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- a food rich in sugar
- the act of creating something (a medicine or drink or soup etc.) by compounding or mixing a variety of components
- The act or process of confecting; the process of making, compounding, or preparing something.
- A food item prepared very sweet, frequently decorated in fine detail, and often preserved with sugar, such as a candy, sweetmeat, fruit preserve, pastry, or cake.
- The result of such a process; something made up or confected; a concoction.
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verb
noun
- A quid (chewing preparation) containing these and other plant materials; paan.
- The betel palm, Areca catechu, and in particular its seed, the areca nut or betel nut.
- Either of two (parts of) plants often used in combination:
- An evergreen Indian creeping shrub, Piper betle, whose dried leaves are chewed with betel nut: the betel pepper.
- Asian pepper plant whose leaves are chewed with betel nut (seed of the betel palm) by southeast Asians
- a leaf of a vine from the betel pepper
verb
noun
- baker's yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae
- Candida, a ubiquitous fungus that can cause various kinds of infections in humans.
- brewer's yeast, certain species of Saccharomyces, principally Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Saccharomyces carlsbergensis.
- An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread, and also used in certain medicines.
- (figuratively) A frothy foam.
- A compressed cake or dried granules of this substance used for mixing with flour to make bread dough rise.
- A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families.
- The resulting infection, candidiasis.
- a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey
- any of various single-celled fungi that reproduce asexually by budding or division
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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
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noun
- A thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, or butter, that is made into a particular form and then baked.
- (US military slang, countable) Clipping of doughboy (“an infantryman”).
- (slang) Money.
- informal terms for money
- a flour mixture stiff enough to knead or roll
verb
- (transitive) To bake (fish, etc.) on a piece of cedar lumber.
- (intransitive) To pose for a photograph while lying rigid, face down, arms at side, in an unusual place.
- To splice together the ends of slivers of wool, for subsequent drawing.
- (transitive) To cover something with planking.
- (transitive) To harden, as hat bodies, by felting.
- (transitive, colloquial) To lay down, as on a plank or table; to stake or pay cash.
- cook and serve on a plank
- set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise
- cover with planks
noun
- (figurative) A political issue that is of concern to a faction or a party of the people and the political position that is taken on that issue.
- Physical exercise in which one holds a pushup position for a measured length of time.
- That which supports or upholds.
- A long, broad and thick piece of timber, as opposed to a board which is less thick.
- (British, slang) A stupid person, idiot.
- a stout length of sawn timber; made in a wide variety of sizes and used for many purposes
- an endorsed policy in the platform of a political party
verb
noun
- (petrochemistry, organic chemistry) Any member of the alkane hydrocarbons.
- (UK, Ireland) A petroleum-based thin and colourless fuel oil.
- Paraffin wax.
- (British usage) kerosine
- from crude petroleum; used for candles and for preservative or waterproof coatings
- a series of non-aromatic saturated hydrocarbons with the general formula CnH(2n+2)
noun
- A large mould for straining sugar.
- (informal) A child who does not know their father.
- A sword that is midway in length between a short-sword and a long sword; also bastard sword.
- (informal) Something extremely difficult or unpleasant to deal with.
- A kind of sweet wine.
- A mongrel (biological cross between different breeds, groups or varieties).
- (vulgar, offensive or derogatory, usually referring specifically to a man) A contemptible, inconsiderate, overly or arrogantly rude or spiteful person.
- A variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin, fake or counterfeit.
- A writing paper of a particular size.
- An inferior quality of soft brown sugar, obtained from syrups that have been boiled several times.
- A bastard file.
- (UK, politics, derogatory) A Eurosceptic Conservative MP, especially in the government of John Major.
- (often preceded by ‘poor’) A suffering person deemed deserving of compassion.
- (endearing or humorous) A man, a fellow, a male friend.
- derogatory term for a variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin
- the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents
- insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous
adj
- (UK, Ireland, vulgar) Very unpleasant.
- Of or like a bastard (bad person).
- Of or like a mongrel, bastardized creature/cross.
- Spurious, lacking authenticity: counterfeit, fake.
- (of a language) Imperfect; not spoken or written well or in the classical style; broken.
- (theater lighting) Consisting of one predominant color blended with small amounts of complementary color; used to replicate natural light because of their warmer appearance.
- Of abnormal, irregular or otherwise inferior qualities (size, shape etc).
- Used in the vernacular name of a species to indicate that it is similar in some way to another species, often (but not always) one of another genus.
- (printing) Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book.
- Of or like a bastard (illegitimate human descendant).
- fraudulent; having a misleading appearance
intj
noun
- a material used to coat cooking utensils and in industrial applications where sticking is to be avoided
- Multiple film, resin, coatings, fabric and surface protectors made with PTFE (polytetrafluoroethylene) or fluoropolymer and surfactants not made with PTFE.
- Synonym of polytetrafluoroethylene (“PTFE”).
adj
name
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- a steady wooden block on which food can be cut or diced or wood can be split
- A thick wooden slab used as a cutting surface for preparing food, splitting firewood or kindling, etc.
- The threat of an impending budget cut.
- (historical, informal) A block of wood against which a condemned person put their head prior to beheading.
- (by extension) A dangerous or precarious situation.
noun
noun
- A kind of apron or pinafore for children.
- (euphemistic) The plimsoll or gym shoe used in this form of punishment.
- (engineering) A piece, usually a plate, applied to a sliding piece, to receive wear and permit adjustment; a gib.
