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noun
- The residue, remainder or rest of something.
- (law) The residue of an estate.
- (fuzzy logic) A binary function from [0,1] × [0,1] to [0,1] which is defined in terms of the t-norm as follows: x→y= sup z|z*x⩽y, where * denotes the t-norm function and sup denotes the supremum.
- (chemistry) The solid material remaining after the liquid in which it was dissolved has been evaporated; a residue.
- something left after other parts have been taken away
noun
adj
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- Residue left at the bottom of something.
- (technical, historical) The contouring of the wooden seat of a chair.
- The act of something that bottoms; the point at which something bottoms (in various senses).
- (UK, colloquial) The act of thoroughly cleaning something.
- (dyeing) A substance used to prepare a material for dyeing.
- Material used to line the bottom of something.
- A foundation (literal and figurative senses).
verb
noun
- A piece of such a substance.
- (alchemy) A supposed substance able to turn base metals, such as lead or mercury, into gold or silver, also sometimes claimed to cure any illness (as panacea) or confer immortality (as elixir of life), among other functions.
- hypothetical substance that the alchemists believed to be capable of changing base metals into gold
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adj
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- (countable) A variety of this substance.
- (figuratively) Something sweet or desirable.
- (rare) Nectar.
- A spectrum of pale yellow to brownish-yellow color, like that of most types of (the sweet substance) honey.
- (African-American Vernacular, vulgar) Precum; pre-ejaculate.
- A term of affection.
- (countable, informal) A woman, especially an attractive one.
- (uncountable) A sweet, viscous, gold-colored fluid produced from plant nectar by bees, and often consumed by humans.
- a beloved person; used as terms of endearment
- a sweet yellow liquid produced by bees
adj
verb
noun
- A component or additive that renders something else impure.
- A state of immorality or sin; especially the weakness of the flesh: inchastity.
- The condition of being impure; because of contamination, pollution, adulteration or insufficient purification.
- the condition of being impure
- worthless or dangerous material that should be removed
noun
- A spot or spots of a substance spattered on a surface.
- A spray or shower of droplets hitting a surface.
- (figuratively) A collection of objects scattered like droplets splashed onto a surface.
- (figuratively) A burst or series of sounds resembling the sound of droplets hitting a surface.
- The sound of droplets hitting a surface.
- the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively
- the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface
verb
- (transitive) To splash (someone or something) with small droplets.
- (transitive, figurative) To send out or disperse (something) as if in droplets.
- (transitive, figuratively) To cover, or lie upon (something) by having been scattered, as if by splashing.
- (intransitive) To send out small droplets; to splash in small droplets (on or against something).
- (transitive) To distribute (a liquid) by sprinkling; to sprinkle around.
- dash a liquid upon or against
- spot, splash, or soil
- rain gently
noun
- An enclosed volume of one substance surrounded by another.
- The pouch of an animal.
- (Australia) An area of land surrounded by a loop of a river.
- (sports, billiards, pool, snooker) An indention and cavity with a net sack or similar structure (into which the balls are to be struck) at each corner and one centered on each side of a pool or snooker table.
- A large bag or sack formerly used for packing various articles, such as ginger, hops, or cowries; the pocket of wool held about 168 pounds.
- (rugby) The position held by a second defensive middle, where an advanced middle must retreat after making a touch on the attacking middle.
- (mining) A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or other mineral; a small body of ore contained in such a cavity.
- (dentistry) A small space between a tooth and the adjoining gum, formed by an abnormal separation of the two.
- (surfing) The unbroken part of a wave that offers the surfer the most power.
- A socket for receiving the base of a post, stake, etc.
- (American football) The area behind the line of scrimmage subject to certain rules regarding intentional grounding, illegal contact, etc., formally extending to the end zone but more usually understood as the central area around the quarterback directly protected by the offensive line.
- (military) An area where military units are completely surrounded by enemy units.
- (architecture) A hole or space covered by a movable piece of board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, etc.
- A small, isolated group or area.
- A bight on a lee shore.
- (nautical) A strip of canvas sewn upon a sail so that a batten or a light spar can placed in the interspace.
- (Australian rules football) The area of the field to the side of the goal posts (four pockets in total on the field, one to each side of the goals at each end of the ground). The pocket is only a roughly defined area, extending from the behind post, at an angle, to perhaps about 30 meters out.
- (by extension) A person's financial resources.
- (bowling) The ideal point where the pins are hit by the bowling ball.
- (music) A state achieved with steady, enjoyable drumming.
- (clothing) A bag stitched to an item of clothing, used for carrying small items.
- a local region of low pressure or descending air that causes a plane to lose height suddenly
- a supply of money
- an opening at the corner or on the side of a billiard table into which billiard balls are struck
- a small pouch inside a garment for carrying small articles
- (bowling) the space between the headpin and the pins behind it on the right or left
- a hollow concave shape made by removing something
- an enclosed space
- a small isolated group of people
- (anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican)
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adj
noun
- (statistics) The difference between the observed value and the estimated value of the quantity of interest.
- (paranormal) A spiritual presence left behind in a place as a result of a person's death or some other significant event.
- (chiefly in the plural) Payments made to performers, writers and directors when a recorded broadcast is repeated.
- A remainder left over at the end of some process.
- (often plural) a payment that is made to a performer or writer or director of a television show or commercial that is paid for every repeat showing
- something left after other parts have been taken away
noun
noun
- A mixture of different components.
- (chiefly law enforcement) A drawing, photograph, etc. that combines several separate pictures or images.
- (fraternities) A framed photo board composed of many individual photos of fraternity or sorority members.
- (school yearbook) The separate pages of individual student photos that form the main section.
- A structural material that gains its strength from a combination of complementary materials.
- (mathematics) A function of a function.
- (mathematics) Clipping of composite number.
- (uncommon) A segment, subset.
- (botany) A plant belonging to the family Asteraceae, syn. Compositae.
- (rail transport, UK) A railway carriage with compartments for two different classes of travel; see Composite Corridor.
- a conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts
- considered the most highly evolved dicotyledonous plants, characterized by florets arranged in dense heads that resemble single flowers
adj
- (botany) Belonging to the Asteraceae family (formerly known as Compositae), bearing involucrate heads of many small florets.
- (mathematics) Having factors other than itself and one; not prime and not one.
- (architecture) Being a mixture of Ionic and Corinthian styles.
- (photography, historical) Employing multiple exposures on a single plate, so as to create an average view of something, such as faces in physiognomy.
- Made up of multiple components; compound or complex.
- of or relating to or belonging to the plant family Compositae
- consisting of separate interconnected parts
verb
noun
- That which falls to the bottom of liquors; sediment; also, refuse; residuum.
- A building or portion thereof used as a home, such as a house or an apartment therein.
- (espionage) Synonym of rezidentura.
- Subsidence, as of a sediment
- The place where one lives (resides); one's home.
- Accommodation for students at a university or college.
- The place where a corporation is established.
- The state of living in a particular place or environment.
- The place where anything rests permanently.
- a large and imposing house
- the official house or establishment of an important person (as a sovereign or president)
- the act of dwelling in a place
- any address at which you dwell more than temporarily
adj
- Of or relating to a residue; residual; left over, when the main portion has been removed.
- (law) With respect to a will, relating to the portion of an estate which was not disposed of in the will, or for which the directions in the will could not be carried out.
- relating to or indicating a remainder
- entitled to the residue of an estate (after payment of debts and specific gifts)
noun
noun
- A very small amount, often residual, of some substance or material.
