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- not bearing offspring
- completely wanting or lacking
- providing no shelter or sustenance
- Mentally dull or unproductive; stupid or intellectually fallow.
- (of people and animals, not comparable) Not bearing children, childless; hence also unable to bear children, sterile.
- Unproductive, fruitless, unprofitable; empty, hollow, vain.
- (of plants, not comparable) Not bearing seed or fruit.
- (of places) Of poor fertility, infertile; not producing vegetation; desert, waste.
- Devoid of interest or attraction, poor, bleak.
- (with of) Devoid, lacking.
noun
- an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
- (usually in the plural) In particular, a usually elevated and flat expanse of land that only supports the growth of small trees and shrubs, and sometimes mosses or heathers, berries, and other marshy or moory vegetation, but little agriculture and few people.
- An area of low fertility and habitation, a desolate place.
adj
noun
- dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes
- the act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush and soap and water
- (countable, sports, slang) One not on the first team of players; a substitute.
- An instance of scrubbing.
- (countable, US, stock breeding) One of the common livestock of a region of no particular breed or not of pure breed, especially when inferior in size, etc.; particularly a male animal poorly suited for breeding.
- One who scrubs.
- (uncountable) A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant.
- A cancellation.
- An exfoliant for the body.
- (countable, slang, derogatory) One who is incompetent or unable to complete easy tasks.
- (countable, online gaming, slang, derogatory) A player who whines when outmatched by other players, sometimes by blaming the game mechanics or even accusing the other players of cheating.
- A worn-out brush.
- That which scrubs.
- (countable, derogatory) One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow.
- (uncountable) Vegetation judged to be of inferior quality or of little use to humans, though sometimes thick and impenetrable, growing in poor soil or in sand; also, brush.
- (by extension, in the plural) Any medical uniform consisting of a short-sleeved shirt and pants (trousers).
- (medicine, in the plural) Clothing worn while performing surgery.
verb
- clean with hard rubbing
- postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled
- wash thoroughly
- (transitive) To call off a scheduled event; to cancel.
- (media) To move a recording tape back and forth with a scrubbing motion to produce a scratching sound, or to do so by a similar use of a control on an editing system.
- (databases, transitive) To eliminate or to correct data from a set of records to bring it inline with other similar datasets
- (intransitive) To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour
- (transitive) To rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, to rub with a wet brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning or brightening
- (media) To maneuver the play position on a media editing system by using a scroll bar or touch-based interface.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be diligent and penurious
noun
- the act of mating by male animals
- a force that is a branch of the armed forces
- periodic maintenance on a car or machine
- work done by one person or group that benefits another
- a means of serving
- employment in or work for another
- the act of public worship following prescribed rules
- a company or agency that performs a public service; subject to government regulation
- an act of help or assistance; something (such as a tool, software or system) used to render said help or assistance
- the performance of duties by a waiter or servant
- (law) the acts performed by an English feudal tenant for the benefit of their lord which formed the consideration for the property granted to them
- (sports) a stroke that puts the ball in play
- the act of delivering a writ or summons upon someone
- tableware consisting of a complete set of articles (silver or dishware) for use at table
- (Israel, West Bank, also in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria) A taxi shared among unrelated passengers, each of whom pays part of the fare; often, it has a fixed route between cities.
- (law) The serving, or delivery, of a summons or writ.
- (nautical) The materials used for serving a rope, etc., such as spun yarn and small lines.
- Access to resources such as hotel rooms and Web-based videos without transfer of the resources' ownership.
- (economics) The practice of providing assistance as economic activity.
- A religious rite or ritual.
- A set of dishes or utensils.
- (business) Synonym of utility (“commodity provided on a continuous basis by a physical infrastructure network, such as electricity, water supply or sewerage”).
- (elliptical, uncountable) Work as a member of the military.
- (computing) A function that is provided by one program or machine for another.
- The sorb; the fruit of this tree.
- An act of being of assistance to someone.
