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adj
noun
- (US, professional wrestling, capitalized) A woman in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling.
- (informal) A very attractive person, especially a beautiful woman.
- A partially punched opening meant for optional later removal.
- (informal) Something wildly popular, entertaining, or funny.
- (printing) An event where a foreground color causes a background color not to print.
- (genetics) The deactivation of a particular gene.
- (uncountable) A simple game for two or more players, derived from basketball.
- The deactivation of anything.
- The act of making one unconscious, or at least unable to come back on one's feet within a certain period of time; a TKO.
- Ellipsis of knockout auction.
- (sports) A tournament in which a team or player must beat the opponent in order to progress to the next round.
- (genetics) A creature engineered with a particular gene deactivated.
- a blow that renders the opponent unconscious
- a very attractive or seductive looking woman
verb
- To be eliminated from a competition.
- To go unconscious; to pass out.
- (idiomatic) To leave one's abode to go to public places, especially for recreation or entertainment.
- To die.
- (with with) To have a romantic relationship (with someone).
- (colloquial) To fail.
- To be drained from; to disappear from somebody.
- To become extinct, to expire.
- To leave, especially a building.
- (intransitive, usually of one's heart) To sympathize with; to express positive feelings towards.
- (of the tide) To recede; to ebb.
- To pass out of fashion; be on the wane.
- (card games) To discard or meld all the cards in one's hand.
- (UK, broadcasting) To be broadcast.
- (of a couple) To have a romantic relationship, one that involves going out together on dates; to be a couple.
- (with on) To spend the last moments of a show (while playing something).
- To be turned off or extinguished.
- move out of or depart from
- go out of fashion; become unfashionable
- date regularly; have a steady relationship with
- leave the house to go somewhere
- take the field
- become extinguished
verb
- (informal) To be eliminated from a competition.
- (slang, neologism) To become uncontrollably angry or upset; to rage, snap.
- (chemistry) To rapidly precipitate.
- (African-American Vernacular, Internet slang) To act out recklessly and violently, often in a way that leads to self-destruction or serious consequences, typically in enraged reaction to something.
- (slang, US) To break out of a prison.
- (informal) To fall asleep from exhaustion.
- (informal, computing) To terminate with an unhandled error; to crash.
- (transitive) To produce or create rapidly; to bang out.
noun
noun
- The act of excluding a losing contestant from a match, tournament, or other competition.
- (biology) The act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.
- (mathematics) The act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation; especially, in the operation of deducing from several equations containing several unknown quantities a less number of equations containing a less number of unknown quantities.
- (television) The act of voting off or throwing off a contestant in a reality television competition.
- (accounting) The act of recording amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.
- The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off.
- (logic) The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction.
- the murder of a competitor
- the act of removing or getting rid of something
- analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic rejection of unacceptable alternatives
- the bodily process of discharging waste matter
- the act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations
verb
- To lose a contest, game, match, or other form of competition by voluntary withdrawal, by failing to attend or participate, or by violation of the rules
- To fail to keep an obligation.
- To be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to transgress.
- (law) Of government officials: to legally remove property from its previous owners.
- To suffer the loss of something by wrongdoing or non-compliance
- lose (something) or lose the right to (something) by some error, offense, or crime
adj
noun
- Something deposited and redeemable by a sportive fine as part of a game.
- A thing forfeited; that which is taken from somebody in requital of a misdeed committed; that which is lost, or the right to which is alienated, by a crime, breach of contract, etc.
- A penalty for or consequence of a misdemeanor.
- a penalty for a fault or mistake that involves losing or giving up something
- something that is lost or surrendered as a penalty
- the act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc.
noun
- A loss incurred by failing to compete.
- (finance) The condition of failing to meet an obligation.
- (finance) The condition of being an obligation that has not been met.
- A selection made in the absence of an alternative.
- (often attributive) A value used when none has been given; a tentative value or standard that is presumed.
- (law) The failure of a defendant to appear and answer a summons and complaint.
- (electronics, computing) the original software programming settings as set by the factory
- an option that is selected automatically unless an alternative is specified
- loss resulting from failure of a debt to be paid
- act of failing to meet a financial obligation
- loss due to not showing up
verb
- (intransitive) To lose a competition by failing to compete.
- (intransitive, finance) To fail to fulfill a financial obligation.
- (intransitive, law) To fail to appear and answer a summons and complaint.
- (ambitransitive, computing) To assume a value when none was given; to presume a tentative value or standard.
- fail to pay up
verb
- (transitive) To eliminate from a contest or similar.
- (intransitive, informal, idiomatic) To fall asleep, especially suddenly.
- (transitive) To communicate (a message) by knocking.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To cause a mechanism to become non-functional by damaging or destroying it.
- (transitive, slang) To defeat or kill (someone).
- (transitive, informal, idiomatic) To exhaust.
- (transitive, informal) To complete, especially in haste; knock off.
- (transitive, informal, idiomatic) To impress, surpass or overwhelm (someone).
- (transitive, informal, idiomatic) To put to sleep.
- (transitive, slang, UK) To sell.
- (transitive) To strike or bump (someone or something) out.
- (transitive, Australia) To obtain or earn (something, often money or food).
- To lose the scent of hounds in fox-hunting.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To render unconscious, as by a blow to the head.
- empty (as of tobacco) by knocking out
- overwhelm with admiration
- knock unconscious or senseless
- eliminate
- destroy or break forcefully
verb
- (sports) To knock out: to eliminate from a competition.
- (baseball and cricket) To cause a player on offense to be out.
- (boxing and medicine) Synonym of knock out: to render unconscious.
- To extinguish (fire).
- To expel.
- To cause someone to be out of sorts; to annoy, impose, inconvenience, or disturb.
- (intransitive, originally US slang) To consent to having sex.
- To turn off (light).
- To broadcast, to publish.
- To remove from office.
- (intransitive) To go out, to head out, especially (sailing) to set sail.
- (transitive) To place outside, to remove, particularly
- To dislocate (a joint).
- (transitive) To blind (eyes).
- To produce, to emit.
- administer an anesthetic drug to
- thrust or extend out
- prepare and issue for public distribution or sale
- be sexually active
- deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion
- cause to be out on a fielding play
- put out, as of a candle or a light
- put out considerable effort
- retire
- to cause inconvenience or discomfort to
adj
noun
noun
- one of the two competitions in the next to the last round of an elimination tournament
- a truck consisting of a tractor and trailer together
- a trailer having wheels only in the rear; the front is supported by the towing vehicle
- (slang, finance) Semiconductor companies or positions in the stock market.
- (slang) A semiautomatic firearm.
- (colloquial, mining) An intermediate in the production of end-use goods.
- (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, US) A semi-trailer; a tractor-trailer; an eighteen-wheeler; an artic.
- (slang) A partial erection of the penis.
- (informal) A semifinal.
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, Canada, informal) A semi-detached house.
adv
verb
- dismiss from consideration or a contest
- remove from a contest or race
- terminate, end, or take out
- eliminate from the body
- remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations
- get rid of something
- kill in large numbers
- (transitive) To exclude (from investigation or from further competition).
- (transitive) To completely remove, get rid of, put an end to.
- (ambitransitive, physiology) To excrete (waste products).
- (transitive, military) To render (a facility) unusable, to destroy it; to disable (a soldier), make them unable to fight (typically but not necessarily by killing)
- (transitive, slang) To kill (a person or animal).
- (accounting) To record amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.
verb
- dismiss from consideration or a contest
- refuse entrance or membership
- reject with contempt
- not accept as true
- not accept something given or offered
- deem wrong or inappropriate
- resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ
- (transitive) To refuse a romantic advance.
- (basketball) To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.
- (transitive) To refuse to accept; to forswear.
noun
verb
- dismiss from consideration or a contest
- include or exclude by determining judicially or in agreement with rules
- make impossible, especially beforehand
- (idiomatic, transitive) To reject an option from a list of possibilities.
- (transitive) To disallow.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To make something impossible.
- (transitive) To make unavailable.
- (transitive) To cross an item out by drawing a straight line through it, as with a ruler.
noun
adj
noun
- (British, figuratively) to eliminate from a contest or sport championship
- (British) The high-profile removal of a person from an organization.
- (computing, humorous) The act of removing the Microsoft Windows operating system from a computer in order to install an alternative one.
- The act of throwing something or especially someone out of a window, especially lethally.
- the act of throwing someone or something out of a window
noun
verb
- (idiomatic) To lose a competition by one's own mistakes, usually near the end of the contest.
- Of money: to pay or disburse reluctantly.
