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- the porous calcified substance from which bones are made
- Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
- rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates
- a shade of white the color of bleached bones
- (figurative) A reward.
- (US, informal, in the plural) A dollar.
- (countable) Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of this material.
- A bonefish.
- (slang) An erect penis; a boner.
- (slang, chiefly in the plural) A domino or die.
- (figurative) The framework of anything.
- One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music.
- An off-white colour, like the typical colour of bone.
- A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
- (uncountable) A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
- (American football, informal) The wishbone formation.
- (slang) Clipping of trombone.
- (slang) A cannabis cigarette; a joint.
- One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
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- study intensively, as before an exam
- remove the bones from
- (vulgar, slang, usually of a man, ambitransitive) To have sexual intercourse (with).
- (transitive, slang) To apprehend, steal.
- To put whalebone into.
- To polish boots to a shiny finish.
- (usually with "up") To study.
- (carpentry, masonry, surveying) To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.
- To nag, especially for an unpaid debt.
- To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
- (civil engineering) To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.
- To fertilize with bone.
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- To carve or engrave (ornamental designs) on bone, ivory, or other materials.
- To carve or engrave (bone, ivory, or other materials) with ornamental designs.
- To create (a small ornamental handicraft also called a scrimshaw) by carving or engraving on bone (originally whalebone or whales' teeth), ivory, or other materials.
- (intransitive) To make a handicraft of scrimshaw.
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- (countable) A small ornamental handicraft created by carving or engraving bone (originally whalebone or whales' teeth), ivory, or other materials, formerly produced by sailors on whaling ships to pass the time on long voyages.
- (uncountable) The manufacture of small ornamental handicrafts by carving or engraving bone, ivory, or other materials, formerly by sailors on whaling ships to pass the time on long voyages.
- a carving (or engraving) on whalebone, whale ivory, walrus tusk, etc., usually by American whalers
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- skill in carving or fashioning objects from wood
- Any of the skills related to a woodland habitat, especially those relating to outdoor survival; these skills collectively.
- (uncountable) The art or skill of wood carving.
- skill and experience in matters relating to the woods (as hunting or fishing or camping)
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- Any of various similarly granular materials prepared from other sources, such as bones or wood.
- (countable) Food served or eaten as a repast.
- The ground-up edible part of various grains, used as a basis of food or feed; either flour or a coarser blend than flour (usage varies).
- (UK dialectal) A speck or spot.
- A part; a fragment; a portion.
- Any of various other granular or powdery materials, either ground by humans or occurring in nature, named figuratively after a resemblance to grain meal.
- (uncountable, informal) A break taken by a police officer in order to eat.
- (countable) Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity.
- any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or habit at more or less fixed times
- the food served and eaten at one time
- coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse
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- (transitive, mathematics) To combine two sets, conditions, or expressions by a logical AND; to intersect.
- (transitive) To join together; to unite; to combine.
- (transitive) To marry.
- (intransitive) To unite, to join, to league.
- (transitive, grammar) To join as coordinate elements, often with a coordinating conjunction, such as coordinate clauses.
- make contact or come together
- take in marriage; married
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- a bone that is given to a dog to chew on and play with, similar to a dog biscuit. They can be real bones, or they can be made of other materials like plastic or leather
- a 2- or 3-dimensional compound shape, evocative of a dog biscuit or dog-bone toy with a central shaft and two lobes (analogous to femoral condyles) at each end
- (slang, possibly African-American Vernacular) the penis
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- The art of carving shapes out of raw wood using a knife.
- (usually in the plural) A chip or shaving whittled from some larger substance.
- (figurative, by extension) The reducing of something by degrees, especially at the expense of some effort.
- A process of repeatedly shaving slivers from a piece of wood (non-artistic).
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- Bone structure.
- The arrangement of bones in a corset.
- The removal of bones from a carcass; filleting.
- The fertilization of a field with bone meal.
- Placement of a curse by pointing with a bone, practiced by Australian aborigines; an act of pointing the bone.
- (slang, vulgar) An act of sexual intercourse.
- The process or result of leveling using a boning rod.
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- To shape to sculptural effect; to produce (a work) by cutting, or to cut (a material) into a finished work, especially with cuts that are curved rather than only straight slices.
- (figuratively) To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.
- To cut meat in order to serve it.
- To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.
- (snowboarding) To perform a series of turns without pivoting, so that the tip and tail of the snowboard take the same path.
- form by carving
- engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface
- cut to pieces
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- (medicine) The loss and reassimilation of bone (or other) material.
- The redissolving, wholly or in part, in the molten magma of an igneous rock, of crystals previously formed.
- The act of resorbing.
- the organic process in which the substance of some differentiated structure that has been produced by the body undergoes lysis and assimilation
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- carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface
- carve or cut a design or letters into
- carve or cut into a block used for printing or print from such a block
- impress or affect deeply
- (transitive) To carve text or symbols into (something), usually for the purposes of identification or art.
- (transitive) To carve (something) into a material.
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- of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought
- dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises
- causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm
- Low in pitch, tone etc.
- Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness; not cheerful.
- Serious, in a negative sense; important, formidable.
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- death of a person
- a mark (‘) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation
- a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone)
- (historical) A count, prefect, or person holding office.
- (loosely) Any place of interment.
- (by extension, uncountable) Deceased people; the dead.
- (uncountable, by extension) Death, destruction.
- (strictly) An excavation in the earth as a place of burial.
- (very loosely) Any place containing one or more corpses.
- A grave accent, the diacritic mark `.
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- carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface
- draw within a figure so as to touch in as many places as possible
- mark with one's signature
- convert ordinary language into code
- address, (a work of literature) in a style less formal than a dedication
- write, engrave, or print as a lasting record
- register formally as a participant or member
- (transitive) To enter on a document or list; to enroll.