- (footwear) A low soft shoe intended for indoor use; a bedroom slipper or house slipper.
- (footwear, US, Hawaii, India, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore) A flip-flop (type of rubber sandal).
- A kind of brake or shoe for a wagon wheel.
- A form of corporal punishment where the buttocks are repeatedly struck with a plimsoll; "the slipper".
- A person or creature that slips.
- (medicine) A kind of bedpan urinal shaped somewhat like a slipper.
- (footwear) A low soft shoe that can be slipped on and off easily.
- a person who slips or slides because of loss of traction
- low footwear that can be slipped on and off easily; usually worn indoors
verb
verb
noun
- (colloquial, endearing) Term of endearment.
- (vulgar, slang) The vulva or vagina; pubic hair around it.
- (ice hockey, slang) A very weak shot in ice hockey where the puck does not travel fast.
- (Java programming language) A mechanism used in the Java Network Launching Protocol analogous to the cookie mechanism and which permits a program running in a browser to perform operations on a client machine.
- (British) A type of flattish bun, usually cut in two horizontally, toasted and spread with butter, etc., before being eaten.
- (dated or LGBTQ slang) A charming, attractive young man.
- (UK dialect, Northern England, especially Manchester) A roll, bap or cob, which may or may not be flat or toasted.
- A cupcake-shaped baked good (for example of cornbread, banana bread, or a chocolate dough), sometimes glazed but typically without frosting, eaten especially for breakfast (in contrast to a cupcake, which is a dessert).
- (baseball, slang) A less talented player; one who muffs, or drops the ball.
- a sweet quick bread baked in a cup-shaped pan
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noun
- A cat having orange- or ginger-colored fur.
- A kind of jam made with citrus fruit, distinguished by being made slightly bitter by the addition of the peel and by partial caramelisation during manufacture. Most commonly made with Seville oranges, and usually qualified by the name of the fruit when made with other types of fruit.
- a preserve made of the pulp and rind of citrus fruits
verb
noun
- (cooking) A thickener.
- Any flowable suspension of small particles in liquid.
- (agriculture) A mixture of animal waste, other organic material and sometimes water, stored in a slurry pit and used as fertilizer; also used in combination, as pig slurry, etc.
- (mining) Liquid waste from some types of mining, such as mountain top removal mining, usually very toxic and stored nearby in large dams.
- a suspension of insoluble particles (as plaster of Paris or lime or clay etc.) usually in water
adj
noun
- A sieve-like, slotted spoon.
- Synonym of water strider.
- A loose-fitting one-piece dress, similar to a shift but with slightly more fitting.
- Any of three species of bird, in the genus Rynchops of the family Laridae, that feed by skimming the surface of water bodies with their bills in flight.
- A ballet flat shoe.
- Any of several large bivalve shells, sometimes used for skimming milk, such as the sea clam (Spisula solidissima) and large scallops.
- (naval) A sailor in the surface forces, as opposed to a submariner.
- (science fiction) A small, fast-moving spacecraft.
- (naval) A surface ship.
- (entomology) Any of the dragonflies in the family Libellulidae.
- A person who skims.
- A device for removing organic matter from an aquarium.
- (crime) A device used to read and record the magnetic code from a credit card for later fraudulent use.
- a rapid superficial reader
- gull-like seabird that flies along the surface of the water with an elongated lower mandible immersed to skim out food
- a stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown
- a cooking utensil used to skim fat from the surface of liquids
verb
verb
- To put (something) into a pot.
- (electronics) To package a circuit by encasing it in resin.
- (transitive, British) To seat a person, usually a young child, on a potty or toilet, typically during toilet teaching.
- (transitive) To drain (e.g. sugar of the molasses) in a perforated cask.
- (snooker, pool, billiards, transitive) To cause a ball to fall into a pocket.
- (chiefly East Midlands) To apply a plaster cast to a broken limb.
- (rugby, transitive) To score (a drop goal).
- (transitive) To shoot with a firearm.
- To preserve by bottling or canning.
- (transitive, colloquial) To secure; gain; win; bag.
- (British) To send someone to jail, expeditiously.
- To catch (a fish, eel, etc) via a pot.
- (snooker, pool, billiards, intransitive) To be capable of being potted.
- (slang, broadcasting) To fade volume in or out by means of a potentiometer.
- plant in a pot
noun
- (UK, horse-racing, slang) A favorite: a heavily-backed horse.
- (historical) Any of various traditional units of volume notionally based on the capacity of a pot.
- (slang, uncountable) Ruin or deterioration.
- A vessel used for brewing or serving drinks: a coffeepot or teapot.
- A crucible: a melting pot.
- A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food, possibly excluding saucepans (see usage notes).
- (slang, electronics) A simple electromechanical device used to control resistance or voltage (often to adjust sound volume) in an electronic device by rotating or sliding when manipulated by a human thumb, screwdriver, etc.
- (slang, uncountable) Marijuana.
- (chiefly East Midlands, Yorkshire) A plaster cast.
- (rail transport) A pot-shaped non-conducting (usually ceramic) stand that supports an electrified rail while insulating it from the ground.
- (roleplaying games, video games) Clipping of potion.
- (slang) Clipping of potbelly (“a pot-shaped belly, a paunch”).
- A perforated cask for draining sugar.
- A vessel (usually earthenware) used with a seal for storing food, such as a honeypot.
- (Maine) A pot-shaped trap used for catching lobsters or other seafood: a lobster pot.
