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noun
- A swirling vortex.
- A circular or spiral motion; also, a circle described by a moving body; a revolution, a turn.
- (oceanography) An ocean current caused by wind which moves in a circular manner, especially one that is large-scale and observed in a major ocean.
- a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
verb
noun
noun
- The shape of something rotating; a vortex.
- A twist or fold.
- The state or condition of being convoluted.
- (computing) A function which maps a tuple of sequences into a sequence of tuples.
- (mathematics, functional analysis) A mathematical operation on two functions that produces a third that expresses how the shape of one is modified by the other; the integral of the product of the two functions after one is reflected about the y-axis and shifted along the x-axis.
- One 360° turn in a spring or similar helix.
- Any of the folds on the surface of the brain.
- the action of coiling or twisting or winding together
- the shape of something rotating rapidly
- a convex fold or elevation in the surface of the brain
noun
noun
verb
noun
- A cyclone separator; the cylindrical vortex tube within such a separator
- a violent rotating windstorm
- (loosely) Any weather phenomenon consisting of a system of winds rotating around a centre of low atmospheric pressure; a low pressure system.
- (informal) A strong wind.
- (specifically) A tropical cyclone occurring in the South Pacific or Indian Ocean.
- (informal) The more or less violent, small-scale circulations such as tornadoes, waterspouts, and dust devils.
- (meteorology) rapid inward circulation of air masses about a low pressure center; circling counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the southern
noun
noun
- A windstorm of limited extent, such as a tornado, dust devil, or waterspout, characterized by an inward spiral motion of the air with an upward current in the center; a vortex of air.
- (figurative) A person or body of objects or events sweeping violently onward.
- a more or less vertical column of air whirling around itself as it moves over the surface of the Earth
adj
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly.
- (transitive) To make something or someone whirl.
- (transitive) To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving motion; to snatch.
- (intransitive) To have a sensation of spinning or reeling.
- flow in a circular current, of liquids
- revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis
- turn in a twisting or spinning motion
- fly around
- cause to spin
noun
- (colloquial) A tornado.
- One who twists.
- (carpentry) A girder.
- An instrument used in twisting or making twists.
- The party game Twister, usually capitalized, or a variant.
- One whose occupation is to twist or join the threads of one warp to those of another, in weaving.
- Any of species Tholymis tillarga of libellulid dragonfly, of tropical West Africa to Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands.
- (British, colloquial) A crook, a villain.
- A ball delivered with a twist, as in cricket or billiards.
- small friedcake formed into twisted strips and fried; richer than doughnuts
- a localized and violently destructive windstorm occurring over land characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground
noun
- (meteorology) A wedge tornado.
- One of the basic elements that make up cuneiform writing, a single triangular impression made with the corner of a reed stylus.
- One of the simple machines; a piece of material, such as metal or wood, thick at one edge and tapered to a thin edge at the other for insertion in a narrow crevice, used for splitting, tightening, securing, or levering.
- (meteorology) A barometric ridge; an elongated region of high atmospheric pressure between two low-pressure areas.
- (figurative) Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things.
- (music) A hairpin, an elongated horizontal V-shaped sign indicating a crescendo or decrescendo.
- (US, regional, especially Westchester, New York) A sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll.
- (colloquial, British, countable, uncountable, by extension) A quantity of money.
- A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape.
- (geometry) A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
- (typography, US) A háček.
- (finance) A market trend characterized by a contracting range in prices coupled with an upward trend in prices (a rising wedge) or a downward trend in prices (a falling wedge).
- (UK, Cambridge University slang) The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos.
- (zoology, collective) A group of geese, swans, or other birds when they are in flight in a V formation.
- (architecture) A voussoir, one of the wedge-shaped blocks forming an arch or vault.
- (phonetics) The IPA character ʌ, which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel.
- (mathematics) The symbol ∧, denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.
- One of a pair of wedge-heeled shoes.
- (golf) A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories.
