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noun
- an (apparently) flying object whose nature is unknown; especially those considered to have extraterrestrial origins
- Initialism of unidentified flying object; (loosely) an alien spacecraft.
- (colloquial) An "unfinished object" in knitting or other kinds of craft.
- (astronomy) Initialism of ultrared flattened object.
noun
- an (apparently) flying object whose nature is unknown; especially those considered to have extraterrestrial origins
- (science fiction) An alien interplanetary vessel, typically disc-shaped and of metallic construction.
- (informal) A disc-shaped unidentified flying object or UFO; originally in reference to sightings by aviator Kenneth Arnold in Washington in 1947.
- A form of confectionery, a small spheroidal capsule of rice paper filled with sherbet.
noun
- an (apparently) flying object whose nature is unknown; especially those considered to have extraterrestrial origins
- (colloquial) An alien spacecraft.
- (especially and originally) Such things as seem to be discrete objects and comparable to aircraft.
- Anything not readily explainable appearing to move through or be suspended in the air.
noun
- A flight past a celestial object in order to make observations.
- (figurative) A brief visit.
- (computer graphics) A three-dimensional animated sequence in which the camera moves past an object or scenery.
- (nautical) A sailby performed by a hydrofoil vessel while hydrofoiling.
- (US) A low-level ceremonial flight, typically in connection with an airshow or a military parade.
noun
- A celestial phenomenon with the appearance of such a body.
- (astronomy) A small Solar System body consisting mainly of volatile ice, dust and particles of rock whose very eccentric solar orbit periodically brings it close enough to the Sun that the ice vaporises to form an atmosphere, or coma, which may be blown by the solar wind to produce a visible tail.
- Any of several species of hummingbird found in the Andes.
- (astronomy) a relatively small extraterrestrial body consisting of a frozen mass that travels around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit
noun
- A bizarre or whimsical creature.
- (informal) A prodigy; someone very talented in a specific domain.
- (gaming) A non-player character that player(s) fight against in role-playing games; a mob
- (figuratively, humorous) A badly behaved person, especially a child; a brat.
- A terrifying and dangerous creature, especially one of an imaginary or mythical kind.
- A cruel, heartless, or antisocial person, especially a criminal.
- (informal) Something very or unusually large.
- someone that is abnormally large and powerful
- a cruel wicked and inhuman person
- a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed
- an imaginary creature usually having various human and animal parts
- (medicine) a grossly malformed and usually nonviable fetus
adj
verb
- (intransitive) To behave as a monster to; to terrorise.
- (chiefly Australia) To harass.
- (informal, British, transitive) To condemn or reprimand.
- (UK, live action roleplaying games) To play (a series of) non-player characters as directed, without having the responsibility of organising the game itself; generally not limited to playing literal monsters or hostile combatants.
- (transitive) To make into a monster; to categorise as a monster; to demonise.
noun
- A living creature.
- (philosophy) That which has actuality (materially or in concept).
- (philosophy) One's basic nature, or the qualities thereof; essence or personality.
- The state or fact of existence, consciousness, or life, or something in such a state.
- a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently
- the state or fact of existing
conj
verb
noun
- An unidentified, mysterious, and often monstrous animal or being.
- A living being, such as an animal, monster, or alien.
- (sometimes derogatory) A human.
- (now uncommon, religion) A created thing, whether animate or inanimate; a creation.
- A being subservient to or dependent upon another.
- a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
- a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else
- a living being
adj
- Pertaining to extraterrestrial life; typical of an extraterrestrial creature.
- Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign.
- Very unfamiliar, strange, or removed.
- not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something
- being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world
noun
- Any life form of extraterrestrial or extradimensional origin.
- One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged.
- A citizen or national of another sovereign state.
- A person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration.
- (sometimes derogatory) A mischievous or suspicious foreigner.
- a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country
- anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found
- a form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere
verb
noun
- A vehicle for exploring extraterrestrial bodies.
