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- An inexpensive, disposable box-like container fashioned from either paper, paper with wax-covering (wax paper), or other lightweight material.
- (Australia) A cardboard box that holds (usually 24) beer bottles or cans.
- A pack of cigarettes, usually ten, wrapped in cellophane or packed in a light cardboard box.
- a box made of cardboard; opens by flaps on top
- the quantity contained in a carton
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- A small cask.
- Any of various historically designated quantities of goods to be sold by the tub (butter, oysters, etc).
- (humorous or derogatory) Any structure shaped like a tub, such as a certain old form of pulpit, a short broad boat, etc.
- (mining) A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft.
- The contents or capacity of such a vessel.
- (automotive) The bare body shell of an automobile (minus the doors, hood, trunk lid, fenders, etc.) which is lowered onto the chassis at the time of assembly, or in the case of modern unibody designed vehicles, is itself a monocoque around which the rest of the vehicle is built.
- (nautical, informal) A slow-moving craft.
- A bathtub.
- A flat-bottomed vessel, of width similar to or greater than its height, used for storing or packing things, or for washing things in.
- (slang) A corpulent or obese person.
- a relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body
- the amount that a tub will hold
- a large open vessel for holding or storing liquids
verb
noun
- A container.
- a container that is used to put or keep things in
- (electricity, US) A contact device installed at an outlet for the connection of an attachment plug (typically by receiving the plug's prongs) to supply portable appliances or equipment.
- (phycology) A structure at the end of a branch of an alga containing conceptacles (reproductive organs).
- (botany) The part of the flower stalk (peduncle or pedicel) to which the floral parts are attached; a thalamus, a torus.
- A condensed rachis of a capitate or umbellate inflorescence at the end of the peduncle, to which all of the florets or pedicels are attached.
- (zoology) An organ that receives and holds a secretion.
- enlarged tip of a stem that bears the floral parts
- an electrical (or electronic) fitting that is connected to a source of power and equipped to receive an insert
noun
- A pallet.
- (Internet slang) A stepchild.
- A basic platform for the storage and transport of goods, machinery or equipment, later developed into the pallet.
- A ski-shaped runner or supporting surface as found on a helicopter or other aircraft in place of wheels.
- An out-of-control sliding motion as would result from applying the brakes too hard in a car or other vehicle.
- (aviation) A banked sideslip where the aircraft's nose is yawed towards the low wing, often due to excessive rudder input.
- (sports) A losing streak.
- (by extension) A hook attached to a chain, used for the same purpose.
- A runner of a sled.
- (Internet slang) A script kiddie.
- A shoe or clog, as of iron, attached to a chain, and placed under the wheel of a wagon to prevent its turning when descending a steep hill.
- One of a pair of horizontal rails or timbers for supporting anything, such as a boat or barrel.
- a restraint provided when the brake linings are moved hydraulically against the brake drum to retard the wheel's rotation
- an unexpected slide
- one of a pair of planks used to make a track for rolling or sliding objects
verb
- (Internet slang) To steal or copy, especially computer code.
- (transitive) To cause to move on skids.
- (intransitive, transitive, aviation) To operate an aircraft in a banked sideslip with the nose yawed towards the low wing.
- (intransitive) (of a wheel, sled runner, or vehicle tracks) To slide along the ground, without the rotary motion that wheels or tracks would normally have.
- (transitive) To check or halt (wagon wheels, etc.) with a skid.
- (intransitive) To slide in an uncontrolled manner as in a car with the brakes applied too hard, the wheels sliding with limited spinning.
- (transitive) To protect or support with a skid or skids.
- elevate onto skids
- move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner
- apply a brake or skid to
- slide without control
noun
- (coopering) The end cap of a cask or other barrel.
- (lacrosse) The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball.
- (UK, Ireland, metonymic) A headteacher.
- (automotive) The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs.
- A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum.
- (journalism) Ellipsis of headline.
- A headdress; a covering for the head.
- (slang, countable) A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
- Topic; subject.
- A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium.
- The antlers of a deer.
- The larger-diameter end of an unused rivet, properly the factory head or ambiguously the shop head, as opposed to the bucktail which is passed through the items to be fastened and then upset into an appropriate shape, generally pancake-shaped for a solid rivet or doughnut-shaped for a blind rivet, called the field head or ambiguously the shop head.
- (billiards) The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.
- An ear of wheat, barley, or other small cereal.
- (social, countable, metonymic) A leader or expert.
- (British, geology) Deposits near the top of a geological succession.
- (plural head) A single animal; measure word for livestock and game.
- The place of honor or command; the most important or foremost position; the front.
- The end of a nail, screw, bolt, or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide.
- (jazz) The principal melody or theme of a piece.
- Either, or in plural both, ends of a used rivet, the factory head and the field head.
- (medicine) The end of an abscess where pus collects.
- (computing) The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.
- (machining) A milling head, a part of a milling machine that houses the spindle.
- The sharp end of an arrow, spear, or pointer.
- A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication.
- The population of game.
- (nautical) The toilet of a ship.
- The end of a hammer, axe, golf club, or similar implement used for striking other objects.
- (figurative, metonymic) Mind; one's own thoughts.
- (slang) The glans penis.
- (figurative, metonymic) An individual person.
- (linguistics) A morpheme that determines the category of a compound or the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a member.
- (chemistry) The first fraction of a distillation run, having a low boiling point.
- (countable) The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
- (uncountable, countable) The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.
- Headway; progress.
- The leafy top part of a tree.
- (slang, vulgar, uncountable) Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
- A title or heading in a book or other document.
- (anatomy) The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.
- The top edge of a sail.
- (in the plural) Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
- (geology) The uppermost part of a valley.
- (only in the singular) Denouement; crisis.
- (music) A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound.
- More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.
- (music) The headstock of a guitar.
- The bow of a vessel.
- The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point.
- (British) A headland.
- (music, slang, figurative, metonymic) A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop.
- (uncountable, countable) A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.
- (countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
- Mental or emotional aptitude or skill.
- The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it.
- The end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor.
- (engineering) The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.
- forward movement
- that part of a skeletal muscle that is away from the bone that it moves
- a dense cluster of flowers or foliage
- the tip of an abscess (where the pus accumulates)
- a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea)
- a single domestic animal
- the part in the front or nearest the viewer
- (usually plural) the obverse side of a coin that usually bears the representation of a person's head
- (nautical) a toilet on board a boat or ship
- a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about
- the top of something
- the rounded end of a bone that fits into a rounded cavity in another bone to form a joint
- (computer science) a tiny electromagnetic coil and metal pole used to write and read magnetic patterns on a disk
- a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer
- the educator who has executive authority for a school
- (grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent
- the front of a military formation or procession
- the pressure exerted by a fluid
- a person who is in charge
- the source of water from which a stream arises
- a difficult juncture
- an individual person
- the striking part of a tool
- that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason
- the foam or froth that accumulates at the top when you pour an effervescent liquid into a container
- a user of (usually soft) drugs
- oral stimulation of the genitals
- a rounded compact mass
- a projection out from one end
- a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum
- the length or height based on the size of a human or animal head
- the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains
- the subject matter at issue
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- (transitive) To strike with the head
- (by extension) To check or restrain.
- (intransitive) To move in a specified direction.
- (fishing, transitive) To remove the head from (a fish).
- To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose.
- (transitive, of hardware) To form a head (on or to); to fit or furnish (something) with a head.
- (transitive) To cut off the top of; to lop off.
- (transitive) To come at the beginning or front of; to commence.
- (transitive) To be in command of. (See also head up.)
- To set on the head.
- (intransitive) To form a head.
- (intransitive) To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
- To go in front of.
- form a head or come or grow to a head
- direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
- travel in front of; go in advance of others
- take its rise
- to go or travel towards
- be in the front of or on top of
- remove the head of
- be in charge of
- be the first or leading member of (a group) and excel
verb
- enclose in a capsule or other small container
- put in a short or concise form; reduce in volume
- (transitive) To epitomize something by expressing it as a brief summary.
- (software, object-oriented programming) To enclose objects in a common interface in a way that makes them interchangeable, and guards their states from invalid changes.
- (transitive) To enclose something in, or as if in, a capsule.
- (networking) To enclose data in packets that can be transmitted using a given protocol.
noun
- A calabash and its contents; as much as fills such a container.
- A tree (known as the calabash tree; Crescentia cujete) native to Central and South America, the West Indies, and southern Florida, bearing large, round fruit used to make containers (sense 3); the fruit of this tree.
- A container made from the mature, dried shell of the fruit of one of the above plants; also, a similarly shaped container made from some other material.
- (music) A musical instrument, most commonly a drum or rattle, made from a calabash fruit.
- The bottle gourd (calabash vine, Lagenaria siceraria), believed to have originated in Africa, which is grown for its fruit that are used as a vegetable and to make containers (sense 3); the fruit of this plant.
- a pipe for smoking; has a curved stem and a large bowl made from a calabash gourd
- Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped gourds as fruits
- round gourd of the calabash tree
- bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd
- tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds
verb
- To put (something) into a pot.
- (electronics) To package a circuit by encasing it in resin.
- (transitive, British) To seat a person, usually a young child, on a potty or toilet, typically during toilet teaching.
- (transitive) To drain (e.g. sugar of the molasses) in a perforated cask.
- (snooker, pool, billiards, transitive) To cause a ball to fall into a pocket.
- (chiefly East Midlands) To apply a plaster cast to a broken limb.
- (rugby, transitive) To score (a drop goal).
- (transitive) To shoot with a firearm.
- To preserve by bottling or canning.