- (transitive) To dedicate to someone.
- (geometry) To draw a circle, sphere, etc. inside a polygon, polyhedron, etc. and tangent to all its sides.
- (transitive) To write or cut (words) onto (something, especially a hard surface, or a book to be given to another person); to engrave.
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- carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface
- scrape or rub as if to relieve itching
- postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled
- gather (money or other resources) together over time
- cause friction
- remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line
- cut the surface of; wear away the surface of
- (music) To produce a distinctive sound on a turntable by moving a vinyl record back and forth while manipulating the crossfader (see also scratching).
- (ambitransitive) To dig or excavate with the claws.
- (of a surface) To get such scratches.
- To write or draw hastily or awkwardly; scrawl.
- To rub a surface with a sharp object, especially by a living creature to remove itching with nails, claws, etc.
- Hence, to remove, ignore, or delete.
- To dig or scrape (a person's skin) with claws or fingernails in self-defense or with the intention to injure.
- To cross out, strike out, strike through some text on a page.
- To mark a surface with a sharp object, thereby leaving a scratch (noun).
- (billiards) To commit a foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.
- (swimming, athletics) To announce one's non-participation in a race or sports event part of a larger sports meeting that one was previously signed up for, usually in lieu of another event at the same meeting.
- To rub the skin with rough material causing a sensation of irritation; to cause itching.
- To irritate someone's skin with one's unshaven beard when kissing.
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- a harsh noise made by scraping
- a line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game
- an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off
- informal terms for money
- (golf) a handicap of zero strokes
- a competitor who has withdrawn from competition
- an indication of damage
- a depression scratched or carved into a surface
- dry mash for poultry
- poor handwriting
- A foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.
- Poor handwriting; especially, illegibly so.
- (music) A genre of Virgin Islander music, better known as fungi.
- A feed, usually a mixture of a few common grains, given to chickens.
- A starting line (originally and simply, a line scratched in the ground), as in boxing.
- A technical error of touching or surpassing the starting mark prior to the official start signal in the sporting events of long jump, discus, hammer throw, shot put, and similar. Originally the starting mark was a scratch on the ground but is now a board or precisely indicated mark.
- (in the plural) Minute, but tender and troublesome, excoriations, covered with scabs, upon the heels of horses which have been used where it is very wet or muddy.
- (meiosis) A minor injury.
- A disruption, mark or shallow cut on a surface made by scratching.
- (cycling) The last riders to depart in a handicap race.
- An act of scratching the skin to alleviate an itch or irritation.
- Nothing, zero. Used especially in card games or sports, but also expressions like "from scatch".
- (now historical) A scratch wig.
- (horse racing) A horse withdrawn from a race prior to the start.
- (slang) Money; especially, cash.
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- (sports) (of a player) Of a standard high enough to play without a handicap, i.e. to compete without the benefit of a variation in scoring based on ability.
- (computing) Relating to a scratchpad, a data structure or recording medium attached to a machine for testing or temporary use.
- For or consisting of preliminary or tentative, incomplete, etc. work.
- Hastily assembled, arranged or constructed, from whatever materials are to hand, with little or no preparation
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- sculpture produced by molding
- a preliminary sculpture in wax or clay from which a finished work can be copied
- the act of representing something (usually on a smaller scale)
- (mathematics) The construction and use of a computer model of a physical system.
- The profession of someone who models clothes.
- The representation of depth in a two-dimensional image.
- The art of sculpting models from clay etc. to create a representation of something.
- The learning of a new skill by copying other people.
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- sculpture produced by molding
- a dish or dessert that is formed in or on a mold
- a distinctive nature, character, or type
- the process of becoming mildewed
- container into which liquid is poured to create a given shape when it hardens
- loose soil rich in organic matter
- the distinctive form in which a thing is made
- a fungus that produces a superficial growth on various kinds of damp or decaying organic matter
- (architecture) A group of moldings.
- A frame or model around or on which something is formed or shaped.
- (anatomy) A fontanelle.
- A fungus that creates such furry growths.
- The shape or pattern of a mold.
- General shape or form.
- A natural substance in the form of a furry or woolly growth of tiny fungi that appears when organic material lies for a long time exposed to (usually warm and moist) air.
- Loose friable soil, rich in humus and fit for planting.
- (UK, dialectal, chiefly plural) Earth, ground.
- Something that is made in or shaped on a mold.
- Distinctive character or type.
- A hollow form or matrix for shaping a fluid or plastic substance.
- A fixed or restrictive pattern or form.
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- form by pouring (e.g., wax or hot metal) into a cast or mold
- become moldy; spoil due to humidity
- fit tightly, follow the contours of
- shape or influence; give direction to
- form in clay, wax, etc
- make something, usually for a specific function
- (intransitive) To be shaped in or as if in a mold.
- (transitive) To fit closely by following the contours of.
- (transitive) To cause to become moldy; to cause mold to grow upon.
- (transitive) To ornament with moldings.
- (transitive) To shape in or on a mold; to form into a particular shape; to give shape to.
- (transitive) To guide or determine the growth or development of; influence
- To cover with mold or soil.
- (intransitive) To become moldy; to be covered or filled, in whole or in part, with a mold.
- (transitive) To make a mold of or from (molten metal, for example) before casting.
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- sculpture produced by molding
- the act of creating something by casting it in a mold
- a decorative strip used for ornamentation or finishing
- a preliminary sculpture in wax or clay from which a finished work can be copied
- a decorative recessed or relieved surface on an edge
- Anything cast in a mold, or which appears to be so, as grooved or ornamental bars of wood or metal.
