unusual — perhaps worthy of collecting
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- (of inanimate things) Not easily subdued or removed.
- (of a facial feature) Typical of an obstinate person; fixed and unmoving.
- Stubbornly adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course, usually with implied unreasonableness; persistent.
- resistant to guidance or discipline
- tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield
- stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing
verb
noun
- A combination of different things.
- (dentistry) An alloy of mercury used to fill tooth cavities.
- (metallurgy) An alloy containing mercury.
- One of the ingredients in an alloy.
- a combination or blend of diverse things
- an alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth; except for iron and platinum all metals dissolve in mercury and chemists refer to the resulting mercury mixtures as amalgams
noun
- (countable, uncountable) An unnatural combination; a mixture of things that do not belong together.
- (uncountable) The condition of being born out of wedlock; bastardy.
- (uncountable) Ideological concern with whether someone is related by blood.
- (uncountable) Racial impurity; that state or quality of being mixed-race.
- (countable, uncountable) An act or quality of being bastardly; contemptibleness, cruelty, or lack of proper behavior.
- (uncountable) A tendency to produce bastards; lack of chastity.
- (uncountable) Sexual reproduction involving different species.
noun
- anything immaterial that severely hinders or confines
- a garment similar to a jacket that is used to bind the arms tightly against the body as a means of restraining a violent person
- A jacket-like garment with very long sleeves which can be secured in place, thus preventing the wearer from moving his or her arms. Often used in psychiatric hospitals to prevent patients from injuring themselves or others.
- (figurative) Any situation seen as confining or restricting.
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- (countable) Anything that seems to be something that it is not.
- (uncountable) The state of being deceived or misled.
- (countable) A misapprehension; a belief in something that is in fact not true.
- (countable) A magician’s trick.
- an erroneous mental representation
- something many people believe that is false
- the act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas
- an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
adj
- not detailed or specific
- lacking subtlety; obvious
- being at a peak or culminating point
- showing or characterized by broad-mindedness
- having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other
- (of speech) heavily and noticeably regional
- broad in scope or content
- very large in expanse or scope
- Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.
- Plain; evident.
- General rather than specific.
- Wide in extent or scope.
- (Gaelic languages) Velarized, i.e. not palatalized.
- Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.
- (of an accent) Strongly regional.
- Having a large measure of any thing or quality; unlimited; unrestrained.
- (writing) Unsubtle; obvious.
- Free; unrestrained; unconfined.
noun
- slang term for a woman
- A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.
- (UK) A shallow lake, one of a number of bodies of water in eastern Norfolk and Suffolk.
- (film, television) A kind of floodlight.
- (UK, historical) A British gold coin worth 20 shillings, issued by the Commonwealth of England in 1656.
noun
- Any group of associated items.
- (nautical) A location, as on a navigable river, where barges are secured.
- (dialectal, obsolete outside of place names) An arm of the sea; a run of water, such as an inlet or a creek.
- A group of vessels or vehicles.
- A large, coordinated group of people.
- (nautical) A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.
- (nautical, British Royal Navy) Any command of vessels exceeding a squadron in size, or a rear admiral's command, composed of five sail-of-the-line, with any number of smaller vessels.
- The individual waves in corrugated fiberboard.
- group of motor vehicles operating together under the same ownership
- a group of warships organized as a tactical unit
- a group of steamships operating together under the same ownership
- group of aircraft operating together under the same ownership
adj
verb
- (intransitive) To evanesce, disappear, die out.
- To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.
- (nautical) To move up a rope, so as to haul to more advantage; especially to draw apart the blocks of a tackle.
- To take the cream from; to skim.
- (ambitransitive) To hasten over; to cause to pass away lightly, or in mirth and joy.
- (ambitransitive) To pass over rapidly; to skim the surface of.
- (intransitive) To flee, to escape, to speed away.
- (nautical, intransitive, of people) To move or change in position.
- move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart
- disappear gradually
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- (uncountable) The small parts that can escape casual notice.
- (countable) A part small enough to escape casual notice.
- (military, law enforcement) A temporary unit or assignment.
- A part considered trivial enough to ignore.
- An individual feature, fact, or other item, considered separately from the whole of which it is a part.
- (paintings) A selected portion of a painting.
- A narrative which relates minute points; an account which dwells on particulars.
- (countable) A person's name, address and other personal information.
- (uncountable) A profusion of details.
- extended treatment of particulars
- a small part that can be considered separately from the whole
- a crew of workers selected for a particular task
- an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole
- a temporary military unit
verb
noun
- A bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other.
- (music) A secundal chord of three or more notes.
- (US) In full oak leaf cluster: a small bronze or silver device shaped like a twig of oak leaves and acorns which is worn on a ribbon to indicate that the wearer has been conferred the same award or decoration before; an oakleaf.
- A number of individuals (animals or people) collected in one place or grouped together; a crowd, a mob, a swarm.
- (epidemiology) A group of cases of the same disease occurring around the same place or time.
