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noun
- an uncalled-for burden
- An unwelcome burden, presence, or obligation.
- the act of imposing something (as a tax or an embargo)
- (UK, school or university slang) A task imposed on a student as punishment.
- (religion) A practice of laying hands on a person in a religious ceremony; used e.g. in confirmation and ordination.
- A trick or deception put or laid on others.
- (printing) Arrangement of a printed product’s pages on the printer's sheet so as to have the pages in proper order in the final product.
- The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like.
- That which is imposed, levied, or enjoined.
noun
- Something that encumbers; a burden that must be carried.
- an onerous or difficult concern
- The state or condition of being encumbered.
- Alternative spelling of incumbrance (“in law: interest attached to a title; dependent”).
- a charge against property (as a lien or mortgage)
- any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome
verb
noun
verb
noun
verb
- fill to excess so that function is impaired
- become overloaded
- place too much a load on
- (intransitive) To fail due to excessive load.
- (transitive, object-oriented programming) To create different functions for the same name, to be used in different contexts.
- (transitive) To provide too much power to a circuit.
- (transitive) To load excessively.
verb
- load or burden; encumber
- put a saddle on
- impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to
- To put a saddle on an animal.
- (often passive voice) Chiefly followed by with: to burden or encumber (someone) with some problem or responsibility.
- To put (something) on to another thing like a saddle on an animal.
- Chiefly followed by on or upon: to place (a burden or responsibility) or thrust (a problem) on someone.
- (woodworking) To cut a saddle-shaped notch in (a log or other piece of wood) so it can fit together with other such logs or pieces; also, to fit (logs or other pieces of wood) together with this method.
- To put a saddle (noun sense 1) on (an animal).
- Of a person: to get into a saddle.
- To enter (a trained horse) into a race.
noun
- a seat for the rider of a horse or other animal
- a piece of leather across the instep of a shoe
- cut of meat (especially mutton or lamb) consisting of part of the backbone and both loins
- a pass or ridge that slopes gently between two peaks (is shaped like a saddle)
- a seat for the rider of a bicycle
- posterior part of the back of a domestic fowl
- A cushion used as a seat in a cart or other vehicle.
- (chiefly Australia, mining) Synonym of saddle reef (“a saddle-shaped bedded mineral (usually gold-bearing quartz) vein occurring along the crest of an anticline or (less common) a syncline (an inverted saddle)”).
- The part of a guitar which supports the strings and, in an acoustic guitar, transfers their vibrations through the bridge to the soundboard.
- A similar implement used to secure goods to animals; a packsaddle.
- Synonym of saddle brown (“a medium brown colour, like that of saddle leather”).
- The clitellum of an earthworm (family Lumbricidae).
- (dentistry) The part of a denture which holds the artificial teeth.
- A low point, in the shape of a saddle, between two hills.
- (construction) The threshold, the raised floorboard in a doorway.
- In full saddle marking or saddle patch: a saddle-like marking on an animal, such as one on the back of an adult harp seal or saddleback seal (Pagophilus groenlandicus), or any of numerous such markings on a boa constrictor (Boa constrictor).
- (broadcasting) A timeslot between two popular programmes, in which another programme can be scheduled to encourage people to watch it.
- A cut of meat that includes both loins and part of the backbone.
- A seat for a rider, typically made of leather and raised in the front and rear, placed on the back of a horse or other animal, and secured by a strap around the animal's body.
- Chiefly preceded by the: horse-riding as an activity or occupation.
- (geology) An anticline (“fold with strata sloping downwards on each side”); specifically, a depression located along the axial trend of such a fold.
- The lower part of the back of a domestic fowl, especially a male bird, bearing the saddle feathers or saddle hackles.
- Synonym of saddle oxford or saddle shoe (“a shoe, resembling an oxford, which has a saddle (sense 11.1)”).
- (engineering) An equipment part, such as a flange, which is hollowed out to fit upon a convex surface and serve as a means of attachment or support.
- A piece of leather stitched across the instep of a shoe, usually having a different colour from the rest of the shoe.
- (geometry) Synonym of saddle point (“a point in the range of a smooth function, every neighbourhood of which contains points on each side of its tangent plane”).
- A small object (traditionally made of ebony) at the bottom of a string instrument such as a cello, viola, or violin below the tailpiece on which the tailgut (“cord securing the tailpiece to the instrument”) rests.
- The immovable seat of a bicycle, motorcycle, or similar vehicle.
- (nautical) A block of wood with concave depressions at the top and bottom, usually fastened to one spar and shaped to receive the end of another.
- Synonym of harness saddle (“the part of a harness which supports the weight of poles or shafts attaching a vehicle to a horse or other animal”).
noun
- A burden; a weight to be carried.
- an onerous or difficult concern
- A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar.
- (engineering) The force exerted on a structural component such as a beam, girder, cable etc.
- (vulgar, slang) The contents (e.g. semen) of an ejaculation.
- (in combination) Used to form nouns that indicate a large quantity, often corresponding to the capacity of a vehicle
- The charge of powder for a firearm; a loaded cartridge or round of ammunition.
- A unit of measure for various quantities.
- (computing) The process of loading something, i.e. transferring it into memory or over a network, etc.
- (euphemistic) Nonsense; rubbish.
- Ellipsis of viral load.
- (engineering) A resistive force encountered by a prime mover when performing work.
- The volume of work required to be performed.
- (figuratively) A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind.
- A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time.
- A quantity of washing put into a washing machine for a wash cycle.
- (electrical engineering) Any component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit.
- (Philippines) prepaid phone credit
- (often in the plural, colloquial) A large number or amount.
- (vulgar, slang) defecation
- (electrical engineering) The electrical current or power delivered by a device.
- weight to be borne or conveyed
- a quantity that can be processed or transported at one time
- electrical device to which electrical power is delivered
- the power output of a generator or power plant
- a deposit of valuable ore occurring within definite boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks
- the front part of a guided missile or rocket or torpedo that carries the nuclear or explosive charge or the chemical or biological agents
- an amount of alcohol sufficient to intoxicate
- goods carried by a large vehicle
verb
- (intransitive) To be placed into storage or conveyance.
- (transitive) To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition.
- (intransitive) To be put into use in an apparatus.
- (transitive) To provide in abundance.
- (transitive) To place in or on a conveyance or a place of storage.
- (intransitive) To receive a load.
- (transitive) To fill (an apparatus) with raw material.
- (transitive) To encumber with something negative, to place as an encumbrance.
- (transitive, computing) To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.
- (Philippines) to top up or purchase phone credits
- (transitive) To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).
- (intransitive, computing) To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.
