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noun
- (rare) A long and imposing series of mindless but necessary tasks.
- (informal) Something presenting itself in a fanciful and showy, often unrealistic manner, especially when intended to impress and confuse.
- Ambiguous or meaningless language.
- Empty and tiresome speculation.
- any exciting and complex play intended to confuse (dazzle) the opponent
noun
- A tedious and laborious task.
- hard monotonous routine work
- A specific degree of pulverization of coffee beans.
- A grinding trick on a skateboard or snowboard.
- (uncountable, slang) Hustle; hard work.
- A traditional communal pilot whale hunt in the Faroe Islands.
- Something that has been reduced to powder, something that has been ground.
- (uncountable, music) Clipping of grindcore (“subgenre of heavy metal”).
- The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.
- an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious
- the act of grinding to a powder or dust
- the grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground
verb
- (transitive) To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion.
- (sports, intransitive) To slide the flat portion of a skateboard or snowboard across an obstacle such as a railing.
- (slang, Hawaii) To eat.
- (slang) To dance in a sexually suggestive way with both partners in very close proximity, often pressed against each other.
- To produce mechanically and repetitively as if by turning a crank.
- (slang) To rub one's body against another's in a sexual way; to frottage.
- To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
- (transitive) To shape with the force of friction.
- (metalworking) To remove material by rubbing with an abrasive surface.
- (transitive) To operate by turning a crank.
- To instill through repetitive teaching.
- (video games) To repeat a task a large number of times in a row to achieve a specific goal.
- (intransitive, slang) To work or study hard; to hustle or drudge.
- (transitive, slang) To annoy or irritate (a person); to grind one's gears.
- (intransitive) To become ground, pulverized, or polished by friction.
- (transitive) To oppress, hold down or weaken.
- (slang, intransitive) To rotate the hips erotically.
- make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together
- reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading
- press or grind with a crushing noise
- created by grinding
- dance by rotating the pelvis in an erotically suggestive way, often while in contact with one's partner such that the dancers' legs are interlaced
- work hard
- shape or form by grinding
noun
- A task.
- An economic role for which a person is paid.
- (UK, slang, law enforcement, uncountable) The police as a profession, act of policing, or an individual police officer.
- (computing) A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
- (colloquial) A thing or whatsit (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).
- Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
- (in noun compounds) A sex act.
- (vulgar, slang) A penis.
- (in noun compounds) Plastic surgery.
- A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business.
- (informal) A robbery or heist.
- the performance of a piece of work
- the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
- the responsibility to do something
- a crime (especially a robbery)
- a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
- a workplace; as in the expression ‘on the job’
- (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
- a damaging piece of work
- an object worked on; a result produced by working
- a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
verb
- (transitive) To pierce or poke (someone or something), typically with a sharp or pointed object; to stab.
- To hire or let in periods of service.
- (transitive, often with out) To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.
- (intransitive) To work as a jobber.
- (intransitive) To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.
- (intransitive, professional wrestling slang) To take the loss, usually in a demeaning or submissive manner.
- (transitive, trading) To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.
- (transitive, now Australia) To hit (someone) with a quick, sharp punch; to jab.
- (intransitive) To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.
- work occasionally
- invest at a risk
- arranged for contracted work to be done by others
- profit privately from public office and official business
noun
- a task to be dealt with
- an offer for a private bargain (especially a request for sexual favors)
- (logic) a statement that affirms or denies something and is either true or false
- a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection
- the act of making a proposal
- (countable) An idea, plan, or suggestion offered.
- (grammar) A complete sentence.
- (countable, mathematics) An assertion which is provably true, but not important enough to be called a theorem.
- (uncountable) The act of offering (an idea) for consideration.
- (poetic) The part of a poem in which the author states the subject or matter of it.
- (countable, business settings) The terms of a transaction offered.
- (countable, US, politics) In some states, a proposed statute or constitutional amendment to be voted on by the electorate.
- A statement of religious doctrine; an article of faith; a creed.