- (linguistics) Synonym of lexical bundle (“a sequence of two or more words that occur in a language with high frequency but are not idiomatic”).
- (phonetics) A pronounceable group of consonants that occur together: a consonant cluster.
- (physical chemistry) An ensemble of bound atoms (especially of a metal) or molecules, intermediate in size between a molecule and a bulk solid.
- A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see block (noun)).
- A group of computers that work together.
- A set of bombs or mines released as part of the same blast.
- (statistics) In cluster analysis: a subset of a population whose members are similar enough to each other and distinct from others as to be considered a separate group; also, such a grouping in a set of observed data that is statistically significant.
- (slang) Euphemistic form of clusterfuck (“a chaotic situation where everything seems to go wrong”).
- (astronomy) A group of galaxies, nebulae, or stars that appear to the naked eye to be near each other.
- a grouping of a number of similar things
verb
- (intransitive) To form a cluster or group; to assemble, to gather.
- To cover (with clusters); to scatter or strew in clusters (within); to distribute (objects) within such that they form clusters.
- To collect (animals, people, objects, data points, etc) into clusters (noun noun sense 1).
- come together as in a cluster or flock
- gather or cause to gather into a cluster
noun
- any collection of diverse things
- a paste-up made by sticking together pieces of paper or photographs to form an artistic image
- A composite object or collection (abstract or concrete) created by the assemblage of various media; especially for a work of art such as text, film, etc.
- A picture made by sticking other pictures onto a surface or juxtaposing them digitally in analogous manner.
- (uncountable) The technique or method of producing a work of art of this kind.
verb
noun
- Any of several other similar intertwined masses of things
- (anatomy) A structure in the olfactory bulb central to olfactory sensory transduction, composed of receptor neuron axons and mitral neuron dendrites and organized by odor type.
- (anatomy) A small intertwined group of capillaries within nephrons of the kidney that filter the blood to make urine
- a small intertwined group of capillaries in the malpighian body; it filters the blood during urine formation
noun
- An agglomeration of some substance, especially one that would be otherwise uncountable.
- The fleshly or corporeal nature of a human, as opposed to the spirit or soul.
- (architecture, of a church) nave.
- (geometry) A three-dimensional object, such as a cube or cone.
- (sociology) A human being, regarded as marginalized or oppressed.
- Main section.
- The largest or most important part of anything, as distinct from its appendages or accessories; (of vehicles, sometimes) the outer shell (as contrasted with the frame and powertrain).
- A unified collection of details, knowledge or information.
- An organisation, company or other authoritative group.
- (archaic or informal except in compounds) A person.
- (uncountable) Substance; physical presence.
- (countable) The physical structure of a human or animal seen as one single organism.
- The torso, the main structure of a human or animal frame excluding the extremities (limbs, head, tail).
- (programming) The code of a subroutine, contrasted to its signature and parameters.
- The content of a letter, message, or other printed or electronic document, as distinct from signatures, salutations, headers, and so on.
- (printing) The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated).
- A group of people having a common purpose or opinion; a mass.
- (countable) Any physical object or material thing.
- (uncountable) Comparative viscosity, solidity or substance (in wine, colours etc.).
- (countable) A corpse.
- an individual 3-dimensional object that has mass and that is distinguishable from other objects
- the central message of a communication
- a natural object consisting of a dead animal or person
- a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity
- a collection of particulars considered as a system
- the entire physical structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being)
- the external structure of a vehicle
- a resonating chamber in a musical instrument (as the body of a violin)
- the property of holding together and retaining its shape
- the main mass of a thing
- the body excluding the head and neck and limbs
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noun
- (figuratively, uncommon) Any collection of anything.
- (figuratively) The building housing such a department.
- (figuratively) A governmental office or department in a monarchy which purchases, keeps, and cares for royal clothes.
- A tall built-in cupboard or closet for storing clothes, often including a rail for coat-hangers, and usually located in a bedroom.
- (figuratively) The department of a theater, movie studio, etc which purchases, keeps, and cares for costumes; its staff; its room(s) or building(s).
- (figuratively) Any collection of clothing.
- The contents of a wardrobe: an individual's entire collection of clothing.
- A room for keeping costumes and other property safe at a theater; a prop room.
- (figuratively, uncommon) Anything that similarly stores or houses something.
- A movable cupboard or cabinet designed for storing clothes, particularly as a large piece of bedroom furniture.
- a tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes
- collection of costumes belonging to a theatrical company
- collection of clothing belonging to one person
verb
adj
- Consisting of or containing more than one of something.
- (multiplicity, not comparable, of a person) Having some form of multiplicity, especially dissociative identity disorder.
- (comparable) Pluralistic.
- (grammar) In systems of number, not singular or not singular or dual.
- composed of more than one member, set, or kind
- grammatical number category referring to two or more items or units
noun
- (grammar, uncountable) The plural number. In English, referring to more or less than one of something.
- (multiplicity, countable) A person with some form of multiplicity, particularly dissociative identity disorder.
