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- (German politics) Related to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.
- (of objects or markets) Illegitimate, illegal, or disgraced.
- (of coffee or tea) Without any cream, milk, or creamer.
- (sometimes capitalized) Belonging to or descended from any of various (African, Aboriginal, etc.) ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin. (See usage notes below.)
- (politics) Of or pertaining to anarchism; anarchist.
- Clandestine; relating to a political, military, or espionage operation or site, the existence or details of which is withheld from the general public.
- (Ireland, now derogatory) Protestant, often with the implication of being militantly pro-British or anti-Catholic. (Compare blackmouth ("Presbyterian").)
- (typography) Said of a symbol or character that is solid, filled with color.
- (of an object) Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.
- Bad; evil; ill-omened.
- Having one or more features (hair, fur, armour, clothes, bark, etc.) that is dark (or black).
- (of a location or setting) Without light.
- (taxonomy, especially) Dark in comparison to another species with the same base name.
- Foul; dirty, soiled.
- (board games, chess) Of or relating to the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the "black" set (in chess, the set used by the player who moves second) (often regardless of the pieces' actual colour).
- Occult; relating to something (such as mystical or magical knowledge) which is unknown to or kept secret from the general public.
- (US, UK, South Africa) Belonging to or descended from any of various sub-Saharan African ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin.
- Expressing menace or discontent; threatening; sullen.
- (Singapore, Singlish, of someone's face) Sullen and solemn; bad-tempered and unhappy.
- (chiefly historical) Designated for use by those ethnic groups (as described above).
- (card games, of a card) Of the spades or clubs suits.
- (Ireland, informal) Overcrowded.
- distributed or sold illicitly
- (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading
- (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin
- (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood
- stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable
- (of coffee) without cream or sugar
- soiled with dirt or soot
- extremely dark
- of or belonging to a racial group especially of sub-Saharan African origin
- (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame
- offering little or no hope
- being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light
- harshly ironic or sinister
- marked by anger or resentment or hostility
- (uncountable, informal) Blackness, the condition of belonging to or being descended from one of these ethnic groups.
- (countable and uncountable) A black dye or pigment.
- (firefighting) The blackened, burned-out area at the centre of a fire.
- (countable) A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.
- (countable) Something, or a part of a thing, which is black.
- (countable, billiards, snooker, pool) The black ball.
- (countable, British) A type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.
- (US, slang) Marijuana.
- (in the plural) Black cloth hung up at funerals.
- (countable, baseball) The edge of home plate.
- A dark smut fungus, harmful to wheat.
- (countable and uncountable) The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light is reflected, but rather absorbed.
- (informal, chiefly UK, chiefly uncountable) Blackcurrant syrup or crème de cassis used for cocktails.
- (countable, sometimes capitalised, often offensive) A member or descendant of any of various (African, Aboriginal, etc) ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin.
- (countable, chess) The person playing with the black set of pieces.
- black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning)
- total absence of light
- the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
- (board games) the darker pieces
- make or become black
- burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color
- To defame or sully.
- (transitive, causative) To cause to be or become black.
- (transitive) To cook (meat or fish) by coating with pepper, etc., and quickly searing in a hot pan.
- (intransitive, ergative) To become black.
- (transitive, causative) To make dirty.
- a wash that colors a surface black
- a mixture of calomel and limewater that is used on syphilitic sores
- an attack intended to ruin someone's reputation
- (chiefly politics) A villainization campaign.
- (slang, cricket) A whitewash victory for the West Indies cricket team. Started in the 1984–86 "Blackwash" series of the West Indian cricket team in England in 1984.
- (slang, mining) Public campaigns and advertising funded by the coal industry to draw attention away from environmentally unsustainable practices or to justify exclusion from carbon taxes.
- (slang, New Zealand) A whitewash victory for any New Zealand national sporting team.
- (medicine) A lotion made by mixing calomel and limewater.
- To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
- To cover or smear with pitch.