- (transitive) To tamper with so as to produce a biased outcome.
- (intransitive) To put a load on something.
- (transitive) To insert (an item or items) into an apparatus so as to ready it for operation, such as a reel of film into a camera, sheets of paper into a printer etc.
- (transitive) To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way.
- (transitive) To weight (a cane, whip, etc.) with lead or similar.
- (transitive, baseball) To put runners on first, second and third bases
- corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
- transfer from a storage device to a computer's memory
- put (something) on a structure or conveyance
- fill or place a load on
- provide (a device) with something necessary
noun
verb
- (ambitransitive) To charge (somebody) more money than the correct amount or to surpass a certain limit while charging a bill.
- (transitive) To continue to charge (an electrical device) beyond its capacity.
- To charge (someone) with an inflated number or degree of legal charges (for example, charging them with a more serious crime than was committed); to upcharge.
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- place too much a load on
verb
- carry a burden, either real or metaphoric
- lift onto one's shoulders
- push with the shoulders
- (transitive) To push (a person or thing) using one's shoulder.
- (transitive) To form a shape resembling a shoulder.
- (transitive, by extension) To bully, manipulate or pull rank on (somebody).
- (transitive, figuratively) To accept responsibility for.
- (transitive) To round and slightly raise the top edges of slate shingles so that they form a tighter fit at the lower edge and can be swung aside to expose the nail.
- (transitive) To place (something) against one's shoulders.
- (transitive) To put (something) on one's shoulders.
- (intransitive) To slope downwards from the crest and whitewater portion of a wave.
- (intransitive) To move by or as if by using one's shoulders.
- (transitive, figuratively) To bear a burden, as a financial obligation.
noun
- a ball-and-socket joint between the head of the humerus and a cavity of the scapula
- a narrow edge of land (usually unpaved) along the side of a road
- the part of the body between the neck and the upper arm
- a cut of meat including the upper joint of the foreleg
- the part of a garment that covers or fits over the shoulder
- The angle of a bastion included between the face and flank.
- A cut of meat comprising the upper joint of the foreleg and the surrounding muscle.
- (music) The rounded portion of a stringed instrument where the neck joins the body.
- The portion of a garment where the shoulder is clothed.
- The part of a key between the cuts and the bow.
- (figurative) That which supports or sustains; support.
- The portion of a hill or mountain just below the peak.
- (printing) The flat portion of type that is below the bevelled portion that joins up with the face.
- (firearms) The angled section between the neck and the main body of a cartridge.
- The part of the human torso forming a relatively horizontal surface running away from the neck.
- (aviation) A season or a time of day when there is relatively little air traffic.
- A lateral protrusion of a hill or mountain.
- (anatomy) The joint between the arm and the torso, sometimes including the surrounding muscles, tendons, and ligaments.
- (surfing) The part of a wave that has not yet broken.
- The rounded portion of a bottle where the neck meets the body.
- Anything forming a shape resembling a human shoulder.
- An abrupt projection which forms an abutment on an object, or limits motion, etc., such as the projection around a tenon at the end of a piece of timber.
- A usually unsealed strip of land bordering a road, where vehicles can drive or park in an emergency.
noun
- (countable) A burden, a load.
- (countable) Payment for transportation.
- (countable, originally US, rail transport) Ellipsis of freight train.
- (specifically, uncountable) Cultural or emotional associations.
- (uncountable) The transportation of goods (originally by water; now also (chiefly US) by land); also, the hiring of a vehicle or vessel for such transportation.
- (uncountable) Goods or items in transport; cargo, luggage.
- the charge for transporting something by common carrier
- transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates
- goods carried by a large vehicle
verb
- To transport (goods).
- (by extension) To load or store (goods, etc.).
- (figuratively) To carry (something) as if it is a burden or load.
- (intransitive, US, also figuratively) Chiefly followed by up: to carry as part of a cargo.
- To load (a vehicle or vessel) with freight (cargo); also, to hire or rent out (a vehicle or vessel) to carry cargo or passengers.
- transport commercially as cargo
- load with goods for transportation
verb
- To put excessive burdens upon (someone); to subject (someone) to anxieties.
- (specifically) To persistently bother (someone, or a group of people) physically or psychologically when such behaviour is illegal and/or unwanted, especially over an extended period.
- To trouble (someone, or a group of people) through repeated military-style attacks.
- To annoy (someone) frequently or systematically; to pester.
- annoy continually or chronically
- exhaust by attacking repeatedly
noun
- (figurative) Pressure; burden.
- (sometimes specifically) Ellipsis of free weight, as contrasted with the weights inside an exercise machine.
- (statistics) A variable which multiplies a value for ease of statistical manipulation.
- The downwards force an object experiences due to gravity.
- (slang, uncountable) Shipments of (often illegal) drugs.
- (figurative) Importance or influence.
- (slang, countable) One pound of drugs, especially cannabis.
- (physics) Mass (atomic weight, molecular weight, etc.) (in restricted circumstances).
- A standardized block of metal used in a balance to measure the mass of another object.
- (visual art) The illusion of mass.
- (measurement) Mass (net weight, troy weight, carat weight, etc.).
- (lubricants) Viscosity rating.
- The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.
- (visual art) The thickness and opacity of paint.
- (topology) The smallest cardinality of a base.
- Weight class
- (typography) The boldness of a font; the relative thickness of its strokes.
- The thickness of yarn.
- (especially in computing, machine learning) Emphasis applied to a given criterion.
- (exercise, weightlifting) An object, such as a weight plate or barbell, used for strength training.
- An object used to make something heavier.
- (visual art) The relative thickness of a drawn rule or painted brushstroke, line weight.
- (physics, proscribed) Synonym of mass (in general circumstances).
- (statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance
- the relative importance granted to something
- a unit used to measure weight
- a system of units used to express the weight of something
- an artifact that is heavy
- an oppressive feeling of heavy force
- sports equipment used in calisthenic exercises and weightlifting; it is not attached to anything and is raised and lowered by use of the hands and arms
- the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity
verb
- (transitive, sports) To give a certain amount of force to a throw, kick, hit, etc.
- (transitive) To load, burden or oppress someone.
- (transitive) To bias something; to slant.
- (transitive) To add weight to something; to make something heavier.
- (transitive, mathematics) To assign weights to individual statistics.
- (transitive, horse racing) To handicap a horse with a specified weight.
- (transitive, dyeing) To load (fabrics) with barite, etc. to increase the weight.
- present with a bias
- weight down with a load
adj
- Laden with that which is weighty; encumbered; burdened; bowed down, either with an actual burden, or with grief, pain, disappointment, etc.
- Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive.
- full of; bearing great weight
- (of a person) Heavyset: overweight.
- Not raised or leavened.
- (of weather) Hot and humid.
- Of great force, power, or intensity; deep or intense.
- (of any physical thing) Having great weight.
- (oil industry) Of petroleum, having high viscosity.
- (of a topic) Serious, somber.
- (nautical, military) Heavily-armed.
- (of music) Loud, distorted, or intense.
- (of wines or spirits) Having much body or strength.
- (physics) Containing one or more isotopes that are heavier than the normal one.
- (aviation, of an aircraft) Having a relatively high takeoff weight and payload.
- (of food) High in fat or protein; difficult to digest.
- (of the eyes) With eyelids difficult to keep open due to tiredness.
- Doing the specified activity more intensely than most other people.
- (slang) Armed.
- (finance) Of a market: in which the price of shares is declining.
- Having the heaves.
- Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid.
- Having a maximum takeoff weight exceeding 300,000 tons, as almost all widebodies do, generating high wake turbulence.
- (of a rate of flow) High, great.
- Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey.
- given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors
- of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought
- in an advanced stage of pregnancy
- unusually great in degree or quantity or number
- slow and laborious because of weight
- prodigious
- of relatively large extent and density
- full and loud and deep
- usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it
- of comparatively great physical weight or density
- darkened by clouds
- (of an actor or role) being or playing the villain
- (of sleep) deep and complete
- sharply inclined
- dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal
- (used of soil) compact and fine-grained
- marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness
- (physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight
- requiring or showing effort
- made of fabric having considerable thickness
- large and powerful; especially designed for heavy loads or rough work
- permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter
- of the military or industry; using (or being) the heaviest and most powerful armaments or weapons or equipment
- lacking lightness or liveliness
- of great intensity or power or force
- characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
adv
noun
- (journalism, slang, chiefly in the plural) A newspaper of the quality press.
- (aviation) A relatively large multi-engined aircraft.
- (slang) A doorman, bouncer or bodyguard.
- (slang) A villain or bad guy; the one responsible for evil or aggressive acts.
- (military, historical) A member of the heavy cavalry.
- A prominent figure; a "major player".
- an actor who plays villainous roles
- a serious (or tragic) role in a play
verb
noun
- A heavy load.
- an onerous or difficult concern
- A responsibility, onus.
- (medicine) The total amount of toxins, parasites, cancer cells, plaque or similar present in an organism.
- (music) A phrase or theme that recurs at the end of each verse in a folk song or ballad.
- (metalworking) The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.
- Theme, core idea.
- (mining) The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.
- A cause of worry; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.
- A fixed quantity of certain commodities.
- The drone of a bagpipe.
- The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry.
- (blasting) The distance between rows of blastholes parallel to the major free face (i.e. face of the excavation)
- weight to be borne or conveyed
- the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
- the central idea that is expanded in a document or discourse
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adj
noun
- (figurative, uncountable) A burdensome demand;
- Money or goods collected by a government (or an entity to whom the government has delegated this power, e.g. in tax farming) to fund itself and its services, for example by levying a charge on income, purchases (sales), property or harvest, other than that money which is collected by the government in exchange for specific goods (e.g. the purchase of surplus vehicles).
- A charge (of money, food, labor, etc) collected by a person, organization, etc; something required (exacted) from someone who is (really or notionally) under the control of the taxer, such as a contribution or service.
- charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government
verb
- (transitive) To impose and collect a tax from (a person or company).
- (transitive) To make excessive demands on.
- (transitive) To examine accounts in order to allow or disallow items.
- (transitive) To accuse.
- (transitive) To impose and collect a tax on (something).
- set or determine the amount of (a payment such as a fine)
- make a charge against or accuse
- levy a tax on
- use to the limit
adj
- Burdened by some heavy load; packed.
- Weighted with lead or similar.
- (baseball) Pertaining to a situation where there is a runner at each of the three bases.
- (of an item offered for sale, especially an automobile) Equipped with numerous options.
- (slang) Drunk.
- (of a projectile weapon) Having a live round of ammunition in the chamber.
- (food, colloquial) Covered with a topping or toppings; especially, covered with all available toppings that are offered as options for the dish.
- (colloquial) Possessing great wealth.
- (dice games, also figurative) Of a die or dice: weighted asymmetrically, and so biased to produce predictable throws.
- (of a question) Designed to produce a predictable answer, or to lay a trap.
- (of a word or phrase) Having strong connotations that colour the literal meaning and are likely to provoke an emotional response. Sometimes used loosely to describe a word that simply has many different meanings.
- having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value
- very drunk
- (of weapons) charged with ammunition
- filled with a great quantity
- (of statements or questions) charged with associative significance and often meant to mislead or influence
verb
name
noun
- a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables
- low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog
- An area of wet (water-saturated), spongy (soft) land, often with trees, generally a rich ecosystem for certain plants and animals but ill-suited for many agricultural purposes. (A type of wetland. Compare marsh, bog, fen.)
- (figurative) A place or situation that is foul or where progress is difficult.
- (US, politics) The alleged corruption, cronyism, inefficiency, and entrenched interests in the federal government, especially in Washington, DC.
verb
- drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged
- fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
- (figurative) To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of.
- To drench or fill with water.
- (figurative) To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
- (Appalachia) To clear (a road or an area) of brush, particularly so as to create a path for loggers to be able to access trees.
noun
- an onerous or difficult concern
- a charge against property (as a lien or mortgage)
- any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome
- Alternative form of encumbrance (“that which encumbers”).
- (property law) An interest, right, burden, or liability attached to a title of land, such as a lien or mortgage.
- (law) One who is dependent on another.
verb
adj
- (of a person) Having a higher weight, especially body fat, than what is generally considered healthy for a given body type and height.
- (investment, finance, followed by a noun or prepositional phrase indicating a security or type of security) Having a portfolio relatively heavily invested in.
- (transport, law, of a vehicle) Weighing more than what is allowed for safety or legal commerce.
- usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it
noun
adj
- involved in difficulties
- deeply involved especially in something complicated
- twisted together in a tangled mass
- Tangled or twisted together.
- (quantum mechanics, of two quantum states) Correlated, even though physically separated; (referring to a state of a composite system) not separable.
- (figurative) Confused or complicated.
verb
noun
- A difficult situation.
- The swelling of the bulbus glandis in members of the dog family, Canidae.
- The whorl left in lumber by the base of a branch growing out of the tree's trunk.
- (aviation) A unit of indicated airspeed, calibrated airspeed, or equivalent airspeed, which varies in its relation to the unit of speed so as to compensate for the effects of different ambient atmospheric conditions on aircraft performance.
- The point on which the action of a story depends; the gist of a matter.
- Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.
- A group of people or things.
- A bond of union; a connection; a tie.
- A kind of epaulet; a shoulder knot.
- One of a variety of shore birds; red-breasted sandpiper (variously Calidris canutus or Tringa canutus).
- (nautical) A nautical mile.
- (aviation, nautical) A unit of speed, equal to one nautical mile per hour.
- A tightened and contracted part of a muscle that feels like a hard lump under the skin.
- A looping of a piece of string or of any other long, flexible material that cannot be untangled without passing one or both ends of the material through its loops.
- (slang) The bulbus glandis.
- A protuberant joint in a plant.
- A tangled clump of hair or similar.
- Any knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance.
- (engineering) A node (point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions)
- A maze-like pattern.
- (mathematics) A non-self-intersecting closed curve in (e.g., three-dimensional) space that is an abstraction of a knot (in sense 1 above).
- any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object
- soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design
- (of ships and wind) a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour or about 1.15 statute miles per hour
- a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged
- a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the Southern Hemisphere
- a tight cluster of people or things
- something twisted and tight and swollen
verb
- (transitive) To form wrinkles in the forehead, as a sign of concentration, concern, surprise, etc.
- To unite closely; to knit together.
- (intransitive) To form knots.
- (transitive) To form into a knot; to tie with a knot or knots.
- (intransitive) To knit knots for a fringe.
- tie or fasten into a knot
- make into knots; make knots out of
- tangle or complicate
noun
- A difficult situation.
- (soccer) Penalty spot.
- The act of spotting or noticing something.
- (US, advertising) A brief advertisement or program segment on television.
- (sports) An official determination of placement.
- A bright lamp; a spotlight.
- A pimple, papule or pustule.
- A round or irregular patch on the surface of a thing having a different color, texture etc. and generally round in shape.
- A small, unspecified amount or quantity.
- A symbol on a playing card, domino, die, etc. indicating its value; a pip.
- Any of the balls marked with spots in the game of pool, which one player aims to pot, the other player taking the stripes.
- (finance) A decimal point; point.
- A parking space.
- (gymnastics, dance, weightlifting) One who spots (supports or assists a maneuver, or is prepared to assist if safety dictates); a spotter.
- (physics) An autosoliton.
- A location or area.
- Any of various points marked on the table, from which balls are played, in snooker, pool, billiards, etc.
- (slang, US) A bill of five-dollar or ten-dollar denomination in dollars.
- A food fish (Leiostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States, with a black spot behind the shoulders and fifteen oblique dark bars on the sides.
- A stain or disfiguring mark.
- A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above the beak.
- The southern redfish, or red horse (Sciaenops ocellatus), which has a spot on each side at the base of the tail.
- a lamp that produces a strong beam of light to illuminate a restricted area; used to focus attention of a stage performer
- a small piece or quantity of something
- a business establishment for entertainment
- a mark on a die or on a playing card (shape depending on the suit)
- a short section or illustration (as between radio or tv programs or in a magazine) that is often used for advertising
- a point located with respect to surface features of some region
- a blemish made by dirt
- a section of an entertainment that is assigned to a specific performer or performance
- a small contrasting part of something
- an act that brings discredit to the person who does it
- a slight attack of illness
- an outstanding characteristic
- a playing card with a specified number of pips on it to indicate its value
adj
verb
- (transitive, gymnastics, dance, weightlifting, climbing) To support or assist a maneuver, or to be prepared to assist if safety dictates.
- (rail transport, transitive) To position (a locomotive or car) at a predetermined point, e.g., for loading or unloading.
- (dialectal) To rain slightly, in scattered, infrequent drops, for example when first beginning to rain.
- (ambitransitive) To stain; to leave a spot (on).
- (transitive) To remove, or attempt to remove, a stain.
- (transitive, dance) To keep the head and eyes pointing in a single direction while turning.
- (transitive) To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation.
- (transitive, chiefly snooker and billiards) To place (an object) at a location indicated by a spot.
- (US, slang, ditransitive) To loan a small amount of money to someone.
- To experience vaginal spotting; to expel blood from the vagina.
- (intransitive, snooker and billiards) Of a ball, to be capable of being placed on its own spot.
- (aviation, military, transitive) To position (an aircraft) on the deck of an aircraft carrier ready for launch by catapult.
- (transitive) To cut or chip (timber) in preparation for hewing.
- (transitive) To cover with spots, to speckle.
- (transitive) To retouch a photograph on film to remove minor flaws.
- (transitive) To see, find; to pick out, notice, locate, distinguish or identify.
- catch sight of
- mar or impair with a flaw
- mark with a spot or spots so as to allow easy recognition
- detect with the senses
- become spotted
- make a spot or mark onto
noun
- a task to be dealt with
- an offer for a private bargain (especially a request for sexual favors)
- (logic) a statement that affirms or denies something and is either true or false
- a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection
- the act of making a proposal
- (countable) An idea, plan, or suggestion offered.
- (grammar) A complete sentence.
- (countable, mathematics) An assertion which is provably true, but not important enough to be called a theorem.
- (uncountable) The act of offering (an idea) for consideration.
- (poetic) The part of a poem in which the author states the subject or matter of it.
- (countable, business settings) The terms of a transaction offered.
- (countable, US, politics) In some states, a proposed statute or constitutional amendment to be voted on by the electorate.
- A statement of religious doctrine; an article of faith; a creed.
- (countable, logic) The content of an assertion that may be taken as being true or false and is considered abstractly without reference to the linguistic sentence that constitutes the assertion; (Aristotelian logic) a predicate of a subject that is denied or affirmed and is connected by a copula.
- (informal) A suggestion of sexual intercourse (made to someone with whom one is not sexually involved).
- Misspelling of preposition.
- (countable, mathematics, philosophy) An assertion so formulated that it can be considered true or false.
verb
verb
- To weigh down, oppress, or burden.
- (nautical) To admit water by leakage.
- To use a ladle or dipper to remove something (generally water).
- To fill or load (related to cargo or a shipment).
- To transfer (molten glass) from the pot to the forming table, in making plate glass.
- fill or place a load on
- remove with or as if with a ladle
noun
noun
verb
noun
- an uncalled-for burden
- An unwelcome burden, presence, or obligation.
- the act of imposing something (as a tax or an embargo)
- (UK, school or university slang) A task imposed on a student as punishment.
- (religion) A practice of laying hands on a person in a religious ceremony; used e.g. in confirmation and ordination.
- A trick or deception put or laid on others.
- (printing) Arrangement of a printed product’s pages on the printer's sheet so as to have the pages in proper order in the final product.
- The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like.
- That which is imposed, levied, or enjoined.
noun
- Something that encumbers; a burden that must be carried.
- an onerous or difficult concern
- The state or condition of being encumbered.
- Alternative spelling of incumbrance (“in law: interest attached to a title; dependent”).
- a charge against property (as a lien or mortgage)
- any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome
verb
noun
verb
noun
verb
- fill to excess so that function is impaired
- become overloaded
- place too much a load on
- (intransitive) To fail due to excessive load.
- (transitive, object-oriented programming) To create different functions for the same name, to be used in different contexts.
- (transitive) To provide too much power to a circuit.
- (transitive) To load excessively.
noun
- A burden; a weight to be carried.
- an onerous or difficult concern
- A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar.
- (engineering) The force exerted on a structural component such as a beam, girder, cable etc.
- (vulgar, slang) The contents (e.g. semen) of an ejaculation.
- (in combination) Used to form nouns that indicate a large quantity, often corresponding to the capacity of a vehicle
- The charge of powder for a firearm; a loaded cartridge or round of ammunition.
- A unit of measure for various quantities.
- (computing) The process of loading something, i.e. transferring it into memory or over a network, etc.
- (euphemistic) Nonsense; rubbish.
- Ellipsis of viral load.
- (engineering) A resistive force encountered by a prime mover when performing work.
- The volume of work required to be performed.
- (figuratively) A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind.
- A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time.
- A quantity of washing put into a washing machine for a wash cycle.
- (electrical engineering) Any component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit.
- (Philippines) prepaid phone credit
- (often in the plural, colloquial) A large number or amount.
- (vulgar, slang) defecation
- (electrical engineering) The electrical current or power delivered by a device.
- weight to be borne or conveyed
- a quantity that can be processed or transported at one time
- electrical device to which electrical power is delivered
- the power output of a generator or power plant
- a deposit of valuable ore occurring within definite boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks
- the front part of a guided missile or rocket or torpedo that carries the nuclear or explosive charge or the chemical or biological agents
- an amount of alcohol sufficient to intoxicate
- goods carried by a large vehicle
verb
- (intransitive) To be placed into storage or conveyance.
- (transitive) To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition.
- (intransitive) To be put into use in an apparatus.
- (transitive) To provide in abundance.
- (transitive) To place in or on a conveyance or a place of storage.
- (intransitive) To receive a load.
- (transitive) To fill (an apparatus) with raw material.
- (transitive) To encumber with something negative, to place as an encumbrance.
- (transitive, computing) To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.
- (Philippines) to top up or purchase phone credits
- (transitive) To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).
- (intransitive, computing) To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.
- (transitive) To tamper with so as to produce a biased outcome.
- (intransitive) To put a load on something.
- (transitive) To insert (an item or items) into an apparatus so as to ready it for operation, such as a reel of film into a camera, sheets of paper into a printer etc.
- (transitive) To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way.
- (transitive) To weight (a cane, whip, etc.) with lead or similar.
- (transitive, baseball) To put runners on first, second and third bases
- corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
- transfer from a storage device to a computer's memory
- put (something) on a structure or conveyance
- fill or place a load on
- provide (a device) with something necessary
noun
verb
- (ambitransitive) To charge (somebody) more money than the correct amount or to surpass a certain limit while charging a bill.
- (transitive) To continue to charge (an electrical device) beyond its capacity.
- To charge (someone) with an inflated number or degree of legal charges (for example, charging them with a more serious crime than was committed); to upcharge.
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- place too much a load on
noun
- (countable) A burden, a load.
- (countable) Payment for transportation.
- (countable, originally US, rail transport) Ellipsis of freight train.
- (specifically, uncountable) Cultural or emotional associations.
- (uncountable) The transportation of goods (originally by water; now also (chiefly US) by land); also, the hiring of a vehicle or vessel for such transportation.
- (uncountable) Goods or items in transport; cargo, luggage.
- the charge for transporting something by common carrier
- transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates
- goods carried by a large vehicle
verb
- To transport (goods).
- (by extension) To load or store (goods, etc.).
- (figuratively) To carry (something) as if it is a burden or load.
- (intransitive, US, also figuratively) Chiefly followed by up: to carry as part of a cargo.
- To load (a vehicle or vessel) with freight (cargo); also, to hire or rent out (a vehicle or vessel) to carry cargo or passengers.
- transport commercially as cargo
- load with goods for transportation
noun
- (figurative) Pressure; burden.
- (sometimes specifically) Ellipsis of free weight, as contrasted with the weights inside an exercise machine.
- (statistics) A variable which multiplies a value for ease of statistical manipulation.
- The downwards force an object experiences due to gravity.
- (slang, uncountable) Shipments of (often illegal) drugs.
- (figurative) Importance or influence.
- (slang, countable) One pound of drugs, especially cannabis.
- (physics) Mass (atomic weight, molecular weight, etc.) (in restricted circumstances).
- A standardized block of metal used in a balance to measure the mass of another object.
- (visual art) The illusion of mass.
- (measurement) Mass (net weight, troy weight, carat weight, etc.).
- (lubricants) Viscosity rating.
- The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.
- (visual art) The thickness and opacity of paint.
- (topology) The smallest cardinality of a base.
- Weight class
- (typography) The boldness of a font; the relative thickness of its strokes.
- The thickness of yarn.
- (especially in computing, machine learning) Emphasis applied to a given criterion.
- (exercise, weightlifting) An object, such as a weight plate or barbell, used for strength training.
- An object used to make something heavier.
- (visual art) The relative thickness of a drawn rule or painted brushstroke, line weight.
- (physics, proscribed) Synonym of mass (in general circumstances).
- (statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance
- the relative importance granted to something
- a unit used to measure weight
- a system of units used to express the weight of something
- an artifact that is heavy
- an oppressive feeling of heavy force
- sports equipment used in calisthenic exercises and weightlifting; it is not attached to anything and is raised and lowered by use of the hands and arms
- the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity
verb
- (transitive, sports) To give a certain amount of force to a throw, kick, hit, etc.
- (transitive) To load, burden or oppress someone.
- (transitive) To bias something; to slant.
- (transitive) To add weight to something; to make something heavier.
- (transitive, mathematics) To assign weights to individual statistics.
- (transitive, horse racing) To handicap a horse with a specified weight.
- (transitive, dyeing) To load (fabrics) with barite, etc. to increase the weight.
- present with a bias
- weight down with a load
noun
- A heavy load.
- an onerous or difficult concern
- A responsibility, onus.
- (medicine) The total amount of toxins, parasites, cancer cells, plaque or similar present in an organism.
- (music) A phrase or theme that recurs at the end of each verse in a folk song or ballad.
- (metalworking) The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.
- Theme, core idea.
- (mining) The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.
- A cause of worry; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.
- A fixed quantity of certain commodities.
- The drone of a bagpipe.
- The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry.
- (blasting) The distance between rows of blastholes parallel to the major free face (i.e. face of the excavation)
- weight to be borne or conveyed
- the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
- the central idea that is expanded in a document or discourse
verb
noun
- (figurative, uncountable) A burdensome demand;
- Money or goods collected by a government (or an entity to whom the government has delegated this power, e.g. in tax farming) to fund itself and its services, for example by levying a charge on income, purchases (sales), property or harvest, other than that money which is collected by the government in exchange for specific goods (e.g. the purchase of surplus vehicles).
- A charge (of money, food, labor, etc) collected by a person, organization, etc; something required (exacted) from someone who is (really or notionally) under the control of the taxer, such as a contribution or service.
- charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government
verb
- (transitive) To impose and collect a tax from (a person or company).
- (transitive) To make excessive demands on.
- (transitive) To examine accounts in order to allow or disallow items.
- (transitive) To accuse.
- (transitive) To impose and collect a tax on (something).
- set or determine the amount of (a payment such as a fine)
- make a charge against or accuse
- levy a tax on
- use to the limit
noun
- a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables
- low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog
- An area of wet (water-saturated), spongy (soft) land, often with trees, generally a rich ecosystem for certain plants and animals but ill-suited for many agricultural purposes. (A type of wetland. Compare marsh, bog, fen.)
- (figurative) A place or situation that is foul or where progress is difficult.
- (US, politics) The alleged corruption, cronyism, inefficiency, and entrenched interests in the federal government, especially in Washington, DC.
verb
- drench or submerge or be drenched or submerged
- fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid
- (figurative) To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of.
- To drench or fill with water.
- (figurative) To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
- (Appalachia) To clear (a road or an area) of brush, particularly so as to create a path for loggers to be able to access trees.
noun
- an onerous or difficult concern
- a charge against property (as a lien or mortgage)
- any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome
- Alternative form of encumbrance (“that which encumbers”).
- (property law) An interest, right, burden, or liability attached to a title of land, such as a lien or mortgage.
- (law) One who is dependent on another.
noun
- A difficult situation.
- The swelling of the bulbus glandis in members of the dog family, Canidae.
- The whorl left in lumber by the base of a branch growing out of the tree's trunk.
- (aviation) A unit of indicated airspeed, calibrated airspeed, or equivalent airspeed, which varies in its relation to the unit of speed so as to compensate for the effects of different ambient atmospheric conditions on aircraft performance.
- The point on which the action of a story depends; the gist of a matter.
- Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.
- A group of people or things.
- A bond of union; a connection; a tie.
- A kind of epaulet; a shoulder knot.
- One of a variety of shore birds; red-breasted sandpiper (variously Calidris canutus or Tringa canutus).
- (nautical) A nautical mile.
- (aviation, nautical) A unit of speed, equal to one nautical mile per hour.
- A tightened and contracted part of a muscle that feels like a hard lump under the skin.
- A looping of a piece of string or of any other long, flexible material that cannot be untangled without passing one or both ends of the material through its loops.
- (slang) The bulbus glandis.
- A protuberant joint in a plant.
- A tangled clump of hair or similar.
- Any knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance.
- (engineering) A node (point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions)
- A maze-like pattern.
- (mathematics) A non-self-intersecting closed curve in (e.g., three-dimensional) space that is an abstraction of a knot (in sense 1 above).
- any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object
- soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design
- (of ships and wind) a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour or about 1.15 statute miles per hour
- a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged
- a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the Southern Hemisphere
- a tight cluster of people or things
- something twisted and tight and swollen
verb
- (transitive) To form wrinkles in the forehead, as a sign of concentration, concern, surprise, etc.
- To unite closely; to knit together.
- (intransitive) To form knots.
- (transitive) To form into a knot; to tie with a knot or knots.
- (intransitive) To knit knots for a fringe.
- tie or fasten into a knot
- make into knots; make knots out of
- tangle or complicate
noun
- A difficult situation.
- (soccer) Penalty spot.
- The act of spotting or noticing something.
- (US, advertising) A brief advertisement or program segment on television.
- (sports) An official determination of placement.
- A bright lamp; a spotlight.
- A pimple, papule or pustule.
- A round or irregular patch on the surface of a thing having a different color, texture etc. and generally round in shape.
- A small, unspecified amount or quantity.
- A symbol on a playing card, domino, die, etc. indicating its value; a pip.
- Any of the balls marked with spots in the game of pool, which one player aims to pot, the other player taking the stripes.
- (finance) A decimal point; point.
- A parking space.
- (gymnastics, dance, weightlifting) One who spots (supports or assists a maneuver, or is prepared to assist if safety dictates); a spotter.
- (physics) An autosoliton.
- A location or area.
- Any of various points marked on the table, from which balls are played, in snooker, pool, billiards, etc.
- (slang, US) A bill of five-dollar or ten-dollar denomination in dollars.
- A food fish (Leiostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States, with a black spot behind the shoulders and fifteen oblique dark bars on the sides.
- A stain or disfiguring mark.
- A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above the beak.
- The southern redfish, or red horse (Sciaenops ocellatus), which has a spot on each side at the base of the tail.
- a lamp that produces a strong beam of light to illuminate a restricted area; used to focus attention of a stage performer
- a small piece or quantity of something
- a business establishment for entertainment
- a mark on a die or on a playing card (shape depending on the suit)
- a short section or illustration (as between radio or tv programs or in a magazine) that is often used for advertising
- a point located with respect to surface features of some region
- a blemish made by dirt
- a section of an entertainment that is assigned to a specific performer or performance
- a small contrasting part of something
- an act that brings discredit to the person who does it
- a slight attack of illness
- an outstanding characteristic
- a playing card with a specified number of pips on it to indicate its value
adj
verb
- (transitive, gymnastics, dance, weightlifting, climbing) To support or assist a maneuver, or to be prepared to assist if safety dictates.
- (rail transport, transitive) To position (a locomotive or car) at a predetermined point, e.g., for loading or unloading.
- (dialectal) To rain slightly, in scattered, infrequent drops, for example when first beginning to rain.
- (ambitransitive) To stain; to leave a spot (on).
- (transitive) To remove, or attempt to remove, a stain.
- (transitive, dance) To keep the head and eyes pointing in a single direction while turning.
- (transitive) To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation.
- (transitive, chiefly snooker and billiards) To place (an object) at a location indicated by a spot.
- (US, slang, ditransitive) To loan a small amount of money to someone.
- To experience vaginal spotting; to expel blood from the vagina.
- (intransitive, snooker and billiards) Of a ball, to be capable of being placed on its own spot.
- (aviation, military, transitive) To position (an aircraft) on the deck of an aircraft carrier ready for launch by catapult.
- (transitive) To cut or chip (timber) in preparation for hewing.
- (transitive) To cover with spots, to speckle.
- (transitive) To retouch a photograph on film to remove minor flaws.
- (transitive) To see, find; to pick out, notice, locate, distinguish or identify.
- catch sight of
- mar or impair with a flaw
- mark with a spot or spots so as to allow easy recognition
- detect with the senses
- become spotted
- make a spot or mark onto
noun
- a task to be dealt with
- an offer for a private bargain (especially a request for sexual favors)
- (logic) a statement that affirms or denies something and is either true or false
- a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection
- the act of making a proposal
- (countable) An idea, plan, or suggestion offered.
- (grammar) A complete sentence.
- (countable, mathematics) An assertion which is provably true, but not important enough to be called a theorem.
- (uncountable) The act of offering (an idea) for consideration.
- (poetic) The part of a poem in which the author states the subject or matter of it.
- (countable, business settings) The terms of a transaction offered.
- (countable, US, politics) In some states, a proposed statute or constitutional amendment to be voted on by the electorate.
- A statement of religious doctrine; an article of faith; a creed.
- (countable, logic) The content of an assertion that may be taken as being true or false and is considered abstractly without reference to the linguistic sentence that constitutes the assertion; (Aristotelian logic) a predicate of a subject that is denied or affirmed and is connected by a copula.
- (informal) A suggestion of sexual intercourse (made to someone with whom one is not sexually involved).
- Misspelling of preposition.
- (countable, mathematics, philosophy) An assertion so formulated that it can be considered true or false.
verb
verb
- load or burden; encumber
- put a saddle on
- impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to
- To put a saddle on an animal.
- (often passive voice) Chiefly followed by with: to burden or encumber (someone) with some problem or responsibility.
- To put (something) on to another thing like a saddle on an animal.
- Chiefly followed by on or upon: to place (a burden or responsibility) or thrust (a problem) on someone.
- (woodworking) To cut a saddle-shaped notch in (a log or other piece of wood) so it can fit together with other such logs or pieces; also, to fit (logs or other pieces of wood) together with this method.
- To put a saddle (noun sense 1) on (an animal).
- Of a person: to get into a saddle.
- To enter (a trained horse) into a race.
noun
- a seat for the rider of a horse or other animal
- a piece of leather across the instep of a shoe
- cut of meat (especially mutton or lamb) consisting of part of the backbone and both loins
- a pass or ridge that slopes gently between two peaks (is shaped like a saddle)
- a seat for the rider of a bicycle
- posterior part of the back of a domestic fowl
- A cushion used as a seat in a cart or other vehicle.
- (chiefly Australia, mining) Synonym of saddle reef (“a saddle-shaped bedded mineral (usually gold-bearing quartz) vein occurring along the crest of an anticline or (less common) a syncline (an inverted saddle)”).
- The part of a guitar which supports the strings and, in an acoustic guitar, transfers their vibrations through the bridge to the soundboard.
- A similar implement used to secure goods to animals; a packsaddle.
- Synonym of saddle brown (“a medium brown colour, like that of saddle leather”).
- The clitellum of an earthworm (family Lumbricidae).
- (dentistry) The part of a denture which holds the artificial teeth.
- A low point, in the shape of a saddle, between two hills.
- (construction) The threshold, the raised floorboard in a doorway.
- In full saddle marking or saddle patch: a saddle-like marking on an animal, such as one on the back of an adult harp seal or saddleback seal (Pagophilus groenlandicus), or any of numerous such markings on a boa constrictor (Boa constrictor).
- (broadcasting) A timeslot between two popular programmes, in which another programme can be scheduled to encourage people to watch it.
- A cut of meat that includes both loins and part of the backbone.
- A seat for a rider, typically made of leather and raised in the front and rear, placed on the back of a horse or other animal, and secured by a strap around the animal's body.
- Chiefly preceded by the: horse-riding as an activity or occupation.
- (geology) An anticline (“fold with strata sloping downwards on each side”); specifically, a depression located along the axial trend of such a fold.
- The lower part of the back of a domestic fowl, especially a male bird, bearing the saddle feathers or saddle hackles.
- Synonym of saddle oxford or saddle shoe (“a shoe, resembling an oxford, which has a saddle (sense 11.1)”).
- (engineering) An equipment part, such as a flange, which is hollowed out to fit upon a convex surface and serve as a means of attachment or support.
- A piece of leather stitched across the instep of a shoe, usually having a different colour from the rest of the shoe.
- (geometry) Synonym of saddle point (“a point in the range of a smooth function, every neighbourhood of which contains points on each side of its tangent plane”).
- A small object (traditionally made of ebony) at the bottom of a string instrument such as a cello, viola, or violin below the tailpiece on which the tailgut (“cord securing the tailpiece to the instrument”) rests.
- The immovable seat of a bicycle, motorcycle, or similar vehicle.
- (nautical) A block of wood with concave depressions at the top and bottom, usually fastened to one spar and shaped to receive the end of another.
- Synonym of harness saddle (“the part of a harness which supports the weight of poles or shafts attaching a vehicle to a horse or other animal”).
verb
- carry a burden, either real or metaphoric
- lift onto one's shoulders
- push with the shoulders
- (transitive) To push (a person or thing) using one's shoulder.
- (transitive) To form a shape resembling a shoulder.
- (transitive, by extension) To bully, manipulate or pull rank on (somebody).
- (transitive, figuratively) To accept responsibility for.
- (transitive) To round and slightly raise the top edges of slate shingles so that they form a tighter fit at the lower edge and can be swung aside to expose the nail.
- (transitive) To place (something) against one's shoulders.
- (transitive) To put (something) on one's shoulders.
- (intransitive) To slope downwards from the crest and whitewater portion of a wave.
- (intransitive) To move by or as if by using one's shoulders.
- (transitive, figuratively) To bear a burden, as a financial obligation.
noun
- a ball-and-socket joint between the head of the humerus and a cavity of the scapula
- a narrow edge of land (usually unpaved) along the side of a road
- the part of the body between the neck and the upper arm
- a cut of meat including the upper joint of the foreleg
- the part of a garment that covers or fits over the shoulder
- The angle of a bastion included between the face and flank.
- A cut of meat comprising the upper joint of the foreleg and the surrounding muscle.
- (music) The rounded portion of a stringed instrument where the neck joins the body.
- The portion of a garment where the shoulder is clothed.
- The part of a key between the cuts and the bow.
- (figurative) That which supports or sustains; support.
- The portion of a hill or mountain just below the peak.
- (printing) The flat portion of type that is below the bevelled portion that joins up with the face.
- (firearms) The angled section between the neck and the main body of a cartridge.
- The part of the human torso forming a relatively horizontal surface running away from the neck.
- (aviation) A season or a time of day when there is relatively little air traffic.
- A lateral protrusion of a hill or mountain.
- (anatomy) The joint between the arm and the torso, sometimes including the surrounding muscles, tendons, and ligaments.
- (surfing) The part of a wave that has not yet broken.
- The rounded portion of a bottle where the neck meets the body.
- Anything forming a shape resembling a human shoulder.
- An abrupt projection which forms an abutment on an object, or limits motion, etc., such as the projection around a tenon at the end of a piece of timber.
- A usually unsealed strip of land bordering a road, where vehicles can drive or park in an emergency.
noun
verb
verb
- To put excessive burdens upon (someone); to subject (someone) to anxieties.
- (specifically) To persistently bother (someone, or a group of people) physically or psychologically when such behaviour is illegal and/or unwanted, especially over an extended period.
- To trouble (someone, or a group of people) through repeated military-style attacks.
- To annoy (someone) frequently or systematically; to pester.
- annoy continually or chronically
- exhaust by attacking repeatedly
verb
adj
- (of a person) Having a higher weight, especially body fat, than what is generally considered healthy for a given body type and height.
- (investment, finance, followed by a noun or prepositional phrase indicating a security or type of security) Having a portfolio relatively heavily invested in.
- (transport, law, of a vehicle) Weighing more than what is allowed for safety or legal commerce.
- usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it
noun
verb
- To weigh down, oppress, or burden.
- (nautical) To admit water by leakage.
- To use a ladle or dipper to remove something (generally water).
- To fill or load (related to cargo or a shipment).
- To transfer (molten glass) from the pot to the forming table, in making plate glass.
- fill or place a load on
- remove with or as if with a ladle
noun
noun
- A heavy load.
- an onerous or difficult concern
- A responsibility, onus.
- (medicine) The total amount of toxins, parasites, cancer cells, plaque or similar present in an organism.
- (music) A phrase or theme that recurs at the end of each verse in a folk song or ballad.
- (metalworking) The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.
- Theme, core idea.
- (mining) The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.
- A cause of worry; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.
- A fixed quantity of certain commodities.
- The drone of a bagpipe.
- The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry.
- (blasting) The distance between rows of blastholes parallel to the major free face (i.e. face of the excavation)
- weight to be borne or conveyed
- the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
- the central idea that is expanded in a document or discourse
verb
noun
verb
adj
- Laden with that which is weighty; encumbered; burdened; bowed down, either with an actual burden, or with grief, pain, disappointment, etc.
- Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive.
- full of; bearing great weight
- (of a person) Heavyset: overweight.
- Not raised or leavened.
- (of weather) Hot and humid.
- Of great force, power, or intensity; deep or intense.
- (of any physical thing) Having great weight.
- (oil industry) Of petroleum, having high viscosity.
- (of a topic) Serious, somber.
- (nautical, military) Heavily-armed.
- (of music) Loud, distorted, or intense.
- (of wines or spirits) Having much body or strength.
- (physics) Containing one or more isotopes that are heavier than the normal one.
- (aviation, of an aircraft) Having a relatively high takeoff weight and payload.
- (of food) High in fat or protein; difficult to digest.
- (of the eyes) With eyelids difficult to keep open due to tiredness.
- Doing the specified activity more intensely than most other people.
- (slang) Armed.
- (finance) Of a market: in which the price of shares is declining.
- Having the heaves.
- Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid.
- Having a maximum takeoff weight exceeding 300,000 tons, as almost all widebodies do, generating high wake turbulence.
- (of a rate of flow) High, great.
- Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey.
- given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors
- of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought
- in an advanced stage of pregnancy
- unusually great in degree or quantity or number
- slow and laborious because of weight
- prodigious
- of relatively large extent and density
- full and loud and deep
- usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it
- of comparatively great physical weight or density
- darkened by clouds
- (of an actor or role) being or playing the villain
- (of sleep) deep and complete
- sharply inclined
- dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal
- (used of soil) compact and fine-grained
- marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness
- (physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight
- requiring or showing effort
- made of fabric having considerable thickness
- large and powerful; especially designed for heavy loads or rough work
- permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter
- of the military or industry; using (or being) the heaviest and most powerful armaments or weapons or equipment
- lacking lightness or liveliness
- of great intensity or power or force
- characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
adv
noun
- (journalism, slang, chiefly in the plural) A newspaper of the quality press.
- (aviation) A relatively large multi-engined aircraft.
- (slang) A doorman, bouncer or bodyguard.
- (slang) A villain or bad guy; the one responsible for evil or aggressive acts.
- (military, historical) A member of the heavy cavalry.
- A prominent figure; a "major player".
- an actor who plays villainous roles
- a serious (or tragic) role in a play
verb
adj
adj
- Burdened by some heavy load; packed.
- Weighted with lead or similar.
- (baseball) Pertaining to a situation where there is a runner at each of the three bases.
- (of an item offered for sale, especially an automobile) Equipped with numerous options.
- (slang) Drunk.
- (of a projectile weapon) Having a live round of ammunition in the chamber.
- (food, colloquial) Covered with a topping or toppings; especially, covered with all available toppings that are offered as options for the dish.
- (colloquial) Possessing great wealth.
- (dice games, also figurative) Of a die or dice: weighted asymmetrically, and so biased to produce predictable throws.
- (of a question) Designed to produce a predictable answer, or to lay a trap.
- (of a word or phrase) Having strong connotations that colour the literal meaning and are likely to provoke an emotional response. Sometimes used loosely to describe a word that simply has many different meanings.
- having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value
- very drunk
- (of weapons) charged with ammunition
- filled with a great quantity
- (of statements or questions) charged with associative significance and often meant to mislead or influence
verb
adj
- involved in difficulties
- deeply involved especially in something complicated
- twisted together in a tangled mass
- Tangled or twisted together.
- (quantum mechanics, of two quantum states) Correlated, even though physically separated; (referring to a state of a composite system) not separable.
- (figurative) Confused or complicated.