- (milling) A mill for shaping timber.
- (woodwork) A planing machine for making moldings.
- The act or process of shaping in or on a mold, or of making molds; the art or occupation of a molder.
- (architecture) A plane, or curved, narrow surface, either sunk or projecting, used for decoration by means of the lights and shades upon its surface and to conceal joints, especially between unlike materials.
- (founding) A kind of sand containing clay, used in making molds.
- (founding) A machine to assist in making molds for castings.
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- sculpture produced by molding
- a dish or dessert that is formed in or on a mold
- a distinctive nature, character, or type
- the process of becoming mildewed
- container into which liquid is poured to create a given shape when it hardens
- loose soil rich in organic matter
- the distinctive form in which a thing is made
- a fungus that produces a superficial growth on various kinds of damp or decaying organic matter
- Commonwealth spelling of mold (“loose soil”).
- Commonwealth spelling of mold (“top of the head”).
- Commonwealth standard spelling of mold.
- Commonwealth spelling of mold (“growth of tiny fungi”).
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- form by pouring (e.g., wax or hot metal) into a cast or mold
- become moldy; spoil due to humidity
- fit tightly, follow the contours of
- shape or influence; give direction to
- form in clay, wax, etc
- make something, usually for a specific function
- Commonwealth standard spelling of mold.
- Commonwealth spelling of mold (“to cause to become mouldy”).
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- An object made or shaped by human hand or labor.
- (museology) Any object in the collection of a museum. May be used sensu stricto only for human-made objects, or may include ones that are not human-made.
- (computing, radiology) A perceptible distortion that appears in an audio or video file or an image as a result of applying a lossy compression or other inexact processing algorithm or of physical interference in an acquisition process.
- (biology) An appearance or structure in protoplasm due to death, the method of preparation of specimens, or the use of reagents, and not present during life.
- Something viewed as a product of human agency or conception rather than an inherent element.
- A finding or structure in an experiment or investigation that is not a true feature of the object under observation, but is a result of external action, the test arrangement, or an experimental error.
- An object made or shaped by some agent or intelligence, not necessarily of direct human origin.
- (software engineering) Ellipsis of build artifact.
- (archaeology) An object, such as a tool, ornament, or weapon of archaeological or historical interest, especially such an object found at an archaeological excavation.
- a man-made object taken as a whole
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- creating figures or designs in three dimensions
- a three-dimensional work of plastic art
- Works of art created by sculpting, as a group.
- (countable) A three-dimensional work of art created by shaping malleable objects and letting them harden or by chipping away pieces from a rock (sculpting).
- (zoology) The three-dimensional ornamentation on the outer surface of a shell.
- (countable) More generally (since modernism), a three-dimensional work of art of any material or of mixed materials, whether sculpted, assembled, found, constructed or created using multiple techniques.
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- the act of fabricating something in a particular shape
- an arrangement of people or things acting as a unit
- creation by mental activity
- the act of forming or establishing something
- (geology) the geological features of the earth
- natural process that causes something to form
- a particular spatial arrangement
- (category theory) A structure made of two categories, two functors from the first to the second category, and a transformation from one of the functors to the other.
- (geology) A layer of rock of common origin. [from 19th c.]
- (sports) An arrangement of players designed to facilitate certain plays.
- Something possessing structure or form. [from 17th c.]
- (military) A grouping of military units or smaller formations under a command, such as a brigade, division, wing, etc. [from 18th c.]
- The process of influencing or guiding a person to a deeper understanding of a particular vocation.
- The act of assembling a group or structure. [from 14th c.]
- (military) An arrangement of moving troops, ships, or aircraft, such as a wedge, line abreast, or echelon. Often "in formation".
- The process during which something comes into being and gains its characteristics. [from 18th c.]
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- the act of fabricating something in a particular shape
- any process serving to define the shape of something
- The action of the metal-cutting machine called a shaper, which uses linear single-point cutting. It is largely but not entirely obsolete.
- (psychology) A method of positive reinforcement of behaviour patterns in a series of steps in operant conditioning.
- The action of the verb to shape.
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- The act of forging metal into shape.
- The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; especially the crime of fraudulently making or altering a writing or signature purporting to be made by another, the false making or material alteration of or addition to a written instrument for the purpose of deceit and fraud.
- That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised or counterfeited.
- a copy that is represented as the original
- criminal falsification by making or altering an instrument with intent to defraud
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- artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers
- (figurative) Substance or essence; the whole of something complex.
- (figurative) Appearance; seeming.
- (countable, uncountable) A fabric, usually made of woven, knitted, or felted fibres or filaments, such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use. Sometimes, woven fabric specifically.
- A form of attire that represents a particular profession or status.
- Specifically, a tablecloth, especially as spread before a meal or removed afterwards.
- (idiomatic, with definite article) The priesthood.
- (countable) A piece of cloth used for a particular purpose.
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- artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers
- the underlying structure
- A material made of fibers; especially, a woven one.
- (computing) Interconnected nodes that look like a textile fabric when diagrammed.
- (figurative) The framework underlying a structure.
- (archaeology) The fired clay material of pottery artifacts.
- (petrology) The appearance of crystalline grains in a rock.
- The texture of a cloth.
- The physical material of a building.
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- artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers
- the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object
- information (data or ideas or observations) that can be used or reworked into a finished form
- a person judged suitable for admission or employment
- things needed for doing or making something
- (rare) The materiel of an army.
- The elements, constituents or substance of which something physical or non-physical composed of or can be made of.
- (usually plural) Apparatus for doing or making something.
- (chess) All of a player's pieces and pawns on the chessboard, excluding the king.
