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verb
- To secure and strengthen (a place, its walls, etc.) by installing fortifications or other military works.
- enclose by or as if by a fortification
- To impart fortitude or moral strength to (someone or their determination, or something); to encourage.
- (wine) To add spirits to (wine) to increase the alcohol content.
- To make (something) defensible against attack by hostile forces.
- To give power, strength, or vigour to (oneself or someone, or to something); to strengthen.
- To support (one's or someone's opinion, statement, etc.) by producing evidence, etc.; to confirm, to corroborate.
- (military) To install fortifications or other military works; also (sometimes figurative), to put up a defensive position.
- (ambitransitive, linguistics) To undergo, or cause to undergo, fortition.
- To increase the nutritional value of (food) by adding ingredients, especially minerals or vitamins.
- To increase the defences of (an army, soldiers, etc.), or put (it or them) in a defensive position.
- add nutrients to
- add alcohol to (beverages)
- make strong or stronger
- prepare oneself for a military confrontation
noun
- (countable) A fortification.
- (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
- Effort expended on a particular task.
- (physics, more generally) A measure of energy that is usefully extracted from a process: applied productively.
- (uncountable, often in combination) The result of a particular manner of production.
- The place where one is employed.
- (LGBTQ slang) The confident attitude of a drag queen.
- Labour, occupation, job.
- (slang, plural only) The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.)
- Something on which effort is expended.
- (prison slang) Prison gang violence.
- (uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.
- Sustained effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result.
- (uncountable, often in combination) Something produced using the specified material or tool.
- (physics) A measure of energy expended in moving an object; most commonly, force times distance. No work is done if the object does not move.
- (euphemistic) Cosmetic surgery.
- (countable) A literary, artistic, or intellectual production; a creative work.
- (by extension) One's employer.
- the occupation for which you are paid
- a place where work is done
- applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading)
- activity directed toward making or doing something
- a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing
- (physics) a manifestation of energy; the transfer of energy from one physical system to another expressed as the product of a force and the distance through which it moves a body in the direction of that force
- the total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial part of it)
verb
- (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
- To force to work.
- (transitive) To move or progress slowly [with one's way].
- (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
- Said of one's job title [with as].
- General use, said of either fellow employees or instruments or clients [with with].
- (intransitive) To ferment.
- (transitive) To cause to ferment.
- (transitive) To embroider with thread.
- (transitive) To work or operate in, through, or by means of.
- (transitive) To cause to move slowly or with difficulty.
- (ditransitive, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad).
- (law) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
- (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
- (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
- (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled
- Said of a company or individual who employs [with for].
- To set into action.
- To exhaust, by working.
- To provoke or excite; to influence.
- To shape, form, or improve a material.
- Said of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business) [with in or at].
- (slang, transitive) To pull off; to wear, perform, etc. successfully or to advantage.
- (LGBTQ slang, intransitive) To perform with a confident attitude, particularly as a drag queen.
- (intransitive) To move or progress slowly or with difficulty; to proceed with effort.
- (transitive) To work or operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
- To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
- provoke or excite
- have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected
- prepare for crops
- arrive at a certain condition through repeated motion
- operate in or through
- to mix into a homogeneous mass
- behave in a certain way when handled
- move in an agitated manner
- move into or onto
- proceed towards a goal or along a path or through an activity
- operate in a certain place, area, or specialty
- cause to work
- cause to happen or to occur as a consequence
- use or manipulate to one's advantage
- exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity; work
- find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of
- proceed along a path
- shape, form, or improve a material
- make something, usually for a specific function
- give a workout to
- cause to operate or function
- go sour or spoil
- gratify and charm, usually in order to influence
- perform as expected when applied
- be employed
- have and exert influence or effect
- cause to undergo fermentation
noun
- entrenchment consisting of an additional interior fortification to prolong the defense
- the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable
- (specifically) An act of terminating the employment of a worker or making an employee redundant, often to reduce expenses; a layoff.
- (especially politics) The adoption of a defensive and hostile posture; refusal to compromise, radicalization.
- (by extension) Withdrawal.
- A curtailment or reduction.
- (specifically) An act of reducing expenses; economizing.
verb
- fortify by surrounding with trenches
- impinge or infringe upon
- cut a trench in, as for drainage
- set, plant, or bury in a trench
- cut or carve deeply into
- dig a trench or trenches
- To have direction; to aim or tend.
- To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.
- (archaeology) To excavate an elongated and often narrow pit.
- To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next.
- (usually followed by upon) To invade, especially with regard to the rights or the exclusive authority of another; to encroach.
- (military, infantry) To excavate an elongated pit for protection of soldiers and or equipment, usually perpendicular to the line of sight toward the enemy.
- To cut furrows or ditches in.
noun
- a ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth
- a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor
- any long ditch cut in the ground
- (archaeology) A pit, usually rectangular with smooth walls and floor, excavated during an archaeological investigation.
- A long, narrow ditch or hole dug in the ground.
- (informal) A trench coat.
- (military) A narrow excavation as used in warfare, as a cover for besieging or emplaced forces.
noun
- a fortified defensive structure
- A fortified defensive structure stationed with troops.
