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noun
- A snug, comfortable, or cosy residence or job situation.
- (card games) A fixed number of cards in some bidding games awarded to the highest bidder allowing him to exchange any or all with cards in his hand.
- A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger.
- A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively.
- A circular bed of pasta, rice, etc. to be topped or filled with other foods.
- (computing) A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.
- A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
- A retreat, or place of habitual resort.
- (military) A fortified position for a weapon.
- (geology) An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock.
- A place used by a monotreme, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.
- (vulgar, slang, now US) The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself.
- A home that a child or young adult shares with a parent or guardian.
- A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt; a den.
- a structure in which animals lay eggs or give birth to their young
- a cosy or secluded retreat
- a kind of gun emplacement
- a gang of people (criminals or spies or terrorists) assembled in one locality
- furniture pieces made to fit close together
verb
- move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position
- (intransitive) To successively neatly fit inside another.
- (intransitive) To settle into a home.
- (intransitive) To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").
- (intransitive, of animals) To build or settle into a nest.
- (transitive) To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).
- (transitive) To place in, or as if in, a nest.
- inhabit a nest, usually after building
- fit together or fit inside
- gather nests
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verb
adj
- having a feeling of home; cozy and comfortable
- without artificial refinement or elegance
- lacking in physical beauty or proportion
- plain and unpretentious
- Characteristic of, belonging to, or befitting a home; domestic, cosy.
- Simple; plain; familiar; unelaborate; unadorned.
- (Canada, US) Lacking in beauty or elegance, plain in appearance, physically unattractive.
- (UK dialectal) On intimate or friendly terms with (someone); familiar; at home (with a person); intimate.
- (UK dialectal, of animals) Domestic; tame.
- (UK dialectal) Personal; private.
- (India) Conservative and family-oriented.
- (UK dialectal) Friendly; kind; gracious; cordial.
noun
- a room that is comfortable and secluded
- A comfortable room not used for formal entertaining.
- a hiding place; usually a remote place used by outlaws
- the habitation of wild animals
- a unit of 8 to 10 cub scouts
- Synonym of fort (“structure improvised from furniture, etc. for playing games.”).
- A group of Cub Scouts of the same age who work on projects together.
- A small cavern or hollow place in the side of a hill, or among rocks; especially, a cave used by a wild animal for shelter or concealment.
- A squalid or wretched place; a haunt.
- Abbreviation of denier (a unit of weight).
- (Northumbria, chiefly in place names) Alternative form of dene.
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verb
adj
- (of a room or building) Spacious, well lit, well ventilated.
- Light-hearted; vivacious
- Consisting of air.
- Having an affected manner; being in the habit of putting on airs; affectedly grand.
- Not based on reality; having no solid foundation
- Open to a free current of air; exposed to the air; breezy.
- Resembling air; thin; unsubstantial; not material; airlike.
- Relating to the spirit or soul; delicate; graceful.
- (painting) Having the light and aerial tints true to nature.
- Relating or belonging to air; high in air; aerial.
- having little or no perceptible weight; so light as to resemble air
- not practical or realizable; speculative
- characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air
- open to or abounding in fresh air
noun
- A large comfortable seat for two or three people or more, a sofa or couch; also called lounge chair.
- (especially British) A room of a house for casual relaxing and entertaining.
- The act of someone who lounges; idle reclining.
- A waiting room in an office, airport etc.
- An establishment, similar to a bar, that serves alcohol and often plays background music or shows television.
- an upholstered seat for more than one person
- a room (as in a hotel or airport) with seating where people can wait
verb
adj
noun
- an unbroken period of time during which you do something
- the capacity for being stretched
- exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent
- the act of physically reaching or thrusting out
- extension to or beyond the ordinary limit
- a large and unbroken expanse or distance
- a straightaway section of a racetrack
- Ellipsis of stretch limousine.
- A segment or length of material.
- (informal) Term of address for a tall person.
- The ability to lengthen when pulled.
- A segment of a journey or route.
- (baseball) A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman in order to catch the ball sooner.
- (slang) A jail or prison term of one year's duration.
- (horse racing) The homestretch, the final straight section of the track leading to the finish.
- (Ireland) Extended daylight hours, especially said of the evening in springtime when compared to the shorter winter days.
- (slang) A jail or prison term.
- A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief or exaggeration.
- (baseball) A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead of lifting it.
- (sports) The period of the season between the trade deadline and the beginning of the playoffs.
- An act of stretching.
- A length of time.
- A single uninterrupted sitting; a turn.
verb
- become longer by being stretched and pulled
- extend the scope or meaning of; often unduly
- extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length
- extend one's body or limbs
- corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
- make long or longer by pulling and stretching
- occupy a large, elongated area
- pull in opposite directions
- extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body
- increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance
- lie down comfortably
- (figuratively, transitive) To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
- (figuratively, transitive) To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
- (intransitive) To increase, to grow.
- (physics, transitive) To make a pulse or particle bunch longer by applying dispersion to it.
- (nautical) To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
- (transitive) To increase.
- (transitive) To make great demands on the capacity or resources of something.
- (intransitive) To extend physically, especially from a limit point and/or to a limit point.
- (intransitive, transitive) To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body, for example in order to improve the elasticity of one's muscles.
- (transitive) To pull tight.
- (intransitive) To lengthen when pulled.
- (transitive) To lengthen by pulling.
verb
noun
noun
- (UK) A luxurious flat (apartment).
- Any of the branches of the Rastafari movement.
- (historical) An astrological house; a station of the moon.
- (Hong Kong, only used in names) An apartment building.
- A large luxurious house or building, usually built for the wealthy.
- (Chinese astronomy) One of twenty-eight sections of the sky.
- (chiefly in the plural) An individual habitation or apartment within a large house or group of buildings. (Now chiefly in allusion to John 14:2.)
- a large and imposing house
- (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided
noun
- furnishings that make a room or other area ready for occupancy
- (firearms) The stock and forearm of a weapon.
- (bookselling) Impressive-looking books used for filling out the collection of a private library.
- (journalism) Any material on the page other than the body text and pictures of articles; for example, headlines, datelines and dinkuses, lines and symbols (though in earlier use, only non-text elements of page design, such as lines and symbols).
- Fittings, such as handles, of a door, coffin, or other wooden item.
- (music) A type of mixture organ stop.
- (now usually uncountable) Large movable item(s), usually in a room, which enhance(s) the room's characteristics, functionally or decoratively.
- (cricket, slang) The stumps.
- The harness, trappings etc. of a horse, hawk, or other animal.
- (printing, historical) The pieces of wood or metal put around pages of type to make proper margins and fill the spaces between the pages and the chase.
noun
- A house that has been made home-like, to suit the comfort of those who live there.
- (Internet) The landing page of a website; the site's homepage.
- (music, informal) The chord at which a melody starts and to which it can resolve.
- (computing) Clipping of home directory.
- The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections.
- The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat.
- (board games) The ultimate point aimed at in a progress; the goal.
- (baseball) Home plate.
- (lacrosse) The place of a player in front of an opponent’s goal; also, the player.
- The place (residence, settlement, country, etc.), where a person was born or raised; childhood or parental home; home of one’s parents or guardian.
- A place of refuge, rest or care; an asylum.
- (by extension) Anything that serves the functions of a home, as comfort, safety, sense of belonging, etc.
- One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt.
- One’s own dwelling place; the house or structure in which one lives; especially the house in which one lives with one's family; the habitual abode of one’s family.
- (by extension) The grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul.
- an environment offering affection and security
- the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end
- a social unit living together
- an institution where people are cared for
- housing that someone is living in
- the country or state or city where you live
- (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score
- where you live at a particular time
- place where something began and flourished
adj
adv
- At or in one's place of residence or one's customary or official location; at home.
- (Internet) To the home page.
- To one's place of birth.
- (UK, soccer) into the goal
- To one's place of residence or one's customary or official location.
- To a full and intimate degree; to the heart of the matter; fully, directly.
- (nautical) into the right, proper or stowed position
- To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length.
- at or to or in the direction of one's home or family
- to the fullest extent; to the heart
- on or to the point aimed at
verb
verb
noun
verb
noun
verb
noun
- (historical) A pad supporting a woman's hair.
- The pillow used in making bone lace.
- A mass of steam in the end of the cylinder of a steam engine to receive the impact of the piston.
- A soft mass of material stuffed into a cloth bag, used for comfort or support.
- (historical) The rubber of an electrical machine.
- A pad on which gilders cut gold leaf.
- (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The lip around a table in cue sports which absorbs some of the impact of the billiard balls and bounces them back.
- (finance, countable, uncountable) Money kept in reserve.
- An engraver's pad.
- A thin, flat pad used on hard chairs and sometimes toilet seats.
- (figuratively) a sufficient quantity of an intangible object (like points or minutes) to allow for some of those points, for example, to be lost without hurting one's chances for successfully completing an objective.
- (historical) The dancer in the cushion dance who currently holds the cushion, or the dance itself.
- (Commonwealth) A throw pillow.
- the layer of air that supports a hovercraft or similar vehicle
- a soft bag filled with air or a mass of padding such as feathers or foam rubber etc.
- a mechanical damper; absorbs energy of sudden impulses
verb
- move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position
- hold (a person or thing) close, as for affection, comfort, or warmth
- To lie close or snug; to crouch; to nestle.
- (transitive) To cradle (e.g. a baby) in one's arms so as to give comfort, warmth.
- (US, intransitive, transitive) To lie together snugly (with someone), in an intimate physical embrace; to snuggle.
- (UK, intransitive, transitive) To embrace (someone) affectionately; to hug (someone) closely.
noun
- a close and affectionate (and often prolonged) embrace
- (US) An intimate physical embrace, typically while lying (or sitting): a snuggle, an instance of lying together snugly, as one might with a partner (more intimate than a hug, and typically of longer duration).
- (UK) An affectionate embrace, a hug, such as is given to family members and close friends (less intimate than a snuggle, and typically of shorter duration).
verb
- move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position
- dig out with the snout
- rub noses
- Often followed by in or into: to press or push the nose or snout, mouth, face, etc., against or into someone or something; to touch someone or something with the nose or snout, etc.
- Followed by down: to settle or lie comfortably and snugly in a bed, nest, etc.; to nestle.
- Chiefly of an animal: to dig (something, especially food) out of the ground using the nose or snout; to root.
- To rub or touch (someone or something) with the nose, face, etc., or an object.
- Chiefly followed by up or with: to press affectionately against someone or something; to nestle, to snuggle.
- Chiefly of an animal: to push the nose or snout into the ground to dig for something, especially food; to root, to rootle.
- To push or thrust (the nose or snout, face or muzzle, or head, or an object) against or into something.
- (figurative) To come into close contact with someone or something.
noun
noun
- A snug, comfortable, or cosy residence or job situation.
- (card games) A fixed number of cards in some bidding games awarded to the highest bidder allowing him to exchange any or all with cards in his hand.
- A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger.
- A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively.
- A circular bed of pasta, rice, etc. to be topped or filled with other foods.
- (computing) A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.
- A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
- A retreat, or place of habitual resort.
- (military) A fortified position for a weapon.
- (geology) An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock.
- A place used by a monotreme, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.
- (vulgar, slang, now US) The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself.
- A home that a child or young adult shares with a parent or guardian.
- A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt; a den.
- a structure in which animals lay eggs or give birth to their young
- a cosy or secluded retreat
- a kind of gun emplacement
- a gang of people (criminals or spies or terrorists) assembled in one locality
- furniture pieces made to fit close together
verb
- move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position
- (intransitive) To successively neatly fit inside another.
- (intransitive) To settle into a home.
- (intransitive) To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").
- (intransitive, of animals) To build or settle into a nest.
- (transitive) To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).
- (transitive) To place in, or as if in, a nest.
- inhabit a nest, usually after building
- fit together or fit inside
- gather nests
noun
- a room that is comfortable and secluded
- A comfortable room not used for formal entertaining.
- a hiding place; usually a remote place used by outlaws
- the habitation of wild animals
- a unit of 8 to 10 cub scouts
- Synonym of fort (“structure improvised from furniture, etc. for playing games.”).
- A group of Cub Scouts of the same age who work on projects together.
- A small cavern or hollow place in the side of a hill, or among rocks; especially, a cave used by a wild animal for shelter or concealment.
- A squalid or wretched place; a haunt.
- Abbreviation of denier (a unit of weight).
- (Northumbria, chiefly in place names) Alternative form of dene.
adv
verb
noun
- A large comfortable seat for two or three people or more, a sofa or couch; also called lounge chair.
- (especially British) A room of a house for casual relaxing and entertaining.
- The act of someone who lounges; idle reclining.
- A waiting room in an office, airport etc.
- An establishment, similar to a bar, that serves alcohol and often plays background music or shows television.
- an upholstered seat for more than one person
- a room (as in a hotel or airport) with seating where people can wait
verb
noun
- (UK) A luxurious flat (apartment).
- Any of the branches of the Rastafari movement.
- (historical) An astrological house; a station of the moon.
- (Hong Kong, only used in names) An apartment building.
- A large luxurious house or building, usually built for the wealthy.
- (Chinese astronomy) One of twenty-eight sections of the sky.
- (chiefly in the plural) An individual habitation or apartment within a large house or group of buildings. (Now chiefly in allusion to John 14:2.)
- a large and imposing house
- (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided
noun
- furnishings that make a room or other area ready for occupancy
- (firearms) The stock and forearm of a weapon.
- (bookselling) Impressive-looking books used for filling out the collection of a private library.
- (journalism) Any material on the page other than the body text and pictures of articles; for example, headlines, datelines and dinkuses, lines and symbols (though in earlier use, only non-text elements of page design, such as lines and symbols).
- Fittings, such as handles, of a door, coffin, or other wooden item.
- (music) A type of mixture organ stop.
- (now usually uncountable) Large movable item(s), usually in a room, which enhance(s) the room's characteristics, functionally or decoratively.
- (cricket, slang) The stumps.
- The harness, trappings etc. of a horse, hawk, or other animal.
- (printing, historical) The pieces of wood or metal put around pages of type to make proper margins and fill the spaces between the pages and the chase.
noun
- A house that has been made home-like, to suit the comfort of those who live there.
- (Internet) The landing page of a website; the site's homepage.
- (music, informal) The chord at which a melody starts and to which it can resolve.
- (computing) Clipping of home directory.
- The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections.
- The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat.
- (board games) The ultimate point aimed at in a progress; the goal.
- (baseball) Home plate.
- (lacrosse) The place of a player in front of an opponent’s goal; also, the player.
- The place (residence, settlement, country, etc.), where a person was born or raised; childhood or parental home; home of one’s parents or guardian.
- A place of refuge, rest or care; an asylum.
- (by extension) Anything that serves the functions of a home, as comfort, safety, sense of belonging, etc.
- One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt.
- One’s own dwelling place; the house or structure in which one lives; especially the house in which one lives with one's family; the habitual abode of one’s family.
- (by extension) The grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul.
- an environment offering affection and security
- the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end
- a social unit living together
- an institution where people are cared for
- housing that someone is living in
- the country or state or city where you live
- (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score
- where you live at a particular time
- place where something began and flourished
adj
adv
- At or in one's place of residence or one's customary or official location; at home.
- (Internet) To the home page.
- To one's place of birth.
- (UK, soccer) into the goal
- To one's place of residence or one's customary or official location.
- To a full and intimate degree; to the heart of the matter; fully, directly.
- (nautical) into the right, proper or stowed position
- To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length.
- at or to or in the direction of one's home or family
- to the fullest extent; to the heart
- on or to the point aimed at
verb
verb
noun
verb
noun
verb
noun
verb
noun
- (historical) A pad supporting a woman's hair.
- The pillow used in making bone lace.
- A mass of steam in the end of the cylinder of a steam engine to receive the impact of the piston.
- A soft mass of material stuffed into a cloth bag, used for comfort or support.
- (historical) The rubber of an electrical machine.
- A pad on which gilders cut gold leaf.
- (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The lip around a table in cue sports which absorbs some of the impact of the billiard balls and bounces them back.
- (finance, countable, uncountable) Money kept in reserve.
- An engraver's pad.
- A thin, flat pad used on hard chairs and sometimes toilet seats.
- (figuratively) a sufficient quantity of an intangible object (like points or minutes) to allow for some of those points, for example, to be lost without hurting one's chances for successfully completing an objective.
- (historical) The dancer in the cushion dance who currently holds the cushion, or the dance itself.
- (Commonwealth) A throw pillow.
- the layer of air that supports a hovercraft or similar vehicle
- a soft bag filled with air or a mass of padding such as feathers or foam rubber etc.
- a mechanical damper; absorbs energy of sudden impulses
noun
- A snug, comfortable, or cosy residence or job situation.
- (card games) A fixed number of cards in some bidding games awarded to the highest bidder allowing him to exchange any or all with cards in his hand.
- A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger.
- A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively.
- A circular bed of pasta, rice, etc. to be topped or filled with other foods.
- (computing) A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.
- A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
- A retreat, or place of habitual resort.
- (military) A fortified position for a weapon.
- (geology) An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock.
- A place used by a monotreme, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.
- (vulgar, slang, now US) The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself.
- A home that a child or young adult shares with a parent or guardian.
- A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt; a den.
- a structure in which animals lay eggs or give birth to their young
- a cosy or secluded retreat
- a kind of gun emplacement
- a gang of people (criminals or spies or terrorists) assembled in one locality
- furniture pieces made to fit close together
verb
- move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position
- (intransitive) To successively neatly fit inside another.
- (intransitive) To settle into a home.
- (intransitive) To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").
- (intransitive, of animals) To build or settle into a nest.
- (transitive) To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).
- (transitive) To place in, or as if in, a nest.
- inhabit a nest, usually after building
- fit together or fit inside
- gather nests
verb
- move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position
- hold (a person or thing) close, as for affection, comfort, or warmth
- To lie close or snug; to crouch; to nestle.
- (transitive) To cradle (e.g. a baby) in one's arms so as to give comfort, warmth.
- (US, intransitive, transitive) To lie together snugly (with someone), in an intimate physical embrace; to snuggle.
- (UK, intransitive, transitive) To embrace (someone) affectionately; to hug (someone) closely.
noun
- a close and affectionate (and often prolonged) embrace
- (US) An intimate physical embrace, typically while lying (or sitting): a snuggle, an instance of lying together snugly, as one might with a partner (more intimate than a hug, and typically of longer duration).
- (UK) An affectionate embrace, a hug, such as is given to family members and close friends (less intimate than a snuggle, and typically of shorter duration).
verb
- move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position
- dig out with the snout
- rub noses
- Often followed by in or into: to press or push the nose or snout, mouth, face, etc., against or into someone or something; to touch someone or something with the nose or snout, etc.
- Followed by down: to settle or lie comfortably and snugly in a bed, nest, etc.; to nestle.
- Chiefly of an animal: to dig (something, especially food) out of the ground using the nose or snout; to root.
- To rub or touch (someone or something) with the nose, face, etc., or an object.
- Chiefly followed by up or with: to press affectionately against someone or something; to nestle, to snuggle.
- Chiefly of an animal: to push the nose or snout into the ground to dig for something, especially food; to root, to rootle.
- To push or thrust (the nose or snout, face or muzzle, or head, or an object) against or into something.
- (figurative) To come into close contact with someone or something.
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adj
- having a feeling of home; cozy and comfortable
- without artificial refinement or elegance
- lacking in physical beauty or proportion
- plain and unpretentious
- Characteristic of, belonging to, or befitting a home; domestic, cosy.
- Simple; plain; familiar; unelaborate; unadorned.
- (Canada, US) Lacking in beauty or elegance, plain in appearance, physically unattractive.
- (UK dialectal) On intimate or friendly terms with (someone); familiar; at home (with a person); intimate.
- (UK dialectal, of animals) Domestic; tame.
- (UK dialectal) Personal; private.
- (India) Conservative and family-oriented.
- (UK dialectal) Friendly; kind; gracious; cordial.
adj
- (of a room or building) Spacious, well lit, well ventilated.
- Light-hearted; vivacious
- Consisting of air.
- Having an affected manner; being in the habit of putting on airs; affectedly grand.
- Not based on reality; having no solid foundation
- Open to a free current of air; exposed to the air; breezy.
- Resembling air; thin; unsubstantial; not material; airlike.
- Relating to the spirit or soul; delicate; graceful.
- (painting) Having the light and aerial tints true to nature.
- Relating or belonging to air; high in air; aerial.
- having little or no perceptible weight; so light as to resemble air
- not practical or realizable; speculative
- characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air
- open to or abounding in fresh air
adj
noun
- an unbroken period of time during which you do something
- the capacity for being stretched
- exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent
- the act of physically reaching or thrusting out
- extension to or beyond the ordinary limit
- a large and unbroken expanse or distance
- a straightaway section of a racetrack
- Ellipsis of stretch limousine.
- A segment or length of material.
- (informal) Term of address for a tall person.
- The ability to lengthen when pulled.
- A segment of a journey or route.
- (baseball) A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman in order to catch the ball sooner.
- (slang) A jail or prison term of one year's duration.
- (horse racing) The homestretch, the final straight section of the track leading to the finish.
- (Ireland) Extended daylight hours, especially said of the evening in springtime when compared to the shorter winter days.
- (slang) A jail or prison term.
- A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief or exaggeration.
- (baseball) A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead of lifting it.
- (sports) The period of the season between the trade deadline and the beginning of the playoffs.
- An act of stretching.
- A length of time.
- A single uninterrupted sitting; a turn.
verb
- become longer by being stretched and pulled
- extend the scope or meaning of; often unduly
- extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length
- extend one's body or limbs
- corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
- make long or longer by pulling and stretching
- occupy a large, elongated area
- pull in opposite directions
- extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body
- increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance
- lie down comfortably
- (figuratively, transitive) To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
- (figuratively, transitive) To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
- (intransitive) To increase, to grow.
- (physics, transitive) To make a pulse or particle bunch longer by applying dispersion to it.
- (nautical) To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
- (transitive) To increase.
- (transitive) To make great demands on the capacity or resources of something.
- (intransitive) To extend physically, especially from a limit point and/or to a limit point.
- (intransitive, transitive) To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body, for example in order to improve the elasticity of one's muscles.
- (transitive) To pull tight.
- (intransitive) To lengthen when pulled.
- (transitive) To lengthen by pulling.