- (grammar, countable) A word in the form in which it potentially refers to something other than one person or thing; and other than two things if the language has a dual form.
- the form of a word that is used to denote more than one
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- (uncountable) That which sticks (remains attached to another surface).
- A small, thin branch from a tree or bush; a twig; a branch.
- (slang) Vigorous driving of a car; gas.
- (US) A timber board, especially a two by four (inches).
- (military) The structure to which a set of bombs in a bomber aircraft are attached and which drops the bombs when it is released. The bombs themselves and, by extension, any load of similar items dropped in quick succession such as paratroopers or containers.
- (slang) A bar (counter where drinks are served).
- (nautical) A mast or part of a mast of a ship; also, a yard.
- (golf) The pole bearing a small flag that marks the hole.
- (fishing) The amount of fishing line resting on the water surface before a cast; line stick.
- (boardsports) A board as used in board sports, such as a surfboard, snowboard, or skateboard.
- (horse racing) The short whip carried by a jockey.
- (figurative) A negative stimulus or a punishment. (This sense derives from the metaphor of using a stick, a long piece of wood, to poke or beat a beast of burden to compel it to move forward.)
- (US, colloquial, uncountable) Vehicles, collectively, equipped with manual transmissions.
- (baseball) General hitting ability.
- (carpentry) The vertical member of a cope-and-stick joint.
- A standard rectangular strip of chewing gum.
- (sports, generically) A long thin implement used to control a ball or puck in sports like hockey, polo, and lacrosse.
- A relatively long, thin piece of wood, of any size.
- (field hockey or ice hockey) The potential accuracy of a hockey stick, implicating also the player using it.
- Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.
- (golf) The long-range driving ability of a golf club.
- (aviation, uncountable) Use of the stick to control the aircraft.
- A cudgel or truncheon (usually of wood, metal or plastic), especially one carried by police or guards.
- (slang) A cigarette (usually a tobacco cigarette, less often a marijuana cigarette).
- (video games) A joystick.
- (US, slang, uncountable) The cue used in billiards, pool, snooker, etc.
- (computing) A memory stick.
- (US, colloquial) A manual transmission, a vehicle equipped with a manual transmission, so called because of the stick-like, i.e. twig-like, control (the gear shift) with which the driver of such a vehicle controls its transmission.
- (uncountable) The tendency to stick (remain stuck), stickiness.
- A cane or walking stick (usually wooden, metal or plastic) to aid in walking.
- (slang) A handgun.
- (computing) Any of the eight 16-character groups making up the 128 characters of the 7-bit ASCII character set.
- (countable) A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.
- (slang) Vigor; spirit; effort, energy, intensity.
- The game of pool, or an individual pool game.
- (chiefly Canada, US) A small rectangular block, with a length several times its width, which contains by volume one half of a cup of shortening (butter, margarine or lard).
- (baseball) The potential hitting power of a specific bat.
- (figuratively) A piece (of furniture, especially if wooden).
- (jazz, slang) The clarinet.
- (slang, uncountable) Corporal punishment, beatings
- (British, figurative) Criticism or ridicule, often in the expressions "get a lot of stick", "get some stick", "come in for some stick", etc.
- (aviation) The control column of an aircraft; a joystick. (By convention, a wheel-like control mechanism with a handgrip on opposite sides, similar to the steering wheel of an automobile, can also be called the "stick", although "yoke" or "control wheel" is more commonly seen.)
- (US military slang, World War I) An aircraft’s propeller.
- A bunch of something wrapped around or attached to a stick.
- (motor racing) The traction of tires on the road surface.
- a small thin branch of a tree
- a long implement (usually made of wood) that is shaped so that hockey or polo players can hit a puck or ball
- a long thin implement resembling a length of wood
- a rectangular quarter pound block of butter or margarine
- threat of a penalty
- an implement consisting of a length of wood
- a lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane
- marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking
- informal terms for the leg
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- (transitive) To place, set down (quickly or carelessly).
- (intransitive) To persist.
- (transitive) To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale.
- (intransitive) To remain loyal; to remain firm.
- (transitive, now only in dialects) To stab.
- (transitive, gymnastics, aviation, sports) To perform (a landing or a shot) perfectly.
- (transitive) To press (something with a sharp point) into something else.
- (intransitive) Of snow, to remain frozen on landing.
- To hit with a stick.
- (transitive, joinery) To run or plane (mouldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. Such mouldings are said to be stuck.
- (intransitive, blackjack, chiefly UK) To stand pat: to cease taking any more cards and finalize one's hand.
- (botany, transitive) To propagate plants by cuttings.
- (carpentry) To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint.
- (intransitive, US, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
- (transitive) To furnish or set with sticks.
- (transitive) To tolerate, to endure, to stick with.
- (intransitive) To jam; to stop moving.
- (intransitive) To become or remain attached; to adhere.
- (transitive) To attach with glue or as if by gluing.