- a fortified military post where troops are stationed
- A structure improvised from furniture, bedding, etc., for playing games.
- Any permanent army post.
- (historical) An outlying trading-station, as in British North America.
verb
noun
- a fortified defensive structure
- A fortified place; a large and permanent fortification, sometimes including a town; for example a fort, a castle; a stronghold; a place of defense or security.
- (chess) A position that, if obtained by the weaker side, will prevent penetration by the opposing side, generally achieving a draw.
verb
noun
- (uncountable) The addition of battlements to a building, as for example when a feudal manor house needed fortification against border-raider attacks.
- (countable) Any of a set of slots or grooves in an object, often machined into a metal part, as for example on a castellated nut.
- (uncountable) The act or process of making a building into a castle.
noun
- a strongly fortified defensive structure
- a rate (usually rapid) at which something happens
- the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment
- The quality or state of being strongly attached; firmness, secureness, tenacity.
- (obsolete except British, regional) Something used to fasten or tie; a fastener or fastening.
- The quality or state of moving quickly; quickness, rapidity, swiftness.
- (specifically) The ability of a dye to withstand fading.
- (also figuratively) A fortified or secure place; a fortress, a stronghold.
- The quality or state of having an extravagant lifestyle or immoral habits.
noun
- Any high wall for defense.
- In fortification: an indented parapet, formed by a series of rising members called cops or merlons, separated by openings called crenelles or embrasures, the soldier sheltering himself behind the merlon while he fires through the embrasure or through a loophole in the battlement.
- (poetic) The towering roof of heaven.
- a rampart built around the top of a castle with regular gaps for firing arrows or guns
verb
- surround with a wall in order to fortify
- have an argument about something
- enclose with a fence
- receive stolen goods
- fight with fencing swords
- (intransitive, equestrianism) To jump over a fence.
- (transitive) To defend or guard.
- (transitive) To engage in the selling or buying of stolen goods.
- (intransitive) To conceal the truth by giving equivocal answers; to hedge; to be evasive.
- (transitive) To enclose, contain or separate by building fence.
- (intransitive, sports) To engage in the sport of fencing.
noun
- a barrier that serves to enclose an area
- a dealer in stolen property
- (by extension) The place whence such a middleman operates.
- A thin artificial barrier that separates two pieces of land or forms a perimeter enclosing the lands of a house, building, etc.
- Skill in oral debate.
- (informal) Someone who hides or buys and sells stolen goods, a criminal middleman for transactions of stolen goods.
- A guard or guide on machinery.
- (cricket) The boundary.
- (programming) A memory barrier.
- (figuratively) A barrier, for example an emotional barrier.
verb
noun
- fortification consisting of a strong fence made of stakes driven into the ground
- (military) A wall of wooden stakes, used as a defensive barrier.
- A line of cliffs, especially one showing basaltic columns.
- A long, strong stake, one end of which is set firmly in the ground, and the other sharpened.
- (biology) An even row of cells, e.g., palisade mesophyll cells.
verb
noun
verb
noun
- A structure built for defense surrounding a city, castle etc.
- an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes
- an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure
- a masonry fence (as around an estate or garden)
- a vertical (or almost vertical) smooth rock face (as of a cave or mountain)
- a difficult or awkward situation
- (anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure
- a layer of material that encloses space
- anything that suggests a wall in structure or function or effect
- An impediment to free movement.
- A point of defeat or extinction.
- (figurative) A means of defence or security.
- Something with the apparent solidity, opacity, or dimensions of a building wall.
- Each of the substantial structures acting either as the exterior of or divisions within a structure.
- A point of desperation.
- (cycling) A very steep slope.
- (historical) The right or privilege of taking the side of the road near the wall when encountering another pedestrian; said to be taken or given.
- (chiefly dialectal) A spring of water.
- (mahjong) Face-down tiles arranged in stacked rows from which players draw new tiles.
- (nautical) A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot or wale.
- (roller derby) Two or more blockers skating together so as to impede the opposing team.
- (slang, seduction community, chiefly definite) The stage of biological aging where physical appearance and attractiveness start to deteriorate rapidly.
- (Internet) A personal notice board listing messages of interest to a particular user.
- (soccer) A line of defenders set up between an opposing free-kick taker and the goal.
- (US, slang, medicine) A doctor who tries to admit as few patients as possible.
- The butterfly Lasiommata megera.
- (mining) Any of the surfaces of rock enclosing the lode.
- One of the vertical sides of a container.
- (often in combination) A barrier.
- (roleplaying games) A character that has high defenses, thereby reducing the amount of damage taken from the opponent’s attacks.
- A fictional bidder used to increase the price at an auction.
- (anatomy, zoology, botany) A dividing or containing structure in an organ or cavity.
- A rampart of earth, stones etc. built up for defensive purposes.
intj
verb
- fortify by furnishing with battlements for defense
- prepare for battle or conflict
- (intransitive) To be arrayed for battle.
- To prepare or arm for battle; to equip as for battle.
- (transitive) To arrange in order of battle; to array for battle.
- (transitive) To furnish with battlements; to give the form of battlements to.
noun
adj
- Of a place: strengthened so as to withstand attacks; fortified.
- Of a place: occupied or surrounded by armed troops (also figuratively).