- (archery, usually in the plural) A randomly selected target.
- (American football) A defensive back position whose coverage responsibilities are a hybrid of those of a cornerback, safety and linebacker.
- One who roves, a wanderer, a nomad.
- A pirate ship.
- A vagabond, a tramp, an unsteady, restless person, one who by habit doesn't settle down or marry.
- A pirate.
- A remotely-operated vehicle.
- (baseball) The tenth defensive player in slow-pitch softball.
- (croquet) A ball which has passed through all the hoops and would go out if it hit the stake but is continued in play; also, the player of such a ball.
- (Australian Rules football) A position that is one of three of a team's followers, who follow the ball around the ground. Formerly a position for short players, rovers in professional leagues are frequently over 183 cm (6').
- someone who leads a wandering unsettled life
- an adult member of the Boy Scouts movement
noun
- An astronomical object.
- (religion, chiefly Christianity) The recreated, angel-like body that people will have in heaven.
- A natural celestial object, visible in the sky, such as a star, planet, natural satellite, asteroid, comet, the Moon or the Sun. Objects flying or moving in the atmosphere are not usually considered as heavenly bodies.
- natural objects visible in the sky
noun
adj
noun
noun
adj
noun
adj
name
noun
- A fictional winged monster.
- Any decorative carved grotesque figure on a building.
- (derogatory) An ugly woman.
- A carved grotesque figure on a spout which conveys water away from the gutters.
- a spout that terminates in a grotesquely carved figure of a person or animal
- an ornament consisting of a grotesquely carved figure of a person or animal
adv
- (chiefly sports) Over a great distance in space.
- Over too great a distance, beyond the target.
- (placed before a verb, participle, adjective, preposition, or adverb) For a long time.
- A long time (see usage notes).
- For a particular duration (specified by additional qualifying words accompanying it).
- (placed by itself after a positive verb, rare) For a long time.
- for an extended distance
- for an extended time or at a distant time
adj
- (Canada, US, of paper or document layouts) Measuring 8½ in × 13 in.
- (sports, of a ball or shot) Going beyond the intended target.
- (cricket) Of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent short position).
- Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away.
- Specifically, having much distance in a horizontal dimension (see also Usage Notes below).
- (slang, MLE) Clipping of taking a long time.
- (informal) Having a long penis.
- (African-American Vernacular, MLE, slang, of money) In great supply; abundant.
- (slang, MLE, by extension) serious; deadly.
- (gambling) Of betting odds, offering a very large return for a small wager.
- (of weapons fire, landing aircraft, etc.) Passing or landing ahead of or beyond the intended target or location.
- Seeming to last a lot of time, due to being boring, tedious, tiring, irksome, etc.
- (slang, MLE, by extension) stupid; annoying; bullshit
- Having great duration.
- (Philippines, of paper or document layouts) Measuring 8½ in × 14 in.
- (finance) Possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities, or other financial instruments with the aim of benefiting from an expected rise in their value.
- Travelling a great distance.
- Having much distance in space from one end to the other.
- primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified
- of relatively great height
- having or being more than normal or necessary
- planning prudently for the future
- primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified
- holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices
- (of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration
- good at remembering
- involving substantial risk
noun
- (music) A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.
- (finance) An entity with a long position in an asset; for example, a trader or investor possessing an amount of a company's shares.
- (prosody) A long syllable.
- (programming) A long integer variable, twice the size of an int, two or four times the size of a short, and half of a long long.
- Abbreviation of longitude.
- (finance) A long-maturity security, such as a ten- or twenty-year bond.
- (linguistics) A long vowel.
verb
noun
- A living being or creature.
- (slang, euphemistic) A vulva or vagina.
- An individual object or distinct entity.
- (in the plural) Possessions or equipment; stuff; gear.
- (informal) A problem, dilemma, or complicating factor.
- (MLE) Alternative form of ting.