- any shape that is triangular in cross section
- (golf) an iron with considerable loft and a broad sole
- something solid that is usable as an inclined plane (shaped like a V) that can be pushed between two things to separate them
- a diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as the letter c) to indicate pronunciation
- a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States
- a heel that is an extension of the sole of the shoe
- a block of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object
verb
- (computing, informal, intransitive) Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state.
- (transitive) To shape into a wedge.
- (ambitransitive) To force into a narrow gap.
- (transitive) To support or secure using a wedge.
- (transitive) To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.
- (transitive) To pack (people or animals) together tightly into a mass.
- (transitive) To force or drive with a wedge.
- (transitive) To cleave with a wedge.
- squeeze like a wedge into a tight space
- put, fix, force, or implant
noun
- A whirlwind, whirlpool, or similarly moving matter in the form of a spiral or column.
- (historical) A supposed collection of particles of very subtle matter, endowed with a rapid rotary motion around an axis which was also the axis of a sun or planet; part of a Cartesian theory accounting for the formation of the universe, and the movements of the bodies composing it.
- (zoology) Any of numerous species of small Turbellaria belonging to Vortex and allied genera.
- (figuratively) Anything that inevitably draws surrounding things into its current.
- (figuratively) Anything that involves constant violent or chaotic activity around some centre.
- a powerful circular current of water (usually the result of conflicting tides)
- the shape of something rotating rapidly
verb
verb
noun
- A severe tropical cyclone; an intense, rotating storm.
- (in particular) A weather phenomenon in the northwestern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane except for its geographical region, typically resulting in wind speeds of 64 knots (119 km/h) or above. Equivalent to a cyclone in the Indian Ocean and Indonesia and Australia.
- a tropical cyclone occurring in the western Pacific or Indian oceans
noun
noun
- (meteorology) A violent wind in the form of a mobile, rapidly rotating, funnel cloud that has contacted the ground.
- a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted; highly addictive
- a localized and violently destructive windstorm occurring over land characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground
verb
noun
- (meteorology, aviation) Initialism of supercooled large droplet.
- (Internet) Initialism of second-level domain.
- (photography) Initialism of single lens digital.
- (graphics) Initialism of single-line diagram.
- (graphics) Initialism of straight-line diagram.
- (graphics) Initialism of Styled Layer Descriptor.
- (uncountable, accounting) Initialism of straight-line depreciation.
- (electronics) Initialism of semiconductor laser diode.
- (physics) Initialism of superluminescent diode.
adj
name
- (physics) Initialism of Stanford Large Detector.
- (international politics) Initialism of Shangri-La Dialogue.
- (UK politics) Initialism of Social and Liberal Democrats, the former name of the Liberal Democrats.
- (UK, law) Initialism of Statute Law Database; the former name for legislation.gov.uk.
- (UK politics) Initialism of Scottish Liberal Democrats.
noun
- (meteorology) Ellipsis of funnel cloud.
- (marketing, figurative) Ellipsis of purchase funnel (“the process of customer acquisition conceptualized as a series of stages, from initial awareness (top) to sale or conversion (bottom)”).
- Alternative form of fummel (“hybrid animal”).
- A passage or avenue for a fluid or flowing substance; specifically, a smoke flue or pipe; the chimney of a steamship or the like.
- A utensil in the shape of an inverted hollow cone terminating in a narrow pipe, for channeling liquids or granular material; typically used when transferring said substances from any container into ones with a significantly smaller opening.
- a conically shaped utensil having a narrow tube at the small end; used to channel the flow of substances into a container with a small mouth
- a conical shape with a wider and a narrower opening at the two ends
- (nautical) smokestack consisting of a shaft for ventilation or the passage of smoke (especially the smokestack of a ship)
verb
- (transitive) To consume (beer, etc.) rapidly through a funnel, typically as a stunt at a party.
- (transitive) To use a funnel.
- (intransitive) To proceed through a narrow gap or passageway akin to a funnel; to condense or narrow.
- (transitive) To channel, direct, or focus (emotions, money, resources, etc.).
- move or pour through a funnel
noun
- A waterspout (“whirlwind or tornado that forms over water”).
- A stream of water that falls from higher to lower; a (typically thin) waterfall.
