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verb
noun
- A sexually loose woman
- a tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle
- (when not otherwise specified) An agricultural and horticultural hand tool consisting of a long handle with a flat blade fixed perpendicular to it at the end, used for digging rows or removing weeds by hand.
- (Orkney, Shetland) The horned or piked dogfish, Squalus acanthias.
- Any of several implements or machines usually called by their more specific names, for example, backhoe.
- (slang, derogatory) Alternative spelling of ho (“whore, prostitute”).
- A piece of land that juts out towards the sea; a promontory.
verb
noun
- A garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging. Not to be confused with a shovel which is used for moving earth or other materials.
- a sturdy hand shovel that can be pushed into the earth with the foot
- a playing card in the major suit that has one or more black figures on it
- (card games) A playing card marked with the symbol ♠.
- (electrical engineering) A device for terminating an electrical conductor resembling a small spade.
- (now offensive, ethnic slur) A black person.
- A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.
verb
adj
noun
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- find by digging in the ground
- be shown or be found to be
- bend or lay so that one part covers the other
- discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining
- appear or become visible; make a showing
- (transitive) To reposition by rotating, flipping, etc., upwards.
- (intransitive, copulative) To show up; to appear suddenly or unexpectedly.
- (intransitive, slang) To party hard, especially when involving alcohol or drugs.
- (transitive, nautical) To belay or make fast (a line on a cleat or pin).
- (transitive) To cause to appear; to find by searching, etc.
- (transitive) To increase the amount of something by means of a control, such as the volume, heat, or light.
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verb
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- a fire iron consisting of a small shovel used to scoop coals or ashes in a fireplace
- a hand tool for lifting loose material; consists of a curved container or scoop and a handle
- a machine for excavating
- the quantity a shovel can hold
- Ellipsis of shovel hat.
- (especially US, loosely) Any shovel in the above senses, or any spade.
- A hand tool with a handle, used for moving portions of material such as earth, snow, and grain from one place to another, with some forms also used for digging. In strict usage differentiated from a spade, which is designed solely for small-scale digging and incidental tasks such as chopping of small roots.
- A mechanical part of an excavator with a similar function.
verb
- To break up ground with a hoe.
- (Northern UK, colloquial) To throw, chuck, lob.
- To construct using mud blocks or to seal a wall using mud or an artificial equivalent.
- (of growing corn) To have the heads mature into corncobs.
- To remove the kernels from a corncob.
- To beat with a flat instrument; to paddle.
- To chip off unwanted pieces of stone, so as to form a desired shape or improve the quality of mineral ore.
- To thresh.
noun
- A male swan.
- Any of the gold and silver coins that were minted in the Spanish Empire and valued in reales or escudos, such as the piece of eight—especially those which were crudely struck and irregularly shaped.
- (music, historical) A cylinder with pins in it, encoding music to be played back mechanically by a barrel organ.
- The seed-bearing head of a plant.
- A small fish, the miller's thumb.
- A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, stone, or excrement.
- A spider (cf. cobweb).
- A horse having a stout body and short legs.
- (uncountable) A building material consisting of clay, sand, straw, water, and earth, similar to adobe; also called cobb, rammed earth or pisé.
- Alternative form of COB.
- A corncob.
- Abbreviation of cobble.
- A punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the buttocks with a strap or a flat piece of wood.
- (Midlands) A round, often crusty roll or loaf of bread.
- A large fish, especially the kabeljou (variant spelling of kob).
- (East Anglia) A gull, especially the black-backed gull (Larus marinus); also spelled cobb.
- Clipping of cobnut.
- adult male swan
- white gull having a black back and wings
- stocky short-legged harness horse
- nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus
verb
- To dig out by means of a clamshell (dredging bucket).
- To compress or flatten underwater debris so as to avoid blocking a channel.
- (manufacturing) To deform a die in a shape resembling the shell of a clam, as a result of uneven extrusion pressure.
- (ambitransitive) To open or close by means of a hinge, similar to the way a clamshell opens and closes.
noun
- In food service, the closing box (usually styrofoam but sometimes cardboard) given to consumers with takeout food.
- (music) An amphitheater, especially an outdoor amphitheater; the semi-circular acoustic backdrop behind and above the performers.
- A hinged case for a video tape, cassette tape, or video game cartridge.
- A dredging bucket with hinges like the shell of a clam.
- The shell of a clam.
- Any object that, in (literal or figurative) resemblance to the shell of a clam, has a hinge on one edge and two surfaces that close together.
- (often attributive) Any object with some other resemblance to either one or both halves of the shell of a clam.
- a dredging bucket with hinges like the shell of a clam
- the shell of a clam
noun
- A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
- A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
- (American football) An interception.
- (art, painting) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
- (Australia) Pasture; feed, for animals.
- (baseball) A good defensive play by an infielder.
- (music) A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
- (baseball) A pickoff.
- A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
- (lacrosse) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
- (nautical, slang) An anchor.
- A choice; ability to choose.
- That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
- (basketball) A screen.
- (weaving) The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute); hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread.
- a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument
- the best people or things in a group
- the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving
- a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends
- the quantity of a crop that is harvested
- a basketball maneuver; obstructing an opponent with one's body
- the person or thing chosen or selected
- the act of choosing or selecting
- a thin sharp implement used for removing unwanted material
verb
- To remove something from somewhere with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
- To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground.
- (music) To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
- To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
- To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
- (ambitransitive) To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.
- (cricket) To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand and arm as the ball is released.
- To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
- (American football, informal) To intercept a pass from the offense as a defensive player.
- To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
- To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
- To do anything fastidiously or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
- (basketball) To screen.
- To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
- To steal; to pilfer.
- (transitive) To seek (a fight or quarrel) where the opportunity arises.
- remove in small bits
- look for and gather
- select carefully from a group
- eat intermittently; take small bites of
- provoke
- pay for something
- pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
- remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits
- harass with constant criticism
- attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example
- pilfer or rob
- hit lightly with a picking motion
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- dig with the snout
- cheer for
- become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style
- come into existence, originate
- cause to take roots
- take root and begin to grow
- plant by the roots
- To fix firmly; to establish.
- (by extension) To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.
- To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
- (intransitive, with "for" or "on", US) To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of. (See root for.)
- (transitive) To root out; to abolish.
- (intransitive) To rummage; to search as if by digging in soil.
- (computing slang, transitive) To get root or privileged access on (a computer system or mobile phone), often through bypassing some security mechanism.
- (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, vulgar, slang) To sexually penetrate.
- (intransitive) Of a baby: to turn the head and open the mouth in search of food.
- (ambitransitive) To turn up or dig with the snout.
- (equestrianism, of a horse) To tug or pull at the reins aggressively by driving the head downwards while wearing a bit.
- To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings.
noun
- a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number
- the place where something begins, where it springs into being
- (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground
- a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes
- the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- the embedded part of a bodily structure such as a tooth, nail, or hair
- someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
- (slang) A penis, especially the base of a penis.
- The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction.
- (arithmetic) Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified number or expression.
- (computing) The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.
- (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
- (aviation) The section of a wing immediately adjacent to the fuselage.
