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verb
noun
- Paraffin wax.
- (petrochemistry, organic chemistry) Any member of the alkane hydrocarbons.
- (UK, Ireland) A petroleum-based thin and colourless fuel oil.
- (British usage) kerosine
- from crude petroleum; used for candles and for preservative or waterproof coatings
- a series of non-aromatic saturated hydrocarbons with the general formula CnH(2n+2)
verb
verb
- To remove the stem from.
- To descend in a family line.
- To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.
- (transitive) To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).
- (climbing) To use a stance with the feet spread apart, bracing them in opposite directions against the two walls of a chimney or dihedral.
- To be caused or derived; to originate.
- (skiing) To move the feet apart and point the tips of the skis inward in order to slow down the speed or to facilitate a turn.
- To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against.
- remove the stem from
- stop the flow of a liquid
- grow out of, have roots in, originate in
- cause to point inward
noun
- Alternative spelling of stemme (“lesbian who combines stud and femme traits”).
- The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
- (music) A premixed portion of a track for use in audio mastering and remixing.
- (botany) The above-ground stalk (technically axis) of a vascular plant, and certain anatomically similar, below-ground organs such as rhizomes, bulbs, tubers, and corms.
- An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
- (nautical, loosely) The front part of a vessel.
- Alternative form of steem.
- (linguistics) The main part of an uninflected word to which affixes may be added to form inflections of the word. A stem often has a more fundamental root. Systematic conjugations and declensions derive from their stems.
- (typography) A vertical stroke of a letter.
- A slender supporting member of an individual part of a plant such as a flower or a leaf; also, by analogy, the shaft of a feather.
- A branch of a family.
- (anatomy) A part of an anatomic structure considered without its possible branches or ramifications.
- Alternative form of STEM.
- (slang) The penis.
- (nautical, precisely) The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of the planks or strakes are attached.
- (slang) A person's leg.
- (taxonomy) A branch, or group of branches, located outside a family or other cladistic group, but which is more closely related to that group than to any other taxon of the same rank.
- A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.
- (music) A vertical stroke marking the length of a note in written music.
- (cycling) A component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the bicycle fork.
- (slang) A crack pipe; or the long, hollow portion of a similar pipe (i.e. meth pipe) resembling a crack pipe.
- (chiefly British) A winder on a clock, watch, or similar mechanism.
- a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ
- front part of a vessel or aircraft
- a turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- the tube of a tobacco pipe
- cylinder forming a long narrow part of something
verb
- To remove by cutting.
- To stop the provision or supply of something, e.g. power, water.
- To swerve in front of (another car) while driving.
- (Southern US) To turn off or switch off (an electrical device).
- To move so as to block someone else's movement in a direction.
- To isolate or remove from contact.
- To end abruptly.
- (of a boundary) To exclude (something) from the field of view.
- To interrupt (someone speaking).
- To stop providing funds or something else to (someone).
- make a break in
- remove surgically
- remove by or as if by cutting
- cease, stop
- break a small piece off from
- cut off and stop
noun
adj
verb
- remove from a surface
- raise in rank or condition
- take illegally
- take off or away by decreasing
- call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs
- perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face
- raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help
- put an end to a situation
- move upwards
- rise upward, as from pressure or moisture
- remove (hair) by scalping
- move upward
- pay off (a mortgage)
- take (root crops) out of the ground
- cancel officially
- rise up
- invigorate or heighten
- raise from a lower to a higher position
- take hold of something and move it to a different location
- take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property
- remove from a seedbed or from a nursery
- fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means
- make audible
- make off with belongings of others
- To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
- To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
- (transitive, slang) To steal.
- To elevate or improve in rank, condition, etc.; often with up.
- (category theory, transitive) Given morphisms f and g with the same target: To produce a morphism which the given morphism factors through (i.e. a morphism h such that f=g∘h; cf. lift n.etymology 1 18)
- (transitive) To cause to move upwards.
- (transitive, slang) To source directly without acknowledgement; to plagiarise.
- (ambitransitive) To raise or rise.
- (transitive, slang) To arrest (a person).
- (intransitive, especially Scotland) To disperse, to break up.
- (finance) To buy a security or other asset previously offered for sale.
- (transitive) To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).
- (programming) To transform (a function) into a corresponding function in a different context.
- (hunting, transitive) To take (hounds) off the existing scent and move them to another spot.
- (transitive) To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.)
- (informal, intransitive) To lift weights; to weight-lift.
noun
- the act of giving temporary assistance
- a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground
- transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable)
- the act of raising something
- one of the layers forming the heel of a shoe or boot
- the component of the aerodynamic forces acting on an airfoil that opposes gravity
- a powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill
- the event of something being raised upward
- a ride in a car
- plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face; an incision is made near the hair line and skin is pulled back and excess tissue is excised
- lifting device consisting of a platform or cage that is raised and lowered mechanically in a vertical shaft in order to move people from one floor to another in a building
- a device worn in a shoe or boot to make the wearer look taller or to correct a shortened leg
- An act of lifting or raising.
- (measurement) The difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated by lock.
- (UK dialectal, chiefly Scotland) The sky; the heavens; firmament; atmosphere.
- (shoemaking) A layer of leather in the heel of a shoe.
- The amount or weight to be lifted.
- A rise; a degree of elevation.
- (historical slang) A thief.
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand, India, puristic elsewhere) Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between floors in a building.
- (engineering) One of the steps of a cone pulley.
- (figurative) An improvement in mood.
- (UK dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Air.
- The space or distance through which anything is lifted.
- (nautical) A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below, and used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.
- An upward force; especially, the force (generated by wings, rotary wings, or airfoils) that keeps aircraft aloft.
- (category theory) A morphism which some given morphism factors through; i.e. given a pair of morphisms f:X→Y and g:Z→Y, a morphism h such that f=g∘h. (In this case h is said to be a lift of f via Z or via g).
- Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.
- (horology) That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.
- (broadcasting) A shorter extract from a commercial/advertisement, able to be used on its own.
- (dance) The lifting of a dance partner into the air.
- A liftgate.
- The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.
verb
- remove from the surface
- make creamy by beating
- put on cream, as on one's face or body
- beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight
- add cream to one's coffee, for example
- (transitive) To puree, to blend with a liquifying process.
- (transitive, cooking) To rub, stir, or beat (butter) into a light creamy consistency.
- (transitive, vulgar, slang) To ejaculate in (clothing or a bodily orifice).
- (intransitive, vulgar, slang) To ejaculate (used of either gender).
- (transitive) To furnish with, or as if with, cream.
- (transitive, slang) To obliterate, to defeat decisively.
- (transitive) To turn a yellowish white color; to give something the color of cream.
- (intransitive) To gather or form cream.
- (transitive) To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream.
- (transitive, figurative) To take off the best or choicest part of.
noun
- toiletry consisting of any of various substances in the form of a thick liquid that have a soothing and moisturizing effect when applied to the skin
- the part of milk containing the butterfat
- the best people or things in a group
- (informal) Frosting, custard, creamer, or another substance similar to the oily part of milk or to whipped cream.
- (medicine) A viscous aqueous oil or fat emulsion with a medicament added, used to apply that medicament to the skin. (compare with ointment)
- (slang, vulgar) Semen.
- (standards of identity, UK) The liquid separated from milk containing at least 18 percent milkfat (48% for double cream).
- The butterfat or milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.
- A dish prepared through creaming, particularly cream of
- (tea and coffee) A portion of cream, such as the amount found in a creamer.
- A yellowish white color; the color of cream.
- (standards of identity, US) The liquid separated from milk, possibly with certain other milk products added, and with at least eighteen percent of it milkfat.
- (figuratively) The best part of something.
adj
verb
- remove from the surface
- examine hastily
- read superficially
- move or pass swiftly and lightly over the surface of
- travel on the surface of water
- coat (a liquid) with a layer
- cause to skip over a surface
- (intransitive) To become coated over.
- To put on a finishing coat of plaster.
- (transitive) To scrape off; to remove (something) from a surface
- (transitive) To clear (a liquid) from scum or substance floating or lying on it, by means of a utensil that passes just beneath the surface.