- fasten with an adhesive material like glue
- pierce with a thrust using a pointed instrument
- cover and decorate with objects that pierce the surface
- be loyal to
- fasten into place by fixing an end or point into something
- stick to firmly
- be in a certain place and not leave
- come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- fasten with or as with pins or nails
- saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous
- pierce or penetrate or puncture with something pointed
- be a devoted follower or supporter
- put, fix, force, or implant
- endure
- be or become fixed
noun
- A collection or mixture of miscellaneous things.
- A cloth of mixed colours.
- (swimming) A competitive swimming event that combines the four strokes of butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle.
- (music) A collection of related songs played or mixed together as a single piece.
- a musical composition consisting of a series of songs or other musical pieces from various sources
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noun
- (uncountable) Light or frothy nonsense.
- (US) Chocolate fudge.
- (euphemistic, slang) Fecal matter; feces.
- (countable) A deliberately misleading or vague answer.
- (chiefly uncountable) A type of very sweet candy or confection, usually made from sugar, butter, and milk or cream.
- (countable) A less than perfect decision or solution; an attempt to fix an incorrect solution after the fact.
- soft creamy candy
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verb
- To cheat, especially in the game of marbles.
- (transitive) To alter something from its true state, as to hide a flaw or uncertainty, deliberately but not necessarily dishonestly or immorally.
- (intransitive) To try to avoid giving a direct answer.
- (colloquial, minced oath) Used in place of fuck.
- avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
- tamper, with the purpose of deception
adj
- not specialized or limited to one class of things
- somewhat indefinite
- of worldwide scope or applicability
- prevailing among and common to the general public
- applying to all or most members of a category or group
- affecting the entire body
- Not of a specific class; miscellaneous.
- Giving or consisting of only the most important aspects of something, ignoring minor details; indefinite.
- Including or involving every part or member of a given or implied entity, whole, etc.; common to all, universal.
- Not limited in use or application; applicable across a broad range.
- (sometimes postpositive) Applied to a person (as a postmodifier or a normal preceding adjective) to indicate supreme rank, in civil or military titles, and later in other terms; pre-eminent.
- Prevalent or widespread among a given class or area; common, usual.
noun
- the head of a religious order or congregation
- a fact about the whole (as opposed to particular)
- a general officer of the highest rank
- (nautical) A commander of naval forces; an admiral.
- (military) The holder of a senior military title, originally designating the commander of an army and now a specific rank falling under field marshal (in the British army) and below general of the army or general of the air force in the US army and air forces.
- (xiangqi) A xiangqi piece that is moved one point orthogonally and confined within the palace.
- (colloquial, now historical) A general servant; a maid-of-all-work.
- (Christianity) The head of certain religious orders, especially Dominicans or Jesuits.
- (uncountable) General anesthesia.
- A great strategist or tactician.
- (uncountable, insurance) The general insurance industry.
- (countable) A general anesthetic.
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noun
- one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen
- A non-offensive word or phrase that serves as a replacement for a word deemed offensive or unacceptable, though not as a euphemism.
- The remaining option; something available after other possibilities have been exhausted.
- (uncountable, music) alternative rock
- A situation which allows a mutually exclusive choice between two or more possibilities; a choice between two or more possibilities.
- One of several mutually exclusive things which can be chosen.
adj
- pertaining to unconventional choices
- necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities
- serving or used in place of another
- Not traditional, outside the mainstream, underground.
- Relating to a choice between two or more possibilities.
- Other; different from something else.
- (linguistics) Presenting two or more alternatives.
noun
- one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen
- the person or thing chosen or selected
- the act of choosing or selecting
- An option; a decision; an opportunity to choose or select something.
- (set theory) Ellipsis of axiom of choice.
- One selection or preference; that which is chosen or decided; the outcome of a decision.
- (uncountable) The power to choose.
- (usually with the) The best or most preferable part.
- Anything that can be chosen.
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noun
- one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen
- the right to buy or sell property at an agreed price; the right is purchased and if it is not exercised by a stated date the money is forfeited
- the act of choosing or selecting
- (law, uncountable) The acquiring or retention of a nationality through personal choice as a right, bypassing selective legal mechanisms for naturalization, especially in cases where a territory is transferred or passed on from one state to another.
- The freedom or right to choose.
- (finance, law) A contract giving the holder the right to buy or sell an asset at a set strike price; can apply to financial market transactions, or to ordinary transactions for tangible assets such as a residence or automobile.
- One of a set of choices that can be made.
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noun
- (usually uncountable) That which is not science, or a specific non-scientific field
- A body, set, or system of information, methods, beliefs, and hypotheses (such as history, astrology or metaphysics) that does not use the scientific method or follow accepted scientific standards as a basis for observation, or development of a theory.
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adj
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- Something that does not match the things it is with or cannot easily be categorized; a miscellaneous item.
- (printing) A part of a book that is not a portion of the text, such as the title, index, etc. (usually plural).
- Something strange or unusual.
- (commerce) An item that was originally part of a set but is sold individually; an excess item of stock.
- A remaining number or amount (after a calculation).