- (mathematical analysis) A zero (of an equation).
- (music) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
- (arithmetic) A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, "the root of" is often abbreviated to "root").
- The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.
- (figurative) The primary source; origin.
- (graph theory, computing) The single node of a tree that has no parent.
- (engineering) The bottom of the thread of a threaded object.
- (computing) In UNIX terminology, the first user account with complete access to the operating system and its configuration, found at the root of the directory structure; the person who manages accounts on a UNIX system.
- The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
- An act of rummaging or searching.
- (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) A sexual partner.
- A root vegetable.
- (linguistic morphology) The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Inflectional stems often derive from roots.
- (linguistics) A word from which another word or words are derived.
- The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.
- The lowest place, position, or part.
verb
- dig with the snout
- cause to flee
- defeat disastrously
- make a groove in
- (transitive) Of a person: to say or shout (something) loudly.
- (transitive, chiefly US) Usually followed by from: to compel (someone) to leave a place; specifically (usually followed by out or up), to cause (someone) to get out of bed.
- (intransitive) Of a person: to search through belongings, a place, etc.; to rummage.
- (intransitive) Of an animal, especially cattle: to low or moo loudly; to bellow.
- (ambitransitive) Of an animal, especially a pig: to search (for something) in the ground with the snout; to root.
- (intransitive) Of a person: to speak loudly; to bellow, roar, to shout.
- (transitive) To dig or plough (earth or the ground); to till.
- (intransitive, chiefly England, regional) To snore, especially loudly.
- (intransitive, chiefly England, regional) To make a noise; to bellow, to roar, to snort.
- (ambitransitive) To use a gouge, router, or other tool to scoop out material (from a metallic, wooden, etc., surface), forming a groove or recess.
- (transitive) To completely defeat and force into disorderly retreat (an enemy force, opponent in sport, etc.).
- (transitive, figurative) Usually followed by out: to find and eradicate (something harmful or undesirable); to root out.
- (transitive) Usually followed by out or up: to dig or pull up (a plant) by the roots; to extirpate, to uproot.
- (transitive) Usually followed by out or up: of a person: to search for and find (something); also (transitive) to completely empty or clear out (something).
noun
- an overwhelming defeat
- a disorderly crowd of people
- (countable) A group of (often violent) criminals or gangsters; such people as a class; (more generally) a disorderly and tumultuous crowd, a mob; hence (archaic, preceded by the), the common people as a group, the rabble.
- A lowing or mooing sound by an animal, especially cattle; a bellow, a moo.
- A loud shout; a bellow, a roar; also, an instance of loud and continued exclamation or shouting; a clamour, an outcry.
- (chiefly Scotland) A loud, resounding noise, especially one made by the sea, thunder, wind, etc.; a roar.
- (originally military) The act of completely defeating an army or other enemy force, causing it to retreat in a disorganized manner; (by extension) in politics, sport, etc.: a convincing defeat; a thrashing, a trouncing.
- (countable, law, historical) An illegal assembly of people; specifically, three or more people who have come together intending to do something illegal, and who have taken steps towards this, regarded as more serious than an unlawful assembly but not as serious as a riot; the act of assembling in this manner.
- (countable) A group of disorganized things.
- (military, also figurative) The retreat of an enemy force, etc., in this manner; also (archaic, rare), the army, enemy force, etc., so retreating.
noun
- the shovel or bucket of a dredge or backhoe
- street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate
- a hollow concave shape made by removing something
- a news report that is reported first by one news organization
- the quantity a scoop will hold
- a large ladle
- Any cup-shaped or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material.
- (surfing) The raised end of a surfboard.
- (automotive) An opening in a hood/bonnet or other body panel to admit air, usually for cooling the engine.
- (pinball) A hole on the playfield that catches a ball, but eventually returns it to play in one way or another.
- A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
- A spoon-shaped surgical instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
- The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shovelling.
- A story or fact; especially, news learned and reported before anyone else.
- A special spinal board used by emergency medical service staff that divides laterally to scoop up patients.
- (music) A note that begins slightly below and slides up to the target pitch.
- (film, television) A kind of floodlight with a reflector.
- A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
- The digging attachment on a front-end loader.
- The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop.
- (Scotland) The peak of a cap.
verb
- take out or up with or as if with a scoop
- get the better of
- (music, often with "up") To begin a vocal note slightly below the target pitch and then to slide up to the target pitch, especially in country music.
- (transitive) To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop.
- (MTE, slang) To pick (someone) up
- (poker slang) To win the entire pot in a hand in which the pot was split.
- (transitive) To make hollow; to dig out.
- (transitive) To report on something, especially something worthy of a news article, before (someone else).
noun
- the act of digging
- the site of an archeological exploration
- an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
- the act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow
- a small gouge (as in the cover of a book)
- An archeological or paleontological investigation, or the site where such an investigation is taking place.
- The occupation of digging for gold.
- (music, slang) A rare or interesting vinyl record bought second-hand.
- (medicine, colloquial) Digoxin.
- (cricket) An innings.
- A thrust; a poke.
- (volleyball) A defensive pass of the ball that has been attacked by the opposing team.
- A cutting, sarcastic remark.
verb
- create by digging
- remove, harvest, or recover by digging
- remove the inner part or the core of
- get the meaning of something
- turn up, loosen, or remove earth
- thrust down or into
- work hard
- poke or thrust abruptly
- (transitive) To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.
- (mining) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
- (volleyball) To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball
- To thrust; to poke.
- (figurative) To investigate, to research, often followed by out or up.
- (transitive, intransitive) To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way.
noun
- the act of digging
- a hole in the ground made by excavating
- the site of an archeological exploration
- the act of extracting ores or coal etc. from the earth
- (countable) A site where an archaeological exploration is being carried out.
- (countable) A cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping.
- (figurative) The act of discovering and exposing or developing (a quality).
- Especially, the trade of digging engineered holes for building foundations, roadbed preparations, and similar purposes.
- (countable) An uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from a covered cutting or tunnel.
- (countable) The material dug out in making a channel or cavity.
- (uncountable) Archaeological research that unearths buildings, tombs and objects of historical value.
- (countable) Something uncovered by archaeological excavation.
- (uncountable) The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.
noun
- a sharp hand shovel for digging out roots and weeds
- A tool, similar to a spade, used for digging out weeds etc.
- an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland
- A barking spud; a long-handled tool for removing bark from logs.
- (informal) A potato.
- A movable post through a sleeve in the hull of a work barge to anchor it to the bottom of a body of water.
- (film, television) A short central rod in a lighting fixture, for attachment to the light.
- A digging fork with three broad prongs.
- (slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
- (plumbing) A type of short nut (fastener) threaded on both ends.
- (informal) A hole in a sock.
verb
- initiate drilling operations, as for petroleum
- produce buds, branches, or germinate
- (camping, transitive) To set up a recreational vehicle (RV) at a campsite, typically by leveling the RV and connecting it to electric, water, or sewer hookups.
- (transitive) To dig up weeds with a spud.
- (drilling, transitive) To begin drilling an oil well; to drill by moving the drill bit and shaft up and down, or by raising and dropping a bit.