- (transitive, colloquial) To secure; gain; win; bag.
- (British) To send someone to jail, expeditiously.
- To catch (a fish, eel, etc) via a pot.
- (snooker, pool, billiards, intransitive) To be capable of being potted.
- (slang, broadcasting) To fade volume in or out by means of a potentiometer.
- plant in a pot
noun
- A perforated cask for draining sugar.
- (UK, horse-racing, slang) A favorite: a heavily-backed horse.
- (historical) Any of various traditional units of volume notionally based on the capacity of a pot.
- (slang, uncountable) Ruin or deterioration.
- A vessel used for brewing or serving drinks: a coffeepot or teapot.
- A crucible: a melting pot.
- A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food, possibly excluding saucepans (see usage notes).
- (slang, electronics) A simple electromechanical device used to control resistance or voltage (often to adjust sound volume) in an electronic device by rotating or sliding when manipulated by a human thumb, screwdriver, etc.
- (slang, uncountable) Marijuana.
- (chiefly East Midlands, Yorkshire) A plaster cast.
- (rail transport) A pot-shaped non-conducting (usually ceramic) stand that supports an electrified rail while insulating it from the ground.
- (roleplaying games, video games) Clipping of potion.
- (slang) Clipping of potbelly (“a pot-shaped belly, a paunch”).
- A vessel (usually earthenware) used with a seal for storing food, such as a honeypot.
- (Maine) A pot-shaped trap used for catching lobsters or other seafood: a lobster pot.
- (archaic except in place names) Pothole, sinkhole, vertical cave.
- An allocation of money for a particular purpose.
- (historical) Alternative form of pott: a former size of paper, 12.5 × 15 inches.
- A shallow hole used in certain games played with marbles. The marbles placed in it are called potsies.
- (Australia, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania) A glass of beer in Australia whose size varies regionally but is typically around 10 fl oz (285 mL).
- (historical) An iron hat with a broad brim worn as a helmet.
- A pot-shaped metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney: a chimney pot.
- (gambling, poker) The money available to be won in a hand of poker or a round of other games of chance; (figuratively) any sum of money being used as an enticement.
- (slang) Clipping of potshot (“a haphazard shot; an easy or cheap shot”).
- A vessel used to hold soil for growing plants, particularly flowers: a flowerpot.
- the quantity contained in a pot
- the cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker)
- a container in which plants are cultivated
- street names for marijuana
- slang for a paunch
- metal or earthenware cooking vessel that is usually round and deep; often has a handle and lid
- a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
- a resistor with three terminals, the third being an adjustable center terminal; used to adjust voltages in radios and TV sets
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
noun
- The contents of such a container.
- (British, informal) (originally bottle and glass as rhyming slang for "arse") Nerve, courage.
- (attributive, of a person with a particular hair color) A container of hair dye, hence with one’s hair color produced by dyeing.
- A container with a rubber nipple used for giving liquids to infants, a baby bottle.
- A container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered neck, used primarily for holding liquids.
- (UK, dialectal) A building; house.
- (figurative) Intoxicating liquor; alcohol.
- a vessel fitted with a flexible teat and filled with milk or formula; used as a substitute for breast feeding infants and very young children
- a glass or plastic vessel used for storing drinks or other liquids; typically cylindrical without handles and with a narrow neck that can be plugged or capped
- the quantity contained in a bottle
verb
- (transitive) To seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption. Also fig.
- (British, slang) To refrain from doing (something) at the last moment because of a sudden loss of courage.
- (printing, intransitive) Of pages printed several on a sheet: to rotate slightly when the sheet is folded two or more times.
- (British, slang) To strike (someone) with a bottle.
- (British, slang) To pelt (a musical act on stage, etc.) with bottles as a sign of disapproval.
- (transitive, British) To feed (an infant) baby formula.
- (British, slang, sports) To throw away a leading position.
- put into bottles
- store (liquids or gases) in bottles
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noun
- The cryptobiotic state of a tardigrade, when its metabolism is temporarily suspended.
- (Malaysia) A respectful term of address to royalties and certain award recipients
- Synonym of long ton: a unit of mass equal to 2240 pounds, 20 hundredweights of 112 pounds avoirdupois each.
- A part of the ancient Maya Long Count Calendar system which corresponds to 18 winal cycles or 360 days.
- Any shell belonging to Tonna and allied genera.
- (dialectal, UK) a chimney.
- (figurative) Synonym of ton: any extremely or excessively large amount.
- A large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.)
- (historical) A traditional unit of liquid measure (from the volume of such a cask) equal to 252 wine gallons or 2 pipes.
- (brewing) A fermenting vat.
- a large cask especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 butts or 252 gals
verb
noun
- A large open box or basket, used especially to transport fragile goods.
- (slang, mildly derogatory) A vehicle (car, aircraft, spacecraft, etc.) seen as unreliable.
- (programming) In the Rust programming language, a binary or library.
- a rugged box (usually made of wood); used for shipping
- the quantity contained in a crate
verb
- put in a sack
- plunder (a town) after capture
- make as a net profit
- terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
- (informal, transitive) To discharge from a job or position; to fire.
- To put in a sack or sacks.
- (Australia, slang, transitive) To give up on, to abandon, delay, to not think about someone or something.
- To plunder or pillage, especially after capture; to obtain spoils of war from.
- To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.
- (American football) To tackle the quarterback behind the line of scrimmage, especially before he is able to throw a pass.
- Alternative spelling of sac (“sacrifice”).
noun
- a hanging bed of canvas or rope netting (usually suspended between two trees); swings easily
- a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases
- the plundering of a place by an army or mob; usually involves destruction and slaughter
- the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
- any of various light dry strong white wine from Spain and Canary Islands (including sherry)
- an enclosed space
- a woman's full loose hiplength jacket
- the quantity contained in a sack
- a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist
- (informal) Dismissal from employment, or discharge from a position.
- (uncountable) Loot or booty obtained by pillage.
- (colloquial, US, literally or figurative) Bed.
- (baseball) One of the square bases anchored at first base, second base, or third base.
- (Midland US) Any disposable bag.
- (vulgar, slang) The scrotum.
- A bag; especially a large bag of strong, coarse material for storage and handling of various commodities, such as potatoes, coal, coffee; or, a bag with handles used at a supermarket, a grocery sack; or, a small bag for small items, a satchel.
- Alternative spelling of sac (“sacrifice”).
- (American football) A successful tackle of the quarterback behind the line of scrimmage.
- The amount a sack holds; also, an archaic or historical measure of varying capacity, depending on commodity type and according to local usage; an old English measure of weight, usually of wool, equal to 13 stone (182 pounds), or in other sources, 26 stone (364 pounds).
- (uncountable) The plunder and pillaging of a captured town or city.
noun
- (coopering) A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask.
- A corner (of a building).
- (countable, heraldry) A blazon of a coat of arms that makes a pun upon the name (or, less often, some attribute or function) of the bearer, canting arms.
- A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a bias or change of direction; also, the bias or turn so given.
- An outer or external angle.
- A language spoken by some Irish Travellers; Shelta.
- (countable, uncountable) A private or secret language used by a religious sect, gang, or other group.
- (nautical) A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads.
- A segment of the rim of a wooden cogwheel.
- (countable) An argot, the jargon of a particular class or subgroup.
- An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a tilt.
- (lumbering) An unfinished log after preliminary cutting.
- (uncountable) Whining speech, such as that used by beggars.
- (uncountable, derogatory) Empty, hypocritical talk.
- (dialectal, forestry) A parcel, a division.
- Slope, the angle at which something is set.
- A movement or throw that overturns something.
- insincere talk about religion or morals
- two surfaces meeting at an angle different from 90 degrees
- stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition
- a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)
- a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force
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- (intransitive) To talk, beg, or preach in a singsong or whining fashion, especially in a false or empty manner.
- (transitive) To overturn so that the contents are emptied.
- (intransitive) To speak in set phrases.
- (intransitive, heraldry) Of a blazon, to make a pun that references the bearer of a coat of arms.
- (transitive) To set (something) at an angle; to tilt.
- (intransitive) To speak with the jargon of a class or subgroup.
- (transitive) To give a sudden turn or new direction to.
- (transitive) To bevel an edge or corner.
- heel over
verb
noun
- a spacecraft designed to transport people and support human life in outer space
- a pilot's seat in an airplane that can be forcibly ejected in the case of an emergency; then the pilot descends by parachute
- a shortened version of a written work
- a dry dehiscent seed vessel or the spore-containing structure of e.g. mosses
- a structure that encloses a body part
- a small container
- a pill in the form of a small rounded gelatinous container with medicine inside
- (pharmacy) A small container containing a dose of medicine.
- (wine) The covering — formerly lead or tin, now often plastic — over the cork at the top of the wine bottle.
- One of the very small rooms for guests in a capsule hotel.
- (physiology) A membranous envelope.
- (anatomy) A membrane that surrounds the eyeball
- (botany) A sporangium, especially in bryophytes.
- A small, shallow evaporating dish, usually of porcelain.
- (anatomy) A tough, fibrous layer surrounding an organ such as the kidney or liver
- A small cup or shell, often of metal, for a percussion cap, cartridge, etc.
- (botany) A type of simple, dehiscent, dry fruit (seed-case) produced by many species of flowering plants, such as poppy, lily, orchid, willow and cotton.
- (astronautics) A detachable part of a rocket or spacecraft (usually in the nose) containing the crew's living space.
- (attributively, figuratively) in a brief, condensed or compact form
noun
- A sieve-like, slotted spoon.