- (engineering) A connecting bar or rod, pivoted at each end to the end of another piece, for transmitting motion, especially from one plane to another; specifically, such a piece in an organ stop action to transmit motion from the trundle to the lever actuating the stop slider.
- An enquiry sent out for a missing article, such as a letter or an express package.
- A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal.
- An act of tracing.
- (meteorology) A small amount of rain, not enough to be measured.
- (semiotics) A signifier approximated in the absence of stable signified.
- An informal road or prominent path in an arid area.
- (linear algebra) The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix.
- (programming) A sequence of instructions, including branches but not loops, that is executed for some input data.
- (electronics) A current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board.
- (fortification) The ground plan of a work or works.
- (grammar) An empty category occupying a position in the syntactic structure from which something has been moved, used to explain constructions such as wh-movement and the passive.
- (geometry) The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
- One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whippletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be drawn; a tug.
- a just detectable amount
- a visible mark (as a footprint) left by the passage of person or animal or vehicle
- either of two lines that connect a horse's harness to a wagon or other vehicle or to a whiffletree
- a drawing created by superimposing a semitransparent sheet of paper on the original image and copying on it the lines of the original image
- an indication that something has been present
- a suggestion of some quality
adj
verb
- (transitive) To draw or sketch lightly or with care.
- (computing, transitive) To follow the execution of the program by making it to stop after every instruction, or by making it print a message after every step.
- (transitive) To follow the trail of.
- To follow the history of.
- (transitive) To copy onto a sheet of paper superimposed over the original, by drawing over its lines.
- make a mark or lines on a surface
- pursue or chase relentlessly
- follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something
- make one's course or travel along a path; travel or pass over, around, or along
- copy by following the lines of the original drawing on a transparent sheet placed upon it; make a tracing of
- read with difficulty
- to go back over again
- discover traces of
noun
- any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue
- promotion by means of an argument and demonstration
- abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance)
- a sports field with predetermined dimensions for playing soccer
- the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration
- a high approach shot in golf
- a vendor's position (especially on the sidewalk)
- the act of throwing a baseball or softball by the pitcher towards home plate, which initiates play by giving the batter a chance to hit it
- an all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump
- degree of deviation from a horizontal plane
- the action or manner of throwing something
- (sports, UK, Australia, New Zealand) The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby, gridiron or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is in the centre of the field; see cricket pitch.) (Not often used in the US or Canada, where "field" is the preferred word.)
- An effort to sell or promote something.
- (geology) Pitchstone.
- The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant.
- The angle at which an object sits.
- (golf) A short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
- An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar.
- A dark, extremely viscous material still remaining after distilling crude oil or natural tar.
- The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread, the centres of holes, or letters in a monospace font.
- Prominence; importance.
- The height a bird reaches in flight, especially a bird of prey preparing to swoop down on its prey.
- (nautical, aviation) The degree to which a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft, rotates on such an axis, tilting its bow or nose up or down.
- (music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.
- (by extension) The place where a busker performs, a prostitute solicits clients, or an illegal gambling game etc. is set up before the public.
- (cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
- (mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
- (climbing) A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
- A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
- (now British, regional) A person's or animal's height.
- A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
- (music, phonetics) The perceived frequency of a sound, note or electromagnetic wave.
- A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
- (music) The standard to which a group of musical instruments are tuned or in which a piece is performed, usually by reference to the frequency to which the musical note A above middle C is tuned.
- (baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.
- A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
- A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
- An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
- (aviation) A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller.
- (caving) A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
- (rare) The field of battle.
- The most thrust-out point of a headland or cape.
verb
- heel over
- set to a certain pitch
- sell or offer for sale from place to place
- move abruptly
- fall or plunge forward
- throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball
- be at an angle
- set the level or character of
- throw or toss with a light motion
- erect and fasten
- lead (a card) and establish the trump suit
- hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin
- To cover or smear with pitch.
- (transitive) To set or fix (a price or value).
- (transitive) To fix or set the tone of.
- (brewing) To add yeast as a step while making beer
- (transitive) To assemble or erect (a tent). Also used figuratively.
- (with on or upon) To fix one's choice.
- (intransitive, Bristol, of snow) To settle and build up, without melting.
- (intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
- (transitive) To set at an angle, especially a downwards one; to cause to tilt.
- (intransitive, baseball) To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
- (intransitive, cricket) To bounce on the playing surface.
- (transitive) To set, face, or pave (an embankment or roadway) with rubble or undressed stones.
- (transitive) To throw away; discard.
- (transitive, golf) To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
- To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
- (intransitive) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
- (transitive) To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
- (transitive or intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
- (transitive) To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
- (intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch.
- (transitive) To throw.
- (transitive, card games, slang) To discard (a card) for some gain.
- To attack, or position or assemble for attack.
- (ambitransitive, aviation or nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternately up and down.
adj
noun
- any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue
- a man who serves as a sailor
- (computing) A program for archiving files, common on Unix systems.
- A Persian long-necked, waisted string instrument, shared by many cultures and countries in the Middle East and the Caucasus.
- A single-headed round frame drum originating in North Africa and the Middle East.
- (computing) A file produced by such a program.
- Coal tar.
- Alternative form of tara (“Indian coin”).
- (uncountable) A solid residual byproduct of tobacco smoke.
- (uncountable) Black tar, a form of heroin.
verb
noun
- a substance that is undergoing an analysis of its components
- a written report of the results of an analysis of the composition of some substance
- an appraisal of the state of affairs
- a quantitative or qualitative test of a substance (especially an ore or a drug) to determine its components; frequently used to test for the presence or concentration of infectious agents or antibodies etc.
- The qualitative or quantitative chemical analysis of something.
- Trial, attempt.
- The alloy or metal to be assayed.
- The act or process of ascertaining the proportion of a particular metal in an ore or alloy; especially, the determination of the proportion of gold or silver in bullion or coin.
- Trial by danger or by affliction; adventure; risk; hardship; state of being tried.
- Examination and determination; test.
- Tested purity or value.
verb
noun
- a substance that contaminates
- the act of contaminating or polluting; including (either intentionally or accidentally) unwanted substances or factors
- the state of being contaminated
- (linguistics, etymology) The influence of one form (often from a foreign language) on the historical development of another form to which it may be related in meaning.
- (linguistics) A process whereby words with related meanings come to have similar sounds.
- The act or process of contaminating.
- (textual criticism) The intermingling of readings from multiple sources by a copyist.
- Something which contaminates.
noun
- Something that has been reduced to powder, something that has been ground.
- A specific degree of pulverization of coffee beans.
- A grinding trick on a skateboard or snowboard.
- (uncountable, slang) Hustle; hard work.
- A traditional communal pilot whale hunt in the Faroe Islands.
- (uncountable, music) Clipping of grindcore (“subgenre of heavy metal”).
- A tedious and laborious task.
- The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.
- an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious
- the act of grinding to a powder or dust
- the grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground
- hard monotonous routine work
verb
- (transitive) To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion.
- (sports, intransitive) To slide the flat portion of a skateboard or snowboard across an obstacle such as a railing.
- (slang, Hawaii) To eat.
- (slang) To dance in a sexually suggestive way with both partners in very close proximity, often pressed against each other.
- To produce mechanically and repetitively as if by turning a crank.