- A stream or discharge of liquid, typically with some degree of force.
- A similar stream or fall of earth, rock, etc.
- The mixture of air and water thrown up from the blowhole of a whale.
- A tube or lip through which liquid or steam is poured or discharged.
- (Australia) A hollow stump formed when a tree branch breaks off.
- A waterspout (“channel through which water is discharged, especially from the gutters of a roof”).
- an opening that allows the passage of liquids or grain
verb
- (intransitive) To speak tediously or pompously.
- (intransitive) To gush forth in a jet or stream
- (ambitransitive) To eject water or liquid in a jet.
- (transitive) To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.
- talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner
- gush forth in a sudden stream or jet
noun
- (uncountable) Aircraft turbulence.
- A cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib.
- (chiefly in the plural) A jaw of an animal.
- A blow with an axe, cleaver, or similar implement.
- (poker) A hand where two or more players have an equal-valued hand, resulting in the chips being shared equally between them.
- (informal, with "the") Termination, especially from employment; the sack.
- (colloquial, India, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei) A stamp or seal; a mark, imprint or impression on a document (or other object or material) made by stamping or sealing a design with ink or wax, respectively, or by other methods.
- Ocean waves, generally caused by wind, distinguished from swell by being smaller and not lasting as long.
- A movable jaw or cheek, as of a vice.
- A licence or passport that has been sealed.
- (MLE, slang) A knife, especially one used as a weapon.
- A mark indicating nature, quality, or brand.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A woodchopping competition.
- A turn of fortune; change; a vicissitude.
- A complete shipment.
- (martial arts) A blow delivered with the hand rigid and outstretched.
- The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbour, or channel.
- (Internet) An IRC channel operator.
- (UK, slang) Cocaine.
- (colloquial, by extension, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei) The device used for stamping or sealing, which also contains the design to be imprinted.
- a grounder that bounces high in the air
- a tennis return made with a downward motion that puts backspin on the ball
- the irregular motion of waves (usually caused by wind blowing in a direction opposite to the tide)
- a jaw
- a small cut of meat including part of a rib
verb
- (informal) To fly a helicopter or be flown in a helicopter.
- (intransitive) To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize.
- (slang, transitive) To have sex with.
- (intransitive) To interrupt; with in or out.
- (transitive, figurative) To separate or divide.
- (transitive) To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.
- To converse, discuss, or speak with another.
- (slang, transitive) To manipulate or separate out a line of cocaine.
- (poker) To divide the pot (or tournament prize) between two or more players.
- (transitive, Hong Kong) To stab.
- (computing, transitive, Perl) To remove the final character from (a text string).
- (transitive, baseball) To hit the ball downward so that it takes a high bounce.
- To chap or crack.
- To seal a licence or passport.
- (transitive) to give a downward cutting blow or movement, typically with the side of the hand.
- (transitive) To sever with an axe or similar implement.
- (nautical) To vary or shift suddenly.
- (transitive, colloquial, India, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei) To stamp or seal (a document); to mark, impress or otherwise place a design or symbol on paper or other material, usually, but not necessarily, to indicate authenticity.
- (intransitive) To make a quick, heavy stroke or a series of strokes, with or as with an ax.
- cut into pieces with repeated blows
- hit sharply
- cut with a hacking tool
- strike sharply, as in some sports
- move suddenly
- form or shape by chopping
noun
- A duststorm.
- (oil and gas) A dry drillhole, one that does not produce oil or gas.
- (papermaking) A revolving wire-cloth cylinder which removes the dust from rags, etc.
- (education) A block of felt strips, shaped ergonomically, used to remove chalk from a chalkboard.
- (baseball) A high pitch toward the batter.
- (military, informal) A vehicle-mounted, multi-barrelled anti-aircraft gun.
- A loose-fitting long coat.
- (milling) A blowing machine for separating the flour from the bran.
- Someone who dusts.
- An object, such as a cloth or a purpose-made soft and puffy pad or mitt, used for dusting surfaces etc.
- (Philippines) A type of loose dress worn at home as well as within the vicinity of one's home.