- (archaic except in place names) Pothole, sinkhole, vertical cave.
- An allocation of money for a particular purpose.
- (historical) Alternative form of pott: a former size of paper, 12.5 × 15 inches.
- A shallow hole used in certain games played with marbles. The marbles placed in it are called potsies.
- (Australia, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania) A glass of beer in Australia whose size varies regionally but is typically around 10 fl oz (285 mL).
- (historical) An iron hat with a broad brim worn as a helmet.
- A pot-shaped metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney: a chimney pot.
- (gambling, poker) The money available to be won in a hand of poker or a round of other games of chance; (figuratively) any sum of money being used as an enticement.
- (slang) Clipping of potshot (“a haphazard shot; an easy or cheap shot”).
- A vessel used to hold soil for growing plants, particularly flowers: a flowerpot.
- the quantity contained in a pot
- the cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker)
- a container in which plants are cultivated
- street names for marijuana
- slang for a paunch
- metal or earthenware cooking vessel that is usually round and deep; often has a handle and lid
- a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
- a resistor with three terminals, the third being an adjustable center terminal; used to adjust voltages in radios and TV sets
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
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noun
- A kind of goad or stick with an iron point.
- A female chaperone who accompanies a man, and is usually not married to him.
- A man's personal male attendant, responsible for his clothes and appearance.
- (professional wrestling) A female performer in professional wrestling, acting as either a manager or personal chaperone; often used to attract and titillate male members of the audience.
- A person employed to assist the jockey and trainer at a racecourse.
- (US) A person employed to clean or park cars.
- A hotel employee performing such duties for guests.
- A wooden stand on which to hold clothes and accessories in preparation for dressing.
- a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to their employer
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verb
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- a wad of something chewable as tobacco
- biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow
- (informal, uncountable) Chewing tobacco.
- The act of chewing; mastication with the mouth.
- (uncountable, informal) The condition of something being torn or ground up mechanically.
- Level of chewiness.
- A small sweet, such as a taffy, that is eaten by chewing.
- (countable) A plug or wad of chewing tobacco; chaw or a chaw.
verb
- chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth
- (informal) To think about something; to ponder; to chew over.
- To crush with the teeth by repeated closing and opening of the jaws; done to food to soften it and break it down by the action of saliva before it is swallowed.
- To grind, tear, or otherwise degrade or demolish something with teeth or as with teeth.
noun
verb
noun
- a wad of something chewable as tobacco
- blatant or sensational promotion
- an upright hydrant for drawing water to use in fighting a fire
- electrical device that fits into the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine and ignites the gas by means of an electric spark
- an old or over-worked horse
- blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly
- an electrical device with two or three pins that is inserted in a socket to make an electrical connection
- (geology) A body of once molten rock that hardened in a volcanic vent. Usually round or oval in shape.
- (aviation) A standard, modular fuselage component that can be added or removed.
- (fishing) A type of lure consisting of a rigid, buoyant or semi-buoyant body and one or more hooks.
- (slang) A drug dealer.
- A branch from a water-pipe to supply a hose.
- (jewelry) A short cylindrical piece of jewellery commonly worn in larger-gauge body piercings, especially in the ear.
- (US, slang) A high, tapering silk hat.
- Ellipsis of spark plug.
- (slang) A promotion (act of promoting) of a product (such as a book, film or play) or other thing, concept, etc, for example during an interview or a commercial.
- (loosely) An electric socket: wall plug.
- (US) A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco.
- Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole.
- (horticulture) A small seedling grown in a tray from expanded polystyrene or polythene filled usually with a peat or compost substrate.
- A growth of protoplasm that closes the pore openings in the cells of certain algae.
- Ellipsis of fireplug (“fire hydrant”).
- (construction) A block of wood let into a wall to afford a hold for nails.
- (US, slang) A worthless horse.
- (electricity) A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket, especially an electrical one.
verb
- make a plug for; praise the qualities or in order to sell or promote
- persist in working hard
- deliver a quick blow to
- fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug
- replace the center of a coin with a baser metal
- insert as a plug
- insert a plug into
- (transitive, slang) To ingest a drug rectally.
- (transitive, slang) To shoot (someone) with a bullet.
- (transitive, slang) To have sex with; to penetrate sexually.
- (intransitive, informal) To persist or continue with something.
- (transitive) To promote (something, especially a product or service); to mention (something) as if promoting or advertising it.
- (transitive) To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.
noun
- a wad of something chewable as tobacco
- something for something; that which a party receives (or is promised) in return for something they do or give or promise
- the basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; equal to 100 pence
- (UK, colloquial) Pound sterling. (usually only used with a whole number of pounds)
- (historical) A sovereign or guinea, that is, a certain coin or amount of money.
- A piece of material for chewing, especially chewing tobacco.
- (US, colloquial) The act of chewing such tobacco.
- (Commonwealth, colloquial, by extension, rare) Dollar, dollars.
- (Ireland, colloquial, by extension) Euro.
- (Ireland, Commonwealth, colloquial, historical) Various national currencies typically known by the name "pound".
- Paired with quo, in reference to the phrase quid pro quo (“this for that”): something offered in exchange for something else.
- The inherent nature of something.
- (US, historical) A member of a section of the Democratic-Republican Party between 1805 and 1811, following John Randolph of Roanoke. (From tertium quid.)
verb
noun
- a wad of something chewable as tobacco
- a small mass of soft material
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
- (slang) A sandwich.
- (slang, vulgar) An ejaculation of semen.