- (figuratively) Subject to or troubled by attacks, controversy, or pressure.
- (architecture) Of a fortress or other building, a wall, etc.: having battlements or crenellations; battlemented, crenellated.
- Armed or prepared for battle (literally or figuratively).
- (by extension, heraldry) Having an upper edge or outline of alternating square indentations and extensions like battlements, unless the embattled item is a pale, cross or saltire, in which case it has the crenelations on all sides.
- (of a person) beset by difficulties or conflict
- prepared for battle
- having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement
verb
noun
- defensive structure consisting of walls or mounds built around a stronghold to strengthen it
- The act of fortifying; the art or science of fortifying places to strengthen defence against an enemy.
- the addition of an ingredient for the purpose of enrichment (as the addition of alcohol to wine or the addition of vitamins to food)
- the art or science of strengthening defenses
- An increase in effectiveness, as by adding ingredients.
- That which fortifies; especially, a work or works erected to defend a place against attack; a fortified place; a fortress; a fort; a castle.
- A jagged pattern sometimes seen during an attack of migraine.
noun
- defensive structure consisting of walls or mounds built around a stronghold to strengthen it
- weapons considered collectively
- military supplies
- (chiefly in the plural) Materials of war: armaments, weapons and ammunition.
- (chiefly in the plural, military, NATO) Bombs, rockets, missiles (complete explosive devices, in contrast to e.g. guns).
verb
noun
verb
noun
- (military) A fortification around the end of a bridge.
- An area around the end of a bridge.
- (military) An area of ground on the enemy's side of a river or other obstacle, especially one that needs to be taken and defended in order to secure an advance.
- (physical chemistry) Either of the two atoms in different parts of a molecule that are connected by a bridge of two or more other atoms
- a defensive post at the end of a bridge nearest to the enemy
- an area in hostile territory that has been captured and is held awaiting further troops and supplies
noun
- temporary fortification like a detached bastion
- oval or circular opening; to allow light into a dome or vault
- (in the plural) See lunettes.
- (architecture) A crescent-shaped recess or void in the space above a window or door.
- (Christianity) A luna: a crescent-shaped receptacle, often glass, for holding the (consecrated) host (the bread of communion) upright when exposed in the monstrance.
- A piece of felt to cover the eye of a vicious horse.
- The circular hole in the guillotine in which the victim's neck is placed.
- (farriery) A half horseshoe, lacking the sponge.
- (geology) A type of crescent-shaped dune blown up along a lake basin, especially in dry areas of Australia.
- (architecture) A small opening in a vaulted roof of a circular or crescent shape.
- An iron shoe at the end of the stock of a gun carriage.
- (fortifications) A field work consisting of two projecting faces forming a wedge each of which extends from one of two parallel flanks.
- A type of flattened glass used in watch-making.
noun
- A defensive structure; a protective barrier; a bulwark.
- an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes
- A defensive mound of earth or a wall with a broad top and usually a stone parapet; a wall-like ridge of earth, stones or debris; an embankment for defensive purpose.
- That which defends against intrusion from outside; a protection.
- (usually in the plural) A steep bank of a river or gorge.
verb
noun
- A defensive wall or rampart.
- an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes
- A defense or safeguard.
- (figurative) Any means of defence or security.
- A breakwater.
- (nautical) The planking or plating along the sides of a nautical vessel above her gunwale that reduces the likelihood of seas washing over the gunwales and people being washed overboard.
- a fencelike structure around a deck
- a protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away
verb
noun
- A well-fortified position; a stronghold or citadel.
- projecting part of a rampart or other fortification
- Any large prominence; something that resembles a bastion in size and form.
- (figuratively) A person, group, or thing, that strongly defends some principle.
- (architecture) A projecting part of a rampart or other fortification.
- a stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle
- a group that defends a principle
verb
noun
- (architecture) A defensive work rising from a bastion, etc., and overlooking the surrounding area.
- (historical) A gallant: a sprightly young dashing military man.
- (historical) A courtesan or noble under Charles I of England, particularly a royalist partisan during the English Civil War which ended his reign.
- (slang) Someone with an uncircumcised penis.
- (historical) A military man serving on horse, (chiefly) early modern cavalry officers who had abandoned the heavy armor of medieval knights.
- A gentleman of the class of such officers, particularly:
- a gallant or courtly gentleman
adj
noun
- A type of fortification consisting of a pair of demi-bastions with a curtain wall connecting them and with two long sides directed upon the faces of the bastions, or ravelins of the inner fortifications, so as to be defended by them.
- an element of the trace italienne system of fortification that consists of a pair of demi-bastions.
noun
- (fortification) In a permanent fortification, a redoubt which protects the caponiere.
- A cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection.
- (computing, programming) A pattern of bits used in bitwise operations; bitmask.
- (UK dialectal) Mash.
- A festive entertainment of dancing or other diversions, where all wear masks; a masquerade.
- (heraldry) The head of a fox, shown face-on and cut off immediately behind the ears.
- (computer graphics) A two-color (black and white) bitmap generated from an image, used to create transparency in the image.
- (UK dialectal, Scotland) The mesh of a net; a net; net-bag.