- a piece of cloth used for dusting
- a loose coverall (coat or frock) reaching down to the ankles
- a windstorm that lifts up clouds of dust or sand
- a pitch thrown deliberately close to the batter
verb
- Of mist, smoke, etc.: to move with a coiling, spiralling, or twisting motion.
- To arrange (one's expression, face, etc.) into a smile; also (reflexive), of the lips, mouth, etc.: to arrange (itself or themselves) into a smile.
- (chiefly passive voice) Often followed by in and the thing encircling: to coil or spiral around, or encircle, (someone or something); (by extension) to cover or envelop (someone or something).
- (chiefly passive voice) Often followed by together: to entwine or twist (two or more people or things) together; to intertwine, to interweave.
- (intransitive) To bend or turn, often continuously; to twist and turn, to writhe.
- To coil, curl, or twist (something); to shape (something) into circles or coils.
- To adorn (someone or something) with a garland or wreath.
- Followed by about, around, or round: to coil, twist, or wind around a person or thing.
- Of flowers, leaves, etc.: to form the shape of a wreath around (something).
- (reflexive) To bend or turn (oneself), often continuously; to twist and turn, to writhe.
- (also reflexive, chiefly passive voice) Followed by about, around, or round: to coil, twist, or wind (oneself or something) around a person or thing; (by extension) to cause (oneself or something) to cover or encircle a person or thing.
- (Southeast England) To strengthen (an earthen embankment) with hurdles of wattle.
- decorate or deck with wreaths
- form into a wreath
- move with slow, sinuous movements
noun
noun
- (rare) A duststorm.
- An old bottle of spirits that has been kept for a long time.
- (military, slang) A supply petty officer.
- (possibly only in the plural) A clump of dust; a dust bunny.
- A migrant farmer from the dustbowl.
- (informal) A miller (from the image of millers being covered in flour dust).
- A dustman.
- A recording of music from another era, especially R&B; an oldie.
- A person of mixed race who has a swarthy complexion.
- A medium-brown color.
- An old person, especially one who is unwilling to change with the times.
adj
- Covered with dust.
- (figurative) Old; outdated; stuffily traditional.
- Grey or greyish.
- Powdery and resembling dust.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) Ugly, disgusting (a general term of abuse).
- (British, slang, chiefly in negative constructions) Ugly, unwell, inadequate, bad.
- covered with a layer of dust
- lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new
noun
- (aviation, meteorology, uncountable) The phenomenon of wind shear.
- (aviation, meteorology, countable) A specific instance of wind shear.
- (physics) Forces that push in opposite directions.
- The act of shearing, or something removed by shearing.
- (geology) The response of a rock to deformation usually by compressive stress, resulting in particular textures.
- (mathematics) A transformation that displaces every point in a direction parallel to some given line by a distance proportional to the point's distance from the line.
- A cutting tool similar to scissors, but often larger.
- (metalworking) A large machine use for cutting sheet metal.
- (physics) a deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves
- a large edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it
adj
verb
- (Scotland) To reap, as grain.
- (figurative) To deprive of property; to fleece.
- (mining, intransitive) To make a vertical cut in coal.
- (intransitive, transitive) To remove the fleece from (a sheep, llama, etc.) by clipping.
- (physics) To deform because of forces pushing in opposite directions.
- (engineering) (also 'shear off') To break or suddenly separate because of excessive force, eg. a bolt.
- (mathematics) To transform by displacing every point in a direction parallel to some given line by a distance proportional to the point’s distance from the line.
- To cut the hair of (a person).
- (aviation, meteorology, intransitive, of wind) To change in direction or speed.
- To cut, originally with a sword or other bladed weapon, now usually with shears, or as if using shears.
- shear the wool from
- become deformed by forces tending to produce a shearing strain
- cut with shears
- cut or cut through with shears
noun
- A swirling vortex.
- A circular or spiral motion; also, a circle described by a moving body; a revolution, a turn.
- (oceanography) An ocean current caused by wind which moves in a circular manner, especially one that is large-scale and observed in a major ocean.
- a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
verb
noun
noun
- The shape of something rotating; a vortex.