- (transitive) To set or fix (a price or value).
- (transitive) To fix or set the tone of.
- (brewing) To add yeast as a step while making beer
- (transitive) To assemble or erect (a tent). Also used figuratively.
- (with on or upon) To fix one's choice.
- (intransitive, Bristol, of snow) To settle and build up, without melting.
- (intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
- (transitive) To set at an angle, especially a downwards one; to cause to tilt.
- (intransitive, baseball) To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
- (intransitive, cricket) To bounce on the playing surface.
- (transitive) To set, face, or pave (an embankment or roadway) with rubble or undressed stones.
- (transitive) To throw away; discard.
- (transitive, golf) To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
- (intransitive) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
- (transitive) To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
- (transitive or intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
- (transitive) To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
- (intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch.
- (transitive) To throw.
- (transitive, card games, slang) To discard (a card) for some gain.
- To attack, or position or assemble for attack.
- (ambitransitive, aviation or nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternately up and down.
- heel over
- set to a certain pitch
- sell or offer for sale from place to place
- move abruptly
- fall or plunge forward
- throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball
- be at an angle
- set the level or character of
- throw or toss with a light motion
- erect and fasten
- lead (a card) and establish the trump suit
- hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin
- (sports, UK, Australia, New Zealand) The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby, gridiron or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is in the centre of the field; see cricket pitch.) (Not often used in the US or Canada, where "field" is the preferred word.)
- An effort to sell or promote something.
- (geology) Pitchstone.
- The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant.
- The angle at which an object sits.
- (golf) A short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
- An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar.
- A dark, extremely viscous material still remaining after distilling crude oil or natural tar.
- The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread, the centres of holes, or letters in a monospace font.
- Prominence; importance.
- The height a bird reaches in flight, especially a bird of prey preparing to swoop down on its prey.
- (nautical, aviation) The degree to which a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft, rotates on such an axis, tilting its bow or nose up or down.
- (music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.
- (by extension) The place where a busker performs, a prostitute solicits clients, or an illegal gambling game etc. is set up before the public.
- (cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
- (mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
- (climbing) A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
- A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
- (now British, regional) A person's or animal's height.
- A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
- (music, phonetics) The perceived frequency of a sound, note or electromagnetic wave.
- A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
- (music) The standard to which a group of musical instruments are tuned or in which a piece is performed, usually by reference to the frequency to which the musical note A above middle C is tuned.
- (baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.
- A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
- A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
- An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
- (aviation) A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller.
- (caving) A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
- (rare) The field of battle.
- The most thrust-out point of a headland or cape.
- promotion by means of an argument and demonstration
- abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance)
- a sports field with predetermined dimensions for playing soccer
- the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration
- a high approach shot in golf
- a vendor's position (especially on the sidewalk)
- any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue
- the act of throwing a baseball or softball by the pitcher towards home plate, which initiates play by giving the batter a chance to hit it
- an all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump
- degree of deviation from a horizontal plane
- the action or manner of throwing something
- (uncountable) The act or process of turning (becoming) black in colour.
- changing to a darker color
- The act of defaming or sullying.
- Any of various (dark-colored) surface treatments for metal substrates, to inhibit corrosion.
- (countable) The result or an instance of such an act or process; a black stain or mark.
- a very dark black
- tropical tree of southern Asia having hard dark-colored heartwood used in cabinetwork
- hard dark-colored heartwood of the ebony tree; used in cabinetwork and for piano keys
- (countable) A black key on a piano or other keyboard instrument (as opposed to ivory).
- (countable) A tree that yields such wood.
- Dark skin colour.
- (uncountable) A hard, dense, deep black wood from various subtropical and tropical trees, especially of the genus Diospyros.
- (countable and uncountable) A deep, dark black colour.
- The colour of jet coal, deep grey.
- (mathematics) an operation that takes a differentiable function f and produces a polynomial, the Taylor polynomial (truncated Taylor series) of f, at each point of its domain.