- Of other objects: to hand over, give.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To spill, to fumble.
- (transitive) To expel from the lungs, throat, stomach, etc. by coughing.
- (intransitive, slang) To confess; to give up information.
- give reluctantly
- discharge (phlegm or sputum) from the lungs and out of the mouth
verb
- To deliberately lose a sports match with the intent of gaining a perceived future competitive advantage.
- (video games) To attract the attacks of an enemy target in cooperative team-based combat, so that one's teammates can defeat the enemy in question more efficiently.
- (fandom slang) To resist damage; to be attacked without being hurt.
- To fail or fall (often used in describing the economy or the stock market); to degenerate or decline rapidly; to plummet.
- (Singapore, colloquial) To willingly take on an undesirable task or burden.
- (Singapore, colloquial) To stand; to tolerate.
- (transitive) To put (fuel, etc.) into a tank.
- (originally poker, slang) To contemplate a decision for a long time; to go in the tank.
- consume excessive amounts of alcohol
- store in a tank by causing (something) to flow into it
- treat in a tank
noun
- A small Indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in weight.
- (US, slang) A prison cell, or prison generally.
- (colloquial) A very muscular and physically imposing person; somebody who is built like a tank.
- (Australia, India) A reservoir or dam.
- (botany) A structure of tightly overlapping leaves used by some bromeliads to retain water.
- An open container or pool for storing water or other liquids.
- (rail transport) Ellipsis of tank engine or tank locomotive.
- (poker, slang) A metaphorical place where a player goes to contemplate a decision; see in the tank.
- The amount held by a container; a tankful.
- (clothing) Ellipsis of tank top.
- An armoured fighting vehicle, armed with a gun designed for direct fire, and moving on caterpillar tracks.
- A pond, pool, or small lake (either natural or artificial).
- The fuel reservoir of a vehicle.
- A closed container for liquids or gases.
- A Bombay weight of 72 grains, for pearls.
- (roleplaying games, board games, video games) A unit or character designed primarily around damage absorption and holding the attention of the enemy (as opposed to dealing damage, healing, or other tasks).
- a cell for violent prisoners
- a large (usually metallic) vessel for holding gases or liquids
- an enclosed armored military vehicle; has a cannon and moves on caterpillar treads
- a freight car that transports liquids or gases in bulk
- as much as a tank will hold
noun
- a competitor who has withdrawn from competition
- a harsh noise made by scraping
- a line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game
- an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off
- informal terms for money
- (golf) a handicap of zero strokes
- an indication of damage
- a depression scratched or carved into a surface
- dry mash for poultry
- poor handwriting
- A foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.
- Poor handwriting; especially, illegibly so.
- (music) A genre of Virgin Islander music, better known as fungi.
- A feed, usually a mixture of a few common grains, given to chickens.
- A starting line (originally and simply, a line scratched in the ground), as in boxing.
- A technical error of touching or surpassing the starting mark prior to the official start signal in the sporting events of long jump, discus, hammer throw, shot put, and similar. Originally the starting mark was a scratch on the ground but is now a board or precisely indicated mark.
- (in the plural) Minute, but tender and troublesome, excoriations, covered with scabs, upon the heels of horses which have been used where it is very wet or muddy.
- (meiosis) A minor injury.
- A disruption, mark or shallow cut on a surface made by scratching.
- (cycling) The last riders to depart in a handicap race.
- An act of scratching the skin to alleviate an itch or irritation.
- Nothing, zero. Used especially in card games or sports, but also expressions like "from scatch".
- (now historical) A scratch wig.
- (horse racing) A horse withdrawn from a race prior to the start.
- (slang) Money; especially, cash.
verb
- scrape or rub as if to relieve itching
- postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled
- gather (money or other resources) together over time
- cause friction
- remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line
- cut the surface of; wear away the surface of
- carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface
- (music) To produce a distinctive sound on a turntable by moving a vinyl record back and forth while manipulating the crossfader (see also scratching).
- (ambitransitive) To dig or excavate with the claws.
- (of a surface) To get such scratches.
- To write or draw hastily or awkwardly; scrawl.
- To rub a surface with a sharp object, especially by a living creature to remove itching with nails, claws, etc.
- Hence, to remove, ignore, or delete.
- To dig or scrape (a person's skin) with claws or fingernails in self-defense or with the intention to injure.
- To cross out, strike out, strike through some text on a page.
- To mark a surface with a sharp object, thereby leaving a scratch (noun).
- (billiards) To commit a foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.
- (swimming, athletics) To announce one's non-participation in a race or sports event part of a larger sports meeting that one was previously signed up for, usually in lieu of another event at the same meeting.
- To rub the skin with rough material causing a sensation of irritation; to cause itching.
- To irritate someone's skin with one's unshaven beard when kissing.
adj
- (sports) (of a player) Of a standard high enough to play without a handicap, i.e. to compete without the benefit of a variation in scoring based on ability.
- (computing) Relating to a scratchpad, a data structure or recording medium attached to a machine for testing or temporary use.
- For or consisting of preliminary or tentative, incomplete, etc. work.
- Hastily assembled, arranged or constructed, from whatever materials are to hand, with little or no preparation
noun
- one of the four competitions in an elimination tournament whose winners go on to play in the semifinals
- (sports) One of the four competitions in a knockout tournament whose winners go on to play in the two semifinals.
- (general) A competition that narrows a field of contestants (quarterfinalists) to a set of semifinalists, for a subsequent final.
noun
- an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest
- the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals
- The act or instance of defeating, of overcoming, vanquishing.
- Frustration (by prevention of success), stymieing; (law) nullification.
- The act or instance of being defeated, of being overcome or vanquished; a loss.
verb
noun
- Clipping of competition.
- Clipping of complimentary ticket or complimentary item.
- Clipping of compilation.
- (informal) Clipping of compensation.
- Clipping of comp card.
- Alternative form of comp.
- (education) Clipping of comprehensive examination.
- Clipping of composition.
- Clipping of computer science, especially an academic program.
- Clipping of comptroller (“chief accountant”).
- (British, education) Clipping of comprehensive school.
- Clipping of comparable.
- (design) Clipping of comprehensive layout, a graphic design showing final proposed layout of text and images.
- Clipping of composite.
- Clipping of compositor.
- an intensive examination testing a student's proficiency in some special field of knowledge
adj
verb
- (intransitive, US) To accompany, in music.
- (transitive) To provide (someone) with a complimentary item, such as a ticket; to provide (someone) with something for free.
- (transitive) To compose (a visual design); to make a composite.
- (transitive) To provide (a complimentary item, such as a ticket) for free (either up front or sometimes by refunding the cost of it).
- Clipping of compile.
noun
- a foolhardy competition; a dangerous activity that is continued until one competitor becomes afraid and stops
- a person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy
- the flesh of a chicken used for food
- a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl
- A confrontational game in which the participants move toward each other at high speed (usually in automobiles); the player who turns first to avoid colliding into the other is the "chicken" (that is, the loser).
- (uncountable) The game of dare.
- (countable, Polari) A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair; compare chickenhawk.
- (uncountable) The meat from this bird eaten as food.
- (countable) A domesticated subspecies of red junglefowl (Gallus gallus domesticus).
- (countable, slang, sometimes derogatory) A young or inexperienced person.
- (slang, US) A kilogram of cocaine.
- (preceded by definite article) A simple dance in which the movements of a chicken are imitated.
- (countable, slang, sometimes derogatory) A coward.
adj
verb
noun
- a contestant who withdraws from competition
- a student who withdraws from the educational institution in which he or she was enrolled
- a drug addict who is discontinuing the use of narcotics
- an authority who withdraws permission
- a depositor who withdraws funds previously deposited
- an individualist who withdraws from social interaction
- Someone who withdraws.
noun
- In exhibitions, a distinction indicating that the recipient will get a prize in the event of another person being disqualified.
- A tract of land reserved, or set apart, for a particular purpose
- (calico printing) A resist.
- Wine held back and aged before being sold.
- Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior.
- (military) A body of troops kept in the rear of an army drawn up for battle, reserved to support the other lines as occasion may require; a force or body of troops kept for an exigency.
- The act of reserving or keeping back; reservation; exception.
- (ceramics) Absence of color or decoration; the state of being left plain.
- That which is reserved or kept back, as for future use.
- A preparation used on an object being electroplated to fix the limits of the deposit.
- (Canada) A tract of land set apart for the use of an Aboriginal group: Indian reserve.
- A reserve price in an auction.
- (finance, insurance) Funds kept on hand to meet planned or unplanned financial requirements.