- (slang) To rub one's body against another's in a sexual way; to frottage.
- To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
- (transitive) To shape with the force of friction.
- (metalworking) To remove material by rubbing with an abrasive surface.
- (transitive) To operate by turning a crank.
- To instill through repetitive teaching.
- (video games) To repeat a task a large number of times in a row to achieve a specific goal.
- (intransitive, slang) To work or study hard; to hustle or drudge.
- (transitive, slang) To annoy or irritate (a person); to grind one's gears.
- (intransitive) To become ground, pulverized, or polished by friction.
- (transitive) To oppress, hold down or weaken.
- (slang, intransitive) To rotate the hips erotically.
- make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together
- reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading
- press or grind with a crushing noise
- created by grinding
- dance by rotating the pelvis in an erotically suggestive way, often while in contact with one's partner such that the dancers' legs are interlaced
- work hard
- shape or form by grinding
noun
- (manufacturing) A small adhesive particle found in wastepaper.
- A sticky note, such as a post-it note.
- (Australia, colloquial) A sweet dessert wine.
- (slang) Sticky-icky; marijuana, especially the sticky, resin-covered buds.
- (Internet) A discussion thread fixed at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.
adj
- (finance) Tending to stay the same; resistant to change.
- (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a stick.
- Of weather: hot and windless and with high humidity, so that people feel sticky from sweating.
- Tending to stick; able to adhere via the drying of a viscous substance.
- Of a death: unpleasant, grisly.
- Difficult, awkward.
- (computing, of a window) Appearing on all virtual desktops.
- (Internet, of a website) Compelling enough to keep visitors from leaving.
- Mawkish, sentimental.
- (computing, informal, of a setting) Persistent.
- (Internet, of threads on a bulletin board) Fixed at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.
- covered with an adhesive material
- hot or warm and humid
- hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment
- moist as with undried perspiration and with clothing sticking to the body
- having the sticky properties of an adhesive
verb
verb
- produce as a result or residue
- lead, extend, or afford access
- travel in front of; go in advance of others
- cause to undertake a certain action
- take somebody somewhere
- tend to or result in
- cause something to pass or lead somewhere
- lead, as in the performance of a composition
- preside over
- be ahead of others; be the first
- be in charge of
- be conducive to
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
- move ahead (of others) in time or space
- (intransitive) To be a cause of. [with to]
- (intransitive) To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or preeminence; to be first or chief; — used in most of the senses of the transitive verb.
- (transitive, climbing) To lead climb.
- (figuratively): To direct; to counsel; to instruct.
- To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to show the way, especially by going with or going in advance of; to guide somebody somewhere or to bring somebody somewhere by means of instructions.
- To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection.
- (transitive, card games, dominoes) To begin a game, round, or trick, with
- Misspelling of led.
- (baseball) To step off base and move towards the next base.
- Used in phrasal verbs: lead off, lead on, lead out, lead to (“be the cause of, bring about”), lead up, lead up to.
- (intransitive) To have the highest interim score in a game.
- (intransitive) To tend or reach in a certain spatial direction, or to a certain place.
- (transitive) To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among.
- To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure.
- (shooting) To aim in front of a moving target, in order that the shot may hit the target as it passes.
- (intransitive) To be more advanced in technology or business than others.
- (intransitive) To be ahead of others, e.g., in a race.
- (intransitive) To proceed in front of others; to go first.
- (transitive, usually with "life") To live or experience (a particular way of life).
- To influence towards a belief, a conclusion, etc.
- (transitive, printing, historical) To place leads between the lines of.
- (transitive) To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
- To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; to command, especially a military or business unit.
noun
- an advantage held by a competitor in a race
- an actor who plays a principal role
- the angle between the direction a gun is aimed and the position of a moving target (correcting for the flight time of the missile)
- evidence pointing to a possible solution
- the introductory section of a story
- (baseball) the position taken by a base runner preparing to advance to the next base
- an indication of potential opportunity
- a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire
- the playing of a card to start a trick in bridge
- a position of being the initiator of something and an example that others will follow (especially in the phrase ‘take the lead’)
- restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal
- a news story of major importance
- (sports) the score by which a team or individual is winning
- the timing of ignition relative to the position of the piston in an internal-combustion engine
- thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing
- a soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element; bluish white when freshly cut but tarnishes readily to dull grey
- mixture of graphite with clay in different degrees of hardness; the marking substance in a pencil
- (countable, nautical) A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or to estimate velocity in knots.
- A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
- (medicine, in the plural) X-ray protective clothing lined with lead.
- (countable) A thin cylinder of graphite used in pencils.
- (UK, countable) An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.
- Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
- (horology) The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
- Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more details.
- (electricity) The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it.
- (acting) The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.
- (countable, mining) A lode.
- Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details about a crime or incident.
- A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash
- (nautical) The course of a rope from end to end.
- (US, journalism) The introductory paragraph or paragraphs of a newspaper, or a news or other type of article. (Sometimes spelled as lede for this usage to avoid ambiguity.)
- (marketing) Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.
- (business) The person in charge of a project or a work shift etc.
- (curling) The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.
- (music) The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.
- (uncountable, typography) Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.
- (slang) Bullets; ammunition.
- (countable) A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
- (countable) A channel of open water in an ice field.
- Hypothesis that has not been pursued
- (music) A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others.
- An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast
- (music) A primary synth, often composed of square, sawtooth, triangle or sine waveforms.
- (baseball) The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
- (uncountable) A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic number 82, symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum).
- (music) In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor.
- (countable) The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course
- (acting, theater) The main role in a play or film; the lead role.
- (uncountable, card games, dominoes) The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played
- (engineering) The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times the number of starts.
- In a steam engine, the width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release of steam, at the instant when the piston is at end of its stroke.
- (electricity) The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the poles.
- (countable) Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead in a race; the highest score in an incomplete game.
- (engineering) The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same shaft.
- (civil engineering) The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
adj
verb
- produce as a result or residue
- be survived by after one's death
- move out of or depart from
- act or be so as to become in a specified state
- leave unchanged or undisturbed or refrain from taking
- make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain
- remove oneself from an association with or participation in
- have left or have as a remainder
- leave or give by will after one's death
- go away from a place
- leave behind unintentionally
- put into the care or protection of someone
- go and leave behind, either intentionally or by neglect or forgetfulness
- transmit (knowledge or skills)
- (transitive or intransitive, copulative) To cause, to result in.
- (transitive) To let be or do without interference.
- (transitive) To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver, with a sense of withdrawing oneself.
- (transitive) To depart from; to end one's connection or affiliation with.
- (transitive) To transfer responsibility or attention of (something) (to someone); to stop being concerned with.
- (transitive) To give (something) to someone; to deliver (something) to a repository; to deposit.
- (intransitive, rare) To produce leaves or foliage.
- (transitive) To end one's membership in (a group); to terminate one's affiliation with (an organization); to stop participating in (a project).
- (euphemistic, transitive) To die (the object denotes those affected by the death).
- To depart; to separate from.
- (intransitive) To depart; to go away from a certain place or state.
- (transitive) To cause or allow (something) to remain as available; to refrain from taking (something) away; to stop short of consuming or otherwise depleting (something) entirely.
- (transitive) To transfer possession of after death.
- (transitive) To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant.
noun
- the act of departing politely
- the period of time during which you are absent from work or duty
- permission to do something
- Permission to be absent; time away from one's work.