- (informal) A romantic couple.
- (MLE) Girl; attractive woman.
- (chiefly historical) A public assembly or judicial council in a Germanic country.
- (informal) A romantic relationship.
- (informal) A unit or container, usually containing consumable goods.
- (slang, euphemistic) A penis.
- (informal, used possessively, chiefly in the negative) That which is favoured; personal preference.
- (informal, with a) A genuine concept, entity or phenomenon; something that actually exists (often contrary to expectation or belief).
- Corporeal object.
- (informal) A custom or practice.
- Whatever can be owned.
- (informal, used possessively, with "do") One's typical routine, habits, or manner.
- A word, symbol, sign, or other referent that can be used to refer to any entity.
- That which is considered to exist as a separate entity, object, quality or concept.
- (informal, with the) The central point; the crux.
- Used after a noun to refer dismissively to the situation surrounding the noun's referent.
- a special situation
- a vaguely specified concern
- a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion
- an action
- a statement regarded as an object
- an entity that is not named specifically
- an artifact
- an event
- a separate and self-contained entity
- a special abstraction
- any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence
- a special objective
verb
noun
- (science fiction) A similar projectile that can travel through space.
- (historical) An automobile with a streamlined profile and a folding or detachable soft top, and having the hood or bonnet line raised to be level with the car's waistline, resulting in a straight beltline from front to back.
- (slang, chiefly US, usually in the plural) A large breast; a breast with a large nipple.
- (Northeastern US) Synonym of submarine sandwich.
- (zoology) An electric ray of the genus Torpedo.
- (neuroscience) A focal ovoid swelling on the axons of Purkinje cells, observed in several diseases such as essential tremor and spinocerebellar ataxia.
- (slang, chiefly US, usually in the plural) A woman's shoe with a pointed toe.
- A kind of firework in the form of a small ball, or pellet, which explodes when thrown upon a hard object.
- (slang) A professional gunman or assassin.
- A thick marijuana cigarette.
- (military) A cylindrical explosive projectile that can travel underwater and is used as a weapon.
- A cigarette containing marijuana and crack cocaine.
- (rail transport, US) A small explosive device attached to the top of the rail to provide an audible warning when a train passes over it.
- armament consisting of a long cylindrical self-propelled underwater projectile that detonates on contact with a target
- an explosive device that is set off in an oil well (or a gas well) to start or to increase the flow of oil (or gas)
- any sluggish bottom-dwelling ray of the order Torpediniformes having a rounded body and electric organs on each side of the head capable of emitting strong electric discharges
- a small firework that consists of a percussion cap and some gravel wrapped in paper; explodes when thrown forcefully against a hard surface
- a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States
- a professional killer who uses a gun
- a small explosive device that is placed on a railroad track and fires when a train runs over it; the sound of the explosion warns the engineer of danger ahead
verb
prep_phrase
noun
adj
noun
- A mythical human or humanoid of very great size.
- Any of the gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology.
- A tall species of a particular animal or plant.
- (computing) An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes.
- A very tall and large person.
- A very large organization.
- (astronomy) A star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature.
- A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.
- An eoten or jotun.
- (gymnastics) A maneuver involving a full rotation around an axis while fully extended.
- a person of exceptional importance and reputation
- a very bright star of large diameter and low density (relative to the Sun)
- someone that is abnormally large and powerful
- an unusually large enterprise
- a very large person; impressive in size or qualities
- an imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength; appears in folklore and fairy tales
- any creature of exceptional size
adj
noun
- an elemental being believed to inhabit the air
- a slender graceful young woman
- The elemental being of air, usually female.
- (mythology) An invisible being of the air.
- (by extension) A slender woman or girl, usually graceful and sometimes with the implication of sublime station over everyday people.
- (ornithology) Any of the mainly dark green and blue hummingbirds (genus Aglaiocercus), the male of which has a long forked tail.
noun
- (chiefly science fiction) A conventional fictional alien from outer space in the form of a small humanoid with green skin.
- (folklore) A type of diminutive sprite or fairy that wears green clothing.
- (humorous) One of the supposed extraterrestrial occupants of a UFO.
- (geopolitics, euphemistic, usually in the plural) A soldier (wearing green military fatigues) without identification in order to create an air of uncertainty around their allegiance.
noun
- A distance in space.
- (sports) half time, a scheduled intermission between the periods of play.
- (chiefly British and India) An intermission.
- A period of time.
- (music) The difference (a ratio or logarithmic measure) in pitch between two notes, often referring to those two pitches themselves (otherwise known as a dyad).
- (mathematics) A connected section of the real line which may be empty or have a length of zero.
- (cricket) Either of the two breaks, at lunch and tea, between the three sessions of a day's play.
- a definite length of time marked off by two instants
- the difference in pitch between two notes
- the distance between things
- a set containing all points (or all real numbers) between two given endpoints
noun
noun
- winged monster with the head of an eagle and the body of a lion
- A mythical beast having the body of a lion and the wings and head of an eagle.
- An English variety of apple.
- A griffon vulture, a large vulture (Gyps fulvus) found in the mountainous parts of Southern Europe, North Africa, and Asia Minor, supposed to be the "eagle" of the Bible.
- A cadet newly arrived in British India: half English, half Indian.
- A watchful guardian, especially a duenna in charge of a young woman.
noun
- winged monster with the head of an eagle and the body of a lion
- breed of various very small compact wiry-coated dogs of Belgian origin having a short bearded muzzle
- breed of medium-sized long-headed dogs with downy undercoat and harsh wiry outer coat; originated in Holland but largely developed in France
- large vulture of southern Europe and northern Africa having pale plumage with black wings
- Alternative form of griffin (legendary creature)
- A griffon vulture.
- A breed of dog usually called the Brussels griffon, reminiscent of the legendary creature.
noun
noun
- an (apparently) flying object whose nature is unknown; especially those considered to have extraterrestrial origins
- Initialism of unidentified flying object; (loosely) an alien spacecraft.
- (colloquial) An "unfinished object" in knitting or other kinds of craft.
- (astronomy) Initialism of ultrared flattened object.
noun
- an (apparently) flying object whose nature is unknown; especially those considered to have extraterrestrial origins
- (science fiction) An alien interplanetary vessel, typically disc-shaped and of metallic construction.
- (informal) A disc-shaped unidentified flying object or UFO; originally in reference to sightings by aviator Kenneth Arnold in Washington in 1947.
- A form of confectionery, a small spheroidal capsule of rice paper filled with sherbet.
noun
- an (apparently) flying object whose nature is unknown; especially those considered to have extraterrestrial origins
- (colloquial) An alien spacecraft.
- (especially and originally) Such things as seem to be discrete objects and comparable to aircraft.
- Anything not readily explainable appearing to move through or be suspended in the air.
noun
- A flight past a celestial object in order to make observations.
- (figurative) A brief visit.
- (computer graphics) A three-dimensional animated sequence in which the camera moves past an object or scenery.
- (nautical) A sailby performed by a hydrofoil vessel while hydrofoiling.
- (US) A low-level ceremonial flight, typically in connection with an airshow or a military parade.
noun
- A celestial phenomenon with the appearance of such a body.
- (astronomy) A small Solar System body consisting mainly of volatile ice, dust and particles of rock whose very eccentric solar orbit periodically brings it close enough to the Sun that the ice vaporises to form an atmosphere, or coma, which may be blown by the solar wind to produce a visible tail.
- Any of several species of hummingbird found in the Andes.
- (astronomy) a relatively small extraterrestrial body consisting of a frozen mass that travels around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit
noun
- A bizarre or whimsical creature.
- (informal) A prodigy; someone very talented in a specific domain.