- (roofing, transitive) To remove the roofing aggregate and most of the bituminous top coating by scraping and chipping.
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- dig a trench or trenches
- (archaeology) To excavate an elongated and often narrow pit.
- fortify by surrounding with trenches
- impinge or infringe upon
- cut a trench in, as for drainage
- set, plant, or bury in a trench
- cut or carve deeply into
- To have direction; to aim or tend.
- To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.
- To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next.
- (usually followed by upon) To invade, especially with regard to the rights or the exclusive authority of another; to encroach.
- (military, infantry) To excavate an elongated pit for protection of soldiers and or equipment, usually perpendicular to the line of sight toward the enemy.
- To cut furrows or ditches in.
noun
- a ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth
- a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor
- any long ditch cut in the ground
- (archaeology) A pit, usually rectangular with smooth walls and floor, excavated during an archaeological investigation.
- A long, narrow ditch or hole dug in the ground.
- (informal) A trench coat.
- (military) A narrow excavation as used in warfare, as a cover for besieging or emplaced forces.
verb
- dig out with the snout
- move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position
- rub noses
- Often followed by in or into: to press or push the nose or snout, mouth, face, etc., against or into someone or something; to touch someone or something with the nose or snout, etc.
- Followed by down: to settle or lie comfortably and snugly in a bed, nest, etc.; to nestle.
- Chiefly of an animal: to dig (something, especially food) out of the ground using the nose or snout; to root.
- To rub or touch (someone or something) with the nose, face, etc., or an object.
- Chiefly followed by up or with: to press affectionately against someone or something; to nestle, to snuggle.
- Chiefly of an animal: to push the nose or snout into the ground to dig for something, especially food; to root, to rootle.
- To push or thrust (the nose or snout, face or muzzle, or head, or an object) against or into something.
- (figurative) To come into close contact with someone or something.
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- (transitive) To pull one's brows or eyebrows together due to concentration, worry, etc.
- (transitive) To cut one or more grooves in (the ground, etc.).
- (transitive) To wrinkle.
- (intransitive) to become furrowed
- make wrinkled or creased
- hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove
- cut a furrow into a column
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- a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil
- a horse kept for hire
- a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
- one who works hard at boring tasks
- a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends
- a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.
- an old or over-worked horse
- a mediocre and disdained writer
- A kick on the shins in football of any type.
- A gouge or notch made by such a blow.
- A hacking blow.
- (derogatory) One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to persons in a creative field.)
- (military, slang) An airplane of poor quality or in poor condition.
- (derogatory, authorship) An untalented writer.
- A tool for chopping.
- A dry cough.
- (slang, military) Time check, as for example upon synchronization of wristwatches.
- (colloquial) A trick, shortcut, skill, or novel method to increase productivity, efficiency, or ease.
- A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work.
- (curling) The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes off for delivery.
- (computing, slang) A video game or any computer software that has been altered from its original state.
- (politics, slightly derogatory) A political agitator.
- (computing, slang) An expedient, temporary solution, such as a small patch or change to code, meant to be replaced with a more elegant solution at a later date; a workaround.
- A horse for hire, especially one which is old and tired.
- A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for use in hackeysack.
- A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
- (now chiefly Canada, US, colloquial) A vehicle let for hire; originally, a hackney cab, now typically a taxicab.
- A food-rack for cattle.
- (derogatory) A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language.
- (derogatory) Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary.
- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) A practical joke that showcases cleverness and creativity.
- (falconry) A board upon which the falcon's food is placed; used by extension for the state of partial freedom in which they are kept before being trained.
- (computing, slang) An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.
- A hearse.
- (slang) The driver of a taxicab (hackney cab).
- (ice hockey) The act of striking an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
- (baseball) A swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter, particularly a choppy, ungraceful one that misses the ball such as at a fastball.
- A grating in a mill race.
- (informal) An improvised device or solution to a problem.
- (uncountable, slang, naval) Confinement of an officer to their stateroom as a punishment.
- (UK, student politics, derogatory) A person who frequently canvasses for votes, either directly or by appearing to continuously act with the ulterior motive of furthering their political career.
- A rack used to dry something, such as bricks, fish, or cheese.
- (figuratively) A try, an attempt.
- (computing, slang) The illegal accessing of a computer network.
verb
- significantly cut up a manuscript
- cut with a hacking tool
- kick on the shins
- cut away
- be able to manage or manage successfully
- cough spasmodically
- fix a computer program piecemeal until it works
- kick on the arms
- (computing) To accomplish a difficult programming task.
- To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
- To play hackeysack.
- To drive a hackney cab.
- (ice hockey) To make a flailing attempt to hit the puck with a hockey stick.
- (transitive, slang, computing, by extension) To gain unauthorized access to a computer or online account belonging to (a person or organisation).
- (transitive) To strike lightly as part of tapotement massage.
- (falconry) To keep (young hawks) in a state of partial freedom, before they are trained.
- (intransitive, video games) To cheat by using unauthorized modifications.
- (transitive, colloquial, by extension) To apply a trick, shortcut, skill, or novel method to something to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.
- (baseball) To swing at a pitched ball.
- (computing) To make a quick code change to patch a computer program, often one that, while being effective, is inelegant or makes the program harder to maintain.
- (intransitive) To cough noisily.
- (equestrianism) To ride a horse at a regular pace; to ride on a road (as opposed to riding cross-country etc.).
- To withstand or put up with a difficult situation.
- (transitive) To chop or cut down in a rough manner.
- (computing, slang, transitive) To work with something on an intimately technical level.
- To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
- To strike in a frantic movement.
- To lay (bricks) on a rack to dry.
- (transitive, slang, computing) To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to (a computer system, e.g., a website, or network) by manipulating code.
- (soccer and rugby) To kick (a player) on the shins.
- (ice hockey) To strike an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
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noun
- A piece of excavating equipment, either an integral subassembly or an attachment, consisting of a digging bucket or scoop on the end of an articulated arm, drawn backwards to move earth; used in excavator/digger and backhoe tractors.
- (chiefly US, Canada, Australia) Ellipsis of backhoe loader: A multi-purpose tractor with a front-mounted loading bucket and a rear-mounted digging bucket. The tractor combines a front-end loader/loader (component) and an excavator/digger (component).
- Ellipsis of backhoe tractor: A specialized tractor with the backhoe subassembly. This type of tractor has been superceded by the backhoe loader and trackhoe in most roles.
- an excavator whose shovel bucket is attached to a hinged boom and is drawn backward to move earth
noun
- an agricultural tool used for lifting or digging; has a handle and metal prongs
- the region of the angle formed by the junction of two branches
- the angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk
- a utensil with two or more prongs, used for serving or eating food
- the act of branching out or dividing into branches
- Such a pronged tool having a long straight handle, generally for two-handed use, as used for digging, lifting, mucking, pitching, etc.
- (cycling, motorcycling, by abstraction from a pronged tool's shape) In a bicycle or motorcycle, the portion of the frameset holding the front wheel, allowing the rider to steer and balance, also called front fork.
- Any of several types of pronged tools for use on farms, in fields, or in the garden or lawn, such as a smaller hand fork for weeding or a larger one for turning over the soil.