- (zoology) The lower lip of the larva of a dragonfly, modified so as to form a prehensile organ.
- That which disguises; a pretext or subterfuge.
- Mesh.
- (poetic) Appearance, likeness.
- (publishing, film) A flat covering used to block off an unwanted portion of a scene or image.
- (fortification) A screen for a battery.
- (architecture) A grotesque head or face, used to adorn keystones and other prominent parts, to spout water in fountains, and the like.
- A person wearing a mask.
- a party of guests wearing costumes and masks
- a protective covering worn over the face
- a covering to disguise or conceal the face
- activity that tries to conceal something
verb
- (transitive, UK dialectal) To bewilder; confuse.
- (transitive, military) To conceal; also, to intervene in the line of.
- (UK dialectal, Scotland, Cumbria, Geordie, Northumbria, Durham) To prepare tea in a teapot; alternative to brew.
- (transitive, military) To cover or keep in check.
- (intransitive) To put on a mask; to wear a mask.
- (transitive, UK dialectal) (brewing) To mix malt with hot water to yield wort.
- (transitive) To conceal from view or knowledge; to cover; to hide.
- (transitive, computing) To set or unset (certain bits, or binary digits, within a value) by means of a bitmask.
- (transitive, Scotland, Cumbria, Geordie, Northumbria, Durham dialectal) To be infused or steeped.
- (intransitive) To take part as a masker in a masquerade.
- (transitive) To disguise as something else.
- (transitive) To cover or shield something, or a portion of something, so as to prevent reproduction or to safeguard the surface from the colors used when working with an air brush or painting.
- (transitive) To cover (the face or something else), in order to conceal the identity or protect against injury; to cover with a mask or visor.
- (transitive, computing) To disable (an interrupt, etc.) by setting or unsetting the associated bit.
- (Scotland, Northern England, rare, of clouds, the weather, a storm, etc) To prepare (to storm).
- (intransitive) To conceal or disguise one's autism; to learn, practice, and perform certain behaviors and suppress others in order to appear more neurotypical.
- (transitive, UK dialectal) To mash.
- hide under a false appearance
- make unrecognizable
- shield from light
- cover with a sauce
- put a mask on or cover with a mask
noun
- A crescent-like outwork in a fortification.
- (informal, by extension of Moon) Any natural satellite of a planet.
- (card games) In hearts, the action of taking all the point cards in one hand.
- (literary) A month, particularly a lunar month.
- (cartomancy) The thirty-second Lenormand card.
- A representation of the moon, usually as a crescent or as a circle with a face; a crescent-shaped shape, symbol, or object.
- The eighteenth trump/major arcana card of the tarot.
- any object resembling a moon
- the period between successive new moons (29.531 days)
- any natural satellite of a planet
name
verb
- To spend time idly, absent-mindedly.
- (transitive) To adorn with moons or crescents.
- (cryptocurrencies, of a coin or token) To rise in price rapidly or suddenly. (from to the moon)
- (transitive, colloquial) To display one's buttocks to, typically as a jest, insult, or protest.
- (intransitive, colloquial) (usually followed by over or after) To fuss over something adoringly; to be infatuated with someone.
- (transitive) To expose to the rays of the Moon.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To gaze at lovingly or in adoration.
- (card games) To shoot the moon.
- have dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake
- expose one's buttocks to
- be idle in a listless or dreamy way
verb
- occupy a trench or secured area
- fix firmly or securely
- impinge or infringe upon
- (military) To surround or provide with a trench, especially for defense; to dig in.
- To invade; to encroach; to infringe or trespass; to enter on, and take possession of, that which belongs to another; usually followed by on or upon.
- To establish a substantial position in business, politics, etc.
- To become completely absorbed in and fully accept one's beliefs, even in the face of evidence against it and refusing to be reasoned with.
- (construction, archaeology) To dig or excavate a trench; to trench.
- (literally) To cut in; to furrow; to make trenches in or upon.
noun
- (countable) A fortification.
- (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
- Effort expended on a particular task.
- (physics, more generally) A measure of energy that is usefully extracted from a process: applied productively.
- (uncountable, often in combination) The result of a particular manner of production.
- The place where one is employed.
- (LGBTQ slang) The confident attitude of a drag queen.
- Labour, occupation, job.
- (slang, plural only) The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.)
- Something on which effort is expended.
- (prison slang) Prison gang violence.
- (uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.
- Sustained effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result.
- (uncountable, often in combination) Something produced using the specified material or tool.
- (physics) A measure of energy expended in moving an object; most commonly, force times distance. No work is done if the object does not move.
- (euphemistic) Cosmetic surgery.
- (countable) A literary, artistic, or intellectual production; a creative work.
- (by extension) One's employer.
- the occupation for which you are paid
- a place where work is done
- applying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading)
- activity directed toward making or doing something
- a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing
- (physics) a manifestation of energy; the transfer of energy from one physical system to another expressed as the product of a force and the distance through which it moves a body in the direction of that force
- the total output of a writer or artist (or a substantial part of it)
verb
- (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
- To force to work.
- (transitive) To move or progress slowly [with one's way].
- (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
- Said of one's job title [with as].
- General use, said of either fellow employees or instruments or clients [with with].