- Synonym of water strider.
- A loose-fitting one-piece dress, similar to a shift but with slightly more fitting.
- Any of three species of bird, in the genus Rynchops of the family Laridae, that feed by skimming the surface of water bodies with their bills in flight.
- A ballet flat shoe.
- Any of several large bivalve shells, sometimes used for skimming milk, such as the sea clam (Spisula solidissima) and large scallops.
- (naval) A sailor in the surface forces, as opposed to a submariner.
- (science fiction) A small, fast-moving spacecraft.
- (naval) A surface ship.
- (entomology) Any of the dragonflies in the family Libellulidae.
- A person who skims.
- A device for removing organic matter from an aquarium.
- (crime) A device used to read and record the magnetic code from a credit card for later fraudulent use.
- a rapid superficial reader
- gull-like seabird that flies along the surface of the water with an elongated lower mandible immersed to skim out food
- a stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown
- a cooking utensil used to skim fat from the surface of liquids
verb
noun
- Anything that is used to fill something.
- Prepared wort added to ale to cleanse it.
- The contents of a pie, etc.
- (dentistry) Any material used to fill a cavity in a tooth or the result of using such material.
- (Protestantism) A religious experience attributed to the Holy Ghost "filling" a believer.
- The woof in woven fabrics.
- flow into something (as a container)
- any material that fills a space or container
- (dentistry) a dental appliance consisting of any of various substances (as metal or plastic) inserted into a prepared cavity in a tooth
- the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving
- a food mixture used to fill pastry or sandwiches etc.
- the act of filling something
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- The contents of such a receptacle.
- A wide receptacle in which gold grains are separated from gravel by washing the contents with water.
- (music) Ellipsis of steelpan.
- (rail transport, informal) Clipping of pantograph.
- A part; a portion.
- A pond or lake, considered as the expanse of land upon which the water sits.
- A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating as part of manufacture; a vacuum pan.
- A bedpan.
- (South Africa) Synonym of playa lake: a temporary pond or lake in a playa.
- (firearms) The part of a matchlock, flintlock, or wheellock firearm that holds the priming.
- (figurative) The brain, seen as one's intellect.
- (Ireland) A deep plastic receptacle, used for washing or food preparation; a basin.
- (roofing) The bottom flat part of a roofing panel that is between the ribs of the panel.
- (especially South Africa) A dry lake or playa, especially a salt flat.
- A wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking.
- A cylindrical receptacle about as tall as it is wide, with one long handle, usually made of metal, used for cooking in the home.
- A sequence in a film in which the camera pans over an area.
- (carpentry) A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.
- (slang) A human face, a mug.
- (chiefly Ireland) A loaf of bread; a pan-loaf.
- (fortifications) The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.
- Ellipsis of salt pan: a flat artificial pond used for collecting minerals from evaporated water.
- A leaf of gold or silver.
- The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the brainpan.
- Alternative form of paan.
- (geology) Ellipsis of hardpan: a hard substrate such as is formed in pans.
- Strong adverse criticism.
- cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel
- shallow container made of metal
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- (imaging, intransitive) To shift an image relative to the display window without changing the viewing scale.
- To join or fit together; to unite.
- (intransitive, with out, to pan out) To turn out well; to be successful.
- (sound engineering, intransitive) (of a sound) To move in the multichannel sound field.
- (photography, intransitive) To move the camera lens angle while continuing to expose the film, enabling a contiguous view and enrichment of context. In still-photography large-group portraits the film usually remains on a horizontal fixed plane as the lens and/or the film holder moves to expose the film laterally. The resulting image may extend a short distance laterally or as great as 360° from the point where the film first began to be exposed.
- (sound engineering, transitive) To spread a sound signal into a new stereo or multichannel sound field, typically giving the impression that it is moving across the sound stage.
- (intransitive) (of a camera) To turn horizontally.
- (transitive) To wash in a pan (of earth, sand etc. when searching for gold).
- (transitive, informal, of a contest) To beat one's opposition convincingly.
- (transitive) To disparage; to belittle; to put down; to harshly criticize, especially a work (book, movie, etc.)
- wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious minerals
- express a totally negative opinion of
- make a sweeping movement
verb
intj
noun
- Something of little value.
- (figurative) A state of lethargy and confusion; daze.
- A heavy, musty, stuffy or unpleasant atmosphere, usually in a poorly-ventilated area.
- A contemptible person.
- (figurative) A state of chaos or confusion.
- (singular only, with the) Used as an intensifier.
- (British informal) an airless smoky smelly atmosphere
verb
- fill the chinks of, as with caulking
- make or emit a high sound
- make cracks or chinks in
- (transitive) To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.
- (transitive) To fill an opening such as the space between logs in a log house with chinking; to caulk.
- Alternative form of kink (“gasp for breath”).
- (transitive) To cause to open in cracks or fissures.
- (intransitive) To crack; to open.
- (intransitive) To make a slight sound like that of metal objects touching.
noun
- a short light metallic sound
- a narrow opening as e.g. between planks in a wall
- (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Chinese descent
- A narrow beam or patch of light admitted by such an opening.
- Alternative letter-case form of Chink.
- (figuratively) A vulnerability or flaw in a protection system or in any otherwise formidable system.
- Alternative form of kink (“gasp for breath”).
- A chip or dent in something metallic.
- (countable) A slight sound as of metal objects touching each other; a clink.
- A narrow opening such as a fissure or crack.
noun
- A box for keeping salt in.
- A similar box formerly used as a percussion instrument in burlesque music.
- (US) A distinctively shaped wooden-frame house with two stories at the front and one behind, characteristic of New England.
- A roof where one side slopes farther down than the other.
- (UK, slang, historical) The cell in Newgate prison for a prisoner condemned to death.
- a type of house built in New England; has two stories in front and one behind
verb
noun
adj
- Contained; held within a container.
- (music, of a division within a pipe organ surrounded by a wooden box, one or more sides of which contain slats that can be opened or closed in order to increase or decrease volume) Having closed slats.
- Surrounded by a wall, fence or similar barrier.
- closed in or surrounded or included within
verb
verb
- To put into bottles.
- (sports, slang) To prevent (an opponent) from achieving any effective action.
- (informal) To comprehensively defeat.
- (idiomatic) To keep suppressed and hidden.
- To prevent (enemy vessels) from leaving an anchorage.
- consciously restrain from showing; of emotions, desires, impulses, or behavior
noun
- A machine or device for filling sacks.
- A person who sacks or plunders.
- A person who sacks or fires (dismisses someone from a job or position).
- Alternative form of saker (cannon)
- A person who fills or makes sacks or bags.
- (American football) A player who sacks (tackles the offensive quarterback behind the line of scrimmage before he is able to throw a pass).
- Synonym of bagger (“retail employee who bags customers' purchases”).
- (baseball, softball, in combination) A baseman (player positioned at or near a base).
verb
noun
verb
noun
- (Australia, colloquial) Roads sealed with bitumen, as opposed to dirt roads.
- (by extension) Any one of the natural hydrocarbons, including the hard, solid, brittle varieties called asphalt, the semisolid maltha and mineral tars, the oily petrolea, and even the light, volatile naphthas.
- A sticky, black, highly viscous liquid or semi-solid form of petroleum, burning with a bright flame. It occurs as an abundant natural product in many places, as on the shores of the Dead and Caspian Seas. It is used in cements, in the construction of pavements, etc.; Mineral pitch.
- (Canada) Canadian deposits of extremely heavy crude oil.
- any of various naturally occurring impure mixtures of hydrocarbons
verb
- put into a box
- hit with the fist
- engage in a boxing match
- (transitive) To strike with the fists; to punch.
- (motor racing) To enter the pit.
- (transitive) To mix two containers of paint of similar colour to ensure that the color is identical.
- (transitive) Usually followed by in: to surround and enclose in a way that restricts movement; to corner, to hem in.
- (transitive, object-oriented programming) To place a value of a primitive type into a casing object.
- (transitive, boxing) To fight against (a person) in a boxing match.
- (transitive, agriculture) To make an incision or hole in (a tree) for the purpose of procuring the sap.
- (transitive, architecture) To enclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to conceal (for example, pipes) or to bring to a required form.
- (transitive) To place inside a box; to pack in one or more boxes.
- (transitive, engineering) To furnish (for example, the axle of a wheel) with a box.
- (intransitive, stative, boxing) To participate in boxing; to be a boxer.
- (transitive, graphic design, printing) To enclose (images, text, etc.) in a box.
noun
- the quantity contained in a box
- separate partitioned area in a public place for a few people
- a rectangular drawing
- evergreen shrubs or small trees
- a (usually rectangular) container; may have a lid
- any one of several designated areas on a ball field where the batter or catcher or coaches are positioned
- private area in a theater or grandstand where a small group can watch the performance
- a blow with the hand (usually on the ear)
- the driver's seat on a coach
- a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible
- (baseball) The rectangle in which the batter stands.
- (music, slang) A musical instrument, especially one made from boxwood.
- (fencing) A device used in electric fencing to detect whether a weapon has struck an opponent, which connects to a fencer's weapon by a spool and body wire. It uses lights and sound to notify a hit, with different coloured lights for on target and off target hits.
- (geometry, by extension) A rectangular object in any number of dimensions.
- (slang) A cell used for solitary confinement.
- A cuboid container and its contents; as much as fills such a container.
- A cuboid space; a cuboid container, often with a hinged lid.
- (Australia) An evergreen tree of the genus Lophostemon (for example, box scrub, Brisbane box, brush box, pink box, or Queensland box, Lophostemon confertus).