- A twist or fold.
- The state or condition of being convoluted.
- (computing) A function which maps a tuple of sequences into a sequence of tuples.
- (mathematics, functional analysis) A mathematical operation on two functions that produces a third that expresses how the shape of one is modified by the other; the integral of the product of the two functions after one is reflected about the y-axis and shifted along the x-axis.
- One 360° turn in a spring or similar helix.
- Any of the folds on the surface of the brain.
- the action of coiling or twisting or winding together
- the shape of something rotating rapidly
- a convex fold or elevation in the surface of the brain
noun
noun
noun
verb
noun
- A cyclone separator; the cylindrical vortex tube within such a separator
- a violent rotating windstorm
- (loosely) Any weather phenomenon consisting of a system of winds rotating around a centre of low atmospheric pressure; a low pressure system.
- (informal) A strong wind.
- (specifically) A tropical cyclone occurring in the South Pacific or Indian Ocean.
- (informal) The more or less violent, small-scale circulations such as tornadoes, waterspouts, and dust devils.
- (meteorology) rapid inward circulation of air masses about a low pressure center; circling counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the southern
noun
- A windstorm of limited extent, such as a tornado, dust devil, or waterspout, characterized by an inward spiral motion of the air with an upward current in the center; a vortex of air.
- (figurative) A person or body of objects or events sweeping violently onward.
- a more or less vertical column of air whirling around itself as it moves over the surface of the Earth
adj
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly.
- (transitive) To make something or someone whirl.
- (transitive) To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving motion; to snatch.
- (intransitive) To have a sensation of spinning or reeling.
- flow in a circular current, of liquids
- revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis
- turn in a twisting or spinning motion
- fly around
- cause to spin
noun
- (colloquial) A tornado.
- One who twists.
- (carpentry) A girder.
- An instrument used in twisting or making twists.
- The party game Twister, usually capitalized, or a variant.
- One whose occupation is to twist or join the threads of one warp to those of another, in weaving.
- Any of species Tholymis tillarga of libellulid dragonfly, of tropical West Africa to Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands.
- (British, colloquial) A crook, a villain.
- A ball delivered with a twist, as in cricket or billiards.
- small friedcake formed into twisted strips and fried; richer than doughnuts
- a localized and violently destructive windstorm occurring over land characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground
noun
- (meteorology) A wedge tornado.
- One of the basic elements that make up cuneiform writing, a single triangular impression made with the corner of a reed stylus.
- One of the simple machines; a piece of material, such as metal or wood, thick at one edge and tapered to a thin edge at the other for insertion in a narrow crevice, used for splitting, tightening, securing, or levering.
- (meteorology) A barometric ridge; an elongated region of high atmospheric pressure between two low-pressure areas.
- (figurative) Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things.
- (music) A hairpin, an elongated horizontal V-shaped sign indicating a crescendo or decrescendo.
- (US, regional, especially Westchester, New York) A sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll.
- (colloquial, British, countable, uncountable, by extension) A quantity of money.
- A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape.
- (geometry) A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
- (typography, US) A háček.
- (finance) A market trend characterized by a contracting range in prices coupled with an upward trend in prices (a rising wedge) or a downward trend in prices (a falling wedge).
- (UK, Cambridge University slang) The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos.
- (zoology, collective) A group of geese, swans, or other birds when they are in flight in a V formation.
- (architecture) A voussoir, one of the wedge-shaped blocks forming an arch or vault.
- (phonetics) The IPA character ʌ, which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel.
- (mathematics) The symbol ∧, denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.
- One of a pair of wedge-heeled shoes.
- (golf) A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories.
- any shape that is triangular in cross section
- (golf) an iron with considerable loft and a broad sole
- something solid that is usable as an inclined plane (shaped like a V) that can be pushed between two things to separate them
- a diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as the letter c) to indicate pronunciation
- a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States
- a heel that is an extension of the sole of the shoe
- a block of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object
verb
- (computing, informal, intransitive) Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state.
- (transitive) To shape into a wedge.
- (ambitransitive) To force into a narrow gap.