- A part of something that is left over, such as a piece of cloth.
- A varied collection (of items).
- A person who does not fit in with others or is considered to be strange in some way.
- a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold
- something unusual — perhaps worthy of collecting
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verb
noun
- A combination of different things.
- (dentistry) An alloy of mercury used to fill tooth cavities.
- (metallurgy) An alloy containing mercury.
- One of the ingredients in an alloy.
- a combination or blend of diverse things
- an alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth; except for iron and platinum all metals dissolve in mercury and chemists refer to the resulting mercury mixtures as amalgams
noun
- (countable, uncountable) An unnatural combination; a mixture of things that do not belong together.
- (uncountable) The condition of being born out of wedlock; bastardy.
- (uncountable) Ideological concern with whether someone is related by blood.
- (uncountable) Racial impurity; that state or quality of being mixed-race.
- (countable, uncountable) An act or quality of being bastardly; contemptibleness, cruelty, or lack of proper behavior.
- (uncountable) A tendency to produce bastards; lack of chastity.
- (uncountable) Sexual reproduction involving different species.
noun
- anything immaterial that severely hinders or confines
- a garment similar to a jacket that is used to bind the arms tightly against the body as a means of restraining a violent person
- A jacket-like garment with very long sleeves which can be secured in place, thus preventing the wearer from moving his or her arms. Often used in psychiatric hospitals to prevent patients from injuring themselves or others.
- (figurative) Any situation seen as confining or restricting.
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noun
- (countable) Anything that seems to be something that it is not.
- (uncountable) The state of being deceived or misled.
- (countable) A misapprehension; a belief in something that is in fact not true.
- (countable) A magician’s trick.
- an erroneous mental representation
- something many people believe that is false
- the act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas
- an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
noun
- Any group of associated items.
- (nautical) A location, as on a navigable river, where barges are secured.
- (dialectal, obsolete outside of place names) An arm of the sea; a run of water, such as an inlet or a creek.
- A group of vessels or vehicles.
- A large, coordinated group of people.
- (nautical) A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.
- (nautical, British Royal Navy) Any command of vessels exceeding a squadron in size, or a rear admiral's command, composed of five sail-of-the-line, with any number of smaller vessels.
- The individual waves in corrugated fiberboard.
- group of motor vehicles operating together under the same ownership
- a group of warships organized as a tactical unit
- a group of steamships operating together under the same ownership
- group of aircraft operating together under the same ownership
adj
verb
- (intransitive) To evanesce, disappear, die out.
- To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.
- (nautical) To move up a rope, so as to haul to more advantage; especially to draw apart the blocks of a tackle.
- To take the cream from; to skim.
- (ambitransitive) To hasten over; to cause to pass away lightly, or in mirth and joy.
- (ambitransitive) To pass over rapidly; to skim the surface of.
- (intransitive) To flee, to escape, to speed away.
- (nautical, intransitive, of people) To move or change in position.
- move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart
- disappear gradually
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verb
noun
- (uncountable) The small parts that can escape casual notice.
- (countable) A part small enough to escape casual notice.
- (military, law enforcement) A temporary unit or assignment.
- A part considered trivial enough to ignore.
- An individual feature, fact, or other item, considered separately from the whole of which it is a part.
- (paintings) A selected portion of a painting.
- A narrative which relates minute points; an account which dwells on particulars.
- (countable) A person's name, address and other personal information.
- (uncountable) A profusion of details.
- extended treatment of particulars
- a small part that can be considered separately from the whole
- a crew of workers selected for a particular task
- an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole
- a temporary military unit
verb
noun
- A bunch or group of several discrete items that are close to each other.
- (music) A secundal chord of three or more notes.
- (US) In full oak leaf cluster: a small bronze or silver device shaped like a twig of oak leaves and acorns which is worn on a ribbon to indicate that the wearer has been conferred the same award or decoration before; an oakleaf.
- A number of individuals (animals or people) collected in one place or grouped together; a crowd, a mob, a swarm.
- (epidemiology) A group of cases of the same disease occurring around the same place or time.
- (linguistics) Synonym of lexical bundle (“a sequence of two or more words that occur in a language with high frequency but are not idiomatic”).
- (phonetics) A pronounceable group of consonants that occur together: a consonant cluster.
- (physical chemistry) An ensemble of bound atoms (especially of a metal) or molecules, intermediate in size between a molecule and a bulk solid.
- A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see block (noun)).
- A group of computers that work together.
- A set of bombs or mines released as part of the same blast.
- (statistics) In cluster analysis: a subset of a population whose members are similar enough to each other and distinct from others as to be considered a separate group; also, such a grouping in a set of observed data that is statistically significant.
- (slang) Euphemistic form of clusterfuck (“a chaotic situation where everything seems to go wrong”).
- (astronomy) A group of galaxies, nebulae, or stars that appear to the naked eye to be near each other.
- a grouping of a number of similar things
verb
- (intransitive) To form a cluster or group; to assemble, to gather.