- (juggling) A pattern usually performed with three balls where the movements of the balls make a boxlike shape.
- A compartment to sit inside in an auditorium, courtroom, theatre, or other building.
- The wood from a box tree: boxwood.
- A blow with the fist.
- (lacrosse, informal) Ellipsis of box lacrosse (“indoor form of lacrosse”).
- (rail transport) Ellipsis of signal box.
- (colloquial, chiefly UK, Ireland) Short for squeeze box (“accordion or concertina”)
- Ellipsis of horsebox (“container for transporting horses”).
- (cricket) A hard protector for the genitals worn inside the underpants by a batsman or close fielder.
- (colloquial, chiefly Southern US) A stringed instrument with a soundbox, especially a guitar.
- A compartment or receptacle for receiving items.
- (automotive) Ellipsis of gearbox.
- A numbered receptacle at a newspaper office for anonymous replies to advertisements; see also box number.
- (slang, preceded by the) The television.
- Any of various evergreen shrubs or trees of genus Buxus, especially common box, European box, or boxwood (Buxus sempervirens) which is often used for making hedges and topiary.
- (figuratively) A predicament or trap.
- (slang) A prison cell.
- (aviation) A diamond-shaped flying formation consisting of four aircraft.
- A compartment (as a drawer) of an item of furniture used for storage, such as a cupboard, a shelf, etc.
- (automotive) Ellipsis of stashbox.
- (Australia) Various species of Eucalyptus trees are popularly called various kinds of boxes, on the basis of the nature of their wood, bark, or appearance for example, drooping box (Eucalyptus bicolor), shiny-leaved box (Eucalyptus tereticornis), black box, or ironbark box trees.
- A rectangle: an oblong or a square.
- (motor racing) An area in the pit where the car is repaired and refueled.
- (genetics) One of two specific regions in a promoter.
- (soccer) The penalty area.
- (computing, slang) A computer, or the case in which it is housed.
- The driver’s seat on a horse-drawn coach.
- (engineering) A cylindrical casing around the axle of a wheel, a bearing, a gland, etc.
- (slang) A gym dedicated to the CrossFit exercise program.
- A small rectangular shelter.
- (cricket) Synonym of gully (“a certain fielding position”).
- (euphemistic) A coffin.
- (slang, vulgar) The vagina.
verb
noun
- (computer science) written programs or procedures or rules and associated documentation pertaining to the operation of a computer system and that are stored in read/write memory
- a wrapped container
- a collection of things wrapped or boxed together
- Something which consists of various components, such as a piece of computer software.
- (uncountable, historical) A charge made for packing goods.
- (euphemistic, vulgar) The male genitalia.
- (television, radio) Synonym of wrap (“complete news report ready for broadcast”).
- Something resembling a package.
- A package holiday.
- (software) A piece of software which has been prepared in such a way that it can be installed with a package manager.
- Something which is packed, a parcel, a box, an envelope.
- A football formation.
- (journalism) A group of related stories spread over several pages.
noun
- An amount that fills a container.
- The filling of a container or area.
- Inexpensive material used to occupy empty spaces, especially in construction.
- (archaeology) Soil and/or human-created debris discovered within a cavity or cut in the layers and exposed by excavation; fill soil.
- (music) A short passage, riff, or rhythmic sound that helps to keep the listener's attention during a break between the phrases of a melody.
- (film, television) Ellipsis of fill light.
- (after a possessive) A sufficient or more than sufficient amount.
- (weaving) The weft yarn.
- (crosswording) The answers in a crossword puzzle that are not part of the theme.
- An embankment, as in railroad construction, to fill a hollow or ravine; also, the place which is to be filled.
- One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.
- any material that fills a space or container
- a quantity sufficient to satisfy
verb
- To enter (something), making it full.
- (transitive) To block, obstruct
- To occupy fully, to take up all of.
- (of containers, cavities, or the like)
- (transitive, slang, vulgar, of a male) To have sexual intercourse with (a female).
- (transitive, slang, vulgar, of a male) To ejaculate inside someone or something.
- (transitive) To satisfy or obey (an order, request, or requirement).
- (transitive) To install someone, or be installed, in (a position or office), eliminating a vacancy.
- To become pervaded with something.
- (transitive) To supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy.
- (transitive) To treat (a tooth) by adding a dental filling to it.
- To add contents to (a container, cavity, or the like) so that it is full.
- (transitive, nautical) To trim (a yard) so that the wind blows on the after side of the sails.
- appoint someone to (a position or a job)
- become full
- assume, as of positions or roles
- plug with a substance
- fill to satisfaction
- eat until one is sated
- occupy the whole of
- make full, also in a metaphorical sense
- fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condition or restriction
noun
- The bulging part of a barrel or cask.
- (slang, uncountable) Stupid talk or writing; nonsense.
- (nautical) The lowest inner part of a ship's hull, where water accumulates.
- (nautical) The rounded portion of a ship's hull, forming a transition between the bottom and the sides.
- (uncountable) The water accumulated in the bilge; bilge water.
- water accumulated in the bilge of a ship
- where the sides of the vessel curve in to form the bottom
verb
noun
- a container in which something can be shaken
- a person who wields power and influence
- A variety of pigeon.
- A kind of straight-sided, stackable glass for beer, soda, etc.
- A musical percussion instrument filled with granular solids which produce a rhythmic sound when shaken.
- One who holds railroad spikes while they are hammered.
- A person or thing that shakes, or by means of which something is shaken.
noun
- a container that is usually woven and has handles
- horizontal circular metal hoop supporting a net through which players try to throw the basketball
- the quantity contained in a basket
- a score in basketball made by throwing the ball through the hoop
- (slang) The bulge of the penis seen through clothing.
- (military, aircraft) A drogue (or para-drogue) in the probe-and-drogue refueling method
- A usually disc-like piece attached near the bottom of a ski pole to prevent it from sinking too deep into the snow.
- (figurative) A set or collection of intangible things.
- (ballooning) The gondola or wicker basket suspended from the balloon, in which the pilot and passengers travel.
- (informal, euphemistic) Bastard.
- A wire or plastic container similar in shape to a basket, used for carrying articles for purchase in a shop.
- (uncountable) The game of basketball.
- (basketball) A circular hoop, from which a net is suspended, which is the goal through which the players try to throw the ball.
- (architecture) The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital.
- (Internet) In an online shop, a listing of a customer's chosen items before they are ordered.
- (basketball) The act of putting the ball through the basket, thereby scoring points.
- (economics) Short for basket of goods
- A dance movement in some line dances, where men put their arms round the women's lower backs, and the women put their arms over the men's shoulders, and the group (usually of four, any more is difficult) spins round, which should result in the women's feet leaving the ground.
- A lightweight container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom.
- (by extension) A bed for a cat.
- (LGBTQ, slang) The penis and region surrounding it.
verb
adj
noun
- the act of inflicting a wound
- a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat
- a figurative injury (to your feelings or pride)
- an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)
- (figuratively) A hurt to a person's feelings, reputation, prospects, etc.
- (crime law) An injury to a person by which the skin is divided or its continuity broken.
- An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.
verb
noun
- Material for the heads of casks, barrels, etc.
- (flags) A strip of material at the hoist end of a flag, used for attaching the flag to its halyard.
- (masonry) The end of a stone or brick which is presented outward.
- The title or topic of a document, article, chapter, or of a section thereof.
- (nautical and aeronautical) The direction into which a seagoing or airborne vessel's bow is pointing (apparent heading) and/or the direction into which it is actually moving relative to the ground (true heading)
- (sewing) The extension of a line ruffling above the line of stitch.
- (mining) A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine, particularly one driving through a solid body of coal or ore; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift.
- a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine
- a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about
- the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies
verb
adj
- filled with something
- crammed with food
- (cooking) Filled with a filling and seasoning.
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) Broken, not functional; in trouble, in a situation from which one is unlikely to recover.
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, informal) Very tired.
- Full or packed (with some material or substance).
- (slang) Full after eating.
verb
noun
noun
noun
- A small cask.
- Any of various historically designated quantities of goods to be sold by the tub (butter, oysters, etc).
- (humorous or derogatory) Any structure shaped like a tub, such as a certain old form of pulpit, a short broad boat, etc.
- (mining) A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft.
- The contents or capacity of such a vessel.
- (automotive) The bare body shell of an automobile (minus the doors, hood, trunk lid, fenders, etc.) which is lowered onto the chassis at the time of assembly, or in the case of modern unibody designed vehicles, is itself a monocoque around which the rest of the vehicle is built.
- (nautical, informal) A slow-moving craft.
- A bathtub.
- A flat-bottomed vessel, of width similar to or greater than its height, used for storing or packing things, or for washing things in.
- (slang) A corpulent or obese person.
- a relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body
- the amount that a tub will hold
- a large open vessel for holding or storing liquids
verb
noun
- A container.
- a container that is used to put or keep things in
- (electricity, US) A contact device installed at an outlet for the connection of an attachment plug (typically by receiving the plug's prongs) to supply portable appliances or equipment.
- (phycology) A structure at the end of a branch of an alga containing conceptacles (reproductive organs).
- (botany) The part of the flower stalk (peduncle or pedicel) to which the floral parts are attached; a thalamus, a torus.
- A condensed rachis of a capitate or umbellate inflorescence at the end of the peduncle, to which all of the florets or pedicels are attached.
- (zoology) An organ that receives and holds a secretion.
- enlarged tip of a stem that bears the floral parts
- an electrical (or electronic) fitting that is connected to a source of power and equipped to receive an insert
noun
- A pallet.
- (Internet slang) A stepchild.
- A basic platform for the storage and transport of goods, machinery or equipment, later developed into the pallet.
- A ski-shaped runner or supporting surface as found on a helicopter or other aircraft in place of wheels.
- An out-of-control sliding motion as would result from applying the brakes too hard in a car or other vehicle.
- (aviation) A banked sideslip where the aircraft's nose is yawed towards the low wing, often due to excessive rudder input.
- (sports) A losing streak.
- (by extension) A hook attached to a chain, used for the same purpose.
- A runner of a sled.
- (Internet slang) A script kiddie.
- A shoe or clog, as of iron, attached to a chain, and placed under the wheel of a wagon to prevent its turning when descending a steep hill.
- One of a pair of horizontal rails or timbers for supporting anything, such as a boat or barrel.
- a restraint provided when the brake linings are moved hydraulically against the brake drum to retard the wheel's rotation
- an unexpected slide
- one of a pair of planks used to make a track for rolling or sliding objects
verb
- (Internet slang) To steal or copy, especially computer code.
- (transitive) To cause to move on skids.
- (intransitive, transitive, aviation) To operate an aircraft in a banked sideslip with the nose yawed towards the low wing.
- (intransitive) (of a wheel, sled runner, or vehicle tracks) To slide along the ground, without the rotary motion that wheels or tracks would normally have.
- (transitive) To check or halt (wagon wheels, etc.) with a skid.
- (intransitive) To slide in an uncontrolled manner as in a car with the brakes applied too hard, the wheels sliding with limited spinning.
- (transitive) To protect or support with a skid or skids.
- elevate onto skids
- move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner
- apply a brake or skid to
- slide without control
noun
- (coopering) The end cap of a cask or other barrel.
- (lacrosse) The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball.
- (UK, Ireland, metonymic) A headteacher.
- (automotive) The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs.
- A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum.
- (journalism) Ellipsis of headline.
- A headdress; a covering for the head.
- (slang, countable) A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
- Topic; subject.
- A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium.
- The antlers of a deer.
- The larger-diameter end of an unused rivet, properly the factory head or ambiguously the shop head, as opposed to the bucktail which is passed through the items to be fastened and then upset into an appropriate shape, generally pancake-shaped for a solid rivet or doughnut-shaped for a blind rivet, called the field head or ambiguously the shop head.
- (billiards) The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.
- An ear of wheat, barley, or other small cereal.
- (social, countable, metonymic) A leader or expert.
- (British, geology) Deposits near the top of a geological succession.
- (plural head) A single animal; measure word for livestock and game.
- The place of honor or command; the most important or foremost position; the front.
- The end of a nail, screw, bolt, or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide.
- (jazz) The principal melody or theme of a piece.
- Either, or in plural both, ends of a used rivet, the factory head and the field head.
- (medicine) The end of an abscess where pus collects.
- (computing) The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.
- (machining) A milling head, a part of a milling machine that houses the spindle.
- The sharp end of an arrow, spear, or pointer.
- A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication.
- The population of game.
- (nautical) The toilet of a ship.
- The end of a hammer, axe, golf club, or similar implement used for striking other objects.
- (figurative, metonymic) Mind; one's own thoughts.
- (slang) The glans penis.
- (figurative, metonymic) An individual person.
- (linguistics) A morpheme that determines the category of a compound or the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a member.
- (chemistry) The first fraction of a distillation run, having a low boiling point.
- (countable) The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
- (uncountable, countable) The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.
- Headway; progress.
- The leafy top part of a tree.
- (slang, vulgar, uncountable) Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
- A title or heading in a book or other document.
- (anatomy) The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.
- The top edge of a sail.
- (in the plural) Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
- (geology) The uppermost part of a valley.
- (only in the singular) Denouement; crisis.
- (music) A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound.
- More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.
- (music) The headstock of a guitar.
- The bow of a vessel.
- The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point.
- (British) A headland.
- (music, slang, figurative, metonymic) A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop.
- (uncountable, countable) A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.
- (countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
- Mental or emotional aptitude or skill.
- The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it.
- The end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor.
- (engineering) The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.
- forward movement
- that part of a skeletal muscle that is away from the bone that it moves
- a dense cluster of flowers or foliage
- the tip of an abscess (where the pus accumulates)
- a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea)
- a single domestic animal
- the part in the front or nearest the viewer
- (usually plural) the obverse side of a coin that usually bears the representation of a person's head
- (nautical) a toilet on board a boat or ship
- a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about
- the top of something
- the rounded end of a bone that fits into a rounded cavity in another bone to form a joint
- (computer science) a tiny electromagnetic coil and metal pole used to write and read magnetic patterns on a disk
- a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer
- the educator who has executive authority for a school
- (grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent
- the front of a military formation or procession
- the pressure exerted by a fluid
- a person who is in charge
- the source of water from which a stream arises
- a difficult juncture
- an individual person
- the striking part of a tool
- that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason
- the foam or froth that accumulates at the top when you pour an effervescent liquid into a container
- a user of (usually soft) drugs
- oral stimulation of the genitals
- a rounded compact mass
- a projection out from one end
- a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum
- the length or height based on the size of a human or animal head
- the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains
- the subject matter at issue
adj
verb
- (transitive) To strike with the head
- (by extension) To check or restrain.
- (intransitive) To move in a specified direction.
- (fishing, transitive) To remove the head from (a fish).
- To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose.
- (transitive, of hardware) To form a head (on or to); to fit or furnish (something) with a head.
- (transitive) To cut off the top of; to lop off.
- (transitive) To come at the beginning or front of; to commence.
- (transitive) To be in command of. (See also head up.)
- To set on the head.
- (intransitive) To form a head.
- (intransitive) To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
- To go in front of.
- form a head or come or grow to a head
- direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
- travel in front of; go in advance of others
- take its rise
- to go or travel towards
- be in the front of or on top of
- remove the head of
- be in charge of
- be the first or leading member of (a group) and excel
noun
- A calabash and its contents; as much as fills such a container.
- A tree (known as the calabash tree; Crescentia cujete) native to Central and South America, the West Indies, and southern Florida, bearing large, round fruit used to make containers (sense 3); the fruit of this tree.
- A container made from the mature, dried shell of the fruit of one of the above plants; also, a similarly shaped container made from some other material.
- (music) A musical instrument, most commonly a drum or rattle, made from a calabash fruit.
- The bottle gourd (calabash vine, Lagenaria siceraria), believed to have originated in Africa, which is grown for its fruit that are used as a vegetable and to make containers (sense 3); the fruit of this plant.
- a pipe for smoking; has a curved stem and a large bowl made from a calabash gourd
- Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped gourds as fruits
- round gourd of the calabash tree
- bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd
- tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds
noun
- The contents of such a container.
- (British, informal) (originally bottle and glass as rhyming slang for "arse") Nerve, courage.
- (attributive, of a person with a particular hair color) A container of hair dye, hence with one’s hair color produced by dyeing.
- A container with a rubber nipple used for giving liquids to infants, a baby bottle.
- A container, typically made of glass or plastic and having a tapered neck, used primarily for holding liquids.
- (UK, dialectal) A building; house.
- (figurative) Intoxicating liquor; alcohol.
- a vessel fitted with a flexible teat and filled with milk or formula; used as a substitute for breast feeding infants and very young children
- a glass or plastic vessel used for storing drinks or other liquids; typically cylindrical without handles and with a narrow neck that can be plugged or capped
- the quantity contained in a bottle
verb
- (transitive) To seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption. Also fig.
- (British, slang) To refrain from doing (something) at the last moment because of a sudden loss of courage.
- (printing, intransitive) Of pages printed several on a sheet: to rotate slightly when the sheet is folded two or more times.
- (British, slang) To strike (someone) with a bottle.
- (British, slang) To pelt (a musical act on stage, etc.) with bottles as a sign of disapproval.
- (transitive, British) To feed (an infant) baby formula.
- (British, slang, sports) To throw away a leading position.
- put into bottles
- store (liquids or gases) in bottles
noun
- (coopering) A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask.
- A corner (of a building).
- (countable, heraldry) A blazon of a coat of arms that makes a pun upon the name (or, less often, some attribute or function) of the bearer, canting arms.
- A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a bias or change of direction; also, the bias or turn so given.
- An outer or external angle.
- A language spoken by some Irish Travellers; Shelta.
- (countable, uncountable) A private or secret language used by a religious sect, gang, or other group.
- (nautical) A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads.
- A segment of the rim of a wooden cogwheel.
- (countable) An argot, the jargon of a particular class or subgroup.
- An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a tilt.
- (lumbering) An unfinished log after preliminary cutting.
- (uncountable) Whining speech, such as that used by beggars.
- (uncountable, derogatory) Empty, hypocritical talk.
- (dialectal, forestry) A parcel, a division.
- Slope, the angle at which something is set.
- A movement or throw that overturns something.
- insincere talk about religion or morals
- two surfaces meeting at an angle different from 90 degrees
- stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition
- a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)
- a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force
adj
verb
- (intransitive) To talk, beg, or preach in a singsong or whining fashion, especially in a false or empty manner.
- (transitive) To overturn so that the contents are emptied.
- (intransitive) To speak in set phrases.
- (intransitive, heraldry) Of a blazon, to make a pun that references the bearer of a coat of arms.
- (transitive) To set (something) at an angle; to tilt.
- (intransitive) To speak with the jargon of a class or subgroup.
- (transitive) To give a sudden turn or new direction to.
- (transitive) To bevel an edge or corner.
- heel over
noun
- A sieve-like, slotted spoon.