- (sports) A member of a team who does not participate from the start of the game, but can be used to replace tired or injured team-mates.
- A natural resource known to exist but not currently exploited.
- (card games) A group or pile of cards dealt out at the beginning of a patience or solitaire game to be used during play.
- formality and propriety of manner
- the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary
- armed forces that are not on active duty but can be called in an emergency
- something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose
- (medicine) potential capacity to respond in order to maintain vital functions
- a district that is reserved for particular purpose
- an athlete who plays only when a starter on the team is replaced
verb
- (transitive) To keep back; to retain.
- To book in advance; to make a reservation for.
- To keep in store for future or special use.
- hold back or set aside, especially for future use or contingency
- obtain or arrange (for oneself) in advance
- arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance
- give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause
verb
- To be losing, to be behind in a competition.
- (transitive) To leave (a trail of).
- (military) To carry (a firearm) with the breech near the ground and the upper part inclined forward, the piece being held by the right hand near the middle.
- (transitive) To follow behind (someone or something); to tail (someone or something).
- (intransitive) To drag oneself lazily or reluctantly along.
- (intransitive) To run or climb like certain plants.
- To create a trail in.
- To transport (livestock) by herding it along a trail.
- (transitive) To drag (something) behind on the ground.
- (intransitive) To hang or drag loosely behind; to move with a slow sweeping motion.
- (transitive) To show a trailer of (a film, TV show etc.); to release or publish a preview of (a report etc.) in advance of the full publication.
- To travel by following or creating trails.
- to lag or linger behind
- hang down so as to drag along the ground
- go after with the intent to catch
- move, proceed, or walk draggingly or slowly
- drag loosely along a surface; allow to sweep the ground
noun
- The track or indication marking the route followed by something that has passed, such as the footprints of animal on land or the contrail of an airplane in the sky.
- (television) A trailer broadcast on television for a forthcoming film or programme.
- The horizontal distance from where the wheel touches the ground to where the steering axis intersects the ground.
- A route or circuit generally.
- A route for travel over land, especially a narrow, unpaved pathway for use by hikers, horseback riders, etc.
- (graph theory) A walk in which all the edges are distinct.
- a track or mark left by something that has passed
- evidence pointing to a possible solution
- a path or track roughly blazed through wild or hilly country
noun
- (sports) A second or further round of a competition, after other competitors (often all but the last two) have been eliminated.
- That portion of precipitation or irrigation on an area which does not infiltrate or evaporate, but instead is discharged from the area.
- (politics) A second or further round of an indecisive election, after other candidates (often all but the last two) have been eliminated.
- Dissolved chemicals, etc, included in such water.
- a final election to resolve an earlier election that did not produce a winner
- the occurrence of surplus liquid (as water) exceeding the limit or capacity
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- (sports) Having qualification for an event depend on the upcoming performances of other competitors; hence, at risk of being eliminated, and reversely, being close to qualification; on the verge.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see on, bubble.
- (motor racing) Holding the last qualifying position with qualification still in progress, and thus liable to lose that position.
- (idiomatic) Uncertain of success.
noun
- a contestant who loses the contest
- a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently
- a gambler who loses a bet
- A person who loses; one who fails to win or thrive.
- Something of poor quality.
- A person who is frequently unsuccessful in life.
- (derogatory) A contemptible or unfashionable person.
- A losing proposition, one that is likely to lose or already has lost (such as a losing bet or, analogously, a predictably fruitless task or errand).
- One who or that which loses something, such as extra weight, car keys, etc.
- (slang) A person convicted of a crime, especially more than once.
verb
- determine the result of (a competition)
- form a critical opinion of
- judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time)
- pronounce judgment on
- put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of
- (transitive) To form an opinion on; to appraise.
- (transitive) To have as an opinion; to consider, suppose.
- (ambitransitive) To criticize or label another person or thing; to be judgmental toward.
- (intransitive) To sit in judgment, to act as judge.
- (transitive) To judicially rule or determine.
- (intransitive) To arbitrate; to pass opinion on something, especially to settle a dispute etc.
- (ambitransitive) To govern as biblical judge or shophet (over some jurisdiction).
- (transitive) To sit in judgment on; to pass sentence on (a person or matter).
- (ambitransitive) To form an opinion; to infer.
noun
- an authority who is able to estimate worth or quality
- a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice
- A person who evaluates something or forms an opinion.
- A person who decides the fate of someone or something that has been called into question.
- A person officiating at a sports event, a contest, or similar; referee.
- (historical, biblical) A shophet, a temporary leader appointed in times of crisis in ancient Israel.
- A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice.
noun
- One of several contests that combine to make up a competition.
- A prearranged social activity (function, etc.)
- (medicine) An episode of severe health conditions.
- An occurrence; something that happens.
- (probability theory) A set of some of the possible outcomes; a subset of the sample space.
- (physics) A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate.
- An end result; an outcome (now chiefly in phrases).
- (computing) A possible action that the user can perform that is monitored by an application or the operating system (event listener). When an event occurs an event handler is called which performs a specific task.
- a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon
- a phenomenon located at a single point in space-time; the fundamental observational entity in relativity theory
- something that happens at a given place and time
- a special set of circumstances
noun
- a sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winner
- a series of jousts between knights contesting for a prize
- (historical) During the Middle Ages, a series of battles and other contests designed to prepare knights for war.
- A series of games; either the same game played many times, or a succession of games related by a single theme; played competitively to determine a single winning team or individual.
- (graph theory) A digraph obtained by assigning a direction to each edge in an undirected complete graph.
noun
- the outcome of a game or contest
- the act of making up your mind about something
- a position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
- (boxing) a victory won on points when no knockout has occurred
- the trait of resoluteness as evidenced by firmness of character or purpose
- A choice or judgement.
- (uncountable) Firmness of conviction.
- (baseball) A win or a loss awarded to a pitcher.
- The act of deciding.
- (chiefly combat sports) A result arrived at by the judges when there is no clear winner at the end of the contest.
verb
noun
- (in games and competitions) An exemption given to a player from losing or being withdrawn from play.
- (medicine) Protective resistance against disease.
- (law) An exemption from prosecution.
- (countable) A resistance to a specific thing.
- (religion) An exemption from penance.
- (law) An exemption from specified duties, such as payments or services.
- the quality of being unaffected by something
- an act exempting someone
- (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease
- the state of not being susceptible
verb
adj
noun
- (uncountable, sports) A style of skateboarding featuring typically urban obstacles.
- A road as above, but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings.
- (specifically, US, Canada) The roads that run perpendicular to avenues in a grid layout.
- (finance) Ellipsis of Wall Street.
- A paved part of road, usually in a village or a town.
- (slang, uncountable) Streetwise slang.
- (poker slang) Each of the three opportunities that players have to bet, after the flop, turn and river.
- The people who spend a great deal of time on the street in urban areas, especially, the young, the poor, the unemployed, and those engaged in illegal activities.
- (attributive) Living in the streets.
- The people who live in such a road, as a neighborhood.
- An illicit or contraband source, especially of drugs.
- (slang, in the plural) People in general, as a source of information.
- (figuratively) A great distance.
- the streets of a city viewed as a depressed environment in which there is poverty and crime and prostitution and dereliction
- a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings
- people living or working on the same street
- a situation offering opportunities
- the part of a thoroughfare between the sidewalks; the part of the thoroughfare on which vehicles travel
verb
name
noun
adj
- Of or pertaining to competition.
- (biochemistry) Relating to the inhibition of the effects of a chemical substance by another substance competing with it for binding or bonding.
- (economics) Capable of competing successfully.
- (euphemistically, of prices) Cheap, especially used of quality products.
- (of someone's character) Inclined to compete.
- subscribing to capitalistic competition
- showing a fighting disposition
- involving competition or competitiveness
adj
- used of an unexpected defeat of a team favored to win
- thrown into a state of disarray or confusion
- mildly physically distressed
- afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief
- having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom
- (of a stomach or gastrointestinal tract) Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit.
- (of a person, predicative only) Angry, distressed, or unhappy
noun
- a tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging
- an improbable and unexpected victory
- an unhappy and worried mental state
- the act of upsetting something
- the act of disturbing the mind or body
- a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning
- (uncountable) Disturbance or disruption.
- (mathematics) An upper set; a subset (X,≤) of a partially ordered set with the property that, if x is in U and x≤y, then y is in U.
- (automobile insurance) An overturn.
- (countable, sports, politics) An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win.
- (aviation) The dangerous situation where the flight attitude or airspeed of an aircraft is outside the designed bounds of operation, possibly resulting in loss of control.