- (mining) The bottom of a sump into which the water of a mine drains.
- (metonymic) Either of the (figurative) paths thus taken.
- (content management) Any of the pieces/versions of content thus created.
- (cryptocurrencies) A split in a blockchain resulting from protocol disagreements, or a branch of the blockchain resulting from such a split.
- (chess) The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).
- (figuratively, decision-making) A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.
- (software) Any of the software projects resulting from the launch of such separate software development efforts based upon a copy of the original project.
- A tuning fork.
- (content management) The splitting of the coverage of a topic (within a corpus of content) into two or more pieces.
- (by abstraction, from the tool shape) A point where a waterway, such as a river or other stream, splits and flows into two (or more) different directions.
- (colloquial) A forklift.
- (British, vulgar) The crotch.
- Either of the blades of a forklift (or, in plural, the set of blades), on which the goods to be raised are loaded.
- (metonymic) Any of the pieces/versions (of software, content, or data sets) thus created.
- (computing, file systems) A set of data associated with an individual file in some file systems.
- (software) The launch of one or more separate software development efforts based upon a modified copy of an existing project, especially in free and open-source software.
- (metonymic, analogous to any prong of a pronged tool) One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow.
- A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting, or for serving food.
- (physical) An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.
- (figurative) A decision point.
- The upper front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
verb
- lift with a pitchfork
- shape like a fork
- divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
- place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces
- (ambitransitive, software engineering) To launch a separate software development effort based upon a modified copy of an existing software project, especially in free and open-source software.
- (transitive) To move with a fork (as hay or food).
- (chess) To simultaneously attack two opposing pieces with a single attacking piece.
- (mining, transitive) To bale a shaft dry.
- (intransitive) To shoot into blades, as corn does.
- (ambitransitive, computing) To spawn a new child process by duplicating the existing process.
- (transitive, software engineering) To create a copy of a distributed version control repository.
- (transitive, British) To kick someone in the crotch.
- (transitive) Euphemistic form of fuck.
- (ambitransitive) To divide into two or more branches or copies.
noun
- The depth of the blade of a digging tool such as a spade or shovel.
- A narrow spade used in digging drainage trenches.
- (horticulture) A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot.
- (uncountable) Illicit profit by corrupt means, especially in public life.
- (horticulture) A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit.
- (uncountable, slang) A criminal’s special branch of practice.
- (uncountable, British, colloquial) Work; labor requiring effort.
- (countable, slang) A cut of the take (money).
- (uncountable, US, politics) A bribe, especially on an ongoing basis.
- (countable) A con job.
- (uncountable) Corruption in official life.
- (surgery) A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty.
- (countable, British, colloquial) A job or trade.
- (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient
- the act of grafting something onto something else
- the practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage
verb
- (transitive) To join (one thing) to another as if by grafting, so as to bring about a close union.
- (transitive) To insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of another tree; to propagate by insertion in another stock; also, to insert a graft upon.
- (intransitive) To insert scions (grafts) from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting.
- To obtain illegal gain from bribery or similar corrupt practices.
- (chemistry) To form a graft polymer
- (transitive, surgery) To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union.
- (transitive, nautical) To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope yarns.
- (colloquial, intransitive) To work hard.
- cause to grow together parts from different plants
- place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient
noun
- a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate
- an enclosure in which animals are made to fight
- (auto racing) an area at the side of a racetrack where the race cars are serviced and refueled
- lowered area in front of a stage where an orchestra accompanies the performers
- (commodity exchange) the part of the floor of a commodity exchange where trading in a particular commodity is carried on
- the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed
- (Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment
- a sizeable hole (usually in the ground)
- a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it
- a concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depression)
- a trap in the form of a concealed hole
- (medicine, slang) The emergency department of a hospital.
- An enclosed area into which gamecocks, dogs, and other animals are brought to fight, or where dogs are trained to kill rats.
- (slang) A mosh pit.
- The grave, underworld or Hell.
- (American football) The center of the line.
- (archaeology) A hole or trench in the ground, excavated according to grid coordinates, so that the provenance of any feature observed and any specimen or artifact revealed may be established by precise measurement.
- (botany) In tracheary elements, a section of the cell wall where the secondary wall is missing, and the primary wall is present. Pits generally occur in pairs and link two cells.
- A mine.
- (trading) A trading pit.
- Formerly, that part of a theatre, on the floor of the house, below the level of the stage and behind the orchestra; now, in England, commonly the part behind the stalls; in the United States, the parquet; also, the occupants of such a part of a theatre.
- (colloquial) An armpit.
- (music) The section of a marching band containing mallet percussion instruments and other large percussion instruments too large to be marched, such as the tam-tam; the front ensemble. Can also refer to the area on the sidelines where these instruments are placed.
- (aviation) A luggage hold.
- (in the plural, with the, slang) Only used in the pits.
- (informal) A pit bull terrier.
- (Northern US) A seed inside a fruit; a stone or pip inside a fruit.
- (countable) A small surface hole or depression, a fossa.
- (informal) An undesirable location, especially an unclean one.
- Short for dish pit
- (Antarctica and UK, military, slang) A bed.
- A hole in the ground.
- (military) The core of an implosion nuclear weapon, consisting of the fissile material and any neutron reflector or tamper bonded to it.
- (gambling) Part of a casino which typically holds tables for blackjack, craps, roulette, and other games.
- (figurative) A bleak, depressing state of mind.
- The indented mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox.
- On a compact disc or similar recording medium, a tiny sunken area representing part of the encoded data.
- (motor racing) An area at a racetrack used for refueling and repairing the vehicles during a race.
verb
- remove the pits from
- mark with a scar
- set into opposition or rivalry
- (transitive) To make pits in; to mark with little hollows.
- (transitive) To bring (something) into opposition with something else.
- To use the PIT maneuver, especially during a car chase.
- (intransitive, motor racing) To return to the pits during a race for refuelling, tyre changes, repairs etc.
- (transitive) To put (an animal) into a pit for fighting.
- (transitive) To remove the stone from a stone fruit or the shell from a drupe.
noun
- a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate
- animal hunted or caught for food
- a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence
- (mining) A site for mining stone, such as limestone, or slate.
- A diamond-shaped tile or pane, often of glass or stone.
- (countable) An object of search or pursuit.
- (uncountable) An animal, often a bird or mammal, which is hunted.
verb
noun
- A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
- A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
- (American football) An interception.
- (art, painting) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
- (Australia) Pasture; feed, for animals.
- (baseball) A good defensive play by an infielder.
- (music) A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
- (baseball) A pickoff.
- A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
- (lacrosse) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
- (nautical, slang) An anchor.
- A choice; ability to choose.
- That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
- (basketball) A screen.
- (weaving) The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute); hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread.
- a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument
- the best people or things in a group
- the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving
- a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends
- the quantity of a crop that is harvested
- a basketball maneuver; obstructing an opponent with one's body
- the person or thing chosen or selected
- the act of choosing or selecting
- a thin sharp implement used for removing unwanted material
verb
- To remove something from somewhere with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
- To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground.