- (intransitive) To pass lightly; to glide along in an even, smooth course; to glide along near the surface.
- To surreptitiously scan a payment card in order to obtain its information for fraudulent purposes.
- To steal money from a business before the transaction has been recorded, thus avoiding detection.
- (intransitive) To ricochet.
- (transitive) To clear a liquid from (scum or substance floating or lying on it), especially the cream that floats on top of fresh milk.
- (transitive) To throw an object so it bounces on water.
- To hasten along with superficial attention.
- (transitive) To pass near the surface of; to brush the surface of; to glide swiftly along the surface of.
- (transitive) To read quickly or describe summarily, skipping some detail.
adj
noun
verb
- remove unwanted substances from
- remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits
- remove shells or husks from
- remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely
- clean and tidy up the house
- clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing
- make clean by removing dirt, filth, or unwanted substances from
- be cleanable
- remove while making clean
- deprive wholly of money in a gambling game, robbery, etc.
- (manga fandom slang) To purge a raw of any blemishes caused by the scanning process such as brown tinting and poor color contrast.
- (slang) To beat, to thrash; to defeat.
- (intransitive) To make things clean in general.
- (transitive) To tidy up, make a place neat.
- (transitive, computing) To remove unnecessary files, etc. from (a directory, etc.).
- (intransitive, curling) To brush the ice lightly in front of a moving rock to remove any debris and ensure a correct line; less vigorous than a sweep.
- (transitive, climbing) To remove equipment from a climbing route after it was previously lead climbed.
- (video games) Synonym of clean up.
- (transitive) To remove guts and/or scales of a butchered animal.
- (transitive) To remove dirt from a place or object.
adj
- thorough and without qualification
- (of a record) having no marks of discredit or offense
- ritually clean or pure
- free of restrictions or qualifications
- free from clumsiness; precisely or deftly executed
- free from impurities
- (of a surface) not written or printed on
- (of a manuscript) having few alterations or corrections
- exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play
- free of drugs
- (of sound or color) free from anything that dulls or dims
- morally pure
- free from sepsis or infection
- free from dirt or impurities; or having clean habits
- not carrying concealed weapons
- without difficulties or problems
- (of behavior or especially language) free from objectionable elements; fit for all observers
- not spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination
- Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects.
- Utter, complete, total; pure; free from restraint.
- (informal) Cool or neat.
- Empty.
- (aviation) Having the undercarriage and flaps in the up position.
- Pure, especially morally or religiously.
- Free of dirt, filth, or impurities (extraneous matter); not dirty, filthy, or soiled.
- (informal) Devoid of profanity.
- Free of infiltration by covert listening or recording devices (bugs), enemy spies, etc.
- Free of contamination, (unwanted) germs, infection, or disease.
- Well-proportioned; shapely.
- (sports, for example, professional wrestling, slang) Of a victory or performance: without any blemishes such as submission holds, disqualification, interference, etc.
- In an unmarked condition; blank.
- That does not damage the environment (as much as some alternative).
- (aerodynamics) Allowing an uninterrupted flow over surfaces, without protrusions such as racks or landing gear.
- Free from (or showing no signs of) corrupt, unlawful, and/or sinister conduct or connections (and (of criminal, driving, etc. records) therefore without restrictions or penalties).
- (informal) Not in possession of weapons or contraband such as drugs.
- Devoid of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
- (climbing, of a route) Ascended without falling.
- (of metal) Having relatively few impurities.
- Not using drugs or alcohol.
- Smooth, exact, and performed well.
noun
- a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted to shoulder height and then jerked overhead
- (in the plural, metal music) Clear vocals, contrasted with death growls and screams.
- (weightlifting) The first part of the event clean and jerk in which the weight is brought from the ground to the shoulders.
- Removal of dirt.
adv
verb
- remove unwanted substances from
- feed on carrion or refuse
- clean refuse from
- collect discarded material
- (intransitive) To feed on carrion or refuse.
- (transitive) To expel the exhaust gases from the cylinder of an internal combustion engine, and draw in air for the next cycle.
- (transitive) To collect and remove refuse, or to search through refuse, carrion, or abandoned items for useful material.
- (transitive) To remove unwanted material from something, especially to purify molten metal by removing impurities.
verb
- remove the skin from
- cut small bits or pare shavings from
- decrease gradually or bit by bit
- remove the edges from and cut down to the desired size
- (transitive) To remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife.
- (transitive, often with down or back) To reduce, diminish or trim gradually something as if by cutting off.
- (Ireland, slang) To sharpen a pencil.
- To trim the hoof of a horse.
verb
- remove the skin from
- get undressed
- come off in flakes or thin small pieces
- (intransitive) To remove one's clothing.
- Misspelling of peal (“to sound loudly”).
- (curling) To play a peel shot.
- (croquet) To send through a hoop (of a ball other than one's own).
- (transitive) To remove the skin or outer covering of.
- (intransitive) To become detached, come away, especially in flakes or strips; to shed skin in such a way.
- (transitive) To remove something from the outer or top layer of.
- (intransitive) To move, separate (off or away).
noun
- the rind of a fruit or vegetable
- (countable) A cosmetic preparation designed to remove dead skin or to exfoliate.
- (countable, rugby) The action of peeling away from a formation.
- (usually uncountable) The skin or outer layer of a fruit, vegetable, etc.
- (Scotland, curling) An equal or match; a draw.
- (curling) A takeout which removes a stone from play as well as the delivered stone.
- A shovel or similar instrument, now especially a pole with a flat disc at the end used for removing pizza or loaves of bread from a baker's oven.
- Alternative form of peal (“a small or young salmon”).
- A T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry.
verb
- remove the skin from
- remove the bark of a tree
- bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of
- climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling
- (transitive) To cover with skin, or as if with skin; hence, to cover superficially.
- (colloquial) To high five.
- (transitive, computing, colloquial) To apply a skin to (a computer program).
- (transitive, art) To remove the top layers of paint from, revealing parts of the underlying medium or canvas.
- (intransitive) To become covered with skin or a skin-like layer.
- (transitive) To remove the skin and/or fur of an animal or a human.
- (UK, soccer, transitive) To use tricks to go past a defender.
- Short for skin up (“travel uphill on skis, snowboard, or bicycle”)
- (transitive) To injure the skin of.
noun
- the rind of a fruit or vegetable
- an outer surface (usually thin)
- a person whose head is bald or shaved
- a member of any of several British or American groups consisting predominantly of young people who shave their heads; some engage in white supremacist and anti-immigrant activities and this leads to the perception that all skinheads are racist and violent
- body covering of a living animal
- a person's skin regarded as their life
- a bag serving as a container for liquids; it is made from the hide of an animal
- a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch
- A drink of whisky served hot.
- A member of the team not wearing shirts, in a shirts and skins game.
- (countable, computing, graphical user interface) A set of resources that modifies the appearance and/or layout of the graphical user interface of a computer program.
- (nautical) The covering, as of planking or iron plates, outside the framing, forming the sides and bottom of a vessel; the shell; also, a lining inside the framing.
- (countable, slang) Rolling paper for cigarettes.
- (slang, Ireland, British) A person; chap.
- (countable) The skin and fur of an individual animal used by humans for clothing, upholstery, etc.
- (countable) A congealed layer on the surface of a liquid.
- (countable, slang) Clipping of skinhead.
- (nautical) That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole.
- (slang) Bare flesh, particularly bare breasts.
- (aviation) The outer surface covering much of the wings and fuselage of an aircraft.
- A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids.
- (Australia) A subgroup of Australian aboriginal people.
- (uncountable) The outer protective layer of the fruit of a plant.
- (uncountable) The outer protective layer of the body of any animal, including of a human.
- (countable, video games) An alternate appearance (texture map or geometry) for a character model in a video game.
verb
verb
noun
- (figurative) Worthless or trivial matter.
- (slang) Residual raw opium left in an opium pipe which can be recycled for further sale or use.
- A waste product from working with metal.
- The impurities in metal.
- Residue that forms as a scum on the surface of molten metal from oxidation.