- An upset stomach.
- (basketry) A woven row supporting the foundation rods for the uprights of a basket.
verb
- form metals with a swage
- disturb the balance or stability of
- cause to lose one's composure
- cause to overturn from an upright or normal position
- defeat suddenly and unexpectedly
- move deeply
- To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.
- (transitive) To defeat unexpectedly.
- (intransitive) To be upset or knocked over.
- (transitive, basketry) To support with an upset (type of woven row).
- (transitive) To tip or overturn (something).
- (transitive) To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
- (metalworking) To thicken and shorten a soft or heated piece of metal, by forging or hammering on the end, to shape, for example, rivets or internal combustion engine valves.
- (transitive) To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).
noun
- a defeat in which the losing person or team fails to score
- a specious or deceptive clearing that attempts to gloss over failings and defects
- wash consisting of lime and size in water; used for whitening walls and other surfaces
- (sports, originally baseball) A complete victory or series of victories without suffering any losses; a clean sweep; also, a victory or series of victories by a very large margin.
- (uncountable, cooking) The most basic type of thickening agent, consisting of flour blended with water to make a paste.
- (uncountable) A mixture of a powdered mineral substance (often slaked lime (containing calcium hydroxide), chalk (calcium carbonate), or both) and water which is used for painting surfaces such as fences and walls bright white.
- A thing used to hide mistakes, or to create an appearance of honesty, propriety, etc.; also (often politics), an act of hiding mistakes or creating an appearance of honesty, propriety, etc.; especially, a campaign, investigation, etc., which intentionally hides or overlooks unfavourable facts.
- (countable, cosmetics, historical) A preparation for making the skin look lighter.
- (business) An act of clearing a person's debts, especially through a declaration of bankruptcy by a court.
verb
- cover with whitewash
- exonerate by means of a perfunctory investigation or through biased presentation of data
- cover up a misdemeanor, fault, or error
- (media) To make over (someone of colour) so that they appear more white, for example, by applying lightening makeup to their skin or digitally manipulating an image of them.
- (sports, originally baseball, informal) To achieve a complete victory or series of victories over (an opponent) without suffering any losses; also, to achieve a victory or series of victories over (an opponent) by a very large margin.
- (chiefly film, television) To cast a white actor in a role for a person of colour in (a film, television programme, etc.).
- (chiefly literary and poetic, often passive voice) To cover or coat (something) with a white substance, as if with whitewash (noun noun sense 1); also, to light up (something) with white light.
- To paint (a building, a wall, etc.) a bright white with whitewash (noun noun sense 1).
- (derogatory) To distort or give a misleading account of (history, a narrative, etc.) by discounting the participation of people of colour and focusing on white people.
- (often politics) To hide (someone's) mistakes, or to create an appearance of honesty, propriety, etc., for (someone); also, to intentionally hide or overlook (mistakes, unfavourable facts, wrongdoing, etc.).
- (business) To clear (someone's) debts, especially through a declaration of bankruptcy by a court; also, to clear or write off (a debt).
- (figurative, business) To have debts cleared through a declaration of bankruptcy by a court.
- To paint bright white with whitewash (noun noun sense 1).
noun
- A preliminary stage of a competition.
- (grammar) A word or phrase, such as an adjective or adverb, that describes or characterizes another word or phrase, such as a noun or verb; one that adds or subtracts attributes to another.
- One who qualifies for something, especially a contestant who qualifies for a stage in a competition.
- (computing, programming) A marker that qualifies or modifies another code element.
- a content word that qualifies the meaning of a noun or verb
- a contestant who meets certain requirements and so qualifies to take part in the next stage of competition
noun
- Equality of conditions in contest or competition.
- Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison.
- Equivalence; a state of correspondence.
- (sports) A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet (commonly called a "bout"), a baseball game, or a cricket match.
- (metalworking) A perforated board, block of plaster, hardened sand, etc., in which a pattern is partly embedded when a mould is made, for giving shape to the surfaces of separation between the parts of the mould.
- Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority.
- Suitability.
- A device made of wood or paper, having the tip coated with chemicals that ignite with the friction of being dragged (struck) against a rough dry surface.
- A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics.
- A marriage.
- A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.
- An agreement or compact.
- a formal contest in which two or more persons or teams compete
- a pair of people who live together
- an exact duplicate
- something that resembles or harmonizes with
- the score needed to win a match
- lighter consisting of a thin piece of wood or cardboard tipped with combustible chemical; ignites with friction
- a burning piece of wood or cardboard
- a person who is of equal standing with another in a group
- a person regarded as a good matrimonial prospect
verb
- (transitive) To equal or exceed in achievement.
- (intransitive) To agree; to be equal; to correspond.
- (transitive) To agree with; to be equal to; to correspond to.
- (transitive, programming) To be an example of a rule or regex.
- (transitive) To make a successful match or pairing.
- To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and groove at the edges.
- bring two objects, ideas, or people together
- give or join in marriage
- make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching
- be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics
- provide funds complementary to
- be equal or harmonize
- be equal to in quality or ability
- make correspond or harmonize
- set into opposition or rivalry
verb
- (idiomatic, sports) To remove a player from a particular team competition before the conclusion of the event, especially because that player's contribution on this occasion has been below his or her expected level of performance.
- (idiomatic, by extension) To remove or expel someone from a job, position, or activity, especially because of poor behavior or performance.
verb
- decide (a contest or competition) by a runoff
- run away secretly with one's beloved
- force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings
- leave suddenly and as if in a hurry
- run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along
- run off as waste
- reproduce by xerography
- To flee or depart quickly.
- (idiomatic) To write something quickly.
- To have diarrhea.
- (transitive) To steal (horses).
- (idiomatic) To make photocopies, or print.
- To operate by a particular energy or fuel source.
- To cause to flow away.
- To chase someone away.
- To recite, especially items on a list.
- (of a liquid) To pour or spill off or over.
adj
noun
adv
noun
- (figuratively) Any overwhelming defeat, as in a game or sport.
- The killing of a considerable number (usually limited to people) where little or no resistance can be made, with indiscriminate violence, without necessity, and/or contrary to civilized norms.
- the savage and excessive killing of many people
verb
- (transitive) To kill in considerable numbers where little or no resistance can be made, with indiscriminate violence, without necessity, and contrary to civilized norms. (Often limited to the killing of human beings.)
- (transitive, figuratively) To perform (a work, such as a musical piece or a play) very poorly.
- (transitive, proscribed) To kill with great force or brutality.
- (transitive, figuratively) To win against (an opponent) very decisively.
- kill a large number of people indiscriminately
prep_phrase
noun
- a successful ending of a struggle or contest
- the exultation of victory
- (historical, Ancient Rome) a ceremony held to publicly celebrate and sanctify the military achievement of an army commander.
- A work of art, cuisine, etc. of very high quality.
- A state of joy or exultation at success.
- A card trick in which the cards are shuffled with half face-up and half face-down, then laid out so that only the observer's chosen card is facing upward.
- A magnificent and imposing ceremonial performed in honor of a victor.
- A conclusive success following an effort, conflict, or confrontation of obstacles; victory; conquest.
- A card game, also called trump.
verb
- to express great joy
- prove superior
- dwell on with satisfaction
- be ecstatic with joy
- To celebrate victory with pomp; to rejoice over success; to exult in an advantage gained; to exhibit exultation.
- To succeed, win, or attain ascendancy.
- To prevail over rivals, challenges, or difficulties.
- To be prosperous; to flourish.
- To play a trump in a card game.
noun
- a successful ending of a struggle or contest
- (uncountable) The condition or state of having won a battle or competition, or having succeeded in an effort; (countable) an instance of this.
- (Roman mythology) Alternative letter-case form of Victory (“(uncountable) the Roman goddess of victory, the counterpart of the Greek goddess Nike; also (countable), an artistic depiction of her, chiefly as a winged woman”).
intj
adj
- (of a contest or contestants) not fairly matched as opponents
- not even or uniform as e.g. in shape or texture
- not divisible by two
- lacking consistency
- variable and recurring at irregular intervals
- Varying in quality.
- Not uniform.
- Of a surface, not even; covered with raised spots, pits and grooves.
- Not level or smooth.
- (mathematics, rare) Odd.
verb
noun
- The act of excluding a losing contestant from a match, tournament, or other competition.
- (biology) The act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreign substances through the various emunctories.
- (mathematics) The act of causing a quantity to disappear from an equation; especially, in the operation of deducing from several equations containing several unknown quantities a less number of equations containing a less number of unknown quantities.
- (television) The act of voting off or throwing off a contestant in a reality television competition.