- (billiards) The arrangement of balls in play that remains after a shot is made (which determines whether the next shooter — who may be either the same player, or an opponent — has good options, or only poor ones).
- (Scrabble) The tiles remaining on a player's rack after his or her turn.
- (cricket) The action of the batsman not attempting to play at the ball.
verb
- produce as a result or residue
- come about or follow as a consequence
- issue or terminate (in a specified way, state, etc.); end
- (intransitive, law) To return to the proprietor (or heirs) after a reversion.
- (intransitive) To proceed, spring up or rise, as a consequence, from facts, arguments, premises, combination of circumstances, consultation, thought or endeavor.
- (intransitive, followed by "in") To have as a consequence; to lead to; to bring about
noun
- a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon
- a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem
- the semantic role of the noun phrase whose referent exists only by virtue of the activity denoted by the verb in the clause
- something that results
- (sports) The final score in a game.
- The decision or determination of a council or deliberative assembly; a resolve; a decree.
- (by extension) A positive or favourable outcome for someone.
- That which results; the conclusion or end to which any course or condition of things leads, or which is obtained by any process or operation; consequence or effect.
- The final product, beneficial or tangible effect(s) achieved by effort.
intj
noun
- Powder of other material.
- Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, or other foodstuffs such as soybeans and potatoes, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry.
- (US standards of identity) The food made by grinding and bolting cleaned wheat (not durum or red durum) until it meets specified levels of fineness, dryness, and freedom from bran and germ, also containing any of certain enzymes, ascorbic acid, and certain bleaching agents.
- fine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a cereal grain
verb
noun
noun
noun
verb
- cover with a light dusting of a substance
- remove the dust from
- rub the dust over a surface so as to blur the outlines of a shape
- distribute loosely
- (transitive) To spray or cover (something) with fine powder or liquid, to sprinkle.
- (transitive) To remove dust from.
- (transitive, chiefly US slang) To kill.
- (transitive, now colloquial or dialectal) To strike, beat, thrash.
- (transitive, chiefly US slang) To defeat badly, to thrash.
- (intransitive, chiefly US slang) To leave quickly; to rush off.
- (intransitive) To remove dust; to clean by removing dust.
- (transitive, baseball) To deliberately pitch a ball close to (a batter); to brush back.
- (intransitive or reflexive) Of a bird, to cover itself in sand or dry, dusty earth.
- (transitive) To sprinkle (a substance) in the form of dust.
- (cryptocurrencies) To attempt to identify the owner of (a cryptocurrency wallet) by sending tiny amounts of cryptocurrency.
noun
- free microscopic particles of solid material
- fine powdery material such as dry earth or pollen that can be blown about in the air
- the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up
- (cryptocurrencies) Tiny amounts of cryptocurrency left over after a transaction due to rounding error.
- (countable) The act of cleaning by dusting.
- (figurative) Something worthless.
- (uncountable, astronomy) Submicron particles in outer space, largely silicates and carbon compounds, that contribute greatly to extinction at visible wavelengths.
- (countable, figurative) A tumult, disturbance, commotion, uproar.
- (countable, mathematics) A totally disconnected set of points with a fractal structure.
- (British, colloquial) Rubbish, garbage, refuse.
- The earthly remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body.
- (figurative) A low or mean condition.
- (countable) A cloud of dust.
- (countable, colloquial) A fight or row.
- The earth as the resting place of the dead.
- (figurative) The substance of the human body or mortal frame.
- (uncountable) Fine, dry particles of matter found in the air and covering the surface of objects, typically consisting of soil lifted up by the wind, pollen, hair, etc.
- (uncountable) Any substance reduced to fine particles; powder.
- (poetic) Earth, ground, soil, sediment.
- (countable) The act of sprinkling dust, or a sprinkle of dust itself.
- (uncountable, occupational health) Disintegration of a solid, like silica.
noun
- A similar substance based on another metal.
- (philately) Damage caused to stamps and album pages by a fungal infection.
- The deteriorated state of iron or steel as a result of moisture and oxidation; it consists mostly of iron(III) oxide (ferric oxide) and iron(II) oxide (ferrous oxide).
- A disease of plants caused by a reddish-brown fungus (Pucciniales).
- A reddish-brown color.
- a plant disease that produces a reddish-brown discoloration of leaves and stems; caused by various rust fungi
- a red or brown oxide coating on iron or steel caused by the action of oxygen and moisture
- A strong reddish brown color.
- the formation of reddish-brown ferric oxides on iron by low-temperature oxidation in the presence of water
- any of various fungi causing rust disease in plants
verb
- (intransitive) Of a black cat or its fur, to turn rust-coloured following long periods of exposure to sunlight.
- (intransitive) To oxidize, especially of iron or steel.
- (intransitive) To be affected with the parasitic fungus called rust.
- (transitive) To cause to oxidize.
- (ambitransitive, figuratively) To (cause to) degenerate in idleness; to make or become dull or impaired by inaction.
- become coated with oxide
- cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid
- become destroyed by water, air, or a corrosive such as an acid
adj
noun
- Something removed by being scraped.
- (computing) Automated collection of data, data scraping.
- The sound or action of something being scraped.
- a harsh noise made by scraping
- a deep bow with the foot drawn backwards (indicating excessive humility)
- (usually plural) a fragment scraped off of something and collected
verb
noun
- Anything left behind on a surface.
- (law) Bailment of personal property to be kept gratuitously for the bailor (depositor) and without any benefit to the bailee (depositary), e.g. for storage, carriage, repair, etc.
- (geology) Sediment or rock that is not native to its present location or is different from the surrounding material. Sometimes refers to ore or gems.
- A place of deposit; a depository.
- (banking) Money placed in a bank account, as for safekeeping or to earn interest.
- A sum of money given as a security for a borrowed item, which will be given back when the item is returned, e.g. a bottle deposit or can deposit
- (finance) A sum of money or other asset given as an initial payment, to show good faith, or to reserve something for purchase.
- a partial payment made at the time of purchase; the balance to be paid later
- a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping
- a payment given as a guarantee that an obligation will be met
- the natural process of laying down a deposit of something
- the phenomenon of sediment or gravel accumulating
- money deposited in a bank or some similar institution
- money given as security for an article acquired for temporary use
- matter that has been deposited by some natural process
- the act of putting something somewhere
verb
- (transitive) To put money or funds into an account.
- To lay aside; to rid oneself of.
- To lay up or away for safekeeping; to put up; to store.
- To entrust one's assets to the care of another. Sometimes done as collateral.
- (transitive) To lay down; to place; to put.
- put into a bank account
- put, fix, force, or implant
- put (something somewhere) firmly
noun
- a lump of slimy stuff
- a man who serves as a sailor
- informal terms for the mouth
- (countable) A lump of soft or sticky material.
- (UK, Commonwealth, Ireland, slang) The mouth.
- (uncountable, slang) Saliva or phlegm.
- (US, military, slang) A sailor.
- (countable, US, regional) A whoopie pie.
- (uncountable, mining) Waste material in old mine workings, goaf.
verb
noun
- An admixture; something added which stains, taints etc.
- A metal that is a combination of two or more elements, at least one of which is a metal, a base metal.
- (figurative) Fusion, marriage, combination.
- the state of impairing the quality or reducing the value of something
- a mixture containing two or more metallic elements or metallic and nonmetallic elements usually fused together or dissolving into each other when molten
verb
noun
- The residue, remainder or rest of something.
- (law) The residue of an estate.
- (fuzzy logic) A binary function from [0,1] × [0,1] to [0,1] which is defined in terms of the t-norm as follows: x→y= sup z|z*x⩽y, where * denotes the t-norm function and sup denotes the supremum.
- (chemistry) The solid material remaining after the liquid in which it was dissolved has been evaporated; a residue.
- something left after other parts have been taken away
noun
adj
noun
- Residue left at the bottom of something.
- (technical, historical) The contouring of the wooden seat of a chair.
- The act of something that bottoms; the point at which something bottoms (in various senses).
- (UK, colloquial) The act of thoroughly cleaning something.
- (dyeing) A substance used to prepare a material for dyeing.
- Material used to line the bottom of something.
- A foundation (literal and figurative senses).
verb
noun
- A piece of such a substance.
- (alchemy) A supposed substance able to turn base metals, such as lead or mercury, into gold or silver, also sometimes claimed to cure any illness (as panacea) or confer immortality (as elixir of life), among other functions.
- hypothetical substance that the alchemists believed to be capable of changing base metals into gold
noun
adj
noun
- (countable) A variety of this substance.
- (figuratively) Something sweet or desirable.
- (rare) Nectar.
- A spectrum of pale yellow to brownish-yellow color, like that of most types of (the sweet substance) honey.
- (African-American Vernacular, vulgar) Precum; pre-ejaculate.
- A term of affection.
- (countable, informal) A woman, especially an attractive one.
- (uncountable) A sweet, viscous, gold-colored fluid produced from plant nectar by bees, and often consumed by humans.
- a beloved person; used as terms of endearment
- a sweet yellow liquid produced by bees
adj
verb
noun
- A component or additive that renders something else impure.
- A state of immorality or sin; especially the weakness of the flesh: inchastity.
- The condition of being impure; because of contamination, pollution, adulteration or insufficient purification.
- the condition of being impure
- worthless or dangerous material that should be removed
noun
- A spot or spots of a substance spattered on a surface.
- A spray or shower of droplets hitting a surface.
- (figuratively) A collection of objects scattered like droplets splashed onto a surface.
- (figuratively) A burst or series of sounds resembling the sound of droplets hitting a surface.
- The sound of droplets hitting a surface.
- the noise of something spattering or sputtering explosively
- the act of splashing a (liquid) substance on a surface
verb
- (transitive) To splash (someone or something) with small droplets.
- (transitive, figurative) To send out or disperse (something) as if in droplets.
- (transitive, figuratively) To cover, or lie upon (something) by having been scattered, as if by splashing.
- (intransitive) To send out small droplets; to splash in small droplets (on or against something).
- (transitive) To distribute (a liquid) by sprinkling; to sprinkle around.
- dash a liquid upon or against
- spot, splash, or soil
- rain gently
noun
- An enclosed volume of one substance surrounded by another.
- The pouch of an animal.
- (Australia) An area of land surrounded by a loop of a river.
- (sports, billiards, pool, snooker) An indention and cavity with a net sack or similar structure (into which the balls are to be struck) at each corner and one centered on each side of a pool or snooker table.
- A large bag or sack formerly used for packing various articles, such as ginger, hops, or cowries; the pocket of wool held about 168 pounds.
- (rugby) The position held by a second defensive middle, where an advanced middle must retreat after making a touch on the attacking middle.
- (mining) A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or other mineral; a small body of ore contained in such a cavity.
- (dentistry) A small space between a tooth and the adjoining gum, formed by an abnormal separation of the two.
- (surfing) The unbroken part of a wave that offers the surfer the most power.
- A socket for receiving the base of a post, stake, etc.
- (American football) The area behind the line of scrimmage subject to certain rules regarding intentional grounding, illegal contact, etc., formally extending to the end zone but more usually understood as the central area around the quarterback directly protected by the offensive line.
- (military) An area where military units are completely surrounded by enemy units.
- (architecture) A hole or space covered by a movable piece of board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, etc.
- A small, isolated group or area.
- A bight on a lee shore.
- (nautical) A strip of canvas sewn upon a sail so that a batten or a light spar can placed in the interspace.
- (Australian rules football) The area of the field to the side of the goal posts (four pockets in total on the field, one to each side of the goals at each end of the ground). The pocket is only a roughly defined area, extending from the behind post, at an angle, to perhaps about 30 meters out.
- (by extension) A person's financial resources.
- (bowling) The ideal point where the pins are hit by the bowling ball.
- (music) A state achieved with steady, enjoyable drumming.
- (clothing) A bag stitched to an item of clothing, used for carrying small items.
- a local region of low pressure or descending air that causes a plane to lose height suddenly
- a supply of money
- an opening at the corner or on the side of a billiard table into which billiard balls are struck
- a small pouch inside a garment for carrying small articles
- (bowling) the space between the headpin and the pins behind it on the right or left
- a hollow concave shape made by removing something
- an enclosed space
- a small isolated group of people
- (anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican)
adj
verb
noun
noun
- A mixture of different components.
- (chiefly law enforcement) A drawing, photograph, etc. that combines several separate pictures or images.
- (fraternities) A framed photo board composed of many individual photos of fraternity or sorority members.
- (school yearbook) The separate pages of individual student photos that form the main section.
- A structural material that gains its strength from a combination of complementary materials.
- (mathematics) A function of a function.
- (mathematics) Clipping of composite number.
- (uncommon) A segment, subset.
- (botany) A plant belonging to the family Asteraceae, syn. Compositae.
- (rail transport, UK) A railway carriage with compartments for two different classes of travel; see Composite Corridor.
- a conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts
- considered the most highly evolved dicotyledonous plants, characterized by florets arranged in dense heads that resemble single flowers
adj
- (botany) Belonging to the Asteraceae family (formerly known as Compositae), bearing involucrate heads of many small florets.
- (mathematics) Having factors other than itself and one; not prime and not one.
- (architecture) Being a mixture of Ionic and Corinthian styles.
- (photography, historical) Employing multiple exposures on a single plate, so as to create an average view of something, such as faces in physiognomy.
- Made up of multiple components; compound or complex.
- of or relating to or belonging to the plant family Compositae
- consisting of separate interconnected parts
verb
noun
- That which falls to the bottom of liquors; sediment; also, refuse; residuum.
- A building or portion thereof used as a home, such as a house or an apartment therein.
- (espionage) Synonym of rezidentura.
- Subsidence, as of a sediment
- The place where one lives (resides); one's home.
- Accommodation for students at a university or college.
- The place where a corporation is established.
- The state of living in a particular place or environment.
- The place where anything rests permanently.
- a large and imposing house
- the official house or establishment of an important person (as a sovereign or president)
- the act of dwelling in a place
- any address at which you dwell more than temporarily
noun
- A very small amount, often residual, of some substance or material.
- (engineering) A connecting bar or rod, pivoted at each end to the end of another piece, for transmitting motion, especially from one plane to another; specifically, such a piece in an organ stop action to transmit motion from the trundle to the lever actuating the stop slider.
- An enquiry sent out for a missing article, such as a letter or an express package.
- A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal.
- An act of tracing.
- (meteorology) A small amount of rain, not enough to be measured.
- (semiotics) A signifier approximated in the absence of stable signified.
- An informal road or prominent path in an arid area.
- (linear algebra) The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix.
- (programming) A sequence of instructions, including branches but not loops, that is executed for some input data.
- (electronics) A current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board.
- (fortification) The ground plan of a work or works.
- (grammar) An empty category occupying a position in the syntactic structure from which something has been moved, used to explain constructions such as wh-movement and the passive.
- (geometry) The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
- One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whippletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be drawn; a tug.
- a just detectable amount
- a visible mark (as a footprint) left by the passage of person or animal or vehicle
- either of two lines that connect a horse's harness to a wagon or other vehicle or to a whiffletree
- a drawing created by superimposing a semitransparent sheet of paper on the original image and copying on it the lines of the original image
- an indication that something has been present
- a suggestion of some quality
adj
verb
- (transitive) To draw or sketch lightly or with care.
- (computing, transitive) To follow the execution of the program by making it to stop after every instruction, or by making it print a message after every step.
- (transitive) To follow the trail of.
- To follow the history of.
- (transitive) To copy onto a sheet of paper superimposed over the original, by drawing over its lines.
- make a mark or lines on a surface
- pursue or chase relentlessly
- follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something
- make one's course or travel along a path; travel or pass over, around, or along
- copy by following the lines of the original drawing on a transparent sheet placed upon it; make a tracing of
- read with difficulty
- to go back over again
- discover traces of
noun
- any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue
- promotion by means of an argument and demonstration
- abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance)
- a sports field with predetermined dimensions for playing soccer
- the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration
- a high approach shot in golf
- a vendor's position (especially on the sidewalk)
- the act of throwing a baseball or softball by the pitcher towards home plate, which initiates play by giving the batter a chance to hit it
- an all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump
- degree of deviation from a horizontal plane
- the action or manner of throwing something
- (sports, UK, Australia, New Zealand) The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby, gridiron or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is in the centre of the field; see cricket pitch.) (Not often used in the US or Canada, where "field" is the preferred word.)
- An effort to sell or promote something.
- (geology) Pitchstone.
- The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant.
- The angle at which an object sits.
- (golf) A short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
- An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar.
- A dark, extremely viscous material still remaining after distilling crude oil or natural tar.
- The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread, the centres of holes, or letters in a monospace font.
- Prominence; importance.
- The height a bird reaches in flight, especially a bird of prey preparing to swoop down on its prey.
- (nautical, aviation) The degree to which a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft, rotates on such an axis, tilting its bow or nose up or down.
- (music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.
- (by extension) The place where a busker performs, a prostitute solicits clients, or an illegal gambling game etc. is set up before the public.
- (cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
- (mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
- (climbing) A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
- A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
- (now British, regional) A person's or animal's height.
- A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
- (music, phonetics) The perceived frequency of a sound, note or electromagnetic wave.
- A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
- (music) The standard to which a group of musical instruments are tuned or in which a piece is performed, usually by reference to the frequency to which the musical note A above middle C is tuned.
- (baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.
- A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
- A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
- An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
- (aviation) A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller.
- (caving) A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
- (rare) The field of battle.
- The most thrust-out point of a headland or cape.
verb
- heel over
- set to a certain pitch
- sell or offer for sale from place to place
- move abruptly
- fall or plunge forward
- throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball
- be at an angle
- set the level or character of
- throw or toss with a light motion
- erect and fasten
- lead (a card) and establish the trump suit
- hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin
- To cover or smear with pitch.
- (transitive) To set or fix (a price or value).
- (transitive) To fix or set the tone of.
- (brewing) To add yeast as a step while making beer
- (transitive) To assemble or erect (a tent). Also used figuratively.
- (with on or upon) To fix one's choice.
- (intransitive, Bristol, of snow) To settle and build up, without melting.
- (intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
- (transitive) To set at an angle, especially a downwards one; to cause to tilt.
- (intransitive, baseball) To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
- (intransitive, cricket) To bounce on the playing surface.
- (transitive) To set, face, or pave (an embankment or roadway) with rubble or undressed stones.
- (transitive) To throw away; discard.
- (transitive, golf) To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
- To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
- (intransitive) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
- (transitive) To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
- (transitive or intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
- (transitive) To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
- (intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch.
- (transitive) To throw.
- (transitive, card games, slang) To discard (a card) for some gain.
- To attack, or position or assemble for attack.
- (ambitransitive, aviation or nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternately up and down.
adj
noun
- any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue
- a man who serves as a sailor
- (computing) A program for archiving files, common on Unix systems.
- A Persian long-necked, waisted string instrument, shared by many cultures and countries in the Middle East and the Caucasus.
- A single-headed round frame drum originating in North Africa and the Middle East.
- (computing) A file produced by such a program.
- Coal tar.
- Alternative form of tara (“Indian coin”).
- (uncountable) A solid residual byproduct of tobacco smoke.
- (uncountable) Black tar, a form of heroin.
verb
noun
- a substance that is undergoing an analysis of its components
- a written report of the results of an analysis of the composition of some substance
- an appraisal of the state of affairs
- a quantitative or qualitative test of a substance (especially an ore or a drug) to determine its components; frequently used to test for the presence or concentration of infectious agents or antibodies etc.
- The qualitative or quantitative chemical analysis of something.
- Trial, attempt.
- The alloy or metal to be assayed.
- The act or process of ascertaining the proportion of a particular metal in an ore or alloy; especially, the determination of the proportion of gold or silver in bullion or coin.
- Trial by danger or by affliction; adventure; risk; hardship; state of being tried.
- Examination and determination; test.
- Tested purity or value.
verb
noun
- a substance that contaminates
- the act of contaminating or polluting; including (either intentionally or accidentally) unwanted substances or factors
- the state of being contaminated
- (linguistics, etymology) The influence of one form (often from a foreign language) on the historical development of another form to which it may be related in meaning.
- (linguistics) A process whereby words with related meanings come to have similar sounds.
- The act or process of contaminating.
- (textual criticism) The intermingling of readings from multiple sources by a copyist.
- Something which contaminates.
noun
- Something that has been reduced to powder, something that has been ground.
- A specific degree of pulverization of coffee beans.
- A grinding trick on a skateboard or snowboard.
- (uncountable, slang) Hustle; hard work.
- A traditional communal pilot whale hunt in the Faroe Islands.
- (uncountable, music) Clipping of grindcore (“subgenre of heavy metal”).
- A tedious and laborious task.
- The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.
- an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious
- the act of grinding to a powder or dust
- the grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground
- hard monotonous routine work
verb
- (transitive) To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion.
- (sports, intransitive) To slide the flat portion of a skateboard or snowboard across an obstacle such as a railing.
- (slang, Hawaii) To eat.
- (slang) To dance in a sexually suggestive way with both partners in very close proximity, often pressed against each other.
- To produce mechanically and repetitively as if by turning a crank.
- (slang) To rub one's body against another's in a sexual way; to frottage.
- To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
- (transitive) To shape with the force of friction.
- (metalworking) To remove material by rubbing with an abrasive surface.
- (transitive) To operate by turning a crank.
- To instill through repetitive teaching.
- (video games) To repeat a task a large number of times in a row to achieve a specific goal.
- (intransitive, slang) To work or study hard; to hustle or drudge.
- (transitive, slang) To annoy or irritate (a person); to grind one's gears.
- (intransitive) To become ground, pulverized, or polished by friction.
- (transitive) To oppress, hold down or weaken.
- (slang, intransitive) To rotate the hips erotically.
- make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together
- reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading
- press or grind with a crushing noise
- created by grinding
- dance by rotating the pelvis in an erotically suggestive way, often while in contact with one's partner such that the dancers' legs are interlaced
- work hard
- shape or form by grinding
noun
- (manufacturing) A small adhesive particle found in wastepaper.
- A sticky note, such as a post-it note.
- (Australia, colloquial) A sweet dessert wine.
- (slang) Sticky-icky; marijuana, especially the sticky, resin-covered buds.
- (Internet) A discussion thread fixed at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.
adj
- (finance) Tending to stay the same; resistant to change.
- (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a stick.
- Of weather: hot and windless and with high humidity, so that people feel sticky from sweating.
- Tending to stick; able to adhere via the drying of a viscous substance.
- Of a death: unpleasant, grisly.
- Difficult, awkward.
- (computing, of a window) Appearing on all virtual desktops.
- (Internet, of a website) Compelling enough to keep visitors from leaving.
- Mawkish, sentimental.
- (computing, informal, of a setting) Persistent.
- (Internet, of threads on a bulletin board) Fixed at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.
- covered with an adhesive material
- hot or warm and humid
- hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment
- moist as with undried perspiration and with clothing sticking to the body
- having the sticky properties of an adhesive
verb
noun
- Powder of other material.
- Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, or other foodstuffs such as soybeans and potatoes, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry.
- (US standards of identity) The food made by grinding and bolting cleaned wheat (not durum or red durum) until it meets specified levels of fineness, dryness, and freedom from bran and germ, also containing any of certain enzymes, ascorbic acid, and certain bleaching agents.
- fine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a cereal grain
verb
noun
noun
noun
noun
- A similar substance based on another metal.
- (philately) Damage caused to stamps and album pages by a fungal infection.
- The deteriorated state of iron or steel as a result of moisture and oxidation; it consists mostly of iron(III) oxide (ferric oxide) and iron(II) oxide (ferrous oxide).
- A disease of plants caused by a reddish-brown fungus (Pucciniales).
- A reddish-brown color.
- a plant disease that produces a reddish-brown discoloration of leaves and stems; caused by various rust fungi
- a red or brown oxide coating on iron or steel caused by the action of oxygen and moisture
- A strong reddish brown color.
- the formation of reddish-brown ferric oxides on iron by low-temperature oxidation in the presence of water
- any of various fungi causing rust disease in plants
verb
- (intransitive) Of a black cat or its fur, to turn rust-coloured following long periods of exposure to sunlight.
- (intransitive) To oxidize, especially of iron or steel.
- (intransitive) To be affected with the parasitic fungus called rust.
- (transitive) To cause to oxidize.
- (ambitransitive, figuratively) To (cause to) degenerate in idleness; to make or become dull or impaired by inaction.
- become coated with oxide
- cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid
- become destroyed by water, air, or a corrosive such as an acid
adj
noun
- Something removed by being scraped.
- (computing) Automated collection of data, data scraping.
- The sound or action of something being scraped.
- a harsh noise made by scraping
- a deep bow with the foot drawn backwards (indicating excessive humility)
- (usually plural) a fragment scraped off of something and collected
verb
noun
- Anything left behind on a surface.
- (law) Bailment of personal property to be kept gratuitously for the bailor (depositor) and without any benefit to the bailee (depositary), e.g. for storage, carriage, repair, etc.
- (geology) Sediment or rock that is not native to its present location or is different from the surrounding material. Sometimes refers to ore or gems.
- A place of deposit; a depository.
- (banking) Money placed in a bank account, as for safekeeping or to earn interest.
- A sum of money given as a security for a borrowed item, which will be given back when the item is returned, e.g. a bottle deposit or can deposit
- (finance) A sum of money or other asset given as an initial payment, to show good faith, or to reserve something for purchase.
- a partial payment made at the time of purchase; the balance to be paid later
- a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping
- a payment given as a guarantee that an obligation will be met
- the natural process of laying down a deposit of something
- the phenomenon of sediment or gravel accumulating
- money deposited in a bank or some similar institution
- money given as security for an article acquired for temporary use
- matter that has been deposited by some natural process
- the act of putting something somewhere
verb
- (transitive) To put money or funds into an account.
- To lay aside; to rid oneself of.
- To lay up or away for safekeeping; to put up; to store.
- To entrust one's assets to the care of another. Sometimes done as collateral.
- (transitive) To lay down; to place; to put.
- put into a bank account
- put, fix, force, or implant
- put (something somewhere) firmly
noun
- a lump of slimy stuff
- a man who serves as a sailor
- informal terms for the mouth
- (countable) A lump of soft or sticky material.
- (UK, Commonwealth, Ireland, slang) The mouth.
- (uncountable, slang) Saliva or phlegm.
- (US, military, slang) A sailor.
- (countable, US, regional) A whoopie pie.
- (uncountable, mining) Waste material in old mine workings, goaf.
verb
noun
- An admixture; something added which stains, taints etc.
- A metal that is a combination of two or more elements, at least one of which is a metal, a base metal.
- (figurative) Fusion, marriage, combination.
- the state of impairing the quality or reducing the value of something
- a mixture containing two or more metallic elements or metallic and nonmetallic elements usually fused together or dissolving into each other when molten
verb
verb
- produce as a result or residue
- lead, extend, or afford access
- travel in front of; go in advance of others
- cause to undertake a certain action
- take somebody somewhere
- tend to or result in
- cause something to pass or lead somewhere
- lead, as in the performance of a composition
- preside over
- be ahead of others; be the first
- be in charge of
- be conducive to
- stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
- move ahead (of others) in time or space
- (intransitive) To be a cause of. [with to]
- (intransitive) To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or preeminence; to be first or chief; — used in most of the senses of the transitive verb.
- (transitive, climbing) To lead climb.
- (figuratively): To direct; to counsel; to instruct.
- To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to show the way, especially by going with or going in advance of; to guide somebody somewhere or to bring somebody somewhere by means of instructions.
- To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection.
- (transitive, card games, dominoes) To begin a game, round, or trick, with
- Misspelling of led.
- (baseball) To step off base and move towards the next base.
- Used in phrasal verbs: lead off, lead on, lead out, lead to (“be the cause of, bring about”), lead up, lead up to.
- (intransitive) To have the highest interim score in a game.
- (intransitive) To tend or reach in a certain spatial direction, or to a certain place.
- (transitive) To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among.
- To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure.
- (shooting) To aim in front of a moving target, in order that the shot may hit the target as it passes.
- (intransitive) To be more advanced in technology or business than others.
- (intransitive) To be ahead of others, e.g., in a race.
- (intransitive) To proceed in front of others; to go first.
- (transitive, usually with "life") To live or experience (a particular way of life).
- To influence towards a belief, a conclusion, etc.
- (transitive, printing, historical) To place leads between the lines of.
- (transitive) To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
- To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; to command, especially a military or business unit.
noun
- an advantage held by a competitor in a race
- an actor who plays a principal role
- the angle between the direction a gun is aimed and the position of a moving target (correcting for the flight time of the missile)
- evidence pointing to a possible solution
- the introductory section of a story
- (baseball) the position taken by a base runner preparing to advance to the next base
- an indication of potential opportunity
- a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire
- the playing of a card to start a trick in bridge
- a position of being the initiator of something and an example that others will follow (especially in the phrase ‘take the lead’)
- restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal
- a news story of major importance
- (sports) the score by which a team or individual is winning
- the timing of ignition relative to the position of the piston in an internal-combustion engine
- thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing
- a soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element; bluish white when freshly cut but tarnishes readily to dull grey
- mixture of graphite with clay in different degrees of hardness; the marking substance in a pencil
- (countable, nautical) A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or to estimate velocity in knots.
- A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
- (medicine, in the plural) X-ray protective clothing lined with lead.
- (countable) A thin cylinder of graphite used in pencils.
- (UK, countable) An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.
- Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
- (horology) The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
- Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more details.
- (electricity) The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it.
- (acting) The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.
- (countable, mining) A lode.
- Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details about a crime or incident.
- A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash
- (nautical) The course of a rope from end to end.
- (US, journalism) The introductory paragraph or paragraphs of a newspaper, or a news or other type of article. (Sometimes spelled as lede for this usage to avoid ambiguity.)
- (marketing) Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.
- (business) The person in charge of a project or a work shift etc.
- (curling) The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.
- (music) The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.
- (uncountable, typography) Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.
- (slang) Bullets; ammunition.
- (countable) A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
- (countable) A channel of open water in an ice field.
- Hypothesis that has not been pursued
- (music) A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others.
- An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast
- (music) A primary synth, often composed of square, sawtooth, triangle or sine waveforms.
- (baseball) The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
- (uncountable) A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic number 82, symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum).
- (music) In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor.
- (countable) The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course
- (acting, theater) The main role in a play or film; the lead role.
- (uncountable, card games, dominoes) The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played
- (engineering) The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times the number of starts.
- In a steam engine, the width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release of steam, at the instant when the piston is at end of its stroke.
- (electricity) The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the poles.
- (countable) Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead in a race; the highest score in an incomplete game.
- (engineering) The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same shaft.
- (civil engineering) The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
adj
verb
- produce as a result or residue
- be survived by after one's death
- move out of or depart from
- act or be so as to become in a specified state
- leave unchanged or undisturbed or refrain from taking
- make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain
- remove oneself from an association with or participation in
- have left or have as a remainder
- leave or give by will after one's death
- go away from a place
- leave behind unintentionally
- put into the care or protection of someone
- go and leave behind, either intentionally or by neglect or forgetfulness
- transmit (knowledge or skills)
- (transitive or intransitive, copulative) To cause, to result in.
- (transitive) To let be or do without interference.
- (transitive) To put; to place; to deposit; to deliver, with a sense of withdrawing oneself.
- (transitive) To depart from; to end one's connection or affiliation with.
- (transitive) To transfer responsibility or attention of (something) (to someone); to stop being concerned with.
- (transitive) To give (something) to someone; to deliver (something) to a repository; to deposit.
- (intransitive, rare) To produce leaves or foliage.
- (transitive) To end one's membership in (a group); to terminate one's affiliation with (an organization); to stop participating in (a project).
- (euphemistic, transitive) To die (the object denotes those affected by the death).
- To depart; to separate from.
- (intransitive) To depart; to go away from a certain place or state.
- (transitive) To cause or allow (something) to remain as available; to refrain from taking (something) away; to stop short of consuming or otherwise depleting (something) entirely.
- (transitive) To transfer possession of after death.
- (transitive) To give leave to; allow; permit; let; grant.
noun
- the act of departing politely
- the period of time during which you are absent from work or duty
- permission to do something
- Permission to be absent; time away from one's work.
- (billiards) The arrangement of balls in play that remains after a shot is made (which determines whether the next shooter — who may be either the same player, or an opponent — has good options, or only poor ones).
- (Scrabble) The tiles remaining on a player's rack after his or her turn.
- (cricket) The action of the batsman not attempting to play at the ball.
verb
- produce as a result or residue
- come about or follow as a consequence
- issue or terminate (in a specified way, state, etc.); end
- (intransitive, law) To return to the proprietor (or heirs) after a reversion.
- (intransitive) To proceed, spring up or rise, as a consequence, from facts, arguments, premises, combination of circumstances, consultation, thought or endeavor.
- (intransitive, followed by "in") To have as a consequence; to lead to; to bring about
noun
- a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon
- a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem
- the semantic role of the noun phrase whose referent exists only by virtue of the activity denoted by the verb in the clause
- something that results
- (sports) The final score in a game.
- The decision or determination of a council or deliberative assembly; a resolve; a decree.
- (by extension) A positive or favourable outcome for someone.
- That which results; the conclusion or end to which any course or condition of things leads, or which is obtained by any process or operation; consequence or effect.
- The final product, beneficial or tangible effect(s) achieved by effort.
intj
verb
- cover with a light dusting of a substance
- remove the dust from
- rub the dust over a surface so as to blur the outlines of a shape
- distribute loosely
- (transitive) To spray or cover (something) with fine powder or liquid, to sprinkle.
- (transitive) To remove dust from.
- (transitive, chiefly US slang) To kill.
- (transitive, now colloquial or dialectal) To strike, beat, thrash.
- (transitive, chiefly US slang) To defeat badly, to thrash.
- (intransitive, chiefly US slang) To leave quickly; to rush off.
- (intransitive) To remove dust; to clean by removing dust.
- (transitive, baseball) To deliberately pitch a ball close to (a batter); to brush back.
- (intransitive or reflexive) Of a bird, to cover itself in sand or dry, dusty earth.
- (transitive) To sprinkle (a substance) in the form of dust.
- (cryptocurrencies) To attempt to identify the owner of (a cryptocurrency wallet) by sending tiny amounts of cryptocurrency.
noun
- free microscopic particles of solid material
- fine powdery material such as dry earth or pollen that can be blown about in the air
- the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up
- (cryptocurrencies) Tiny amounts of cryptocurrency left over after a transaction due to rounding error.
- (countable) The act of cleaning by dusting.
- (figurative) Something worthless.
- (uncountable, astronomy) Submicron particles in outer space, largely silicates and carbon compounds, that contribute greatly to extinction at visible wavelengths.
- (countable, figurative) A tumult, disturbance, commotion, uproar.
- (countable, mathematics) A totally disconnected set of points with a fractal structure.
- (British, colloquial) Rubbish, garbage, refuse.
- The earthly remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body.
- (figurative) A low or mean condition.
- (countable) A cloud of dust.
- (countable, colloquial) A fight or row.
- The earth as the resting place of the dead.
- (figurative) The substance of the human body or mortal frame.
- (uncountable) Fine, dry particles of matter found in the air and covering the surface of objects, typically consisting of soil lifted up by the wind, pollen, hair, etc.
- (uncountable) Any substance reduced to fine particles; powder.
- (poetic) Earth, ground, soil, sediment.
- (countable) The act of sprinkling dust, or a sprinkle of dust itself.
- (uncountable, occupational health) Disintegration of a solid, like silica.
adj
noun
- (statistics) The difference between the observed value and the estimated value of the quantity of interest.
- (paranormal) A spiritual presence left behind in a place as a result of a person's death or some other significant event.
- (chiefly in the plural) Payments made to performers, writers and directors when a recorded broadcast is repeated.
- A remainder left over at the end of some process.
- (often plural) a payment that is made to a performer or writer or director of a television show or commercial that is paid for every repeat showing
- something left after other parts have been taken away
adj
- Of or relating to a residue; residual; left over, when the main portion has been removed.
- (law) With respect to a will, relating to the portion of an estate which was not disposed of in the will, or for which the directions in the will could not be carried out.
- relating to or indicating a remainder
- entitled to the residue of an estate (after payment of debts and specific gifts)