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verb
noun
- something used to beautify
- An element of decoration; that which embellishes or adorns.
- (music) A musical flourish that is unnecessary to the overall melodic or harmonic line, but serves to decorate that line.
- (Christianity, in the plural) The articles used in church services.
- (by extension) Ellipsis of Christmas ornament; a Christmas tree decoration.
- (biology) A characteristic that has a decorative function (typically in order to attract a mate)
verb
- provide with decoration
- (transitive) To furnish with decorations.
- (By adding adornments to the interior space.)
- make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.
- award a mark of honor, such as a medal, to
- be beautiful to look at
- (By putting paint or wallpaper on the walls.)
- (programming, transitive) To extend a method, etc. by attaching some further code item.
- (transitive) To honor by providing a medal, ribbon, or other adornment.
verb
- provide with decoration
- cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
- give a neat appearance to
- arrange attractively
- cut down rough-hewn (lumber) to standard thickness and width
- convert into leather
- provide with clothes or put clothes on
- dress or groom with elaborate care
- arrange in ranks
- decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods
- kill and prepare for market or consumption
- put a dressing on
- dress in a certain manner
- put on clothes
- apply a bandage or medication to
- put a finish on
- To arrange or style (someone's hair).
- (agriculture, horticulture) To cultivate or tend to (a garden, land, plants, etc.); especially, to add fertilizer or manure to (soil); to fertilize, to manure.
- To apply a dressing to or otherwise treat (a wound); (obsolete) to give (a wounded person) medical aid.
- (slang) Ellipsis of cross-dress.
- (also reflexive and figuratively) To put clothes (or, formerly, armour) on (oneself or someone, a doll, a mannequin, etc.); to clothe.
- (especially of ores) To prepare by any of many types of physical processing (e.g., breaking, crushing, sorting, sieving, controlled burning or heating).
- To prepare, treat, or curry (animal hide or leather).
- To put on clothes.
- To design, make, provide, or select clothes (for someone).
- (also figuratively) To adorn or ornament (something).
- (butchering) Of an animal carcass: to have a certain quantity or weight after removal of the internal organs and skin; also, to have a certain appearance after being cut up and prepared for cooking.
- (specifically) To attire (oneself or someone) for a particular (especially formal) occasion, or in a fashionable manner.
- (fishing) To prepare (an artificial fly) to be attached to a fish hook.
- To arrange a display of goods in, or to decorate (a shop or shop window).
- (euphemistic, chiefly in the tailoring context) To allow one's penis to fall to one side or the other within one's trousers.
- To fit or prepare (something) for use; to render (something) suitable for an intended purpose; to get ready.
- To prepare (a set) by installing the props, scenery, etc.
- (military, sometimes imperative as a drill command) Of soldiers or troops: to arrange into proper formation; especially, to form into straight lines and at a proper distance from each other.
- To prepare the surface of (a material, such as lumber or stone; a grindstone or grinding wheel).
- (sports) Of a sportsperson: to put on the uniform and have the equipment needed to play a sport.
- (butchering) To cut up (an animal or its flesh) for food.
- (cooking) To prepare (food) for cooking or eating, especially by seasoning it; specifically, to add a dressing or sauce (to food, especially a salad).
- (historical or England, regional) To remove chaff or impurities from (flour, grain, etc.) by bolting or sifting, winnowing, and other methods.
- (nautical) To ornament (a ship) by hoisting the national colours at the peak and mastheads, and setting the jack forward; when "dressed full", the signal flags and pennants are added.
- To design, make, or prepare costumes (for a play or other performance); also, to present (a production) in a particular costume style.
- (military) To arrange (soldiers or troops) into proper formation; especially, to adjust (soldiers or troops) into straight lines and at a proper distance from each other; to align.
- Of a thing: to attain a certain condition after undergoing some process or treatment to fit or prepare it for use.
- (specifically) To attire oneself for a particular (especially formal) occasion, or in a fashionable manner.
adj
noun
- clothing in general
- a one-piece garment for a woman; has skirt and bodice
- clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion
- (figuratively) The external appearance of something, especially if intended to give a positive impression; garb, guise.
- The appearance of an object after it has undergone some process or treatment to fit or prepare it for use; finish.
- (film, television, theater) Ellipsis of dress rehearsal.
- Apparel or clothing, especially when appropriate for a particular occasion, profession, etc.
- (archaic outside of India) An item of outer clothing or set of such clothes (worn by people of all sexes) which is generally decorative and appropriate for a particular occasion, profession, etc.
- The external covering of an animal (for example, the feathers of a bird) or an object.
- (by extension, India) Any item of clothing, or an outfit.
- (clothing) An item of clothing (usually worn by a woman or young girl) which both covers the upper part of the body and includes a skirt below the waist.
verb
- decorate
- knock down with force
- be beautiful to look at
- (uncommon) To furnish with a deck, as a vessel.
- (transitive) To cover; to overspread.
- (informal) To knock someone to the floor, especially with a single punch.
- (collectible card games) To cause a player to run out of cards to draw, usually making them lose the game.
noun
- a porch that resembles the deck on a ship
- street name for a packet of illegal drugs
- any of various platforms built into a vessel
- a pack of 52 playing cards
- (graph theory) The multiset of graphs formed from a single graph by deleting a single vertex in all possible ways.
- (slang) A folded paper used for distributing illicit drugs.
- Any raised flat surface that can be walked on: a balcony; a porch; a raised patio; a flat rooftop.
- (aviation) A main aeroplane surface, especially of a biplane or multiplane.
- (card games) A pack or set of playing cards.
- (colloquial) The floor.
- (nautical) The floorlike covering of the horizontal sections, or compartments, of a ship or boat. Small vessels have only one deck; larger ships have two or three decks.
- (computing) A collection of cards (pages or forms) in systems such as WML (Wireless Markup Language) and HyperCard.
- (British, fishing) The bottom of a water body.
- (card games, by extension) A set of cards owned by each individual player and from which they draw when playing.
- Ellipsis of slide deck: a set of slides for a presentation.
- (theater) The stage.
- (journalism) A headline consisting of one or more full lines of text; especially, a subheadline.
- Ellipsis of tape deck.
verb
noun
- decorating with a design
- representing figuratively as by emblem or allegory
- The act of giving figure or determinate form.
- (sociology) A structure through which people are joined, or the process of constructing such structures.
- (art) Representation through visual forms.
- Form, outline or boundaries.
- Mixture of concords and discords.
- Ornamentation or decoration, especially by the addition of figures.
verb
- decorate, as with ornaments
- adjust (sails on a ship) so that the wind is optimally used
- cut closely
- cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
- decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods
- be in equilibrium during a flight
- balance in flight by regulating the control surfaces
- cut down on; make a reduction in
- remove the edges from and cut down to the desired size
- (transitive, aviation, of an aircraft) To adjust the positions of control surfaces, sometimes using trim tabs, so as to modify or eliminate the aircraft's tendency to pitch, roll, or yaw when the cockpit controls are released.
- (transitive, nautical, of a vessel's sails) To modify the angle (of the sails) relative to the wind, especially to set them at the most advantageous angle.
- (transitive, nautical, of a vessel) To modify the angle relative to the water by shifting cargo or ballast; to adjust for sailing; to assume, or cause to assume a certain position, or trim, in the water.
- (transitive) To decorate or adorn; especially of a Christmas tree.
- (transitive, historical) To cut back the wick of (a lamp) to maintain a clean, bright flame.
- (transitive) To make trim; to put in due order for any purpose; to make right, neat, or pleasing; to adjust.
- (transitive) To reduce slightly; to cut; especially, to remove excess.
- (transitive, carpentry, of timber) To dress; to make smooth.
- (transitive, by extension) To change the carbon rods of (an arc lamp).
adj
noun
- cutting down to the desired size or shape
- attitude of an aircraft in flight when allowed to take its own orientation
- a state of arrangement or appearance
- a decoration or adornment typically on the edge of a garment
- (uncountable, underwater diving) The horizontal position of an underwater water
- (printing, binding, publishing) Any of the three cut edges of book pages, trimmed with a shear after binding.
- Dress; gear; ornaments.
- (by extension, uncountable, slang, mildly vulgar) Sexual intercourse with a woman.
- (especially automotive) Features optionally available on a vehicle; an established configuration of such features within a model (a trim level).
- (nautical) The arrangement of the sails with reference to the wind.
- (uncountable, aviation, of an aircraft) The state of adjustment of control surfaces such that the desired attitude can be maintained without requiring the continuous application of force to the cockpit controls.
- (nautical) The fore-and-aft angle of the vessel to the water, with reference to the cargo and ballast; the manner in which a vessel floats on the water, whether on an even keel or down by the head or stern.
- (countable) A haircut, especially a moderate one to touch up an existing style.
- (countable) The manner in which something is equipped or adorned; order; disposition.
- (uncountable, aviation, by extension) The mechanism(s) used to trim an aircraft in roll, pitch, and/or yaw.
- (uncountable, slang, mildly vulgar) The female genitalia.
- (uncountable) Decoration; especially, decoration placed along edges or borders.
adv
verb
- To decorate (a place) splendidly.
- Often followed by on or upon: to emit rays of light; to shine.
- To cause (one's face) to look beautiful, happy, or lively; to light up.
- (figurative) To emit something other than light; to radiate.
- To send out (something) as if in the form of rays; to diffuse, to radiate, to shed.
- (medicine) To treat (a patient, or a cancerous growth or tumour) with radiation.
- To enlighten (someone, their mind, etc.) intellectually or spiritually; to illuminate, to shed light on.
- To send out (heat, light, or some other form of radiation) in the form of rays; to radiate.
- To animate or enliven (one's mood, or soul or spirit).
- (often literary or poetic) To make (someone or something) bright by shining light on them or it; to brighten, to illuminate.
- To treat (food) with ionizing radiation to destroy pathogens.
- To become bright; to brighten, to light up.
- expose to radiation
- cast rays of light upon
- give spiritual insight to; in religion
adj
verb
noun
- a plaster now made mostly from Portland cement and sand and lime; applied while soft to cover exterior walls or surfaces
- A material with binder and aggregate that is used to coat interior walls or to make interior mouldings.
- A work made of stucco; stuccowork.
- A material with binder and aggregate that is used to coat exterior walls or to make exterior mouldings.
verb
- decorate with colors
- change color, often in an undesired manner
- add color to
- affect as in thought or feeling
- give a deceptive explanation or excuse for
- modify or bias
- (intransitive) To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers or crayons.
- (mathematics, graph theory) To assign colors to the vertices of a graph (or the regions of a map) so that no two vertices connected by an edge (regions sharing a border) have the same color.
- (transitive) To give something color.
- (transitive) To cause (a pipe, especially a meerschaum) to take on a brown or black color, by smoking.
- (of a person or their face) To become red through increased blood flow.
- (informal) To attribute a quality to; to portray (as).
- To affect without completely changing.
- (linguistics, usually of a phoneme) To affect the quality of a speech sound, especially a vowel.
adj
noun
- a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect
- an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading
- the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation
- interest and variety and intensity
- any material used for its color
- (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction
- the timbre of a musical sound
- (medicine) Skin color, noted as normal, jaundiced, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of the skin signs assessment.
- (linguistics) The quality of a particular vowel sound.
- (professional wrestling slang) To bleed, either through injury or blading. Usally prefaced with "get".
- (in the plural) The flag of a nation or team.
- A flushed appearance of blood in the face; redness of complexion.
- A front or facade; an ostensible truth actually false; pretext.
- (uncountable) Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
- A paint.
- (music) Timbre, often in relation to orchestration.
- (figuratively) Richness of expression; detail or flavour that is likely to generate interest or enjoyment.
- (finance, uncountable) A third-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change of gamma with respect to time, or equivalently the rate of change of charm with respect to changes in the underlying asset price.
- (countable) A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class.
- (in the plural) Gang insignia.
- (uncountable) The spectral composition of visible light.
- (physics) A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange by passing gluons; color charge.
- (in the plural) A standard or banner.
- These hues as used in color television or films, color photographs, etc (as opposed to the shades of grey used in black-and-white television).
- An appearance of right or authority; color of law.
- (military, in the plural) The morning ceremony of raising the flag.
- (mining) Gold, particles of gold found when prospecting.
- (typography) The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page. (See type color on Wikipedia.Wikipedia)
- (snooker) Any of the colored balls excluding the reds.
- (uncountable) Hue as opposed to achromatic colors (black, white and grays).
- (heraldry) Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and vert.
- (in the plural) An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
verb
adj
noun
- a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect
- an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading
- the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation
- interest and variety and intensity
- any material used for its color
- (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction
- the timbre of a musical sound
- Commonwealth and Ireland standard spelling of color.
verb
noun
- (acarology) Any of a series of wrinkles on the backs of some ticks.
- (technology) A specific style of electric light bulb consisting of a cylindrical enclosure with two points of contact on either end providing power to the filament or diode.
- (manufacturing) Two sets of rollers used to create a buffer of material on web handling equipment.
- (architecture) A bas-relief, painting, or structural motif resembling such an ornament.
- Any of various papilionid butterflies of the genus Zerynthia.
- A raised cable with light globes attached.
- An ornament such as a garland or chain which hangs loosely from two tacked spots.
- (dentistry) Texturing applied to a denture to simulate human tissue.
- (astronomy) A cloud on Jupiter that hangs out of its home belt or zone into an adjacent area forming a curved finger-like image or a complete loop back to its home belt or zone.
- a curtain of fabric draped and bound at intervals to form graceful curves
- an embellishment consisting of a decorative representation of a string of flowers suspended between two points; used on pottery or in architectural work
- flower chains suspended in curves between points as a decoration
verb
- To decorate with ornaments; to adorn; to embellish.
- (cooking) To ornament with something placed around it.
- (law) To warn by garnishment; to give notice to.
- (law) To have (money) set aside by court order (particularly for the payment of alleged debts); to garnishee.
- decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods
- take a debtor's wages on legal orders, such as for child support
noun
- any decoration added as a trimming or adornment
- (slang, historical, uncountable) A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded from a newcomer by the older prisoners.
- (cooking) Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment.
- Clothes; garments, especially when showy or decorative.
- A set of dishes, often pewter, containing a dozen pieces of several types.
- (US, slang) Cash.
- Pewter vessels in general.
- Something added for embellishment.
- something (such as parsley) added to a dish for flavor or decoration
verb
noun
- (colloquial) A sexually attractive, promiscuous male.
- An iron brace across the shorter diameter of the link of a chain cable.
- (engineering) A stud bolt.
- (jewelry) A style of earring where the decorative element is mounted on a straight post.
- (engineering) A short rod or pin, fixed in and projecting from something, and sometimes forming a journal.
- A place, such as a ranch, where such animals are kept.
- (construction) A vertical post, especially one of the small uprights in the framing for lath and plaster partitions, and furring, and upon which the laths are nailed.
- A male animal, especially a stud horse (stallion), kept for breeding.
- An animal (usually livestock) that has been registered and is retained for breeding.
- A cleat on a shoe.
- (by extension, collective) A group of such animals, also of locomotives.
- (poker) A type of poker in which the player cannot discard, and some of the cards are exposed.
- A female animal, especially a studmare (broodmare), kept for breeding.
- (LGBTQ, slang) A sexually dominant lesbian, chiefly African-American.
- A small object that protrudes from something; an ornamental knob.
- Clipping of student.
- poker in which each player receives hole cards and the remainder are dealt face up; bets are placed after each card is dealt
- an upright in house framing
- a man who is virile and sexually active
- ornament consisting of a circular rounded protuberance (as on a vault or shield or belt)
- adult male horse kept for breeding
noun
- A decoration or design so produced.
- The freehanded art of decorating wood, leather or other materials with burn marks (resulting in surface burned designs) from the controlled application of a heated object or tool such as a poker.
- the act of producing drawings on wood or leather by using heated tools or a fine flame
verb
noun
- sheet that forms a distinct (usually flat and rectangular) section or component of something
- (computer science) a small temporary window in a graphical user interface that appears in order to request information from the user; after the information has been provided the user dismisses the box with ‘okay’ or ‘cancel’
- a committee appointed to judge a competition
- a group of people gathered for a special purpose as to plan or discuss an issue or judge a contest etc
- a piece of cloth that is generally triangular or tapering; used in making garments or umbrellas or sails
- a soft pad placed under a saddle
- electrical device consisting of a flat insulated surface that contains switches and dials and meters for controlling other electrical devices
- (law) a group of people summoned for jury service (from whom a jury will be chosen)
- (masonry) One of the faces of a hewn stone.
- (law) The whole jury.
- A soft pad beneath a saddletree to prevent chafing.
- (medicine) A group of tests or assays, a battery.
- A portion of text or other material within a book, newspaper, web page, etc. set apart from the main body or separated by a border.
- A portion of a framed structure between adjacent posts or struts, as in a bridge truss.
- (law) A document containing the names of persons summoned as jurors by the sheriff.
- A (usually) rectangular section of a surface, or of a covering or of a wall, fence etc.
- (dressmaking) A plain strip or band, as of velvet or plush, placed at intervals lengthwise on the skirt of a dress, for ornament.
- (mining) A heap of dressed ore.
- (architecture) A sunken compartment with raised margins, moulded or otherwise, as in ceilings, wainscotings, etc.
- (graphical user interface) A type of GUI widget, such as a control panel.
- (Scots law) A prisoner arraigned for trial at the bar of a criminal court.
- (masonry) A slab or plank of wood used instead of a canvas for painting on.
- (joinery) A board having its edges inserted in the groove of a surrounding frame.
- (mining) One of the districts divided by pillars of extra size, into which a mine is laid off in one system of extracting coal.
- (British, historical) A list of doctors who could provide limited free healthcare prior to the introduction of the NHS.
- A group of people gathered to judge, interview, discuss etc. as on a television or radio broadcast for example.
- (comics) An individual frame or drawing in a comic.
verb
- decorate with an interlaced design
- cause annoyance in
- worry unnecessarily or excessively
- provide (a musical instrument) with frets
- become or make sore by or as if by rubbing
- carve a pattern into
- gnaw into; make resentful or angry
- wear away or erode
- cause friction
- remove soil or rock
- be agitated or irritated
- be too tight; rub or press
- (transitive) To make rough, to agitate or disturb; to cause to ripple.
- (transitive, music) To press down the string behind a fret.
- (transitive) To decorate or ornament, especially with an interlaced or interwoven pattern, or (architecture) with carving or relief (raised) work.
- (transitive, music) # To fit frets on to (a musical instrument).
- (intransitive) To be anxious, to worry.
- (transitive) To cut through with a fretsaw, to create fretwork.
- (intransitive) To be agitated; to rankle; to be in violent commotion.
- (transitive) To form a pattern on; to variegate.
- (transitive) In the form fret out: to squander, to waste.
- (ambitransitive) To gnaw; to consume, to eat away.
- (intransitive, brewing, wine) To have secondary fermentation (fermentation occurring after the conversion of sugar to alcohol in beers and wine) take place.
- (ambitransitive) To be chafed or irritated; to be angry or vexed; to utter peevish expressions through irritation or worry.
- (transitive) To chafe or irritate; to worry.
- To bind, to tie, originally with a loop or ring.
- (ambitransitive) To mine by agitating or eating away at (ore in the bank of a river).
- (intransitive) To be worn away; to chafe; to fray.
noun
- an ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines (often in relief)
- agitation resulting from active worry
- a spot that has been worn away by abrasion or erosion
- a small bar of metal across the fingerboard of a musical instrument; when the string is stopped by a finger at the metal bar it will produce a note of the desired pitch
- Agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.
- Agitation of the mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation.
- (rare) A channel or passage created by the sea.
- (Northumbria) A fog or mist at sea, or coming inland from the sea.
- (mining, in the plural) The worn sides of riverbanks, where ores or stones containing them accumulate after being washed down from higher ground, which thus indicate to miners the locality of veins of ore.
- (music) One of the pieces of metal, plastic or wood across the neck of a guitar or other string instrument that marks where a finger should be positioned to depress a string as it is played.
- A channel, a strait; a fretum.
- (heraldry) A saltire interlaced with a mascle.
- An ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines, often in relief.
- Herpes; tetter (“any of various pustular skin conditions”).
verb
- To make more beautiful and attractive by adding ornamentation; to decorate.
- make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.
- To make something sound or look better or more acceptable than it is in reality; to distort, embroider, or even misrepresent or lie.
- (by extension) To enhance by adding something not strictly integral or necessary.
- make more beautiful
- be beautiful to look at
- add details to
noun
- the act of adding decoration
- cutting down to the desired size or shape
- a decoration or adornment typically on the edge of a garment
- An accessory or accompaniment.
- (countable) Material that is removed by someone trimming something, as a piece of steak.
- (uncountable) The act or process of someone who trims.
- (countable) An instance of that act or process.
- (historical) An ornamental accessory to a dress or other piece of clothing.
verb
verb
- To decorate with quillwork.
- To pierce with quills. (Usually in the passive voice, as be quilled or get quilled.)
- (figuratively) To write.
- (US and Canada, especially Appalachia and the Prairies, transitive) To subject (a woman who is giving birth) to the practice of quilling (blowing pepper into her nose to induce or hasten labor).
- To form fabric into small, rounded folds.
noun
- (mechanical engineering) A quill drive, having a hollow shaft with another movable shaft inside it.
- (by extension) Any pen.
- A thin piece of bark, especially of cinnamon or cinchona, curled up into a tube.
- The lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs.
- Something having the form of a quill, such as the fold or plain of a ruff, or (weaving) a spindle, or spool, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle.
- (music) The tube of a musical instrument.
- A pen made from a feather.
- (zoology) The pen of a squid.
- (music) The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.
- A sharply pointed, barbed, and easily detached needle-like structure that grows on the skin of a porcupine or hedgehog as a defense against predators.
- any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird
- the hollow spine of a feather
- pen made from a bird's feather
- a stiff hollow protective spine on a porcupine or hedgehog
noun
- something used to beautify
- the act of decorating something (in the hope of making it more attractive)
- an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event
- Any item that adorns, enriches, or beautifies; something added by way of embellishment or ornamentation.
- (biochemistry, immunology) The use of exotic sugars as decoys to distract the immune system of a host
- Specifically, any mark of honor to be worn upon the person, as a medal, cross, or ribbon of an order of knighthood, bestowed for services in war, great achievements in literature, art, etc.
- The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation.
- (Hong Kong) Refurbishment; renovation
verb
- decorate or furnish with something suspended
- be exhibited
- hold on tightly or tenaciously
- be suspended or poised
- be suspended or hanging
- be menacing, burdensome, or oppressive
- give heed (to)
- be placed in position as by a hinge
- let drop or droop
- suspend (meat) in order to get a gamey taste
- fall or flow in a certain way
- prevent from reaching a verdict, of a jury
- kill by hanging
- cause to be hanging or suspended
- place in position as by a hinge so as to allow free movement in one direction
- (intransitive) To veer in one direction.
- (intransitive) To be or remain suspended.
- (intransitive, chess) To be vulnerable to capture.
- (transitive, computing) To cause (a program or computer) to stop responding.
- (transitive, baseball, slang, of a pitcher) To throw a hittable off-speed pitch.
- (intransitive, law) To be executed by suspension by one's neck from a gallows, a tree, or other raised bar, attached by a rope tied into a noose.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To remain persistently in one's thoughts.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to be suspended, as from a hook, hanger, hinges, or the like.
- (intransitive, of a ball in cricket, tennis, etc.) To rebound unexpectedly or unusually slowly, due to backward spin on the ball or imperfections of the ground.
- (transitive, figurative) To attach or cause to stick (a charge or accusation, etc.).
- (transitive) To prevent from reaching a decision, especially by refusing to join in a verdict that must be unanimous.
- (transitive) To apply (wallpaper or drywall to a wall).
- (transitive) To hold or bear in a suspended or inclined manner or position instead of erect.
- (transitive, law) To kill (someone) by suspension from the neck, usually as a form of execution or suicide.
- (transitive) To exhibit (an object) by hanging.
- (intransitive, computing) To stop responding to manual input devices such as the keyboard and mouse.
- (intransitive) To float, as if suspended.
- (intransitive, informal) To loiter; to hang around; to spend time idly.
- (transitive, chess) To cause (a piece) to become vulnerable to capture.
- (transitive, informal) (used in maledictions) To damn.
- (transitive) To decorate (something) with hanging objects.
noun
- a gymnastic exercise performed on the rings or horizontal bar or parallel bars when the gymnast's weight is supported by the arms
- a special way of doing something
- the way a garment hangs
- (colloquial) The smallest amount of concern or consideration; a damn.
- (computing) An instance of ceasing to respond to input.
- (Ireland, informal, derogatory) Cheap processed ham (cured pork), often made specially for sandwiches.
- A slackening of motion.
- The way in which something hangs.
- A hangout.
- A sharp or steep declivity or slope.
- A person that someone hangs out with.
- Alternative spelling of Hang (“musical instrument”).
- A mass of hanging material.
- (informal, figuratively) A grip, understanding.
verb
noun
- A supply or store of money, often belonging to an organization.
- A strong chest or box used for keeping money or valuables safe.
- A cofferdam.
- (architecture) An ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome.
- A trench dug in the bottom of a dry moat, and extending across it, to enable the besieged to defend it with raking fire.
- a chest especially for storing valuables
- an ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome
adj
noun
verb
- decorate or deck with wreaths
- form into a wreath
- move with slow, sinuous movements
- To arrange (one's expression, face, etc.) into a smile; also (reflexive), of the lips, mouth, etc.: to arrange (itself or themselves) into a smile.
- (chiefly passive voice) Often followed by in and the thing encircling: to coil or spiral around, or encircle, (someone or something); (by extension) to cover or envelop (someone or something).
- (chiefly passive voice) Often followed by together: to entwine or twist (two or more people or things) together; to intertwine, to interweave.
- (intransitive) To bend or turn, often continuously; to twist and turn, to writhe.
- To coil, curl, or twist (something); to shape (something) into circles or coils.
- To adorn (someone or something) with a garland or wreath.
- Followed by about, around, or round: to coil, twist, or wind around a person or thing.
- Of flowers, leaves, etc.: to form the shape of a wreath around (something).
- Of mist, smoke, etc.: to move with a coiling, spiralling, or twisting motion.
- (reflexive) To bend or turn (oneself), often continuously; to twist and turn, to writhe.
- (also reflexive, chiefly passive voice) Followed by about, around, or round: to coil, twist, or wind (oneself or something) around a person or thing; (by extension) to cause (oneself or something) to cover or encircle a person or thing.
- (Southeast England) To strengthen (an earthen embankment) with hurdles of wattle.
verb
noun
noun
- An ornamentation or decoration on something that has been constructed.
- An assignment to someone to undertake a particular task.
- A thorough description or explanation.
- A careful and thorough cleaning and refurbishing of an automobile, aircraft, boat, etc.
- an individualized description of a particular instance
verb
verb
- decorate in a cheap and flashy way
- dress up in a cheap and provocative way
- (informal, intransitive) To dress garishly.
- (informal, ambitransitive) To dress so as to be more sexually attractive, especially with make-up and revealing clothing.
- (informal, transitive) To modify or repackage a product, service, or idea to make it more attractive or easier to sell.
verb
noun
- (heraldry) A coat of arms or a banner depicting a coat of arms.
- (heraldry) A formalized language for describing a coat of arms.
- (heraldry) A verbal or written description of a coat of arms.
- Ostentatious display, verbal or otherwise; publication; description; record.
- the official symbols of a family, state, etc.
adj
verb
noun
- The decoration of the inside of homes and buildings, such as the decor and furnishings.
- decoration consisting of the layout and furnishings of a livable interior
- the trade or act of decorating the interior of a building or room, especially with regard to color combination, paint, fabrics, carpeting, etc.
verb
noun
- (dentistry) a filling consisting of a solid substance (as gold or porcelain) fitted to a cavity in a tooth and cemented into place
- a decoration made by fitting pieces of wood into prepared slots in a surface
- The piece of paper or the booklet inside the case of a compact disc, DVD, or cassette.
- The material placed within a different material in the form of a decoration.
- (dentistry) A filling for a tooth, made of ceramic or gold to fit the cavity and shape of tooth and cemented into place.
verb
noun
- adornment consisting of a small piece of shiny material used to decorate clothing
- A speckle or spot, especially on the body of an animal.
- A shiny particle of a mineral.
- A point of light; also (rare), a glitter, a sparkle.
- (figuratively) A star.
- A small, flat piece of sparkling metallic or metal-like material with a hole which is sewn on to a garment, etc., for decoration; a sequin.
- Any small sparkling object.
- Any of a number of swallowtail butterflies (genus Papilio); specifically Papilio protenor.
verb
- (transitive) To decorate (something).
- (transitive) To dress (someone) in fancy clothes.
- (intransitive, climbing) To fall off a mountain or climbing wall and hit the ground.
- (intransitive, card games) To forfeit by running out of cards in a deck.
- put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive
verb
noun
- a social group holding marginal or extreme views
- one of the light or dark bands produced by the interference and diffraction of light
- a part of the city far removed from the center
- the outside boundary or surface of something
- a border of hair that is cut short and hangs across the forehead
- an ornamental border consisting of short lengths of hanging threads or tassels
- (botany) The peristome or fringe-like appendage of the capsules of most mosses.
- (by extension) A border or edging.
- A decorative border.
- (UK) Synonym of bangs: hair hanging over the forehead, especially a hairstyle where it is cut straight across.
- (golf) The area around the green
- Non-mainstream theatre.
- (also attributive) Those members of a political party, or any social group, holding extremist or unorthodox views.
- The periphery of an area, especially a town or city.
- A group of people situated on the periphery of a larger community.
- (television, radio) A daypart that precedes or follows prime time.
- (Australia) Used attributively with reference to Aboriginal people living on the edge of towns etc.
- (also figurative) A marginal or peripheral part.
- (physics) A light or dark band formed by the diffraction of light.
adj
noun
- decorating with a design
- representing figuratively as by emblem or allegory
- The act of giving figure or determinate form.
- (sociology) A structure through which people are joined, or the process of constructing such structures.
- (art) Representation through visual forms.
- Form, outline or boundaries.
- Mixture of concords and discords.
- Ornamentation or decoration, especially by the addition of figures.
noun
- A decoration or design so produced.
- The freehanded art of decorating wood, leather or other materials with burn marks (resulting in surface burned designs) from the controlled application of a heated object or tool such as a poker.