- (countable, logic) The content of an assertion that may be taken as being true or false and is considered abstractly without reference to the linguistic sentence that constitutes the assertion; (Aristotelian logic) a predicate of a subject that is denied or affirmed and is connected by a copula.
- (informal) A suggestion of sexual intercourse (made to someone with whom one is not sexually involved).
- Misspelling of preposition.
- (countable, mathematics, philosophy) An assertion so formulated that it can be considered true or false.
verb
adj
- (by extension) Gruelling and tedious.
- Performing gruelling and tedious chores.
- (of a woman's feet or footwear) Gracefully small.
- Constituting maltreatment, especially as motivated by favoritism, nepotism, or cronyism.
- (by extension, of a woman) Having gracefully small feet.
- Of, resembling, or characteristic of Cinderella (the fairytale).
- Ending at or avoiding midnight.
noun
- A difficult or tedious undertaking.
- Alternative form of taisch.
- A single action undertaken by a given agent.
- An objective.
- (computing) A process or execution of a program.
- Any piece of work done.
- A piece of work done as part of one’s duties.
- a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
- any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
verb
noun
- (attributively) Distasteful work; drudgery
- A short, erect tail, as of a hare, rabbit, or deer.
- (medicine, slang) Some menial procedure left for a doctor or medical student to complete, sometimes for training purposes.
- (chiefly Ireland, colloquial) A contemptible person.
- (by extension) The buttocks or rump; also, the female pudenda, the vulva.
- a short erect tail
verb
noun
verb
- To manipulate objects, such as balls, clubs, beanbags, rings, etc. in an artful or artistic manner. Juggling may also include assorted other circus skills such as the diabolo, devil sticks, hat, and cigar box manipulation as well.
- To handle or manage many tasks at once.
- (ambitransitive) To deceive by trick or artifice.
- deal with simultaneously
- throw, catch, and keep in the air several things simultaneously
- influence by slyness
- manipulate by or as if by moving around components
- hold with difficulty and balance insecurely
noun
- A series of small tasks or steps taken to accomplish an end.
- (uncountable) The set of established forms or methods of an organized body for accomplishing a certain task or tasks.
- A particular method for performing a task.
- (computing) A subroutine or function coded to perform a specific task, but does not return a value.
- The steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding.
- (medicine) A surgical operation.
- a mode of conducting legal and parliamentary proceedings
- a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work
- a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program
- a particular course of action intended to achieve a result
verb
- to bring (a necessary but unpleasant task) to an end
- get on top of; deal with successfully
- travel across or pass over
- improve in health
- (slang, intransitive, transitive) To use a drug one is addicted to; to provide an addict with a dose.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To forget and move on; to calm down regarding something.
- (slang, intransitive) To impress someone; to achieve a goal; to be successful.
- (rugby) To score a try.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To recover (from).
- (idiomatic, transitive) To successfully communicate; to get across.
- (slang, transitive) To manipulate (someone); to get around (someone); to improve one's own standing at another's expense.
- (professional wrestling slang) To establish a connection with the audience as a character or faction.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To overcome.
- (slang, intransitive, African-American Vernacular) To have sex.
verb
noun
- A person who performs menial or routine tasks; a dogsbody.
- (rugby union) A player who steals the ball at the tackle.
- (derogatory) A person who behaves in an opportunistic way; especially a base collaborator.
- Any of certain wild canids of the genera Lupulella and Canis, native to the tropical Old World and smaller than a wolf.
- (slang, rare) A jack (the playing card).
- Old World nocturnal canine mammal closely related to the dog; smaller than a wolf; sometimes hunts in a pack but usually singly or as a member of a pair
- a canid living in the deserts of Northern Africa related to the golden jackal and the grey wolf
- a jackal native to Europe and Asia with a golden coat
- a jackal native to Southern Africa with a stripe down its side
- a jackal native to Africa with a black back
adj
- Of a task: laborious, tedious, troublesome; hence, needing concentration to understand; intricate.
- Of a person: having a dejected or serious appearance or mood; dour, gloomy, moody, morose, sullen.
- of a person: patient, stoic, tolerant, resolute
- Chiefly of rain: without pause or stop; continuous, incessant.