- (gaming) A non-player character that player(s) fight against in role-playing games; a mob
- (figuratively, humorous) A badly behaved person, especially a child; a brat.
- A terrifying and dangerous creature, especially one of an imaginary or mythical kind.
- A cruel, heartless, or antisocial person, especially a criminal.
- (informal) Something very or unusually large.
- someone that is abnormally large and powerful
- a cruel wicked and inhuman person
- a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed
- an imaginary creature usually having various human and animal parts
- (medicine) a grossly malformed and usually nonviable fetus
adj
verb
- (intransitive) To behave as a monster to; to terrorise.
- (chiefly Australia) To harass.
- (informal, British, transitive) To condemn or reprimand.
- (UK, live action roleplaying games) To play (a series of) non-player characters as directed, without having the responsibility of organising the game itself; generally not limited to playing literal monsters or hostile combatants.
- (transitive) To make into a monster; to categorise as a monster; to demonise.
noun
- A living creature.
- (philosophy) That which has actuality (materially or in concept).
- (philosophy) One's basic nature, or the qualities thereof; essence or personality.
- The state or fact of existence, consciousness, or life, or something in such a state.
- a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently
- the state or fact of existing
conj
verb
noun
- An unidentified, mysterious, and often monstrous animal or being.
- A living being, such as an animal, monster, or alien.
- (sometimes derogatory) A human.
- (now uncommon, religion) A created thing, whether animate or inanimate; a creation.
- A being subservient to or dependent upon another.
- a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
- a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else
- a living being
noun
- A vehicle for exploring extraterrestrial bodies.
- (archery, usually in the plural) A randomly selected target.
- (American football) A defensive back position whose coverage responsibilities are a hybrid of those of a cornerback, safety and linebacker.
- One who roves, a wanderer, a nomad.
- A pirate ship.
- A vagabond, a tramp, an unsteady, restless person, one who by habit doesn't settle down or marry.
- A pirate.
- A remotely-operated vehicle.
- (baseball) The tenth defensive player in slow-pitch softball.
- (croquet) A ball which has passed through all the hoops and would go out if it hit the stake but is continued in play; also, the player of such a ball.
- (Australian Rules football) A position that is one of three of a team's followers, who follow the ball around the ground. Formerly a position for short players, rovers in professional leagues are frequently over 183 cm (6').
- someone who leads a wandering unsettled life
- an adult member of the Boy Scouts movement
noun
- An astronomical object.
- (religion, chiefly Christianity) The recreated, angel-like body that people will have in heaven.
- A natural celestial object, visible in the sky, such as a star, planet, natural satellite, asteroid, comet, the Moon or the Sun. Objects flying or moving in the atmosphere are not usually considered as heavenly bodies.
- natural objects visible in the sky
noun
adj
noun
noun
adj
noun
adj
name
noun
- A fictional winged monster.
- Any decorative carved grotesque figure on a building.
- (derogatory) An ugly woman.
- A carved grotesque figure on a spout which conveys water away from the gutters.
- a spout that terminates in a grotesquely carved figure of a person or animal
- an ornament consisting of a grotesquely carved figure of a person or animal
noun
- A living being or creature.
- (slang, euphemistic) A vulva or vagina.
- An individual object or distinct entity.
- (in the plural) Possessions or equipment; stuff; gear.
- (informal) A problem, dilemma, or complicating factor.
- (MLE) Alternative form of ting.
- (informal) A romantic couple.
- (MLE) Girl; attractive woman.
- (chiefly historical) A public assembly or judicial council in a Germanic country.
- (informal) A romantic relationship.
- (informal) A unit or container, usually containing consumable goods.
- (slang, euphemistic) A penis.
- (informal, used possessively, chiefly in the negative) That which is favoured; personal preference.
- (informal, with a) A genuine concept, entity or phenomenon; something that actually exists (often contrary to expectation or belief).
- Corporeal object.
- (informal) A custom or practice.
- Whatever can be owned.