- (music) To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
- To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
- To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
- (ambitransitive) To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.
- (cricket) To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand and arm as the ball is released.
- To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
- (American football, informal) To intercept a pass from the offense as a defensive player.
- To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
- To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
- To do anything fastidiously or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
- (basketball) To screen.
- To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
- To steal; to pilfer.
- (transitive) To seek (a fight or quarrel) where the opportunity arises.
- remove in small bits
- look for and gather
- select carefully from a group
- eat intermittently; take small bites of
- provoke
- pay for something
- pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
- remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits
- harass with constant criticism
- attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example
- pilfer or rob
- hit lightly with a picking motion
noun
- the shovel or bucket of a dredge or backhoe
- street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate
- a hollow concave shape made by removing something
- a news report that is reported first by one news organization
- the quantity a scoop will hold
- a large ladle
- Any cup-shaped or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material.
- (surfing) The raised end of a surfboard.
- (automotive) An opening in a hood/bonnet or other body panel to admit air, usually for cooling the engine.
- (pinball) A hole on the playfield that catches a ball, but eventually returns it to play in one way or another.
- A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
- A spoon-shaped surgical instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
- The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shovelling.
- A story or fact; especially, news learned and reported before anyone else.
- A special spinal board used by emergency medical service staff that divides laterally to scoop up patients.
- (music) A note that begins slightly below and slides up to the target pitch.
- (film, television) A kind of floodlight with a reflector.
- A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
- The digging attachment on a front-end loader.
- The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop.
- (Scotland) The peak of a cap.
verb
- take out or up with or as if with a scoop
- get the better of
- (music, often with "up") To begin a vocal note slightly below the target pitch and then to slide up to the target pitch, especially in country music.
- (transitive) To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop.
- (MTE, slang) To pick (someone) up
- (poker slang) To win the entire pot in a hand in which the pot was split.
- (transitive) To make hollow; to dig out.
- (transitive) To report on something, especially something worthy of a news article, before (someone else).
noun
- the act of digging
- the site of an archeological exploration
- an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
- the act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow
- a small gouge (as in the cover of a book)
- An archeological or paleontological investigation, or the site where such an investigation is taking place.
- The occupation of digging for gold.
- (music, slang) A rare or interesting vinyl record bought second-hand.
- (medicine, colloquial) Digoxin.
- (cricket) An innings.
- A thrust; a poke.
- (volleyball) A defensive pass of the ball that has been attacked by the opposing team.
- A cutting, sarcastic remark.
verb
- create by digging
- remove, harvest, or recover by digging
- remove the inner part or the core of
- get the meaning of something
- turn up, loosen, or remove earth
- thrust down or into
- work hard
- poke or thrust abruptly
- (transitive) To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.
- (mining) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
- (volleyball) To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball
- To thrust; to poke.
- (figurative) To investigate, to research, often followed by out or up.
- (transitive, intransitive) To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way.
noun
- the act of digging
- a hole in the ground made by excavating
- the site of an archeological exploration
- the act of extracting ores or coal etc. from the earth
- (countable) A site where an archaeological exploration is being carried out.
- (countable) A cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping.
- (figurative) The act of discovering and exposing or developing (a quality).
- Especially, the trade of digging engineered holes for building foundations, roadbed preparations, and similar purposes.
- (countable) An uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from a covered cutting or tunnel.
- (countable) The material dug out in making a channel or cavity.
- (uncountable) Archaeological research that unearths buildings, tombs and objects of historical value.
- (countable) Something uncovered by archaeological excavation.
- (uncountable) The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.
noun
- a sharp hand shovel for digging out roots and weeds
- A tool, similar to a spade, used for digging out weeds etc.
- an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland
- A barking spud; a long-handled tool for removing bark from logs.
- (informal) A potato.
- A movable post through a sleeve in the hull of a work barge to anchor it to the bottom of a body of water.
- (film, television) A short central rod in a lighting fixture, for attachment to the light.
- A digging fork with three broad prongs.
- (slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
- (plumbing) A type of short nut (fastener) threaded on both ends.
- (informal) A hole in a sock.
verb
- initiate drilling operations, as for petroleum
- produce buds, branches, or germinate
- (camping, transitive) To set up a recreational vehicle (RV) at a campsite, typically by leveling the RV and connecting it to electric, water, or sewer hookups.
- (transitive) To dig up weeds with a spud.
- (drilling, transitive) To begin drilling an oil well; to drill by moving the drill bit and shaft up and down, or by raising and dropping a bit.
- (roofing, transitive) To remove the roofing aggregate and most of the bituminous top coating by scraping and chipping.
name
noun
noun
verb
- (transitive) To pull one's brows or eyebrows together due to concentration, worry, etc.
- (transitive) To cut one or more grooves in (the ground, etc.).
- (transitive) To wrinkle.
- (intransitive) to become furrowed
- make wrinkled or creased
- hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove
- cut a furrow into a column
noun
noun
verb
noun
- a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil
- a horse kept for hire
- a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
- one who works hard at boring tasks
- a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends
- a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.
- an old or over-worked horse
- a mediocre and disdained writer
- A kick on the shins in football of any type.
- A gouge or notch made by such a blow.
- A hacking blow.
- (derogatory) One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to persons in a creative field.)
- (military, slang) An airplane of poor quality or in poor condition.
- (derogatory, authorship) An untalented writer.
- A tool for chopping.
- A dry cough.
- (slang, military) Time check, as for example upon synchronization of wristwatches.
- (colloquial) A trick, shortcut, skill, or novel method to increase productivity, efficiency, or ease.
- A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work.
- (curling) The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes off for delivery.
- (computing, slang) A video game or any computer software that has been altered from its original state.
- (politics, slightly derogatory) A political agitator.
- (computing, slang) An expedient, temporary solution, such as a small patch or change to code, meant to be replaced with a more elegant solution at a later date; a workaround.
- A horse for hire, especially one which is old and tired.
- A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for use in hackeysack.
- A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
- (now chiefly Canada, US, colloquial) A vehicle let for hire; originally, a hackney cab, now typically a taxicab.
- A food-rack for cattle.
- (derogatory) A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language.
- (derogatory) Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary.
- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) A practical joke that showcases cleverness and creativity.
- (falconry) A board upon which the falcon's food is placed; used by extension for the state of partial freedom in which they are kept before being trained.
- (computing, slang) An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.
- A hearse.
- (slang) The driver of a taxicab (hackney cab).
- (ice hockey) The act of striking an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
- (baseball) A swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter, particularly a choppy, ungraceful one that misses the ball such as at a fastball.
- A grating in a mill race.
- (informal) An improvised device or solution to a problem.
- (uncountable, slang, naval) Confinement of an officer to their stateroom as a punishment.
- (UK, student politics, derogatory) A person who frequently canvasses for votes, either directly or by appearing to continuously act with the ulterior motive of furthering their political career.
- A rack used to dry something, such as bricks, fish, or cheese.
- (figuratively) A try, an attempt.
- (computing, slang) The illegal accessing of a computer network.
verb
- significantly cut up a manuscript
- cut with a hacking tool
- kick on the shins
- cut away
- be able to manage or manage successfully
- cough spasmodically
- fix a computer program piecemeal until it works
- kick on the arms
- (computing) To accomplish a difficult programming task.