- (intransitive) To ferment.
- (transitive) To cause to ferment.
- (transitive) To embroider with thread.
- (transitive) To work or operate in, through, or by means of.
- (transitive) To cause to move slowly or with difficulty.
- (ditransitive, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad).
- (law) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
- (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
- (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
- (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled
- Said of a company or individual who employs [with for].
- To set into action.
- To exhaust, by working.
- To provoke or excite; to influence.
- To shape, form, or improve a material.
- Said of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business) [with in or at].
- (slang, transitive) To pull off; to wear, perform, etc. successfully or to advantage.
- (LGBTQ slang, intransitive) To perform with a confident attitude, particularly as a drag queen.
- (intransitive) To move or progress slowly or with difficulty; to proceed with effort.
- (transitive) To work or operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
- To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
- provoke or excite
- have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected
- prepare for crops
- arrive at a certain condition through repeated motion
- operate in or through
- to mix into a homogeneous mass
- behave in a certain way when handled
- move in an agitated manner
- move into or onto
- proceed towards a goal or along a path or through an activity
- operate in a certain place, area, or specialty
- cause to work
- cause to happen or to occur as a consequence
- use or manipulate to one's advantage
- exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity; work
- find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of
- proceed along a path
- shape, form, or improve a material
- make something, usually for a specific function
- give a workout to
- cause to operate or function
- go sour or spoil
- gratify and charm, usually in order to influence
- perform as expected when applied
- be employed
- have and exert influence or effect
- cause to undergo fermentation
noun
- entrenchment consisting of an additional interior fortification to prolong the defense
- the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable
- (specifically) An act of terminating the employment of a worker or making an employee redundant, often to reduce expenses; a layoff.
- (especially politics) The adoption of a defensive and hostile posture; refusal to compromise, radicalization.
- (by extension) Withdrawal.
- A curtailment or reduction.
- (specifically) An act of reducing expenses; economizing.
noun
- a fortified defensive structure
- A fortified defensive structure stationed with troops.
- a fortified military post where troops are stationed
- A structure improvised from furniture, bedding, etc., for playing games.
- Any permanent army post.
- (historical) An outlying trading-station, as in British North America.
verb
noun
- a fortified defensive structure
- A fortified place; a large and permanent fortification, sometimes including a town; for example a fort, a castle; a stronghold; a place of defense or security.
- (chess) A position that, if obtained by the weaker side, will prevent penetration by the opposing side, generally achieving a draw.
verb
noun
- (uncountable) The addition of battlements to a building, as for example when a feudal manor house needed fortification against border-raider attacks.
- (countable) Any of a set of slots or grooves in an object, often machined into a metal part, as for example on a castellated nut.
- (uncountable) The act or process of making a building into a castle.
noun
- a strongly fortified defensive structure
- a rate (usually rapid) at which something happens
- the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment
- The quality or state of being strongly attached; firmness, secureness, tenacity.
- (obsolete except British, regional) Something used to fasten or tie; a fastener or fastening.
- The quality or state of moving quickly; quickness, rapidity, swiftness.
- (specifically) The ability of a dye to withstand fading.
- (also figuratively) A fortified or secure place; a fortress, a stronghold.
- The quality or state of having an extravagant lifestyle or immoral habits.
noun
- Any high wall for defense.
- In fortification: an indented parapet, formed by a series of rising members called cops or merlons, separated by openings called crenelles or embrasures, the soldier sheltering himself behind the merlon while he fires through the embrasure or through a loophole in the battlement.
- (poetic) The towering roof of heaven.
- a rampart built around the top of a castle with regular gaps for firing arrows or guns
noun
- defensive structure consisting of walls or mounds built around a stronghold to strengthen it
- The act of fortifying; the art or science of fortifying places to strengthen defence against an enemy.
- the addition of an ingredient for the purpose of enrichment (as the addition of alcohol to wine or the addition of vitamins to food)
- the art or science of strengthening defenses
- An increase in effectiveness, as by adding ingredients.
- That which fortifies; especially, a work or works erected to defend a place against attack; a fortified place; a fortress; a fort; a castle.
- A jagged pattern sometimes seen during an attack of migraine.
noun
- defensive structure consisting of walls or mounds built around a stronghold to strengthen it
- weapons considered collectively
- military supplies
- (chiefly in the plural) Materials of war: armaments, weapons and ammunition.
- (chiefly in the plural, military, NATO) Bombs, rockets, missiles (complete explosive devices, in contrast to e.g. guns).
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- (military) A fortification around the end of a bridge.
- An area around the end of a bridge.
- (military) An area of ground on the enemy's side of a river or other obstacle, especially one that needs to be taken and defended in order to secure an advance.
- (physical chemistry) Either of the two atoms in different parts of a molecule that are connected by a bridge of two or more other atoms
- a defensive post at the end of a bridge nearest to the enemy
- an area in hostile territory that has been captured and is held awaiting further troops and supplies
noun
- temporary fortification like a detached bastion
- oval or circular opening; to allow light into a dome or vault
- (in the plural) See lunettes.
- (architecture) A crescent-shaped recess or void in the space above a window or door.