- Something (as data, observations, perceptions or ideas) that may be incorporated, elaborated or otherwise reworked into a finished form or new form, or may serve as the basis for arriving at interpretations, judgments or conclusions.
- Fabric, which can be made into a garments, curtains, etc; especially, woven fabric (cloth).
- A basic matter (as metal, wood, plastic, fiber, etc.) from which the whole or the greater part of something physical (as a machine, tool, building, fabric, etc.) is made.
- (graphical user interface) An element of a design language associated with a certain style of rendering on the display.
- (sometimes collective, preceded by a qualifying word) A person, or people collectively, who are qualified or suited for a certain position or activity.
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- derived from or composed of matter
- directly relevant to a matter especially a law case
- concerned with worldly rather than spiritual interests
- having material or physical form or substance
- having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary
- concerned with or affecting physical as distinct from intellectual or psychological well-being
- (especially law) Having real importance or great consequences; significant; substantial.
- Of, relating to, or consisting of matter, especially physical.
- Relating to or concerned with what is purely physical rather than intellectual or spiritual, especially excessively so; materialistic.
- Of, relating to, or affecting physical well-being; corporeal; bodily.
- (logic) Of or relating to the matter of reasoning, as distinguished from the form of it, especially empirical.
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- (medicine) To set (a bone etc.) in a cast.
- (nautical) To bring the bows of a sailing ship on to the required tack just as the anchor is weighed by use of the headsail; to bring (a ship) round.
- To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to make preponderate; to decide.
- (of an animal) To throw off (the skin) as a process of growth; to shed the hair or fur of the coat.
- To consider; to turn or revolve in the mind; to plan.
- To deposit (a ballot or voting paper); to formally register (one's vote).
- To throw forward (a fishing line, net etc.) into the sea.
- (botany) To shed leaves or fruit prematurely.
- (transitive) To assign (a role in a play or performance).
- (Wicca) To open a circle in order to begin a spell or meeting of witches.
- (hunting) Of dogs, hunters: to spread out and search for a scent.
- (dated outside accounting) To add up (a column of figures, accounts etc.); cross-cast refers to adding up a row of figures.
- To throw down or aside.
- (media) To broadcast (video) over the Internet or a local network, especially to one's television.
- (transitive) To describe in an opinionated way. Mostly used with a metaphor involving light.
- (computing) To change a variable type from, for example, integer to real, or integer to text.
- (obsolete except in set phrases) To remove, take off (clothes).
- To twist or warp (of fabric, timber etc.).
- (astrology) To calculate the astrological value of (a horoscope, birth etc.).
- (now somewhat literary) To throw.
- To direct (one's eyes, gaze etc.).
- To perform, bring forth (a magical spell or enchantment).
- To shape (molten metal etc.) by pouring into a mould; to make (an object) in such a way.
- To throw (light etc.) on or upon something, or in a given direction.
- (transitive) To assign a role in a play or performance to (an actor).
- (nautical) To heave the lead and line in order to ascertain the depth of water.
- form by pouring (e.g., wax or hot metal) into a cast or mold
- deposit
- formulate in a particular style or language
- assign the roles of (a movie or a play) to actors
- move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
- choose at random
- eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
- select to play,sing, or dance a part in a play, movie, musical, opera, or ballet
- put or send forth
- to remove
- throw forcefully
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- The casting procedure.
- (firearms) The measurement of the angle of a shotgun stock from a top-view center line, used to align the shotgun to the shooter's eye.
- Visual appearance.
- A small mass of earth "thrown off" or excreted by a worm.
- (art) The collective group of actors performing a play or production together. Contrasted with crew.
- (fishing) An instance of throwing out a fishing line.
- A supportive and immobilising device used to help mend broken bones.
- The form of one's thoughts, mind etc.
- (hawking) The number of hawks (or occasionally other birds) cast off at one time; a pair.
- The mould used to make cast objects.
- The number rolled on a die when it is thrown.
- An object made in a mould.
- An act of throwing.
- Animal and insect remains which have been regurgitated by a bird.
- Something which has been thrown, dispersed etc.
- A squint.
- A chance or attempt at something.
- A group of crabs.
- the act of throwing a fishing line out over the water by means of a rod and reel
- object formed by a mold
- the actors in a play
- container into which liquid is poured to create a given shape when it hardens
- the act of throwing dice
- the distinctive form in which a thing is made
- the visual appearance of something or someone
- a violent throw
- bandage consisting of a firm covering (often made of plaster of Paris) that immobilizes broken bones while they heal
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- The normal process by which bone is formed.
- The calcification of tissue into a bonelike mass; the mass so formed.
- The process of becoming set in one's ways or beliefs; rigid conventionality.
- the developmental process of bone formation
- the calcification of soft tissue into a bonelike material
- the process of becoming rigidly fixed in a conventional pattern of thought or behavior
- hardened conventionality
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- Any of various similarly granular materials prepared from other sources, such as bones or wood.
- (countable) Food served or eaten as a repast.
- The ground-up edible part of various grains, used as a basis of food or feed; either flour or a coarser blend than flour (usage varies).
- (UK dialectal) A speck or spot.
- A part; a fragment; a portion.
- Any of various other granular or powdery materials, either ground by humans or occurring in nature, named figuratively after a resemblance to grain meal.
- (uncountable, informal) A break taken by a police officer in order to eat.
- (countable) Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity.
- any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or habit at more or less fixed times
- the food served and eaten at one time
- coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse
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- (transitive, mathematics) To combine two sets, conditions, or expressions by a logical AND; to intersect.
- (transitive) To join together; to unite; to combine.
- (transitive) To marry.
- (intransitive) To unite, to join, to league.
- (transitive, grammar) To join as coordinate elements, often with a coordinating conjunction, such as coordinate clauses.
- make contact or come together
- take in marriage; married
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- skill in carving or fashioning objects from wood
- Any of the skills related to a woodland habitat, especially those relating to outdoor survival; these skills collectively.
- (uncountable) The art or skill of wood carving.
- skill and experience in matters relating to the woods (as hunting or fishing or camping)
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- a bone that is given to a dog to chew on and play with, similar to a dog biscuit. They can be real bones, or they can be made of other materials like plastic or leather
- a 2- or 3-dimensional compound shape, evocative of a dog biscuit or dog-bone toy with a central shaft and two lobes (analogous to femoral condyles) at each end
- (slang, possibly African-American Vernacular) the penis
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- The art of carving shapes out of raw wood using a knife.
- (usually in the plural) A chip or shaving whittled from some larger substance.
- (figurative, by extension) The reducing of something by degrees, especially at the expense of some effort.
- A process of repeatedly shaving slivers from a piece of wood (non-artistic).
verb
noun
- Bone structure.
- The arrangement of bones in a corset.
- The removal of bones from a carcass; filleting.
- The fertilization of a field with bone meal.
- Placement of a curse by pointing with a bone, practiced by Australian aborigines; an act of pointing the bone.
- (slang, vulgar) An act of sexual intercourse.
- The process or result of leveling using a boning rod.
verb
noun
verb
- To shape to sculptural effect; to produce (a work) by cutting, or to cut (a material) into a finished work, especially with cuts that are curved rather than only straight slices.
- (figuratively) To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.
- To cut meat in order to serve it.
- To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.
- (snowboarding) To perform a series of turns without pivoting, so that the tip and tail of the snowboard take the same path.
- form by carving
- engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface
- cut to pieces
noun
- (medicine) The loss and reassimilation of bone (or other) material.
- The redissolving, wholly or in part, in the molten magma of an igneous rock, of crystals previously formed.
- The act of resorbing.
- the organic process in which the substance of some differentiated structure that has been produced by the body undergoes lysis and assimilation
noun
- sculpture produced by molding
- a preliminary sculpture in wax or clay from which a finished work can be copied
- the act of representing something (usually on a smaller scale)
- (mathematics) The construction and use of a computer model of a physical system.
- The profession of someone who models clothes.
- The representation of depth in a two-dimensional image.
- The art of sculpting models from clay etc. to create a representation of something.
- The learning of a new skill by copying other people.
verb
noun
- sculpture produced by molding
- a dish or dessert that is formed in or on a mold
- a distinctive nature, character, or type
- the process of becoming mildewed
- container into which liquid is poured to create a given shape when it hardens
- loose soil rich in organic matter
- the distinctive form in which a thing is made
- a fungus that produces a superficial growth on various kinds of damp or decaying organic matter
- (architecture) A group of moldings.
- A frame or model around or on which something is formed or shaped.
- (anatomy) A fontanelle.
- A fungus that creates such furry growths.
- The shape or pattern of a mold.
- General shape or form.
- A natural substance in the form of a furry or woolly growth of tiny fungi that appears when organic material lies for a long time exposed to (usually warm and moist) air.
- Loose friable soil, rich in humus and fit for planting.
- (UK, dialectal, chiefly plural) Earth, ground.
- Something that is made in or shaped on a mold.
- Distinctive character or type.
- A hollow form or matrix for shaping a fluid or plastic substance.
- A fixed or restrictive pattern or form.
verb
- form by pouring (e.g., wax or hot metal) into a cast or mold
- become moldy; spoil due to humidity
- fit tightly, follow the contours of
- shape or influence; give direction to
- form in clay, wax, etc
- make something, usually for a specific function
- (intransitive) To be shaped in or as if in a mold.
- (transitive) To fit closely by following the contours of.
- (transitive) To cause to become moldy; to cause mold to grow upon.
- (transitive) To ornament with moldings.
- (transitive) To shape in or on a mold; to form into a particular shape; to give shape to.
- (transitive) To guide or determine the growth or development of; influence
- To cover with mold or soil.
- (intransitive) To become moldy; to be covered or filled, in whole or in part, with a mold.
- (transitive) To make a mold of or from (molten metal, for example) before casting.
noun
- sculpture produced by molding
- the act of creating something by casting it in a mold
- a decorative strip used for ornamentation or finishing
- a preliminary sculpture in wax or clay from which a finished work can be copied
- a decorative recessed or relieved surface on an edge
- Anything cast in a mold, or which appears to be so, as grooved or ornamental bars of wood or metal.
- (milling) A mill for shaping timber.
- (woodwork) A planing machine for making moldings.
- The act or process of shaping in or on a mold, or of making molds; the art or occupation of a molder.
- (architecture) A plane, or curved, narrow surface, either sunk or projecting, used for decoration by means of the lights and shades upon its surface and to conceal joints, especially between unlike materials.
- (founding) A kind of sand containing clay, used in making molds.
- (founding) A machine to assist in making molds for castings.
verb
noun
- sculpture produced by molding
- a dish or dessert that is formed in or on a mold
- a distinctive nature, character, or type
- the process of becoming mildewed
- container into which liquid is poured to create a given shape when it hardens
- loose soil rich in organic matter
- the distinctive form in which a thing is made
- a fungus that produces a superficial growth on various kinds of damp or decaying organic matter
- Commonwealth spelling of mold (“loose soil”).
- Commonwealth spelling of mold (“top of the head”).
- Commonwealth standard spelling of mold.
- Commonwealth spelling of mold (“growth of tiny fungi”).
verb
- form by pouring (e.g., wax or hot metal) into a cast or mold
- become moldy; spoil due to humidity
- fit tightly, follow the contours of
- shape or influence; give direction to
- form in clay, wax, etc
- make something, usually for a specific function
- Commonwealth standard spelling of mold.
- Commonwealth spelling of mold (“to cause to become mouldy”).
noun
verb
noun
- An object made or shaped by human hand or labor.
- (museology) Any object in the collection of a museum. May be used sensu stricto only for human-made objects, or may include ones that are not human-made.
- (computing, radiology) A perceptible distortion that appears in an audio or video file or an image as a result of applying a lossy compression or other inexact processing algorithm or of physical interference in an acquisition process.
- (biology) An appearance or structure in protoplasm due to death, the method of preparation of specimens, or the use of reagents, and not present during life.
- Something viewed as a product of human agency or conception rather than an inherent element.
- A finding or structure in an experiment or investigation that is not a true feature of the object under observation, but is a result of external action, the test arrangement, or an experimental error.
- An object made or shaped by some agent or intelligence, not necessarily of direct human origin.
- (software engineering) Ellipsis of build artifact.
- (archaeology) An object, such as a tool, ornament, or weapon of archaeological or historical interest, especially such an object found at an archaeological excavation.
- a man-made object taken as a whole
noun
- the act of fabricating something in a particular shape
- an arrangement of people or things acting as a unit
- creation by mental activity
- the act of forming or establishing something
- (geology) the geological features of the earth
- natural process that causes something to form
- a particular spatial arrangement
- (category theory) A structure made of two categories, two functors from the first to the second category, and a transformation from one of the functors to the other.
- (geology) A layer of rock of common origin. [from 19th c.]
- (sports) An arrangement of players designed to facilitate certain plays.
- Something possessing structure or form. [from 17th c.]
- (military) A grouping of military units or smaller formations under a command, such as a brigade, division, wing, etc. [from 18th c.]
- The process of influencing or guiding a person to a deeper understanding of a particular vocation.
- The act of assembling a group or structure. [from 14th c.]
- (military) An arrangement of moving troops, ships, or aircraft, such as a wedge, line abreast, or echelon. Often "in formation".
- The process during which something comes into being and gains its characteristics. [from 18th c.]
noun
- the act of fabricating something in a particular shape
- any process serving to define the shape of something
- The action of the metal-cutting machine called a shaper, which uses linear single-point cutting. It is largely but not entirely obsolete.
- (psychology) A method of positive reinforcement of behaviour patterns in a series of steps in operant conditioning.
- The action of the verb to shape.
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verb
noun
adj
adj
noun
- the porous calcified substance from which bones are made
- Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
- rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates
- a shade of white the color of bleached bones
- (figurative) A reward.
- (US, informal, in the plural) A dollar.
- (countable) Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of this material.
- A bonefish.
- (slang) An erect penis; a boner.
- (slang, chiefly in the plural) A domino or die.
- (figurative) The framework of anything.
- One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music.
- An off-white colour, like the typical colour of bone.
- A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
- (uncountable) A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
- (American football, informal) The wishbone formation.
- (slang) Clipping of trombone.
- (slang) A cannabis cigarette; a joint.
- One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
verb
- study intensively, as before an exam
- remove the bones from
- (vulgar, slang, usually of a man, ambitransitive) To have sexual intercourse (with).
- (transitive, slang) To apprehend, steal.
- To put whalebone into.
- To polish boots to a shiny finish.
- (usually with "up") To study.
- (carpentry, masonry, surveying) To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.
- To nag, especially for an unpaid debt.
- To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
- (civil engineering) To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.
- To fertilize with bone.
adv
noun
- The act of forging metal into shape.
- The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; especially the crime of fraudulently making or altering a writing or signature purporting to be made by another, the false making or material alteration of or addition to a written instrument for the purpose of deceit and fraud.
- That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised or counterfeited.
- a copy that is represented as the original
- criminal falsification by making or altering an instrument with intent to defraud
noun
- artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers
- (figurative) Substance or essence; the whole of something complex.
- (figurative) Appearance; seeming.
- (countable, uncountable) A fabric, usually made of woven, knitted, or felted fibres or filaments, such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use. Sometimes, woven fabric specifically.
- A form of attire that represents a particular profession or status.
- Specifically, a tablecloth, especially as spread before a meal or removed afterwards.
- (idiomatic, with definite article) The priesthood.
- (countable) A piece of cloth used for a particular purpose.
noun
- artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers
- the underlying structure
- A material made of fibers; especially, a woven one.
- (computing) Interconnected nodes that look like a textile fabric when diagrammed.
- (figurative) The framework underlying a structure.
- (archaeology) The fired clay material of pottery artifacts.
- (petrology) The appearance of crystalline grains in a rock.
- The texture of a cloth.
- The physical material of a building.
verb
noun
- artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers
- the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object
- information (data or ideas or observations) that can be used or reworked into a finished form
- a person judged suitable for admission or employment
- things needed for doing or making something
- (rare) The materiel of an army.
- The elements, constituents or substance of which something physical or non-physical composed of or can be made of.
- (usually plural) Apparatus for doing or making something.
- (chess) All of a player's pieces and pawns on the chessboard, excluding the king.
- Something (as data, observations, perceptions or ideas) that may be incorporated, elaborated or otherwise reworked into a finished form or new form, or may serve as the basis for arriving at interpretations, judgments or conclusions.
- Fabric, which can be made into a garments, curtains, etc; especially, woven fabric (cloth).
- A basic matter (as metal, wood, plastic, fiber, etc.) from which the whole or the greater part of something physical (as a machine, tool, building, fabric, etc.) is made.
- (graphical user interface) An element of a design language associated with a certain style of rendering on the display.
- (sometimes collective, preceded by a qualifying word) A person, or people collectively, who are qualified or suited for a certain position or activity.
adj
- derived from or composed of matter
- directly relevant to a matter especially a law case
- concerned with worldly rather than spiritual interests
- having material or physical form or substance
- having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary
- concerned with or affecting physical as distinct from intellectual or psychological well-being
- (especially law) Having real importance or great consequences; significant; substantial.
- Of, relating to, or consisting of matter, especially physical.
- Relating to or concerned with what is purely physical rather than intellectual or spiritual, especially excessively so; materialistic.
- Of, relating to, or affecting physical well-being; corporeal; bodily.
- (logic) Of or relating to the matter of reasoning, as distinguished from the form of it, especially empirical.
noun
adj
noun
adj
noun
- The normal process by which bone is formed.
- The calcification of tissue into a bonelike mass; the mass so formed.
- The process of becoming set in one's ways or beliefs; rigid conventionality.
- the developmental process of bone formation
- the calcification of soft tissue into a bonelike material
- the process of becoming rigidly fixed in a conventional pattern of thought or behavior
- hardened conventionality
verb
- To carve or engrave (ornamental designs) on bone, ivory, or other materials.
- To carve or engrave (bone, ivory, or other materials) with ornamental designs.
- To create (a small ornamental handicraft also called a scrimshaw) by carving or engraving on bone (originally whalebone or whales' teeth), ivory, or other materials.
- (intransitive) To make a handicraft of scrimshaw.
noun
- (countable) A small ornamental handicraft created by carving or engraving bone (originally whalebone or whales' teeth), ivory, or other materials, formerly produced by sailors on whaling ships to pass the time on long voyages.
- (uncountable) The manufacture of small ornamental handicrafts by carving or engraving bone, ivory, or other materials, formerly by sailors on whaling ships to pass the time on long voyages.
- a carving (or engraving) on whalebone, whale ivory, walrus tusk, etc., usually by American whalers
verb
noun
- skill in carving or fashioning objects from wood
- Any of the skills related to a woodland habitat, especially those relating to outdoor survival; these skills collectively.
- (uncountable) The art or skill of wood carving.
- skill and experience in matters relating to the woods (as hunting or fishing or camping)
verb
- carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface
- carve or cut a design or letters into
- carve or cut into a block used for printing or print from such a block
- impress or affect deeply
- (transitive) To carve text or symbols into (something), usually for the purposes of identification or art.
- (transitive) To carve (something) into a material.
verb
adj
- of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought
- dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises
- causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm
- Low in pitch, tone etc.
- Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness; not cheerful.
- Serious, in a negative sense; important, formidable.
noun
- death of a person
- a mark (‘) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation
- a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone)
- (historical) A count, prefect, or person holding office.
- (loosely) Any place of interment.
- (by extension, uncountable) Deceased people; the dead.
- (uncountable, by extension) Death, destruction.
- (strictly) An excavation in the earth as a place of burial.
- (very loosely) Any place containing one or more corpses.
- A grave accent, the diacritic mark `.
verb
- carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface
- draw within a figure so as to touch in as many places as possible
- mark with one's signature
- convert ordinary language into code
- address, (a work of literature) in a style less formal than a dedication
- write, engrave, or print as a lasting record
- register formally as a participant or member
- (transitive) To enter on a document or list; to enroll.
- (transitive) To dedicate to someone.
- (geometry) To draw a circle, sphere, etc. inside a polygon, polyhedron, etc. and tangent to all its sides.
- (transitive) To write or cut (words) onto (something, especially a hard surface, or a book to be given to another person); to engrave.
verb
- carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface
- scrape or rub as if to relieve itching
- postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled
- gather (money or other resources) together over time
- cause friction
- remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line
- cut the surface of; wear away the surface of
- (music) To produce a distinctive sound on a turntable by moving a vinyl record back and forth while manipulating the crossfader (see also scratching).
- (ambitransitive) To dig or excavate with the claws.
- (of a surface) To get such scratches.
- To write or draw hastily or awkwardly; scrawl.
- To rub a surface with a sharp object, especially by a living creature to remove itching with nails, claws, etc.
- Hence, to remove, ignore, or delete.
- To dig or scrape (a person's skin) with claws or fingernails in self-defense or with the intention to injure.
- To cross out, strike out, strike through some text on a page.
- To mark a surface with a sharp object, thereby leaving a scratch (noun).
- (billiards) To commit a foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.
- (swimming, athletics) To announce one's non-participation in a race or sports event part of a larger sports meeting that one was previously signed up for, usually in lieu of another event at the same meeting.
- To rub the skin with rough material causing a sensation of irritation; to cause itching.
- To irritate someone's skin with one's unshaven beard when kissing.
noun
- a harsh noise made by scraping
- a line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game
- an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off
- informal terms for money
- (golf) a handicap of zero strokes
- a competitor who has withdrawn from competition
- an indication of damage
- a depression scratched or carved into a surface
- dry mash for poultry
- poor handwriting
- A foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.
- Poor handwriting; especially, illegibly so.
- (music) A genre of Virgin Islander music, better known as fungi.
- A feed, usually a mixture of a few common grains, given to chickens.
- A starting line (originally and simply, a line scratched in the ground), as in boxing.
- A technical error of touching or surpassing the starting mark prior to the official start signal in the sporting events of long jump, discus, hammer throw, shot put, and similar. Originally the starting mark was a scratch on the ground but is now a board or precisely indicated mark.
- (in the plural) Minute, but tender and troublesome, excoriations, covered with scabs, upon the heels of horses which have been used where it is very wet or muddy.
- (meiosis) A minor injury.
- A disruption, mark or shallow cut on a surface made by scratching.
- (cycling) The last riders to depart in a handicap race.
- An act of scratching the skin to alleviate an itch or irritation.
- Nothing, zero. Used especially in card games or sports, but also expressions like "from scatch".
- (now historical) A scratch wig.
- (horse racing) A horse withdrawn from a race prior to the start.
- (slang) Money; especially, cash.
adj
- (sports) (of a player) Of a standard high enough to play without a handicap, i.e. to compete without the benefit of a variation in scoring based on ability.
- (computing) Relating to a scratchpad, a data structure or recording medium attached to a machine for testing or temporary use.
- For or consisting of preliminary or tentative, incomplete, etc. work.
- Hastily assembled, arranged or constructed, from whatever materials are to hand, with little or no preparation
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noun
verb
noun
- creating figures or designs in three dimensions
- a three-dimensional work of plastic art
- Works of art created by sculpting, as a group.
- (countable) A three-dimensional work of art created by shaping malleable objects and letting them harden or by chipping away pieces from a rock (sculpting).
- (zoology) The three-dimensional ornamentation on the outer surface of a shell.
- (countable) More generally (since modernism), a three-dimensional work of art of any material or of mixed materials, whether sculpted, assembled, found, constructed or created using multiple techniques.
verb
- (medicine) To set (a bone etc.) in a cast.
- (nautical) To bring the bows of a sailing ship on to the required tack just as the anchor is weighed by use of the headsail; to bring (a ship) round.
- To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to make preponderate; to decide.
- (of an animal) To throw off (the skin) as a process of growth; to shed the hair or fur of the coat.
- To consider; to turn or revolve in the mind; to plan.
- To deposit (a ballot or voting paper); to formally register (one's vote).
- To throw forward (a fishing line, net etc.) into the sea.
- (botany) To shed leaves or fruit prematurely.
- (transitive) To assign (a role in a play or performance).
- (Wicca) To open a circle in order to begin a spell or meeting of witches.
- (hunting) Of dogs, hunters: to spread out and search for a scent.
- (dated outside accounting) To add up (a column of figures, accounts etc.); cross-cast refers to adding up a row of figures.
- To throw down or aside.
- (media) To broadcast (video) over the Internet or a local network, especially to one's television.
- (transitive) To describe in an opinionated way. Mostly used with a metaphor involving light.
- (computing) To change a variable type from, for example, integer to real, or integer to text.
- (obsolete except in set phrases) To remove, take off (clothes).
- To twist or warp (of fabric, timber etc.).
- (astrology) To calculate the astrological value of (a horoscope, birth etc.).
- (now somewhat literary) To throw.
- To direct (one's eyes, gaze etc.).
- To perform, bring forth (a magical spell or enchantment).
- To shape (molten metal etc.) by pouring into a mould; to make (an object) in such a way.
- To throw (light etc.) on or upon something, or in a given direction.
- (transitive) To assign a role in a play or performance to (an actor).
- (nautical) To heave the lead and line in order to ascertain the depth of water.
- form by pouring (e.g., wax or hot metal) into a cast or mold
- deposit
- formulate in a particular style or language
- assign the roles of (a movie or a play) to actors
- move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
- choose at random
- eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
- select to play,sing, or dance a part in a play, movie, musical, opera, or ballet
- put or send forth
- to remove
- throw forcefully
adj
noun
- The casting procedure.
- (firearms) The measurement of the angle of a shotgun stock from a top-view center line, used to align the shotgun to the shooter's eye.
- Visual appearance.
- A small mass of earth "thrown off" or excreted by a worm.
- (art) The collective group of actors performing a play or production together. Contrasted with crew.
- (fishing) An instance of throwing out a fishing line.
- A supportive and immobilising device used to help mend broken bones.
- The form of one's thoughts, mind etc.
- (hawking) The number of hawks (or occasionally other birds) cast off at one time; a pair.
- The mould used to make cast objects.
- The number rolled on a die when it is thrown.
- An object made in a mould.
- An act of throwing.
- Animal and insect remains which have been regurgitated by a bird.
- Something which has been thrown, dispersed etc.
- A squint.
- A chance or attempt at something.
- A group of crabs.
- the act of throwing a fishing line out over the water by means of a rod and reel
- object formed by a mold
- the actors in a play
- container into which liquid is poured to create a given shape when it hardens
- the act of throwing dice
- the distinctive form in which a thing is made
- the visual appearance of something or someone
- a violent throw
- bandage consisting of a firm covering (often made of plaster of Paris) that immobilizes broken bones while they heal
adj
noun
- the porous calcified substance from which bones are made
- Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
- rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates
- a shade of white the color of bleached bones
- (figurative) A reward.
- (US, informal, in the plural) A dollar.
- (countable) Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of this material.
- A bonefish.
- (slang) An erect penis; a boner.
- (slang, chiefly in the plural) A domino or die.
- (figurative) The framework of anything.
- One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music.
- An off-white colour, like the typical colour of bone.
- A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
- (uncountable) A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
- (American football, informal) The wishbone formation.
- (slang) Clipping of trombone.
- (slang) A cannabis cigarette; a joint.
- One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
verb
- study intensively, as before an exam
- remove the bones from
- (vulgar, slang, usually of a man, ambitransitive) To have sexual intercourse (with).
- (transitive, slang) To apprehend, steal.
- To put whalebone into.
- To polish boots to a shiny finish.
- (usually with "up") To study.
- (carpentry, masonry, surveying) To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.
- To nag, especially for an unpaid debt.
- To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
- (civil engineering) To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.
- To fertilize with bone.