- Synonym of water strider.
- A loose-fitting one-piece dress, similar to a shift but with slightly more fitting.
- Any of three species of bird, in the genus Rynchops of the family Laridae, that feed by skimming the surface of water bodies with their bills in flight.
- A ballet flat shoe.
- Any of several large bivalve shells, sometimes used for skimming milk, such as the sea clam (Spisula solidissima) and large scallops.
- (naval) A sailor in the surface forces, as opposed to a submariner.
- (science fiction) A small, fast-moving spacecraft.
- (naval) A surface ship.
- (entomology) Any of the dragonflies in the family Libellulidae.
- A person who skims.
- A device for removing organic matter from an aquarium.
- (crime) A device used to read and record the magnetic code from a credit card for later fraudulent use.
- a rapid superficial reader
- gull-like seabird that flies along the surface of the water with an elongated lower mandible immersed to skim out food
- a stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown
- a cooking utensil used to skim fat from the surface of liquids
verb
noun
- Anything that is used to fill something.
- Prepared wort added to ale to cleanse it.
- The contents of a pie, etc.
- (dentistry) Any material used to fill a cavity in a tooth or the result of using such material.
- (Protestantism) A religious experience attributed to the Holy Ghost "filling" a believer.
- The woof in woven fabrics.
- flow into something (as a container)
- any material that fills a space or container
- (dentistry) a dental appliance consisting of any of various substances (as metal or plastic) inserted into a prepared cavity in a tooth
- the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving
- a food mixture used to fill pastry or sandwiches etc.
- the act of filling something
adj
verb
verb
- To put (something) into a pot.
- (electronics) To package a circuit by encasing it in resin.
- (transitive, British) To seat a person, usually a young child, on a potty or toilet, typically during toilet teaching.
- (transitive) To drain (e.g. sugar of the molasses) in a perforated cask.
- (snooker, pool, billiards, transitive) To cause a ball to fall into a pocket.
- (chiefly East Midlands) To apply a plaster cast to a broken limb.
- (rugby, transitive) To score (a drop goal).
- (transitive) To shoot with a firearm.
- To preserve by bottling or canning.
- (transitive, colloquial) To secure; gain; win; bag.
- (British) To send someone to jail, expeditiously.
- To catch (a fish, eel, etc) via a pot.
- (snooker, pool, billiards, intransitive) To be capable of being potted.
- (slang, broadcasting) To fade volume in or out by means of a potentiometer.
- plant in a pot
noun
- A perforated cask for draining sugar.
- (UK, horse-racing, slang) A favorite: a heavily-backed horse.
- (historical) Any of various traditional units of volume notionally based on the capacity of a pot.
- (slang, uncountable) Ruin or deterioration.
- A vessel used for brewing or serving drinks: a coffeepot or teapot.
- A crucible: a melting pot.
- A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food, possibly excluding saucepans (see usage notes).
- (slang, electronics) A simple electromechanical device used to control resistance or voltage (often to adjust sound volume) in an electronic device by rotating or sliding when manipulated by a human thumb, screwdriver, etc.
- (slang, uncountable) Marijuana.
- (chiefly East Midlands, Yorkshire) A plaster cast.
- (rail transport) A pot-shaped non-conducting (usually ceramic) stand that supports an electrified rail while insulating it from the ground.
- (roleplaying games, video games) Clipping of potion.
- (slang) Clipping of potbelly (“a pot-shaped belly, a paunch”).
- A vessel (usually earthenware) used with a seal for storing food, such as a honeypot.
- (Maine) A pot-shaped trap used for catching lobsters or other seafood: a lobster pot.
- (archaic except in place names) Pothole, sinkhole, vertical cave.
- An allocation of money for a particular purpose.
- (historical) Alternative form of pott: a former size of paper, 12.5 × 15 inches.
- A shallow hole used in certain games played with marbles. The marbles placed in it are called potsies.
- (Australia, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania) A glass of beer in Australia whose size varies regionally but is typically around 10 fl oz (285 mL).
- (historical) An iron hat with a broad brim worn as a helmet.
- A pot-shaped metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney: a chimney pot.
- (gambling, poker) The money available to be won in a hand of poker or a round of other games of chance; (figuratively) any sum of money being used as an enticement.
- (slang) Clipping of potshot (“a haphazard shot; an easy or cheap shot”).
- A vessel used to hold soil for growing plants, particularly flowers: a flowerpot.
- the quantity contained in a pot
- the cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker)
- a container in which plants are cultivated
- street names for marijuana
- slang for a paunch
- metal or earthenware cooking vessel that is usually round and deep; often has a handle and lid
- a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
- a resistor with three terminals, the third being an adjustable center terminal; used to adjust voltages in radios and TV sets
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
noun
adj
verb
noun
- The contents of such a receptacle.
- A wide receptacle in which gold grains are separated from gravel by washing the contents with water.
- (music) Ellipsis of steelpan.
- (rail transport, informal) Clipping of pantograph.
- A part; a portion.
- A pond or lake, considered as the expanse of land upon which the water sits.
- A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating as part of manufacture; a vacuum pan.
- A bedpan.
- (South Africa) Synonym of playa lake: a temporary pond or lake in a playa.
- (firearms) The part of a matchlock, flintlock, or wheellock firearm that holds the priming.
- (figurative) The brain, seen as one's intellect.
- (Ireland) A deep plastic receptacle, used for washing or food preparation; a basin.
- (roofing) The bottom flat part of a roofing panel that is between the ribs of the panel.
- (especially South Africa) A dry lake or playa, especially a salt flat.
- A wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking.
- A cylindrical receptacle about as tall as it is wide, with one long handle, usually made of metal, used for cooking in the home.
- A sequence in a film in which the camera pans over an area.
- (carpentry) A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.
- (slang) A human face, a mug.
- (chiefly Ireland) A loaf of bread; a pan-loaf.
- (fortifications) The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.
- Ellipsis of salt pan: a flat artificial pond used for collecting minerals from evaporated water.
- A leaf of gold or silver.
- The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the brainpan.
- Alternative form of paan.
- (geology) Ellipsis of hardpan: a hard substrate such as is formed in pans.
- Strong adverse criticism.
- cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel
- shallow container made of metal
adj
verb
- (imaging, intransitive) To shift an image relative to the display window without changing the viewing scale.
- To join or fit together; to unite.
- (intransitive, with out, to pan out) To turn out well; to be successful.
- (sound engineering, intransitive) (of a sound) To move in the multichannel sound field.
- (photography, intransitive) To move the camera lens angle while continuing to expose the film, enabling a contiguous view and enrichment of context. In still-photography large-group portraits the film usually remains on a horizontal fixed plane as the lens and/or the film holder moves to expose the film laterally. The resulting image may extend a short distance laterally or as great as 360° from the point where the film first began to be exposed.
- (sound engineering, transitive) To spread a sound signal into a new stereo or multichannel sound field, typically giving the impression that it is moving across the sound stage.
- (intransitive) (of a camera) To turn horizontally.
- (transitive) To wash in a pan (of earth, sand etc. when searching for gold).
- (transitive, informal, of a contest) To beat one's opposition convincingly.
- (transitive) To disparage; to belittle; to put down; to harshly criticize, especially a work (book, movie, etc.)
- wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious minerals
- express a totally negative opinion of
- make a sweeping movement
noun
- A box for keeping salt in.
- A similar box formerly used as a percussion instrument in burlesque music.
- (US) A distinctively shaped wooden-frame house with two stories at the front and one behind, characteristic of New England.
- A roof where one side slopes farther down than the other.
- (UK, slang, historical) The cell in Newgate prison for a prisoner condemned to death.
- a type of house built in New England; has two stories in front and one behind
noun
- A machine or device for filling sacks.
- A person who sacks or plunders.
- A person who sacks or fires (dismisses someone from a job or position).
- Alternative form of saker (cannon)
- A person who fills or makes sacks or bags.
- (American football) A player who sacks (tackles the offensive quarterback behind the line of scrimmage before he is able to throw a pass).
- Synonym of bagger (“retail employee who bags customers' purchases”).
- (baseball, softball, in combination) A baseman (player positioned at or near a base).
noun
- An amount that fills a container.
- The filling of a container or area.
- Inexpensive material used to occupy empty spaces, especially in construction.
- (archaeology) Soil and/or human-created debris discovered within a cavity or cut in the layers and exposed by excavation; fill soil.
- (music) A short passage, riff, or rhythmic sound that helps to keep the listener's attention during a break between the phrases of a melody.
- (film, television) Ellipsis of fill light.
- (after a possessive) A sufficient or more than sufficient amount.
- (weaving) The weft yarn.
- (crosswording) The answers in a crossword puzzle that are not part of the theme.
- An embankment, as in railroad construction, to fill a hollow or ravine; also, the place which is to be filled.
- One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.
- any material that fills a space or container
- a quantity sufficient to satisfy
verb
- To enter (something), making it full.
- (transitive) To block, obstruct
- To occupy fully, to take up all of.
- (of containers, cavities, or the like)
- (transitive, slang, vulgar, of a male) To have sexual intercourse with (a female).
- (transitive, slang, vulgar, of a male) To ejaculate inside someone or something.
- (transitive) To satisfy or obey (an order, request, or requirement).
- (transitive) To install someone, or be installed, in (a position or office), eliminating a vacancy.
- To become pervaded with something.
- (transitive) To supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy.
- (transitive) To treat (a tooth) by adding a dental filling to it.
- To add contents to (a container, cavity, or the like) so that it is full.
- (transitive, nautical) To trim (a yard) so that the wind blows on the after side of the sails.
