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verb
- change key
- put (a piece of music) into another key
- (transitive, music) To rewrite or perform (a piece) in another key.
- cause to change places
- change the order or arrangement of
- transfer a quantity from one side of an equation to the other side reversing its sign, in order to maintain equality
- transfer from one place or period to another
- exchange positions without a change in value
- (transitive, algebra) To move (a term) from one side of an algebraic equation to the other, reversing the sign of the term.
- (transitive, graph theory) To reverse the direction of every edge of (a graph).
- (transitive, law, chiefly of the European Union) To give force to a directive by passing appropriate implementation measures.
- (intransitive, chess) To reach a position that may also be obtained from a different move order.
- (transitive) To reverse or change the order of (two or more things); to swap or interchange.
- (transitive, linear algebra) To rearrange elements in a matrix, by interchanging their respective row and column positional indicators.
noun
- a matrix formed by interchanging the rows and columns of a given matrix
- (graph theory) A graph whose every edge has had its direction reversed.
- (linear algebra) The matrix derived from performing a transpose operation on a given matrix.
- (linear algebra) The process of rearranging elements in a matrix, by interchanging their respective row and column positional indicators.
adj
verb
noun
- An outward appearance.
- An impersonation, an imitation of the mannerisms of another individual.
- A vague recalling of an event, a belief.
- (painting) The first coat of colour, such as the priming in house-painting etc.
- (printing) set of copies of a publication printed at one time having the same content, layout, pagination, etc.
- (engraving) A print on paper from a wood block, metal plate, etc.
- The overall effect of something, e.g., on a person.
- (philosophy) The vivid perception of something as it is experienced, in contrast to ideas or thoughts drawn from memory or the imagination.
- The indentation or depression made by the pressure of one object on or into another.
- (Internet) A performance metric representing an instance where a post or ad is shown once.
- a vague idea in which some confidence is placed
- all the copies of a work printed at one time
- a concavity in a surface produced by pressing
- (dentistry) an imprint of the teeth and gums in wax or plaster
- the act of pressing one thing on or into the surface of another
- a symbol that is the result of printing or engraving
- an impressionistic portrayal of a person
- a clear and telling mental image
- an outward appearance
verb
- change the key of, in music
- adjust the pitch, tone, or volume of
- vary the pitch of one's speech
- vary the frequency, amplitude, phase, or other characteristic of (electromagnetic waves)
- fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of
- (transitive) To change the pitch, intensity or tone of one's voice or of a musical instrument
- (intransitive, music) to move from one key or tonality to another, especially by using a chord progression
- (transitive, electronics) to vary the amplitude, frequency or phase of a carrier wave in proportion to the amplitude etc of a source wave (such as speech or music)
verb
- provide with a key
- To fit (a lock) with a key.
- vandalize a car by scratching the sides with a key
- identify as in botany or biology, for example
- regulate the musical pitch of
- harmonize with or adjust to
- To fit (pieces of a mechanical assembly) with a key to maintain the orientation between them.
- To provide an arch with a keystone.
- (advertising, transitive) To modify (an advertisement) so as to target a particular group or demographic.
- To fasten or secure firmly; to fasten or tighten with keys or wedges.
- To link (as one might do with a key or legend).
- (computing) (more usually to key in) To enter (information) by typing on a keyboard or keypad.
- To attune to; to set at; to pitch.
- (radio) To operate (the transmitter switch of a two-way radio).
- (telegraphy and radio telegraphy) To depress (a telegraph key).
- (intransitive, biology, chiefly taxonomy) To be identified as a certain taxon when using a key.
- To mark or indicate with a symbol indicating membership in a class.
- To prepare for plastering by adding the key (that part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place).
- (colloquial) To vandalize (a car, etc.) by scratching with an implement such as a key.
- Clipping of chromakey.
adj
noun
- a winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple
- any of 24 major or minor diatonic scales that provide the tonal framework for a piece of music
- something crucial for explaining
- a kilogram of a narcotic drug
- a coral reef off the southern coast of Florida
- a lever (as in a keyboard) that actuates a mechanism when depressed
- a list of answers to a test
- pitch of the voice
- a generic term for any device whose possession entitles the holder to a means of access
- (basketball) a space (including the foul line) in front of the basket at each end of a basketball court; usually painted a different color from the rest of the court
- a list of words or phrases that explain symbols or abbreviations
- mechanical device used to wind another device that is driven by a spring (as a clock)
- metal device shaped in such a way that when it is inserted into the appropriate lock the lock's mechanism can be rotated
- the central building block at the top of an arch or vault
- (computing) One of several small, usually square buttons on a typewriter or computer keyboard, mostly corresponding to text characters.
- (historical) A manual electrical switching device primarily used for the transmission of Morse code.
- (cartomancy) The thirty-third card of the Lenormand deck.
- (architecture) A piece of wood used as a wedge.
- (figurative) The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance.
- In musical theory and notation, the tonality centering in a given tone, or the several tones taken collectively, of a given scale, major or minor.
- In musical instruments, one of the valve levers used to select notes, such as a lever opening a hole on a woodwind.
- (biology) A series of logically organized groups of discriminating information which aims to allow the user to correctly identify a taxon.
- In instruments with a keyboard such as an organ or piano, one of the levers, or especially the exposed front end of it, which are depressed to cause a particular sound or note to be produced.
- (print and film) The black ink layer, especially in relation to the three color layers of cyan, magenta, and yellow. See also CMYK.
- (computer graphics, television) A color to be masked or made transparent.
- (Internet) A password restricting access to an IRC channel.
- A guide to the correct answers of a worksheet or test.
- (countable) An object designed to open and close a lock.
- (music) A scale or group of pitches constituting the basis of a musical composition.
- (slang) A kilogram, especially of a recreational drug.
- In musical theory, the total melodic and harmonic relations, which exist between the tones of an ideal scale, major or minor; tonality.
- A crucial step or requirement.
- (databases) In a relational database, a field used as an index into another table (not necessarily unique).
- (masonry) A keystone.
- In musical notation, a sign at the head of a staff indicating the musical key.
- That part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place.
- (basketball) The free-throw lane together with the circle surrounding the free-throw line, the free-throw lane having formerly been narrower, giving the area the shape of a skeleton key hole.
- (cryptography) A piece of information (e.g., a password or passphrase) used to encode or decode a message or messages.
- (computing) A value that uniquely identifies an entry in a container.
- Any of various tools comparable to a wrench (spanner) or driver, or, in some cases, also called a wrench or driver.
- An object designed to fit between two other objects (such as a shaft and a wheel) in a mechanism and maintain their relative orientation.
- Alternative form of quay.
- A small guide explaining symbols or terminology, especially the legend on a map or chart.
- The degree of roughness, or retention ability of a surface to have applied a liquid such as paint, or glue.
- (advertising) A modification of an advertisement so as to target a particular group or demographic.
- The lowest note of a scale; keynote.
- (rail transport) A wooden wedge, driven sideways between a bullhead rail and a cast-iron chair, to keep the rail securely in position.
- (Australian rules football) A key position player (a tall forward or defender).
- One of a string of small islands.
- (architecture) The last board of a floor when laid down.
- (botany) An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, such as the fruit of the ash and maple; a samara.
verb
- To type by searching for each key individually.
- To do something in small, intermittent pieces.
- To lurch forward; especially, of a horse, to stumble after hitting the ground with the toe instead of the flat of the foot.
- (ambitransitive) To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird).
- (regional) To throw.
- (rare) To type in general.
- To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument, especially with repeated quick movements.
- To kiss briefly.
- (transitive) To form by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument.
- To seize and pick up with the beak, or as if with the beak; to bite; to eat; often with up.
- eat like a bird
- kiss lightly
- bother persistently with trivial complaints
- eat by pecking at, like a bird
- hit lightly with a picking motion
noun
- A great deal; a large or excessive quantity.
- Discoloration caused by fungus growth or insects.
- Similar units in other systems of measure, such as the Roman modius or Chinese dou.
- Misspelling of pec.
- One quarter of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts; equal to approximately 9092 cubic centimeters in the imperial system or 8810 cubic centimeters in the U.S. system.
- A small kiss.
- An act of striking with a beak.
- a United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches
- a light kiss
- a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons
- bite by a bird
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
verb
- (specifically) To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
- (transitive, tennis) To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
- (intransitive, of a storm) To begin or end.
- (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
- (intransitive, of a spell of settled weather) To end.
- (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
- (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
- (intransitive, of a male voice) To become deeper at puberty.
- (transitive, backgammon) To remove one of the two men on (a point).
- (transitive) To end (a connection); to disconnect.
- (intransitive, billiards, snooker, pool) To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
- (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
- (intransitive, of a voice) To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
- (specifically) To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
- (transitive, theater) To end the run of (a play).
- (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
- (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
- (transitive) To violate; to fail to adhere to.
- (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
- (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
- (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
- (intransitive, of morning, dawn, day etc.) To arrive.
- (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
- (transitive, with for) To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
- (rare, mainly historical or a misspelling) To brake.
- (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
- (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
- (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
- To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
- (music, slang) To B-boy; to breakdance.
- (specifically, in programming) To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
- (programming) To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
- (transitive, intransitive) To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
- (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- (ergative, transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
- (computing) To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
- (transitive) To ruin financially.
- (transitive, gaming slang) To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
- (finance, intransitive) Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
- (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
- (computing) To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
- (intransitive, of a fever) To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
- (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
- (intransitive, of a sauce or emulsion) To de-emulsify.
- (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
- (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
- (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
- (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
- (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- find the solution or key to
- become punctured or penetrated
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- do a break dance
- enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- fall sharply
- separate from a clinch, in boxing
- cause to give up a habit
- weaken or destroy in spirit or body
- change directions suddenly
- exchange for smaller units of money
- undergo breaking
- give up
- interrupt a continued activity
- interrupt the flow of current in
- break a piece from a whole
- make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
- move away or escape suddenly
- invalidate by judicial action
- destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- cease an action temporarily
- happen or take place
- render inoperable or ineffective
- emerge from the surface of a body of water
- come to an end (of an event)
- cause the failure or ruin of
- put an end to a state or an activity
- fracture a bone of
- stop operating or functioning
- diminish or discontinue abruptly
- curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
- terminate or end
- come forth or begin from a state of latency
- make submissive, obedient, or useful
- crack; of the male voice in puberty
- vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
- destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
- come into being
- force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- find a flaw in
- ruin completely
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- happen
- go to pieces
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- pierce or penetrate
- surpass in excellence
- lessen in force or effect
- change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
- make the opening shot that scatters the balls
- scatter or part
- be broken in
- assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
- reduce to bankruptcy
- be released or become known; of news
- fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
noun
- (programming) Ellipsis of breakpoint.
- (music) The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
- A rest or pause, usually from work.
- A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
- An interruption of continuity; departure from or rupture with.
- Alternative form of brake (“cart or carriage without a body, for breaking in horses”)
- (computing) The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
- (soccer) The counter-attack.
- A short holiday.
- (snooker) The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
- (finance) A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
- A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
- (computing) A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
- (UK, education) A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
- (geography, chiefly in the plural) An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
- A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
- (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
- (British, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
- An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
- (surfing) A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
- An act of escaping.
- The beginning (of the morning).
- (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
- A temporary split with a romantic partner.
- (tennis) A game won by the receiving player(s).
- (horse racing) The start of a horse race.
- The opening of packages of cards for a collectible card game, often for further distribution to paying customers.
- (golf) The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
- An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
- (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) The first shot in a game of billiards.
- (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.
- an unexpected piece of good luck
- an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)
- the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
- some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- an escape from jail
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
- a pause from doing something (as work)
- the act of breaking something
- any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare
- an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
- the occurrence of breaking
- a sudden dash
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- breaking of hard tissue such as bone
noun
- (computing) An alternative keymap accessed through a modifier key or toggle.
- An item of clothing worn under or over another.
- A (usually) horizontal deposit; a stratum.
- A shoot of a plant, laid underground for growth.
- A hen kept to lay eggs; a breed of chicken bred to maximize laying output.
- (networking) One of the seven network switch pieces in the Open Systems Interconnection model: application, presentation, session, transport, network, data link, and physical.
- One of the items in a hierarchy.
- A person who lays anything, such as tiles or a wager.
- (computer graphics, by analogy to a stack of transparencies) One in a stack of (initially transparent) drawing surfaces that comprise an image; used to keep elements of an image separate so that they can be modified independently from one another.
- A mature female bird, insect, etc. that is able to lay eggs.
- A single thickness of some material covering a surface.
- an abstract place usually conceived as having depth
- thin structure composed of a single thickness of cells
- a hen that lays eggs
- a relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another
- single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance
verb
verb
- (transitive) To undo or open a lock or something locked by, for example, turning a key, or selecting a combination.
- (transitive, mobile telephony) To configure (a mobile phone) so that it is not bound to any particular carrier.
- (transitive) To undermine something that has control over a situation; to find a way to counter or oppose.
- (transitive) To disclose or reveal previously unknown knowledge or potential.
- (transitive) To obtain access to something; to meet the requirements of a security or protection system.
- (transitive, figurative) To make available.
- (intransitive) To be or become unfastened or unrestrained.
- open the lock of
- set free or release
- become unlocked
noun
noun
- (cryptography) A mechanism for generating a new unique key for each message by moving forward in a sequence.
- (US, slang, derogatory) A person, usually a female, who acts or behaves in a ghetto, unseemly, or indecorous way or manner.
- A noisemaker or musical instrument where sound is generated by a board striking against a rotating gear.
- A ratchet wrench.
- A mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel, or ratch and pawl.
- (finance) Ellipsis of full ratchet.
- A pawl, click, or detent for holding or propelling a ratchet wheel, or ratch, etc.
- (by extension) A procedure or regulation that goes in one direction, usually up.
- mechanical device consisting of a toothed wheel or rack engaged with a pawl that permits it to move in only one direction
adj
verb
noun
- (computing) A key on a personal computer or terminal keyboard used to effect the same function, or to change the function of the function keys.
- The key on a typewriter used to select uppercase letters and certain special characters by physically moving the mechanism
- the key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters
adj
- set to a key or tone
- fitted with or secured by a key
- (Internet slang, originally 4chan slang) Praiseworthy and admirable, often through exhibiting independence and security; based.
- (mechanics, engineering, of a joint between components) Having a key, mated to a keyseat and/or keyway, to either control or prevent movement.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) Intoxicated by recreational or illegal drugs; drunk or high.
verb
verb
- use a shift key on a keyboard
- change gears
- change place or direction
- move around
- make a shift in or exchange of
- change in quality
- move very slightly
- move and exchange for another
- move abruptly
- move sideways or in an unsteady way
- lay aside, abandon, or leave for another
- change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change
- move from one setting or context to another
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
- (typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters or special characters.
- (ergative, figurative) To change in form or character; switch.
- (computer keyboards) To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters or special characters.
- (intransitive) To use meditation or other means to change the reality that one's consciousness resides in.
- (intransitive, India) To change residence; to leave and live elsewhere.
- (transitive, computing) To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare rotate.
- (Ireland, vulgar, slang, transitive) To engage in sexual petting with.
- (intransitive) To practice indirect or evasive methods; to contrive.
- (intransitive) To hurry; to move quickly.
- (intransitive) To change gears (in an automobile).
- (Minecraft, video games) To crouch in game, especially if the shift key is pressed to initiate crouching.
- (Nigeria, slang) To steal or kidnap.
- (transitive, computing) To remove (the first value from an array).
- (transitive) To dispose of, remove.
- (intransitive, sometimes reflexive and figurative) To change position; to move.
- (intransitive, music) In violin-playing, to move the left hand from its original position next to the nut.
noun
- a qualitative change
- the act of moving from one place to another
- an event in which something is displaced without rotation
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- the act of changing one thing or position for another
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time
- the key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters
- a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist
- the time period during which you are at work
- (historical) A type of women's undergarment of dress length worn under dresses or skirts, a slip or chemise.
- (music) In violin-playing, any position of the left hand except that nearest the nut.
- (computing) A control code or character used to change between different character sets.
- An act of shifting; a slight movement or change.
- (baseball) An infield shift.
- A movement to do something, a beginning.
- (construction) The extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.
- (computing) An instance of the use of such a code or character.
- A simple straight-hanging, loose-fitting dress.
- (US) The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle.
- A period of time in which one's consciousness resides in another reality, usually achieved through meditation or other means.
- Alternative spelling of Shift (“a modifier button of computer keyboards”).
- (British slang) be done; ruined
- (Ireland, crude slang, often with the definite article, usually uncountable) The act of kissing passionately.
- (genetics) A mutation in which the DNA or RNA from two different sources (such as viruses or bacteria) combine.
- A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.
- (mining) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
- (computing) A bit shift.
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noun
- (computing) A keyboard feature where each key is scanned independently, so that multiple simultaneous keypresses always register correctly.
- (finance) A fee paid by a borrower in order to defer full repayment of a loan.
- (automotive) A road traffic accident in which a vehicle overturns.
- (graphical user interface, chiefly web design) A graphic element that changes its appearance when the cursor moves over it.
- (British) In the National or European lottery, the situation in which a jackpot that has not been won is carried over to the next week.
- (pinball) A target on the pinball table that is activated when the ball rolls over it.
- (firefighting) The sudden ignition of flammable gases (produced by pyrolysis in an oxygen-poor environment) near the ceiling of a room or other enclosed space.
- (finance) The reinvestment of funds in a new issue of the same or similar investment.
- The process of incrementing, especially back to an initial value.
- the act of changing the institution that invests your pension plan without incurring a tax penalty
verb
verb
- (transitive) To activate a button or key by pressing and releasing it.
- (backgammon) To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
- (transitive) To affect negatively.
- (transitive, US, slang) To have sex with.
- (figurative, ambitransitive) To affect someone, as if dealing a blow to that person.
- (figuratively) To attack.
- (transitive, slang) To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.
- To guess; to light upon or discover.
- (intransitive, baseball) To come up to bat.
- (intransitive) To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often by luck.
- (transitive, colloquial) To switch on or switch off (lights).
- (transitive, informal) To reach or achieve.
- (transitive) To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.
- (transitive) To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.
- (transitive, military) To attack, especially amphibiously.
- (transitive, informal) To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
- (transitive) To manage to touch (a target) in the right place.
- (transitive, US, slang) To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
- (transitive, music, informal) To commence playing.
- (transitive, card games) In blackjack, to deal a card to.
- (transitive, colloquial) To briefly visit.
- (transitive, bodybuilding) To work out.
- (intransitive) To strike against something.
- (transitive, bodybuilding) (of an exercise) to affect, to work a body part.
- (transitive, computing, programming) To use; to connect to.
- reach a destination, either real or abstract
- cause to experience suddenly
- hit against; come into sudden contact with
- hit the intended target or goal
- affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely
- make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target
- deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument
- drive something violently into a location
- cause to move by striking
- kill intentionally and with premeditation
- hit with a missile from a weapon
- produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments
- pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to
- encounter by chance
- reach a point in time, or a certain state or level
adj
noun
- (Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
- Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim.
- (baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.
- (backgammon) A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
- A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
- (backgammon) A move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point.
- In the game of Battleship, a correct guess at where one's opponent ship is.
- An attack on a location, person or people.
- (figuratively) A blow; a calamitous or damaging occurrence.
- A collision of a projectile with the target.
- (computing, Internet) A match found by searching a computer system or search engine
- An approximately correct answer in a test set.
- A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
- (colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
- the act of contacting one thing with another
- a connection made via the internet to another website
- a conspicuous success
- (physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come together
- a dose of a narcotic drug
- a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate
- (baseball) when a batter strikes a pitched ball into fair territory and arrives safely on base (without an error or a fielder's choice being made by the defense)
pron
noun
- (music) A change of key.
- The process of change from one form, state, style or place to another.
- (education) Professional special education assistance for children or adults in the process of leaving one educational environment or support program for another to relatively more independent living.
- A word or phrase connecting one part of a discourse to another.
- (genetics) A point mutation in which one base is replaced by another of the same class (purine or pyrimidine); compare transversion.
- (LGBTQ) The process or act of changing one's gender role or physical and sexual characteristics, by social, medical, or legal methods, to conform to their identified gender, rather than the sex assigned at birth.
- (some sports) A change from defense to attack, or attack to defense.
- (euphemistic) Death; passing from life into death.
- (aviation) A published procedure for instrument flight, coming between the departure and en-route phases of flight, or between en-route flight and an approach/landing procedure.
- (skating) A change between forward and backward motion without stopping.
- (music) A brief modulation; a passage connecting two themes.
- (medicine) The onset of the final stage of childbirth.
- a change from one place or state or subject or stage to another
- a passage that connects a topic to one that follows
- the act of passing from one state or place to the next
- an event that results in a transformation
- a musical passage moving from one key to another
verb
- (intransitive, LGBTQ) To change one's gender role or physical and sexual characteristics to conform to one's identified gender.
- (transitive) To bring through a transition; to change.
- (intransitive) To make a transition.
- cause to convert or undergo a transition
- make or undergo a transition (from one state or system to another)
noun
- Ellipsis of master key.
- An expert at something.
- The original of a document or of a recording.
- (by extension, music) The copyright in a sound recording.
- (Freemasonry) A person holding an office of authority, especially the presiding officer.
- The owner of an animal or slave.
- Someone who employs others.
- Someone who has control over something or someone.
- (nautical) The captain of a merchant ship; a master mariner.
- (law) A parajudicial officer (such as a referee, an auditor, an examiner, or an assessor) specially appointed to help a court with its proceedings.
- A skilled artist.
- A person holding such a degree.
- (nautical, in combination) A vessel having a specified number of masts.
- A tradesman who is qualified to teach apprentices.
- (by extension) A person holding a similar office in other civic societies.
- (engineering, computing) A device that is controlling other devices or is an authoritative source.
- A master's degree; a type of postgraduate degree, usually undertaken after a bachelor degree.
- (film) The primary wide shot of a scene, into which the closeups will be edited later.
- (BDSM) A male dominant.
- a person who has general authority over others
- an original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made
- key that secures entrance everywhere
- someone who holds a master's degree from academic institution
- an authority qualified to teach apprentices
- directs the work of others
- presiding officer of a school
- a combatant who is able to defeat rivals
- an artist of consummate skill
- an officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship
adj
verb
- (transitive) To become the master of; to subject to one's will, control, or authority; to conquer; to overpower; to subdue.
- (intransitive) To be a master.
- (transitive) To learn to a high degree of proficiency.
- (intransitive, usually with in) To earn a Master's degree.
- (transitive, especially of a musical performance) To make a master copy of.
- have a firm understanding or knowledge of; be on top of
- be or become completely proficient or skilled in
- have dominance or the power to defeat over
- get on top of; deal with successfully
noun
- (computing) An alternative keymap accessed through a modifier key or toggle.
- An item of clothing worn under or over another.
- A (usually) horizontal deposit; a stratum.
- A shoot of a plant, laid underground for growth.
- A hen kept to lay eggs; a breed of chicken bred to maximize laying output.
- (networking) One of the seven network switch pieces in the Open Systems Interconnection model: application, presentation, session, transport, network, data link, and physical.
- One of the items in a hierarchy.
- A person who lays anything, such as tiles or a wager.
- (computer graphics, by analogy to a stack of transparencies) One in a stack of (initially transparent) drawing surfaces that comprise an image; used to keep elements of an image separate so that they can be modified independently from one another.
- A mature female bird, insect, etc. that is able to lay eggs.
- A single thickness of some material covering a surface.
- an abstract place usually conceived as having depth
- thin structure composed of a single thickness of cells
- a hen that lays eggs
- a relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another
- single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance
verb
noun
- (cryptography) A mechanism for generating a new unique key for each message by moving forward in a sequence.
- (US, slang, derogatory) A person, usually a female, who acts or behaves in a ghetto, unseemly, or indecorous way or manner.
- A noisemaker or musical instrument where sound is generated by a board striking against a rotating gear.
- A ratchet wrench.
- A mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel, or ratch and pawl.
- (finance) Ellipsis of full ratchet.
- A pawl, click, or detent for holding or propelling a ratchet wheel, or ratch, etc.
- (by extension) A procedure or regulation that goes in one direction, usually up.
- mechanical device consisting of a toothed wheel or rack engaged with a pawl that permits it to move in only one direction
adj
verb
noun
- (computing) A key on a personal computer or terminal keyboard used to effect the same function, or to change the function of the function keys.
- The key on a typewriter used to select uppercase letters and certain special characters by physically moving the mechanism
- the key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters
noun
noun
name
phrase
verb
noun
- (computing) A keyboard feature where each key is scanned independently, so that multiple simultaneous keypresses always register correctly.
- (finance) A fee paid by a borrower in order to defer full repayment of a loan.
- (automotive) A road traffic accident in which a vehicle overturns.
- (graphical user interface, chiefly web design) A graphic element that changes its appearance when the cursor moves over it.
- (British) In the National or European lottery, the situation in which a jackpot that has not been won is carried over to the next week.
- (pinball) A target on the pinball table that is activated when the ball rolls over it.
- (firefighting) The sudden ignition of flammable gases (produced by pyrolysis in an oxygen-poor environment) near the ceiling of a room or other enclosed space.
- (finance) The reinvestment of funds in a new issue of the same or similar investment.
- The process of incrementing, especially back to an initial value.
- the act of changing the institution that invests your pension plan without incurring a tax penalty
verb
noun
- (music) A change of key.
- The process of change from one form, state, style or place to another.
- (education) Professional special education assistance for children or adults in the process of leaving one educational environment or support program for another to relatively more independent living.
- A word or phrase connecting one part of a discourse to another.
- (genetics) A point mutation in which one base is replaced by another of the same class (purine or pyrimidine); compare transversion.
- (LGBTQ) The process or act of changing one's gender role or physical and sexual characteristics, by social, medical, or legal methods, to conform to their identified gender, rather than the sex assigned at birth.
- (some sports) A change from defense to attack, or attack to defense.
- (euphemistic) Death; passing from life into death.
- (aviation) A published procedure for instrument flight, coming between the departure and en-route phases of flight, or between en-route flight and an approach/landing procedure.
- (skating) A change between forward and backward motion without stopping.
- (music) A brief modulation; a passage connecting two themes.
- (medicine) The onset of the final stage of childbirth.
- a change from one place or state or subject or stage to another
- a passage that connects a topic to one that follows
- the act of passing from one state or place to the next
- an event that results in a transformation
- a musical passage moving from one key to another
verb
- (intransitive, LGBTQ) To change one's gender role or physical and sexual characteristics to conform to one's identified gender.
- (transitive) To bring through a transition; to change.
- (intransitive) To make a transition.
- cause to convert or undergo a transition
- make or undergo a transition (from one state or system to another)
noun
- Ellipsis of master key.
- An expert at something.
- The original of a document or of a recording.
- (by extension, music) The copyright in a sound recording.
- (Freemasonry) A person holding an office of authority, especially the presiding officer.
- The owner of an animal or slave.
- Someone who employs others.
- Someone who has control over something or someone.
- (nautical) The captain of a merchant ship; a master mariner.
- (law) A parajudicial officer (such as a referee, an auditor, an examiner, or an assessor) specially appointed to help a court with its proceedings.
- A skilled artist.
- A person holding such a degree.
- (nautical, in combination) A vessel having a specified number of masts.
- A tradesman who is qualified to teach apprentices.
- (by extension) A person holding a similar office in other civic societies.
- (engineering, computing) A device that is controlling other devices or is an authoritative source.
- A master's degree; a type of postgraduate degree, usually undertaken after a bachelor degree.
- (film) The primary wide shot of a scene, into which the closeups will be edited later.
- (BDSM) A male dominant.
- a person who has general authority over others
- an original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made
- key that secures entrance everywhere
- someone who holds a master's degree from academic institution
- an authority qualified to teach apprentices
- directs the work of others
- presiding officer of a school
- a combatant who is able to defeat rivals
- an artist of consummate skill
- an officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship
adj
verb
- (transitive) To become the master of; to subject to one's will, control, or authority; to conquer; to overpower; to subdue.
- (intransitive) To be a master.
- (transitive) To learn to a high degree of proficiency.
- (intransitive, usually with in) To earn a Master's degree.
- (transitive, especially of a musical performance) To make a master copy of.
- have a firm understanding or knowledge of; be on top of
- be or become completely proficient or skilled in
- have dominance or the power to defeat over
- get on top of; deal with successfully
verb
- change key
- put (a piece of music) into another key
- (transitive, music) To rewrite or perform (a piece) in another key.
- cause to change places
- change the order or arrangement of
- transfer a quantity from one side of an equation to the other side reversing its sign, in order to maintain equality
- transfer from one place or period to another
- exchange positions without a change in value
- (transitive, algebra) To move (a term) from one side of an algebraic equation to the other, reversing the sign of the term.
- (transitive, graph theory) To reverse the direction of every edge of (a graph).
- (transitive, law, chiefly of the European Union) To give force to a directive by passing appropriate implementation measures.
- (intransitive, chess) To reach a position that may also be obtained from a different move order.
- (transitive) To reverse or change the order of (two or more things); to swap or interchange.
- (transitive, linear algebra) To rearrange elements in a matrix, by interchanging their respective row and column positional indicators.
noun
- a matrix formed by interchanging the rows and columns of a given matrix
- (graph theory) A graph whose every edge has had its direction reversed.
- (linear algebra) The matrix derived from performing a transpose operation on a given matrix.
- (linear algebra) The process of rearranging elements in a matrix, by interchanging their respective row and column positional indicators.
adj
verb
noun
- An outward appearance.
- An impersonation, an imitation of the mannerisms of another individual.
- A vague recalling of an event, a belief.
- (painting) The first coat of colour, such as the priming in house-painting etc.
- (printing) set of copies of a publication printed at one time having the same content, layout, pagination, etc.
- (engraving) A print on paper from a wood block, metal plate, etc.
- The overall effect of something, e.g., on a person.
- (philosophy) The vivid perception of something as it is experienced, in contrast to ideas or thoughts drawn from memory or the imagination.
- The indentation or depression made by the pressure of one object on or into another.
- (Internet) A performance metric representing an instance where a post or ad is shown once.
- a vague idea in which some confidence is placed
- all the copies of a work printed at one time
- a concavity in a surface produced by pressing
- (dentistry) an imprint of the teeth and gums in wax or plaster
- the act of pressing one thing on or into the surface of another
- a symbol that is the result of printing or engraving
- an impressionistic portrayal of a person
- a clear and telling mental image
- an outward appearance
verb
- change the key of, in music
- adjust the pitch, tone, or volume of
- vary the pitch of one's speech
- vary the frequency, amplitude, phase, or other characteristic of (electromagnetic waves)
- fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of
- (transitive) To change the pitch, intensity or tone of one's voice or of a musical instrument
- (intransitive, music) to move from one key or tonality to another, especially by using a chord progression
- (transitive, electronics) to vary the amplitude, frequency or phase of a carrier wave in proportion to the amplitude etc of a source wave (such as speech or music)
verb
- provide with a key
- To fit (a lock) with a key.
- vandalize a car by scratching the sides with a key
- identify as in botany or biology, for example
- regulate the musical pitch of
- harmonize with or adjust to
- To fit (pieces of a mechanical assembly) with a key to maintain the orientation between them.
- To provide an arch with a keystone.
- (advertising, transitive) To modify (an advertisement) so as to target a particular group or demographic.
- To fasten or secure firmly; to fasten or tighten with keys or wedges.
- To link (as one might do with a key or legend).
- (computing) (more usually to key in) To enter (information) by typing on a keyboard or keypad.
- To attune to; to set at; to pitch.
- (radio) To operate (the transmitter switch of a two-way radio).
- (telegraphy and radio telegraphy) To depress (a telegraph key).
- (intransitive, biology, chiefly taxonomy) To be identified as a certain taxon when using a key.
- To mark or indicate with a symbol indicating membership in a class.
- To prepare for plastering by adding the key (that part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place).
- (colloquial) To vandalize (a car, etc.) by scratching with an implement such as a key.
- Clipping of chromakey.
adj
noun
- a winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple
- any of 24 major or minor diatonic scales that provide the tonal framework for a piece of music
- something crucial for explaining
- a kilogram of a narcotic drug
- a coral reef off the southern coast of Florida
- a lever (as in a keyboard) that actuates a mechanism when depressed
- a list of answers to a test
- pitch of the voice
- a generic term for any device whose possession entitles the holder to a means of access
- (basketball) a space (including the foul line) in front of the basket at each end of a basketball court; usually painted a different color from the rest of the court
- a list of words or phrases that explain symbols or abbreviations
- mechanical device used to wind another device that is driven by a spring (as a clock)
- metal device shaped in such a way that when it is inserted into the appropriate lock the lock's mechanism can be rotated
- the central building block at the top of an arch or vault
- (computing) One of several small, usually square buttons on a typewriter or computer keyboard, mostly corresponding to text characters.
- (historical) A manual electrical switching device primarily used for the transmission of Morse code.
- (cartomancy) The thirty-third card of the Lenormand deck.
- (architecture) A piece of wood used as a wedge.
- (figurative) The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance.
- In musical theory and notation, the tonality centering in a given tone, or the several tones taken collectively, of a given scale, major or minor.
- In musical instruments, one of the valve levers used to select notes, such as a lever opening a hole on a woodwind.
- (biology) A series of logically organized groups of discriminating information which aims to allow the user to correctly identify a taxon.
- In instruments with a keyboard such as an organ or piano, one of the levers, or especially the exposed front end of it, which are depressed to cause a particular sound or note to be produced.
- (print and film) The black ink layer, especially in relation to the three color layers of cyan, magenta, and yellow. See also CMYK.
- (computer graphics, television) A color to be masked or made transparent.
- (Internet) A password restricting access to an IRC channel.
- A guide to the correct answers of a worksheet or test.
- (countable) An object designed to open and close a lock.
- (music) A scale or group of pitches constituting the basis of a musical composition.
- (slang) A kilogram, especially of a recreational drug.
- In musical theory, the total melodic and harmonic relations, which exist between the tones of an ideal scale, major or minor; tonality.
- A crucial step or requirement.
- (databases) In a relational database, a field used as an index into another table (not necessarily unique).
- (masonry) A keystone.
- In musical notation, a sign at the head of a staff indicating the musical key.
- That part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place.
- (basketball) The free-throw lane together with the circle surrounding the free-throw line, the free-throw lane having formerly been narrower, giving the area the shape of a skeleton key hole.
- (cryptography) A piece of information (e.g., a password or passphrase) used to encode or decode a message or messages.
- (computing) A value that uniquely identifies an entry in a container.
- Any of various tools comparable to a wrench (spanner) or driver, or, in some cases, also called a wrench or driver.
- An object designed to fit between two other objects (such as a shaft and a wheel) in a mechanism and maintain their relative orientation.
- Alternative form of quay.
- A small guide explaining symbols or terminology, especially the legend on a map or chart.
- The degree of roughness, or retention ability of a surface to have applied a liquid such as paint, or glue.
- (advertising) A modification of an advertisement so as to target a particular group or demographic.
- The lowest note of a scale; keynote.
- (rail transport) A wooden wedge, driven sideways between a bullhead rail and a cast-iron chair, to keep the rail securely in position.
- (Australian rules football) A key position player (a tall forward or defender).
- One of a string of small islands.
- (architecture) The last board of a floor when laid down.
- (botany) An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, such as the fruit of the ash and maple; a samara.
verb
- To type by searching for each key individually.
- To do something in small, intermittent pieces.
- To lurch forward; especially, of a horse, to stumble after hitting the ground with the toe instead of the flat of the foot.
- (ambitransitive) To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird).
- (regional) To throw.
- (rare) To type in general.
- To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument, especially with repeated quick movements.
- To kiss briefly.
- (transitive) To form by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument.
- To seize and pick up with the beak, or as if with the beak; to bite; to eat; often with up.
- eat like a bird
- kiss lightly
- bother persistently with trivial complaints
- eat by pecking at, like a bird
- hit lightly with a picking motion
noun
- A great deal; a large or excessive quantity.
- Discoloration caused by fungus growth or insects.
- Similar units in other systems of measure, such as the Roman modius or Chinese dou.
- Misspelling of pec.
- One quarter of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts; equal to approximately 9092 cubic centimeters in the imperial system or 8810 cubic centimeters in the U.S. system.
- A small kiss.
- An act of striking with a beak.
- a United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches
- a light kiss
- a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons
- bite by a bird
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
verb
- (specifically) To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
- (transitive, tennis) To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
- (intransitive, of a storm) To begin or end.
- (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
- (intransitive, of a spell of settled weather) To end.
- (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
- (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
- (intransitive, of a male voice) To become deeper at puberty.
- (transitive, backgammon) To remove one of the two men on (a point).
- (transitive) To end (a connection); to disconnect.
- (intransitive, billiards, snooker, pool) To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
- (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
- (intransitive, of a voice) To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
- (specifically) To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
- (transitive, theater) To end the run of (a play).
- (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
- (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
- (transitive) To violate; to fail to adhere to.
- (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
- (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
- (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
- (intransitive, of morning, dawn, day etc.) To arrive.
- (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
- (transitive, with for) To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
- (rare, mainly historical or a misspelling) To brake.
- (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
- (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
- (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
- To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
- (music, slang) To B-boy; to breakdance.
- (specifically, in programming) To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
- (programming) To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
- (transitive, intransitive) To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
- (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- (ergative, transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
- (computing) To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
- (transitive) To ruin financially.
- (transitive, gaming slang) To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
- (finance, intransitive) Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
- (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
- (computing) To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
- (intransitive, of a fever) To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
- (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
- (intransitive, of a sauce or emulsion) To de-emulsify.
- (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
- (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
- (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
- (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
- (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- find the solution or key to
- become punctured or penetrated
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- do a break dance
- enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- fall sharply
- separate from a clinch, in boxing
- cause to give up a habit
- weaken or destroy in spirit or body
- change directions suddenly
- exchange for smaller units of money
- undergo breaking
- give up
- interrupt a continued activity
- interrupt the flow of current in
- break a piece from a whole
- make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
- move away or escape suddenly
- invalidate by judicial action
- destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- cease an action temporarily
- happen or take place
- render inoperable or ineffective
- emerge from the surface of a body of water
- come to an end (of an event)
- cause the failure or ruin of
- put an end to a state or an activity
- fracture a bone of
- stop operating or functioning
- diminish or discontinue abruptly
- curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
- terminate or end
- come forth or begin from a state of latency
- make submissive, obedient, or useful
- crack; of the male voice in puberty
- vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
- destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
- come into being
- force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- find a flaw in
- ruin completely
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- happen
- go to pieces
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- pierce or penetrate
- surpass in excellence
- lessen in force or effect
- change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
- make the opening shot that scatters the balls
- scatter or part
- be broken in
- assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
- reduce to bankruptcy
- be released or become known; of news
- fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
noun
- (programming) Ellipsis of breakpoint.
- (music) The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
- A rest or pause, usually from work.
- A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
- An interruption of continuity; departure from or rupture with.
- Alternative form of brake (“cart or carriage without a body, for breaking in horses”)
- (computing) The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
- (soccer) The counter-attack.
- A short holiday.
- (snooker) The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
- (finance) A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
- A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
- (computing) A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
- (UK, education) A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
- (geography, chiefly in the plural) An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
- A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
- (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
- (British, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
- An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
- (surfing) A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
- An act of escaping.
- The beginning (of the morning).
- (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
- A temporary split with a romantic partner.
- (tennis) A game won by the receiving player(s).
- (horse racing) The start of a horse race.
- The opening of packages of cards for a collectible card game, often for further distribution to paying customers.
- (golf) The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
- An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
- (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) The first shot in a game of billiards.
- (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.
- an unexpected piece of good luck
- an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)
- the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
- some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- an escape from jail
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
- a pause from doing something (as work)
- the act of breaking something
- any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare
- an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
- the occurrence of breaking
- a sudden dash
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- breaking of hard tissue such as bone
verb
- (transitive) To undo or open a lock or something locked by, for example, turning a key, or selecting a combination.
- (transitive, mobile telephony) To configure (a mobile phone) so that it is not bound to any particular carrier.
- (transitive) To undermine something that has control over a situation; to find a way to counter or oppose.
- (transitive) To disclose or reveal previously unknown knowledge or potential.
- (transitive) To obtain access to something; to meet the requirements of a security or protection system.
- (transitive, figurative) To make available.
- (intransitive) To be or become unfastened or unrestrained.
- open the lock of
- set free or release
- become unlocked
noun
verb
- use a shift key on a keyboard
- change gears
- change place or direction
- move around
- make a shift in or exchange of
- change in quality
- move very slightly
- move and exchange for another
- move abruptly
- move sideways or in an unsteady way
- lay aside, abandon, or leave for another
- change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change
- move from one setting or context to another
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
- (typewriters) To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters or special characters.
- (ergative, figurative) To change in form or character; switch.
- (computer keyboards) To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters or special characters.
- (intransitive) To use meditation or other means to change the reality that one's consciousness resides in.
- (intransitive, India) To change residence; to leave and live elsewhere.
- (transitive, computing) To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare rotate.
- (Ireland, vulgar, slang, transitive) To engage in sexual petting with.
- (intransitive) To practice indirect or evasive methods; to contrive.
- (intransitive) To hurry; to move quickly.
- (intransitive) To change gears (in an automobile).
- (Minecraft, video games) To crouch in game, especially if the shift key is pressed to initiate crouching.
- (Nigeria, slang) To steal or kidnap.
- (transitive, computing) To remove (the first value from an array).
- (transitive) To dispose of, remove.
- (intransitive, sometimes reflexive and figurative) To change position; to move.
- (intransitive, music) In violin-playing, to move the left hand from its original position next to the nut.
noun
- a qualitative change
- the act of moving from one place to another
- an event in which something is displaced without rotation
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- the act of changing one thing or position for another
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time
- the key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters
- a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist
- the time period during which you are at work
- (historical) A type of women's undergarment of dress length worn under dresses or skirts, a slip or chemise.
- (music) In violin-playing, any position of the left hand except that nearest the nut.
- (computing) A control code or character used to change between different character sets.
- An act of shifting; a slight movement or change.
- (baseball) An infield shift.
- A movement to do something, a beginning.
- (construction) The extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.
- (computing) An instance of the use of such a code or character.
- A simple straight-hanging, loose-fitting dress.
- (US) The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle.
- A period of time in which one's consciousness resides in another reality, usually achieved through meditation or other means.
- Alternative spelling of Shift (“a modifier button of computer keyboards”).
- (British slang) be done; ruined
- (Ireland, crude slang, often with the definite article, usually uncountable) The act of kissing passionately.
- (genetics) A mutation in which the DNA or RNA from two different sources (such as viruses or bacteria) combine.
- A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.
- (mining) A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
- (computing) A bit shift.
verb
- (transitive) To activate a button or key by pressing and releasing it.
- (backgammon) To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
- (transitive) To affect negatively.
- (transitive, US, slang) To have sex with.
- (figurative, ambitransitive) To affect someone, as if dealing a blow to that person.
- (figuratively) To attack.
- (transitive, slang) To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.
- To guess; to light upon or discover.
- (intransitive, baseball) To come up to bat.
- (intransitive) To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often by luck.
- (transitive, colloquial) To switch on or switch off (lights).
- (transitive, informal) To reach or achieve.
- (transitive) To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.
- (transitive) To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.
- (transitive, military) To attack, especially amphibiously.
- (transitive, informal) To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
- (transitive) To manage to touch (a target) in the right place.
- (transitive, US, slang) To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
- (transitive, music, informal) To commence playing.
- (transitive, card games) In blackjack, to deal a card to.
- (transitive, colloquial) To briefly visit.
- (transitive, bodybuilding) To work out.
- (intransitive) To strike against something.
- (transitive, bodybuilding) (of an exercise) to affect, to work a body part.
- (transitive, computing, programming) To use; to connect to.
- reach a destination, either real or abstract
- cause to experience suddenly
- hit against; come into sudden contact with
- hit the intended target or goal
- affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely
- make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target
- deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument
- drive something violently into a location
- cause to move by striking
- kill intentionally and with premeditation
- hit with a missile from a weapon
- produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments
- pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to
- encounter by chance
- reach a point in time, or a certain state or level
adj
noun
- (Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
- Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim.
- (baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.
- (backgammon) A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
- A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
- (backgammon) A move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point.
- In the game of Battleship, a correct guess at where one's opponent ship is.
- An attack on a location, person or people.
- (figuratively) A blow; a calamitous or damaging occurrence.
- A collision of a projectile with the target.
- (computing, Internet) A match found by searching a computer system or search engine
- An approximately correct answer in a test set.
- A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
- (colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
- the act of contacting one thing with another
- a connection made via the internet to another website
- a conspicuous success
- (physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come together
- a dose of a narcotic drug
- a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate
- (baseball) when a batter strikes a pitched ball into fair territory and arrives safely on base (without an error or a fielder's choice being made by the defense)
pron
adj
- set to a key or tone
- fitted with or secured by a key
- (Internet slang, originally 4chan slang) Praiseworthy and admirable, often through exhibiting independence and security; based.
- (mechanics, engineering, of a joint between components) Having a key, mated to a keyseat and/or keyway, to either control or prevent movement.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) Intoxicated by recreational or illegal drugs; drunk or high.