- (sports) The act of initially starting, or serving, the ball in play in tennis, volleyball, and other games.
- A musical composition for use in churches.
- The state of being subordinate to or employed by an individual or group.
- Service tree.
- A department in a company, organization, or institution.
- (with the) The military.
verb
- mate with
- be used by; as of a utility
- make fit for use
- (transitive) To make a repayment or pay interest (on a debt).
- (transitive) To serve.
- (transitive) To perform maintenance.
- (transitive, military, euphemistic) To attack.
- (public relations, transitive) To supply (media outlets) with press releases etc.
- (transitive, agriculture, euphemistic) To inseminate through sexual intercourse.
- (transitive, vulgar) To perform a sexual act upon.
adj
- (of reproduction) not involving the fusion of male and female gametes in reproduction
- (biology) Having no visible sex organs; asexual or cryptogamous.
- (biology) Synonym of agamic: asexual (of reproduction: occurring without union of male and female gametes).
- Having no marital partner or pair-bonded mate; being neither monogamous (pair-bonded) nor polygamous.
adj
- producing offspring of only one sex, exhibiting monogeny
- of or relating to monogenesis or to monogenism
- (mathematics, of a semigroup) generated by a set containing only a single element
- (mathematics, of a function) having a single derivative at a point
- (genetics) regulated by a single gene
- of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by a single pair of genes
noun
noun
- The creation of offspring from two different species; cross-breeding.
- The making of a bastard or bastards; Having children out of wedlock or destroying the legitimacy of children's paternity.
- (more generally) The creation of an inferior copy or version; corruption, degradation, or debasement.
- Activities involving harassment, abuse or humiliation used as a way of initiating a person into a group.
- (by extension) The combining of separate races in marriage or breeding; miscegenation.
- Any change or neologism in language that is viewed as a degradation.
- declaring or rendering bastard
- an act that debases or corrupts
noun
- (uncountable) Sexual reproduction involving different species.
- (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.
adj
- (not comparable) Unable to reproduce (or procreate).
- (US, military) Of weapons: foreign-made and untraceable to the United States.
- Free from dangerous objects, as a zone in an airport that can be only be entered via a security checkpoint.
- Germless; free from all living or viable microorganisms.
- (figurative) Terse; lacking sentiment or emotional stimulation, as in a manner of speaking.
- Permanently uninhabitable (as in a planet like Earth) to all life, including even microbes.
- (figurative) Fruitless, uninspiring, or unproductive.
- incapable of reproducing
- deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention
- free of or using methods to keep free of pathological microorganisms
noun
- Propagation of offspring through sexual reproduction.
- The good manners regarded as characteristic of the aristocracy and conferred by heredity.
- Descent; pedigree; extraction.
- (gay slang) Ejaculation inside the rectum during bareback anal sex.
- Nurture; education; formation of manners.
- The act of copulation in animals.
- The act of insemination by natural or artificial means.
- the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior)
- elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression
- helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community
- the production of animals or plants by inbreeding or hybridization
- the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring
adj
verb
verb
noun
- (genetics) The breeding of an individual with a phenotypically recessive individual, in order to determine the zygosity of the former by analysing proportions of offspring phenotypes.
- a cross between an organism whose genotype for a certain trait is unknown and an organism that is homozygous recessive for that trait so the unknown genotype can be determined from that of the offspring
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To mate so as to produce a hybrid; interbreed.
- (transitive) To mate (an organism) with another organism so as to produce a hybrid.
- (transitive) To produce (an organism) by the mating of individuals of different breeds, varieties, or species; hybridize.
- breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties
adj
- (biology) involving heterogametes in the reproductive process
- (botany) in which the stamens and pistils are not present in every flower; i.e. there are male and female flowers
- (biology) characterized by alternating generations of a parthenogenetic and sexual nature
- in the daisy family Asteraceae, having two types of flowers in a flower head (such as some sterile, some hermaphrodite, or some female, some hermaphrodite)
noun
- Cross-breeding.