- the scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals
- worthless or dangerous material that should be removed
verb
- (transitive) To remove glaze from.
- (transitive, cooking) To detach small pieces of cooked food from a pan by adding liquid, so that they can be used in further cooking.
- (transitive) To abrade the cylinders of an engine to ensure a tight seal.
- dissolve cooking juices or solid food in (a pan) by adding liquid and stirring
verb
- remove the shucks from
- remove from the shell
- (dialectal, of a horse) To walk at a slow trot.
- (transitive, intransitive, slang) To fool; to hoax.
- (dialectal) To shake; shiver.
- (transitive) To remove (any outer covering).
- (dialectal) To do hurriedly or in a restless way.
- (dialectal) To slither or slip, move about, wriggle.
- (computing, slang, transitive) To remove (an external hard drive or solid-state drive) from its casing so that it can be used inside another device.
- (transitive) To remove the shuck from (walnuts, oysters, etc.).
- (dialectal) To avoid; baffle, outwit, shirk.
noun
- material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) A fraud; a scam.
- The shell or husk, especially of grains (e.g. corn/maize) or nuts (e.g. walnuts).
- (slang) A phony.
- (European folklore) A supernatural and generally malevolent black dog in English folklore.
verb
- (transitive) To remove the shell from nuts.
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To laugh heartily.
- (slang, intransitive) To tease (someone) or tell jokes at the expense of (someone).
- (idiomatic, transitive) To cause to laugh heartily.
- (transitive) To crack (petroleum). (to break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application of heat: to pyrolyse)
- (idiomatic) To break down or fall apart; to stop functioning; to shatter.
- (slang, intransitive) To smoke crack cocaine.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To separate a group.
- (transitive, informal, usually passive voice, chiefly in the negative) To cry up; to extol.
- (slang, transitive) To praise or applaud (something); to promote a positive view of (something).
- (US) To crash an aircraft or automobile.
- laugh unrestrainedly
- rhapsodize about
- suffer a nervous breakdown
adj
verb
noun
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, informal) An act of avoiding lessons or work.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, informal) Something very easy, where one can slack off without penalty.
- A rotating iron disk coated with oil and diamond dust used to polish the facets of a diamond.
- An angled cut or bevel at the edge of something.
verb
- To remove (film, cotton, etc.) from a spool; unwind.
- (slang, of a film) To play; to be screened.
- (ambitransitive) To lose or cause to lose one's composure; to fall apart.
- (ambitransitive) To flow forth, unfold, or play out.
- (aviation) To reduce the thrust of a jet engine to idle in flight.
- (ambitransitive) To relax or become relaxed; to unwind.
verb
- remove by suction
- inhale (air, water, etc.)
- pronounce with aspiration; of stop sounds
- (intransitive) To suffocate, having inhaled something other than air.
- (transitive) To inhale something other than air into one's lungs.
- (ambitransitive, linguistics) To produce an audible puff of breath, especially following a consonant, such as the letter "h" at the beginning of house or hat in standard English.
- (transitive) To remove a liquid or gas by means of suction.
noun
- a speech sound having as an obvious concomitant an audible puff of breath, as initial stop consonants or initial /h/ sounds.
- a consonant pronounced with aspiration
- A mark of aspiration (ʽ) used in Greek; the asper, or rough breathing.
- (linguistics) The puff of air accompanying the release of a plosive or fricative consonant.
- A sample of fluid, tissue, or other substance that is withdrawn via aspiration (usually through a hollow needle) from a body cavity, cyst, or tumor.
- (linguistics) A sound produced by such a puff of air.
adj
verb
- remove by suction
- deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)
- make more sociable
- lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer
- remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense
- cause to speak
- To make (something) last for more time than is necessary; to prolong; to extend.
- To extract, to bring out, as concealed information; to elicit; to educe.
- (poker) To improve a losing hand to a winning hand by receiving additional cards.
- (by extension) To cause (a shy person) to be more open or talkative.
- To use means to entice or force (an animal) from its hole or similar hiding place.
- To physically extract, as blood from a vein.
verb
noun
verb
- (transitive) To remove from a mould, bowl etc.
- (intransitive) To leave a road.
- (sex, transitive, prison slang) To rape; to coerce an otherwise heterosexual individual into performing a homosexual role.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To extinguish a light or other device.
- (intransitive, by ellipsis) To succeed; work out; turn out well.
- (transitive) To put (cattle) out to pasture.
- (sex, transitive, slang) To convince a person (usually a woman) to become a prostitute.
- (intransitive, idiomatic, copulative) To end up; to result.
- (intransitive) To leave one's work to take part in a strike.
- (transitive) To convince to vote
- (transitive, idiomatic) To produce; make.
- (transitive) To empty for inspection.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To become apparent or known, especially (as) it turns out
- (intransitive, colloquial) To get out of bed; get up.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To refuse service or shelter; to eject or evict.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To attend; show up.
- come and gather for a public event
- prove to be in the result or end
- result or end
- turn outward
- be shown or be found to be
- get up and out of bed
- bring forth
- cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch
- put out or expel from a place
- produce quickly or regularly, usually with machinery
- come, usually in answer to an invitation or summons
- outfit or equip, as with accessories
verb
- remove the surface from
- To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).
- remove substances from by a percolating liquid
- remove a constituent from a liquid
- draw the last milk (of cows)
- remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely
- lay bare
- remove (someone's or one's own) clothes
- get undressed
- remove the thread (of screws)
- take away possessions from someone
- take off or remove
- strip the cured leaves from
- steal goods; take as spoils
- To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands".
- (intransitive) To perform a striptease.
- To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
- (transitive) To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.
- To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
- (transitive) To fire (a bullet or ball) from a rifle such that it fails to pick up a spin from the rifling.
- To remove the insulation from a wire/cable.
- (intransitive) To fail to pick up a spin from the grooves in a rifle barrel.
- (transitive) To remove the overlying earth from (a deposit).
- (transitive, bridge) To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also strip-squeeze.)
- (transitive) To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.
- (transitive) To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.
- (intransitive) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
- (usually intransitive) To take off clothing.
- To press out the ripe roe or milt from fishes, for artificial fecundation.
- (transitive) To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
- (transitive, agriculture) To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
- (television, transitive) To run a television series at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.
- (transitive) To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear, especially inadvertently by overtightening.
- (transitive) To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).
- (transitive) To remove cargo from (a container).
noun
- an airfield without normal airport facilities
- thin piece of wood or metal
- a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book
- a relatively long narrow piece of something
- a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music
- artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material
- A landing strip.
- (fencing) The playing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
- (US) A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
- (countable) A long, thin piece of land; any long, thin area.
- (slang) A strip club.
- (finance) An investment strategy involving simultaneous trade with one call and two put options on the same security at the same strike price, similar to but more bearish than a straddle.
- A strip steak.
- (mining) A trough for washing ore.
- The act of removing one's clothes; a striptease.
- A comic strip.
- (television) A television series aired at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.
- (UK, soccer) The uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
- The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
- (usually countable, sometimes uncountable) A long, thin piece of any material; any such material collectively.
- (attributively, of games) Denotes a version of a game in which losing players must progressively remove their clothes.
verb
- To remove the outer covering or shell of something.
- (topology) To form a shelling.
- To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
- (computing, intransitive) To switch to a shell or command line.
- (cricket, slang, transitive) To drop (the ball).
- (intransitive) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
- (intransitive) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
- (informal) To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
- To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
- remove from its shell or outer covering
- use explosives on
- create by using explosives
- fall out of the pod or husk
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- look for and collect shells by the seashore
- remove the husks from
- hit the pitches of hard and regularly
noun
- The covering, or outside part, of a nut.
- (architecture) Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in, as the shell of a house.
- The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
- A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that often fastens in the rear.
- (nautical, rigging) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
- (nautical) The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
- A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
- (figuratively) The empty outward form of someone or something.
- (music) A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
- In formal debating, a set of proposed rules to be followed, with set penalties for violating them.
- A psychological barrier to social interaction.
- (figuratively) The outward form independent of what is inside.
- (British, education) One or more school grades within secondary education, at certain public schools.
- The thin coating of copper on an electrotype.