- (transitive) To support or secure using a wedge.
- (transitive) To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.
- (transitive) To pack (people or animals) together tightly into a mass.
- (transitive) To force or drive with a wedge.
- (transitive) To cleave with a wedge.
- squeeze like a wedge into a tight space
- put, fix, force, or implant
noun
- A whirlwind, whirlpool, or similarly moving matter in the form of a spiral or column.
- (historical) A supposed collection of particles of very subtle matter, endowed with a rapid rotary motion around an axis which was also the axis of a sun or planet; part of a Cartesian theory accounting for the formation of the universe, and the movements of the bodies composing it.
- (zoology) Any of numerous species of small Turbellaria belonging to Vortex and allied genera.
- (figuratively) Anything that inevitably draws surrounding things into its current.
- (figuratively) Anything that involves constant violent or chaotic activity around some centre.
- a powerful circular current of water (usually the result of conflicting tides)
- the shape of something rotating rapidly
verb
noun
noun
- (meteorology) A violent wind in the form of a mobile, rapidly rotating, funnel cloud that has contacted the ground.
- a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted; highly addictive
- a localized and violently destructive windstorm occurring over land characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground
verb
noun
- (meteorology, aviation) Initialism of supercooled large droplet.
- (Internet) Initialism of second-level domain.
- (photography) Initialism of single lens digital.
- (graphics) Initialism of single-line diagram.
- (graphics) Initialism of straight-line diagram.
- (graphics) Initialism of Styled Layer Descriptor.
- (uncountable, accounting) Initialism of straight-line depreciation.
- (electronics) Initialism of semiconductor laser diode.
- (physics) Initialism of superluminescent diode.
adj
name
- (physics) Initialism of Stanford Large Detector.
- (international politics) Initialism of Shangri-La Dialogue.
- (UK politics) Initialism of Social and Liberal Democrats, the former name of the Liberal Democrats.
- (UK, law) Initialism of Statute Law Database; the former name for legislation.gov.uk.
- (UK politics) Initialism of Scottish Liberal Democrats.
noun
- (meteorology) Ellipsis of funnel cloud.
- (marketing, figurative) Ellipsis of purchase funnel (“the process of customer acquisition conceptualized as a series of stages, from initial awareness (top) to sale or conversion (bottom)”).
- Alternative form of fummel (“hybrid animal”).
- A passage or avenue for a fluid or flowing substance; specifically, a smoke flue or pipe; the chimney of a steamship or the like.
- A utensil in the shape of an inverted hollow cone terminating in a narrow pipe, for channeling liquids or granular material; typically used when transferring said substances from any container into ones with a significantly smaller opening.
- a conically shaped utensil having a narrow tube at the small end; used to channel the flow of substances into a container with a small mouth
- a conical shape with a wider and a narrower opening at the two ends
- (nautical) smokestack consisting of a shaft for ventilation or the passage of smoke (especially the smokestack of a ship)
verb
- (transitive) To consume (beer, etc.) rapidly through a funnel, typically as a stunt at a party.
- (transitive) To use a funnel.
- (intransitive) To proceed through a narrow gap or passageway akin to a funnel; to condense or narrow.
- (transitive) To channel, direct, or focus (emotions, money, resources, etc.).
- move or pour through a funnel
noun
- A waterspout (“whirlwind or tornado that forms over water”).
- A stream of water that falls from higher to lower; a (typically thin) waterfall.
- A stream or discharge of liquid, typically with some degree of force.
- A similar stream or fall of earth, rock, etc.
- The mixture of air and water thrown up from the blowhole of a whale.
- A tube or lip through which liquid or steam is poured or discharged.
- (Australia) A hollow stump formed when a tree branch breaks off.
- A waterspout (“channel through which water is discharged, especially from the gutters of a roof”).
- an opening that allows the passage of liquids or grain
verb
- (intransitive) To speak tediously or pompously.
- (intransitive) To gush forth in a jet or stream
- (ambitransitive) To eject water or liquid in a jet.
- (transitive) To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.
- talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner
- gush forth in a sudden stream or jet
noun
- (uncountable) Aircraft turbulence.