- To cover (with clusters); to scatter or strew in clusters (within); to distribute (objects) within such that they form clusters.
- To collect (animals, people, objects, data points, etc) into clusters (noun noun sense 1).
- come together as in a cluster or flock
- gather or cause to gather into a cluster
noun
- any collection of diverse things
- a paste-up made by sticking together pieces of paper or photographs to form an artistic image
- A composite object or collection (abstract or concrete) created by the assemblage of various media; especially for a work of art such as text, film, etc.
- A picture made by sticking other pictures onto a surface or juxtaposing them digitally in analogous manner.
- (uncountable) The technique or method of producing a work of art of this kind.
verb
noun
- Any of several other similar intertwined masses of things
- (anatomy) A structure in the olfactory bulb central to olfactory sensory transduction, composed of receptor neuron axons and mitral neuron dendrites and organized by odor type.
- (anatomy) A small intertwined group of capillaries within nephrons of the kidney that filter the blood to make urine
- a small intertwined group of capillaries in the malpighian body; it filters the blood during urine formation
noun
- An agglomeration of some substance, especially one that would be otherwise uncountable.
- The fleshly or corporeal nature of a human, as opposed to the spirit or soul.
- (architecture, of a church) nave.
- (geometry) A three-dimensional object, such as a cube or cone.
- (sociology) A human being, regarded as marginalized or oppressed.
- Main section.
- The largest or most important part of anything, as distinct from its appendages or accessories; (of vehicles, sometimes) the outer shell (as contrasted with the frame and powertrain).
- A unified collection of details, knowledge or information.
- An organisation, company or other authoritative group.
- (archaic or informal except in compounds) A person.
- (uncountable) Substance; physical presence.
- (countable) The physical structure of a human or animal seen as one single organism.
- The torso, the main structure of a human or animal frame excluding the extremities (limbs, head, tail).
- (programming) The code of a subroutine, contrasted to its signature and parameters.
- The content of a letter, message, or other printed or electronic document, as distinct from signatures, salutations, headers, and so on.
- (printing) The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated).
- A group of people having a common purpose or opinion; a mass.
- (countable) Any physical object or material thing.
- (uncountable) Comparative viscosity, solidity or substance (in wine, colours etc.).
- (countable) A corpse.
- an individual 3-dimensional object that has mass and that is distinguishable from other objects
- the central message of a communication
- a natural object consisting of a dead animal or person
- a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity
- a collection of particulars considered as a system
- the entire physical structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being)
- the external structure of a vehicle
- a resonating chamber in a musical instrument (as the body of a violin)
- the property of holding together and retaining its shape
- the main mass of a thing
- the body excluding the head and neck and limbs
verb
noun
- (figuratively, uncommon) Any collection of anything.
- (figuratively) The building housing such a department.
- (figuratively) A governmental office or department in a monarchy which purchases, keeps, and cares for royal clothes.
- A tall built-in cupboard or closet for storing clothes, often including a rail for coat-hangers, and usually located in a bedroom.
- (figuratively) The department of a theater, movie studio, etc which purchases, keeps, and cares for costumes; its staff; its room(s) or building(s).
- (figuratively) Any collection of clothing.
- The contents of a wardrobe: an individual's entire collection of clothing.
- A room for keeping costumes and other property safe at a theater; a prop room.
- (figuratively, uncommon) Anything that similarly stores or houses something.
- A movable cupboard or cabinet designed for storing clothes, particularly as a large piece of bedroom furniture.
- a tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes
- collection of costumes belonging to a theatrical company
- collection of clothing belonging to one person
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noun
adj
noun
- (uncountable) That which sticks (remains attached to another surface).
- A small, thin branch from a tree or bush; a twig; a branch.
- (slang) Vigorous driving of a car; gas.
- (US) A timber board, especially a two by four (inches).
- (military) The structure to which a set of bombs in a bomber aircraft are attached and which drops the bombs when it is released. The bombs themselves and, by extension, any load of similar items dropped in quick succession such as paratroopers or containers.
- (slang) A bar (counter where drinks are served).
- (nautical) A mast or part of a mast of a ship; also, a yard.
- (golf) The pole bearing a small flag that marks the hole.
- (fishing) The amount of fishing line resting on the water surface before a cast; line stick.
- (boardsports) A board as used in board sports, such as a surfboard, snowboard, or skateboard.
- (horse racing) The short whip carried by a jockey.
- (figurative) A negative stimulus or a punishment. (This sense derives from the metaphor of using a stick, a long piece of wood, to poke or beat a beast of burden to compel it to move forward.)
- (US, colloquial, uncountable) Vehicles, collectively, equipped with manual transmissions.
- (baseball) General hitting ability.
- (carpentry) The vertical member of a cope-and-stick joint.
- A standard rectangular strip of chewing gum.
- (sports, generically) A long thin implement used to control a ball or puck in sports like hockey, polo, and lacrosse.
- A relatively long, thin piece of wood, of any size.