- appoint someone to (a position or a job)
- become full
- assume, as of positions or roles
- plug with a substance
- fill to satisfaction
- eat until one is sated
- occupy the whole of
- make full, also in a metaphorical sense
- fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condition or restriction
noun
- The bulging part of a barrel or cask.
- (slang, uncountable) Stupid talk or writing; nonsense.
- (nautical) The lowest inner part of a ship's hull, where water accumulates.
- (nautical) The rounded portion of a ship's hull, forming a transition between the bottom and the sides.
- (uncountable) The water accumulated in the bilge; bilge water.
- water accumulated in the bilge of a ship
- where the sides of the vessel curve in to form the bottom
verb
noun
- a container in which something can be shaken
- a person who wields power and influence
- A variety of pigeon.
- A kind of straight-sided, stackable glass for beer, soda, etc.
- A musical percussion instrument filled with granular solids which produce a rhythmic sound when shaken.
- One who holds railroad spikes while they are hammered.
- A person or thing that shakes, or by means of which something is shaken.
noun
- a container that is usually woven and has handles
- horizontal circular metal hoop supporting a net through which players try to throw the basketball
- the quantity contained in a basket
- a score in basketball made by throwing the ball through the hoop
- (slang) The bulge of the penis seen through clothing.
- (military, aircraft) A drogue (or para-drogue) in the probe-and-drogue refueling method
- A usually disc-like piece attached near the bottom of a ski pole to prevent it from sinking too deep into the snow.
- (figurative) A set or collection of intangible things.
- (ballooning) The gondola or wicker basket suspended from the balloon, in which the pilot and passengers travel.
- (informal, euphemistic) Bastard.
- A wire or plastic container similar in shape to a basket, used for carrying articles for purchase in a shop.
- (uncountable) The game of basketball.
- (basketball) A circular hoop, from which a net is suspended, which is the goal through which the players try to throw the ball.
- (architecture) The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital.
- (Internet) In an online shop, a listing of a customer's chosen items before they are ordered.
- (basketball) The act of putting the ball through the basket, thereby scoring points.
- (economics) Short for basket of goods
- A dance movement in some line dances, where men put their arms round the women's lower backs, and the women put their arms over the men's shoulders, and the group (usually of four, any more is difficult) spins round, which should result in the women's feet leaving the ground.
- A lightweight container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom.
- (by extension) A bed for a cat.
- (LGBTQ, slang) The penis and region surrounding it.
verb
noun
- Material for the heads of casks, barrels, etc.
- (flags) A strip of material at the hoist end of a flag, used for attaching the flag to its halyard.
- (masonry) The end of a stone or brick which is presented outward.
- The title or topic of a document, article, chapter, or of a section thereof.
- (nautical and aeronautical) The direction into which a seagoing or airborne vessel's bow is pointing (apparent heading) and/or the direction into which it is actually moving relative to the ground (true heading)
- (sewing) The extension of a line ruffling above the line of stitch.
- (mining) A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine, particularly one driving through a solid body of coal or ore; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift.
- a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine
- a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about
- the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies
verb
verb
noun
- An inexpensive, disposable box-like container fashioned from either paper, paper with wax-covering (wax paper), or other lightweight material.
- (Australia) A cardboard box that holds (usually 24) beer bottles or cans.
- A pack of cigarettes, usually ten, wrapped in cellophane or packed in a light cardboard box.
- a box made of cardboard; opens by flaps on top
- the quantity contained in a carton
verb
- enclose in a capsule or other small container
- put in a short or concise form; reduce in volume
- (transitive) To epitomize something by expressing it as a brief summary.
- (software, object-oriented programming) To enclose objects in a common interface in a way that makes them interchangeable, and guards their states from invalid changes.
- (transitive) To enclose something in, or as if in, a capsule.
- (networking) To enclose data in packets that can be transmitted using a given protocol.
verb
- To put (something) into a pot.
- (electronics) To package a circuit by encasing it in resin.
- (transitive, British) To seat a person, usually a young child, on a potty or toilet, typically during toilet teaching.
- (transitive) To drain (e.g. sugar of the molasses) in a perforated cask.
- (snooker, pool, billiards, transitive) To cause a ball to fall into a pocket.
- (chiefly East Midlands) To apply a plaster cast to a broken limb.
- (rugby, transitive) To score (a drop goal).
- (transitive) To shoot with a firearm.
- To preserve by bottling or canning.
- (transitive, colloquial) To secure; gain; win; bag.
- (British) To send someone to jail, expeditiously.
- To catch (a fish, eel, etc) via a pot.
- (snooker, pool, billiards, intransitive) To be capable of being potted.
- (slang, broadcasting) To fade volume in or out by means of a potentiometer.
- plant in a pot
noun
- A perforated cask for draining sugar.
- (UK, horse-racing, slang) A favorite: a heavily-backed horse.
- (historical) Any of various traditional units of volume notionally based on the capacity of a pot.
- (slang, uncountable) Ruin or deterioration.
- A vessel used for brewing or serving drinks: a coffeepot or teapot.
- A crucible: a melting pot.
- A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food, possibly excluding saucepans (see usage notes).
- (slang, electronics) A simple electromechanical device used to control resistance or voltage (often to adjust sound volume) in an electronic device by rotating or sliding when manipulated by a human thumb, screwdriver, etc.
- (slang, uncountable) Marijuana.
- (chiefly East Midlands, Yorkshire) A plaster cast.
- (rail transport) A pot-shaped non-conducting (usually ceramic) stand that supports an electrified rail while insulating it from the ground.
- (roleplaying games, video games) Clipping of potion.
- (slang) Clipping of potbelly (“a pot-shaped belly, a paunch”).
- A vessel (usually earthenware) used with a seal for storing food, such as a honeypot.
- (Maine) A pot-shaped trap used for catching lobsters or other seafood: a lobster pot.
- (archaic except in place names) Pothole, sinkhole, vertical cave.
- An allocation of money for a particular purpose.
- (historical) Alternative form of pott: a former size of paper, 12.5 × 15 inches.
- A shallow hole used in certain games played with marbles. The marbles placed in it are called potsies.
- (Australia, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania) A glass of beer in Australia whose size varies regionally but is typically around 10 fl oz (285 mL).
- (historical) An iron hat with a broad brim worn as a helmet.
- A pot-shaped metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney: a chimney pot.
- (gambling, poker) The money available to be won in a hand of poker or a round of other games of chance; (figuratively) any sum of money being used as an enticement.
- (slang) Clipping of potshot (“a haphazard shot; an easy or cheap shot”).
- A vessel used to hold soil for growing plants, particularly flowers: a flowerpot.
- the quantity contained in a pot
- the cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker)
- a container in which plants are cultivated
- street names for marijuana
- slang for a paunch
- metal or earthenware cooking vessel that is usually round and deep; often has a handle and lid
- a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
- a resistor with three terminals, the third being an adjustable center terminal; used to adjust voltages in radios and TV sets
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
verb
noun
- The cryptobiotic state of a tardigrade, when its metabolism is temporarily suspended.
- (Malaysia) A respectful term of address to royalties and certain award recipients
- Synonym of long ton: a unit of mass equal to 2240 pounds, 20 hundredweights of 112 pounds avoirdupois each.
- A part of the ancient Maya Long Count Calendar system which corresponds to 18 winal cycles or 360 days.
- Any shell belonging to Tonna and allied genera.
- (dialectal, UK) a chimney.
- (figurative) Synonym of ton: any extremely or excessively large amount.
- A large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.)
- (historical) A traditional unit of liquid measure (from the volume of such a cask) equal to 252 wine gallons or 2 pipes.
- (brewing) A fermenting vat.
- a large cask especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 butts or 252 gals
verb
noun
- A large open box or basket, used especially to transport fragile goods.
- (slang, mildly derogatory) A vehicle (car, aircraft, spacecraft, etc.) seen as unreliable.
- (programming) In the Rust programming language, a binary or library.
- a rugged box (usually made of wood); used for shipping
- the quantity contained in a crate
verb
- put in a sack
- plunder (a town) after capture
- make as a net profit
- terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
- (informal, transitive) To discharge from a job or position; to fire.
- To put in a sack or sacks.
- (Australia, slang, transitive) To give up on, to abandon, delay, to not think about someone or something.
- To plunder or pillage, especially after capture; to obtain spoils of war from.
- To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.
- (American football) To tackle the quarterback behind the line of scrimmage, especially before he is able to throw a pass.
- Alternative spelling of sac (“sacrifice”).
noun
- a hanging bed of canvas or rope netting (usually suspended between two trees); swings easily
- a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases
- the plundering of a place by an army or mob; usually involves destruction and slaughter
- the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
- any of various light dry strong white wine from Spain and Canary Islands (including sherry)
- an enclosed space
- a woman's full loose hiplength jacket
- the quantity contained in a sack
- a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist
- (informal) Dismissal from employment, or discharge from a position.
- (uncountable) Loot or booty obtained by pillage.
- (colloquial, US, literally or figurative) Bed.
- (baseball) One of the square bases anchored at first base, second base, or third base.
- (Midland US) Any disposable bag.
- (vulgar, slang) The scrotum.
- A bag; especially a large bag of strong, coarse material for storage and handling of various commodities, such as potatoes, coal, coffee; or, a bag with handles used at a supermarket, a grocery sack; or, a small bag for small items, a satchel.
- Alternative spelling of sac (“sacrifice”).
- (American football) A successful tackle of the quarterback behind the line of scrimmage.
- The amount a sack holds; also, an archaic or historical measure of varying capacity, depending on commodity type and according to local usage; an old English measure of weight, usually of wool, equal to 13 stone (182 pounds), or in other sources, 26 stone (364 pounds).
- (uncountable) The plunder and pillaging of a captured town or city.
verb
noun
- a spacecraft designed to transport people and support human life in outer space
- a pilot's seat in an airplane that can be forcibly ejected in the case of an emergency; then the pilot descends by parachute
- a shortened version of a written work
- a dry dehiscent seed vessel or the spore-containing structure of e.g. mosses
- a structure that encloses a body part
- a small container
- a pill in the form of a small rounded gelatinous container with medicine inside
- (pharmacy) A small container containing a dose of medicine.
- (wine) The covering — formerly lead or tin, now often plastic — over the cork at the top of the wine bottle.
- One of the very small rooms for guests in a capsule hotel.
- (physiology) A membranous envelope.
- (anatomy) A membrane that surrounds the eyeball
- (botany) A sporangium, especially in bryophytes.
- A small, shallow evaporating dish, usually of porcelain.
- (anatomy) A tough, fibrous layer surrounding an organ such as the kidney or liver
- A small cup or shell, often of metal, for a percussion cap, cartridge, etc.
- (botany) A type of simple, dehiscent, dry fruit (seed-case) produced by many species of flowering plants, such as poppy, lily, orchid, willow and cotton.
- (astronautics) A detachable part of a rocket or spacecraft (usually in the nose) containing the crew's living space.
- (attributively, figuratively) in a brief, condensed or compact form
verb
intj
noun
- Something of little value.
- (figurative) A state of lethargy and confusion; daze.
- A heavy, musty, stuffy or unpleasant atmosphere, usually in a poorly-ventilated area.
- A contemptible person.
- (figurative) A state of chaos or confusion.
- (singular only, with the) Used as an intensifier.
- (British informal) an airless smoky smelly atmosphere
verb
- fill the chinks of, as with caulking
- make or emit a high sound
- make cracks or chinks in
- (transitive) To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.
- (transitive) To fill an opening such as the space between logs in a log house with chinking; to caulk.
- Alternative form of kink (“gasp for breath”).
- (transitive) To cause to open in cracks or fissures.
- (intransitive) To crack; to open.
- (intransitive) To make a slight sound like that of metal objects touching.
noun
- a short light metallic sound
- a narrow opening as e.g. between planks in a wall
- (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Chinese descent
- A narrow beam or patch of light admitted by such an opening.
- Alternative letter-case form of Chink.
- (figuratively) A vulnerability or flaw in a protection system or in any otherwise formidable system.
- Alternative form of kink (“gasp for breath”).
- A chip or dent in something metallic.
- (countable) A slight sound as of metal objects touching each other; a clink.
- A narrow opening such as a fissure or crack.
verb
noun
verb
- To put into bottles.
- (sports, slang) To prevent (an opponent) from achieving any effective action.
- (informal) To comprehensively defeat.
- (idiomatic) To keep suppressed and hidden.
- To prevent (enemy vessels) from leaving an anchorage.
- consciously restrain from showing; of emotions, desires, impulses, or behavior
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noun
verb
noun
- (Australia, colloquial) Roads sealed with bitumen, as opposed to dirt roads.
- (by extension) Any one of the natural hydrocarbons, including the hard, solid, brittle varieties called asphalt, the semisolid maltha and mineral tars, the oily petrolea, and even the light, volatile naphthas.
- A sticky, black, highly viscous liquid or semi-solid form of petroleum, burning with a bright flame. It occurs as an abundant natural product in many places, as on the shores of the Dead and Caspian Seas. It is used in cements, in the construction of pavements, etc.; Mineral pitch.
- (Canada) Canadian deposits of extremely heavy crude oil.
- any of various naturally occurring impure mixtures of hydrocarbons
verb
- put into a box
- hit with the fist
- engage in a boxing match
- (transitive) To strike with the fists; to punch.
- (motor racing) To enter the pit.
- (transitive) To mix two containers of paint of similar colour to ensure that the color is identical.
- (transitive) Usually followed by in: to surround and enclose in a way that restricts movement; to corner, to hem in.
- (transitive, object-oriented programming) To place a value of a primitive type into a casing object.
- (transitive, boxing) To fight against (a person) in a boxing match.
- (transitive, agriculture) To make an incision or hole in (a tree) for the purpose of procuring the sap.
- (transitive, architecture) To enclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to conceal (for example, pipes) or to bring to a required form.
- (transitive) To place inside a box; to pack in one or more boxes.
- (transitive, engineering) To furnish (for example, the axle of a wheel) with a box.
- (intransitive, stative, boxing) To participate in boxing; to be a boxer.
- (transitive, graphic design, printing) To enclose (images, text, etc.) in a box.
noun
- the quantity contained in a box
- separate partitioned area in a public place for a few people
- a rectangular drawing
- evergreen shrubs or small trees
- a (usually rectangular) container; may have a lid
- any one of several designated areas on a ball field where the batter or catcher or coaches are positioned
- private area in a theater or grandstand where a small group can watch the performance
- a blow with the hand (usually on the ear)
- the driver's seat on a coach
- a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible
- (baseball) The rectangle in which the batter stands.
- (music, slang) A musical instrument, especially one made from boxwood.
- (fencing) A device used in electric fencing to detect whether a weapon has struck an opponent, which connects to a fencer's weapon by a spool and body wire. It uses lights and sound to notify a hit, with different coloured lights for on target and off target hits.
- (geometry, by extension) A rectangular object in any number of dimensions.
- (slang) A cell used for solitary confinement.
- A cuboid container and its contents; as much as fills such a container.
- A cuboid space; a cuboid container, often with a hinged lid.
- (Australia) An evergreen tree of the genus Lophostemon (for example, box scrub, Brisbane box, brush box, pink box, or Queensland box, Lophostemon confertus).
- (juggling) A pattern usually performed with three balls where the movements of the balls make a boxlike shape.
- A compartment to sit inside in an auditorium, courtroom, theatre, or other building.
- The wood from a box tree: boxwood.
- A blow with the fist.
- (lacrosse, informal) Ellipsis of box lacrosse (“indoor form of lacrosse”).
- (rail transport) Ellipsis of signal box.
- (colloquial, chiefly UK, Ireland) Short for squeeze box (“accordion or concertina”)
- Ellipsis of horsebox (“container for transporting horses”).
- (cricket) A hard protector for the genitals worn inside the underpants by a batsman or close fielder.
- (colloquial, chiefly Southern US) A stringed instrument with a soundbox, especially a guitar.
- A compartment or receptacle for receiving items.
- (automotive) Ellipsis of gearbox.
- A numbered receptacle at a newspaper office for anonymous replies to advertisements; see also box number.
- (slang, preceded by the) The television.
- Any of various evergreen shrubs or trees of genus Buxus, especially common box, European box, or boxwood (Buxus sempervirens) which is often used for making hedges and topiary.
- (figuratively) A predicament or trap.
- (slang) A prison cell.
- (aviation) A diamond-shaped flying formation consisting of four aircraft.
- A compartment (as a drawer) of an item of furniture used for storage, such as a cupboard, a shelf, etc.
- (automotive) Ellipsis of stashbox.
- (Australia) Various species of Eucalyptus trees are popularly called various kinds of boxes, on the basis of the nature of their wood, bark, or appearance for example, drooping box (Eucalyptus bicolor), shiny-leaved box (Eucalyptus tereticornis), black box, or ironbark box trees.
- A rectangle: an oblong or a square.
- (motor racing) An area in the pit where the car is repaired and refueled.
- (genetics) One of two specific regions in a promoter.
- (soccer) The penalty area.
- (computing, slang) A computer, or the case in which it is housed.
- The driver’s seat on a horse-drawn coach.
- (engineering) A cylindrical casing around the axle of a wheel, a bearing, a gland, etc.
- (slang) A gym dedicated to the CrossFit exercise program.
- A small rectangular shelter.
- (cricket) Synonym of gully (“a certain fielding position”).
- (euphemistic) A coffin.
- (slang, vulgar) The vagina.
verb
noun
- (computer science) written programs or procedures or rules and associated documentation pertaining to the operation of a computer system and that are stored in read/write memory
- a wrapped container
- a collection of things wrapped or boxed together
- Something which consists of various components, such as a piece of computer software.
- (uncountable, historical) A charge made for packing goods.
- (euphemistic, vulgar) The male genitalia.
- (television, radio) Synonym of wrap (“complete news report ready for broadcast”).
- Something resembling a package.
- A package holiday.
- (software) A piece of software which has been prepared in such a way that it can be installed with a package manager.
- Something which is packed, a parcel, a box, an envelope.
- A football formation.
- (journalism) A group of related stories spread over several pages.
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adj
- Contained; held within a container.
- (music, of a division within a pipe organ surrounded by a wooden box, one or more sides of which contain slats that can be opened or closed in order to increase or decrease volume) Having closed slats.
- Surrounded by a wall, fence or similar barrier.
- closed in or surrounded or included within
verb
adj
noun
- the act of inflicting a wound
- a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat
- a figurative injury (to your feelings or pride)
- an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)
- (figuratively) A hurt to a person's feelings, reputation, prospects, etc.
- (crime law) An injury to a person by which the skin is divided or its continuity broken.
- An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.
verb
adj
- filled with something
- crammed with food
- (cooking) Filled with a filling and seasoning.
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) Broken, not functional; in trouble, in a situation from which one is unlikely to recover.
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, informal) Very tired.
- Full or packed (with some material or substance).
- (slang) Full after eating.