- (chemistry) A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
- (music) The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims added for tuning and for attaching the drum head.
- One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
- An engraved copper roller used in print works.
- The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
- The conjoined scutes that constitute the "shell" (carapace) of a tortoise or turtle.
- (UK, slang) A person's ear.
- (geology) The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
- An emaciated person.
- (nautical) A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper; a racing shell or dragon boat.
- (computing) An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs and control their interactions; the user's command interpreter. Shell is a way to separate the internal complexity of the implementation of the command from the user. The internals can change while the user experience/interface remains the same.
- (weaponry) A hollow, usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon. It contains an explosive substance designed to be ignited by a fuse or by percussion at the target site so that it will burst and scatter at high velocity its contents and fragments. Formerly called a bomb.
- (business) A legal entity that has no operations.
- (in the plural) Husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is sometimes used as a substitute or adulterant for cocoa and its products such as chocolate.
- (by extension) Any mollusk having such a covering.
- (figuratively) A person otherwise diminished.
- The overlapping hard plates comprising the armor covering the armadillo's body.
- (weaponry) The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
- (weaponry) The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
- (phonology) The onset and coda of a syllable.
- A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
- A pod containing the seeds of certain plants, such as the legume Phaseolus vulgaris.
- An unmarked vehicle for carrying corpses from a crime scene.
- (entomology) The exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects.
- (engineering) A gouge bit or shell bit.
- a rigid covering that envelops an object
- the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod
- a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
- the hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits especially nuts
- hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles
- the housing or outer covering of something
- the exterior covering of a bird's egg
- a very light narrow racing boat
- ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun
- the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals
verb
- remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits
- remove in small bits
- look for and gather
- select carefully from a group
- eat intermittently; take small bites of
- provoke
- pay for something
- pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
- harass with constant criticism
- attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example
- pilfer or rob
- hit lightly with a picking motion
- To remove something from somewhere with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
- To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground.
- (music) To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
- To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
- To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
- (ambitransitive) To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.
- (cricket) To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand and arm as the ball is released.
- To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
- (American football, informal) To intercept a pass from the offense as a defensive player.
- To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
- To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
- To do anything fastidiously or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
- (basketball) To screen.
- To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
- To steal; to pilfer.
- (transitive) To seek (a fight or quarrel) where the opportunity arises.
noun
- a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument
- the best people or things in a group
- the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving
- a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends
- the quantity of a crop that is harvested
- a basketball maneuver; obstructing an opponent with one's body
- the person or thing chosen or selected
- the act of choosing or selecting
- a thin sharp implement used for removing unwanted material
- A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
- (American football) An interception.
- (art, painting) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
- A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
- (Australia) Pasture; feed, for animals.
- (baseball) A good defensive play by an infielder.
- (music) A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
- (baseball) A pickoff.
- A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
- (lacrosse) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
- (nautical, slang) An anchor.
- A choice; ability to choose.
- That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
- (basketball) A screen.
- (weaving) The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute); hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread.
verb
- remove the seeds from
- bear seeds
- help (an enterprise) in its early stages of development by providing seed money
- place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth
- distribute (players or teams) so that outstanding teams or players will not meet in the early rounds
- inoculate with microorganisms
- go to seed; shed seeds
- sprinkle with silver iodide particles to disperse and cause rain
- (reflexive) To shed seeds (refers to plants)
- (transitive) To start; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of.
- (slang, vulgar) To ejaculate inside the penetratee during intercourse, especially in the rectum.
- (meteorology) To scatter small particles within (a cloud or airmass) in order to trigger the formation of rain.
- (intransitive) To produce seed.
- (transitive) To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.
- (intransitive) To grow to maturity.
- (dialectal) simple past and past participle of see
- (intransitive) To be qualified to compete, especially in a quarter-final, semi-final, or final.
- (sports, gaming) To allocate a seeding to a competitor.
- (Internet, transitive) To leave (files) available for others to download through peer-to-peer file sharing protocols (e.g. BitTorrent).
- (transitive) To plant or sow an area with seeds.
noun
- a small hard fruit
- the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract
- anything that provides inspiration for later work
- one of the outstanding players in a tournament
- a mature fertilized plant ovule consisting of an embryo and its food source and having a protective coat or testa
- (countable) Any small seed-like fruit.
- (countable) A fragment of coral.
- (US slang) A child.
- (sports) The initial position of a competitor or team in a tournament. (seed position)
- (physics) A small particle, bubble, or imperfection that serves as a nucleation point for some process.
- (Internet marketing) A commercial message in a creative format placed on relevant sites on the Internet. (seed idea or seed message)
- The competitor or team occupying a given seed (position).
- (uncountable, collective) An amount of seeds that cannot be readily counted.
- (countable, agriculture) Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.
- A small bubble formed in imperfectly fused glass.
- (countable, figurative) A precursor.
- (uncountable) Semen.
- Race; generation; birth.
- (cryptography, computing) The initialization state of a pseudorandom number generator or similar system.
- (countable, botany) A fertilized and ripened ovule, containing an embryonic plant.
- (video games) (by extension) A unique code that acts as a blueprint for generating a specific game world, determining terrain, structures, and resource placement.
verb
- remove the scalp of
- sell illegally, as on the black market
- To remove the scalp (part of the head from where the hair grows), by brutal act or accident.
- (Canada, US, slang) To resell, especially tickets, usually for an inflated price, often illegally.
- (milling) To brush the hairs or fuzz from (wheat grains, etc.) in the process of high milling.
- (transitive) To remove the grass from.
- (finance) On an open outcry exchange trading floor, to buy and sell rapidly for one's own account, aiming to buy from a seller and a little later sell to a buyer, making a small profit from the difference (roughly the amount of the bid/offer spread, or less).
- To screen or sieve ore before further processing.
- (gambling) To bet on opposing competitors so as to make a profit from the bookmaker.
- (surgery) To remove the skin of.
- (transitive) To destroy the political influence of.
noun
- the skin that covers the top of the head
- (historical) A part of the skin of the head, with the hair attached, formerly cut or torn off from an enemy by warriors in some cultures as a token of victory.
- (figurative) The top; the summit.
- (heraldry) The skin of the head of a stag, to which the horns are attached.
- (figuratively) A victory, especially at the expense of someone else.
- (Scotland) A bed or stratum of shellfish.
- (now dialectal) The top of the head; the skull.
- The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from.
verb
noun
- A fit of immoderate laughter or merriment.
- (anatomy, immunology) In vertebrates, including humans, a ductless vascular gland, located in the left upper abdomen near the stomach, which destroys old red blood cells, removes debris from the bloodstream, acts as a reservoir of blood, and produces lymphocytes.
- a large dark-red oval organ on the left side of the body between the stomach and the diaphragm; produces cells involved in immune responses
- a feeling of resentful anger
verb
- To remove a cover from.
- (reflexive, intransitive) To expose the genitalia.
- To reveal the identity of.
- (military, transitive) To expose (lines of formation of troops) successively by the wheeling to right or left of the lines in front.
- To show openly; to disclose; to reveal.
- (reflexive, intransitive) To remove one's hat or cap as a mark of respect.
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body
- reveal to view as by removing a cover
verb
- To remove.
- (transitive) To obtain by application by a legal or other official process.
- (idiomatic, slang) To kill or destroy.
- (idiomatic, slang) To stun, amaze; to kill.
- (idiomatic) To immobilize with force; to subdue; to incapacitate.
- To escort someone on a date.
- (colloquial) To win a sporting event, competition, premiership, etc.
- remove from its packing
- take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy
- take out or remove
- purchase prepared food to be eaten at home
- remove (a commodity) from (a supply source)
- make a date
- prevent from being included or considered or accepted
- bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover
- remove something from a container or an enclosed space
- cause to leave
- obtain by legal or official process
- buy and consume food from a restaurant or establishment that sells prepared food
- remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense
- take liquid out of a container or well
noun
noun
- Paraffin wax.
- (petrochemistry, organic chemistry) Any member of the alkane hydrocarbons.
- (UK, Ireland) A petroleum-based thin and colourless fuel oil.
- (British usage) kerosine
- from crude petroleum; used for candles and for preservative or waterproof coatings
- a series of non-aromatic saturated hydrocarbons with the general formula CnH(2n+2)
verb
verb
verb
- To remove the stem from.
- To descend in a family line.
- To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.
- (transitive) To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).
- (climbing) To use a stance with the feet spread apart, bracing them in opposite directions against the two walls of a chimney or dihedral.
- To be caused or derived; to originate.
- (skiing) To move the feet apart and point the tips of the skis inward in order to slow down the speed or to facilitate a turn.
- To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against.
- remove the stem from
- stop the flow of a liquid
- grow out of, have roots in, originate in
- cause to point inward
noun
- Alternative spelling of stemme (“lesbian who combines stud and femme traits”).
- The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
- (music) A premixed portion of a track for use in audio mastering and remixing.
- (botany) The above-ground stalk (technically axis) of a vascular plant, and certain anatomically similar, below-ground organs such as rhizomes, bulbs, tubers, and corms.
- An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
- (nautical, loosely) The front part of a vessel.
- Alternative form of steem.
- (linguistics) The main part of an uninflected word to which affixes may be added to form inflections of the word. A stem often has a more fundamental root. Systematic conjugations and declensions derive from their stems.
- (typography) A vertical stroke of a letter.
- A slender supporting member of an individual part of a plant such as a flower or a leaf; also, by analogy, the shaft of a feather.
- A branch of a family.
- (anatomy) A part of an anatomic structure considered without its possible branches or ramifications.
- Alternative form of STEM.
- (slang) The penis.
- (nautical, precisely) The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of the planks or strakes are attached.
- (slang) A person's leg.
- (taxonomy) A branch, or group of branches, located outside a family or other cladistic group, but which is more closely related to that group than to any other taxon of the same rank.
- A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.
- (music) A vertical stroke marking the length of a note in written music.
- (cycling) A component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the bicycle fork.
- (slang) A crack pipe; or the long, hollow portion of a similar pipe (i.e. meth pipe) resembling a crack pipe.
- (chiefly British) A winder on a clock, watch, or similar mechanism.
- a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ
- front part of a vessel or aircraft
- a turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- the tube of a tobacco pipe
- cylinder forming a long narrow part of something
verb
- To remove by cutting.
- To stop the provision or supply of something, e.g. power, water.
- To swerve in front of (another car) while driving.
- (Southern US) To turn off or switch off (an electrical device).
- To move so as to block someone else's movement in a direction.
- To isolate or remove from contact.
- To end abruptly.
- (of a boundary) To exclude (something) from the field of view.
- To interrupt (someone speaking).
- To stop providing funds or something else to (someone).
- make a break in
- remove surgically
- remove by or as if by cutting
- cease, stop
- break a small piece off from
- cut off and stop
noun
adj
verb
- remove from a surface
- raise in rank or condition
- take illegally
- take off or away by decreasing
- call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs
- perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face
- raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help
- put an end to a situation
- move upwards
- rise upward, as from pressure or moisture
- remove (hair) by scalping
- move upward
- pay off (a mortgage)
- take (root crops) out of the ground
- cancel officially
- rise up
- invigorate or heighten
- raise from a lower to a higher position
- take hold of something and move it to a different location
- take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property
- remove from a seedbed or from a nursery
- fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means
- make audible
- make off with belongings of others
- To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
- To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
- (transitive, slang) To steal.
- To elevate or improve in rank, condition, etc.; often with up.
- (category theory, transitive) Given morphisms f and g with the same target: To produce a morphism which the given morphism factors through (i.e. a morphism h such that f=g∘h; cf. lift n.etymology 1 18)
- (transitive) To cause to move upwards.
- (transitive, slang) To source directly without acknowledgement; to plagiarise.
- (ambitransitive) To raise or rise.
- (transitive, slang) To arrest (a person).
- (intransitive, especially Scotland) To disperse, to break up.
- (finance) To buy a security or other asset previously offered for sale.
- (transitive) To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).
- (programming) To transform (a function) into a corresponding function in a different context.
- (hunting, transitive) To take (hounds) off the existing scent and move them to another spot.
- (transitive) To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.)
- (informal, intransitive) To lift weights; to weight-lift.
noun
- the act of giving temporary assistance
- a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground
- transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable)
- the act of raising something
- one of the layers forming the heel of a shoe or boot
- the component of the aerodynamic forces acting on an airfoil that opposes gravity
- a powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill
- the event of something being raised upward
- a ride in a car
- plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face; an incision is made near the hair line and skin is pulled back and excess tissue is excised
- lifting device consisting of a platform or cage that is raised and lowered mechanically in a vertical shaft in order to move people from one floor to another in a building
- a device worn in a shoe or boot to make the wearer look taller or to correct a shortened leg
- An act of lifting or raising.
- (measurement) The difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated by lock.
- (UK dialectal, chiefly Scotland) The sky; the heavens; firmament; atmosphere.
- (shoemaking) A layer of leather in the heel of a shoe.
- The amount or weight to be lifted.
- A rise; a degree of elevation.
- (historical slang) A thief.
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand, India, puristic elsewhere) Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between floors in a building.
- (engineering) One of the steps of a cone pulley.
- (figurative) An improvement in mood.
- (UK dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Air.
- The space or distance through which anything is lifted.
- (nautical) A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below, and used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.
- An upward force; especially, the force (generated by wings, rotary wings, or airfoils) that keeps aircraft aloft.
- (category theory) A morphism which some given morphism factors through; i.e. given a pair of morphisms f:X→Y and g:Z→Y, a morphism h such that f=g∘h. (In this case h is said to be a lift of f via Z or via g).
- Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.
- (horology) That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.
- (broadcasting) A shorter extract from a commercial/advertisement, able to be used on its own.
- (dance) The lifting of a dance partner into the air.
- A liftgate.
- The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.
verb
- remove from the surface
- make creamy by beating
- put on cream, as on one's face or body
- beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight
- add cream to one's coffee, for example
- (transitive) To puree, to blend with a liquifying process.
- (transitive, cooking) To rub, stir, or beat (butter) into a light creamy consistency.
- (transitive, vulgar, slang) To ejaculate in (clothing or a bodily orifice).
- (intransitive, vulgar, slang) To ejaculate (used of either gender).
- (transitive) To furnish with, or as if with, cream.
- (transitive, slang) To obliterate, to defeat decisively.
- (transitive) To turn a yellowish white color; to give something the color of cream.
- (intransitive) To gather or form cream.
- (transitive) To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream.
- (transitive, figurative) To take off the best or choicest part of.
noun
- toiletry consisting of any of various substances in the form of a thick liquid that have a soothing and moisturizing effect when applied to the skin
- the part of milk containing the butterfat
- the best people or things in a group
- (informal) Frosting, custard, creamer, or another substance similar to the oily part of milk or to whipped cream.
- (medicine) A viscous aqueous oil or fat emulsion with a medicament added, used to apply that medicament to the skin. (compare with ointment)
- (slang, vulgar) Semen.
- (standards of identity, UK) The liquid separated from milk containing at least 18 percent milkfat (48% for double cream).
- The butterfat or milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.
- A dish prepared through creaming, particularly cream of
- (tea and coffee) A portion of cream, such as the amount found in a creamer.
- A yellowish white color; the color of cream.
- (standards of identity, US) The liquid separated from milk, possibly with certain other milk products added, and with at least eighteen percent of it milkfat.
- (figuratively) The best part of something.
adj
verb
- remove from the surface
- examine hastily
- read superficially
- move or pass swiftly and lightly over the surface of
- travel on the surface of water
- coat (a liquid) with a layer
- cause to skip over a surface
- (intransitive) To become coated over.
- To put on a finishing coat of plaster.
- (transitive) To scrape off; to remove (something) from a surface
- (transitive) To clear (a liquid) from scum or substance floating or lying on it, by means of a utensil that passes just beneath the surface.
- (intransitive) To pass lightly; to glide along in an even, smooth course; to glide along near the surface.
- To surreptitiously scan a payment card in order to obtain its information for fraudulent purposes.