- (field hockey or ice hockey) The potential accuracy of a hockey stick, implicating also the player using it.
- Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.
- (golf) The long-range driving ability of a golf club.
- (aviation, uncountable) Use of the stick to control the aircraft.
- A cudgel or truncheon (usually of wood, metal or plastic), especially one carried by police or guards.
- (slang) A cigarette (usually a tobacco cigarette, less often a marijuana cigarette).
- (video games) A joystick.
- (US, slang, uncountable) The cue used in billiards, pool, snooker, etc.
- (computing) A memory stick.
- (US, colloquial) A manual transmission, a vehicle equipped with a manual transmission, so called because of the stick-like, i.e. twig-like, control (the gear shift) with which the driver of such a vehicle controls its transmission.
- (uncountable) The tendency to stick (remain stuck), stickiness.
- A cane or walking stick (usually wooden, metal or plastic) to aid in walking.
- (slang) A handgun.
- (computing) Any of the eight 16-character groups making up the 128 characters of the 7-bit ASCII character set.
- (countable) A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.
- (slang) Vigor; spirit; effort, energy, intensity.
- The game of pool, or an individual pool game.
- (chiefly Canada, US) A small rectangular block, with a length several times its width, which contains by volume one half of a cup of shortening (butter, margarine or lard).
- (baseball) The potential hitting power of a specific bat.
- (figuratively) A piece (of furniture, especially if wooden).
- (jazz, slang) The clarinet.
- (slang, uncountable) Corporal punishment, beatings
- (British, figurative) Criticism or ridicule, often in the expressions "get a lot of stick", "get some stick", "come in for some stick", etc.
- (aviation) The control column of an aircraft; a joystick. (By convention, a wheel-like control mechanism with a handgrip on opposite sides, similar to the steering wheel of an automobile, can also be called the "stick", although "yoke" or "control wheel" is more commonly seen.)
- (US military slang, World War I) An aircraft’s propeller.
- A bunch of something wrapped around or attached to a stick.
- (motor racing) The traction of tires on the road surface.
- a small thin branch of a tree
- a long implement (usually made of wood) that is shaped so that hockey or polo players can hit a puck or ball
- a long thin implement resembling a length of wood
- a rectangular quarter pound block of butter or margarine
- threat of a penalty
- an implement consisting of a length of wood
- a lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane
- marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking
- informal terms for the leg
adj
verb
- (transitive) To place, set down (quickly or carelessly).
- (intransitive) To persist.
- (transitive) To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale.
- (intransitive) To remain loyal; to remain firm.
- (transitive, now only in dialects) To stab.
- (transitive, gymnastics, aviation, sports) To perform (a landing or a shot) perfectly.
- (transitive) To press (something with a sharp point) into something else.
- (intransitive) Of snow, to remain frozen on landing.
- To hit with a stick.
- (transitive, joinery) To run or plane (mouldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. Such mouldings are said to be stuck.
- (intransitive, blackjack, chiefly UK) To stand pat: to cease taking any more cards and finalize one's hand.
- (botany, transitive) To propagate plants by cuttings.
- (carpentry) To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint.
- (intransitive, US, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
- (transitive) To furnish or set with sticks.
- (transitive) To tolerate, to endure, to stick with.
- (intransitive) To jam; to stop moving.
- (intransitive) To become or remain attached; to adhere.
- (transitive) To attach with glue or as if by gluing.
- fasten with an adhesive material like glue
- pierce with a thrust using a pointed instrument
- cover and decorate with objects that pierce the surface
- be loyal to
- fasten into place by fixing an end or point into something
- stick to firmly
- be in a certain place and not leave
- come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- fasten with or as with pins or nails
- saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous
- pierce or penetrate or puncture with something pointed
- be a devoted follower or supporter
- put, fix, force, or implant
- endure
- be or become fixed
noun
- A collection or mixture of miscellaneous things.
- A cloth of mixed colours.
- (swimming) A competitive swimming event that combines the four strokes of butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle.
- (music) A collection of related songs played or mixed together as a single piece.
- a musical composition consisting of a series of songs or other musical pieces from various sources
verb
noun
- (uncountable) Light or frothy nonsense.
- (US) Chocolate fudge.
- (euphemistic, slang) Fecal matter; feces.
- (countable) A deliberately misleading or vague answer.
- (chiefly uncountable) A type of very sweet candy or confection, usually made from sugar, butter, and milk or cream.
- (countable) A less than perfect decision or solution; an attempt to fix an incorrect solution after the fact.
- soft creamy candy
intj
verb
- To cheat, especially in the game of marbles.
- (transitive) To alter something from its true state, as to hide a flaw or uncertainty, deliberately but not necessarily dishonestly or immorally.
- (intransitive) To try to avoid giving a direct answer.
- (colloquial, minced oath) Used in place of fuck.
- avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
- tamper, with the purpose of deception
noun
- one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen
- A non-offensive word or phrase that serves as a replacement for a word deemed offensive or unacceptable, though not as a euphemism.