- (accounting) The act of recording amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.
- The act of eliminating, expelling or throwing off.
- (logic) The act of obtaining by separation, or as the result of eliminating; deduction.
- the murder of a competitor
- the act of removing or getting rid of something
- analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic rejection of unacceptable alternatives
- the bodily process of discharging waste matter
- the act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations
noun
- A loss incurred by failing to compete.
- (finance) The condition of failing to meet an obligation.
- (finance) The condition of being an obligation that has not been met.
- A selection made in the absence of an alternative.
- (often attributive) A value used when none has been given; a tentative value or standard that is presumed.
- (law) The failure of a defendant to appear and answer a summons and complaint.
- (electronics, computing) the original software programming settings as set by the factory
- an option that is selected automatically unless an alternative is specified
- loss resulting from failure of a debt to be paid
- act of failing to meet a financial obligation
- loss due to not showing up
verb
- (intransitive) To lose a competition by failing to compete.
- (intransitive, finance) To fail to fulfill a financial obligation.
- (intransitive, law) To fail to appear and answer a summons and complaint.
- (ambitransitive, computing) To assume a value when none was given; to presume a tentative value or standard.
- fail to pay up
noun
- one of the two competitions in the next to the last round of an elimination tournament
- a truck consisting of a tractor and trailer together
- a trailer having wheels only in the rear; the front is supported by the towing vehicle
- (slang, finance) Semiconductor companies or positions in the stock market.
- (slang) A semiautomatic firearm.
- (colloquial, mining) An intermediate in the production of end-use goods.
- (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, US) A semi-trailer; a tractor-trailer; an eighteen-wheeler; an artic.
- (slang) A partial erection of the penis.
- (informal) A semifinal.
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, Canada, informal) A semi-detached house.
adv
noun
adj
noun
- (British, figuratively) to eliminate from a contest or sport championship
- (British) The high-profile removal of a person from an organization.
- (computing, humorous) The act of removing the Microsoft Windows operating system from a computer in order to install an alternative one.
- The act of throwing something or especially someone out of a window, especially lethally.
- the act of throwing someone or something out of a window
noun
noun
- a competitor who has withdrawn from competition
- a harsh noise made by scraping
- a line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game
- an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off
- informal terms for money
- (golf) a handicap of zero strokes
- an indication of damage
- a depression scratched or carved into a surface
- dry mash for poultry
- poor handwriting
- A foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.
- Poor handwriting; especially, illegibly so.
- (music) A genre of Virgin Islander music, better known as fungi.
- A feed, usually a mixture of a few common grains, given to chickens.
- A starting line (originally and simply, a line scratched in the ground), as in boxing.
- A technical error of touching or surpassing the starting mark prior to the official start signal in the sporting events of long jump, discus, hammer throw, shot put, and similar. Originally the starting mark was a scratch on the ground but is now a board or precisely indicated mark.
- (in the plural) Minute, but tender and troublesome, excoriations, covered with scabs, upon the heels of horses which have been used where it is very wet or muddy.
- (meiosis) A minor injury.
- A disruption, mark or shallow cut on a surface made by scratching.
- (cycling) The last riders to depart in a handicap race.
- An act of scratching the skin to alleviate an itch or irritation.
- Nothing, zero. Used especially in card games or sports, but also expressions like "from scatch".
- (now historical) A scratch wig.
- (horse racing) A horse withdrawn from a race prior to the start.
- (slang) Money; especially, cash.
verb
- scrape or rub as if to relieve itching
- postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled
- gather (money or other resources) together over time
- cause friction
- remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line
- cut the surface of; wear away the surface of
- carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface
- (music) To produce a distinctive sound on a turntable by moving a vinyl record back and forth while manipulating the crossfader (see also scratching).
- (ambitransitive) To dig or excavate with the claws.
- (of a surface) To get such scratches.
- To write or draw hastily or awkwardly; scrawl.
- To rub a surface with a sharp object, especially by a living creature to remove itching with nails, claws, etc.
- Hence, to remove, ignore, or delete.
- To dig or scrape (a person's skin) with claws or fingernails in self-defense or with the intention to injure.
- To cross out, strike out, strike through some text on a page.
- To mark a surface with a sharp object, thereby leaving a scratch (noun).
- (billiards) To commit a foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.
- (swimming, athletics) To announce one's non-participation in a race or sports event part of a larger sports meeting that one was previously signed up for, usually in lieu of another event at the same meeting.
- To rub the skin with rough material causing a sensation of irritation; to cause itching.
- To irritate someone's skin with one's unshaven beard when kissing.
adj
- (sports) (of a player) Of a standard high enough to play without a handicap, i.e. to compete without the benefit of a variation in scoring based on ability.
- (computing) Relating to a scratchpad, a data structure or recording medium attached to a machine for testing or temporary use.
- For or consisting of preliminary or tentative, incomplete, etc. work.
- Hastily assembled, arranged or constructed, from whatever materials are to hand, with little or no preparation
noun
- one of the four competitions in an elimination tournament whose winners go on to play in the semifinals
- (sports) One of the four competitions in a knockout tournament whose winners go on to play in the two semifinals.
- (general) A competition that narrows a field of contestants (quarterfinalists) to a set of semifinalists, for a subsequent final.
noun
- an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest
- the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals
- The act or instance of defeating, of overcoming, vanquishing.
- Frustration (by prevention of success), stymieing; (law) nullification.
- The act or instance of being defeated, of being overcome or vanquished; a loss.
verb
noun
- Clipping of competition.
- Clipping of complimentary ticket or complimentary item.
- Clipping of compilation.
- (informal) Clipping of compensation.
- Clipping of comp card.
- Alternative form of comp.
- (education) Clipping of comprehensive examination.
- Clipping of composition.
- Clipping of computer science, especially an academic program.
- Clipping of comptroller (“chief accountant”).
- (British, education) Clipping of comprehensive school.
- Clipping of comparable.
- (design) Clipping of comprehensive layout, a graphic design showing final proposed layout of text and images.
- Clipping of composite.
- Clipping of compositor.
- an intensive examination testing a student's proficiency in some special field of knowledge
adj
verb
- (intransitive, US) To accompany, in music.
- (transitive) To provide (someone) with a complimentary item, such as a ticket; to provide (someone) with something for free.
- (transitive) To compose (a visual design); to make a composite.
- (transitive) To provide (a complimentary item, such as a ticket) for free (either up front or sometimes by refunding the cost of it).
- Clipping of compile.
noun
- a foolhardy competition; a dangerous activity that is continued until one competitor becomes afraid and stops
- a person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy
- the flesh of a chicken used for food
- a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl
- A confrontational game in which the participants move toward each other at high speed (usually in automobiles); the player who turns first to avoid colliding into the other is the "chicken" (that is, the loser).
- (uncountable) The game of dare.
- (countable, Polari) A young, attractive, slim man, usually having little body hair; compare chickenhawk.
- (uncountable) The meat from this bird eaten as food.
- (countable) A domesticated subspecies of red junglefowl (Gallus gallus domesticus).
- (countable, slang, sometimes derogatory) A young or inexperienced person.
- (slang, US) A kilogram of cocaine.
- (preceded by definite article) A simple dance in which the movements of a chicken are imitated.
- (countable, slang, sometimes derogatory) A coward.
adj
verb
noun
- a contestant who withdraws from competition
- a student who withdraws from the educational institution in which he or she was enrolled
- a drug addict who is discontinuing the use of narcotics
- an authority who withdraws permission
- a depositor who withdraws funds previously deposited
- an individualist who withdraws from social interaction
- Someone who withdraws.
noun
- In exhibitions, a distinction indicating that the recipient will get a prize in the event of another person being disqualified.
- A tract of land reserved, or set apart, for a particular purpose
- (calico printing) A resist.
- Wine held back and aged before being sold.
- Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior.
- (military) A body of troops kept in the rear of an army drawn up for battle, reserved to support the other lines as occasion may require; a force or body of troops kept for an exigency.
- The act of reserving or keeping back; reservation; exception.
- (ceramics) Absence of color or decoration; the state of being left plain.
- That which is reserved or kept back, as for future use.
- A preparation used on an object being electroplated to fix the limits of the deposit.
- (Canada) A tract of land set apart for the use of an Aboriginal group: Indian reserve.
- A reserve price in an auction.
- (finance, insurance) Funds kept on hand to meet planned or unplanned financial requirements.
- (sports) A member of a team who does not participate from the start of the game, but can be used to replace tired or injured team-mates.
- A natural resource known to exist but not currently exploited.