- A cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib.
- (chiefly in the plural) A jaw of an animal.
- A blow with an axe, cleaver, or similar implement.
- (poker) A hand where two or more players have an equal-valued hand, resulting in the chips being shared equally between them.
- (informal, with "the") Termination, especially from employment; the sack.
- (colloquial, India, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei) A stamp or seal; a mark, imprint or impression on a document (or other object or material) made by stamping or sealing a design with ink or wax, respectively, or by other methods.
- Ocean waves, generally caused by wind, distinguished from swell by being smaller and not lasting as long.
- A movable jaw or cheek, as of a vice.
- A licence or passport that has been sealed.
- (MLE, slang) A knife, especially one used as a weapon.
- A mark indicating nature, quality, or brand.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A woodchopping competition.
- A turn of fortune; change; a vicissitude.
- A complete shipment.
- (martial arts) A blow delivered with the hand rigid and outstretched.
- The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbour, or channel.
- (Internet) An IRC channel operator.
- (UK, slang) Cocaine.
- (colloquial, by extension, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei) The device used for stamping or sealing, which also contains the design to be imprinted.
- a grounder that bounces high in the air
- a tennis return made with a downward motion that puts backspin on the ball
- the irregular motion of waves (usually caused by wind blowing in a direction opposite to the tide)
- a jaw
- a small cut of meat including part of a rib
verb
- (informal) To fly a helicopter or be flown in a helicopter.
- (intransitive) To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize.
- (slang, transitive) To have sex with.
- (intransitive) To interrupt; with in or out.
- (transitive, figurative) To separate or divide.
- (transitive) To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.
- To converse, discuss, or speak with another.
- (slang, transitive) To manipulate or separate out a line of cocaine.
- (poker) To divide the pot (or tournament prize) between two or more players.
- (transitive, Hong Kong) To stab.
- (computing, transitive, Perl) To remove the final character from (a text string).
- (transitive, baseball) To hit the ball downward so that it takes a high bounce.
- To chap or crack.
- To seal a licence or passport.
- (transitive) to give a downward cutting blow or movement, typically with the side of the hand.
- (transitive) To sever with an axe or similar implement.
- (nautical) To vary or shift suddenly.
- (transitive, colloquial, India, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei) To stamp or seal (a document); to mark, impress or otherwise place a design or symbol on paper or other material, usually, but not necessarily, to indicate authenticity.
- (intransitive) To make a quick, heavy stroke or a series of strokes, with or as with an ax.
- cut into pieces with repeated blows
- hit sharply
- cut with a hacking tool
- strike sharply, as in some sports
- move suddenly
- form or shape by chopping
noun
- A duststorm.
- (oil and gas) A dry drillhole, one that does not produce oil or gas.
- (papermaking) A revolving wire-cloth cylinder which removes the dust from rags, etc.
- (education) A block of felt strips, shaped ergonomically, used to remove chalk from a chalkboard.
- (baseball) A high pitch toward the batter.
- (military, informal) A vehicle-mounted, multi-barrelled anti-aircraft gun.
- A loose-fitting long coat.
- (milling) A blowing machine for separating the flour from the bran.
- Someone who dusts.
- An object, such as a cloth or a purpose-made soft and puffy pad or mitt, used for dusting surfaces etc.
- (Philippines) A type of loose dress worn at home as well as within the vicinity of one's home.
- a piece of cloth used for dusting
- a loose coverall (coat or frock) reaching down to the ankles
- a windstorm that lifts up clouds of dust or sand
- a pitch thrown deliberately close to the batter
noun
noun
- (rare) A duststorm.
- An old bottle of spirits that has been kept for a long time.
- (military, slang) A supply petty officer.
- (possibly only in the plural) A clump of dust; a dust bunny.
- A migrant farmer from the dustbowl.
- (informal) A miller (from the image of millers being covered in flour dust).
- A dustman.
- A recording of music from another era, especially R&B; an oldie.
- A person of mixed race who has a swarthy complexion.
- A medium-brown color.
- An old person, especially one who is unwilling to change with the times.
adj
- Covered with dust.
- (figurative) Old; outdated; stuffily traditional.
- Grey or greyish.
- Powdery and resembling dust.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) Ugly, disgusting (a general term of abuse).
- (British, slang, chiefly in negative constructions) Ugly, unwell, inadequate, bad.
- covered with a layer of dust
- lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new
noun
- (aviation, meteorology, uncountable) The phenomenon of wind shear.
- (aviation, meteorology, countable) A specific instance of wind shear.
- (physics) Forces that push in opposite directions.
- The act of shearing, or something removed by shearing.
- (geology) The response of a rock to deformation usually by compressive stress, resulting in particular textures.
- (mathematics) A transformation that displaces every point in a direction parallel to some given line by a distance proportional to the point's distance from the line.
- A cutting tool similar to scissors, but often larger.
- (metalworking) A large machine use for cutting sheet metal.
- (physics) a deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves
- a large edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it
adj
verb
- (Scotland) To reap, as grain.
- (figurative) To deprive of property; to fleece.
- (mining, intransitive) To make a vertical cut in coal.
- (intransitive, transitive) To remove the fleece from (a sheep, llama, etc.) by clipping.
- (physics) To deform because of forces pushing in opposite directions.
- (engineering) (also 'shear off') To break or suddenly separate because of excessive force, eg. a bolt.
- (mathematics) To transform by displacing every point in a direction parallel to some given line by a distance proportional to the point’s distance from the line.
- To cut the hair of (a person).
- (aviation, meteorology, intransitive, of wind) To change in direction or speed.
- To cut, originally with a sword or other bladed weapon, now usually with shears, or as if using shears.
- shear the wool from
- become deformed by forces tending to produce a shearing strain
- cut with shears
- cut or cut through with shears
verb
noun
- A cyclone separator; the cylindrical vortex tube within such a separator
- a violent rotating windstorm
- (loosely) Any weather phenomenon consisting of a system of winds rotating around a centre of low atmospheric pressure; a low pressure system.
- (informal) A strong wind.
- (specifically) A tropical cyclone occurring in the South Pacific or Indian Ocean.
- (informal) The more or less violent, small-scale circulations such as tornadoes, waterspouts, and dust devils.
- (meteorology) rapid inward circulation of air masses about a low pressure center; circling counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the southern
verb
noun
- A severe tropical cyclone; an intense, rotating storm.
- (in particular) A weather phenomenon in the northwestern Pacific that is precisely equivalent to a hurricane except for its geographical region, typically resulting in wind speeds of 64 knots (119 km/h) or above. Equivalent to a cyclone in the Indian Ocean and Indonesia and Australia.
- a tropical cyclone occurring in the western Pacific or Indian oceans
verb
- Of mist, smoke, etc.: to move with a coiling, spiralling, or twisting motion.
- To arrange (one's expression, face, etc.) into a smile; also (reflexive), of the lips, mouth, etc.: to arrange (itself or themselves) into a smile.
- (chiefly passive voice) Often followed by in and the thing encircling: to coil or spiral around, or encircle, (someone or something); (by extension) to cover or envelop (someone or something).
- (chiefly passive voice) Often followed by together: to entwine or twist (two or more people or things) together; to intertwine, to interweave.
- (intransitive) To bend or turn, often continuously; to twist and turn, to writhe.
- To coil, curl, or twist (something); to shape (something) into circles or coils.
- To adorn (someone or something) with a garland or wreath.
- Followed by about, around, or round: to coil, twist, or wind around a person or thing.
- Of flowers, leaves, etc.: to form the shape of a wreath around (something).
- (reflexive) To bend or turn (oneself), often continuously; to twist and turn, to writhe.
- (also reflexive, chiefly passive voice) Followed by about, around, or round: to coil, twist, or wind (oneself or something) around a person or thing; (by extension) to cause (oneself or something) to cover or encircle a person or thing.
- (Southeast England) To strengthen (an earthen embankment) with hurdles of wattle.
- decorate or deck with wreaths
- form into a wreath
- move with slow, sinuous movements