- The remaining option; something available after other possibilities have been exhausted.
- (uncountable, music) alternative rock
- A situation which allows a mutually exclusive choice between two or more possibilities; a choice between two or more possibilities.
- One of several mutually exclusive things which can be chosen.
adj
- pertaining to unconventional choices
- necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities
- serving or used in place of another
- Not traditional, outside the mainstream, underground.
- Relating to a choice between two or more possibilities.
- Other; different from something else.
- (linguistics) Presenting two or more alternatives.
noun
- one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen
- the person or thing chosen or selected
- the act of choosing or selecting
- An option; a decision; an opportunity to choose or select something.
- (set theory) Ellipsis of axiom of choice.
- One selection or preference; that which is chosen or decided; the outcome of a decision.
- (uncountable) The power to choose.
- (usually with the) The best or most preferable part.
- Anything that can be chosen.
adj
intj
noun
- one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen
- the right to buy or sell property at an agreed price; the right is purchased and if it is not exercised by a stated date the money is forfeited
- the act of choosing or selecting
- (law, uncountable) The acquiring or retention of a nationality through personal choice as a right, bypassing selective legal mechanisms for naturalization, especially in cases where a territory is transferred or passed on from one state to another.
- The freedom or right to choose.
- (finance, law) A contract giving the holder the right to buy or sell an asset at a set strike price; can apply to financial market transactions, or to ordinary transactions for tangible assets such as a residence or automobile.
- One of a set of choices that can be made.
verb
noun
- (usually uncountable) That which is not science, or a specific non-scientific field
- A body, set, or system of information, methods, beliefs, and hypotheses (such as history, astrology or metaphysics) that does not use the scientific method or follow accepted scientific standards as a basis for observation, or development of a theory.
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adj
- (of inanimate things) Not easily subdued or removed.
- (of a facial feature) Typical of an obstinate person; fixed and unmoving.
- Stubbornly adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course, usually with implied unreasonableness; persistent.
- resistant to guidance or discipline
- tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield
- stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing
verb
adj
- not detailed or specific
- lacking subtlety; obvious
- being at a peak or culminating point
- showing or characterized by broad-mindedness
- having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other
- (of speech) heavily and noticeably regional
- broad in scope or content
- very large in expanse or scope
- Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.
- Plain; evident.
- General rather than specific.
- Wide in extent or scope.
- (Gaelic languages) Velarized, i.e. not palatalized.
- Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.
- (of an accent) Strongly regional.
- Having a large measure of any thing or quality; unlimited; unrestrained.
- (writing) Unsubtle; obvious.
- Free; unrestrained; unconfined.
noun
- slang term for a woman
- A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.
- (UK) A shallow lake, one of a number of bodies of water in eastern Norfolk and Suffolk.
- (film, television) A kind of floodlight.
- (UK, historical) A British gold coin worth 20 shillings, issued by the Commonwealth of England in 1656.
adj
adv
noun
pron
adj
- Consisting of or containing more than one of something.
- (multiplicity, not comparable, of a person) Having some form of multiplicity, especially dissociative identity disorder.
- (comparable) Pluralistic.
- (grammar) In systems of number, not singular or not singular or dual.
- composed of more than one member, set, or kind
- grammatical number category referring to two or more items or units
noun
- (grammar, uncountable) The plural number. In English, referring to more or less than one of something.
- (multiplicity, countable) A person with some form of multiplicity, particularly dissociative identity disorder.
- (grammar, countable) A word in the form in which it potentially refers to something other than one person or thing; and other than two things if the language has a dual form.
- the form of a word that is used to denote more than one
adj
- not specialized or limited to one class of things
- somewhat indefinite
- of worldwide scope or applicability
- prevailing among and common to the general public
- applying to all or most members of a category or group
- affecting the entire body
- Not of a specific class; miscellaneous.
- Giving or consisting of only the most important aspects of something, ignoring minor details; indefinite.
- Including or involving every part or member of a given or implied entity, whole, etc.; common to all, universal.
- Not limited in use or application; applicable across a broad range.
- (sometimes postpositive) Applied to a person (as a postmodifier or a normal preceding adjective) to indicate supreme rank, in civil or military titles, and later in other terms; pre-eminent.
- Prevalent or widespread among a given class or area; common, usual.
noun
- the head of a religious order or congregation
- a fact about the whole (as opposed to particular)
- a general officer of the highest rank
- (nautical) A commander of naval forces; an admiral.
- (military) The holder of a senior military title, originally designating the commander of an army and now a specific rank falling under field marshal (in the British army) and below general of the army or general of the air force in the US army and air forces.
- (xiangqi) A xiangqi piece that is moved one point orthogonally and confined within the palace.
- (colloquial, now historical) A general servant; a maid-of-all-work.
- (Christianity) The head of certain religious orders, especially Dominicans or Jesuits.
- (uncountable) General anesthesia.
- A great strategist or tactician.
- (uncountable, insurance) The general insurance industry.
- (countable) A general anesthetic.