- A voyage across a body of water.
- (Philippines) Ellipsis of pedestrian crossing.
- Opposition; thwarting.
- (architecture) The volume formed by the intersection of chancel, nave and transepts in a cruciform church; often with a tower or cupola over it.
- An intersection where roads, lines, or tracks cross.
- (graph theory) A pair of intersecting edges.
- A pair of parallel lines printed on a cheque.
- Movement into a crossed position.
- The act by which terrain or a road etc. is crossed.
- A place at which a river, railroad, or highway may be crossed.
- (sociolinguistics) The appropriation of a form of language by somebody who is not a member of the group that speaks it.
- (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids
- a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other
- a voyage across a body of water (usually across the Atlantic Ocean)
- traveling across
- a shallow area in a stream that can be forded
- a point where two lines (paths or arcs etc.) intersect
- a junction where one street or road crosses another
adj
verb
noun
- (especially of a non-human animal) A breeding partner.
- (colloquial, British, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, sometimes elsewhere in the Commonwealth) Friendly term of address to a stranger, usually male, of similar age.
- A technical assistant in certain trades (e.g. gasfitter's mate, plumber's mate); sometimes an apprentice.
- (nautical) A ship's officer, subordinate to the master on a commercial ship.
- A suitable companion; a match; an equal.
- (nautical) In naval ranks, a non-commissioned officer or his subordinate (e.g. Boatswain's Mate, Gunner's Mate, Sailmaker's Mate, etc).
- (nautical) A first mate.
- The abovementioned plant; the leaves and shoots used for the tea
- Alternative spelling of maté, an aromatic tea-like drink prepared from the holly yerba maté (Ilex paraguariensis).
- (chess) Clipping of checkmate.
- (colloquial, British, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, sometimes elsewhere in the Commonwealth) A friend, usually of the same sex.
- A fellow, comrade, colleague, partner or someone with whom something is shared, e.g. shipmate, classmate.
- The other member of a matched pair of objects.
- informal term for a friend of the same sex
- an exact duplicate
- the partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner)
- a person's partner in marriage
- a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king
- one of a pair
- the officer below the master on a commercial ship
- South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate
- a fellow member of a team
- South American holly; leaves used in making a drink like tea
verb
- (transitive, of an animal) To copulate with.
- (intransitive) To match, fit together without space between.
- (intransitive) To come together as companions, comrades, partners, etc.
- (intransitive) To copulate.
- (transitive) To marry; to match (a person).
- (transitive) To introduce (animals) together for the purpose of breeding.
- (transitive, aerospace) To move (a space shuttle orbiter) onto the back of an aircraft that can carry it.
- (intransitive) To pair in order to raise offspring.
- (transitive) To fit (objects) together without space between.
- (transitive) To arrange in matched pairs.
- (chess) Clipping of checkmate.
- bring two objects, ideas, or people together
- place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game
- engage in sexual intercourse
adj
- (of some female animals, especially cows and sheep) Not pregnant; not producing offspring when expected to do so during the breeding season.
- Destitute of effect, sincerity, or sense; said of language.
- Hungry.
- Destitute of, or lacking, sense, knowledge, or courtesy.
- Having nothing to carry, emptyhanded; unburdened.
- (computing, programming, mathematics) Containing no elements (as of a string, array, or set), opposed to being null (having no valid value).
- Unable to satisfy; hollow; vain.
- Destitute of reality, or real existence; unsubstantial.
- (wine) Lacking between the onset of tasting and the finish.
- Devoid of content; containing nothing or nobody; vacant.
- needing nourishment
- holding or containing nothing
- emptied of emotion
- devoid of significance or force
noun
verb
- (transitive, ergative) To make empty; to remove the contents of.
- (intransitive) Of a river, duct, etc: to drain or flow toward an ultimate destination.
- make void or empty of contents
- remove the contents of a container
- become empty or void of its content
- leave behind empty; move out of
- excrete or discharge from the body
verb
- (intransitive) To come together for mating.
- (politics, slang) To engage (oneself) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions.
- (intransitive) To suit; to fit, as a counterpart.
- (transitive) To bring two (animals, notably dogs) together for mating.
- (computing) to link two electronic devices wirelessly together, especially through a protocol such as Bluetooth.
- (transitive) To group into one or more sets of two.
- bring two objects, ideas, or people together
- arrange in pairs
- form a pair or pairs
- occur in pairs
- engage in sexual intercourse
noun
- (baseball, informal) A double play, two outs recorded in one play.
- (baseball, informal) A doubleheader, two games played on the same day between the same teams.
- (card games) A poker hand that contains two cards of identical rank, which cannot also count as a better hand.
- (slang) A pair of testicles.
- Two alike or identical things taken together; often followed by of.
- Two members of opposite parties or opinion, as in a parliamentary body, who mutually agree not to vote on a given question, or on issues of a party nature during a specified time.
- One of the constituent items that make up a pair.
- (kinematics) In a mechanism, two elements, or bodies, which are so applied to each other as to mutually constrain relative motion; named in accordance with the motion it permits, as in turning pair, sliding pair, twisting pair.
- Two people in a relationship, partnership or friendship.
- Used with binary nouns (often in the plural to indicate multiple instances, since such nouns are plural only, except in some technical contexts).
- (slang) A pair of breasts.
- (rowing) A boat for two sweep rowers.
- (Australia, politics) The exclusion of one member of a parliamentary party from a vote, if a member of the other party is absent for important personal reasons.
- A couple of working animals attached to work together, as by a yoke.
- (cricket) A score of zero runs (a duck) in both innings of a two-innings match.
- two people considered as a unit
- a set of two similar things considered as a unit
- a poker hand with 2 cards of the same value
- two items of the same kind
noun
verb
noun
- the act of mating by male animals
- a force that is a branch of the armed forces
- periodic maintenance on a car or machine
- work done by one person or group that benefits another
- a means of serving
- employment in or work for another
- the act of public worship following prescribed rules
- a company or agency that performs a public service; subject to government regulation
- an act of help or assistance; something (such as a tool, software or system) used to render said help or assistance
- the performance of duties by a waiter or servant
- (law) the acts performed by an English feudal tenant for the benefit of their lord which formed the consideration for the property granted to them
- (sports) a stroke that puts the ball in play
- the act of delivering a writ or summons upon someone
- tableware consisting of a complete set of articles (silver or dishware) for use at table
- (Israel, West Bank, also in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria) A taxi shared among unrelated passengers, each of whom pays part of the fare; often, it has a fixed route between cities.
- (law) The serving, or delivery, of a summons or writ.
- (nautical) The materials used for serving a rope, etc., such as spun yarn and small lines.
- Access to resources such as hotel rooms and Web-based videos without transfer of the resources' ownership.
- (economics) The practice of providing assistance as economic activity.
- A religious rite or ritual.
- A set of dishes or utensils.
- (business) Synonym of utility (“commodity provided on a continuous basis by a physical infrastructure network, such as electricity, water supply or sewerage”).
- (elliptical, uncountable) Work as a member of the military.
- (computing) A function that is provided by one program or machine for another.
- The sorb; the fruit of this tree.
- An act of being of assistance to someone.
- (sports) The act of initially starting, or serving, the ball in play in tennis, volleyball, and other games.
- A musical composition for use in churches.
- The state of being subordinate to or employed by an individual or group.
- Service tree.
- A department in a company, organization, or institution.
- (with the) The military.
verb
- mate with
- be used by; as of a utility
- make fit for use
- (transitive) To make a repayment or pay interest (on a debt).
- (transitive) To serve.
- (transitive) To perform maintenance.
- (transitive, military, euphemistic) To attack.
- (public relations, transitive) To supply (media outlets) with press releases etc.
- (transitive, agriculture, euphemistic) To inseminate through sexual intercourse.
- (transitive, vulgar) To perform a sexual act upon.
noun
- The creation of offspring from two different species; cross-breeding.
- The making of a bastard or bastards; Having children out of wedlock or destroying the legitimacy of children's paternity.
- (more generally) The creation of an inferior copy or version; corruption, degradation, or debasement.
- Activities involving harassment, abuse or humiliation used as a way of initiating a person into a group.
- (by extension) The combining of separate races in marriage or breeding; miscegenation.
- Any change or neologism in language that is viewed as a degradation.
- declaring or rendering bastard
- an act that debases or corrupts
noun
- (uncountable) Sexual reproduction involving different species.
- (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.
noun
- Propagation of offspring through sexual reproduction.
- The good manners regarded as characteristic of the aristocracy and conferred by heredity.
- Descent; pedigree; extraction.
- (gay slang) Ejaculation inside the rectum during bareback anal sex.
- Nurture; education; formation of manners.
- The act of copulation in animals.
- The act of insemination by natural or artificial means.
- the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior)
- elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression
- helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community
- the production of animals or plants by inbreeding or hybridization
- the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring
adj
verb
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To mate so as to produce a hybrid; interbreed.
- (transitive) To mate (an organism) with another organism so as to produce a hybrid.
- (transitive) To produce (an organism) by the mating of individuals of different breeds, varieties, or species; hybridize.
- breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties
noun
- Cross-breeding.
- A voyage across a body of water.
- (Philippines) Ellipsis of pedestrian crossing.
- Opposition; thwarting.
- (architecture) The volume formed by the intersection of chancel, nave and transepts in a cruciform church; often with a tower or cupola over it.
- An intersection where roads, lines, or tracks cross.
- (graph theory) A pair of intersecting edges.
- A pair of parallel lines printed on a cheque.
- Movement into a crossed position.
- The act by which terrain or a road etc. is crossed.
- A place at which a river, railroad, or highway may be crossed.
- (sociolinguistics) The appropriation of a form of language by somebody who is not a member of the group that speaks it.
- (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids
- a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other
- a voyage across a body of water (usually across the Atlantic Ocean)
- traveling across
- a shallow area in a stream that can be forded
- a point where two lines (paths or arcs etc.) intersect
- a junction where one street or road crosses another
adj
verb
noun
- (especially of a non-human animal) A breeding partner.
- (colloquial, British, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, sometimes elsewhere in the Commonwealth) Friendly term of address to a stranger, usually male, of similar age.
- A technical assistant in certain trades (e.g. gasfitter's mate, plumber's mate); sometimes an apprentice.
- (nautical) A ship's officer, subordinate to the master on a commercial ship.
- A suitable companion; a match; an equal.
- (nautical) In naval ranks, a non-commissioned officer or his subordinate (e.g. Boatswain's Mate, Gunner's Mate, Sailmaker's Mate, etc).
- (nautical) A first mate.
- The abovementioned plant; the leaves and shoots used for the tea
- Alternative spelling of maté, an aromatic tea-like drink prepared from the holly yerba maté (Ilex paraguariensis).
- (chess) Clipping of checkmate.
- (colloquial, British, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, sometimes elsewhere in the Commonwealth) A friend, usually of the same sex.
- A fellow, comrade, colleague, partner or someone with whom something is shared, e.g. shipmate, classmate.
- The other member of a matched pair of objects.
- informal term for a friend of the same sex
- an exact duplicate
- the partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner)
- a person's partner in marriage
- a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king
- one of a pair
- the officer below the master on a commercial ship
- South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate
- a fellow member of a team
- South American holly; leaves used in making a drink like tea
verb
- (transitive, of an animal) To copulate with.
- (intransitive) To match, fit together without space between.
- (intransitive) To come together as companions, comrades, partners, etc.
- (intransitive) To copulate.
- (transitive) To marry; to match (a person).
- (transitive) To introduce (animals) together for the purpose of breeding.
- (transitive, aerospace) To move (a space shuttle orbiter) onto the back of an aircraft that can carry it.
- (intransitive) To pair in order to raise offspring.
- (transitive) To fit (objects) together without space between.
- (transitive) To arrange in matched pairs.
- (chess) Clipping of checkmate.
- bring two objects, ideas, or people together
- place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game
- engage in sexual intercourse
verb
noun
- (genetics) The breeding of an individual with a phenotypically recessive individual, in order to determine the zygosity of the former by analysing proportions of offspring phenotypes.
- a cross between an organism whose genotype for a certain trait is unknown and an organism that is homozygous recessive for that trait so the unknown genotype can be determined from that of the offspring
verb
- (intransitive) To come together for mating.
- (politics, slang) To engage (oneself) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions.
- (intransitive) To suit; to fit, as a counterpart.
- (transitive) To bring two (animals, notably dogs) together for mating.
- (computing) to link two electronic devices wirelessly together, especially through a protocol such as Bluetooth.
- (transitive) To group into one or more sets of two.
- bring two objects, ideas, or people together
- arrange in pairs
- form a pair or pairs
- occur in pairs
- engage in sexual intercourse
noun
- (baseball, informal) A double play, two outs recorded in one play.
- (baseball, informal) A doubleheader, two games played on the same day between the same teams.
- (card games) A poker hand that contains two cards of identical rank, which cannot also count as a better hand.
- (slang) A pair of testicles.
- Two alike or identical things taken together; often followed by of.
- Two members of opposite parties or opinion, as in a parliamentary body, who mutually agree not to vote on a given question, or on issues of a party nature during a specified time.
- One of the constituent items that make up a pair.
- (kinematics) In a mechanism, two elements, or bodies, which are so applied to each other as to mutually constrain relative motion; named in accordance with the motion it permits, as in turning pair, sliding pair, twisting pair.
- Two people in a relationship, partnership or friendship.
- Used with binary nouns (often in the plural to indicate multiple instances, since such nouns are plural only, except in some technical contexts).
- (slang) A pair of breasts.
- (rowing) A boat for two sweep rowers.
- (Australia, politics) The exclusion of one member of a parliamentary party from a vote, if a member of the other party is absent for important personal reasons.
- A couple of working animals attached to work together, as by a yoke.
- (cricket) A score of zero runs (a duck) in both innings of a two-innings match.
- two people considered as a unit
- a set of two similar things considered as a unit
- a poker hand with 2 cards of the same value
- two items of the same kind
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To mate so as to produce a hybrid; interbreed.
- (transitive) To mate (an organism) with another organism so as to produce a hybrid.
- (transitive) To produce (an organism) by the mating of individuals of different breeds, varieties, or species; hybridize.
- breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties
adj
adj
adj
adj
- not bearing offspring
- completely wanting or lacking
- providing no shelter or sustenance
- Mentally dull or unproductive; stupid or intellectually fallow.
- (of people and animals, not comparable) Not bearing children, childless; hence also unable to bear children, sterile.
- Unproductive, fruitless, unprofitable; empty, hollow, vain.
- (of plants, not comparable) Not bearing seed or fruit.
- (of places) Of poor fertility, infertile; not producing vegetation; desert, waste.
- Devoid of interest or attraction, poor, bleak.
- (with of) Devoid, lacking.
noun
- an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
- (usually in the plural) In particular, a usually elevated and flat expanse of land that only supports the growth of small trees and shrubs, and sometimes mosses or heathers, berries, and other marshy or moory vegetation, but little agriculture and few people.
- An area of low fertility and habitation, a desolate place.
adj
noun
- dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes
- the act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush and soap and water
- (countable, sports, slang) One not on the first team of players; a substitute.
- An instance of scrubbing.
- (countable, US, stock breeding) One of the common livestock of a region of no particular breed or not of pure breed, especially when inferior in size, etc.; particularly a male animal poorly suited for breeding.
- One who scrubs.
- (uncountable) A thicket or jungle, often specified by the name of the prevailing plant.
- A cancellation.
- An exfoliant for the body.
- (countable, slang, derogatory) One who is incompetent or unable to complete easy tasks.
- (countable, online gaming, slang, derogatory) A player who whines when outmatched by other players, sometimes by blaming the game mechanics or even accusing the other players of cheating.
- A worn-out brush.
- That which scrubs.
- (countable, derogatory) One who labors hard and lives meanly; a mean fellow.
- (uncountable) Vegetation judged to be of inferior quality or of little use to humans, though sometimes thick and impenetrable, growing in poor soil or in sand; also, brush.
- (by extension, in the plural) Any medical uniform consisting of a short-sleeved shirt and pants (trousers).
- (medicine, in the plural) Clothing worn while performing surgery.
verb
- clean with hard rubbing
- postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled
- wash thoroughly
- (transitive) To call off a scheduled event; to cancel.
- (media) To move a recording tape back and forth with a scrubbing motion to produce a scratching sound, or to do so by a similar use of a control on an editing system.
- (databases, transitive) To eliminate or to correct data from a set of records to bring it inline with other similar datasets
- (intransitive) To rub anything hard, especially with a wet brush; to scour
- (transitive) To rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, to rub with a wet brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning or brightening
- (media) To maneuver the play position on a media editing system by using a scroll bar or touch-based interface.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be diligent and penurious
adj
- (of reproduction) not involving the fusion of male and female gametes in reproduction
- (biology) Having no visible sex organs; asexual or cryptogamous.
- (biology) Synonym of agamic: asexual (of reproduction: occurring without union of male and female gametes).
- Having no marital partner or pair-bonded mate; being neither monogamous (pair-bonded) nor polygamous.
adj
- producing offspring of only one sex, exhibiting monogeny
- of or relating to monogenesis or to monogenism
- (mathematics, of a semigroup) generated by a set containing only a single element
- (mathematics, of a function) having a single derivative at a point
- (genetics) regulated by a single gene
- of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by a single pair of genes
noun
adj
- (not comparable) Unable to reproduce (or procreate).
- (US, military) Of weapons: foreign-made and untraceable to the United States.
- Free from dangerous objects, as a zone in an airport that can be only be entered via a security checkpoint.
- Germless; free from all living or viable microorganisms.
- (figurative) Terse; lacking sentiment or emotional stimulation, as in a manner of speaking.
- Permanently uninhabitable (as in a planet like Earth) to all life, including even microbes.
- (figurative) Fruitless, uninspiring, or unproductive.
- incapable of reproducing
- deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention
- free of or using methods to keep free of pathological microorganisms
adj
- (biology) involving heterogametes in the reproductive process
- (botany) in which the stamens and pistils are not present in every flower; i.e. there are male and female flowers
- (biology) characterized by alternating generations of a parthenogenetic and sexual nature
- in the daisy family Asteraceae, having two types of flowers in a flower head (such as some sterile, some hermaphrodite, or some female, some hermaphrodite)
adj
- (of some female animals, especially cows and sheep) Not pregnant; not producing offspring when expected to do so during the breeding season.
- Destitute of effect, sincerity, or sense; said of language.
- Hungry.
- Destitute of, or lacking, sense, knowledge, or courtesy.
- Having nothing to carry, emptyhanded; unburdened.
- (computing, programming, mathematics) Containing no elements (as of a string, array, or set), opposed to being null (having no valid value).
- Unable to satisfy; hollow; vain.
- Destitute of reality, or real existence; unsubstantial.
- (wine) Lacking between the onset of tasting and the finish.
- Devoid of content; containing nothing or nobody; vacant.
- needing nourishment
- holding or containing nothing
- emptied of emotion
- devoid of significance or force
noun
verb
- (transitive, ergative) To make empty; to remove the contents of.
- (intransitive) Of a river, duct, etc: to drain or flow toward an ultimate destination.
- make void or empty of contents
- remove the contents of a container
- become empty or void of its content
- leave behind empty; move out of
- excrete or discharge from the body