- Of weather: dreary, gloomy (cold, overcast, rainy, etc.).
- Extending for a long distance or time, especially when tedious or wearisome; long-drawn-out, protracted; also, of speech or writing: unnecessarily verbose; long-winded.
- Bleak, cheerless, dismal, dreary, miserable.
- Not enjoyable or interesting; boring, dull.
- Slow, sluggish; specifically, of a person: tending to delay or procrastinate (especially when paying for something).
- suitably serious or solemn
noun
verb
noun
noun
- A series of duties or tasks which must be performed in turn, and then repeated.
- Rotation, as in office; succession.
- A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole.
- (sports) One of the specified pre-determined segments of the total time of a sport event, such as a boxing or wrestling match, during which contestants compete before being signaled to stop.
- A series of changes or events ending where it began; a series of like events recurring in continuance; a cycle; a periodical revolution.
- A general outburst from a group of people at an event.
- (butchery) The hindquarters of a bovine; a round of beef.
- A course of action or conduct performed by a number of persons in turn, or one after another, as if seated in a circle.
- A general discharge of firearms by a body of troops in which each soldier fires once.
- (engineering, drafting, CAD) A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an outside edge, added for a finished appearance and to soften sharp edges.
- A firearm cartridge, bullet, or any individual ammunition projectile. Originally referring to the spherical projectile ball of a smoothbore firearm. Compare round shot and solid shot.
- (UK) One slice of bread.
- A strip of material with a circular face that covers an edge, gap, or crevice for decorative, sanitary, or security purposes.
- (art) A long-bristled, circular-headed paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting.
- (countable, music) A song that is sung by groups of people with each subset of people starting at a different time.
- A circular or repetitious route.
- (sports) In some sports, e.g. golf or showjumping: one complete way around the course.
- A crosspiece that joins and braces the legs of a chair.
- A circular dance.
- (nautical) A round-top.
- A serving of something; a portion of something to each person in a group.
- (card games) The play after each deal.
- One sandwich (two full slices of bread with filling).
- (sports) A stage in a competition.
- An assembly; a group; a circle.
- (video games) A stage or level of a game.
- A circular or spherical object or part of an object.
- A single individual portion or dose of medicine.
- (sports) a division of a game during which one team is on the offensive
- a regular route for a sentry or policeman
- an outburst of applause
- any circular or rotating mechanism
- the course along which communications spread
- the activity of playing 18 holes of golf
- a partsong in which voices follow each other; one voice starts and others join in one after another until all are singing different parts of the song at the same time
- a cut of beef between the rump and the lower leg
- a charge of ammunition for a single shot
- (often plural) a series of professional calls (usually in a set order)
- a serving to each of a group (usually alcoholic)
- a crosspiece between the legs of a chair
- the usual activities in your day
- an interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs
adj
- Circular or cylindrical; having a circular cross-section in one direction.
- Complete, whole, not lacking.
- Outspoken; plain and direct; unreserved; not mincing words.
- Returning to its starting point.
- Finished; polished; not defective or abrupt; said of authors or their writing style.
- (phonetics) Pronounced with the lips drawn together; rounded.
- Spherical; shaped like a ball; having a circular cross-section in more than one direction.
- (architecture) Vaulted.
- Lacking sharp angles; having gentle curves.
- Plump.
- (authorship, of a fictional character) Well-written and well-characterized; complex and reminiscent of a real person.
- Loosely or approximately circular.
- Large in magnitude.
- (of a number) Convenient for rounding other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero.
- (of sounds) full and rich
- having the shape or form of a circle
- (mathematics) expressed to the nearest integer, ten, hundred, or thousand
adv
prep
verb
- (intransitive) To turn and attack someone or something (used with on).
- (with "out") To finish; to complete; to fill out; see also round out.
- To grow round or full; hence, to attain to fullness, completeness, or perfection.
- (medicine, colloquial) To do ward rounds.
- (transitive) To turn past a boundary.
- (transitive) To shape something into a curve.
- To encircle; to encompass.
- (transitive, baseball) To advance to home plate.
- (intransitive) To become shaped into a curve.
- (transitive, intransitive) To approximate (a number, especially a decimal number) by the closest whole number, or some other close number, especially a whole number of hundreds, thousands, etc.; see also round down, round up.
- (transitive) To go round, pass, go past.
- make round
- become round, plump, or shapely
- pronounce with rounded lips
- express as a round number
- wind around; move along a circular course
- attack in speech or writing
- bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state
noun
- A mundane mission of no great consequence, concerning household or business affairs (dropping items by, doing paperwork, going to a friend's house, etc.)
- An oral message trusted to a person for delivery.
- The purpose of such a journey.
- a short trip that is taken in the performance of a necessary task or mission
verb
noun
- The process or activities of performing expediter tasks.
- (military) An important or long journey, for example a march or a voyage.
- (collective) The group of people making such excursion.
- A military journey; an enterprise against some enemy or into enemy territory.
- A trip, especially a long one, made by a person or a group of people for a specific purpose.
- a journey taken for pleasure
- an organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose
- a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country
- the property of being prompt and efficient
- a journey organized for a particular purpose
verb
noun
noun
verb
- (intransitive, transitive, usually with in, into, around, etc.) To move briskly and unhesitatingly, especially in an inappropriately casual manner, or when unannounced or uninvited.
- (intransitive, transitive) To dance the waltz (with).
- (informal) To accomplish a task with little effort.
- (transitive) To move with fanfare.
- dance a waltz
verb
noun
- A long, flexible stick, rod, or branch, interwoven with others between upright posts or stakes, in making a kind of hedge or fence.
- A red ochre.
- An instrument consisting of a wooden bar, with a row of upright pegs set in it, used by domestic weavers to keep the warp of a proper width and prevent tangling when it is wound upon the beam of the loom.
- A hedge or fence made with raddles.
- a red iron ore used in dyeing and marking
verb
- (intransitive) To make preparations; to put things in order; to do trifling business.
- (transitive) To line the hearth of a furnace with sand prior to pouring molten metal.
- (ceramics) To remove (as by sanding) the seam lines left by the meeting of two molds.
- (reflexive, Geordie) To be upset or in a bad mood.
- (transitive, engineering) To machine away seam lines or more generally to make small adjustments to a component or machine to improve its fit or operation.
- (especially Northern England) To sort out, to fix, to mend, to repair.
- remove mold marks or sand from (a casting)
noun
- (Cumbria, Geordie) A person's mood or state, often assuming the worst.
- (ceramics) A seam line left by the meeting of mould pieces.
- One's mental state; spirits.
- A state of physical condition; kilter or trim.
- Sand used to line a furnace.
- (UK, dialectal) The act of fettling.
- a state of fitness and good health
adj
noun
noun
- An assigned task.
- The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category.
- (law) A transfer of a right or benefit from one person to another.
- (law) A document that effects this transfer.
- A position to which someone is assigned.
- (LGBTQ) The categorization of persons as belonging to the male or female sex.
- (programming) An operation that assigns a value to a variable.
- The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks.
- (education) A task given to students, such as homework or coursework.
- an undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor)
- the instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to another
- (law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance
- the act of distributing something to designated places or persons
- a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces)
- the act of putting a person into a non-elective position
noun
- (ironic) Busy work.
- (psychiatry, education, mental health) Sensory play for children often involving an obstacle course to relieve stress while the therapist works to nurture the patient's basic life skills.
- The therapeutic practice of encouraging better quality of life through the pursuit of work or other occupations.
- therapy based on engagement in meaningful activities of daily life, especially to enable or encourage participation in such activities in spite of impairments or limitations in physical or mental functions
adj
- Having much work to do; having much to get done.
- Crowded with business or activities; having a great deal going on.
- Officious; meddling.
- Having a lot going on; complicated or intricate.
- Engaged with or preoccupied by an activity or person.
- actively or fully engaged or occupied
- overcrowded or cluttered with detail
- (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (‘engaged’ is a British term for a busy telephone line)
- intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner
- crowded with or characterized by much activity
noun
verb
noun
- (rare) A long and imposing series of mindless but necessary tasks.
- (informal) Something presenting itself in a fanciful and showy, often unrealistic manner, especially when intended to impress and confuse.
- Ambiguous or meaningless language.
- Empty and tiresome speculation.
- any exciting and complex play intended to confuse (dazzle) the opponent
noun
- A tedious and laborious task.
- hard monotonous routine work
- A specific degree of pulverization of coffee beans.
- A grinding trick on a skateboard or snowboard.
- (uncountable, slang) Hustle; hard work.
- A traditional communal pilot whale hunt in the Faroe Islands.
- Something that has been reduced to powder, something that has been ground.
- (uncountable, music) Clipping of grindcore (“subgenre of heavy metal”).
- The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.
- an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious
- the act of grinding to a powder or dust
- the grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground
verb
- (transitive) To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion.
- (sports, intransitive) To slide the flat portion of a skateboard or snowboard across an obstacle such as a railing.
- (slang, Hawaii) To eat.
- (slang) To dance in a sexually suggestive way with both partners in very close proximity, often pressed against each other.
- To produce mechanically and repetitively as if by turning a crank.
- (slang) To rub one's body against another's in a sexual way; to frottage.
- To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
- (transitive) To shape with the force of friction.
- (metalworking) To remove material by rubbing with an abrasive surface.
- (transitive) To operate by turning a crank.
- To instill through repetitive teaching.
- (video games) To repeat a task a large number of times in a row to achieve a specific goal.
- (intransitive, slang) To work or study hard; to hustle or drudge.
- (transitive, slang) To annoy or irritate (a person); to grind one's gears.
- (intransitive) To become ground, pulverized, or polished by friction.
- (transitive) To oppress, hold down or weaken.
- (slang, intransitive) To rotate the hips erotically.
- make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together
- reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading
- press or grind with a crushing noise
- created by grinding
- dance by rotating the pelvis in an erotically suggestive way, often while in contact with one's partner such that the dancers' legs are interlaced
- work hard
- shape or form by grinding
noun
- A task.
- An economic role for which a person is paid.
- (UK, slang, law enforcement, uncountable) The police as a profession, act of policing, or an individual police officer.
- (computing) A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
- (colloquial) A thing or whatsit (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).
- Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
- (in noun compounds) A sex act.
- (vulgar, slang) A penis.
- (in noun compounds) Plastic surgery.
- A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business.
- (informal) A robbery or heist.
- the performance of a piece of work
- the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
- the responsibility to do something
- a crime (especially a robbery)
- a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved
- a workplace; as in the expression ‘on the job’
- (computer science) a program application that may consist of several steps but is a single logical unit
- a damaging piece of work
- an object worked on; a result produced by working
- a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
verb
- (transitive) To pierce or poke (someone or something), typically with a sharp or pointed object; to stab.
- To hire or let in periods of service.
- (transitive, often with out) To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.
- (intransitive) To work as a jobber.
- (intransitive) To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.
- (intransitive, professional wrestling slang) To take the loss, usually in a demeaning or submissive manner.
- (transitive, trading) To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.
- (transitive, now Australia) To hit (someone) with a quick, sharp punch; to jab.
- (intransitive) To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.
- work occasionally
- invest at a risk
- arranged for contracted work to be done by others
- profit privately from public office and official business
noun
- a task to be dealt with
- an offer for a private bargain (especially a request for sexual favors)
- (logic) a statement that affirms or denies something and is either true or false
- a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection
- the act of making a proposal
- (countable) An idea, plan, or suggestion offered.
- (grammar) A complete sentence.
- (countable, mathematics) An assertion which is provably true, but not important enough to be called a theorem.
- (uncountable) The act of offering (an idea) for consideration.
- (poetic) The part of a poem in which the author states the subject or matter of it.
- (countable, business settings) The terms of a transaction offered.
- (countable, US, politics) In some states, a proposed statute or constitutional amendment to be voted on by the electorate.
- A statement of religious doctrine; an article of faith; a creed.
- (countable, logic) The content of an assertion that may be taken as being true or false and is considered abstractly without reference to the linguistic sentence that constitutes the assertion; (Aristotelian logic) a predicate of a subject that is denied or affirmed and is connected by a copula.
- (informal) A suggestion of sexual intercourse (made to someone with whom one is not sexually involved).
- Misspelling of preposition.
- (countable, mathematics, philosophy) An assertion so formulated that it can be considered true or false.
verb
noun
- A difficult or tedious undertaking.
- Alternative form of taisch.
- A single action undertaken by a given agent.
- An objective.
- (computing) A process or execution of a program.
- Any piece of work done.
- A piece of work done as part of one’s duties.
- a specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee
- any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
verb
noun
- (attributively) Distasteful work; drudgery
- A short, erect tail, as of a hare, rabbit, or deer.
- (medicine, slang) Some menial procedure left for a doctor or medical student to complete, sometimes for training purposes.
- (chiefly Ireland, colloquial) A contemptible person.
- (by extension) The buttocks or rump; also, the female pudenda, the vulva.
- a short erect tail
verb
noun
verb
- To manipulate objects, such as balls, clubs, beanbags, rings, etc. in an artful or artistic manner. Juggling may also include assorted other circus skills such as the diabolo, devil sticks, hat, and cigar box manipulation as well.
- To handle or manage many tasks at once.
- (ambitransitive) To deceive by trick or artifice.
- deal with simultaneously
- throw, catch, and keep in the air several things simultaneously
- influence by slyness
- manipulate by or as if by moving around components
- hold with difficulty and balance insecurely
noun
- A series of small tasks or steps taken to accomplish an end.
- (uncountable) The set of established forms or methods of an organized body for accomplishing a certain task or tasks.
- A particular method for performing a task.
- (computing) A subroutine or function coded to perform a specific task, but does not return a value.
- The steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding.
- (medicine) A surgical operation.
- a mode of conducting legal and parliamentary proceedings
- a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work
- a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program
- a particular course of action intended to achieve a result
noun
- A series of duties or tasks which must be performed in turn, and then repeated.
- Rotation, as in office; succession.
- A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole.
- (sports) One of the specified pre-determined segments of the total time of a sport event, such as a boxing or wrestling match, during which contestants compete before being signaled to stop.
- A series of changes or events ending where it began; a series of like events recurring in continuance; a cycle; a periodical revolution.
- A general outburst from a group of people at an event.
- (butchery) The hindquarters of a bovine; a round of beef.
- A course of action or conduct performed by a number of persons in turn, or one after another, as if seated in a circle.
- A general discharge of firearms by a body of troops in which each soldier fires once.
- (engineering, drafting, CAD) A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an outside edge, added for a finished appearance and to soften sharp edges.
- A firearm cartridge, bullet, or any individual ammunition projectile. Originally referring to the spherical projectile ball of a smoothbore firearm. Compare round shot and solid shot.
- (UK) One slice of bread.
- A strip of material with a circular face that covers an edge, gap, or crevice for decorative, sanitary, or security purposes.
- (art) A long-bristled, circular-headed paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting.
- (countable, music) A song that is sung by groups of people with each subset of people starting at a different time.
- A circular or repetitious route.
- (sports) In some sports, e.g. golf or showjumping: one complete way around the course.
- A crosspiece that joins and braces the legs of a chair.
- A circular dance.
- (nautical) A round-top.
- A serving of something; a portion of something to each person in a group.
- (card games) The play after each deal.
- One sandwich (two full slices of bread with filling).
- (sports) A stage in a competition.
- An assembly; a group; a circle.
- (video games) A stage or level of a game.
- A circular or spherical object or part of an object.
- A single individual portion or dose of medicine.
- (sports) a division of a game during which one team is on the offensive
- a regular route for a sentry or policeman
- an outburst of applause
- any circular or rotating mechanism
- the course along which communications spread
- the activity of playing 18 holes of golf
- a partsong in which voices follow each other; one voice starts and others join in one after another until all are singing different parts of the song at the same time
- a cut of beef between the rump and the lower leg
- a charge of ammunition for a single shot
- (often plural) a series of professional calls (usually in a set order)
- a serving to each of a group (usually alcoholic)
- a crosspiece between the legs of a chair
- the usual activities in your day
- an interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs
adj
- Circular or cylindrical; having a circular cross-section in one direction.
- Complete, whole, not lacking.
- Outspoken; plain and direct; unreserved; not mincing words.
- Returning to its starting point.
- Finished; polished; not defective or abrupt; said of authors or their writing style.
- (phonetics) Pronounced with the lips drawn together; rounded.
- Spherical; shaped like a ball; having a circular cross-section in more than one direction.
- (architecture) Vaulted.
- Lacking sharp angles; having gentle curves.
- Plump.
- (authorship, of a fictional character) Well-written and well-characterized; complex and reminiscent of a real person.
- Loosely or approximately circular.
- Large in magnitude.
- (of a number) Convenient for rounding other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero.
- (of sounds) full and rich
- having the shape or form of a circle
- (mathematics) expressed to the nearest integer, ten, hundred, or thousand
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- (intransitive) To turn and attack someone or something (used with on).
- (with "out") To finish; to complete; to fill out; see also round out.
- To grow round or full; hence, to attain to fullness, completeness, or perfection.
- (medicine, colloquial) To do ward rounds.
- (transitive) To turn past a boundary.
- (transitive) To shape something into a curve.
- To encircle; to encompass.
- (transitive, baseball) To advance to home plate.
- (intransitive) To become shaped into a curve.
- (transitive, intransitive) To approximate (a number, especially a decimal number) by the closest whole number, or some other close number, especially a whole number of hundreds, thousands, etc.; see also round down, round up.
- (transitive) To go round, pass, go past.
- make round
- become round, plump, or shapely
- pronounce with rounded lips
- express as a round number
- wind around; move along a circular course
- attack in speech or writing
- bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state
noun
- A mundane mission of no great consequence, concerning household or business affairs (dropping items by, doing paperwork, going to a friend's house, etc.)
- An oral message trusted to a person for delivery.
- The purpose of such a journey.
- a short trip that is taken in the performance of a necessary task or mission
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- The process or activities of performing expediter tasks.
- (military) An important or long journey, for example a march or a voyage.
- (collective) The group of people making such excursion.
- A military journey; an enterprise against some enemy or into enemy territory.
- A trip, especially a long one, made by a person or a group of people for a specific purpose.
- a journey taken for pleasure
- an organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose
- a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country
- the property of being prompt and efficient
- a journey organized for a particular purpose
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- (intransitive, transitive, usually with in, into, around, etc.) To move briskly and unhesitatingly, especially in an inappropriately casual manner, or when unannounced or uninvited.
- (intransitive, transitive) To dance the waltz (with).
- (informal) To accomplish a task with little effort.
- (transitive) To move with fanfare.
- dance a waltz
noun
- An assigned task.
- The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category.
- (law) A transfer of a right or benefit from one person to another.
- (law) A document that effects this transfer.
- A position to which someone is assigned.
- (LGBTQ) The categorization of persons as belonging to the male or female sex.
- (programming) An operation that assigns a value to a variable.
- The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks.
- (education) A task given to students, such as homework or coursework.
- an undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor)
- the instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to another
- (law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance
- the act of distributing something to designated places or persons
- a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces)
- the act of putting a person into a non-elective position
noun
- (ironic) Busy work.
- (psychiatry, education, mental health) Sensory play for children often involving an obstacle course to relieve stress while the therapist works to nurture the patient's basic life skills.
- The therapeutic practice of encouraging better quality of life through the pursuit of work or other occupations.
- therapy based on engagement in meaningful activities of daily life, especially to enable or encourage participation in such activities in spite of impairments or limitations in physical or mental functions
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- to bring (a necessary but unpleasant task) to an end
- get on top of; deal with successfully
- travel across or pass over
- improve in health
- (slang, intransitive, transitive) To use a drug one is addicted to; to provide an addict with a dose.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To forget and move on; to calm down regarding something.
- (slang, intransitive) To impress someone; to achieve a goal; to be successful.
- (rugby) To score a try.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To recover (from).
- (idiomatic, transitive) To successfully communicate; to get across.
- (slang, transitive) To manipulate (someone); to get around (someone); to improve one's own standing at another's expense.
- (professional wrestling slang) To establish a connection with the audience as a character or faction.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To overcome.
- (slang, intransitive, African-American Vernacular) To have sex.
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- A person who performs menial or routine tasks; a dogsbody.
- (rugby union) A player who steals the ball at the tackle.
- (derogatory) A person who behaves in an opportunistic way; especially a base collaborator.
- Any of certain wild canids of the genera Lupulella and Canis, native to the tropical Old World and smaller than a wolf.
- (slang, rare) A jack (the playing card).
- Old World nocturnal canine mammal closely related to the dog; smaller than a wolf; sometimes hunts in a pack but usually singly or as a member of a pair
- a canid living in the deserts of Northern Africa related to the golden jackal and the grey wolf
- a jackal native to Europe and Asia with a golden coat
- a jackal native to Southern Africa with a stripe down its side
- a jackal native to Africa with a black back
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- A long, flexible stick, rod, or branch, interwoven with others between upright posts or stakes, in making a kind of hedge or fence.
- A red ochre.
- An instrument consisting of a wooden bar, with a row of upright pegs set in it, used by domestic weavers to keep the warp of a proper width and prevent tangling when it is wound upon the beam of the loom.
- A hedge or fence made with raddles.
- a red iron ore used in dyeing and marking
verb
- (intransitive) To make preparations; to put things in order; to do trifling business.
- (transitive) To line the hearth of a furnace with sand prior to pouring molten metal.
- (ceramics) To remove (as by sanding) the seam lines left by the meeting of two molds.
- (reflexive, Geordie) To be upset or in a bad mood.
- (transitive, engineering) To machine away seam lines or more generally to make small adjustments to a component or machine to improve its fit or operation.
- (especially Northern England) To sort out, to fix, to mend, to repair.
- remove mold marks or sand from (a casting)
noun
- (Cumbria, Geordie) A person's mood or state, often assuming the worst.
- (ceramics) A seam line left by the meeting of mould pieces.
- One's mental state; spirits.
- A state of physical condition; kilter or trim.
- Sand used to line a furnace.
- (UK, dialectal) The act of fettling.
- a state of fitness and good health
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- (by extension) Gruelling and tedious.
- Performing gruelling and tedious chores.
- (of a woman's feet or footwear) Gracefully small.
- Constituting maltreatment, especially as motivated by favoritism, nepotism, or cronyism.
- (by extension, of a woman) Having gracefully small feet.
- Of, resembling, or characteristic of Cinderella (the fairytale).
- Ending at or avoiding midnight.
adj
- Of a task: laborious, tedious, troublesome; hence, needing concentration to understand; intricate.
- Of a person: having a dejected or serious appearance or mood; dour, gloomy, moody, morose, sullen.
- of a person: patient, stoic, tolerant, resolute
- Chiefly of rain: without pause or stop; continuous, incessant.
- Of weather: dreary, gloomy (cold, overcast, rainy, etc.).
- Extending for a long distance or time, especially when tedious or wearisome; long-drawn-out, protracted; also, of speech or writing: unnecessarily verbose; long-winded.
- Bleak, cheerless, dismal, dreary, miserable.
- Not enjoyable or interesting; boring, dull.
- Slow, sluggish; specifically, of a person: tending to delay or procrastinate (especially when paying for something).
- suitably serious or solemn
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- Having much work to do; having much to get done.
- Crowded with business or activities; having a great deal going on.
- Officious; meddling.
- Having a lot going on; complicated or intricate.
- Engaged with or preoccupied by an activity or person.
- actively or fully engaged or occupied
- overcrowded or cluttered with detail
- (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (‘engaged’ is a British term for a busy telephone line)
- intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner
- crowded with or characterized by much activity