- (informal, used possessively, with "do") One's typical routine, habits, or manner.
- A word, symbol, sign, or other referent that can be used to refer to any entity.
- That which is considered to exist as a separate entity, object, quality or concept.
- (informal, with the) The central point; the crux.
- Used after a noun to refer dismissively to the situation surrounding the noun's referent.
- a special situation
- a vaguely specified concern
- a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion
- an action
- a statement regarded as an object
- an entity that is not named specifically
- an artifact
- an event
- a separate and self-contained entity
- a special abstraction
- any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence
- a special objective
verb
noun
- (science fiction) A similar projectile that can travel through space.
- (historical) An automobile with a streamlined profile and a folding or detachable soft top, and having the hood or bonnet line raised to be level with the car's waistline, resulting in a straight beltline from front to back.
- (slang, chiefly US, usually in the plural) A large breast; a breast with a large nipple.
- (Northeastern US) Synonym of submarine sandwich.
- (zoology) An electric ray of the genus Torpedo.
- (neuroscience) A focal ovoid swelling on the axons of Purkinje cells, observed in several diseases such as essential tremor and spinocerebellar ataxia.
- (slang, chiefly US, usually in the plural) A woman's shoe with a pointed toe.
- A kind of firework in the form of a small ball, or pellet, which explodes when thrown upon a hard object.
- (slang) A professional gunman or assassin.
- A thick marijuana cigarette.
- (military) A cylindrical explosive projectile that can travel underwater and is used as a weapon.
- A cigarette containing marijuana and crack cocaine.
- (rail transport, US) A small explosive device attached to the top of the rail to provide an audible warning when a train passes over it.
- armament consisting of a long cylindrical self-propelled underwater projectile that detonates on contact with a target
- an explosive device that is set off in an oil well (or a gas well) to start or to increase the flow of oil (or gas)
- any sluggish bottom-dwelling ray of the order Torpediniformes having a rounded body and electric organs on each side of the head capable of emitting strong electric discharges
- a small firework that consists of a percussion cap and some gravel wrapped in paper; explodes when thrown forcefully against a hard surface
- a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States
- a professional killer who uses a gun
- a small explosive device that is placed on a railroad track and fires when a train runs over it; the sound of the explosion warns the engineer of danger ahead
verb
noun
adj
noun
- A mythical human or humanoid of very great size.
- Any of the gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology.
- A tall species of a particular animal or plant.
- (computing) An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes.
- A very tall and large person.
- A very large organization.
- (astronomy) A star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature.
- A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.
- An eoten or jotun.
- (gymnastics) A maneuver involving a full rotation around an axis while fully extended.
- a person of exceptional importance and reputation
- a very bright star of large diameter and low density (relative to the Sun)
- someone that is abnormally large and powerful
- an unusually large enterprise
- a very large person; impressive in size or qualities
- an imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength; appears in folklore and fairy tales
- any creature of exceptional size
adj
noun
- an elemental being believed to inhabit the air
- a slender graceful young woman
- The elemental being of air, usually female.
- (mythology) An invisible being of the air.
- (by extension) A slender woman or girl, usually graceful and sometimes with the implication of sublime station over everyday people.
- (ornithology) Any of the mainly dark green and blue hummingbirds (genus Aglaiocercus), the male of which has a long forked tail.
noun
- (chiefly science fiction) A conventional fictional alien from outer space in the form of a small humanoid with green skin.
- (folklore) A type of diminutive sprite or fairy that wears green clothing.
- (humorous) One of the supposed extraterrestrial occupants of a UFO.
- (geopolitics, euphemistic, usually in the plural) A soldier (wearing green military fatigues) without identification in order to create an air of uncertainty around their allegiance.
noun
- A distance in space.
- (sports) half time, a scheduled intermission between the periods of play.
- (chiefly British and India) An intermission.
- A period of time.