- A turbine.
- (mineralogy) A hard, black form of coal, sometimes used in jewellery.
- A spout or nozzle for creating a jet of fluid.
- (physics) A narrow cone of hadrons and other particles produced by the hadronization of a quark or gluon.
- A part of a carburetor that controls the amount of fuel mixed with the air.
- (aviation) A type of airplane using jet engines rather than propellers.
- A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc.
- A rocket engine.
- a hard black form of lignite that takes a brilliant polish and is used in jewelry or ornamentation
- atmospheric discharges (lasting 10 msec) bursting from the tops of giant storm clouds in blue cones that widen as they flash upward
- the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid)
- an airplane powered by one or more jet engines
- street names for ketamine
- an artificially produced flow of water
- (intransitive) To spray out of a container.
- (transitive) To spray with liquid from a container.
- To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.
- To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude.
- (intransitive) To move (running, walking etc.) rapidly around
- (intransitive) To travel on a jet aircraft or otherwise by jet propulsion
- To adjust the fuel to air ratio of a carburetor; to install or adjust a carburetor jet
- To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken.
- (slang, intransitive) To leave; depart.
- fly a jet plane
- issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth
- a very dark black
- (countable) Any other marten, especially Martes americana (syn. Mustela americana).
- (countable) A small carnivorous mammal of the Old World that resembles a weasel, Martes zibellina, from cold regions in Eurasia and the North Pacific islands, valued for its dark brown fur.
- (countable and uncountable) A dark brown colour, resembling the fur of some sables.
- The sablefish.
- (in the plural, sables) Black garments, especially worn in mourning.
- (countable) An artist's brush made from the fur of the sable, the kolinsky sable-hair brush.
- (heraldry) A black colour on a coat of arms.
- (countable and uncountable) A pelt of fur of a sable or of one of another species of martens; a coat made from this fur.
- marten of northern Asian forests having luxuriant dark brown fur
- a scarf (or trimming) made of sable
- an artist's brush made of sable hairs
- the expensive dark brown fur of the marten
- (transitive) To blacken (as) with a burnt cork.
- To fill with cork.
- (transitive) To block (a street) illegally, to allow a protest or other activity to take place without traffic.
- To leave the cork in a bottle after attempting to uncork it.
- (fishing) To position one's drift net just outside of another person's net, thereby intercepting and catching all the fish that would have gone into that person's net.
- (transitive, Australia) To injure through a blow; to induce a haematoma.
- (transitive, baseball) To tamper with (a bat) by drilling out part of the head and filling the cavity with cork or similar light, compressible material.
- (transitive) To seal or stop up, especially with a cork stopper.
- (snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding) To perform such a maneuver.
- stuff with cork
- close a bottle with a cork
- (snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding) An aerialist maneuver involving a rotation where the rider goes heels over head, with the board overhead.
- (botany, uncountable) The dead protective tissue between the bark and cambium in woody plants, with suberin deposits making it impervious to gasses and water.
- A bottle stopper made from this or any other material.
- An angling float, also traditionally made of oak cork.
- The phellem of the cork oak, used for making bottle stoppers, flotation devices, and insulation material.
- The cork oak, Quercus suber.
- the plug in the mouth of a bottle (especially a wine bottle)
- a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line
- (botany) outer tissue of bark; a protective layer of dead cells
- outer bark of the cork oak; used for stoppers for bottles etc.
- (slang, criminology, rare) A mass murder committed, usually in an urban area, to eliminate potential witnesses of a previous crime.
- An instance of censorship, especially a temporary one.
- (Internet) An intentional outage of a website or other online service, typically as a form of protest.
- A large-scale power failure, and resulting loss of electricity to consumers.
- (attributive) The blocking out of as much light as possible.
- (historical) The mandatory blocking of all light emanating from buildings, as well as outdoor and street lighting as a measure against aerial bombing or naval attack, as imposed during, e.g., World War II.
- A temporary loss of consciousness.
- A temporary loss of memory.
- a suspension of radio or tv broadcasting
- a momentary loss of consciousness
- partial or total loss of memory
- the failure of electric power for a general region
- darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft)
- (uncountable) Blackness.
- (countable) A single, small piece of confectionery made from chocolate.
- (chiefly uncountable) A drink made by dissolving this food in boiling milk or water.
- (countable) A cat having a chocolate-colored coat.
- (countable, slang) A black person.
- (chiefly uncountable) A food made from ground roasted cocoa beans.
- (uncountable) A dark, reddish-brown colour/color, like that of chocolate (also called chocolate brown).
- a food made from roasted ground cacao beans
- a beverage made from cocoa powder and milk and sugar; usually drunk hot
- a medium brown to dark-brown color
- The state or quality of being black in colour.
- (figurative) Darkness, gloominess; depression.
- (figurative) The quality of being evil or dismal.
- The state of being of African descent.
- The experiences and culture of African-American people.
- Any space that such colour pervades.
- total absence of light
- the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
- A bluish shade of black.
- Any region of space beyond limits determined with reference to boundaries of a celestial system or body, especially the region of space immediately beyond Earth's atmosphere; sometimes, space beyond Earth's solar system.
- A region outside of explored space.
- any location outside the Earth's atmosphere
- (geology) A fossilised print in the rock bed that is at a deeper level than the track the creature leaving it was actually travelling on; caused by the pressure of a heavy animal or penetration of the sediment by a pointed appendage.
- (philately) Printing underneath the main design of a stamp, intended to prevent forgery or removal of the postmark.
- (philately, considered incorrect usage) a logo or advertising printed on the underside of a stamp; backprint.
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- (uncountable) The act or process of turning (becoming) black in colour.
- changing to a darker color
- The act of defaming or sullying.
- Any of various (dark-colored) surface treatments for metal substrates, to inhibit corrosion.
- (countable) The result or an instance of such an act or process; a black stain or mark.
- a very dark black
- tropical tree of southern Asia having hard dark-colored heartwood used in cabinetwork
- hard dark-colored heartwood of the ebony tree; used in cabinetwork and for piano keys
- (countable) A black key on a piano or other keyboard instrument (as opposed to ivory).
- (countable) A tree that yields such wood.
- Dark skin colour.
- (uncountable) A hard, dense, deep black wood from various subtropical and tropical trees, especially of the genus Diospyros.
- (countable and uncountable) A deep, dark black colour.
- a very dark black
- (countable) Any other marten, especially Martes americana (syn. Mustela americana).
- (countable) A small carnivorous mammal of the Old World that resembles a weasel, Martes zibellina, from cold regions in Eurasia and the North Pacific islands, valued for its dark brown fur.
- (countable and uncountable) A dark brown colour, resembling the fur of some sables.
- The sablefish.
- (in the plural, sables) Black garments, especially worn in mourning.
- (countable) An artist's brush made from the fur of the sable, the kolinsky sable-hair brush.
- (heraldry) A black colour on a coat of arms.
- (countable and uncountable) A pelt of fur of a sable or of one of another species of martens; a coat made from this fur.
- marten of northern Asian forests having luxuriant dark brown fur
- a scarf (or trimming) made of sable
- an artist's brush made of sable hairs
- the expensive dark brown fur of the marten
- (uncountable) Blackness.
- (countable) A single, small piece of confectionery made from chocolate.
- (chiefly uncountable) A drink made by dissolving this food in boiling milk or water.
- (countable) A cat having a chocolate-colored coat.
- (countable, slang) A black person.
- (chiefly uncountable) A food made from ground roasted cocoa beans.
- (uncountable) A dark, reddish-brown colour/color, like that of chocolate (also called chocolate brown).
- a food made from roasted ground cacao beans
- a beverage made from cocoa powder and milk and sugar; usually drunk hot
- a medium brown to dark-brown color
- The state or quality of being black in colour.
- (figurative) Darkness, gloominess; depression.
- (figurative) The quality of being evil or dismal.
- The state of being of African descent.
- The experiences and culture of African-American people.
- Any space that such colour pervades.
- total absence of light
- the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
- A bluish shade of black.
- Any region of space beyond limits determined with reference to boundaries of a celestial system or body, especially the region of space immediately beyond Earth's atmosphere; sometimes, space beyond Earth's solar system.
- A region outside of explored space.
- any location outside the Earth's atmosphere
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- (German politics) Related to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.
- (of objects or markets) Illegitimate, illegal, or disgraced.
- (of coffee or tea) Without any cream, milk, or creamer.
- (sometimes capitalized) Belonging to or descended from any of various (African, Aboriginal, etc.) ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin. (See usage notes below.)
- (politics) Of or pertaining to anarchism; anarchist.
- Clandestine; relating to a political, military, or espionage operation or site, the existence or details of which is withheld from the general public.
- (Ireland, now derogatory) Protestant, often with the implication of being militantly pro-British or anti-Catholic. (Compare blackmouth ("Presbyterian").)
- (typography) Said of a symbol or character that is solid, filled with color.
- (of an object) Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.
- Bad; evil; ill-omened.
- Having one or more features (hair, fur, armour, clothes, bark, etc.) that is dark (or black).
- (of a location or setting) Without light.
- (taxonomy, especially) Dark in comparison to another species with the same base name.
- Foul; dirty, soiled.
- (board games, chess) Of or relating to the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the "black" set (in chess, the set used by the player who moves second) (often regardless of the pieces' actual colour).
- Occult; relating to something (such as mystical or magical knowledge) which is unknown to or kept secret from the general public.
- (US, UK, South Africa) Belonging to or descended from any of various sub-Saharan African ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin.
- Expressing menace or discontent; threatening; sullen.
- (Singapore, Singlish, of someone's face) Sullen and solemn; bad-tempered and unhappy.
- (chiefly historical) Designated for use by those ethnic groups (as described above).
- (card games, of a card) Of the spades or clubs suits.
- (Ireland, informal) Overcrowded.
- distributed or sold illicitly
- (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading
- (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin
- (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood
- stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable
- (of coffee) without cream or sugar
- soiled with dirt or soot
- extremely dark
- of or belonging to a racial group especially of sub-Saharan African origin
- (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame
- offering little or no hope
- being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light
- harshly ironic or sinister
- marked by anger or resentment or hostility
- (uncountable, informal) Blackness, the condition of belonging to or being descended from one of these ethnic groups.
- (countable and uncountable) A black dye or pigment.
- (firefighting) The blackened, burned-out area at the centre of a fire.
- (countable) A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.
- (countable) Something, or a part of a thing, which is black.
- (countable, billiards, snooker, pool) The black ball.
- (countable, British) A type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.
- (US, slang) Marijuana.
- (in the plural) Black cloth hung up at funerals.
- (countable, baseball) The edge of home plate.
- A dark smut fungus, harmful to wheat.
- (countable and uncountable) The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light is reflected, but rather absorbed.
- (informal, chiefly UK, chiefly uncountable) Blackcurrant syrup or crème de cassis used for cocktails.
- (countable, sometimes capitalised, often offensive) A member or descendant of any of various (African, Aboriginal, etc) ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin.
- (countable, chess) The person playing with the black set of pieces.
- black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning)
- total absence of light
- the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
- (board games) the darker pieces
- make or become black
- burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color
- To defame or sully.
- (transitive, causative) To cause to be or become black.
- (transitive) To cook (meat or fish) by coating with pepper, etc., and quickly searing in a hot pan.
- (intransitive, ergative) To become black.
- (transitive, causative) To make dirty.
- a wash that colors a surface black
- a mixture of calomel and limewater that is used on syphilitic sores
- an attack intended to ruin someone's reputation
- (chiefly politics) A villainization campaign.
- (slang, cricket) A whitewash victory for the West Indies cricket team. Started in the 1984–86 "Blackwash" series of the West Indian cricket team in England in 1984.
- (slang, mining) Public campaigns and advertising funded by the coal industry to draw attention away from environmentally unsustainable practices or to justify exclusion from carbon taxes.
- (slang, New Zealand) A whitewash victory for any New Zealand national sporting team.
- (medicine) A lotion made by mixing calomel and limewater.
- To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
- To cover or smear with pitch.
- (transitive) To set or fix (a price or value).
- (transitive) To fix or set the tone of.
- (brewing) To add yeast as a step while making beer
- (transitive) To assemble or erect (a tent). Also used figuratively.
- (with on or upon) To fix one's choice.
- (intransitive, Bristol, of snow) To settle and build up, without melting.
- (intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
- (transitive) To set at an angle, especially a downwards one; to cause to tilt.
- (intransitive, baseball) To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
- (intransitive, cricket) To bounce on the playing surface.
- (transitive) To set, face, or pave (an embankment or roadway) with rubble or undressed stones.
- (transitive) To throw away; discard.
- (transitive, golf) To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
- (intransitive) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
- (transitive) To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
- (transitive or intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
- (transitive) To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
- (intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch.
- (transitive) To throw.
- (transitive, card games, slang) To discard (a card) for some gain.
- To attack, or position or assemble for attack.
- (ambitransitive, aviation or nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternately up and down.
- heel over
- set to a certain pitch
- sell or offer for sale from place to place
- move abruptly
- fall or plunge forward
- throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball
- be at an angle
- set the level or character of
- throw or toss with a light motion
- erect and fasten
- lead (a card) and establish the trump suit
- hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin
- (sports, UK, Australia, New Zealand) The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby, gridiron or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is in the centre of the field; see cricket pitch.) (Not often used in the US or Canada, where "field" is the preferred word.)
- An effort to sell or promote something.
- (geology) Pitchstone.
- The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant.
- The angle at which an object sits.
- (golf) A short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
- An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar.
- A dark, extremely viscous material still remaining after distilling crude oil or natural tar.
- The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread, the centres of holes, or letters in a monospace font.
- Prominence; importance.
- The height a bird reaches in flight, especially a bird of prey preparing to swoop down on its prey.
- (nautical, aviation) The degree to which a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft, rotates on such an axis, tilting its bow or nose up or down.
- (music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.
- (by extension) The place where a busker performs, a prostitute solicits clients, or an illegal gambling game etc. is set up before the public.
- (cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
- (mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
- (climbing) A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
- A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
- (now British, regional) A person's or animal's height.
- A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
- (music, phonetics) The perceived frequency of a sound, note or electromagnetic wave.
- A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
- (music) The standard to which a group of musical instruments are tuned or in which a piece is performed, usually by reference to the frequency to which the musical note A above middle C is tuned.
- (baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.
- A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
- A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
- An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
- (aviation) A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller.
- (caving) A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
- (rare) The field of battle.
- The most thrust-out point of a headland or cape.
- promotion by means of an argument and demonstration
- abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance)
- a sports field with predetermined dimensions for playing soccer
- the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration
- a high approach shot in golf
- a vendor's position (especially on the sidewalk)
- any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue
- the act of throwing a baseball or softball by the pitcher towards home plate, which initiates play by giving the batter a chance to hit it
- an all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump
- degree of deviation from a horizontal plane
- the action or manner of throwing something
- (transitive) To blacken (as) with a burnt cork.
- To fill with cork.
- (transitive) To block (a street) illegally, to allow a protest or other activity to take place without traffic.
- To leave the cork in a bottle after attempting to uncork it.
- (fishing) To position one's drift net just outside of another person's net, thereby intercepting and catching all the fish that would have gone into that person's net.
- (transitive, Australia) To injure through a blow; to induce a haematoma.
- (transitive, baseball) To tamper with (a bat) by drilling out part of the head and filling the cavity with cork or similar light, compressible material.
- (transitive) To seal or stop up, especially with a cork stopper.
- (snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding) To perform such a maneuver.
- stuff with cork
- close a bottle with a cork
- (snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding) An aerialist maneuver involving a rotation where the rider goes heels over head, with the board overhead.
- (botany, uncountable) The dead protective tissue between the bark and cambium in woody plants, with suberin deposits making it impervious to gasses and water.
- A bottle stopper made from this or any other material.
- An angling float, also traditionally made of oak cork.
- The phellem of the cork oak, used for making bottle stoppers, flotation devices, and insulation material.
- The cork oak, Quercus suber.
- the plug in the mouth of a bottle (especially a wine bottle)
- a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line
- (botany) outer tissue of bark; a protective layer of dead cells
- outer bark of the cork oak; used for stoppers for bottles etc.
- (slang, criminology, rare) A mass murder committed, usually in an urban area, to eliminate potential witnesses of a previous crime.
- An instance of censorship, especially a temporary one.
- (Internet) An intentional outage of a website or other online service, typically as a form of protest.
- A large-scale power failure, and resulting loss of electricity to consumers.
- (attributive) The blocking out of as much light as possible.
- (historical) The mandatory blocking of all light emanating from buildings, as well as outdoor and street lighting as a measure against aerial bombing or naval attack, as imposed during, e.g., World War II.
- A temporary loss of consciousness.
- A temporary loss of memory.
- a suspension of radio or tv broadcasting
- a momentary loss of consciousness
- partial or total loss of memory
- the failure of electric power for a general region
- darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft)
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- To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
- To cover or smear with pitch.
- (transitive) To set or fix (a price or value).
- (transitive) To fix or set the tone of.
- (brewing) To add yeast as a step while making beer
- (transitive) To assemble or erect (a tent). Also used figuratively.
- (with on or upon) To fix one's choice.
- (intransitive, Bristol, of snow) To settle and build up, without melting.
- (intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
- (transitive) To set at an angle, especially a downwards one; to cause to tilt.
- (intransitive, baseball) To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
- (intransitive, cricket) To bounce on the playing surface.
- (transitive) To set, face, or pave (an embankment or roadway) with rubble or undressed stones.
- (transitive) To throw away; discard.
- (transitive, golf) To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
- (intransitive) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
- (transitive) To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
- (transitive or intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
- (transitive) To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
- (intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch.
- (transitive) To throw.
- (transitive, card games, slang) To discard (a card) for some gain.
- To attack, or position or assemble for attack.
- (ambitransitive, aviation or nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternately up and down.
- heel over
- set to a certain pitch
- sell or offer for sale from place to place
- move abruptly
- fall or plunge forward
- throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball
- be at an angle
- set the level or character of
- throw or toss with a light motion
- erect and fasten
- lead (a card) and establish the trump suit
- hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin
- (sports, UK, Australia, New Zealand) The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby, gridiron or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is in the centre of the field; see cricket pitch.) (Not often used in the US or Canada, where "field" is the preferred word.)
- An effort to sell or promote something.
- (geology) Pitchstone.
- The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant.
- The angle at which an object sits.
- (golf) A short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
- An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar.
- A dark, extremely viscous material still remaining after distilling crude oil or natural tar.
- The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread, the centres of holes, or letters in a monospace font.
- Prominence; importance.
- The height a bird reaches in flight, especially a bird of prey preparing to swoop down on its prey.
- (nautical, aviation) The degree to which a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft, rotates on such an axis, tilting its bow or nose up or down.
- (music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.
- (by extension) The place where a busker performs, a prostitute solicits clients, or an illegal gambling game etc. is set up before the public.
- (cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
- (mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
- (climbing) A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
- A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
- (now British, regional) A person's or animal's height.
- A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
- (music, phonetics) The perceived frequency of a sound, note or electromagnetic wave.
- A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
- (music) The standard to which a group of musical instruments are tuned or in which a piece is performed, usually by reference to the frequency to which the musical note A above middle C is tuned.
- (baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.
- A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
- A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
- An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
- (aviation) A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller.
- (caving) A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
- (rare) The field of battle.
- The most thrust-out point of a headland or cape.
- promotion by means of an argument and demonstration
- abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance)
- a sports field with predetermined dimensions for playing soccer
- the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration
- a high approach shot in golf
- a vendor's position (especially on the sidewalk)
- any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue
- the act of throwing a baseball or softball by the pitcher towards home plate, which initiates play by giving the batter a chance to hit it
- an all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump
- degree of deviation from a horizontal plane
- the action or manner of throwing something
- a very dark black
- tropical tree of southern Asia having hard dark-colored heartwood used in cabinetwork
- hard dark-colored heartwood of the ebony tree; used in cabinetwork and for piano keys
- (countable) A black key on a piano or other keyboard instrument (as opposed to ivory).
- (countable) A tree that yields such wood.
- Dark skin colour.
- (uncountable) A hard, dense, deep black wood from various subtropical and tropical trees, especially of the genus Diospyros.
- (countable and uncountable) A deep, dark black colour.
- The colour of jet coal, deep grey.
- (mathematics) an operation that takes a differentiable function f and produces a polynomial, the Taylor polynomial (truncated Taylor series) of f, at each point of its domain.
- A turbine.
- (mineralogy) A hard, black form of coal, sometimes used in jewellery.
- A spout or nozzle for creating a jet of fluid.
- (physics) A narrow cone of hadrons and other particles produced by the hadronization of a quark or gluon.
- A part of a carburetor that controls the amount of fuel mixed with the air.
- (aviation) A type of airplane using jet engines rather than propellers.
- A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc.
- A rocket engine.
- a hard black form of lignite that takes a brilliant polish and is used in jewelry or ornamentation
- atmospheric discharges (lasting 10 msec) bursting from the tops of giant storm clouds in blue cones that widen as they flash upward
- the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid)
- an airplane powered by one or more jet engines
- street names for ketamine
- an artificially produced flow of water
- (intransitive) To spray out of a container.
- (transitive) To spray with liquid from a container.
- To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.
- To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude.
- (intransitive) To move (running, walking etc.) rapidly around
- (intransitive) To travel on a jet aircraft or otherwise by jet propulsion
- To adjust the fuel to air ratio of a carburetor; to install or adjust a carburetor jet
- To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken.
- (slang, intransitive) To leave; depart.
- fly a jet plane
- issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth
- a very dark black
- (countable) Any other marten, especially Martes americana (syn. Mustela americana).
- (countable) A small carnivorous mammal of the Old World that resembles a weasel, Martes zibellina, from cold regions in Eurasia and the North Pacific islands, valued for its dark brown fur.
- (countable and uncountable) A dark brown colour, resembling the fur of some sables.
- The sablefish.
- (in the plural, sables) Black garments, especially worn in mourning.
- (countable) An artist's brush made from the fur of the sable, the kolinsky sable-hair brush.
- (heraldry) A black colour on a coat of arms.
- (countable and uncountable) A pelt of fur of a sable or of one of another species of martens; a coat made from this fur.
- marten of northern Asian forests having luxuriant dark brown fur
- a scarf (or trimming) made of sable
- an artist's brush made of sable hairs
- the expensive dark brown fur of the marten
- (geology) A fossilised print in the rock bed that is at a deeper level than the track the creature leaving it was actually travelling on; caused by the pressure of a heavy animal or penetration of the sediment by a pointed appendage.
- (philately) Printing underneath the main design of a stamp, intended to prevent forgery or removal of the postmark.
- (philately, considered incorrect usage) a logo or advertising printed on the underside of a stamp; backprint.