- (mineralogy) Any black manganese oxide or hydroxide mineral rich rock in the oxidized zone of various ore deposits.
- An amorphous, compact mass.
- A substantial pile (normally of money).
- A soft plug or seal, particularly as used between the powder and pellets in a shotgun cartridge, or earlier on the charge of a muzzleloader or cannon.
- (dialect) Plumbago, graphite.
verb
verb
noun
- In England, an often unleavened cake similar to a crepe.
- (uncountable, theater) A kind of makeup, consisting of a thick layer of a compressed powder.
- (uncountable) Composite leather made of scraps, glue and board, by extension of (4), material originally used for insoles, but later used also for heels and even soles.
- (countable) Anything very thin and flat.
- (countable, juggling) A type of throw, usually with a ring where the prop is thrown in such a way that it rotates round an axis of the diameter of the prop.
- (countable, film, slang) A box on which an actor stands to make them appear taller.
- In the US (and e.g. Scotland), a leavened, thicker, fluffier cake.
- (countable, volleyball) A defensive play in which the ball bounces off the top of a hand that has been pressed flat against the floor.
- a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle
noun
- A small quantity of straw etc.
- (firearms) The firing mechanism.
- Something used for fastening, which can only be opened with a key or combination.
- A segment of a canal or other navigable waterway enclosed by gates, used for raising and lowering boats between levels.
- (computing, by extension) A mutex or other token restricting access to a resource.
- A device for keeping a wheel from turning.
- Something sure to be a success.
- A tuft or length of hair, wool, etc.
- A place impossible to get out of, as by a lock.
- (Scots law, historical) A quantity of meal, the perquisite of a mill-servant.
- Complete control over a situation.
- A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.
- A grapple in wrestling.
- (rugby) A player in the scrum behind the front row, usually the tallest members of the team.
- (gambling) Synonym of Dutch book.
- any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured
- a strand or cluster of hair
- a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun
- a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed
- enclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level; used to raise or lower vessels that pass through it
- a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key
verb
- (intransitive, break dancing) To freeze one's body or a part thereof in place.
- (transitive) To fasten with a lock.
- To seize (e.g. the sword arm of an antagonist) by turning one's left arm around it, to disarm them.
- (transitive) To intertwine or dovetail.
- (intransitive, rugby) To play in the position of lock.
- (Internet, wiki jargon, transitive) To prevent a page from being edited by other users.
- (Internet, transitive) To modify (a thread) so that users cannot make new posts in it.
- (intransitive) To be capable of becoming fastened in place.
- To raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.
- To furnish (a canal) with locks.
- (intransitive) To become fastened in place.
- build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels
- become engaged or intermeshed with one another
- pass by means through a lock in a waterway
- become rigid or immoveable
- keep engaged
- place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape
- fasten with a lock
- hold fast (in a certain state)
- hold in a locking position
noun
- An instrument for crimping or ruffling pastry when making a pie.
- A device for giving hair a wavy appearance.
- A tool used to crimp, to join two pieces of metal.
- Someone who adds pleats to fabric for clothes, drapery, etc.
- A curved board or frame over which the upper of a boot or shoe is stretched to the required shape.
- (chiefly British) A hairdresser.
- A machine for crimping or ruffling textile fabrics.
- A person who crimps when climbing.
- A small climbing hold that can only be held with the tips of a person's fingers.
- a hand tool used for joining two pieces of metal or other ductile material (usually a wire and a metal plate) by deforming one or both of them to hold the other.
- a mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it
- someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or soldiers
noun
- a wooden or plastic board on which dough is kneaded or bread is sliced
- A pull-out cutting board underneath a counter, found in many kitchens.
- A cutting board, especially for cutting bread.
- (electronics) A device used to build a (usually temporary) prototype of an electronic circuit and for experimenting with circuit designs. Both solder and solderless versions are available; the solderless type are easily reusable.
verb
verb
- (transitive) To spread butter on.
- To spin on skis or a snowboard using only the tips or tails being in contact with the snow
- (skiing, snowboarding) To move one's weight backwards or forwards onto the tips or tails of one's skis or snowboard so only the tip or tail is in contact with the snow. Similar to applying butter to bread with the end of a knife.
- spread butter on
noun
- (slang, sometimes attributive) Something that is smooth, impressive, or appealing. (Compare smooth as butter.)
- Any of various substances made from other (especially plant-based) oils or fats, used in moisturizers, cosmetics, etc.
- Someone or something that butts.
- A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk).
- (cooking) Any of various foodstuffs made from other foods or oils, similar in consistency to, eaten like or intended as a substitute for butter (preceded by the name of the food used to make it).
- (aviation, slang) A smooth plane landing.
- Someone or something that butts in; a busybody.
- a fighter who strikes the opponent with their head
- an edible emulsion of fat globules made by churning milk or cream; for cooking and table use
verb
noun
- fine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a cereal grain
- Powder of other material.
- Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, or other foodstuffs such as soybeans and potatoes, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry.
- (US standards of identity) The food made by grinding and bolting cleaned wheat (not durum or red durum) until it meets specified levels of fineness, dryness, and freedom from bran and germ, also containing any of certain enzymes, ascorbic acid, and certain bleaching agents.
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noun
- A quid (chewing preparation) containing these and other plant materials; paan.
- The betel palm, Areca catechu, and in particular its seed, the areca nut or betel nut.
- Either of two (parts of) plants often used in combination:
- An evergreen Indian creeping shrub, Piper betle, whose dried leaves are chewed with betel nut: the betel pepper.
- Asian pepper plant whose leaves are chewed with betel nut (seed of the betel palm) by southeast Asians
- a leaf of a vine from the betel pepper
noun
- A large mould for straining sugar.
- (informal) A child who does not know their father.
- A sword that is midway in length between a short-sword and a long sword; also bastard sword.
- (informal) Something extremely difficult or unpleasant to deal with.
- A kind of sweet wine.
- A mongrel (biological cross between different breeds, groups or varieties).
- (vulgar, offensive or derogatory, usually referring specifically to a man) A contemptible, inconsiderate, overly or arrogantly rude or spiteful person.
- A variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin, fake or counterfeit.
- A writing paper of a particular size.
- An inferior quality of soft brown sugar, obtained from syrups that have been boiled several times.
- A bastard file.
- (UK, politics, derogatory) A Eurosceptic Conservative MP, especially in the government of John Major.
- (often preceded by ‘poor’) A suffering person deemed deserving of compassion.
- (endearing or humorous) A man, a fellow, a male friend.
- derogatory term for a variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin
- the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents
- insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous
adj
- (UK, Ireland, vulgar) Very unpleasant.
- Of or like a bastard (bad person).
- Of or like a mongrel, bastardized creature/cross.
- Spurious, lacking authenticity: counterfeit, fake.
- (of a language) Imperfect; not spoken or written well or in the classical style; broken.
- (theater lighting) Consisting of one predominant color blended with small amounts of complementary color; used to replicate natural light because of their warmer appearance.
- Of abnormal, irregular or otherwise inferior qualities (size, shape etc).
- Used in the vernacular name of a species to indicate that it is similar in some way to another species, often (but not always) one of another genus.
- (printing) Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book.
- Of or like a bastard (illegitimate human descendant).
- fraudulent; having a misleading appearance
intj
noun
- a material used to coat cooking utensils and in industrial applications where sticking is to be avoided
- Multiple film, resin, coatings, fabric and surface protectors made with PTFE (polytetrafluoroethylene) or fluoropolymer and surfactants not made with PTFE.
- Synonym of polytetrafluoroethylene (“PTFE”).
adj
name
noun
- a steady wooden block on which food can be cut or diced or wood can be split
- A thick wooden slab used as a cutting surface for preparing food, splitting firewood or kindling, etc.
- The threat of an impending budget cut.
- (historical, informal) A block of wood against which a condemned person put their head prior to beheading.
- (by extension) A dangerous or precarious situation.
noun
noun
- A kind of apron or pinafore for children.
- (euphemistic) The plimsoll or gym shoe used in this form of punishment.
- (engineering) A piece, usually a plate, applied to a sliding piece, to receive wear and permit adjustment; a gib.
- (footwear) A low soft shoe intended for indoor use; a bedroom slipper or house slipper.
- (footwear, US, Hawaii, India, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore) A flip-flop (type of rubber sandal).
- A kind of brake or shoe for a wagon wheel.
- A form of corporal punishment where the buttocks are repeatedly struck with a plimsoll; "the slipper".
- A person or creature that slips.
- (medicine) A kind of bedpan urinal shaped somewhat like a slipper.
- (footwear) A low soft shoe that can be slipped on and off easily.
- a person who slips or slides because of loss of traction
- low footwear that can be slipped on and off easily; usually worn indoors
verb
noun
- A sieve-like, slotted spoon.
- Synonym of water strider.
- A loose-fitting one-piece dress, similar to a shift but with slightly more fitting.
- Any of three species of bird, in the genus Rynchops of the family Laridae, that feed by skimming the surface of water bodies with their bills in flight.
- A ballet flat shoe.
- Any of several large bivalve shells, sometimes used for skimming milk, such as the sea clam (Spisula solidissima) and large scallops.
- (naval) A sailor in the surface forces, as opposed to a submariner.
- (science fiction) A small, fast-moving spacecraft.
- (naval) A surface ship.
- (entomology) Any of the dragonflies in the family Libellulidae.
- A person who skims.
- A device for removing organic matter from an aquarium.
- (crime) A device used to read and record the magnetic code from a credit card for later fraudulent use.
- a rapid superficial reader
- gull-like seabird that flies along the surface of the water with an elongated lower mandible immersed to skim out food
- a stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown
- a cooking utensil used to skim fat from the surface of liquids
verb
noun
- A kind of goad or stick with an iron point.
- A female chaperone who accompanies a man, and is usually not married to him.
- A man's personal male attendant, responsible for his clothes and appearance.
- (professional wrestling) A female performer in professional wrestling, acting as either a manager or personal chaperone; often used to attract and titillate male members of the audience.
- A person employed to assist the jockey and trainer at a racecourse.
- (US) A person employed to clean or park cars.
- A hotel employee performing such duties for guests.
- A wooden stand on which to hold clothes and accessories in preparation for dressing.
- a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to their employer
verb
noun
verb
noun
- a wad of something chewable as tobacco
- biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow
- (informal, uncountable) Chewing tobacco.
- The act of chewing; mastication with the mouth.
- (uncountable, informal) The condition of something being torn or ground up mechanically.
- Level of chewiness.
- A small sweet, such as a taffy, that is eaten by chewing.
- (countable) A plug or wad of chewing tobacco; chaw or a chaw.
verb
- chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth
- (informal) To think about something; to ponder; to chew over.