- To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
- To play hackeysack.
- To drive a hackney cab.
- (ice hockey) To make a flailing attempt to hit the puck with a hockey stick.
- (transitive, slang, computing, by extension) To gain unauthorized access to a computer or online account belonging to (a person or organisation).
- (transitive) To strike lightly as part of tapotement massage.
- (falconry) To keep (young hawks) in a state of partial freedom, before they are trained.
- (intransitive, video games) To cheat by using unauthorized modifications.
- (transitive, colloquial, by extension) To apply a trick, shortcut, skill, or novel method to something to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.
- (baseball) To swing at a pitched ball.
- (computing) To make a quick code change to patch a computer program, often one that, while being effective, is inelegant or makes the program harder to maintain.
- (intransitive) To cough noisily.
- (equestrianism) To ride a horse at a regular pace; to ride on a road (as opposed to riding cross-country etc.).
- To withstand or put up with a difficult situation.
- (transitive) To chop or cut down in a rough manner.
- (computing, slang, transitive) To work with something on an intimately technical level.
- To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
- To strike in a frantic movement.
- To lay (bricks) on a rack to dry.
- (transitive, slang, computing) To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to (a computer system, e.g., a website, or network) by manipulating code.
- (soccer and rugby) To kick (a player) on the shins.
- (ice hockey) To strike an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
intj
noun
noun
- an agricultural tool used for lifting or digging; has a handle and metal prongs
- the region of the angle formed by the junction of two branches
- the angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk
- a utensil with two or more prongs, used for serving or eating food
- the act of branching out or dividing into branches
- Such a pronged tool having a long straight handle, generally for two-handed use, as used for digging, lifting, mucking, pitching, etc.
- (cycling, motorcycling, by abstraction from a pronged tool's shape) In a bicycle or motorcycle, the portion of the frameset holding the front wheel, allowing the rider to steer and balance, also called front fork.
- Any of several types of pronged tools for use on farms, in fields, or in the garden or lawn, such as a smaller hand fork for weeding or a larger one for turning over the soil.
- (mining) The bottom of a sump into which the water of a mine drains.
- (metonymic) Either of the (figurative) paths thus taken.
- (content management) Any of the pieces/versions of content thus created.
- (cryptocurrencies) A split in a blockchain resulting from protocol disagreements, or a branch of the blockchain resulting from such a split.
- (chess) The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).
- (figuratively, decision-making) A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.
- (software) Any of the software projects resulting from the launch of such separate software development efforts based upon a copy of the original project.
- A tuning fork.
- (content management) The splitting of the coverage of a topic (within a corpus of content) into two or more pieces.
- (by abstraction, from the tool shape) A point where a waterway, such as a river or other stream, splits and flows into two (or more) different directions.
- (colloquial) A forklift.
- (British, vulgar) The crotch.
- Either of the blades of a forklift (or, in plural, the set of blades), on which the goods to be raised are loaded.
- (metonymic) Any of the pieces/versions (of software, content, or data sets) thus created.
- (computing, file systems) A set of data associated with an individual file in some file systems.
- (software) The launch of one or more separate software development efforts based upon a modified copy of an existing project, especially in free and open-source software.
- (metonymic, analogous to any prong of a pronged tool) One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow.
- A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting, or for serving food.
- (physical) An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.
- (figurative) A decision point.
- The upper front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
verb
- lift with a pitchfork
- shape like a fork
- divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
- place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces
- (ambitransitive, software engineering) To launch a separate software development effort based upon a modified copy of an existing software project, especially in free and open-source software.
- (transitive) To move with a fork (as hay or food).
- (chess) To simultaneously attack two opposing pieces with a single attacking piece.
- (mining, transitive) To bale a shaft dry.
- (intransitive) To shoot into blades, as corn does.
- (ambitransitive, computing) To spawn a new child process by duplicating the existing process.
- (transitive, software engineering) To create a copy of a distributed version control repository.
- (transitive, British) To kick someone in the crotch.
- (transitive) Euphemistic form of fuck.
- (ambitransitive) To divide into two or more branches or copies.
noun
- The depth of the blade of a digging tool such as a spade or shovel.
- A narrow spade used in digging drainage trenches.
- (horticulture) A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot.
- (uncountable) Illicit profit by corrupt means, especially in public life.
- (horticulture) A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit.
- (uncountable, slang) A criminal’s special branch of practice.
- (uncountable, British, colloquial) Work; labor requiring effort.
- (countable, slang) A cut of the take (money).
- (uncountable, US, politics) A bribe, especially on an ongoing basis.
- (countable) A con job.
- (uncountable) Corruption in official life.
- (surgery) A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty.
- (countable, British, colloquial) A job or trade.
- (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient
- the act of grafting something onto something else
- the practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage
verb
- (transitive) To join (one thing) to another as if by grafting, so as to bring about a close union.
- (transitive) To insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of another tree; to propagate by insertion in another stock; also, to insert a graft upon.
- (intransitive) To insert scions (grafts) from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting.
- To obtain illegal gain from bribery or similar corrupt practices.
- (chemistry) To form a graft polymer
- (transitive, surgery) To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union.
- (transitive, nautical) To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope yarns.
- (colloquial, intransitive) To work hard.
- cause to grow together parts from different plants
- place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient
noun
- a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate
- an enclosure in which animals are made to fight
- (auto racing) an area at the side of a racetrack where the race cars are serviced and refueled
- lowered area in front of a stage where an orchestra accompanies the performers
- (commodity exchange) the part of the floor of a commodity exchange where trading in a particular commodity is carried on
- the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed
- (Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment
- a sizeable hole (usually in the ground)
- a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it
- a concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depression)
- a trap in the form of a concealed hole
- (medicine, slang) The emergency department of a hospital.
- An enclosed area into which gamecocks, dogs, and other animals are brought to fight, or where dogs are trained to kill rats.
- (slang) A mosh pit.
- The grave, underworld or Hell.
- (American football) The center of the line.
- (archaeology) A hole or trench in the ground, excavated according to grid coordinates, so that the provenance of any feature observed and any specimen or artifact revealed may be established by precise measurement.
- (botany) In tracheary elements, a section of the cell wall where the secondary wall is missing, and the primary wall is present. Pits generally occur in pairs and link two cells.
- A mine.
- (trading) A trading pit.
- Formerly, that part of a theatre, on the floor of the house, below the level of the stage and behind the orchestra; now, in England, commonly the part behind the stalls; in the United States, the parquet; also, the occupants of such a part of a theatre.
- (colloquial) An armpit.
- (music) The section of a marching band containing mallet percussion instruments and other large percussion instruments too large to be marched, such as the tam-tam; the front ensemble. Can also refer to the area on the sidelines where these instruments are placed.
- (aviation) A luggage hold.
- (in the plural, with the, slang) Only used in the pits.
- (informal) A pit bull terrier.
- (Northern US) A seed inside a fruit; a stone or pip inside a fruit.
- (countable) A small surface hole or depression, a fossa.
- (informal) An undesirable location, especially an unclean one.
- Short for dish pit
- (Antarctica and UK, military, slang) A bed.
- A hole in the ground.
- (military) The core of an implosion nuclear weapon, consisting of the fissile material and any neutron reflector or tamper bonded to it.
- (gambling) Part of a casino which typically holds tables for blackjack, craps, roulette, and other games.
- (figurative) A bleak, depressing state of mind.
- The indented mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox.
- On a compact disc or similar recording medium, a tiny sunken area representing part of the encoded data.
- (motor racing) An area at a racetrack used for refueling and repairing the vehicles during a race.
verb
- remove the pits from
- mark with a scar
- set into opposition or rivalry
- (transitive) To make pits in; to mark with little hollows.
- (transitive) To bring (something) into opposition with something else.
- To use the PIT maneuver, especially during a car chase.
- (intransitive, motor racing) To return to the pits during a race for refuelling, tyre changes, repairs etc.
- (transitive) To put (an animal) into a pit for fighting.
- (transitive) To remove the stone from a stone fruit or the shell from a drupe.
noun
- a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate
- animal hunted or caught for food
- a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence
- (mining) A site for mining stone, such as limestone, or slate.
- A diamond-shaped tile or pane, often of glass or stone.
- (countable) An object of search or pursuit.
- (uncountable) An animal, often a bird or mammal, which is hunted.
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verb
noun
- A garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging. Not to be confused with a shovel which is used for moving earth or other materials.
- a sturdy hand shovel that can be pushed into the earth with the foot
- a playing card in the major suit that has one or more black figures on it
- (card games) A playing card marked with the symbol ♠.
- (electrical engineering) A device for terminating an electrical conductor resembling a small spade.
- (now offensive, ethnic slur) A black person.
- A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.
verb
noun
- A sexually loose woman
- a tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle
- (when not otherwise specified) An agricultural and horticultural hand tool consisting of a long handle with a flat blade fixed perpendicular to it at the end, used for digging rows or removing weeds by hand.
- (Orkney, Shetland) The horned or piked dogfish, Squalus acanthias.
- Any of several implements or machines usually called by their more specific names, for example, backhoe.
- (slang, derogatory) Alternative spelling of ho (“whore, prostitute”).
- A piece of land that juts out towards the sea; a promontory.
verb
noun
- A garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging. Not to be confused with a shovel which is used for moving earth or other materials.
- a sturdy hand shovel that can be pushed into the earth with the foot
- a playing card in the major suit that has one or more black figures on it
- (card games) A playing card marked with the symbol ♠.
- (electrical engineering) A device for terminating an electrical conductor resembling a small spade.
- (now offensive, ethnic slur) A black person.
- A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.
verb
adj
noun
verb
- find by digging in the ground
- be shown or be found to be
- bend or lay so that one part covers the other
- discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining
- appear or become visible; make a showing
- (transitive) To reposition by rotating, flipping, etc., upwards.
- (intransitive, copulative) To show up; to appear suddenly or unexpectedly.
- (intransitive, slang) To party hard, especially when involving alcohol or drugs.
- (transitive, nautical) To belay or make fast (a line on a cleat or pin).
- (transitive) To cause to appear; to find by searching, etc.
- (transitive) To increase the amount of something by means of a control, such as the volume, heat, or light.
noun
verb
noun
- a fire iron consisting of a small shovel used to scoop coals or ashes in a fireplace
- a hand tool for lifting loose material; consists of a curved container or scoop and a handle
- a machine for excavating
- the quantity a shovel can hold
- Ellipsis of shovel hat.
- (especially US, loosely) Any shovel in the above senses, or any spade.
- A hand tool with a handle, used for moving portions of material such as earth, snow, and grain from one place to another, with some forms also used for digging. In strict usage differentiated from a spade, which is designed solely for small-scale digging and incidental tasks such as chopping of small roots.
- A mechanical part of an excavator with a similar function.
verb
- To break up ground with a hoe.
- (Northern UK, colloquial) To throw, chuck, lob.
- To construct using mud blocks or to seal a wall using mud or an artificial equivalent.
- (of growing corn) To have the heads mature into corncobs.
- To remove the kernels from a corncob.
- To beat with a flat instrument; to paddle.
- To chip off unwanted pieces of stone, so as to form a desired shape or improve the quality of mineral ore.
- To thresh.
noun
- A male swan.
- Any of the gold and silver coins that were minted in the Spanish Empire and valued in reales or escudos, such as the piece of eight—especially those which were crudely struck and irregularly shaped.
- (music, historical) A cylinder with pins in it, encoding music to be played back mechanically by a barrel organ.
- The seed-bearing head of a plant.
- A small fish, the miller's thumb.
- A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, stone, or excrement.
- A spider (cf. cobweb).
- A horse having a stout body and short legs.
- (uncountable) A building material consisting of clay, sand, straw, water, and earth, similar to adobe; also called cobb, rammed earth or pisé.
- Alternative form of COB.
- A corncob.
- Abbreviation of cobble.
- A punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the buttocks with a strap or a flat piece of wood.
- (Midlands) A round, often crusty roll or loaf of bread.
- A large fish, especially the kabeljou (variant spelling of kob).
- (East Anglia) A gull, especially the black-backed gull (Larus marinus); also spelled cobb.
- Clipping of cobnut.
- adult male swan
- white gull having a black back and wings
- stocky short-legged harness horse
- nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus
verb
- To dig out by means of a clamshell (dredging bucket).
- To compress or flatten underwater debris so as to avoid blocking a channel.
- (manufacturing) To deform a die in a shape resembling the shell of a clam, as a result of uneven extrusion pressure.
- (ambitransitive) To open or close by means of a hinge, similar to the way a clamshell opens and closes.
noun
- In food service, the closing box (usually styrofoam but sometimes cardboard) given to consumers with takeout food.
- (music) An amphitheater, especially an outdoor amphitheater; the semi-circular acoustic backdrop behind and above the performers.
- A hinged case for a video tape, cassette tape, or video game cartridge.
- A dredging bucket with hinges like the shell of a clam.
- The shell of a clam.
- Any object that, in (literal or figurative) resemblance to the shell of a clam, has a hinge on one edge and two surfaces that close together.
- (often attributive) Any object with some other resemblance to either one or both halves of the shell of a clam.
- a dredging bucket with hinges like the shell of a clam
- the shell of a clam
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noun
verb
- dig with the snout
- cheer for
- become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style
- come into existence, originate
- cause to take roots
- take root and begin to grow
- plant by the roots
- To fix firmly; to establish.
- (by extension) To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.
- To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
- (intransitive, with "for" or "on", US) To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of. (See root for.)
- (transitive) To root out; to abolish.
- (intransitive) To rummage; to search as if by digging in soil.
- (computing slang, transitive) To get root or privileged access on (a computer system or mobile phone), often through bypassing some security mechanism.
- (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, vulgar, slang) To sexually penetrate.
- (intransitive) Of a baby: to turn the head and open the mouth in search of food.
- (ambitransitive) To turn up or dig with the snout.
- (equestrianism, of a horse) To tug or pull at the reins aggressively by driving the head downwards while wearing a bit.