- To steal money from a business before the transaction has been recorded, thus avoiding detection.
- (intransitive) To ricochet.
- (transitive) To clear a liquid from (scum or substance floating or lying on it), especially the cream that floats on top of fresh milk.
- (transitive) To throw an object so it bounces on water.
- To hasten along with superficial attention.
- (transitive) To pass near the surface of; to brush the surface of; to glide swiftly along the surface of.
- (transitive) To read quickly or describe summarily, skipping some detail.
adj
noun
verb
- remove unwanted substances from
- remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits
- remove shells or husks from
- remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely
- clean and tidy up the house
- clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing
- make clean by removing dirt, filth, or unwanted substances from
- be cleanable
- remove while making clean
- deprive wholly of money in a gambling game, robbery, etc.
- (manga fandom slang) To purge a raw of any blemishes caused by the scanning process such as brown tinting and poor color contrast.
- (slang) To beat, to thrash; to defeat.
- (intransitive) To make things clean in general.
- (transitive) To tidy up, make a place neat.
- (transitive, computing) To remove unnecessary files, etc. from (a directory, etc.).
- (intransitive, curling) To brush the ice lightly in front of a moving rock to remove any debris and ensure a correct line; less vigorous than a sweep.
- (transitive, climbing) To remove equipment from a climbing route after it was previously lead climbed.
- (video games) Synonym of clean up.
- (transitive) To remove guts and/or scales of a butchered animal.
- (transitive) To remove dirt from a place or object.
adj
- thorough and without qualification
- (of a record) having no marks of discredit or offense
- ritually clean or pure
- free of restrictions or qualifications
- free from clumsiness; precisely or deftly executed
- free from impurities
- (of a surface) not written or printed on
- (of a manuscript) having few alterations or corrections
- exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play
- free of drugs
- (of sound or color) free from anything that dulls or dims
- morally pure
- free from sepsis or infection
- free from dirt or impurities; or having clean habits
- not carrying concealed weapons
- without difficulties or problems
- (of behavior or especially language) free from objectionable elements; fit for all observers
- not spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination
- Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects.
- Utter, complete, total; pure; free from restraint.
- (informal) Cool or neat.
- Empty.
- (aviation) Having the undercarriage and flaps in the up position.
- Pure, especially morally or religiously.
- Free of dirt, filth, or impurities (extraneous matter); not dirty, filthy, or soiled.
- (informal) Devoid of profanity.
- Free of infiltration by covert listening or recording devices (bugs), enemy spies, etc.
- Free of contamination, (unwanted) germs, infection, or disease.
- Well-proportioned; shapely.
- (sports, for example, professional wrestling, slang) Of a victory or performance: without any blemishes such as submission holds, disqualification, interference, etc.
- In an unmarked condition; blank.
- That does not damage the environment (as much as some alternative).
- (aerodynamics) Allowing an uninterrupted flow over surfaces, without protrusions such as racks or landing gear.
- Free from (or showing no signs of) corrupt, unlawful, and/or sinister conduct or connections (and (of criminal, driving, etc. records) therefore without restrictions or penalties).
- (informal) Not in possession of weapons or contraband such as drugs.
- Devoid of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
- (climbing, of a route) Ascended without falling.
- (of metal) Having relatively few impurities.
- Not using drugs or alcohol.
- Smooth, exact, and performed well.
noun
- a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted to shoulder height and then jerked overhead
- (in the plural, metal music) Clear vocals, contrasted with death growls and screams.
- (weightlifting) The first part of the event clean and jerk in which the weight is brought from the ground to the shoulders.
- Removal of dirt.
adv
verb
- remove unwanted substances from
- feed on carrion or refuse
- clean refuse from
- collect discarded material
- (intransitive) To feed on carrion or refuse.
- (transitive) To expel the exhaust gases from the cylinder of an internal combustion engine, and draw in air for the next cycle.
- (transitive) To collect and remove refuse, or to search through refuse, carrion, or abandoned items for useful material.
- (transitive) To remove unwanted material from something, especially to purify molten metal by removing impurities.
verb
- remove the skin from
- cut small bits or pare shavings from
- decrease gradually or bit by bit
- remove the edges from and cut down to the desired size
- (transitive) To remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife.
- (transitive, often with down or back) To reduce, diminish or trim gradually something as if by cutting off.
- (Ireland, slang) To sharpen a pencil.
- To trim the hoof of a horse.
verb
- remove the skin from
- get undressed
- come off in flakes or thin small pieces
- (intransitive) To remove one's clothing.
- Misspelling of peal (“to sound loudly”).
- (curling) To play a peel shot.
- (croquet) To send through a hoop (of a ball other than one's own).
- (transitive) To remove the skin or outer covering of.
- (intransitive) To become detached, come away, especially in flakes or strips; to shed skin in such a way.
- (transitive) To remove something from the outer or top layer of.
- (intransitive) To move, separate (off or away).
noun
- the rind of a fruit or vegetable
- (countable) A cosmetic preparation designed to remove dead skin or to exfoliate.
- (countable, rugby) The action of peeling away from a formation.
- (usually uncountable) The skin or outer layer of a fruit, vegetable, etc.
- (Scotland, curling) An equal or match; a draw.
- (curling) A takeout which removes a stone from play as well as the delivered stone.
- A shovel or similar instrument, now especially a pole with a flat disc at the end used for removing pizza or loaves of bread from a baker's oven.
- Alternative form of peal (“a small or young salmon”).
- A T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry.
verb
- remove the skin from
- remove the bark of a tree
- bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of
- climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling
- (transitive) To cover with skin, or as if with skin; hence, to cover superficially.
- (colloquial) To high five.
- (transitive, computing, colloquial) To apply a skin to (a computer program).
- (transitive, art) To remove the top layers of paint from, revealing parts of the underlying medium or canvas.
- (intransitive) To become covered with skin or a skin-like layer.
- (transitive) To remove the skin and/or fur of an animal or a human.
- (UK, soccer, transitive) To use tricks to go past a defender.
- Short for skin up (“travel uphill on skis, snowboard, or bicycle”)
- (transitive) To injure the skin of.
noun
- the rind of a fruit or vegetable
- an outer surface (usually thin)
- a person whose head is bald or shaved
- a member of any of several British or American groups consisting predominantly of young people who shave their heads; some engage in white supremacist and anti-immigrant activities and this leads to the perception that all skinheads are racist and violent
- body covering of a living animal
- a person's skin regarded as their life
- a bag serving as a container for liquids; it is made from the hide of an animal
- a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch
- A drink of whisky served hot.
- A member of the team not wearing shirts, in a shirts and skins game.
- (countable, computing, graphical user interface) A set of resources that modifies the appearance and/or layout of the graphical user interface of a computer program.
- (nautical) The covering, as of planking or iron plates, outside the framing, forming the sides and bottom of a vessel; the shell; also, a lining inside the framing.
- (countable, slang) Rolling paper for cigarettes.
- (slang, Ireland, British) A person; chap.
- (countable) The skin and fur of an individual animal used by humans for clothing, upholstery, etc.
- (countable) A congealed layer on the surface of a liquid.
- (countable, slang) Clipping of skinhead.
- (nautical) That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole.
- (slang) Bare flesh, particularly bare breasts.
- (aviation) The outer surface covering much of the wings and fuselage of an aircraft.
- A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids.
- (Australia) A subgroup of Australian aboriginal people.
- (uncountable) The outer protective layer of the fruit of a plant.
- (uncountable) The outer protective layer of the body of any animal, including of a human.
- (countable, video games) An alternate appearance (texture map or geometry) for a character model in a video game.
noun
- Paraffin wax.
- (petrochemistry, organic chemistry) Any member of the alkane hydrocarbons.
- (UK, Ireland) A petroleum-based thin and colourless fuel oil.
- (British usage) kerosine
- from crude petroleum; used for candles and for preservative or waterproof coatings
- a series of non-aromatic saturated hydrocarbons with the general formula CnH(2n+2)
verb
verb
verb
noun
- (figurative) Worthless or trivial matter.
- (slang) Residual raw opium left in an opium pipe which can be recycled for further sale or use.
- A waste product from working with metal.
- The impurities in metal.
- Residue that forms as a scum on the surface of molten metal from oxidation.
- the scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals
- worthless or dangerous material that should be removed
verb
- (transitive) To remove glaze from.
- (transitive, cooking) To detach small pieces of cooked food from a pan by adding liquid, so that they can be used in further cooking.
- (transitive) To abrade the cylinders of an engine to ensure a tight seal.
- dissolve cooking juices or solid food in (a pan) by adding liquid and stirring
verb
- remove the shucks from
- remove from the shell
- (dialectal, of a horse) To walk at a slow trot.
- (transitive, intransitive, slang) To fool; to hoax.
- (dialectal) To shake; shiver.
- (transitive) To remove (any outer covering).
- (dialectal) To do hurriedly or in a restless way.
- (dialectal) To slither or slip, move about, wriggle.
- (computing, slang, transitive) To remove (an external hard drive or solid-state drive) from its casing so that it can be used inside another device.
- (transitive) To remove the shuck from (walnuts, oysters, etc.).
- (dialectal) To avoid; baffle, outwit, shirk.
noun
- material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) A fraud; a scam.
- The shell or husk, especially of grains (e.g. corn/maize) or nuts (e.g. walnuts).
- (slang) A phony.
- (European folklore) A supernatural and generally malevolent black dog in English folklore.
verb
- (transitive) To remove the shell from nuts.
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To laugh heartily.
- (slang, intransitive) To tease (someone) or tell jokes at the expense of (someone).
- (idiomatic, transitive) To cause to laugh heartily.
- (transitive) To crack (petroleum). (to break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application of heat: to pyrolyse)
- (idiomatic) To break down or fall apart; to stop functioning; to shatter.
- (slang, intransitive) To smoke crack cocaine.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To separate a group.
- (transitive, informal, usually passive voice, chiefly in the negative) To cry up; to extol.
- (slang, transitive) To praise or applaud (something); to promote a positive view of (something).
- (US) To crash an aircraft or automobile.
- laugh unrestrainedly
- rhapsodize about
- suffer a nervous breakdown
adj
verb
noun
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, informal) An act of avoiding lessons or work.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, informal) Something very easy, where one can slack off without penalty.
- A rotating iron disk coated with oil and diamond dust used to polish the facets of a diamond.
- An angled cut or bevel at the edge of something.
verb
- To remove (film, cotton, etc.) from a spool; unwind.
- (slang, of a film) To play; to be screened.
- (ambitransitive) To lose or cause to lose one's composure; to fall apart.
- (ambitransitive) To flow forth, unfold, or play out.
- (aviation) To reduce the thrust of a jet engine to idle in flight.
- (ambitransitive) To relax or become relaxed; to unwind.
verb
- remove by suction
- inhale (air, water, etc.)
- pronounce with aspiration; of stop sounds
- (intransitive) To suffocate, having inhaled something other than air.
- (transitive) To inhale something other than air into one's lungs.
- (ambitransitive, linguistics) To produce an audible puff of breath, especially following a consonant, such as the letter "h" at the beginning of house or hat in standard English.
- (transitive) To remove a liquid or gas by means of suction.
noun
- a speech sound having as an obvious concomitant an audible puff of breath, as initial stop consonants or initial /h/ sounds.
- a consonant pronounced with aspiration
- A mark of aspiration (ʽ) used in Greek; the asper, or rough breathing.
- (linguistics) The puff of air accompanying the release of a plosive or fricative consonant.
- A sample of fluid, tissue, or other substance that is withdrawn via aspiration (usually through a hollow needle) from a body cavity, cyst, or tumor.
- (linguistics) A sound produced by such a puff of air.
adj
verb
- remove by suction
- deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)
- make more sociable
- lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer
- remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense
- cause to speak
- To make (something) last for more time than is necessary; to prolong; to extend.
- To extract, to bring out, as concealed information; to elicit; to educe.
- (poker) To improve a losing hand to a winning hand by receiving additional cards.
- (by extension) To cause (a shy person) to be more open or talkative.
- To use means to entice or force (an animal) from its hole or similar hiding place.
- To physically extract, as blood from a vein.
verb
noun
verb
- (transitive) To remove from a mould, bowl etc.
- (intransitive) To leave a road.
- (sex, transitive, prison slang) To rape; to coerce an otherwise heterosexual individual into performing a homosexual role.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To extinguish a light or other device.
- (intransitive, by ellipsis) To succeed; work out; turn out well.
- (transitive) To put (cattle) out to pasture.
- (sex, transitive, slang) To convince a person (usually a woman) to become a prostitute.
- (intransitive, idiomatic, copulative) To end up; to result.
- (intransitive) To leave one's work to take part in a strike.
- (transitive) To convince to vote
- (transitive, idiomatic) To produce; make.
- (transitive) To empty for inspection.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To become apparent or known, especially (as) it turns out
- (intransitive, colloquial) To get out of bed; get up.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To refuse service or shelter; to eject or evict.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To attend; show up.
- come and gather for a public event
- prove to be in the result or end
- result or end
- turn outward
- be shown or be found to be
- get up and out of bed
- bring forth
- cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch
- put out or expel from a place
- produce quickly or regularly, usually with machinery
- come, usually in answer to an invitation or summons
- outfit or equip, as with accessories
verb
- remove the surface from
- To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).
- remove substances from by a percolating liquid
- remove a constituent from a liquid
- draw the last milk (of cows)
- remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely
- lay bare
- remove (someone's or one's own) clothes
- get undressed
- remove the thread (of screws)
- take away possessions from someone
- take off or remove
- strip the cured leaves from
- steal goods; take as spoils
- To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands".
- (intransitive) To perform a striptease.
- To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
- (transitive) To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.
- To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
- (transitive) To fire (a bullet or ball) from a rifle such that it fails to pick up a spin from the rifling.
- To remove the insulation from a wire/cable.
- (intransitive) To fail to pick up a spin from the grooves in a rifle barrel.
- (transitive) To remove the overlying earth from (a deposit).
- (transitive, bridge) To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also strip-squeeze.)
- (transitive) To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.
- (transitive) To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.
- (intransitive) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
- (usually intransitive) To take off clothing.
- To press out the ripe roe or milt from fishes, for artificial fecundation.
- (transitive) To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
- (transitive, agriculture) To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
- (television, transitive) To run a television series at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.
- (transitive) To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear, especially inadvertently by overtightening.
- (transitive) To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).
- (transitive) To remove cargo from (a container).
noun
- an airfield without normal airport facilities
- thin piece of wood or metal
- a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book
- a relatively long narrow piece of something
- a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music
- artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material
- A landing strip.
- (fencing) The playing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
- (US) A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
- (countable) A long, thin piece of land; any long, thin area.
- (slang) A strip club.
- (finance) An investment strategy involving simultaneous trade with one call and two put options on the same security at the same strike price, similar to but more bearish than a straddle.
- A strip steak.
- (mining) A trough for washing ore.
- The act of removing one's clothes; a striptease.
- A comic strip.
- (television) A television series aired at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.
- (UK, soccer) The uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
- The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
- (usually countable, sometimes uncountable) A long, thin piece of any material; any such material collectively.
- (attributively, of games) Denotes a version of a game in which losing players must progressively remove their clothes.
verb
- To remove the outer covering or shell of something.
- (topology) To form a shelling.
- To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
- (computing, intransitive) To switch to a shell or command line.
- (cricket, slang, transitive) To drop (the ball).
- (intransitive) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
- (intransitive) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
- (informal) To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
- To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
- remove from its shell or outer covering
- use explosives on
- create by using explosives
- fall out of the pod or husk
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- look for and collect shells by the seashore
- remove the husks from
- hit the pitches of hard and regularly
noun
- The covering, or outside part, of a nut.
- (architecture) Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in, as the shell of a house.
- The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
- A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that often fastens in the rear.
- (nautical, rigging) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
- (nautical) The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
- A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
- (figuratively) The empty outward form of someone or something.
- (music) A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
- In formal debating, a set of proposed rules to be followed, with set penalties for violating them.
- A psychological barrier to social interaction.
- (figuratively) The outward form independent of what is inside.
- (British, education) One or more school grades within secondary education, at certain public schools.
- The thin coating of copper on an electrotype.
- (chemistry) A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
- (music) The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims added for tuning and for attaching the drum head.
- One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
- An engraved copper roller used in print works.
- The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
- The conjoined scutes that constitute the "shell" (carapace) of a tortoise or turtle.
- (UK, slang) A person's ear.
- (geology) The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
- An emaciated person.
- (nautical) A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper; a racing shell or dragon boat.
- (computing) An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs and control their interactions; the user's command interpreter. Shell is a way to separate the internal complexity of the implementation of the command from the user. The internals can change while the user experience/interface remains the same.
- (weaponry) A hollow, usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon. It contains an explosive substance designed to be ignited by a fuse or by percussion at the target site so that it will burst and scatter at high velocity its contents and fragments. Formerly called a bomb.
- (business) A legal entity that has no operations.
- (in the plural) Husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is sometimes used as a substitute or adulterant for cocoa and its products such as chocolate.
- (by extension) Any mollusk having such a covering.
- (figuratively) A person otherwise diminished.
- The overlapping hard plates comprising the armor covering the armadillo's body.
- (weaponry) The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
- (weaponry) The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
- (phonology) The onset and coda of a syllable.
- A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
- A pod containing the seeds of certain plants, such as the legume Phaseolus vulgaris.
- An unmarked vehicle for carrying corpses from a crime scene.
- (entomology) The exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects.
- (engineering) A gouge bit or shell bit.
- a rigid covering that envelops an object
- the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod
- a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
- the hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits especially nuts
- hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles
- the housing or outer covering of something
- the exterior covering of a bird's egg
- a very light narrow racing boat
- ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun
- the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals
verb
- remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits
- remove in small bits
- look for and gather
- select carefully from a group
- eat intermittently; take small bites of
- provoke
- pay for something
- pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
- harass with constant criticism
- attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example
- pilfer or rob
- hit lightly with a picking motion
- To remove something from somewhere with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
- To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground.
- (music) To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
- To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
- To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
- (ambitransitive) To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.
- (cricket) To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand and arm as the ball is released.
- To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
- (American football, informal) To intercept a pass from the offense as a defensive player.
- To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
- To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
- To do anything fastidiously or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
- (basketball) To screen.
- To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
- To steal; to pilfer.
- (transitive) To seek (a fight or quarrel) where the opportunity arises.
noun
- a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument
- the best people or things in a group
- the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving
- a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends
- the quantity of a crop that is harvested
- a basketball maneuver; obstructing an opponent with one's body
- the person or thing chosen or selected
- the act of choosing or selecting
- a thin sharp implement used for removing unwanted material
- A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
- (American football) An interception.
- (art, painting) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
- A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
- (Australia) Pasture; feed, for animals.
- (baseball) A good defensive play by an infielder.
- (music) A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
- (baseball) A pickoff.
- A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
- (lacrosse) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
- (nautical, slang) An anchor.
- A choice; ability to choose.
- That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
- (basketball) A screen.
- (weaving) The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute); hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread.
verb
- remove the seeds from
- bear seeds
- help (an enterprise) in its early stages of development by providing seed money
- place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth
- distribute (players or teams) so that outstanding teams or players will not meet in the early rounds
- inoculate with microorganisms
- go to seed; shed seeds
- sprinkle with silver iodide particles to disperse and cause rain
- (reflexive) To shed seeds (refers to plants)
- (transitive) To start; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of.
- (slang, vulgar) To ejaculate inside the penetratee during intercourse, especially in the rectum.
- (meteorology) To scatter small particles within (a cloud or airmass) in order to trigger the formation of rain.
- (intransitive) To produce seed.
- (transitive) To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.
- (intransitive) To grow to maturity.
- (dialectal) simple past and past participle of see
- (intransitive) To be qualified to compete, especially in a quarter-final, semi-final, or final.
- (sports, gaming) To allocate a seeding to a competitor.
- (Internet, transitive) To leave (files) available for others to download through peer-to-peer file sharing protocols (e.g. BitTorrent).
- (transitive) To plant or sow an area with seeds.
noun
- a small hard fruit
- the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract
- anything that provides inspiration for later work
- one of the outstanding players in a tournament
- a mature fertilized plant ovule consisting of an embryo and its food source and having a protective coat or testa
- (countable) Any small seed-like fruit.
- (countable) A fragment of coral.
- (US slang) A child.
- (sports) The initial position of a competitor or team in a tournament. (seed position)
- (physics) A small particle, bubble, or imperfection that serves as a nucleation point for some process.
- (Internet marketing) A commercial message in a creative format placed on relevant sites on the Internet. (seed idea or seed message)
- The competitor or team occupying a given seed (position).
- (uncountable, collective) An amount of seeds that cannot be readily counted.
- (countable, agriculture) Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.
- A small bubble formed in imperfectly fused glass.
- (countable, figurative) A precursor.
- (uncountable) Semen.
- Race; generation; birth.
- (cryptography, computing) The initialization state of a pseudorandom number generator or similar system.
- (countable, botany) A fertilized and ripened ovule, containing an embryonic plant.
- (video games) (by extension) A unique code that acts as a blueprint for generating a specific game world, determining terrain, structures, and resource placement.
verb
- remove the scalp of
- sell illegally, as on the black market
- To remove the scalp (part of the head from where the hair grows), by brutal act or accident.
- (Canada, US, slang) To resell, especially tickets, usually for an inflated price, often illegally.
- (milling) To brush the hairs or fuzz from (wheat grains, etc.) in the process of high milling.
- (transitive) To remove the grass from.
- (finance) On an open outcry exchange trading floor, to buy and sell rapidly for one's own account, aiming to buy from a seller and a little later sell to a buyer, making a small profit from the difference (roughly the amount of the bid/offer spread, or less).
- To screen or sieve ore before further processing.
- (gambling) To bet on opposing competitors so as to make a profit from the bookmaker.
- (surgery) To remove the skin of.
- (transitive) To destroy the political influence of.
noun
- the skin that covers the top of the head
- (historical) A part of the skin of the head, with the hair attached, formerly cut or torn off from an enemy by warriors in some cultures as a token of victory.
- (figurative) The top; the summit.
- (heraldry) The skin of the head of a stag, to which the horns are attached.
- (figuratively) A victory, especially at the expense of someone else.
- (Scotland) A bed or stratum of shellfish.
- (now dialectal) The top of the head; the skull.
- The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from.
verb
noun
- A fit of immoderate laughter or merriment.
- (anatomy, immunology) In vertebrates, including humans, a ductless vascular gland, located in the left upper abdomen near the stomach, which destroys old red blood cells, removes debris from the bloodstream, acts as a reservoir of blood, and produces lymphocytes.
- a large dark-red oval organ on the left side of the body between the stomach and the diaphragm; produces cells involved in immune responses
- a feeling of resentful anger
verb
- To remove a cover from.
- (reflexive, intransitive) To expose the genitalia.
- To reveal the identity of.
- (military, transitive) To expose (lines of formation of troops) successively by the wheeling to right or left of the lines in front.
- To show openly; to disclose; to reveal.
- (reflexive, intransitive) To remove one's hat or cap as a mark of respect.
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body
- reveal to view as by removing a cover
verb
- To remove.
- (transitive) To obtain by application by a legal or other official process.
- (idiomatic, slang) To kill or destroy.
- (idiomatic, slang) To stun, amaze; to kill.
- (idiomatic) To immobilize with force; to subdue; to incapacitate.
- To escort someone on a date.
- (colloquial) To win a sporting event, competition, premiership, etc.
- remove from its packing
- take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy
- take out or remove
- purchase prepared food to be eaten at home
- remove (a commodity) from (a supply source)
- make a date
- prevent from being included or considered or accepted
- bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover
- remove something from a container or an enclosed space
- cause to leave
- obtain by legal or official process
- buy and consume food from a restaurant or establishment that sells prepared food
- remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense
- take liquid out of a container or well
noun
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