- To crush with the teeth by repeated closing and opening of the jaws; done to food to soften it and break it down by the action of saliva before it is swallowed.
- To grind, tear, or otherwise degrade or demolish something with teeth or as with teeth.
noun
verb
noun
- a wad of something chewable as tobacco
- blatant or sensational promotion
- an upright hydrant for drawing water to use in fighting a fire
- electrical device that fits into the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine and ignites the gas by means of an electric spark
- an old or over-worked horse
- blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly
- an electrical device with two or three pins that is inserted in a socket to make an electrical connection
- (geology) A body of once molten rock that hardened in a volcanic vent. Usually round or oval in shape.
- (aviation) A standard, modular fuselage component that can be added or removed.
- (fishing) A type of lure consisting of a rigid, buoyant or semi-buoyant body and one or more hooks.
- (slang) A drug dealer.
- A branch from a water-pipe to supply a hose.
- (jewelry) A short cylindrical piece of jewellery commonly worn in larger-gauge body piercings, especially in the ear.
- (US, slang) A high, tapering silk hat.
- Ellipsis of spark plug.
- (slang) A promotion (act of promoting) of a product (such as a book, film or play) or other thing, concept, etc, for example during an interview or a commercial.
- (loosely) An electric socket: wall plug.
- (US) A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco.
- Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole.
- (horticulture) A small seedling grown in a tray from expanded polystyrene or polythene filled usually with a peat or compost substrate.
- A growth of protoplasm that closes the pore openings in the cells of certain algae.
- Ellipsis of fireplug (“fire hydrant”).
- (construction) A block of wood let into a wall to afford a hold for nails.
- (US, slang) A worthless horse.
- (electricity) A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket, especially an electrical one.
verb
- make a plug for; praise the qualities or in order to sell or promote
- persist in working hard
- deliver a quick blow to
- fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug
- replace the center of a coin with a baser metal
- insert as a plug
- insert a plug into
- (transitive, slang) To ingest a drug rectally.
- (transitive, slang) To shoot (someone) with a bullet.
- (transitive, slang) To have sex with; to penetrate sexually.
- (intransitive, informal) To persist or continue with something.
- (transitive) To promote (something, especially a product or service); to mention (something) as if promoting or advertising it.
- (transitive) To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.
noun
- a wad of something chewable as tobacco
- something for something; that which a party receives (or is promised) in return for something they do or give or promise
- the basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; equal to 100 pence
- (UK, colloquial) Pound sterling. (usually only used with a whole number of pounds)
- (historical) A sovereign or guinea, that is, a certain coin or amount of money.
- A piece of material for chewing, especially chewing tobacco.
- (US, colloquial) The act of chewing such tobacco.
- (Commonwealth, colloquial, by extension, rare) Dollar, dollars.
- (Ireland, colloquial, by extension) Euro.
- (Ireland, Commonwealth, colloquial, historical) Various national currencies typically known by the name "pound".
- Paired with quo, in reference to the phrase quid pro quo (“this for that”): something offered in exchange for something else.
- The inherent nature of something.
- (US, historical) A member of a section of the Democratic-Republican Party between 1805 and 1811, following John Randolph of Roanoke. (From tertium quid.)
verb
noun
- a wad of something chewable as tobacco
- a small mass of soft material
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
- (slang) A sandwich.
- (slang, vulgar) An ejaculation of semen.
- (mineralogy) Any black manganese oxide or hydroxide mineral rich rock in the oxidized zone of various ore deposits.
- An amorphous, compact mass.
- A substantial pile (normally of money).
- A soft plug or seal, particularly as used between the powder and pellets in a shotgun cartridge, or earlier on the charge of a muzzleloader or cannon.
- (dialect) Plumbago, graphite.
verb
noun
- A small quantity of straw etc.
- (firearms) The firing mechanism.
- Something used for fastening, which can only be opened with a key or combination.
- A segment of a canal or other navigable waterway enclosed by gates, used for raising and lowering boats between levels.
- (computing, by extension) A mutex or other token restricting access to a resource.
- A device for keeping a wheel from turning.
- Something sure to be a success.
- A tuft or length of hair, wool, etc.
- A place impossible to get out of, as by a lock.
- (Scots law, historical) A quantity of meal, the perquisite of a mill-servant.
- Complete control over a situation.
- A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.
- A grapple in wrestling.
- (rugby) A player in the scrum behind the front row, usually the tallest members of the team.
- (gambling) Synonym of Dutch book.
- any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured
- a strand or cluster of hair
- a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun
- a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed
- enclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level; used to raise or lower vessels that pass through it
- a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key
verb
- (intransitive, break dancing) To freeze one's body or a part thereof in place.
- (transitive) To fasten with a lock.
- To seize (e.g. the sword arm of an antagonist) by turning one's left arm around it, to disarm them.
- (transitive) To intertwine or dovetail.
- (intransitive, rugby) To play in the position of lock.
- (Internet, wiki jargon, transitive) To prevent a page from being edited by other users.
- (Internet, transitive) To modify (a thread) so that users cannot make new posts in it.
- (intransitive) To be capable of becoming fastened in place.
- To raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.
- To furnish (a canal) with locks.
- (intransitive) To become fastened in place.
- build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels
- become engaged or intermeshed with one another
- pass by means through a lock in a waterway
- become rigid or immoveable
- keep engaged
- place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape
- fasten with a lock
- hold fast (in a certain state)
- hold in a locking position
noun
- An instrument for crimping or ruffling pastry when making a pie.
- A device for giving hair a wavy appearance.
- A tool used to crimp, to join two pieces of metal.
- Someone who adds pleats to fabric for clothes, drapery, etc.
- A curved board or frame over which the upper of a boot or shoe is stretched to the required shape.
- (chiefly British) A hairdresser.
- A machine for crimping or ruffling textile fabrics.
- A person who crimps when climbing.
- A small climbing hold that can only be held with the tips of a person's fingers.
- a hand tool used for joining two pieces of metal or other ductile material (usually a wire and a metal plate) by deforming one or both of them to hold the other.
- a mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it
- someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or soldiers
verb
noun
- (cooking) A thickener.
- Any flowable suspension of small particles in liquid.
- (agriculture) A mixture of animal waste, other organic material and sometimes water, stored in a slurry pit and used as fertilizer; also used in combination, as pig slurry, etc.
- (mining) Liquid waste from some types of mining, such as mountain top removal mining, usually very toxic and stored nearby in large dams.
- a suspension of insoluble particles (as plaster of Paris or lime or clay etc.) usually in water
adj
noun
- a wooden or plastic board on which dough is kneaded or bread is sliced
- A pull-out cutting board underneath a counter, found in many kitchens.
- A cutting board, especially for cutting bread.
- (electronics) A device used to build a (usually temporary) prototype of an electronic circuit and for experimenting with circuit designs. Both solder and solderless versions are available; the solderless type are easily reusable.
verb
verb
noun
- a food rich in sugar
- the act of creating something (a medicine or drink or soup etc.) by compounding or mixing a variety of components
- The act or process of confecting; the process of making, compounding, or preparing something.
- A food item prepared very sweet, frequently decorated in fine detail, and often preserved with sugar, such as a candy, sweetmeat, fruit preserve, pastry, or cake.
- The result of such a process; something made up or confected; a concoction.
verb
verb
verb
noun
- baker's yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae
- Candida, a ubiquitous fungus that can cause various kinds of infections in humans.
- brewer's yeast, certain species of Saccharomyces, principally Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Saccharomyces carlsbergensis.
- An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread, and also used in certain medicines.
- (figuratively) A frothy foam.
- A compressed cake or dried granules of this substance used for mixing with flour to make bread dough rise.
- A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families.
- The resulting infection, candidiasis.
- a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey
- any of various single-celled fungi that reproduce asexually by budding or division
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
noun
- A thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, or butter, that is made into a particular form and then baked.
- (US military slang, countable) Clipping of doughboy (“an infantryman”).
- (slang) Money.
- informal terms for money
- a flour mixture stiff enough to knead or roll
verb
- (transitive) To bake (fish, etc.) on a piece of cedar lumber.
- (intransitive) To pose for a photograph while lying rigid, face down, arms at side, in an unusual place.
- To splice together the ends of slivers of wool, for subsequent drawing.
- (transitive) To cover something with planking.
- (transitive) To harden, as hat bodies, by felting.
- (transitive, colloquial) To lay down, as on a plank or table; to stake or pay cash.
- cook and serve on a plank
- set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise
- cover with planks
noun
- (figurative) A political issue that is of concern to a faction or a party of the people and the political position that is taken on that issue.
- Physical exercise in which one holds a pushup position for a measured length of time.
- That which supports or upholds.
- A long, broad and thick piece of timber, as opposed to a board which is less thick.
- (British, slang) A stupid person, idiot.
- a stout length of sawn timber; made in a wide variety of sizes and used for many purposes
- an endorsed policy in the platform of a political party
verb
noun
- (petrochemistry, organic chemistry) Any member of the alkane hydrocarbons.
- (UK, Ireland) A petroleum-based thin and colourless fuel oil.
- Paraffin wax.
- (British usage) kerosine
- from crude petroleum; used for candles and for preservative or waterproof coatings
- a series of non-aromatic saturated hydrocarbons with the general formula CnH(2n+2)
verb
noun
- (colloquial, endearing) Term of endearment.
- (vulgar, slang) The vulva or vagina; pubic hair around it.
- (ice hockey, slang) A very weak shot in ice hockey where the puck does not travel fast.
- (Java programming language) A mechanism used in the Java Network Launching Protocol analogous to the cookie mechanism and which permits a program running in a browser to perform operations on a client machine.
- (British) A type of flattish bun, usually cut in two horizontally, toasted and spread with butter, etc., before being eaten.
- (dated or LGBTQ slang) A charming, attractive young man.
- (UK dialect, Northern England, especially Manchester) A roll, bap or cob, which may or may not be flat or toasted.
- A cupcake-shaped baked good (for example of cornbread, banana bread, or a chocolate dough), sometimes glazed but typically without frosting, eaten especially for breakfast (in contrast to a cupcake, which is a dessert).
- (baseball, slang) A less talented player; one who muffs, or drops the ball.
- a sweet quick bread baked in a cup-shaped pan
verb
noun
- A cat having orange- or ginger-colored fur.
- A kind of jam made with citrus fruit, distinguished by being made slightly bitter by the addition of the peel and by partial caramelisation during manufacture. Most commonly made with Seville oranges, and usually qualified by the name of the fruit when made with other types of fruit.
- a preserve made of the pulp and rind of citrus fruits
verb
noun
- (cooking) A thickener.
- Any flowable suspension of small particles in liquid.
- (agriculture) A mixture of animal waste, other organic material and sometimes water, stored in a slurry pit and used as fertilizer; also used in combination, as pig slurry, etc.
- (mining) Liquid waste from some types of mining, such as mountain top removal mining, usually very toxic and stored nearby in large dams.
- a suspension of insoluble particles (as plaster of Paris or lime or clay etc.) usually in water
adj
verb
- To put (something) into a pot.
- (electronics) To package a circuit by encasing it in resin.
- (transitive, British) To seat a person, usually a young child, on a potty or toilet, typically during toilet teaching.
- (transitive) To drain (e.g. sugar of the molasses) in a perforated cask.
- (snooker, pool, billiards, transitive) To cause a ball to fall into a pocket.
- (chiefly East Midlands) To apply a plaster cast to a broken limb.
- (rugby, transitive) To score (a drop goal).
- (transitive) To shoot with a firearm.
- To preserve by bottling or canning.
- (transitive, colloquial) To secure; gain; win; bag.
- (British) To send someone to jail, expeditiously.
- To catch (a fish, eel, etc) via a pot.
- (snooker, pool, billiards, intransitive) To be capable of being potted.
- (slang, broadcasting) To fade volume in or out by means of a potentiometer.
- plant in a pot
noun
- (UK, horse-racing, slang) A favorite: a heavily-backed horse.
- (historical) Any of various traditional units of volume notionally based on the capacity of a pot.
- (slang, uncountable) Ruin or deterioration.
- A vessel used for brewing or serving drinks: a coffeepot or teapot.
- A crucible: a melting pot.
- A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food, possibly excluding saucepans (see usage notes).
- (slang, electronics) A simple electromechanical device used to control resistance or voltage (often to adjust sound volume) in an electronic device by rotating or sliding when manipulated by a human thumb, screwdriver, etc.
- (slang, uncountable) Marijuana.
- (chiefly East Midlands, Yorkshire) A plaster cast.
- (rail transport) A pot-shaped non-conducting (usually ceramic) stand that supports an electrified rail while insulating it from the ground.
- (roleplaying games, video games) Clipping of potion.
- (slang) Clipping of potbelly (“a pot-shaped belly, a paunch”).
- A perforated cask for draining sugar.
- A vessel (usually earthenware) used with a seal for storing food, such as a honeypot.
- (Maine) A pot-shaped trap used for catching lobsters or other seafood: a lobster pot.
- (archaic except in place names) Pothole, sinkhole, vertical cave.
- An allocation of money for a particular purpose.
- (historical) Alternative form of pott: a former size of paper, 12.5 × 15 inches.
- A shallow hole used in certain games played with marbles. The marbles placed in it are called potsies.
- (Australia, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania) A glass of beer in Australia whose size varies regionally but is typically around 10 fl oz (285 mL).
- (historical) An iron hat with a broad brim worn as a helmet.
- A pot-shaped metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney: a chimney pot.
- (gambling, poker) The money available to be won in a hand of poker or a round of other games of chance; (figuratively) any sum of money being used as an enticement.
- (slang) Clipping of potshot (“a haphazard shot; an easy or cheap shot”).
- A vessel used to hold soil for growing plants, particularly flowers: a flowerpot.
- the quantity contained in a pot
- the cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker)
- a container in which plants are cultivated
- street names for marijuana
- slang for a paunch
- metal or earthenware cooking vessel that is usually round and deep; often has a handle and lid
- a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
- a resistor with three terminals, the third being an adjustable center terminal; used to adjust voltages in radios and TV sets
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
verb
verb
noun
- In England, an often unleavened cake similar to a crepe.
- (uncountable, theater) A kind of makeup, consisting of a thick layer of a compressed powder.
- (uncountable) Composite leather made of scraps, glue and board, by extension of (4), material originally used for insoles, but later used also for heels and even soles.
- (countable) Anything very thin and flat.
- (countable, juggling) A type of throw, usually with a ring where the prop is thrown in such a way that it rotates round an axis of the diameter of the prop.
- (countable, film, slang) A box on which an actor stands to make them appear taller.
- In the US (and e.g. Scotland), a leavened, thicker, fluffier cake.
- (countable, volleyball) A defensive play in which the ball bounces off the top of a hand that has been pressed flat against the floor.
- a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle
verb
- (transitive) To spread butter on.
- To spin on skis or a snowboard using only the tips or tails being in contact with the snow
- (skiing, snowboarding) To move one's weight backwards or forwards onto the tips or tails of one's skis or snowboard so only the tip or tail is in contact with the snow. Similar to applying butter to bread with the end of a knife.
- spread butter on
noun
- (slang, sometimes attributive) Something that is smooth, impressive, or appealing. (Compare smooth as butter.)
- Any of various substances made from other (especially plant-based) oils or fats, used in moisturizers, cosmetics, etc.
- Someone or something that butts.
- A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk).
- (cooking) Any of various foodstuffs made from other foods or oils, similar in consistency to, eaten like or intended as a substitute for butter (preceded by the name of the food used to make it).
- (aviation, slang) A smooth plane landing.
- Someone or something that butts in; a busybody.
- a fighter who strikes the opponent with their head
- an edible emulsion of fat globules made by churning milk or cream; for cooking and table use
verb
noun
- fine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a cereal grain
- Powder of other material.
- Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, or other foodstuffs such as soybeans and potatoes, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry.
- (US standards of identity) The food made by grinding and bolting cleaned wheat (not durum or red durum) until it meets specified levels of fineness, dryness, and freedom from bran and germ, also containing any of certain enzymes, ascorbic acid, and certain bleaching agents.