- To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings.
noun
- a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number
- the place where something begins, where it springs into being
- (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground
- a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes
- the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- the embedded part of a bodily structure such as a tooth, nail, or hair
- someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
- (slang) A penis, especially the base of a penis.
- The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction.
- (arithmetic) Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified number or expression.
- (computing) The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.
- (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
- (aviation) The section of a wing immediately adjacent to the fuselage.
- (mathematical analysis) A zero (of an equation).
- (music) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
- (arithmetic) A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, "the root of" is often abbreviated to "root").
- The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.
- (figurative) The primary source; origin.
- (graph theory, computing) The single node of a tree that has no parent.
- (engineering) The bottom of the thread of a threaded object.
- (computing) In UNIX terminology, the first user account with complete access to the operating system and its configuration, found at the root of the directory structure; the person who manages accounts on a UNIX system.
- The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
- An act of rummaging or searching.
- (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) A sexual partner.
- A root vegetable.
- (linguistic morphology) The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Inflectional stems often derive from roots.
- (linguistics) A word from which another word or words are derived.
- The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.
- The lowest place, position, or part.
verb
- dig with the snout
- cause to flee
- defeat disastrously
- make a groove in
- (transitive) Of a person: to say or shout (something) loudly.
- (transitive, chiefly US) Usually followed by from: to compel (someone) to leave a place; specifically (usually followed by out or up), to cause (someone) to get out of bed.
- (intransitive) Of a person: to search through belongings, a place, etc.; to rummage.
- (intransitive) Of an animal, especially cattle: to low or moo loudly; to bellow.
- (ambitransitive) Of an animal, especially a pig: to search (for something) in the ground with the snout; to root.
- (intransitive) Of a person: to speak loudly; to bellow, roar, to shout.
- (transitive) To dig or plough (earth or the ground); to till.
- (intransitive, chiefly England, regional) To snore, especially loudly.
- (intransitive, chiefly England, regional) To make a noise; to bellow, to roar, to snort.
- (ambitransitive) To use a gouge, router, or other tool to scoop out material (from a metallic, wooden, etc., surface), forming a groove or recess.
- (transitive) To completely defeat and force into disorderly retreat (an enemy force, opponent in sport, etc.).
- (transitive, figurative) Usually followed by out: to find and eradicate (something harmful or undesirable); to root out.
- (transitive) Usually followed by out or up: to dig or pull up (a plant) by the roots; to extirpate, to uproot.
- (transitive) Usually followed by out or up: of a person: to search for and find (something); also (transitive) to completely empty or clear out (something).
noun
- an overwhelming defeat
- a disorderly crowd of people
- (countable) A group of (often violent) criminals or gangsters; such people as a class; (more generally) a disorderly and tumultuous crowd, a mob; hence (archaic, preceded by the), the common people as a group, the rabble.
- A lowing or mooing sound by an animal, especially cattle; a bellow, a moo.
- A loud shout; a bellow, a roar; also, an instance of loud and continued exclamation or shouting; a clamour, an outcry.
- (chiefly Scotland) A loud, resounding noise, especially one made by the sea, thunder, wind, etc.; a roar.
- (originally military) The act of completely defeating an army or other enemy force, causing it to retreat in a disorganized manner; (by extension) in politics, sport, etc.: a convincing defeat; a thrashing, a trouncing.
- (countable, law, historical) An illegal assembly of people; specifically, three or more people who have come together intending to do something illegal, and who have taken steps towards this, regarded as more serious than an unlawful assembly but not as serious as a riot; the act of assembling in this manner.
- (countable) A group of disorganized things.
- (military, also figurative) The retreat of an enemy force, etc., in this manner; also (archaic, rare), the army, enemy force, etc., so retreating.
verb
verb
- dig a trench or trenches
- (archaeology) To excavate an elongated and often narrow pit.
- fortify by surrounding with trenches
- impinge or infringe upon
- cut a trench in, as for drainage
- set, plant, or bury in a trench
- cut or carve deeply into
- To have direction; to aim or tend.
- To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.
- To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next.
- (usually followed by upon) To invade, especially with regard to the rights or the exclusive authority of another; to encroach.
- (military, infantry) To excavate an elongated pit for protection of soldiers and or equipment, usually perpendicular to the line of sight toward the enemy.
- To cut furrows or ditches in.
noun
- a ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth
- a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor
- any long ditch cut in the ground
- (archaeology) A pit, usually rectangular with smooth walls and floor, excavated during an archaeological investigation.
- A long, narrow ditch or hole dug in the ground.
- (informal) A trench coat.
- (military) A narrow excavation as used in warfare, as a cover for besieging or emplaced forces.
verb
- dig out with the snout
- move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position
- rub noses
- Often followed by in or into: to press or push the nose or snout, mouth, face, etc., against or into someone or something; to touch someone or something with the nose or snout, etc.
- Followed by down: to settle or lie comfortably and snugly in a bed, nest, etc.; to nestle.
- Chiefly of an animal: to dig (something, especially food) out of the ground using the nose or snout; to root.
- To rub or touch (someone or something) with the nose, face, etc., or an object.
- Chiefly followed by up or with: to press affectionately against someone or something; to nestle, to snuggle.
- Chiefly of an animal: to push the nose or snout into the ground to dig for something, especially food; to root, to rootle.
- To push or thrust (the nose or snout, face or muzzle, or head, or an object) against or into something.
- (figurative) To come into close contact with someone or something.
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verb
verb
noun
- A piece of excavating equipment, either an integral subassembly or an attachment, consisting of a digging bucket or scoop on the end of an articulated arm, drawn backwards to move earth; used in excavator/digger and backhoe tractors.
- (chiefly US, Canada, Australia) Ellipsis of backhoe loader: A multi-purpose tractor with a front-mounted loading bucket and a rear-mounted digging bucket. The tractor combines a front-end loader/loader (component) and an excavator/digger (component).
- Ellipsis of backhoe tractor: A specialized tractor with the backhoe subassembly. This type of tractor has been superceded by the backhoe loader and trackhoe in most roles.
- an excavator whose shovel bucket is attached to a hinged boom and is drawn backward to move earth
noun
- the act of digging
- the site of an archeological exploration
- an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
- the act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow
- a small gouge (as in the cover of a book)
- An archeological or paleontological investigation, or the site where such an investigation is taking place.
- The occupation of digging for gold.
- (music, slang) A rare or interesting vinyl record bought second-hand.
- (medicine, colloquial) Digoxin.
- (cricket) An innings.
- A thrust; a poke.
- (volleyball) A defensive pass of the ball that has been attacked by the opposing team.
- A cutting, sarcastic remark.
verb
- create by digging
- remove, harvest, or recover by digging
- remove the inner part or the core of
- get the meaning of something
- turn up, loosen, or remove earth
- thrust down or into
- work hard
- poke or thrust abruptly
- (transitive) To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up.
- (mining) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
- (volleyball) To defend against an attack hit by the opposing team by successfully passing the ball
- To thrust; to poke.
- (figurative) To investigate, to research, often followed by out or up.
- (transitive, intransitive) To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way.
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