- (card games) A group or pile of cards dealt out at the beginning of a patience or solitaire game to be used during play.
- formality and propriety of manner
- the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary
- armed forces that are not on active duty but can be called in an emergency
- something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose
- (medicine) potential capacity to respond in order to maintain vital functions
- a district that is reserved for particular purpose
- an athlete who plays only when a starter on the team is replaced
verb
- (transitive) To keep back; to retain.
- To book in advance; to make a reservation for.
- To keep in store for future or special use.
- hold back or set aside, especially for future use or contingency
- obtain or arrange (for oneself) in advance
- arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance
- give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause
noun
- (sports) A second or further round of a competition, after other competitors (often all but the last two) have been eliminated.
- That portion of precipitation or irrigation on an area which does not infiltrate or evaporate, but instead is discharged from the area.
- (politics) A second or further round of an indecisive election, after other candidates (often all but the last two) have been eliminated.
- Dissolved chemicals, etc, included in such water.
- a final election to resolve an earlier election that did not produce a winner
- the occurrence of surplus liquid (as water) exceeding the limit or capacity
noun
- a contestant who loses the contest
- a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently
- a gambler who loses a bet
- A person who loses; one who fails to win or thrive.
- Something of poor quality.
- A person who is frequently unsuccessful in life.
- (derogatory) A contemptible or unfashionable person.
- A losing proposition, one that is likely to lose or already has lost (such as a losing bet or, analogously, a predictably fruitless task or errand).
- One who or that which loses something, such as extra weight, car keys, etc.
- (slang) A person convicted of a crime, especially more than once.
noun
- One of several contests that combine to make up a competition.
- A prearranged social activity (function, etc.)
- (medicine) An episode of severe health conditions.
- An occurrence; something that happens.
- (probability theory) A set of some of the possible outcomes; a subset of the sample space.
- (physics) A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate.
- An end result; an outcome (now chiefly in phrases).
- (computing) A possible action that the user can perform that is monitored by an application or the operating system (event listener). When an event occurs an event handler is called which performs a specific task.
- a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon
- a phenomenon located at a single point in space-time; the fundamental observational entity in relativity theory
- something that happens at a given place and time
- a special set of circumstances
noun
- a sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winner
- a series of jousts between knights contesting for a prize
- (historical) During the Middle Ages, a series of battles and other contests designed to prepare knights for war.
- A series of games; either the same game played many times, or a succession of games related by a single theme; played competitively to determine a single winning team or individual.
- (graph theory) A digraph obtained by assigning a direction to each edge in an undirected complete graph.
noun
- the outcome of a game or contest
- the act of making up your mind about something
- a position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
- (boxing) a victory won on points when no knockout has occurred
- the trait of resoluteness as evidenced by firmness of character or purpose
- A choice or judgement.
- (uncountable) Firmness of conviction.
- (baseball) A win or a loss awarded to a pitcher.
- The act of deciding.
- (chiefly combat sports) A result arrived at by the judges when there is no clear winner at the end of the contest.
verb
noun
- (in games and competitions) An exemption given to a player from losing or being withdrawn from play.
- (medicine) Protective resistance against disease.
- (law) An exemption from prosecution.
- (countable) A resistance to a specific thing.
- (religion) An exemption from penance.
- (law) An exemption from specified duties, such as payments or services.
- the quality of being unaffected by something
- an act exempting someone
- (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease
- the state of not being susceptible
noun
- a defeat in which the losing person or team fails to score
- a specious or deceptive clearing that attempts to gloss over failings and defects
- wash consisting of lime and size in water; used for whitening walls and other surfaces
- (sports, originally baseball) A complete victory or series of victories without suffering any losses; a clean sweep; also, a victory or series of victories by a very large margin.
- (uncountable, cooking) The most basic type of thickening agent, consisting of flour blended with water to make a paste.
- (uncountable) A mixture of a powdered mineral substance (often slaked lime (containing calcium hydroxide), chalk (calcium carbonate), or both) and water which is used for painting surfaces such as fences and walls bright white.
- A thing used to hide mistakes, or to create an appearance of honesty, propriety, etc.; also (often politics), an act of hiding mistakes or creating an appearance of honesty, propriety, etc.; especially, a campaign, investigation, etc., which intentionally hides or overlooks unfavourable facts.
- (countable, cosmetics, historical) A preparation for making the skin look lighter.
- (business) An act of clearing a person's debts, especially through a declaration of bankruptcy by a court.
verb
- cover with whitewash
- exonerate by means of a perfunctory investigation or through biased presentation of data
- cover up a misdemeanor, fault, or error
- (media) To make over (someone of colour) so that they appear more white, for example, by applying lightening makeup to their skin or digitally manipulating an image of them.
- (sports, originally baseball, informal) To achieve a complete victory or series of victories over (an opponent) without suffering any losses; also, to achieve a victory or series of victories over (an opponent) by a very large margin.
- (chiefly film, television) To cast a white actor in a role for a person of colour in (a film, television programme, etc.).
- (chiefly literary and poetic, often passive voice) To cover or coat (something) with a white substance, as if with whitewash (noun noun sense 1); also, to light up (something) with white light.
- To paint (a building, a wall, etc.) a bright white with whitewash (noun noun sense 1).
- (derogatory) To distort or give a misleading account of (history, a narrative, etc.) by discounting the participation of people of colour and focusing on white people.
- (often politics) To hide (someone's) mistakes, or to create an appearance of honesty, propriety, etc., for (someone); also, to intentionally hide or overlook (mistakes, unfavourable facts, wrongdoing, etc.).
- (business) To clear (someone's) debts, especially through a declaration of bankruptcy by a court; also, to clear or write off (a debt).
- (figurative, business) To have debts cleared through a declaration of bankruptcy by a court.
- To paint bright white with whitewash (noun noun sense 1).
noun
- A preliminary stage of a competition.
- (grammar) A word or phrase, such as an adjective or adverb, that describes or characterizes another word or phrase, such as a noun or verb; one that adds or subtracts attributes to another.
- One who qualifies for something, especially a contestant who qualifies for a stage in a competition.
- (computing, programming) A marker that qualifies or modifies another code element.
- a content word that qualifies the meaning of a noun or verb
- a contestant who meets certain requirements and so qualifies to take part in the next stage of competition
noun
- Equality of conditions in contest or competition.
- Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison.
- Equivalence; a state of correspondence.
- (sports) A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet (commonly called a "bout"), a baseball game, or a cricket match.
- (metalworking) A perforated board, block of plaster, hardened sand, etc., in which a pattern is partly embedded when a mould is made, for giving shape to the surfaces of separation between the parts of the mould.
- Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority.
- Suitability.
- A device made of wood or paper, having the tip coated with chemicals that ignite with the friction of being dragged (struck) against a rough dry surface.
- A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics.
- A marriage.
- A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.
- An agreement or compact.
- a formal contest in which two or more persons or teams compete
- a pair of people who live together
- an exact duplicate
- something that resembles or harmonizes with
- the score needed to win a match
- lighter consisting of a thin piece of wood or cardboard tipped with combustible chemical; ignites with friction
- a burning piece of wood or cardboard
- a person who is of equal standing with another in a group
- a person regarded as a good matrimonial prospect
verb
- (transitive) To equal or exceed in achievement.
- (intransitive) To agree; to be equal; to correspond.
- (transitive) To agree with; to be equal to; to correspond to.
- (transitive, programming) To be an example of a rule or regex.
- (transitive) To make a successful match or pairing.
- To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and groove at the edges.
- bring two objects, ideas, or people together
- give or join in marriage
- make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching
- be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics
- provide funds complementary to
- be equal or harmonize
- be equal to in quality or ability
- make correspond or harmonize
- set into opposition or rivalry
noun
- (figuratively) Any overwhelming defeat, as in a game or sport.
- The killing of a considerable number (usually limited to people) where little or no resistance can be made, with indiscriminate violence, without necessity, and/or contrary to civilized norms.
- the savage and excessive killing of many people
verb
- (transitive) To kill in considerable numbers where little or no resistance can be made, with indiscriminate violence, without necessity, and contrary to civilized norms. (Often limited to the killing of human beings.)
- (transitive, figuratively) To perform (a work, such as a musical piece or a play) very poorly.
- (transitive, proscribed) To kill with great force or brutality.
- (transitive, figuratively) To win against (an opponent) very decisively.
- kill a large number of people indiscriminately
noun
- a successful ending of a struggle or contest
- the exultation of victory
- (historical, Ancient Rome) a ceremony held to publicly celebrate and sanctify the military achievement of an army commander.
- A work of art, cuisine, etc. of very high quality.
- A state of joy or exultation at success.
- A card trick in which the cards are shuffled with half face-up and half face-down, then laid out so that only the observer's chosen card is facing upward.
- A magnificent and imposing ceremonial performed in honor of a victor.
- A conclusive success following an effort, conflict, or confrontation of obstacles; victory; conquest.
- A card game, also called trump.
verb
- to express great joy
- prove superior
- dwell on with satisfaction
- be ecstatic with joy
- To celebrate victory with pomp; to rejoice over success; to exult in an advantage gained; to exhibit exultation.
- To succeed, win, or attain ascendancy.
- To prevail over rivals, challenges, or difficulties.
- To be prosperous; to flourish.
- To play a trump in a card game.
noun
- a successful ending of a struggle or contest
- (uncountable) The condition or state of having won a battle or competition, or having succeeded in an effort; (countable) an instance of this.
- (Roman mythology) Alternative letter-case form of Victory (“(uncountable) the Roman goddess of victory, the counterpart of the Greek goddess Nike; also (countable), an artistic depiction of her, chiefly as a winged woman”).
intj
verb
- To be eliminated from a competition.
- To go unconscious; to pass out.
- (idiomatic) To leave one's abode to go to public places, especially for recreation or entertainment.
- To die.
- (with with) To have a romantic relationship (with someone).
- (colloquial) To fail.
- To be drained from; to disappear from somebody.
- To become extinct, to expire.
- To leave, especially a building.
- (intransitive, usually of one's heart) To sympathize with; to express positive feelings towards.
- (of the tide) To recede; to ebb.
- To pass out of fashion; be on the wane.
- (card games) To discard or meld all the cards in one's hand.
- (UK, broadcasting) To be broadcast.
- (of a couple) To have a romantic relationship, one that involves going out together on dates; to be a couple.
- (with on) To spend the last moments of a show (while playing something).
- To be turned off or extinguished.
- move out of or depart from
- go out of fashion; become unfashionable
- date regularly; have a steady relationship with
- leave the house to go somewhere
- take the field
- become extinguished
verb
- (informal) To be eliminated from a competition.
- (slang, neologism) To become uncontrollably angry or upset; to rage, snap.
- (chemistry) To rapidly precipitate.
- (African-American Vernacular, Internet slang) To act out recklessly and violently, often in a way that leads to self-destruction or serious consequences, typically in enraged reaction to something.
- (slang, US) To break out of a prison.
- (informal) To fall asleep from exhaustion.
- (informal, computing) To terminate with an unhandled error; to crash.
- (transitive) To produce or create rapidly; to bang out.
noun
verb
- To lose a contest, game, match, or other form of competition by voluntary withdrawal, by failing to attend or participate, or by violation of the rules
- To fail to keep an obligation.
- To be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to transgress.
- (law) Of government officials: to legally remove property from its previous owners.
- To suffer the loss of something by wrongdoing or non-compliance
- lose (something) or lose the right to (something) by some error, offense, or crime
adj
noun
- Something deposited and redeemable by a sportive fine as part of a game.
- A thing forfeited; that which is taken from somebody in requital of a misdeed committed; that which is lost, or the right to which is alienated, by a crime, breach of contract, etc.
- A penalty for or consequence of a misdemeanor.
- a penalty for a fault or mistake that involves losing or giving up something
- something that is lost or surrendered as a penalty
- the act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc.
verb
- (transitive) To eliminate from a contest or similar.
- (intransitive, informal, idiomatic) To fall asleep, especially suddenly.
- (transitive) To communicate (a message) by knocking.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To cause a mechanism to become non-functional by damaging or destroying it.
- (transitive, slang) To defeat or kill (someone).
- (transitive, informal, idiomatic) To exhaust.
- (transitive, informal) To complete, especially in haste; knock off.
- (transitive, informal, idiomatic) To impress, surpass or overwhelm (someone).
- (transitive, informal, idiomatic) To put to sleep.
- (transitive, slang, UK) To sell.
- (transitive) To strike or bump (someone or something) out.
- (transitive, Australia) To obtain or earn (something, often money or food).
- To lose the scent of hounds in fox-hunting.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To render unconscious, as by a blow to the head.
- empty (as of tobacco) by knocking out
- overwhelm with admiration
- knock unconscious or senseless
- eliminate
- destroy or break forcefully
verb
- (sports) To knock out: to eliminate from a competition.
- (baseball and cricket) To cause a player on offense to be out.
- (boxing and medicine) Synonym of knock out: to render unconscious.
- To extinguish (fire).
- To expel.
- To cause someone to be out of sorts; to annoy, impose, inconvenience, or disturb.
- (intransitive, originally US slang) To consent to having sex.
- To turn off (light).
- To broadcast, to publish.
- To remove from office.
- (intransitive) To go out, to head out, especially (sailing) to set sail.
- (transitive) To place outside, to remove, particularly
- To dislocate (a joint).
- (transitive) To blind (eyes).
- To produce, to emit.
- administer an anesthetic drug to
- thrust or extend out
- prepare and issue for public distribution or sale
- be sexually active
- deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion
- cause to be out on a fielding play
- put out, as of a candle or a light
- put out considerable effort
- retire
- to cause inconvenience or discomfort to
adj
noun
verb
- dismiss from consideration or a contest
- remove from a contest or race
- terminate, end, or take out
- eliminate from the body
- remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations
- get rid of something
- kill in large numbers
- (transitive) To exclude (from investigation or from further competition).
- (transitive) To completely remove, get rid of, put an end to.
- (ambitransitive, physiology) To excrete (waste products).
- (transitive, military) To render (a facility) unusable, to destroy it; to disable (a soldier), make them unable to fight (typically but not necessarily by killing)
- (transitive, slang) To kill (a person or animal).
- (accounting) To record amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.
verb
- dismiss from consideration or a contest
- refuse entrance or membership
- reject with contempt
- not accept as true
- not accept something given or offered
- deem wrong or inappropriate
- resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ
- (transitive) To refuse a romantic advance.
- (basketball) To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.
- (transitive) To refuse to accept; to forswear.
noun
verb
- dismiss from consideration or a contest
- include or exclude by determining judicially or in agreement with rules
- make impossible, especially beforehand
- (idiomatic, transitive) To reject an option from a list of possibilities.
- (transitive) To disallow.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To make something impossible.
- (transitive) To make unavailable.
- (transitive) To cross an item out by drawing a straight line through it, as with a ruler.
verb
- (idiomatic) To lose a competition by one's own mistakes, usually near the end of the contest.
- Of money: to pay or disburse reluctantly.
- Of other objects: to hand over, give.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To spill, to fumble.
- (transitive) To expel from the lungs, throat, stomach, etc. by coughing.
- (intransitive, slang) To confess; to give up information.
- give reluctantly
- discharge (phlegm or sputum) from the lungs and out of the mouth
verb
- To deliberately lose a sports match with the intent of gaining a perceived future competitive advantage.
- (video games) To attract the attacks of an enemy target in cooperative team-based combat, so that one's teammates can defeat the enemy in question more efficiently.
- (fandom slang) To resist damage; to be attacked without being hurt.
- To fail or fall (often used in describing the economy or the stock market); to degenerate or decline rapidly; to plummet.
- (Singapore, colloquial) To willingly take on an undesirable task or burden.
- (Singapore, colloquial) To stand; to tolerate.
- (transitive) To put (fuel, etc.) into a tank.
- (originally poker, slang) To contemplate a decision for a long time; to go in the tank.
- consume excessive amounts of alcohol
- store in a tank by causing (something) to flow into it
- treat in a tank
noun
- A small Indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in weight.
- (US, slang) A prison cell, or prison generally.
- (colloquial) A very muscular and physically imposing person; somebody who is built like a tank.
- (Australia, India) A reservoir or dam.
- (botany) A structure of tightly overlapping leaves used by some bromeliads to retain water.
- An open container or pool for storing water or other liquids.
- (rail transport) Ellipsis of tank engine or tank locomotive.
- (poker, slang) A metaphorical place where a player goes to contemplate a decision; see in the tank.
- The amount held by a container; a tankful.
- (clothing) Ellipsis of tank top.
- An armoured fighting vehicle, armed with a gun designed for direct fire, and moving on caterpillar tracks.
- A pond, pool, or small lake (either natural or artificial).
- The fuel reservoir of a vehicle.
- A closed container for liquids or gases.
- A Bombay weight of 72 grains, for pearls.
- (roleplaying games, board games, video games) A unit or character designed primarily around damage absorption and holding the attention of the enemy (as opposed to dealing damage, healing, or other tasks).
- a cell for violent prisoners
- a large (usually metallic) vessel for holding gases or liquids
- an enclosed armored military vehicle; has a cannon and moves on caterpillar treads
- a freight car that transports liquids or gases in bulk
- as much as a tank will hold
noun
- A loss incurred by failing to compete.
- (finance) The condition of failing to meet an obligation.
- (finance) The condition of being an obligation that has not been met.
- A selection made in the absence of an alternative.
- (often attributive) A value used when none has been given; a tentative value or standard that is presumed.
- (law) The failure of a defendant to appear and answer a summons and complaint.
- (electronics, computing) the original software programming settings as set by the factory
- an option that is selected automatically unless an alternative is specified
- loss resulting from failure of a debt to be paid
- act of failing to meet a financial obligation
- loss due to not showing up
verb
- (intransitive) To lose a competition by failing to compete.
- (intransitive, finance) To fail to fulfill a financial obligation.
- (intransitive, law) To fail to appear and answer a summons and complaint.
- (ambitransitive, computing) To assume a value when none was given; to presume a tentative value or standard.
- fail to pay up
verb
- To be losing, to be behind in a competition.
- (transitive) To leave (a trail of).
- (military) To carry (a firearm) with the breech near the ground and the upper part inclined forward, the piece being held by the right hand near the middle.
- (transitive) To follow behind (someone or something); to tail (someone or something).
- (intransitive) To drag oneself lazily or reluctantly along.
- (intransitive) To run or climb like certain plants.
- To create a trail in.
- To transport (livestock) by herding it along a trail.
- (transitive) To drag (something) behind on the ground.
- (intransitive) To hang or drag loosely behind; to move with a slow sweeping motion.
- (transitive) To show a trailer of (a film, TV show etc.); to release or publish a preview of (a report etc.) in advance of the full publication.
- To travel by following or creating trails.
- to lag or linger behind
- hang down so as to drag along the ground
- go after with the intent to catch
- move, proceed, or walk draggingly or slowly
- drag loosely along a surface; allow to sweep the ground
noun
- The track or indication marking the route followed by something that has passed, such as the footprints of animal on land or the contrail of an airplane in the sky.
- (television) A trailer broadcast on television for a forthcoming film or programme.
- The horizontal distance from where the wheel touches the ground to where the steering axis intersects the ground.
- A route or circuit generally.
- A route for travel over land, especially a narrow, unpaved pathway for use by hikers, horseback riders, etc.
- (graph theory) A walk in which all the edges are distinct.
- a track or mark left by something that has passed
- evidence pointing to a possible solution
- a path or track roughly blazed through wild or hilly country
verb
- determine the result of (a competition)
- form a critical opinion of
- judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time)
- pronounce judgment on
- put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of
- (transitive) To form an opinion on; to appraise.
- (transitive) To have as an opinion; to consider, suppose.
- (ambitransitive) To criticize or label another person or thing; to be judgmental toward.
- (intransitive) To sit in judgment, to act as judge.
- (transitive) To judicially rule or determine.
- (intransitive) To arbitrate; to pass opinion on something, especially to settle a dispute etc.
- (ambitransitive) To govern as biblical judge or shophet (over some jurisdiction).
- (transitive) To sit in judgment on; to pass sentence on (a person or matter).
- (ambitransitive) To form an opinion; to infer.
noun
- an authority who is able to estimate worth or quality
- a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice
- A person who evaluates something or forms an opinion.
- A person who decides the fate of someone or something that has been called into question.
- A person officiating at a sports event, a contest, or similar; referee.
- (historical, biblical) A shophet, a temporary leader appointed in times of crisis in ancient Israel.
- A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice.
verb
adj
noun
- (uncountable, sports) A style of skateboarding featuring typically urban obstacles.
- A road as above, but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings.
- (specifically, US, Canada) The roads that run perpendicular to avenues in a grid layout.
- (finance) Ellipsis of Wall Street.
- A paved part of road, usually in a village or a town.
- (slang, uncountable) Streetwise slang.
- (poker slang) Each of the three opportunities that players have to bet, after the flop, turn and river.
- The people who spend a great deal of time on the street in urban areas, especially, the young, the poor, the unemployed, and those engaged in illegal activities.
- (attributive) Living in the streets.
- The people who live in such a road, as a neighborhood.
- An illicit or contraband source, especially of drugs.
- (slang, in the plural) People in general, as a source of information.
- (figuratively) A great distance.
- the streets of a city viewed as a depressed environment in which there is poverty and crime and prostitution and dereliction
- a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings
- people living or working on the same street
- a situation offering opportunities
- the part of a thoroughfare between the sidewalks; the part of the thoroughfare on which vehicles travel
verb
name
noun
verb
- (idiomatic, sports) To remove a player from a particular team competition before the conclusion of the event, especially because that player's contribution on this occasion has been below his or her expected level of performance.
- (idiomatic, by extension) To remove or expel someone from a job, position, or activity, especially because of poor behavior or performance.
verb
- decide (a contest or competition) by a runoff
- run away secretly with one's beloved
- force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings
- leave suddenly and as if in a hurry
- run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along
- run off as waste
- reproduce by xerography
- To flee or depart quickly.
- (idiomatic) To write something quickly.
- To have diarrhea.
- (transitive) To steal (horses).
- (idiomatic) To make photocopies, or print.
- To operate by a particular energy or fuel source.
- To cause to flow away.
- To chase someone away.
- To recite, especially items on a list.
- (of a liquid) To pour or spill off or over.
adj
noun
- (US, professional wrestling, capitalized) A woman in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling.
- (informal) A very attractive person, especially a beautiful woman.
- A partially punched opening meant for optional later removal.
- (informal) Something wildly popular, entertaining, or funny.
- (printing) An event where a foreground color causes a background color not to print.
- (genetics) The deactivation of a particular gene.
- (uncountable) A simple game for two or more players, derived from basketball.
- The deactivation of anything.
- The act of making one unconscious, or at least unable to come back on one's feet within a certain period of time; a TKO.
- Ellipsis of knockout auction.
- (sports) A tournament in which a team or player must beat the opponent in order to progress to the next round.
- (genetics) A creature engineered with a particular gene deactivated.
- a blow that renders the opponent unconscious
- a very attractive or seductive looking woman
adj
- Of or pertaining to competition.
- (biochemistry) Relating to the inhibition of the effects of a chemical substance by another substance competing with it for binding or bonding.
- (economics) Capable of competing successfully.
- (euphemistically, of prices) Cheap, especially used of quality products.
- (of someone's character) Inclined to compete.
- subscribing to capitalistic competition
- showing a fighting disposition
- involving competition or competitiveness
adj
- used of an unexpected defeat of a team favored to win
- thrown into a state of disarray or confusion
- mildly physically distressed
- afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief
- having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom
- (of a stomach or gastrointestinal tract) Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit.
- (of a person, predicative only) Angry, distressed, or unhappy
noun
- a tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging
- an improbable and unexpected victory
- an unhappy and worried mental state
- the act of upsetting something
- the act of disturbing the mind or body
- a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning
- (uncountable) Disturbance or disruption.
- (mathematics) An upper set; a subset (X,≤) of a partially ordered set with the property that, if x is in U and x≤y, then y is in U.
- (automobile insurance) An overturn.
- (countable, sports, politics) An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win.
- (aviation) The dangerous situation where the flight attitude or airspeed of an aircraft is outside the designed bounds of operation, possibly resulting in loss of control.
- An upset stomach.
- (basketry) A woven row supporting the foundation rods for the uprights of a basket.
verb
- form metals with a swage
- disturb the balance or stability of
- cause to lose one's composure
- cause to overturn from an upright or normal position
- defeat suddenly and unexpectedly
- move deeply
- To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.
- (transitive) To defeat unexpectedly.
- (intransitive) To be upset or knocked over.
- (transitive, basketry) To support with an upset (type of woven row).
- (transitive) To tip or overturn (something).
- (transitive) To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
- (metalworking) To thicken and shorten a soft or heated piece of metal, by forging or hammering on the end, to shape, for example, rivets or internal combustion engine valves.
- (transitive) To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).
adj
noun
adv
adj
- (of a contest or contestants) not fairly matched as opponents
- not even or uniform as e.g. in shape or texture
- not divisible by two
- lacking consistency
- variable and recurring at irregular intervals
- Varying in quality.
- Not uniform.
- Of a surface, not even; covered with raised spots, pits and grooves.
- Not level or smooth.
- (mathematics, rare) Odd.