- (Christianity) A luna: a crescent-shaped receptacle, often glass, for holding the (consecrated) host (the bread of communion) upright when exposed in the monstrance.
- A piece of felt to cover the eye of a vicious horse.
- The circular hole in the guillotine in which the victim's neck is placed.
- (farriery) A half horseshoe, lacking the sponge.
- (geology) A type of crescent-shaped dune blown up along a lake basin, especially in dry areas of Australia.
- (architecture) A small opening in a vaulted roof of a circular or crescent shape.
- An iron shoe at the end of the stock of a gun carriage.
- (fortifications) A field work consisting of two projecting faces forming a wedge each of which extends from one of two parallel flanks.
- A type of flattened glass used in watch-making.
noun
- A defensive structure; a protective barrier; a bulwark.
- an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes
- A defensive mound of earth or a wall with a broad top and usually a stone parapet; a wall-like ridge of earth, stones or debris; an embankment for defensive purpose.
- That which defends against intrusion from outside; a protection.
- (usually in the plural) A steep bank of a river or gorge.
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- A defensive wall or rampart.
- an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes
- A defense or safeguard.
- (figurative) Any means of defence or security.
- A breakwater.
- (nautical) The planking or plating along the sides of a nautical vessel above her gunwale that reduces the likelihood of seas washing over the gunwales and people being washed overboard.
- a fencelike structure around a deck
- a protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away
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- A structure built for defense surrounding a city, castle etc.
- an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes
- an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure
- a masonry fence (as around an estate or garden)
- a vertical (or almost vertical) smooth rock face (as of a cave or mountain)
- a difficult or awkward situation
- (anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure
- a layer of material that encloses space
- anything that suggests a wall in structure or function or effect
- An impediment to free movement.
- A point of defeat or extinction.
- (figurative) A means of defence or security.
- Something with the apparent solidity, opacity, or dimensions of a building wall.
- Each of the substantial structures acting either as the exterior of or divisions within a structure.
- A point of desperation.
- (cycling) A very steep slope.
- (historical) The right or privilege of taking the side of the road near the wall when encountering another pedestrian; said to be taken or given.
- (chiefly dialectal) A spring of water.
- (mahjong) Face-down tiles arranged in stacked rows from which players draw new tiles.
- (nautical) A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot or wale.
- (roller derby) Two or more blockers skating together so as to impede the opposing team.
- (slang, seduction community, chiefly definite) The stage of biological aging where physical appearance and attractiveness start to deteriorate rapidly.
- (Internet) A personal notice board listing messages of interest to a particular user.
- (soccer) A line of defenders set up between an opposing free-kick taker and the goal.
- (US, slang, medicine) A doctor who tries to admit as few patients as possible.
- The butterfly Lasiommata megera.
- (mining) Any of the surfaces of rock enclosing the lode.
- One of the vertical sides of a container.
- (often in combination) A barrier.
- (roleplaying games) A character that has high defenses, thereby reducing the amount of damage taken from the opponent’s attacks.
- A fictional bidder used to increase the price at an auction.
- (anatomy, zoology, botany) A dividing or containing structure in an organ or cavity.
- A rampart of earth, stones etc. built up for defensive purposes.
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- A well-fortified position; a stronghold or citadel.
- projecting part of a rampart or other fortification
- Any large prominence; something that resembles a bastion in size and form.
- (figuratively) A person, group, or thing, that strongly defends some principle.
- (architecture) A projecting part of a rampart or other fortification.
- a stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle
- a group that defends a principle
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- (architecture) A defensive work rising from a bastion, etc., and overlooking the surrounding area.
- (historical) A gallant: a sprightly young dashing military man.
- (historical) A courtesan or noble under Charles I of England, particularly a royalist partisan during the English Civil War which ended his reign.
- (slang) Someone with an uncircumcised penis.
- (historical) A military man serving on horse, (chiefly) early modern cavalry officers who had abandoned the heavy armor of medieval knights.
- A gentleman of the class of such officers, particularly:
- a gallant or courtly gentleman
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- A type of fortification consisting of a pair of demi-bastions with a curtain wall connecting them and with two long sides directed upon the faces of the bastions, or ravelins of the inner fortifications, so as to be defended by them.
- an element of the trace italienne system of fortification that consists of a pair of demi-bastions.
noun
- (fortification) In a permanent fortification, a redoubt which protects the caponiere.
- A cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection.
- (computing, programming) A pattern of bits used in bitwise operations; bitmask.
- (UK dialectal) Mash.
- A festive entertainment of dancing or other diversions, where all wear masks; a masquerade.
- (heraldry) The head of a fox, shown face-on and cut off immediately behind the ears.
- (computer graphics) A two-color (black and white) bitmap generated from an image, used to create transparency in the image.
- (UK dialectal, Scotland) The mesh of a net; a net; net-bag.
- (zoology) The lower lip of the larva of a dragonfly, modified so as to form a prehensile organ.
- That which disguises; a pretext or subterfuge.
- Mesh.
- (poetic) Appearance, likeness.
- (publishing, film) A flat covering used to block off an unwanted portion of a scene or image.
- (fortification) A screen for a battery.
- (architecture) A grotesque head or face, used to adorn keystones and other prominent parts, to spout water in fountains, and the like.