- (music) The difference (a ratio or logarithmic measure) in pitch between two notes, often referring to those two pitches themselves (otherwise known as a dyad).
- (mathematics) A connected section of the real line which may be empty or have a length of zero.
- (cricket) Either of the two breaks, at lunch and tea, between the three sessions of a day's play.
- a definite length of time marked off by two instants
- the difference in pitch between two notes
- the distance between things
- a set containing all points (or all real numbers) between two given endpoints
noun
noun
- winged monster with the head of an eagle and the body of a lion
- A mythical beast having the body of a lion and the wings and head of an eagle.
- An English variety of apple.
- A griffon vulture, a large vulture (Gyps fulvus) found in the mountainous parts of Southern Europe, North Africa, and Asia Minor, supposed to be the "eagle" of the Bible.
- A cadet newly arrived in British India: half English, half Indian.
- A watchful guardian, especially a duenna in charge of a young woman.
noun
- winged monster with the head of an eagle and the body of a lion
- breed of various very small compact wiry-coated dogs of Belgian origin having a short bearded muzzle
- breed of medium-sized long-headed dogs with downy undercoat and harsh wiry outer coat; originated in Holland but largely developed in France
- large vulture of southern Europe and northern Africa having pale plumage with black wings
- Alternative form of griffin (legendary creature)
- A griffon vulture.
- A breed of dog usually called the Brussels griffon, reminiscent of the legendary creature.
noun
adv
- (chiefly sports) Over a great distance in space.
- Over too great a distance, beyond the target.
- (placed before a verb, participle, adjective, preposition, or adverb) For a long time.
- A long time (see usage notes).
- For a particular duration (specified by additional qualifying words accompanying it).
- (placed by itself after a positive verb, rare) For a long time.
- for an extended distance
- for an extended time or at a distant time
adj
- (Canada, US, of paper or document layouts) Measuring 8½ in × 13 in.
- (sports, of a ball or shot) Going beyond the intended target.
- (cricket) Of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent short position).
- Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away.
- Specifically, having much distance in a horizontal dimension (see also Usage Notes below).
- (slang, MLE) Clipping of taking a long time.
- (informal) Having a long penis.
- (African-American Vernacular, MLE, slang, of money) In great supply; abundant.
- (slang, MLE, by extension) serious; deadly.
- (gambling) Of betting odds, offering a very large return for a small wager.
- (of weapons fire, landing aircraft, etc.) Passing or landing ahead of or beyond the intended target or location.
- Seeming to last a lot of time, due to being boring, tedious, tiring, irksome, etc.
- (slang, MLE, by extension) stupid; annoying; bullshit
- Having great duration.
- (Philippines, of paper or document layouts) Measuring 8½ in × 14 in.
- (finance) Possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities, or other financial instruments with the aim of benefiting from an expected rise in their value.
- Travelling a great distance.
- Having much distance in space from one end to the other.
- primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified
- of relatively great height
- having or being more than normal or necessary
- planning prudently for the future
- primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified
- holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices
- (of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration
- good at remembering
- involving substantial risk
noun
- (music) A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.
- (finance) An entity with a long position in an asset; for example, a trader or investor possessing an amount of a company's shares.
- (prosody) A long syllable.
- (programming) A long integer variable, twice the size of an int, two or four times the size of a short, and half of a long long.
- Abbreviation of longitude.
- (finance) A long-maturity security, such as a ten- or twenty-year bond.
- (linguistics) A long vowel.
verb
adj
- Pertaining to extraterrestrial life; typical of an extraterrestrial creature.
- Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign.
- Very unfamiliar, strange, or removed.
- not contained in or deriving from the essential nature of something
- being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world
noun
- Any life form of extraterrestrial or extradimensional origin.
- One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged.
- A citizen or national of another sovereign state.
- A person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration.
- (sometimes derogatory) A mischievous or suspicious foreigner.
- a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country
- anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found
- a form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere