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- A small banner.
- (military, historical) A proposed but unadopted senior commissioned rank of the Royal Air Force equivalent to group captain.
- A civil officer in some Swiss cantons.
- (law, historical) Clipping of knight banneret, a knight entitled to subinfeudate his estate and to lead men in battle under his own banner.
- a knight honored for valor; entitled to display a square banner and to hold higher command
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- An advertisement to be posted on a pole, wall etc. to advertise something.
- a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement
- (Internet) One who posts a message.
- (basketball) A dunk over a defending player.
- A picture of a celebrity, an event etc., intended to be attached to a wall.
- (ice hockey, slang) A shot that hits a goalpost instead of passing into the goal.
- (Australian rules football, informal) A shot that hits a goalpost, scoring one point.
- someone who pastes up bills or placards on walls or billboards
- a horse kept at an inn or post house for use by mail carriers or for rent to travelers
noun
- (advertising) A handbill consisting of an advertisement.
- (entomology) A moth of the species Scoliopteryx libatrix.
- A harbinger, giving signs of things to come.
- Alternative form of hareld (“long-tailed duck”).
- A messenger, especially one bringing important news.
- (heraldry) An official whose speciality is heraldry, especially one between the ranks of pursuivant and king-of-arms
- something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone
- (formal) a person who announces important news
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- (advertising) A preliminary sketch.
- Any element of something that depends on sight.
- An image; a picture; a graphic.
- (in the plural) All the visual elements of a multimedia presentation or entertainment, usually in contrast with normal text or audio.
- (marching band) Any element of a show done by a marching band besides the marching and playing of instruments.
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- structure displaying a board on which advertisements can be posted
- a gesture that is part of a sign language
- any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message
- having an indicated pole (as the distinction between positive and negative electric charges)
- a public display of a message
- a perceptible indication of something not immediately apparent (as a visible clue that something has happened)
- (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided
- an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come
- (medicine) any objective evidence of the presence of a disorder or disease
- a character indicating a relation between quantities
- a fundamental linguistic unit linking a signifier to that which is signified
- (Canada, US, Australia, uncountable) Physical evidence left by an animal.
- A semantic unit, something that conveys meaning or information (e.g. a word of written language); (linguistics, semiotics) a unit consisting of a signifier and a signified concept. (See sign (semiotics).)
- (astrology) An astrological sign.
- (medicine) A property of the body that indicates a disease and, unlike a symptom, can be detected objectively by someone other than the patient.
- A wonder; miracle; prodigy.
- A mark or another symbol used to represent something.
- A clearly visible object, generally flat, bearing a short message in words or pictures.
- (mathematics) Positive or negative polarity, as denoted by the + or - sign.
- An omen.
- A military emblem carried on a banner or standard.
- (countable, uncountable) A visible fact that shows that something exists or may happen.
- (uncountable) Sign language in general.
- A specific gesture or motion used to communicate by those with speaking or hearing difficulties; now specifically, a linguistic unit in sign language equivalent to word in spoken languages.
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- communicate in sign language
- make the sign of the cross over someone in order to call on God for protection; consecrate
- be engaged by a written agreement
- place signs, as along a road
- engage by written agreement
- mark with one's signature; write one's name (on)
- approve and express assent, responsibility, or obligation
- communicate silently and non-verbally by signals or signs
- (intransitive) To use sign language.
- (transitive) To communicate using gestures to (someone).
- (transitive or reflexive) To write (one's name) as a signature.
- (transitive) To furnish (a road etc.) with signs.
- (intransitive) To communicate using a gesture or signal.
- (intransitive) To finalise a contractual agreement to work for a given sports team, record label etc.
- (transitive) To validate or ratify (a document) by writing one's signature on it.
- (transitive) To calculate or derive whether a quantity has a positive or negative sign.
- (intransitive) To write one's signature.
- (transitive) To mark, to put or leave a mark on.
- (transitive) To engage (a sports player, musician etc.) in a contract.
- (reflexive) To cross oneself.
- To determine the sign of
- (transitive) More generally, to write one's signature on (something) as a means of identification etc.
- (transitive) To bless (someone or something) with the sign of the cross; to mark with the sign of the cross.
- (transitive) To communicate or make known (a meaning, intention, etc.) by a sign.
noun
- A small sheet of paper containing information, used for dissemination of said information, often an advertisement.
- (botany) One of the components of a compound leaf.
- (botany) A small plant leaf.
- (anatomy) A flap of a valve of a heart or blood vessel.
- a thin triangular flap of a heart valve
- part of a compound leaf
- a small book usually having a paper cover
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- A small label.
- (chiefly US) A vehicle number plate; a medal bearing identification data (animals, soldiers).
- (heading) Signature.
- The last line (or last two lines) of a song's chorus that is repeated to indicate the end of the song.
- (heading) Physical appendage.
- (slang) A person's name.
- (computing) A piece of markup representing an element in a markup language.
- Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely.
- (informal, authorship) An attribution in narrated dialogue (eg, "he said") or attributed words (e.g. "he thought").
- (biochemistry) Any short peptide sequence artificially attached to proteins mostly in order to help purify, solubilize or visualize these proteins.
- (computing) A keyword, term, or phrase associated with or assigned to data, media, and/or information enabling keyword-based classification; often used to categorize content.
- A skin tag, an excrescence of skin.
- Graffiti in the form of a stylized signature particular to the artist.
- A decoration drawn over some Hebrew letters in Jewish scrolls, especially in Stam style.
- Something mean and paltry; the rabble, originally refer to rag as torn cloth.
- A sheep in its first year.
- (uncountable) A game, especially for children on playgrounds, in which one player (known as "it") attempts to touch another, who then becomes "it"; any similar game of chasing and trying to reach, touch, shoot, or label other players.
- The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.
- (television) The last scene of a TV program, often focusing on the program's subplot.
- A type of cardboard.
- A dangling lock of sheep's wool, matted with dung; a dung tag.
- (baseball) An instance of touching the baserunner with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand to rule him "out."
- A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.
- a small piece of cloth
- a label associated with something for the purpose of identification
- a label written or printed on paper, cardboard, or plastic that is attached to something to indicate its owner, nature, price, etc.
- a game in which one child chases the others; the one who is caught becomes the next chaser
- (sports) the act of touching a player in a game (which changes their status in the game)
verb
- (transitive) To fit with, or as if with, a tag or tags.
- (transitive) To remove dung tags from a sheep.
- (transitive, baseball, colloquial) To hit the ball hard.
- (transitive, computing) To mark with a tag (metadata for classification).
- (transitive, baseball) To put a runner out by touching them with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand.
- (transitive, Internet) To attach the name of (a user) to a posted message so that they are linked from the post and possibly sent a notification.
- (transitive) To mark (something) with one's graffiti tag.
- (transitive) To fasten; to attach.
- (transitive, vulgar, slang, 1990s) to have sex with someone (especially a man of a woman)
- (transitive, online gaming, slang) To make contact with an enemy, usually by attacking it before other players do, to establish exclusive or partial eligibility for loot, experience points achievements, etc.
- To follow closely, accompany, tag along.
- (transitive) To catch and touch (a player in the game of tag).
- (transitive) To label (something).
- (transitive, music) To repeat (the ending of a song); to play a tag
- touch a player while they are holding the ball
- go after with the intent to catch
- attach a tag or label to
- provide with a name or nickname
- supply (blank verse or prose) with rhymes
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- A sheet of paper or cardboard with a written or printed announcement on one side for display in a public place.
- a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement
- (historical) A kind of stomacher, often adorned with jewels, worn in the fifteenth century and later.
- (historical) An extra plate on the lower part of the breastplate or backplate of armour.
- The woodwork and frame of the door of a closet etc.
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- A leaflet, often for advertising.
- an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution
- A machine that flies.
- A risky investment or other venture.
- (music) Synonym of flying cymbal.
- A leap or jump.
- (architecture) An arch that connects a flying buttress into the structure it supports.
- A person who travels by airplane.
- (firearms) A stray shot away from the group on a target.
- (sports) A false start
- That which flies, as a bird or insect.
- (informal) A fast-moving person or thing.
- (acrobatics, cheerleading, synchronized swimming) A person who is lifted and/or thrown by another person or persons.
- A female kangaroo; a roo; a doe; a jill.
- The part of a spinning machine that twists the thread as it takes it to and winds it on the bobbin
- A standard rectangular step of a staircase (as opposed to a winder).
- someone who operates an aircraft
- someone who travels by air
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- an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution
- a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement
- a list of particulars (as a playbill or bill of fare)
- horny projecting mouth of a bird
- the entertainment offered at a public presentation
- a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank)
- a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes
- a cutting tool with a sharp edge
- a statute in draft before it becomes law
- an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered
- (US, Canada) A piece of paper money; a banknote.
- (slang, UK) One hundred pounds sterling.
- A document, originally sealed; a formal statement or official memorandum. (Now obsolete except with certain qualifying words; bill of health, bill of sale etc.)
- A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle, used in pruning, etc.; a billhook.
- A written list or inventory. (Now obsolete except in specific senses or set phrases; bill of lading, bill of goods, etc.)
- Somebody armed with a bill; a billman.
- A writing that binds the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without interest, as may be stated in the document; a bill of exchange. In the United States, it is usually called a note, a note of hand, or a promissory note.
- A pickaxe or mattock.
- A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge owing; an invoice.
- A draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.
- Any of various bladed or pointed hand weapons, originally designating an Anglo-Saxon sword, and later a weapon of infantry, especially in the 14th and 15th centuries, commonly consisting of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, with a short pike at the back and another at the top, attached to the end of a long staff.
- (nautical) The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke (also called the peak).
- A set of items presented together.
- A beaklike projection, especially a promontory.
- (slang, India) A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, listing the price or charge paid; a receipt.
- The bell, or boom, of the bittern.
- A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods
- (zootomy) The beak of a bird, especially when small or flattish; sometimes also used with reference to a platypus, turtle, or other animal.
- (slang, Canada, US) One hundred dollars.
- Of a cap or hat: the brim or peak, serving as a shade to keep sun off the face and out of the eyes.
- (UK, Eton College) A list of pupils to be disciplined for breaking school rules.
verb
- publicize or announce by placards
- demand payment
- advertise especially by posters or placards
- (transitive) To charge; to send a bill to.
- (transitive) To dig, chop, etc., with a bill.
- (ambitransitive, UK, slang) To roll up a marijuana cigarette.
- to stroke bill against bill, with reference to doves; to caress in fondness
- (transitive) To advertise by a bill or public notice.
noun
- an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution
- the simultaneous firing of all the armament on one side of a warship
- the whole side of a vessel from stem to stern
- all of the armament that is fired from one side of a warship
- a speech of violent denunciation
- The printed lyrics of a folk song or ballad; a broadsheet.
- (nautical) One side of a ship above the waterline.
- A large sheet of paper, printed on one side and folded.
- All the guns on one side of a warship.
- The simultaneous firing of these guns.
- (by extension) A forceful attack, whether written or spoken.
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- having the shape or form of a circle
- describing a circle; moving in a circle
- Referring back to itself, so as to prevent computation or comprehension; infinitely recursive.
- In the shape of, or moving in, a circle.
- Distributed to a large number of persons.
- Circuitous or roundabout.
- Of or relating to a circle.
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- an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution
- words spoken in a casual way with conscious under-emphasis
- (sometimes offensive) a homeless boy who has been abandoned and roams the streets
- (Internet) A burner account.
- Any printed material that need not be kept after being read; especially, a flyer or brochure.
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- (retail, advertising) A small publicity notice which appears to float at eye level, being attached to a fixture by a flexible arm.
- (curling) A stone that rocks from side to side as it travels because it is not resting on its running surface.
- A boiled leg of mutton.
- (colloquial, law) A class of crime that can be charged as a lower penalty or a higher penalty, e.g. a crime punishable as either a misdemeanor or a felony at the discretion of the prosecutor.
- (fishing) A fishing lure made to resemble a prey fish and that wobbles in the water; plug, minnow.
- (slang, British, Ireland, Islam, derogatory) a Salafi.
- One who or that which wobbles.
- (colloquial, law) A case that could go either way depending on factors that cannot be controlled.
- A person who is undecided, and might go to either side.
- (slang, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A sudden unexpected outburst of anger or rage; a tantrum.
- The end of the roll in a roller mill for shaping steel.
- something that wobbles
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- A person-sized, wearable billboard or advertisement consisting of two printed boards strung together so that they hang over the shoulders, or simply set out on a street.
- signboard consisting of two hinged boards that hang front and back from the shoulders of a walker and are used to display advertisements
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- (graphical user interface) A small picture that represents something.
- (Internet, informal) An image used to represent a user; an avatar or profile picture.
- (linguistics, semiotics) A word, character, or sign whose form reflects and is determined by the referent; onomatopoeic words are necessarily all icons.
- (by extension) A person or thing that is the best example of a certain profession or some doing.
- (religion, especially Eastern Christianity) A type of religious painting portraying a saint or scene from Scripture, often done on wooden panels.
- An image, symbol, picture, portrait, or other representation, usually as an object of religious devotion.
- a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
- a conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church
- (computer science) a graphic symbol (usually a simple picture) that denotes a program or a command or a data file or a concept in a graphical user interface
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- A sign or similar type of marketing material designed to draw attention to special deals.
- A representative of a group or class of people within an organizational system.
- An exemplar of a concept.
- (Wicca) An object that is used to focus concentration when performing magic.
- A major point of interest; an attraction.
- The central or most important element of something; a focal element.
- The individual who is the focus of a study or review, when the study or review is based on that individual's interactions with others.
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- A small ticket or sign giving information about something to which it is attached or intended to be attached.
- (architecture) The projecting moulding by the sides, and over the tops, of openings in mediaeval architecture.
- (computing) A user-defined alias for a numerical designation, the reverse of an enumeration.
- (historical) A brass rule with sights, formerly used with a circumferentor to take altitudes.
- A small strip, especially of paper or parchment (or of some material attached to parchment to carry the seal), but also of iron, brass, land, etc.
- (music) A company that sells records.
- (graphical user interface) A non-interactive control or widget displaying text, often used to describe the purpose of another control.
- (heraldry) A charge resembling the strap crossing the horse’s chest from which pendants are hung.
- A name given to something or someone to categorise them as part of a particular social group.
- (computing) A named place in source code that can be jumped to using a GOTO or equivalent construct.
- A piece of writing added to something, such as a codicil appended to a will.
- In mediaeval and later art, a representation of a band or scroll containing an inscription.
- a brief description given for purposes of identification
- a radioactive isotope that is used in a compound in order to trace the mechanism of a chemical reaction
- trade name of a company that produces musical recordings
- an identifying or descriptive marker that is attached to an object
verb
- (transitive) To put a label (a ticket or sign) on (something).
- (ditransitive) To give a label to (someone or something) in order to categorise that person or thing.
- (biochemistry) To add a detectable substance, either transiently or permanently, to a biological substance in order to track the presence of the label-substance combination either in situ or in vitro
- (biochemistry) To replace specific atoms by their isotope in order to track the presence or movement of this isotope through a reaction, metabolic pathway or cell.
- distinguish (an element or atom) by using a radioactive isotope or an isotope of unusual mass for tracing through chemical reactions
- pronounce judgment on
- attach a tag or label to
- assign a label to; designate with a label
- distinguish (as a compound or molecule) by introducing a labeled atom
noun
- A banner with a series of pictures.
- A kind of coarse woollen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side.
- (by extension) Any sculptured or richly ornamented band in a building or in rich pieces of furniture.
- (architecture) That part of the entablature of an order which is between the architrave and cornice. It is a flat member or face, either uniform or broken by triglyphs, and often enriched with figures and other ornaments of sculpture.
- a heavy woolen fabric with a long nap
- an architectural ornament consisting of a horizontal sculptured band between the architrave and the cornice
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- a small sheet of paper
- A small piece of paper, especially one longer than it is wide, typically a form for writing on or one giving printed information.
- a place where a craft can be made fast
- a slippery smoothness
- bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow
- potter's clay that is thinned and used for coating or decorating ceramics
- a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting
- the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning)
- a young and slender person
- artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall
- an unexpected slide
- a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.
- a flight maneuver; aircraft slides sideways in the air
- a socially awkward or tactless act
- A mistake or error.
- A twig or shoot; a cutting.
- (engineering) The motion of the centre of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an oar, through the water horizontally, or the difference between a vessel's actual speed and the speed it would have if the propelling instrument acted upon a solid; also, the velocity, relatively to still water, of the backward current of water produced by the propeller.
- (medicine) A one-time return to previous maladaptive behavior after cure.
- A young person (now usually with of introducing descriptive qualifier).
- (mining) A dislocation of a lead, destroying continuity.
- An outside covering or case.
- A leash or string by which a dog is held; so called from its being made in such a manner as to slip, or become loose, by relaxation of the hand.
- (nautical, aviation) A difference between the theoretical distance traveled per revolution of the propeller and the actual advance of the vessel.
- (cricket) Any of several fielding positions to the off side of the wicket keeper, designed to catch the ball after being deflected from the bat; a fielder in that position (See first slip, second slip, third slip, fourth slip and fifth slip.)
- (marine insurance) A memorandum of the particulars of a risk for which a policy is to be executed. It usually bears the broker's name and is initiated by the underwriters.
- Either side of the gallery in a theater.
- A fish, the sole.
- (nautical) A berth; a space for a ship to moor.
- (US) A long seat or narrow pew in churches, often without a door.
- (ceramics) A thin, slippery mix of clay and water.
- A woman's undergarment worn under a skirt or dress to conceal unwanted nudity that may otherwise be revealed by the skirt or dress itself; a shift.
- A slipdress.
- An escape; a secret or unexpected desertion.
- Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge tools.
- (electricity) The difference between the actual and synchronous speeds of an induction motor.
- A long, thin piece of something.
- A particular quantity of yarn.
- (nautical) A slipway.
- (crosswording) A newsletter produced by the setter of a cryptic clue-writing competition, containing a full list of winners and commentary on the clues.
- A number between 0 and 1 that is the difference between the angular speed of a rotating magnetic field and the angular speed of its rotor, divided by the angular speed of the magnetic field.
- An act or instance of slipping.
- (telecommunications) The positional displacement in a sequence of transmitted symbols that causes the loss or insertion of one or more symbols.
- (aviation) Clipping of sideslip.
verb
- fall to a lower standard
- move smoothly and easily
- move out of position
- pass out of one's memory
- cause to move with a smooth or sliding motion
- insert inconspicuously or quickly or quietly
- move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner
- move stealthily
- to make a mistake or be incorrect
- pass on stealthily
- move easily
- (transitive) To cut slips from; to cut; to take off; to make a slip or slips of.
- (intransitive, aviation, of an aircraft) Clipping of sideslip (“to fly with the longitudinal axis misaligned with the relative wind”).
- (transitive) To elude or evade by smooth movement.
- (transitive) To cause to slip or slide off, or out of place.
- (transitive, hunting, falconry) To release (a dog, a bird of prey, etc.) to go after a quarry.
- (transitive) To pass (a note, money, etc.), often covertly.
- (intransitive) To err.
- (intransitive) To move quickly and often secretively; to depart, withdraw, enter, appear, intrude, or escape as if by sliding.
- (transitive) To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.
- (intransitive) To lose one’s traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To move down; to slide.
- (intransitive) To move or fly (out of place); to shoot; often with out, off, etc.
- To bring forth (young) prematurely; to slink.
- (intransitive) To accidentally reveal a secret or otherwise say something unintentionally.
- (transitive, business) To cause (a schedule or release, etc.) to go, or let it go, beyond the allotted deadline.
- (transitive, cooking) To remove the skin of a soft fruit, such as a tomato or peach, by blanching briefly in boiling water, then transferring to cold water so that the skin peels, or slips, off easily.
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- arranged into classes
- official classification of information or documents; withheld from general circulation
- Formally assigned by a government to one of several levels of sensitivity, usually (in English) top secret, secret, confidential, and, in some countries, restricted; thereby making disclosure to unauthorized persons illegal.
- Sorted into classes or categories.
- Not meant to be disclosed by a person or organization.
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- To place a poster so that it covers all or part of another poster.
- To post too much or too often.
- To pass over swiftly, as if by post.
- (cartography) To print a text label or other graphic feature on top of another symbol.
- (computing) To breach security by overwriting data that is not intended for user input.
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- a small writing board with a clip at the top for holding papers
- A flat piece of rigid material, such as card or plastic, with a clip at one end under which papers can be held.
- (computing) A buffer in memory where the user can store data temporarily while transferring it from one place within an application to another or between applications.
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- a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement
- a rectangular piece of stiff paper used to send messages (may have printed greetings or pictures)
- a printed circuit that can be inserted into expansion slots in a computer to increase the computer's capabilities
- a card certifying the identity of the bearer
- a list of dishes available at a restaurant
- a printed or written greeting that is left to indicate that you have visited
- thin cardboard, usually rectangular
- (golf) a record of scores (as in golf)
- one of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes
- a witty amusing person who makes jokes
- (baseball) a list of batters in the order in which they will bat
- A business card.
- (in the plural) Any game using playing cards; a card game.
- Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic, etc.
- (nautical) Ellipsis of compass card.
- A roll or sliver of fibre (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.
- (Philippines, education) Ellipsis of report card.
- A test card.
- A bank card.
- (textiles) A hand-held tool formed similarly to a hairbrush but with bristles of wire or other rigid material. It is used principally with raw cotton, wool, hair, or other natural fibers to prepare these materials for spinning into yarn or thread on a spinning wheel, with a whorl or other hand-held spindle. The card serves to untangle, clean, remove debris from, and lay the fibers straight.
- (computing) A removable electronic device that may be inserted into a powered electronic device to provide additional capability.
- (uncountable) Paper that is thicker and more durable than normal writing or printing paper, but thinner and more flexible than paperboard, used for postcards, playing cards, etc.; card stock.
- (computing) Any of a set of pages or forms that the user can navigate between, and fill with data, in certain user interfaces.
- A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants; chiefly used in professional wrestling.
- In formal debating, a verbatim citation used as evidence for a point.
- (graph theory) A graph formed from a given graph by deleting one vertex.
- (television) A title card or intertitle: a piece of filmed, printed text edited into the midst of the photographed action at various points, generally to convey character dialogue or descriptive narrative material related to the plot.
- A greeting card.
- Abbreviation of cardinal (“songbird”).
- Any electronic payment (rather than a cash payment using notes, bills or coins).
- (informal) An amusing or entertaining person, often slightly eccentric.
- (cricket) A tabular presentation of the key statistics of an innings or match: batsmen’s scores and how they were dismissed, extras, total score and bowling figures.
- An indicator card.
- A playing card.
- A resource or argument, used to achieve a purpose. (See play the something card.)
- (weaving) A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom.
verb
- ask someone for identification to determine whether he or she is old enough to consume liquor
- separate the fibers of
- (transitive, US) To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement.
- To scrape or tear someone’s flesh using a metal comb, as a form of torture.
- (transitive, golf) To make (a stated score), as recorded on a scoring card.
- (textiles) To use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
- (transitive) To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding.
noun
- a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement
- a request for payment
- a short critical review
- the act of noticing or paying attention
- polite or favorable attention
- an announcement containing information about an event
- advance notification (usually written) of the intention to withdraw from an arrangement of contract
- (countable) A formal notification or warning.
- (uncountable) Prior notification.
- (countable) A published critical review of a play or the like.
- (countable) A written or printed announcement.
- (chiefly uncountable) Advance notification of termination of employment, given by an employer to an employee or vice versa.
- (chiefly uncountable) The act of observing; perception.
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noun
noun
noun
- A small banner.
- (military, historical) A proposed but unadopted senior commissioned rank of the Royal Air Force equivalent to group captain.
- A civil officer in some Swiss cantons.
- (law, historical) Clipping of knight banneret, a knight entitled to subinfeudate his estate and to lead men in battle under his own banner.
- a knight honored for valor; entitled to display a square banner and to hold higher command
noun
- (advertising) A handbill consisting of an advertisement.
- (entomology) A moth of the species Scoliopteryx libatrix.
- A harbinger, giving signs of things to come.
- Alternative form of hareld (“long-tailed duck”).
- A messenger, especially one bringing important news.
- (heraldry) An official whose speciality is heraldry, especially one between the ranks of pursuivant and king-of-arms
- something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone
- (formal) a person who announces important news
verb
noun
- (advertising) A preliminary sketch.
- Any element of something that depends on sight.
- An image; a picture; a graphic.
- (in the plural) All the visual elements of a multimedia presentation or entertainment, usually in contrast with normal text or audio.
- (marching band) Any element of a show done by a marching band besides the marching and playing of instruments.
adj
noun
- structure displaying a board on which advertisements can be posted
- a gesture that is part of a sign language
- any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message
- having an indicated pole (as the distinction between positive and negative electric charges)
- a public display of a message
- a perceptible indication of something not immediately apparent (as a visible clue that something has happened)
- (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided
- an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come
- (medicine) any objective evidence of the presence of a disorder or disease
- a character indicating a relation between quantities
- a fundamental linguistic unit linking a signifier to that which is signified
- (Canada, US, Australia, uncountable) Physical evidence left by an animal.
- A semantic unit, something that conveys meaning or information (e.g. a word of written language); (linguistics, semiotics) a unit consisting of a signifier and a signified concept. (See sign (semiotics).)
- (astrology) An astrological sign.
- (medicine) A property of the body that indicates a disease and, unlike a symptom, can be detected objectively by someone other than the patient.
- A wonder; miracle; prodigy.
- A mark or another symbol used to represent something.
- A clearly visible object, generally flat, bearing a short message in words or pictures.
- (mathematics) Positive or negative polarity, as denoted by the + or - sign.
- An omen.
- A military emblem carried on a banner or standard.
- (countable, uncountable) A visible fact that shows that something exists or may happen.
- (uncountable) Sign language in general.
- A specific gesture or motion used to communicate by those with speaking or hearing difficulties; now specifically, a linguistic unit in sign language equivalent to word in spoken languages.
adj
verb
- communicate in sign language
- make the sign of the cross over someone in order to call on God for protection; consecrate
- be engaged by a written agreement
- place signs, as along a road
- engage by written agreement
- mark with one's signature; write one's name (on)
- approve and express assent, responsibility, or obligation
- communicate silently and non-verbally by signals or signs
- (intransitive) To use sign language.
- (transitive) To communicate using gestures to (someone).
- (transitive or reflexive) To write (one's name) as a signature.
- (transitive) To furnish (a road etc.) with signs.
- (intransitive) To communicate using a gesture or signal.
- (intransitive) To finalise a contractual agreement to work for a given sports team, record label etc.
- (transitive) To validate or ratify (a document) by writing one's signature on it.
- (transitive) To calculate or derive whether a quantity has a positive or negative sign.
- (intransitive) To write one's signature.
- (transitive) To mark, to put or leave a mark on.
- (transitive) To engage (a sports player, musician etc.) in a contract.
- (reflexive) To cross oneself.
- To determine the sign of
- (transitive) More generally, to write one's signature on (something) as a means of identification etc.
- (transitive) To bless (someone or something) with the sign of the cross; to mark with the sign of the cross.
- (transitive) To communicate or make known (a meaning, intention, etc.) by a sign.
noun
- A small sheet of paper containing information, used for dissemination of said information, often an advertisement.
- (botany) One of the components of a compound leaf.
- (botany) A small plant leaf.
- (anatomy) A flap of a valve of a heart or blood vessel.
- a thin triangular flap of a heart valve
- part of a compound leaf
- a small book usually having a paper cover
verb
noun
- A small label.
- (chiefly US) A vehicle number plate; a medal bearing identification data (animals, soldiers).
- (heading) Signature.
- The last line (or last two lines) of a song's chorus that is repeated to indicate the end of the song.
- (heading) Physical appendage.
- (slang) A person's name.
- (computing) A piece of markup representing an element in a markup language.
- Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely.
- (informal, authorship) An attribution in narrated dialogue (eg, "he said") or attributed words (e.g. "he thought").
- (biochemistry) Any short peptide sequence artificially attached to proteins mostly in order to help purify, solubilize or visualize these proteins.
- (computing) A keyword, term, or phrase associated with or assigned to data, media, and/or information enabling keyword-based classification; often used to categorize content.
- A skin tag, an excrescence of skin.
- Graffiti in the form of a stylized signature particular to the artist.
- A decoration drawn over some Hebrew letters in Jewish scrolls, especially in Stam style.
- Something mean and paltry; the rabble, originally refer to rag as torn cloth.
- A sheep in its first year.
- (uncountable) A game, especially for children on playgrounds, in which one player (known as "it") attempts to touch another, who then becomes "it"; any similar game of chasing and trying to reach, touch, shoot, or label other players.
- The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.
- (television) The last scene of a TV program, often focusing on the program's subplot.
- A type of cardboard.
- A dangling lock of sheep's wool, matted with dung; a dung tag.
- (baseball) An instance of touching the baserunner with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand to rule him "out."
- A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.
- a small piece of cloth
- a label associated with something for the purpose of identification
- a label written or printed on paper, cardboard, or plastic that is attached to something to indicate its owner, nature, price, etc.
- a game in which one child chases the others; the one who is caught becomes the next chaser
- (sports) the act of touching a player in a game (which changes their status in the game)
verb
- (transitive) To fit with, or as if with, a tag or tags.
- (transitive) To remove dung tags from a sheep.
- (transitive, baseball, colloquial) To hit the ball hard.
- (transitive, computing) To mark with a tag (metadata for classification).
- (transitive, baseball) To put a runner out by touching them with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand.
- (transitive, Internet) To attach the name of (a user) to a posted message so that they are linked from the post and possibly sent a notification.
- (transitive) To mark (something) with one's graffiti tag.
- (transitive) To fasten; to attach.
- (transitive, vulgar, slang, 1990s) to have sex with someone (especially a man of a woman)
- (transitive, online gaming, slang) To make contact with an enemy, usually by attacking it before other players do, to establish exclusive or partial eligibility for loot, experience points achievements, etc.
- To follow closely, accompany, tag along.
- (transitive) To catch and touch (a player in the game of tag).
- (transitive) To label (something).
- (transitive, music) To repeat (the ending of a song); to play a tag
- touch a player while they are holding the ball
- go after with the intent to catch
- attach a tag or label to
- provide with a name or nickname
- supply (blank verse or prose) with rhymes
noun
- A sheet of paper or cardboard with a written or printed announcement on one side for display in a public place.
- a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement
- (historical) A kind of stomacher, often adorned with jewels, worn in the fifteenth century and later.
- (historical) An extra plate on the lower part of the breastplate or backplate of armour.
- The woodwork and frame of the door of a closet etc.
verb
noun
- A leaflet, often for advertising.
- an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution
- A machine that flies.
- A risky investment or other venture.
- (music) Synonym of flying cymbal.
- A leap or jump.
- (architecture) An arch that connects a flying buttress into the structure it supports.
- A person who travels by airplane.
- (firearms) A stray shot away from the group on a target.
- (sports) A false start
- That which flies, as a bird or insect.
- (informal) A fast-moving person or thing.
- (acrobatics, cheerleading, synchronized swimming) A person who is lifted and/or thrown by another person or persons.
- A female kangaroo; a roo; a doe; a jill.
- The part of a spinning machine that twists the thread as it takes it to and winds it on the bobbin
- A standard rectangular step of a staircase (as opposed to a winder).
- someone who operates an aircraft
- someone who travels by air
adj
verb
noun
- an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution
- a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement
- a list of particulars (as a playbill or bill of fare)
- horny projecting mouth of a bird
- the entertainment offered at a public presentation
- a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank)
- a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes
- a cutting tool with a sharp edge
- a statute in draft before it becomes law
- an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered
- (US, Canada) A piece of paper money; a banknote.
- (slang, UK) One hundred pounds sterling.
- A document, originally sealed; a formal statement or official memorandum. (Now obsolete except with certain qualifying words; bill of health, bill of sale etc.)
- A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle, used in pruning, etc.; a billhook.
- A written list or inventory. (Now obsolete except in specific senses or set phrases; bill of lading, bill of goods, etc.)
- Somebody armed with a bill; a billman.
- A writing that binds the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without interest, as may be stated in the document; a bill of exchange. In the United States, it is usually called a note, a note of hand, or a promissory note.
- A pickaxe or mattock.
- A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge owing; an invoice.
- A draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.
- Any of various bladed or pointed hand weapons, originally designating an Anglo-Saxon sword, and later a weapon of infantry, especially in the 14th and 15th centuries, commonly consisting of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, with a short pike at the back and another at the top, attached to the end of a long staff.
- (nautical) The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke (also called the peak).
- A set of items presented together.
- A beaklike projection, especially a promontory.
- (slang, India) A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, listing the price or charge paid; a receipt.
- The bell, or boom, of the bittern.
- A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods
- (zootomy) The beak of a bird, especially when small or flattish; sometimes also used with reference to a platypus, turtle, or other animal.
- (slang, Canada, US) One hundred dollars.
- Of a cap or hat: the brim or peak, serving as a shade to keep sun off the face and out of the eyes.
- (UK, Eton College) A list of pupils to be disciplined for breaking school rules.
verb
- publicize or announce by placards
- demand payment
- advertise especially by posters or placards
- (transitive) To charge; to send a bill to.
- (transitive) To dig, chop, etc., with a bill.
- (ambitransitive, UK, slang) To roll up a marijuana cigarette.
- to stroke bill against bill, with reference to doves; to caress in fondness
- (transitive) To advertise by a bill or public notice.
noun
- an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution
- the simultaneous firing of all the armament on one side of a warship
- the whole side of a vessel from stem to stern
- all of the armament that is fired from one side of a warship
- a speech of violent denunciation
- The printed lyrics of a folk song or ballad; a broadsheet.
- (nautical) One side of a ship above the waterline.
- A large sheet of paper, printed on one side and folded.
- All the guns on one side of a warship.
- The simultaneous firing of these guns.
- (by extension) A forceful attack, whether written or spoken.
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adv
verb
noun
adj
- having the shape or form of a circle
- describing a circle; moving in a circle
- Referring back to itself, so as to prevent computation or comprehension; infinitely recursive.
- In the shape of, or moving in, a circle.
- Distributed to a large number of persons.
- Circuitous or roundabout.
- Of or relating to a circle.
verb
noun
- an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution
- words spoken in a casual way with conscious under-emphasis
- (sometimes offensive) a homeless boy who has been abandoned and roams the streets
- (Internet) A burner account.
- Any printed material that need not be kept after being read; especially, a flyer or brochure.
adj
noun
- (retail, advertising) A small publicity notice which appears to float at eye level, being attached to a fixture by a flexible arm.
- (curling) A stone that rocks from side to side as it travels because it is not resting on its running surface.
- A boiled leg of mutton.
- (colloquial, law) A class of crime that can be charged as a lower penalty or a higher penalty, e.g. a crime punishable as either a misdemeanor or a felony at the discretion of the prosecutor.
- (fishing) A fishing lure made to resemble a prey fish and that wobbles in the water; plug, minnow.
- (slang, British, Ireland, Islam, derogatory) a Salafi.
- One who or that which wobbles.
- (colloquial, law) A case that could go either way depending on factors that cannot be controlled.
- A person who is undecided, and might go to either side.
- (slang, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) A sudden unexpected outburst of anger or rage; a tantrum.
- The end of the roll in a roller mill for shaping steel.
- something that wobbles
noun
noun
- A person-sized, wearable billboard or advertisement consisting of two printed boards strung together so that they hang over the shoulders, or simply set out on a street.
- signboard consisting of two hinged boards that hang front and back from the shoulders of a walker and are used to display advertisements
verb
noun
- (graphical user interface) A small picture that represents something.
- (Internet, informal) An image used to represent a user; an avatar or profile picture.
- (linguistics, semiotics) A word, character, or sign whose form reflects and is determined by the referent; onomatopoeic words are necessarily all icons.
- (by extension) A person or thing that is the best example of a certain profession or some doing.
- (religion, especially Eastern Christianity) A type of religious painting portraying a saint or scene from Scripture, often done on wooden panels.
- An image, symbol, picture, portrait, or other representation, usually as an object of religious devotion.
- a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
- a conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church
- (computer science) a graphic symbol (usually a simple picture) that denotes a program or a command or a data file or a concept in a graphical user interface
noun
- A sign or similar type of marketing material designed to draw attention to special deals.
- A representative of a group or class of people within an organizational system.
- An exemplar of a concept.
- (Wicca) An object that is used to focus concentration when performing magic.
- A major point of interest; an attraction.
- The central or most important element of something; a focal element.
- The individual who is the focus of a study or review, when the study or review is based on that individual's interactions with others.
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noun
- A small ticket or sign giving information about something to which it is attached or intended to be attached.
- (architecture) The projecting moulding by the sides, and over the tops, of openings in mediaeval architecture.
- (computing) A user-defined alias for a numerical designation, the reverse of an enumeration.
- (historical) A brass rule with sights, formerly used with a circumferentor to take altitudes.
- A small strip, especially of paper or parchment (or of some material attached to parchment to carry the seal), but also of iron, brass, land, etc.
- (music) A company that sells records.
- (graphical user interface) A non-interactive control or widget displaying text, often used to describe the purpose of another control.
- (heraldry) A charge resembling the strap crossing the horse’s chest from which pendants are hung.
- A name given to something or someone to categorise them as part of a particular social group.
- (computing) A named place in source code that can be jumped to using a GOTO or equivalent construct.
- A piece of writing added to something, such as a codicil appended to a will.
- In mediaeval and later art, a representation of a band or scroll containing an inscription.
- a brief description given for purposes of identification
- a radioactive isotope that is used in a compound in order to trace the mechanism of a chemical reaction
- trade name of a company that produces musical recordings
- an identifying or descriptive marker that is attached to an object
verb
- (transitive) To put a label (a ticket or sign) on (something).
- (ditransitive) To give a label to (someone or something) in order to categorise that person or thing.
- (biochemistry) To add a detectable substance, either transiently or permanently, to a biological substance in order to track the presence of the label-substance combination either in situ or in vitro
- (biochemistry) To replace specific atoms by their isotope in order to track the presence or movement of this isotope through a reaction, metabolic pathway or cell.
- distinguish (an element or atom) by using a radioactive isotope or an isotope of unusual mass for tracing through chemical reactions
- pronounce judgment on
- attach a tag or label to
- assign a label to; designate with a label
- distinguish (as a compound or molecule) by introducing a labeled atom
verb
noun
- An advertisement to be posted on a pole, wall etc. to advertise something.
- a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement
- (Internet) One who posts a message.
- (basketball) A dunk over a defending player.
- A picture of a celebrity, an event etc., intended to be attached to a wall.
- (ice hockey, slang) A shot that hits a goalpost instead of passing into the goal.
- (Australian rules football, informal) A shot that hits a goalpost, scoring one point.
- someone who pastes up bills or placards on walls or billboards
- a horse kept at an inn or post house for use by mail carriers or for rent to travelers
noun
- A banner with a series of pictures.
- A kind of coarse woollen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side.
- (by extension) Any sculptured or richly ornamented band in a building or in rich pieces of furniture.
- (architecture) That part of the entablature of an order which is between the architrave and cornice. It is a flat member or face, either uniform or broken by triglyphs, and often enriched with figures and other ornaments of sculpture.
- a heavy woolen fabric with a long nap
- an architectural ornament consisting of a horizontal sculptured band between the architrave and the cornice
verb
noun
- a small sheet of paper
- A small piece of paper, especially one longer than it is wide, typically a form for writing on or one giving printed information.
- a place where a craft can be made fast
- a slippery smoothness
- bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow
- potter's clay that is thinned and used for coating or decorating ceramics
- a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting
- the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning)
- a young and slender person
- artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall
- an unexpected slide
- a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.
- a flight maneuver; aircraft slides sideways in the air
- a socially awkward or tactless act
- A mistake or error.
- A twig or shoot; a cutting.
- (engineering) The motion of the centre of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an oar, through the water horizontally, or the difference between a vessel's actual speed and the speed it would have if the propelling instrument acted upon a solid; also, the velocity, relatively to still water, of the backward current of water produced by the propeller.
- (medicine) A one-time return to previous maladaptive behavior after cure.
- A young person (now usually with of introducing descriptive qualifier).
- (mining) A dislocation of a lead, destroying continuity.
- An outside covering or case.
- A leash or string by which a dog is held; so called from its being made in such a manner as to slip, or become loose, by relaxation of the hand.
- (nautical, aviation) A difference between the theoretical distance traveled per revolution of the propeller and the actual advance of the vessel.
- (cricket) Any of several fielding positions to the off side of the wicket keeper, designed to catch the ball after being deflected from the bat; a fielder in that position (See first slip, second slip, third slip, fourth slip and fifth slip.)
- (marine insurance) A memorandum of the particulars of a risk for which a policy is to be executed. It usually bears the broker's name and is initiated by the underwriters.
- Either side of the gallery in a theater.
- A fish, the sole.
- (nautical) A berth; a space for a ship to moor.
- (US) A long seat or narrow pew in churches, often without a door.
- (ceramics) A thin, slippery mix of clay and water.
- A woman's undergarment worn under a skirt or dress to conceal unwanted nudity that may otherwise be revealed by the skirt or dress itself; a shift.
- A slipdress.
- An escape; a secret or unexpected desertion.
- Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge tools.
- (electricity) The difference between the actual and synchronous speeds of an induction motor.
- A long, thin piece of something.
- A particular quantity of yarn.
- (nautical) A slipway.
- (crosswording) A newsletter produced by the setter of a cryptic clue-writing competition, containing a full list of winners and commentary on the clues.
- A number between 0 and 1 that is the difference between the angular speed of a rotating magnetic field and the angular speed of its rotor, divided by the angular speed of the magnetic field.
- An act or instance of slipping.
- (telecommunications) The positional displacement in a sequence of transmitted symbols that causes the loss or insertion of one or more symbols.
- (aviation) Clipping of sideslip.
verb
- fall to a lower standard
- move smoothly and easily
- move out of position
- pass out of one's memory
- cause to move with a smooth or sliding motion
- insert inconspicuously or quickly or quietly
- move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner
- move stealthily
- to make a mistake or be incorrect
- pass on stealthily
- move easily
- (transitive) To cut slips from; to cut; to take off; to make a slip or slips of.
- (intransitive, aviation, of an aircraft) Clipping of sideslip (“to fly with the longitudinal axis misaligned with the relative wind”).
- (transitive) To elude or evade by smooth movement.
- (transitive) To cause to slip or slide off, or out of place.
- (transitive, hunting, falconry) To release (a dog, a bird of prey, etc.) to go after a quarry.
- (transitive) To pass (a note, money, etc.), often covertly.
- (intransitive) To err.
- (intransitive) To move quickly and often secretively; to depart, withdraw, enter, appear, intrude, or escape as if by sliding.
- (transitive) To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.
- (intransitive) To lose one’s traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To move down; to slide.
- (intransitive) To move or fly (out of place); to shoot; often with out, off, etc.
- To bring forth (young) prematurely; to slink.
- (intransitive) To accidentally reveal a secret or otherwise say something unintentionally.
- (transitive, business) To cause (a schedule or release, etc.) to go, or let it go, beyond the allotted deadline.
- (transitive, cooking) To remove the skin of a soft fruit, such as a tomato or peach, by blanching briefly in boiling water, then transferring to cold water so that the skin peels, or slips, off easily.
noun
adj
- arranged into classes
- official classification of information or documents; withheld from general circulation
- Formally assigned by a government to one of several levels of sensitivity, usually (in English) top secret, secret, confidential, and, in some countries, restricted; thereby making disclosure to unauthorized persons illegal.
- Sorted into classes or categories.
- Not meant to be disclosed by a person or organization.
verb
noun
- a small writing board with a clip at the top for holding papers
- A flat piece of rigid material, such as card or plastic, with a clip at one end under which papers can be held.
- (computing) A buffer in memory where the user can store data temporarily while transferring it from one place within an application to another or between applications.
verb
noun
- a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement
- a rectangular piece of stiff paper used to send messages (may have printed greetings or pictures)
- a printed circuit that can be inserted into expansion slots in a computer to increase the computer's capabilities
- a card certifying the identity of the bearer
- a list of dishes available at a restaurant
- a printed or written greeting that is left to indicate that you have visited
- thin cardboard, usually rectangular
- (golf) a record of scores (as in golf)
- one of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes
- a witty amusing person who makes jokes
- (baseball) a list of batters in the order in which they will bat
- A business card.
- (in the plural) Any game using playing cards; a card game.
- Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic, etc.
- (nautical) Ellipsis of compass card.
- A roll or sliver of fibre (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.
- (Philippines, education) Ellipsis of report card.
- A test card.
- A bank card.
- (textiles) A hand-held tool formed similarly to a hairbrush but with bristles of wire or other rigid material. It is used principally with raw cotton, wool, hair, or other natural fibers to prepare these materials for spinning into yarn or thread on a spinning wheel, with a whorl or other hand-held spindle. The card serves to untangle, clean, remove debris from, and lay the fibers straight.
- (computing) A removable electronic device that may be inserted into a powered electronic device to provide additional capability.
- (uncountable) Paper that is thicker and more durable than normal writing or printing paper, but thinner and more flexible than paperboard, used for postcards, playing cards, etc.; card stock.
- (computing) Any of a set of pages or forms that the user can navigate between, and fill with data, in certain user interfaces.
- A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants; chiefly used in professional wrestling.
- In formal debating, a verbatim citation used as evidence for a point.
- (graph theory) A graph formed from a given graph by deleting one vertex.
- (television) A title card or intertitle: a piece of filmed, printed text edited into the midst of the photographed action at various points, generally to convey character dialogue or descriptive narrative material related to the plot.
- A greeting card.
- Abbreviation of cardinal (“songbird”).
- Any electronic payment (rather than a cash payment using notes, bills or coins).
- (informal) An amusing or entertaining person, often slightly eccentric.
- (cricket) A tabular presentation of the key statistics of an innings or match: batsmen’s scores and how they were dismissed, extras, total score and bowling figures.
- An indicator card.
- A playing card.
- A resource or argument, used to achieve a purpose. (See play the something card.)
- (weaving) A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom.
verb
- ask someone for identification to determine whether he or she is old enough to consume liquor
- separate the fibers of
- (transitive, US) To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement.
- To scrape or tear someone’s flesh using a metal comb, as a form of torture.
- (transitive, golf) To make (a stated score), as recorded on a scoring card.
- (textiles) To use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
- (transitive) To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding.
noun
- a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement
- a request for payment
- a short critical review
- the act of noticing or paying attention
- polite or favorable attention
- an announcement containing information about an event
- advance notification (usually written) of the intention to withdraw from an arrangement of contract
- (countable) A formal notification or warning.
- (uncountable) Prior notification.
- (countable) A published critical review of a play or the like.
- (countable) A written or printed announcement.
- (chiefly uncountable) Advance notification of termination of employment, given by an employer to an employee or vice versa.
- (chiefly uncountable) The act of observing; perception.
verb
verb
noun
- An advertisement to be posted on a pole, wall etc. to advertise something.
- a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement
- (Internet) One who posts a message.
- (basketball) A dunk over a defending player.
- A picture of a celebrity, an event etc., intended to be attached to a wall.
- (ice hockey, slang) A shot that hits a goalpost instead of passing into the goal.
- (Australian rules football, informal) A shot that hits a goalpost, scoring one point.
- someone who pastes up bills or placards on walls or billboards
- a horse kept at an inn or post house for use by mail carriers or for rent to travelers
verb
- To place a poster so that it covers all or part of another poster.
- To post too much or too often.
- To pass over swiftly, as if by post.
- (cartography) To print a text label or other graphic feature on top of another symbol.
- (computing) To breach security by overwriting data that is not intended for user input.