- A person wearing a mask.
- a party of guests wearing costumes and masks
- a protective covering worn over the face
- a covering to disguise or conceal the face
- activity that tries to conceal something
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- (transitive, UK dialectal) To bewilder; confuse.
- (transitive, military) To conceal; also, to intervene in the line of.
- (UK dialectal, Scotland, Cumbria, Geordie, Northumbria, Durham) To prepare tea in a teapot; alternative to brew.
- (transitive, military) To cover or keep in check.
- (intransitive) To put on a mask; to wear a mask.
- (transitive, UK dialectal) (brewing) To mix malt with hot water to yield wort.
- (transitive) To conceal from view or knowledge; to cover; to hide.
- (transitive, computing) To set or unset (certain bits, or binary digits, within a value) by means of a bitmask.
- (transitive, Scotland, Cumbria, Geordie, Northumbria, Durham dialectal) To be infused or steeped.
- (intransitive) To take part as a masker in a masquerade.
- (transitive) To disguise as something else.
- (transitive) To cover or shield something, or a portion of something, so as to prevent reproduction or to safeguard the surface from the colors used when working with an air brush or painting.
- (transitive) To cover (the face or something else), in order to conceal the identity or protect against injury; to cover with a mask or visor.
- (transitive, computing) To disable (an interrupt, etc.) by setting or unsetting the associated bit.
- (Scotland, Northern England, rare, of clouds, the weather, a storm, etc) To prepare (to storm).
- (intransitive) To conceal or disguise one's autism; to learn, practice, and perform certain behaviors and suppress others in order to appear more neurotypical.
- (transitive, UK dialectal) To mash.
- hide under a false appearance
- make unrecognizable
- shield from light
- cover with a sauce
- put a mask on or cover with a mask
noun
- A crescent-like outwork in a fortification.
- (informal, by extension of Moon) Any natural satellite of a planet.
- (card games) In hearts, the action of taking all the point cards in one hand.
- (literary) A month, particularly a lunar month.
- (cartomancy) The thirty-second Lenormand card.
- A representation of the moon, usually as a crescent or as a circle with a face; a crescent-shaped shape, symbol, or object.
- The eighteenth trump/major arcana card of the tarot.
- any object resembling a moon
- the period between successive new moons (29.531 days)
- any natural satellite of a planet
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- To spend time idly, absent-mindedly.
- (transitive) To adorn with moons or crescents.
- (cryptocurrencies, of a coin or token) To rise in price rapidly or suddenly. (from to the moon)
- (transitive, colloquial) To display one's buttocks to, typically as a jest, insult, or protest.
- (intransitive, colloquial) (usually followed by over or after) To fuss over something adoringly; to be infatuated with someone.
- (transitive) To expose to the rays of the Moon.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To gaze at lovingly or in adoration.
- (card games) To shoot the moon.
- have dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake
- expose one's buttocks to
- be idle in a listless or dreamy way
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- fortification consisting of a strong fence made of stakes driven into the ground
- (military) A wall of wooden stakes, used as a defensive barrier.
- A line of cliffs, especially one showing basaltic columns.
- A long, strong stake, one end of which is set firmly in the ground, and the other sharpened.
- (biology) An even row of cells, e.g., palisade mesophyll cells.
verb
- To secure and strengthen (a place, its walls, etc.) by installing fortifications or other military works.
- enclose by or as if by a fortification
- To impart fortitude or moral strength to (someone or their determination, or something); to encourage.
- (wine) To add spirits to (wine) to increase the alcohol content.
- To make (something) defensible against attack by hostile forces.
- To give power, strength, or vigour to (oneself or someone, or to something); to strengthen.
- To support (one's or someone's opinion, statement, etc.) by producing evidence, etc.; to confirm, to corroborate.
- (military) To install fortifications or other military works; also (sometimes figurative), to put up a defensive position.
- (ambitransitive, linguistics) To undergo, or cause to undergo, fortition.
- To increase the nutritional value of (food) by adding ingredients, especially minerals or vitamins.
- To increase the defences of (an army, soldiers, etc.), or put (it or them) in a defensive position.
- add nutrients to
- add alcohol to (beverages)
- make strong or stronger
- prepare oneself for a military confrontation
verb
- fortify by surrounding with trenches
- impinge or infringe upon
- cut a trench in, as for drainage
- set, plant, or bury in a trench
- cut or carve deeply into
- dig a trench or trenches
- To have direction; to aim or tend.
- To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.
- (archaeology) To excavate an elongated and often narrow pit.
- To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next.
- (usually followed by upon) To invade, especially with regard to the rights or the exclusive authority of another; to encroach.
- (military, infantry) To excavate an elongated pit for protection of soldiers and or equipment, usually perpendicular to the line of sight toward the enemy.
- To cut furrows or ditches in.
noun
- a ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth
- a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor
- any long ditch cut in the ground
- (archaeology) A pit, usually rectangular with smooth walls and floor, excavated during an archaeological investigation.
- A long, narrow ditch or hole dug in the ground.
- (informal) A trench coat.