- the act of producing drawings on wood or leather by using heated tools or a fine flame
verb
- To decorate with ornaments; to adorn; to embellish.
- (cooking) To ornament with something placed around it.
- (law) To warn by garnishment; to give notice to.
- (law) To have (money) set aside by court order (particularly for the payment of alleged debts); to garnishee.
- decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods
- take a debtor's wages on legal orders, such as for child support
noun
- any decoration added as a trimming or adornment
- (slang, historical, uncountable) A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded from a newcomer by the older prisoners.
- (cooking) Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment.
- Clothes; garments, especially when showy or decorative.
- A set of dishes, often pewter, containing a dozen pieces of several types.
- (US, slang) Cash.
- Pewter vessels in general.
- Something added for embellishment.
- something (such as parsley) added to a dish for flavor or decoration
noun
- the act of adding decoration
- cutting down to the desired size or shape
- a decoration or adornment typically on the edge of a garment
- An accessory or accompaniment.
- (countable) Material that is removed by someone trimming something, as a piece of steak.
- (uncountable) The act or process of someone who trims.
- (countable) An instance of that act or process.
- (historical) An ornamental accessory to a dress or other piece of clothing.
verb
verb
noun
- something used to beautify
- An element of decoration; that which embellishes or adorns.
- (music) A musical flourish that is unnecessary to the overall melodic or harmonic line, but serves to decorate that line.
- (Christianity, in the plural) The articles used in church services.
- (by extension) Ellipsis of Christmas ornament; a Christmas tree decoration.
- (biology) A characteristic that has a decorative function (typically in order to attract a mate)
noun
- something used to beautify
- the act of decorating something (in the hope of making it more attractive)
- an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event
- Any item that adorns, enriches, or beautifies; something added by way of embellishment or ornamentation.
- (biochemistry, immunology) The use of exotic sugars as decoys to distract the immune system of a host
- Specifically, any mark of honor to be worn upon the person, as a medal, cross, or ribbon of an order of knighthood, bestowed for services in war, great achievements in literature, art, etc.
- The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation.
- (Hong Kong) Refurbishment; renovation
noun
- An ornamentation or decoration on something that has been constructed.
- An assignment to someone to undertake a particular task.
- A thorough description or explanation.
- A careful and thorough cleaning and refurbishing of an automobile, aircraft, boat, etc.
- an individualized description of a particular instance
verb
noun
- The decoration of the inside of homes and buildings, such as the decor and furnishings.
- decoration consisting of the layout and furnishings of a livable interior
- the trade or act of decorating the interior of a building or room, especially with regard to color combination, paint, fabrics, carpeting, etc.
verb
noun
- something used to beautify
- An element of decoration; that which embellishes or adorns.
- (music) A musical flourish that is unnecessary to the overall melodic or harmonic line, but serves to decorate that line.
- (Christianity, in the plural) The articles used in church services.
- (by extension) Ellipsis of Christmas ornament; a Christmas tree decoration.
- (biology) A characteristic that has a decorative function (typically in order to attract a mate)
verb
- provide with decoration
- (transitive) To furnish with decorations.
- (By adding adornments to the interior space.)
- make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.
- award a mark of honor, such as a medal, to
- be beautiful to look at
- (By putting paint or wallpaper on the walls.)
- (programming, transitive) To extend a method, etc. by attaching some further code item.
- (transitive) To honor by providing a medal, ribbon, or other adornment.
verb
- provide with decoration
- cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
- give a neat appearance to
- arrange attractively
- cut down rough-hewn (lumber) to standard thickness and width
- convert into leather
- provide with clothes or put clothes on
- dress or groom with elaborate care
- arrange in ranks
- decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods
- kill and prepare for market or consumption
- put a dressing on
- dress in a certain manner
- put on clothes
- apply a bandage or medication to
- put a finish on
- To arrange or style (someone's hair).
- (agriculture, horticulture) To cultivate or tend to (a garden, land, plants, etc.); especially, to add fertilizer or manure to (soil); to fertilize, to manure.
- To apply a dressing to or otherwise treat (a wound); (obsolete) to give (a wounded person) medical aid.
- (slang) Ellipsis of cross-dress.
- (also reflexive and figuratively) To put clothes (or, formerly, armour) on (oneself or someone, a doll, a mannequin, etc.); to clothe.
- (especially of ores) To prepare by any of many types of physical processing (e.g., breaking, crushing, sorting, sieving, controlled burning or heating).
- To prepare, treat, or curry (animal hide or leather).
- To put on clothes.
- To design, make, provide, or select clothes (for someone).
- (also figuratively) To adorn or ornament (something).
- (butchering) Of an animal carcass: to have a certain quantity or weight after removal of the internal organs and skin; also, to have a certain appearance after being cut up and prepared for cooking.
- (specifically) To attire (oneself or someone) for a particular (especially formal) occasion, or in a fashionable manner.
- (fishing) To prepare (an artificial fly) to be attached to a fish hook.
- To arrange a display of goods in, or to decorate (a shop or shop window).
- (euphemistic, chiefly in the tailoring context) To allow one's penis to fall to one side or the other within one's trousers.
- To fit or prepare (something) for use; to render (something) suitable for an intended purpose; to get ready.
- To prepare (a set) by installing the props, scenery, etc.
- (military, sometimes imperative as a drill command) Of soldiers or troops: to arrange into proper formation; especially, to form into straight lines and at a proper distance from each other.
- To prepare the surface of (a material, such as lumber or stone; a grindstone or grinding wheel).
- (sports) Of a sportsperson: to put on the uniform and have the equipment needed to play a sport.
- (butchering) To cut up (an animal or its flesh) for food.
- (cooking) To prepare (food) for cooking or eating, especially by seasoning it; specifically, to add a dressing or sauce (to food, especially a salad).
- (historical or England, regional) To remove chaff or impurities from (flour, grain, etc.) by bolting or sifting, winnowing, and other methods.
- (nautical) To ornament (a ship) by hoisting the national colours at the peak and mastheads, and setting the jack forward; when "dressed full", the signal flags and pennants are added.
- To design, make, or prepare costumes (for a play or other performance); also, to present (a production) in a particular costume style.
- (military) To arrange (soldiers or troops) into proper formation; especially, to adjust (soldiers or troops) into straight lines and at a proper distance from each other; to align.
- Of a thing: to attain a certain condition after undergoing some process or treatment to fit or prepare it for use.
- (specifically) To attire oneself for a particular (especially formal) occasion, or in a fashionable manner.
adj
noun
- clothing in general
- a one-piece garment for a woman; has skirt and bodice
- clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion
- (figuratively) The external appearance of something, especially if intended to give a positive impression; garb, guise.
- The appearance of an object after it has undergone some process or treatment to fit or prepare it for use; finish.
- (film, television, theater) Ellipsis of dress rehearsal.
- Apparel or clothing, especially when appropriate for a particular occasion, profession, etc.
- (archaic outside of India) An item of outer clothing or set of such clothes (worn by people of all sexes) which is generally decorative and appropriate for a particular occasion, profession, etc.
- The external covering of an animal (for example, the feathers of a bird) or an object.
- (by extension, India) Any item of clothing, or an outfit.
- (clothing) An item of clothing (usually worn by a woman or young girl) which both covers the upper part of the body and includes a skirt below the waist.
verb
- decorate
- knock down with force
- be beautiful to look at
- (uncommon) To furnish with a deck, as a vessel.
- (transitive) To cover; to overspread.
- (informal) To knock someone to the floor, especially with a single punch.
- (collectible card games) To cause a player to run out of cards to draw, usually making them lose the game.
noun
- a porch that resembles the deck on a ship
- street name for a packet of illegal drugs
- any of various platforms built into a vessel
- a pack of 52 playing cards
- (graph theory) The multiset of graphs formed from a single graph by deleting a single vertex in all possible ways.
- (slang) A folded paper used for distributing illicit drugs.
- Any raised flat surface that can be walked on: a balcony; a porch; a raised patio; a flat rooftop.
- (aviation) A main aeroplane surface, especially of a biplane or multiplane.
- (card games) A pack or set of playing cards.
- (colloquial) The floor.
- (nautical) The floorlike covering of the horizontal sections, or compartments, of a ship or boat. Small vessels have only one deck; larger ships have two or three decks.
- (computing) A collection of cards (pages or forms) in systems such as WML (Wireless Markup Language) and HyperCard.
- (British, fishing) The bottom of a water body.
- (card games, by extension) A set of cards owned by each individual player and from which they draw when playing.
- Ellipsis of slide deck: a set of slides for a presentation.
- (theater) The stage.
- (journalism) A headline consisting of one or more full lines of text; especially, a subheadline.
- Ellipsis of tape deck.
verb
verb
- decorate, as with ornaments
- adjust (sails on a ship) so that the wind is optimally used
- cut closely
- cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
- decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods
- be in equilibrium during a flight
- balance in flight by regulating the control surfaces
- cut down on; make a reduction in
- remove the edges from and cut down to the desired size
- (transitive, aviation, of an aircraft) To adjust the positions of control surfaces, sometimes using trim tabs, so as to modify or eliminate the aircraft's tendency to pitch, roll, or yaw when the cockpit controls are released.
- (transitive, nautical, of a vessel's sails) To modify the angle (of the sails) relative to the wind, especially to set them at the most advantageous angle.
- (transitive, nautical, of a vessel) To modify the angle relative to the water by shifting cargo or ballast; to adjust for sailing; to assume, or cause to assume a certain position, or trim, in the water.
- (transitive) To decorate or adorn; especially of a Christmas tree.
- (transitive, historical) To cut back the wick of (a lamp) to maintain a clean, bright flame.
- (transitive) To make trim; to put in due order for any purpose; to make right, neat, or pleasing; to adjust.
- (transitive) To reduce slightly; to cut; especially, to remove excess.
- (transitive, carpentry, of timber) To dress; to make smooth.
- (transitive, by extension) To change the carbon rods of (an arc lamp).
adj
noun
- cutting down to the desired size or shape
- attitude of an aircraft in flight when allowed to take its own orientation
- a state of arrangement or appearance
- a decoration or adornment typically on the edge of a garment
- (uncountable, underwater diving) The horizontal position of an underwater water
- (printing, binding, publishing) Any of the three cut edges of book pages, trimmed with a shear after binding.
- Dress; gear; ornaments.
- (by extension, uncountable, slang, mildly vulgar) Sexual intercourse with a woman.
- (especially automotive) Features optionally available on a vehicle; an established configuration of such features within a model (a trim level).
- (nautical) The arrangement of the sails with reference to the wind.
- (uncountable, aviation, of an aircraft) The state of adjustment of control surfaces such that the desired attitude can be maintained without requiring the continuous application of force to the cockpit controls.
- (nautical) The fore-and-aft angle of the vessel to the water, with reference to the cargo and ballast; the manner in which a vessel floats on the water, whether on an even keel or down by the head or stern.
- (countable) A haircut, especially a moderate one to touch up an existing style.
- (countable) The manner in which something is equipped or adorned; order; disposition.
- (uncountable, aviation, by extension) The mechanism(s) used to trim an aircraft in roll, pitch, and/or yaw.
- (uncountable, slang, mildly vulgar) The female genitalia.
- (uncountable) Decoration; especially, decoration placed along edges or borders.
adv
verb
- To decorate (a place) splendidly.
- Often followed by on or upon: to emit rays of light; to shine.
- To cause (one's face) to look beautiful, happy, or lively; to light up.
- (figurative) To emit something other than light; to radiate.
- To send out (something) as if in the form of rays; to diffuse, to radiate, to shed.
- (medicine) To treat (a patient, or a cancerous growth or tumour) with radiation.
- To enlighten (someone, their mind, etc.) intellectually or spiritually; to illuminate, to shed light on.
- To send out (heat, light, or some other form of radiation) in the form of rays; to radiate.
- To animate or enliven (one's mood, or soul or spirit).
- (often literary or poetic) To make (someone or something) bright by shining light on them or it; to brighten, to illuminate.
- To treat (food) with ionizing radiation to destroy pathogens.
- To become bright; to brighten, to light up.
- expose to radiation
- cast rays of light upon
- give spiritual insight to; in religion
adj
verb
noun
- a plaster now made mostly from Portland cement and sand and lime; applied while soft to cover exterior walls or surfaces
- A material with binder and aggregate that is used to coat interior walls or to make interior mouldings.
- A work made of stucco; stuccowork.
- A material with binder and aggregate that is used to coat exterior walls or to make exterior mouldings.
verb
- decorate with colors
- change color, often in an undesired manner
- add color to
- affect as in thought or feeling
- give a deceptive explanation or excuse for
- modify or bias
- (intransitive) To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers or crayons.
- (mathematics, graph theory) To assign colors to the vertices of a graph (or the regions of a map) so that no two vertices connected by an edge (regions sharing a border) have the same color.
- (transitive) To give something color.
- (transitive) To cause (a pipe, especially a meerschaum) to take on a brown or black color, by smoking.
- (of a person or their face) To become red through increased blood flow.
- (informal) To attribute a quality to; to portray (as).
- To affect without completely changing.
- (linguistics, usually of a phoneme) To affect the quality of a speech sound, especially a vowel.
adj
noun
- a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect
- an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading
- the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation
- interest and variety and intensity
- any material used for its color
- (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction
- the timbre of a musical sound
- (medicine) Skin color, noted as normal, jaundiced, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of the skin signs assessment.
- (linguistics) The quality of a particular vowel sound.
- (professional wrestling slang) To bleed, either through injury or blading. Usally prefaced with "get".
- (in the plural) The flag of a nation or team.
- A flushed appearance of blood in the face; redness of complexion.
- A front or facade; an ostensible truth actually false; pretext.
- (uncountable) Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
- A paint.
- (music) Timbre, often in relation to orchestration.
- (figuratively) Richness of expression; detail or flavour that is likely to generate interest or enjoyment.
- (finance, uncountable) A third-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change of gamma with respect to time, or equivalently the rate of change of charm with respect to changes in the underlying asset price.
- (countable) A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class.
- (in the plural) Gang insignia.
- (uncountable) The spectral composition of visible light.
- (physics) A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange by passing gluons; color charge.
- (in the plural) A standard or banner.
- These hues as used in color television or films, color photographs, etc (as opposed to the shades of grey used in black-and-white television).
- An appearance of right or authority; color of law.
- (military, in the plural) The morning ceremony of raising the flag.
- (mining) Gold, particles of gold found when prospecting.
- (typography) The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page. (See type color on Wikipedia.Wikipedia)
- (snooker) Any of the colored balls excluding the reds.
- (uncountable) Hue as opposed to achromatic colors (black, white and grays).
- (heraldry) Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and vert.
- (in the plural) An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
verb
adj
noun
- a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect
- an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading
- the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation
- interest and variety and intensity
- any material used for its color
- (physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction
- the timbre of a musical sound
- Commonwealth and Ireland standard spelling of color.
verb
noun
- (acarology) Any of a series of wrinkles on the backs of some ticks.
- (technology) A specific style of electric light bulb consisting of a cylindrical enclosure with two points of contact on either end providing power to the filament or diode.
- (manufacturing) Two sets of rollers used to create a buffer of material on web handling equipment.
- (architecture) A bas-relief, painting, or structural motif resembling such an ornament.
- Any of various papilionid butterflies of the genus Zerynthia.
- A raised cable with light globes attached.
- An ornament such as a garland or chain which hangs loosely from two tacked spots.
- (dentistry) Texturing applied to a denture to simulate human tissue.
- (astronomy) A cloud on Jupiter that hangs out of its home belt or zone into an adjacent area forming a curved finger-like image or a complete loop back to its home belt or zone.
- a curtain of fabric draped and bound at intervals to form graceful curves
- an embellishment consisting of a decorative representation of a string of flowers suspended between two points; used on pottery or in architectural work
- flower chains suspended in curves between points as a decoration
verb
- To decorate with ornaments; to adorn; to embellish.
- (cooking) To ornament with something placed around it.
- (law) To warn by garnishment; to give notice to.
- (law) To have (money) set aside by court order (particularly for the payment of alleged debts); to garnishee.
- decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods
- take a debtor's wages on legal orders, such as for child support
noun
- any decoration added as a trimming or adornment
- (slang, historical, uncountable) A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded from a newcomer by the older prisoners.
- (cooking) Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment.
- Clothes; garments, especially when showy or decorative.
- A set of dishes, often pewter, containing a dozen pieces of several types.
- (US, slang) Cash.
- Pewter vessels in general.
- Something added for embellishment.
- something (such as parsley) added to a dish for flavor or decoration
verb
noun
- (colloquial) A sexually attractive, promiscuous male.
- An iron brace across the shorter diameter of the link of a chain cable.
- (engineering) A stud bolt.
- (jewelry) A style of earring where the decorative element is mounted on a straight post.
- (engineering) A short rod or pin, fixed in and projecting from something, and sometimes forming a journal.
- A place, such as a ranch, where such animals are kept.
- (construction) A vertical post, especially one of the small uprights in the framing for lath and plaster partitions, and furring, and upon which the laths are nailed.
- A male animal, especially a stud horse (stallion), kept for breeding.
- An animal (usually livestock) that has been registered and is retained for breeding.
- A cleat on a shoe.
- (by extension, collective) A group of such animals, also of locomotives.
- (poker) A type of poker in which the player cannot discard, and some of the cards are exposed.
- A female animal, especially a studmare (broodmare), kept for breeding.
- (LGBTQ, slang) A sexually dominant lesbian, chiefly African-American.
- A small object that protrudes from something; an ornamental knob.
- Clipping of student.
- poker in which each player receives hole cards and the remainder are dealt face up; bets are placed after each card is dealt
- an upright in house framing
- a man who is virile and sexually active
- ornament consisting of a circular rounded protuberance (as on a vault or shield or belt)
- adult male horse kept for breeding
verb
noun
- sheet that forms a distinct (usually flat and rectangular) section or component of something
- (computer science) a small temporary window in a graphical user interface that appears in order to request information from the user; after the information has been provided the user dismisses the box with ‘okay’ or ‘cancel’
- a committee appointed to judge a competition
- a group of people gathered for a special purpose as to plan or discuss an issue or judge a contest etc
- a piece of cloth that is generally triangular or tapering; used in making garments or umbrellas or sails
- a soft pad placed under a saddle
- electrical device consisting of a flat insulated surface that contains switches and dials and meters for controlling other electrical devices
- (law) a group of people summoned for jury service (from whom a jury will be chosen)
- (masonry) One of the faces of a hewn stone.
- (law) The whole jury.
- A soft pad beneath a saddletree to prevent chafing.
- (medicine) A group of tests or assays, a battery.
- A portion of text or other material within a book, newspaper, web page, etc. set apart from the main body or separated by a border.
- A portion of a framed structure between adjacent posts or struts, as in a bridge truss.
- (law) A document containing the names of persons summoned as jurors by the sheriff.
- A (usually) rectangular section of a surface, or of a covering or of a wall, fence etc.
- (dressmaking) A plain strip or band, as of velvet or plush, placed at intervals lengthwise on the skirt of a dress, for ornament.
- (mining) A heap of dressed ore.
- (architecture) A sunken compartment with raised margins, moulded or otherwise, as in ceilings, wainscotings, etc.
- (graphical user interface) A type of GUI widget, such as a control panel.
- (Scots law) A prisoner arraigned for trial at the bar of a criminal court.
- (masonry) A slab or plank of wood used instead of a canvas for painting on.
- (joinery) A board having its edges inserted in the groove of a surrounding frame.
- (mining) One of the districts divided by pillars of extra size, into which a mine is laid off in one system of extracting coal.
- (British, historical) A list of doctors who could provide limited free healthcare prior to the introduction of the NHS.
- A group of people gathered to judge, interview, discuss etc. as on a television or radio broadcast for example.
- (comics) An individual frame or drawing in a comic.
verb
- decorate with an interlaced design
- cause annoyance in
- worry unnecessarily or excessively
- provide (a musical instrument) with frets
- become or make sore by or as if by rubbing
- carve a pattern into
- gnaw into; make resentful or angry
- wear away or erode
- cause friction
- remove soil or rock
- be agitated or irritated
- be too tight; rub or press
- (transitive) To make rough, to agitate or disturb; to cause to ripple.
- (transitive, music) To press down the string behind a fret.
- (transitive) To decorate or ornament, especially with an interlaced or interwoven pattern, or (architecture) with carving or relief (raised) work.
- (transitive, music) # To fit frets on to (a musical instrument).
- (intransitive) To be anxious, to worry.
- (transitive) To cut through with a fretsaw, to create fretwork.
- (intransitive) To be agitated; to rankle; to be in violent commotion.
- (transitive) To form a pattern on; to variegate.
- (transitive) In the form fret out: to squander, to waste.
- (ambitransitive) To gnaw; to consume, to eat away.
- (intransitive, brewing, wine) To have secondary fermentation (fermentation occurring after the conversion of sugar to alcohol in beers and wine) take place.
- (ambitransitive) To be chafed or irritated; to be angry or vexed; to utter peevish expressions through irritation or worry.
- (transitive) To chafe or irritate; to worry.
- To bind, to tie, originally with a loop or ring.
- (ambitransitive) To mine by agitating or eating away at (ore in the bank of a river).
- (intransitive) To be worn away; to chafe; to fray.
noun
- an ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines (often in relief)
- agitation resulting from active worry
- a spot that has been worn away by abrasion or erosion
- a small bar of metal across the fingerboard of a musical instrument; when the string is stopped by a finger at the metal bar it will produce a note of the desired pitch
- Agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or some other cause; a rippling on the surface of water.
- Agitation of the mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation.
- (rare) A channel or passage created by the sea.
- (Northumbria) A fog or mist at sea, or coming inland from the sea.
- (mining, in the plural) The worn sides of riverbanks, where ores or stones containing them accumulate after being washed down from higher ground, which thus indicate to miners the locality of veins of ore.
- (music) One of the pieces of metal, plastic or wood across the neck of a guitar or other string instrument that marks where a finger should be positioned to depress a string as it is played.
- A channel, a strait; a fretum.
- (heraldry) A saltire interlaced with a mascle.
- An ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines, often in relief.
- Herpes; tetter (“any of various pustular skin conditions”).
verb
- To make more beautiful and attractive by adding ornamentation; to decorate.
- make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.
- To make something sound or look better or more acceptable than it is in reality; to distort, embroider, or even misrepresent or lie.
- (by extension) To enhance by adding something not strictly integral or necessary.
- make more beautiful
- be beautiful to look at
- add details to
verb
- To decorate with quillwork.
- To pierce with quills. (Usually in the passive voice, as be quilled or get quilled.)
- (figuratively) To write.
- (US and Canada, especially Appalachia and the Prairies, transitive) To subject (a woman who is giving birth) to the practice of quilling (blowing pepper into her nose to induce or hasten labor).
- To form fabric into small, rounded folds.
noun
- (mechanical engineering) A quill drive, having a hollow shaft with another movable shaft inside it.
- (by extension) Any pen.
- A thin piece of bark, especially of cinnamon or cinchona, curled up into a tube.
- The lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs.
- Something having the form of a quill, such as the fold or plain of a ruff, or (weaving) a spindle, or spool, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle.
- (music) The tube of a musical instrument.
- A pen made from a feather.
- (zoology) The pen of a squid.
- (music) The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.
- A sharply pointed, barbed, and easily detached needle-like structure that grows on the skin of a porcupine or hedgehog as a defense against predators.
- any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird
- the hollow spine of a feather
- pen made from a bird's feather
- a stiff hollow protective spine on a porcupine or hedgehog
verb
- decorate or furnish with something suspended
- be exhibited
- hold on tightly or tenaciously
- be suspended or poised
- be suspended or hanging
- be menacing, burdensome, or oppressive
- give heed (to)
- be placed in position as by a hinge
- let drop or droop
- suspend (meat) in order to get a gamey taste
- fall or flow in a certain way
- prevent from reaching a verdict, of a jury
- kill by hanging
- cause to be hanging or suspended
- place in position as by a hinge so as to allow free movement in one direction
- (intransitive) To veer in one direction.
- (intransitive) To be or remain suspended.
- (intransitive, chess) To be vulnerable to capture.
- (transitive, computing) To cause (a program or computer) to stop responding.
- (transitive, baseball, slang, of a pitcher) To throw a hittable off-speed pitch.
- (intransitive, law) To be executed by suspension by one's neck from a gallows, a tree, or other raised bar, attached by a rope tied into a noose.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To remain persistently in one's thoughts.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to be suspended, as from a hook, hanger, hinges, or the like.
- (intransitive, of a ball in cricket, tennis, etc.) To rebound unexpectedly or unusually slowly, due to backward spin on the ball or imperfections of the ground.
- (transitive, figurative) To attach or cause to stick (a charge or accusation, etc.).
- (transitive) To prevent from reaching a decision, especially by refusing to join in a verdict that must be unanimous.
- (transitive) To apply (wallpaper or drywall to a wall).
- (transitive) To hold or bear in a suspended or inclined manner or position instead of erect.
- (transitive, law) To kill (someone) by suspension from the neck, usually as a form of execution or suicide.
- (transitive) To exhibit (an object) by hanging.
- (intransitive, computing) To stop responding to manual input devices such as the keyboard and mouse.
- (intransitive) To float, as if suspended.
- (intransitive, informal) To loiter; to hang around; to spend time idly.
- (transitive, chess) To cause (a piece) to become vulnerable to capture.
- (transitive, informal) (used in maledictions) To damn.
- (transitive) To decorate (something) with hanging objects.
noun
- a gymnastic exercise performed on the rings or horizontal bar or parallel bars when the gymnast's weight is supported by the arms
- a special way of doing something
- the way a garment hangs
- (colloquial) The smallest amount of concern or consideration; a damn.
- (computing) An instance of ceasing to respond to input.
- (Ireland, informal, derogatory) Cheap processed ham (cured pork), often made specially for sandwiches.
- A slackening of motion.
- The way in which something hangs.
- A hangout.
- A sharp or steep declivity or slope.
- A person that someone hangs out with.
- Alternative spelling of Hang (“musical instrument”).
- A mass of hanging material.
- (informal, figuratively) A grip, understanding.
verb
noun
- A supply or store of money, often belonging to an organization.
- A strong chest or box used for keeping money or valuables safe.
- A cofferdam.
- (architecture) An ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome.
- A trench dug in the bottom of a dry moat, and extending across it, to enable the besieged to defend it with raking fire.
- a chest especially for storing valuables
- an ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome
verb
- decorate or deck with wreaths
- form into a wreath
- move with slow, sinuous movements
- To arrange (one's expression, face, etc.) into a smile; also (reflexive), of the lips, mouth, etc.: to arrange (itself or themselves) into a smile.
- (chiefly passive voice) Often followed by in and the thing encircling: to coil or spiral around, or encircle, (someone or something); (by extension) to cover or envelop (someone or something).
- (chiefly passive voice) Often followed by together: to entwine or twist (two or more people or things) together; to intertwine, to interweave.
- (intransitive) To bend or turn, often continuously; to twist and turn, to writhe.
- To coil, curl, or twist (something); to shape (something) into circles or coils.
- To adorn (someone or something) with a garland or wreath.
- Followed by about, around, or round: to coil, twist, or wind around a person or thing.
- Of flowers, leaves, etc.: to form the shape of a wreath around (something).
- Of mist, smoke, etc.: to move with a coiling, spiralling, or twisting motion.
- (reflexive) To bend or turn (oneself), often continuously; to twist and turn, to writhe.
- (also reflexive, chiefly passive voice) Followed by about, around, or round: to coil, twist, or wind (oneself or something) around a person or thing; (by extension) to cause (oneself or something) to cover or encircle a person or thing.
- (Southeast England) To strengthen (an earthen embankment) with hurdles of wattle.
verb
noun
verb
- decorate in a cheap and flashy way
- dress up in a cheap and provocative way
- (informal, intransitive) To dress garishly.
- (informal, ambitransitive) To dress so as to be more sexually attractive, especially with make-up and revealing clothing.
- (informal, transitive) To modify or repackage a product, service, or idea to make it more attractive or easier to sell.
verb
noun
- (heraldry) A coat of arms or a banner depicting a coat of arms.
- (heraldry) A formalized language for describing a coat of arms.
- (heraldry) A verbal or written description of a coat of arms.
- Ostentatious display, verbal or otherwise; publication; description; record.
- the official symbols of a family, state, etc.
verb
noun
- (dentistry) a filling consisting of a solid substance (as gold or porcelain) fitted to a cavity in a tooth and cemented into place
- a decoration made by fitting pieces of wood into prepared slots in a surface
- The piece of paper or the booklet inside the case of a compact disc, DVD, or cassette.
- The material placed within a different material in the form of a decoration.
- (dentistry) A filling for a tooth, made of ceramic or gold to fit the cavity and shape of tooth and cemented into place.
verb
noun
- adornment consisting of a small piece of shiny material used to decorate clothing
- A speckle or spot, especially on the body of an animal.
- A shiny particle of a mineral.
- A point of light; also (rare), a glitter, a sparkle.
- (figuratively) A star.
- A small, flat piece of sparkling metallic or metal-like material with a hole which is sewn on to a garment, etc., for decoration; a sequin.
- Any small sparkling object.
- Any of a number of swallowtail butterflies (genus Papilio); specifically Papilio protenor.
verb
- (transitive) To decorate (something).
- (transitive) To dress (someone) in fancy clothes.
- (intransitive, climbing) To fall off a mountain or climbing wall and hit the ground.
- (intransitive, card games) To forfeit by running out of cards in a deck.
- put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive
verb
noun
- a social group holding marginal or extreme views
- one of the light or dark bands produced by the interference and diffraction of light
- a part of the city far removed from the center
- the outside boundary or surface of something
- a border of hair that is cut short and hangs across the forehead
- an ornamental border consisting of short lengths of hanging threads or tassels
- (botany) The peristome or fringe-like appendage of the capsules of most mosses.
- (by extension) A border or edging.
- A decorative border.
- (UK) Synonym of bangs: hair hanging over the forehead, especially a hairstyle where it is cut straight across.
- (golf) The area around the green
- Non-mainstream theatre.
- (also attributive) Those members of a political party, or any social group, holding extremist or unorthodox views.
- The periphery of an area, especially a town or city.
- A group of people situated on the periphery of a larger community.
- (television, radio) A daypart that precedes or follows prime time.
- (Australia) Used attributively with reference to Aboriginal people living on the edge of towns etc.
- (also figurative) A marginal or peripheral part.
- (physics) A light or dark band formed by the diffraction of light.