- (military) A narrow excavation as used in warfare, as a cover for besieging or emplaced forces.
verb
- surround with a wall in order to fortify
- have an argument about something
- enclose with a fence
- receive stolen goods
- fight with fencing swords
- (intransitive, equestrianism) To jump over a fence.
- (transitive) To defend or guard.
- (transitive) To engage in the selling or buying of stolen goods.
- (intransitive) To conceal the truth by giving equivocal answers; to hedge; to be evasive.
- (transitive) To enclose, contain or separate by building fence.
- (intransitive, sports) To engage in the sport of fencing.
noun
- a barrier that serves to enclose an area
- a dealer in stolen property
- (by extension) The place whence such a middleman operates.
- A thin artificial barrier that separates two pieces of land or forms a perimeter enclosing the lands of a house, building, etc.
- Skill in oral debate.
- (informal) Someone who hides or buys and sells stolen goods, a criminal middleman for transactions of stolen goods.
- A guard or guide on machinery.
- (cricket) The boundary.
- (programming) A memory barrier.
- (figuratively) A barrier, for example an emotional barrier.
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- fortification consisting of a strong fence made of stakes driven into the ground
- (military) A wall of wooden stakes, used as a defensive barrier.
- A line of cliffs, especially one showing basaltic columns.
- A long, strong stake, one end of which is set firmly in the ground, and the other sharpened.
- (biology) An even row of cells, e.g., palisade mesophyll cells.
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- A structure built for defense surrounding a city, castle etc.
- an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes
- an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure
- a masonry fence (as around an estate or garden)
- a vertical (or almost vertical) smooth rock face (as of a cave or mountain)
- a difficult or awkward situation
- (anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure
- a layer of material that encloses space
- anything that suggests a wall in structure or function or effect
- An impediment to free movement.
- A point of defeat or extinction.
- (figurative) A means of defence or security.
- Something with the apparent solidity, opacity, or dimensions of a building wall.
- Each of the substantial structures acting either as the exterior of or divisions within a structure.
- A point of desperation.
- (cycling) A very steep slope.
- (historical) The right or privilege of taking the side of the road near the wall when encountering another pedestrian; said to be taken or given.
- (chiefly dialectal) A spring of water.
- (mahjong) Face-down tiles arranged in stacked rows from which players draw new tiles.
- (nautical) A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot or wale.
- (roller derby) Two or more blockers skating together so as to impede the opposing team.
- (slang, seduction community, chiefly definite) The stage of biological aging where physical appearance and attractiveness start to deteriorate rapidly.
- (Internet) A personal notice board listing messages of interest to a particular user.
- (soccer) A line of defenders set up between an opposing free-kick taker and the goal.
- (US, slang, medicine) A doctor who tries to admit as few patients as possible.
- The butterfly Lasiommata megera.
- (mining) Any of the surfaces of rock enclosing the lode.
- One of the vertical sides of a container.
- (often in combination) A barrier.
- (roleplaying games) A character that has high defenses, thereby reducing the amount of damage taken from the opponent’s attacks.
- A fictional bidder used to increase the price at an auction.
- (anatomy, zoology, botany) A dividing or containing structure in an organ or cavity.
- A rampart of earth, stones etc. built up for defensive purposes.
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- a fortified defensive structure
- A fortified defensive structure stationed with troops.
- a fortified military post where troops are stationed
- A structure improvised from furniture, bedding, etc., for playing games.
- Any permanent army post.
- (historical) An outlying trading-station, as in British North America.
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- fortify by furnishing with battlements for defense
- prepare for battle or conflict
- (intransitive) To be arrayed for battle.
- To prepare or arm for battle; to equip as for battle.
- (transitive) To arrange in order of battle; to array for battle.
- (transitive) To furnish with battlements; to give the form of battlements to.
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- occupy a trench or secured area
- fix firmly or securely
- impinge or infringe upon
- (military) To surround or provide with a trench, especially for defense; to dig in.
- To invade; to encroach; to infringe or trespass; to enter on, and take possession of, that which belongs to another; usually followed by on or upon.
- To establish a substantial position in business, politics, etc.
- To become completely absorbed in and fully accept one's beliefs, even in the face of evidence against it and refusing to be reasoned with.
- (construction, archaeology) To dig or excavate a trench; to trench.
- (literally) To cut in; to furrow; to make trenches in or upon.
noun
- A defensive wall or rampart.
- an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes
- A defense or safeguard.
- (figurative) Any means of defence or security.
- A breakwater.
- (nautical) The planking or plating along the sides of a nautical vessel above her gunwale that reduces the likelihood of seas washing over the gunwales and people being washed overboard.
- a fencelike structure around a deck
- a protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away
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adj
- Of a place: strengthened so as to withstand attacks; fortified.
- Of a place: occupied or surrounded by armed troops (also figuratively).
- (figuratively) Subject to or troubled by attacks, controversy, or pressure.
- (architecture) Of a fortress or other building, a wall, etc.: having battlements or crenellations; battlemented, crenellated.
- Armed or prepared for battle (literally or figuratively).
- (by extension, heraldry) Having an upper edge or outline of alternating square indentations and extensions like battlements, unless the embattled item is a pale, cross or saltire, in which case it has the crenelations on all sides.
- (of a person) beset by difficulties or conflict
- prepared for battle
- having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement