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noun
- a connecting shape
- a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it)
- shifting from one form of transportation to another
- the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination
- (usually plural) a person who is influential and to whom you are connected in some way (as by family or friendship)
- the act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication)
- the state of being connected
- an instrumentality that connects
- a supplier (especially of narcotics)
- An established communications or transportation link.
- A feeling of understanding and ease of communication between two or more people.
- Coherence; lack of disjointedness.
- (mathematics) A set of sets that contains the empty set, all one-element sets for any element that is included in any of the sets, and the union of any group of sets that are elements where the intersections of those sets is non-empty.
- (slang) A drug dealer.
- (uncountable) The act of connecting.
- A kinship relationship between people.
- The point at which two or more things are connected.
- A person related to oneself, through either family or business.
- (transport) A transfer from one transportation vehicle to another in scheduled transportation service.
- Sexual intercourse.
- (religion) A Methodist denomination as a whole, as opposed to its constituent churches, circuits, districts and conferences.
noun
- a connecting shape
- a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it)
- shifting from one form of transportation to another
- the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination
- the act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication)
- an instrumentality that connects
- (Methodism) A Methodist denomination as a whole, as opposed to its constituent churches, circuits, districts and conferences (US spelling: connection).
- (British) Uncommon spelling of connection.
- (historical) The inter-relationship of prayer groups or religious societies under the oversight of an itinerant preacher who is assisted by the local preachers attached to each society.
noun
- a connecting shape
- a unit of length equal to 1/100 of a chain
- a fastener that serves to join or connect
- the means of connection between things linked in series
- (computing) an instruction that connects one part of a program or an element on a list to another program or list
- an interconnecting circuit between two or more locations for the purpose of transmitting and receiving data
- the state of being connected
- a channel for communication between groups
- a two-way radio communication system (usually microwave); part of a more extensive telecommunication network
- (Sussex) A thin wild bank of land splitting two cultivated patches and often linking two hills.
- (surveying) The length of one joint of Gunter's chain, being the hundredth part of it, or 7.92 inches, the chain being 66 feet in length.
- (engineering) Any intermediate rod or piece for transmitting force or motion, especially a short connecting rod with a bearing at each end; specifically (in steam engines) the slotted bar, or connecting piece, to the opposite ends of which the eccentric rods are jointed, and by means of which the movement of the valve is varied, in a link motion.
- (kinematics) Any one of the several elementary pieces of a mechanism, such as the fixed frame, or a rod, wheel, mass of confined liquid, etc., by which relative motion of other parts is produced and constrained.
- A sausage that is not a patty.
- Anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain.
- (mathematics) A space comprising one or more disjoint knots.
- (broadcasting) An introductory cue.
- Abbreviation of hyperlink.
- One element of a chain or other connected series.
- (chemistry) A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.
- A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.
- (computing) The connection between buses or systems.
- (figurative) An individual person or element in a system
- (in the plural) The windings of a river; the land along a winding stream.
verb
- make a logical or causal connection
- be or become joined or united or linked
- link with or as with a yoke
- connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces
- (transitive, Internet) To post a hyperlink to.
- (Scotland, intransitive) To skip or trip along smartly; to go quickly.
- (transitive) To demonstrate a correlation between (two things).
- (software compilation) To combine objects generated by a compiler into a single executable.
- (transitive, Internet) To supply (someone) with a hyperlink; to direct by means of a link.
- (intransitive, Internet, of a web page) To contain a hyperlink to another page.
- (transitive, slang) To meet with (someone).
- (transitive) To connect (two or more things).
noun
- A pattern of interconnected objects.
- (biology) A network. For example, the endoplasmic reticulum forms a network of cellular components that functions as a transportation system within the cell.
- (cooking) The tripe made from the second compartment of the stomach of a cow (or other ruminant).
- (zoology) The second compartment of the stomach of a cow or other ruminant.
- any fine network (especially one in the body composed of cells or blood vessels)
- the second compartment of the stomach of a ruminant
adj
- having the shape of
- shaped to fit by or as if by altering the contours of a pliable mass (as by work or effort)
- (in compounds) Having a particular shape (sharing the appearance of something in space, especially its outline – often a basic geometric two-dimensional figure).
- (in compounds) Designed for a particular person or thing.
- Having been given a shape, especially a curved shape.
verb
noun
- A shape.
- A person or thing representing a certain consciousness.
- The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modelling, carving, embroidering, etc.; especially, a representation of the human body.
- The appearance or impression made by the conduct or career of a person.
- A number, an amount.
- (astrology) A horoscope; the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses.
- (music) A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a motif; a florid embellishment.
- Any complex dance moveᵂ.
- (logic) The form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term.
- A human figure, which dress or corset must fit to; the shape of a human body.
- A numeral.
- A drawing or diagram conveying information.
- A figure of speech.
- (music) Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression.
- A visible pattern as in wood or cloth.
- a predetermined set of movements in dancing or skating
- a diagram or picture illustrating textual material
- language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
- a well-known or notable person
- a decorative or artistic work
- the property possessed by a sum or total or indefinite quantity of units or individuals
- alternative names for the body of a human being
- a unitary percept having structure and coherence that is the object of attention and that stands out against a ground
- an amount of money expressed numerically
- the impression produced by a person
- one of the elements that collectively form a system of numeration
- a combination of points and lines and planes that form a visible palpable shape
- a model of a bodily form (especially of a person)
verb
- (music) To embellish.
- (intransitive) To enter into; to be a part of.
- (chiefly US, intransitive) To be reasonable or predictable.
- To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize.
- (chiefly US) To calculate, to solve a mathematical problem.
- (transitive) To represent in a picture or drawing.
- (chiefly US) To come to understand.
- To think, to assume, to suppose, to reckon.
- (music) To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords.
- To embellish with design; to adorn with figures.
- understand
- make a mathematical calculation or computation
- imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
- be or play a part of or in
- judge to be probable
noun
- a toroidal shape
- (Fungi) a remnant of the partial veil that in mature mushrooms surrounds the stem like a collar
- (anatomy) A ring of fibrous tissue; specifically (cardiology), such a ring around an opening of a heart valve, to which the valve leaflets and muscle fibres of the atria and ventricles are attached; an annulus fibrosus cordis.
- (technology) In a well such as an oil well or water well: the space between a pipe or tube and any pipe, tube, casing, or sides of a hole surrounding it.
- (mycology) The membranous remnants of a partial veil which leaves a ring on the stem of a mushroom.
- (astronomy) A ring of light in a celestial body, especially when caused by an annular eclipse (for example, when the Sun and Moon are in line with the Earth, but the Moon does not completely cover the Sun's disc).
- A ring- or donut-shaped area, object, or structure.
- (ichthyology) A dark ring on a fish's scale that is formed when a fish's growth rate slows down in the winter due to low food intake and the scale's circuli move closer to one another. The dark ring is used to estimate the fish's age, approximately one year per annulus.
- (topology) Any topological space homeomorphic to the region in a plane between two concentric circles of different radii.
- (geometry) The region in a plane between two concentric circles of different radii.
- (botany) A structure surrounding a sporangium (or part of it) which shrinks and causes it to rupture for spore dispersal; specifically, in a fern: a structure around about two-thirds of the sporangium consisting of differentially thick-walled cells which dry and distort the sporangium; and in a moss: a complete ring of cells around the tip of the sporangium which dissolves to cause the tip to detach.
noun
- a toroidal shape
- a small ring-shaped friedcake
- (slang, vulgar) A puffy anus with the outward shape of a donut; more generally, any anus.
- A kind of tyre for an airplane.
- A toroidal cushion typically used by hemorrhoid patients.
- (physics) A toroidal vacuum chamber.
- (slang, vulgar) A vulva; by extension, a woman's virginity.
- A shaper for making hair into a ponytail or bun
- (colloquial) A foolish or stupid person; an idiot.
- A deep-fried piece of dough or batter, usually mixed with various sweeteners and flavors, often made in a toroidal or ellipsoidal shape flattened sphere shape filled with jelly/jam, custard, or cream.
- A spare car tyre, usually stored in the boot, that is smaller than a full-sized tyre and is only intended for temporary use.
- (attributive) A circular life raft.
- (music, slang) A whole note.
- (Australia, Canada, US) A peel-out or skid mark in the shape of a circle; a 360-degree skid.
verb
noun
- a toroidal shape
- a circle of light around the sun or moon
- an indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint
- (automotive) Ellipsis of halo headlight.
- (advertising) The bias caused by the halo effect.
- (art, religion, iconography) a circular annulus ring, frequently luminous, often golden, floating above the head
- (religion) nimbus, a luminous disc, often of gold, around or over the heads of saints, etc., in religious paintings.
- A circular band of coloured light, visible around the sun or moon etc., caused by reflection and refraction of light by ice crystals in the atmosphere.
- (astronomy) A cloud of gas and other matter surrounding and captured by the gravitational field of a large diffuse astronomical object, such as a galaxy or cluster of galaxies.
- The metaphorical aura of glory, veneration or sentiment which surrounds an idealized entity.
- Anything resembling this band, such as an effect caused by imperfect developing of photographs.
- (motor racing) A roll bar placed in front of the driver, used to protect the cockpit of an open cockpit racecar.
- (medicine) A circular brace used to keep the head and neck in position.
verb
noun
- a toroidal shape
- a strip of material attached to the leg of a bird to identify it (as in studies of bird migration)
- a platform usually marked off by ropes in which contestants box or wrestle
- (chemistry) a chain of atoms in a molecule that forms a closed loop
- an association of criminals
- a rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling
- a characteristic sound
- jewelry consisting of a circlet of precious metal (often set with jewels) worn on the finger
- the sound of a bell ringing
- (colloquial) A telephone call.
- (typography) A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a kroužek.
- Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.
- In a jack plug, the connector between the tip and the sleeve.
- (Internet) Ellipsis of webring.
- A circular group of people or objects.
- (astronomy) A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet or young star.
- (vulgar) The rectum, anus, or anal sphincters.
- (historical) An instrument, formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the graduated inner surface opposite.
- (chemistry) A group of atoms linked by bonds to form a closed chain in a molecule.
- A piece of food in the shape of a ring.
- An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices.
- (mathematical analysis, measure theory) A family of sets that is closed under finite unions and set-theoretic differences.
- (geometry) A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.
- (historical) An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter.
- The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.
- A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.
- (algebra) An algebraic structure as above, but only required to be a semigroup under the multiplicative operation, that is, there need not be a multiplicative identity element.
- (figuratively) A sound or appearance that is characteristic of something.
- A long stripe of contrastive material, colour, etc, that encircles something.
- (computing theory) A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level, used to protect data and functionality (also protection ring).
- (British) A large circular prehistoric stone construction such as Stonehenge.
- A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.
- A place where some sports or exhibitions take place; notably a circular or comparable arena, such as a boxing ring or a circus ring; hence the field of a political contest.
- (jewelry) A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger or through the ear, nose, etc.
- (algebra) An algebraic structure which consists of a set with two binary operations: an additive operation and a multiplicative operation, such that the set is an abelian group under the additive operation, a monoid under the multiplicative operation, and such that the multiplicative operation is distributive with respect to the additive operation.
- (networking) A network topology where connected devices form a circular data channel. All computers on the ring can see every message, and there are no collisions, and a single point of failure will occur if any part of the ring breaks.
- (firearms) Either of the pair of clamps used to hold a telescopic sight to a rifle.
- (figuratively) A pleasant or correct sound.
- (UK) A burner on a kitchen stove.
- The open space in front of a racecourse stand, used for betting purposes.
- (cartomancy) The twenty-fifth Lenormand card.
- (botany) A flexible band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns.
- (UK) A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.
- (mathematics, order theory) A family of sets closed under finite union and finite intersection.
verb
- sound loudly and sonorously
- ring or echo with sound
- attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify
- get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone
- make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification
- extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle
- (transitive) To enclose or surround.
- (intransitive) to resound, reverberate, echo.
- (transitive) To attach a ring to, especially for identification.
- To ring up (enter into a cash register or till)
- (intransitive, figuratively) To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.
- (transitive, colloquial, British, Australia, New Zealand) To telephone (someone).
- (Australia, transitive) To ride around (a group of animals, especially cattle) to keep them milling in one place; hence (intransitive), to work as a drover, to muster cattle.
- (transitive, figuratively) To make an incision around; to girdle; to cut away a circular tract of bark from a tree in order to kill it.
- (transitive) To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound.
- (transitive) To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.
- (intransitive) Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound.
- (transitive) To steal and change the identity of (cars) in order to resell them.
- (transitive) To produce (a sound) by ringing.
- (falconry) To rise in the air spirally.
- (intransitive) To produce music with bells.
- (intransitive, figuratively) Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.
noun
noun
- an encircling or ringlike structure
- a band of material around the waist that strengthens a skirt or trousers
- a woman's close-fitting foundation garment
- The removal or inversion of a ring of bark in order to kill or stunt a tree.
- A belt or sash at the waist, often used to support stockings or hosiery.
- That which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumference.
- A garment used to hold the abdomen, hips, buttocks, and/or thighs in a particular shape.
- The clitellum of an earthworm.
- (Scotland, Northern English) Alternative form of griddle.
- The line of greatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting.
- (mining) A thin bed or stratum of stone.
verb
noun
- the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made
- expressing in coherent verbal form
- the act of joining things in such a way that motion is possible
- the aspect of pronunciation that involves bringing articulatory organs together so as to shape the sounds of speech
- (anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion)
- (music, uncountable) The manner in which a note is attacked.
- (uncountable) The quality, clarity, or sharpness of speech; the movement within the mouth that allows for those things.
- (phonetics) The mechanism by which a sound is formed in the vocal tract.
- (countable or uncountable) A joint or the collection of joints at which something is articulated, or hinged, for bending.
- (accounting) The interrelation and congruence of the flow of data between financial statements of an entity, especially between the income statement and balance sheet.
- (anatomy) Such a joint in an animalian body, as for example between bones or between exoskeleton segments.
- (education) The induction of a pupil into a new school or college.
- (countable) A manner or method by which elements of a system are connected.
noun
- the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made
- a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets
- (computing) The act of joining something, such as a network.
- (algebra) The lowest upper bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∨.
- An intersection of piping or wiring; an interconnect.
- An act of joining or the state of being joined; a junction or joining.
- (computing, databases) An intersection of data in two or more database tables.
verb
- be or become joined or united or linked
- come into the company of
- become part of; become a member of a group or organization
- cause to become joined or linked
- make contact or come together
- (transitive) To connect or combine into one; to put together.
- (transitive) To come into the company of.
- To accept, or engage in, as a contest.
- (intransitive) To enter into association or alliance, to unite in a common purpose.
- (intransitive) To come together; to meet.
- To unite in marriage.
- (computing, databases, transitive) To produce an intersection of data in two or more database tables.
- (transitive) To become a member of.
noun
- the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made
- The point where two components of a structure join rigidly.
- junction by which parts or objects are joined together
- a disreputable place of entertainment
- marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking
- a piece of meat roasted or for roasting and of a size for slicing into more than one portion
- (anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion)
- The point where two components of a structure join, but are still able to rotate.
- (anatomy) Any part of an animalian body where two bones or exoskeleton segments are abutted, in most cases allowing that part of the body to be bent or straightened.
- (chiefly US slang, may be somewhat derogatory) A place of business, particularly in the food service or hospitality industries; sometimes extended to any place that is a focus of human connection or activity (e.g., schools, hangouts, party spots).
- (US, slang) The penis.
- A cut of meat, especially (but not necessarily) (a) one containing a joint in the sense of an articulation or (b) one rolled up and tied.
- (slang) A marijuana cigarette.
- (originally an idiolectic sense) A thing.
- (geology) A fracture in which the strata are not offset; a geologic joint.
- (slang, with the definite article) Prison, jail, or lockup.
- The means of securing together the meeting surfaces of components of a structure.
- The part or space included between two joints, knots, nodes, or articulations.
adj
verb
- fit as if by joints
- provide with a joint
- separate (meat) at the joint
- fasten with a joint
- (transitive) To provide with a joint or joints; to articulate.
- (transitive) To unite by a joint or joints; to fit together; to prepare so as to fit together
- (transitive) To join; to connect; to unite; to combine.
- (intransitive) To fit as if by joints; to coalesce as joints do.
- (transitive) To separate the joints; of; to divide at the joint or joints; to disjoint; to cut up into joints, as meat.
noun
- the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made
- something that joins or connects
- the state of being joined together
- the place where two or more things come together
- an act of joining or adjoining things
- (programming) In the Raku programming language, a construct representing a composite of several values connected by an operator.
- (radio, television) A point in time between two unrelated consecutive broadcasts.
- The boundary between two physically different materials, especially between conductors, semiconductors, or metals.
- The act of joining, or the state of being joined.
- (rail transport) A place where two or more railways or railroads meet.
- (computing, Microsoft Windows) A kind of symbolic link to a directory.
- (electronics) electrical junction: a point or area where multiple conductors or semiconductors make physical contact.
- (nautical) The place where a distributary departs from the main stream.
- A place where two things meet, especially where two roads meet.
verb
noun
- the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made
- an event that occurs at a critical time
- a crisis situation or point in time when a critical decision must be made
- (linguistics) The manner of moving (transition) or mode of relationship between two consecutive sounds; a suprasegmental phonemic cue, by which a listener can distinguish between two otherwise identical sequences of sounds that have different meanings.
- A critical moment in time.
- A place where things join, a junction.
noun
noun
verb
- become limp
- droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness
- hang loosely or laxly
- (intransitive) To lose all energy, enthusiasm or happiness; to flag.
- (intransitive) To hang downward; to sag.
- (intransitive, figurative) To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline.
- (transitive) To allow to droop or sink.
- (intransitive) To slowly become limp; to bend gradually.
noun
- a shape that sags
- A place where the surface (of a seat, the earth, etc) sinks or droops, like a depression or a dip in a ridge.
- The state of sinking or bending; a droop.
- The difference in height or depth between the vertex and the rim of a curved surface, specifically used for optical elements such as a mirror or lens.
- The difference in elevation of a wire, cable, chain or rope suspended between two consecutive points.
- Alternative form of saag.
verb
- droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness
- cause to sag
- (transitive) To cause to bend or give way; to load.
- (by extension) To lean, give way, or settle from a vertical position.
- To loiter in walking; to idle along; to drag or droop heavily.
- (informal, Canada) To pull down someone else's pants as a prank.
- (informal) To wear one's trousers so that their top is well below the waist.
- (figuratively) To lose firmness, elasticity, vigor, or a thriving state; to sink; to droop; to flag; to bend; to yield, as the mind or spirits, under the pressure of care, trouble, doubt, or the like; to be unsettled or unbalanced.
- To sink, in the middle, by its weight or under applied pressure, below a horizontal line or plane.
noun
- A basic geometric shape from which more complex shapes can be constructed.
- (linguistics) An original or primary word; a word not derived from another, as opposed to derivative.
- A simple-minded person.
- (mathematics) A function whose derivative is a given function; an antiderivative.
- Primitive or primeval nature; the innate, instinctive element within a person; the deep, instinctive, precultural layer of human nature.
- Natural or premodern environment or conditions; life lacking modern technology and society.
- A member of a primitive society.
- (programming) A data type that is built into the programming language, as opposed to more complex structures.
- (programming) Any of the simplest elements (instructions, statements, etc.) available in a programming language.
- a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived
- a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization
- a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms
adj
- Relating to an art style characterized by asymmetrical shapes and faded colors.
- Crude, obsolete.
- (mathematics) Not derived from another of the same type
- (grammar) Original; primary; radical; not derived.
- (biology) Occurring in or characteristic of an early stage of development or evolution.
- Of or pertaining to the beginning or origin, or to early times; original; primordial; primeval; first.
- Of or pertaining to or harking back to a former time; old-fashioned; characterized by simplicity.
- used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies
- little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type
- of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style
- belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness
noun
- an indistinct shapeless form
- Ellipsis of extended Lyman-Alpha blob, a huge body of gas that may be the precursor to a galaxy.
- The partially inflated air bag used in the sport of blobbing.
- (as the blob) Physarum polycephalum, a bright yellow acellular slime mold known for solving puzzles, making decisions, etc. without a nervous system.
- A shapeless or amorphous mass; a vague shape or amount, especially of a liquid or semisolid substance; a clump, group or collection that lacks definite shape.
- (dialect) A bubble; a bleb.
- A small freshwater fish (Cottus bairdii); the miller's thumb.
- (sports, slang) A score of zero.
- An extremely morbidly obese person, to the point of most of their body being composed of fat and nothing else.
- (astronomy) A large cloud of gas.
- (databases) Alternative spelling of BLOB.
verb
- make a spot or mark onto
- (transitive) To drop a blob or blobs onto; to cover with blobs.
- (intransitive, slang) To relax idly and mindlessly; to veg out.
- (intransitive) To catch eels by means of worms strung on a thread.
- (transitive) To splash in the form of a blob or blobs.
- (intransitive) To fall in the form of a blob or blobs.
- (intransitive, UK, colloquial) To spill sauce on oneself while eating.
adj
- Having multiple points of attachment in a lattice-like pattern.
- Compartmentalized; separated into isolated compartments or components.
- Arranged in a grid pattern; Interleaved.
- Having a texture with regular indentations similar to that of an egg carton or regular holes in a grid pattern; corrugated or latticed.
adv
verb
noun
- a connecting point at which several lines come together
- (computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a computer network
- (botany) the small swelling that is the part of a plant stem from which one or more leaves emerge
- the source of lymph and lymphocytes
- (physics) the point of minimum displacement in a periodic system
- (astronomy) a point where an orbit crosses a plane
- any bulge or swelling of an anatomical structure or part
- any thickened enlargement
- (rare) The knot, intrigue, or plot of a dramatic work.
- (syntax) A point in a parse tree that can be assigned a syntactic category label.
- (physics) A point along a standing wave where the wave has minimal amplitude.
- (engineering) The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions.
- (botany) A leaf node.
- (biology) A point in a cladogram from which two clades branch, representing the presumed ancestor.
- (astronomy) The point where the orbit of a planet, as viewed from the Sun, intersects the ecliptic. The ascending and descending nodes refer respectively to the points where the planet moves from South to North and N to S; their respective symbols are ☊ and ☋.
- (geometry) The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See crunode and acnode.
- (medicine) A hard concretion or incrustation which forms upon bones attacked with rheumatism, gout, or syphilis; sometimes also, a swelling in the neighborhood of a joint.
- (computational linguistics) The word of interest in a KWIC, surrounded by left and right cotexts.
- A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.
- (electronics) A region of an electric circuit connected only by (ideal) wires (i.e. the voltage between any two points on the same node must be zero).
- (networking) A computer or other device attached to a network.
- (technical) A hole in the gnomon of a sundial, through which passes the ray of light which marks the hour of the day, the parallels of the Sun's declination, its place in the ecliptic, etc.
- (graph theory) A vertex or a leaf in a graph of a network, or other element in a data structure.
- (geometry) A similar point on a surface, where there is more than one tangent-plane.
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noun
noun
- a tortuous and twisted shape or position
- a twisting force
- (surgery) The stopping of arterial haemorrhage in certain cases, by twisting the cut end of the artery.
- (mathematics) An element of a homology or cohomology group for which there exists a non-zero integer that, when the element is multiplied by that integer, yields zero.
- The act of turning or twisting, or the state of being twisted; the twisting or wrenching of a body by the exertion of a lateral force tending to turn one end or part of it about a longitudinal axis, while the other is held fast or turned in the opposite direction.
- (mechanics) That force with which a thread, wire, or rod of any material returns, or tends to return, to a state of rest after it has been twisted; torsibility.
- (mathematics) A finite order element of a group that, when raised to a positive integer power results in the identity element of the group.
- (medicine) A type of holistic complimentary medicine that involves balancing theoretical energy fields through energy healing, meditation, and similar practices.
verb
noun
- the property of holding together and retaining its shape
- an individual 3-dimensional object that has mass and that is distinguishable from other objects
- the central message of a communication
- a natural object consisting of a dead animal or person
- a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity
- a collection of particulars considered as a system
- the entire physical structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being)
- the external structure of a vehicle
- a resonating chamber in a musical instrument (as the body of a violin)
- the main mass of a thing
- the body excluding the head and neck and limbs
- The fleshly or corporeal nature of a human, as opposed to the spirit or soul.
- (architecture, of a church) nave.
- (geometry) A three-dimensional object, such as a cube or cone.
- (sociology) A human being, regarded as marginalized or oppressed.
- Main section.
- The largest or most important part of anything, as distinct from its appendages or accessories; (of vehicles, sometimes) the outer shell (as contrasted with the frame and powertrain).
- A unified collection of details, knowledge or information.
- An organisation, company or other authoritative group.
- (archaic or informal except in compounds) A person.
- (uncountable) Substance; physical presence.
- (countable) The physical structure of a human or animal seen as one single organism.
- The torso, the main structure of a human or animal frame excluding the extremities (limbs, head, tail).
- (programming) The code of a subroutine, contrasted to its signature and parameters.
- An agglomeration of some substance, especially one that would be otherwise uncountable.
- The content of a letter, message, or other printed or electronic document, as distinct from signatures, salutations, headers, and so on.
- (printing) The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated).
- A group of people having a common purpose or opinion; a mass.
- (countable) Any physical object or material thing.
- (uncountable) Comparative viscosity, solidity or substance (in wine, colours etc.).
- (countable) A corpse.
verb
noun
noun
- the property of holding together and retaining its shape
- a harmonious uniformity or agreement among things or parts
- (logic) an attribute of a logical system that is so constituted that none of the propositions deducible from the axioms contradict one another
- logical coherence and accordance with the facts
- Reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent.
- Correspondence or compatibility.
- The degree of viscosity of something.
- Local coherence.
- (logic) Freedom from contradiction; the state of a system of axioms such that none of the propositions deduced from them are mutually contradictory.
noun
- the property of holding together and retaining its shape
- material of a particular kind or constitution
- the idea that is intended
- considerable capital (wealth or income)
- the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists
- content communicating a message; what something is about
- a particular kind or species of matter with uniform properties
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
- Material possessions; estate; property; resources.
- Physical matter; material.
- Substantiality; solidity; firmness.
- The essential part of anything; the most vital part.
- A form of matter that has constant chemical composition and characteristic properties.
- (theology, philosophy) Ousia, essence; underlying reality or hypostasis in the philosophical sense.
- Drugs (illegal narcotics)
verb
verb
adj
verb
- trace the shape of
- describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of
- draw up an outline or sketch for something
- (transitive, software compilation) To optimize for size by replacing repeated code fragments with function calls.
- (transitive) To draw an outline of; to describe.
- (transitive) To summarize.
noun
- a schematic or preliminary plan
- a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory
- the line that appears to bound an object
- The outer shape of an object or figure.
- A general description of some subject.
- A preliminary plan for a project.
- A sketch or drawing in which objects are delineated in contours without shading.
- A statement summarizing the important points of a text.
- (fishing) A setline or trotline.
- A line marking the boundary of an object figure.
- (film) A prose telling of a story intended to be turned into a screenplay; generally longer and more detailed than a treatment.
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noun
adj
noun
- something that joins or connects
- the state of being joined together
- the grammatical relation between linguistic units (words or phrases or clauses) that are connected by a conjunction
- the temporal property of two things happening at the same time
- an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences
- (astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac
- (astrology) An aspect in which planets are in close proximity to one another.
- (grammar) A word used to join other words, phrases, or clauses together into sentences. (The specific conjunction used shows how the two joined parts are related semantically.)
- The act of joining, or condition of being joined.
- (astronomy) The alignment of two bodies in the solar system such that they have the same longitude when seen from Earth.
- A place where multiple things meet.
- Cooccurrence; coincidence.
- (logic) The proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the ∧ ( and ) operator.
noun
- a pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole
- a very slender natural or synthetic fiber
- a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides)
- line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable
- a necklace made by stringing objects together
- A small brook or rivulet.
- (figurative) An element in a composite whole; a sequence of linked events or facts; a logical thread.
- A string.
- (broadcasting) A series of programmes on a particular theme or linked subject.
- (electronics) A group of wires, usually twisted or braided.
- (British dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A passage for water; gutter.
- An individual length of any fine, string-like substance.
- A street.
- (informal) Synonym of track.
- (genetics) A nucleotide chain.
- (formal) A specialization of a senior high school track.
- The shore or beach of the sea or ocean.
- Each of the strings which, twisted together, make up a yarn, rope or cord.
verb
- leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue
- bring to the ground
- drive (a vessel) ashore
- (baseball) To cause the third out of an inning to be made, leaving a runner on base.
- (transitive, figuratively) To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert.
- (transitive) To break a strand of (a rope).
- (transitive, grammar) To leave an element (e.g., an adposition) without its complement adjacent to it.
- (transitive, nautical) To run aground; to beach.
- (transitive) To form by uniting strands.
verb
noun
- (geology) A geological feature consisting of symmetrical anticlines that intersect where each one reaches its apex.
- (informal) A person's head.
- (by extension) Any erection resembling the dome or cupola of a building, such as the upper part of a furnace, the vertical steam chamber on the top of a boiler, etc.
- (by extension) Anything shaped like an upset bowl, often used as a cover.
- (architecture) A structural element resembling the hollow upper half of a sphere.
- (crystallography) A prism formed by planes parallel to a lateral axis which meet above in a horizontal edge, like the roof of a house; also, one of the planes of such a form.
- (sewing) A press stud or snap fastener.
- (slang) head, oral sex
- a hemispherical roof
- informal terms for a human head
- a stadium that has a roof
- a concave shape whose distinguishing characteristic is that the concavity faces downward
noun
- (mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape
- an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets
- a level of existence or development
- a power tool for smoothing or shaping wood
- a carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood
- (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies, of various genera, having a slow gliding flight.
- (entomology) The butterfly Bindahara phocides, family Lycaenidae, of Asia and Australasia.
- (geometry) A flat surface extending infinitely in all directions (e.g. horizontal or vertical plane); a bounded portion thereof.
- A roughly flat, thin, often moveable structure used to create lateral force by the flow of air or water over its surface, found on aircraft, submarines, etc.
- (countable) A deciduous tree of the genus Platanus.
- (computing, Unicode) Any of 17 designated ranges of 2¹⁶ (65,536) sequential code points each.
- An airplane; an aeroplane.
- (countable, carpentry) A tool for smoothing wood by removing thin layers from the surface.
- (anatomy) An imaginary plane which divides the body into two portions.
- A level or flat surface.
- A level of existence or development.
- (Northern UK) A sycamore.
adj
verb
noun
- (mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape
- newspaper with half-size pages
- bed linen consisting of a large rectangular piece of cotton or linen cloth; used in pairs
- a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel
- (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind
- any broad thin expanse or surface
- a flat artifact that is thin relative to its length and width
- paper used for writing or printing
- A flat metal pan, often without raised edge, used for baking.
- (curling) The area of ice on which the game of curling is played.
- A thin bed cloth used as a covering for a mattress or as a layer over the sleeper.
- (euphemistic, slang) Euphemistic form of shit.
- A broad, flat expanse or covering of a material on a surface.
- (geology) An extensive bed of an eruptive rock intruded between, or overlying, other strata.
- (nautical, nonstandard) A sail.
- (nonstandard) A layer of veneer.
- (nautical) A line (rope) used to adjust the trim of a sail.
- A thin, flat piece or layer of solid material.
- (figuratively) Precipitation of such quantity and force as to resemble a thin, virtually solid wall.
- An expanse of something.
- A piece of paper, usually rectangular, that has been prepared for writing, artwork, drafting, wrapping, manufacture of packaging (boxes, envelopes, etc.), and for other uses. The word does not include scraps and irregular small pieces destined to be recycled, used for stuffing or cushioning or paper mache, etc. In modern books, each sheet of paper is typically folded in half, to produce two leaves and four pages. In the absence of folding, "leaf" and "sheet" are equivalent.
- (nautical) The space in the forward or after part of a boat where there are no rowers.
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noun
- The solid enclosed by such a surface; an anchor ring.
- (geometry) The surface described by the circumference of a circle revolving about a straight line in its own plane.
- The dead grass that remains on mowing land in winter and spring.
- (architecture) Alternative form of torus.
- commonly the lowest molding at the base of a column
verb
verb
noun
- any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline)
- a feature (or the order or arrangement of features) of anything having a complex structure
- a line drawn on a map connecting points of equal height
- (figurative) A general description giving the most important points.
- An outline, boundary or border, usually of curved shape.
- (linguistics) a speech sound which behaves as a single segment, but which makes an internal transition from one quality, place, or manner to another.
- A line on a map or chart delineating those points which have the same altitude or other plotted quantity: a contour line or isopleth; (metonymically) the landform or its surface.
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noun
- A flywheel, a weight attached to a spindle.
- (zoology) A volution, or turn, of the spire of a univalve shell.
- (botany) A circle of three or more leaves, flowers, or other organs, about the same part or joint of a stem.
- Each circle, volution or equivalent in a pattern of concentric circles, ovals, arcs, or a spiral.
- (anatomy) Any volution, as for example in the human ear or fingerprint.
- a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops
- a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
- lock of hair in the shape of a spiral or curl
noun
- A bounding straight edge of a two-dimensional shape.
- One set of competitors in a game.
- One surface of a sheet of paper (used instead of "page", which can mean one or both surfaces.)
- The portion of the human torso usually covered by the arms when they are not raised; the areas on the left and right between the belly or chest and the back.
- One half (left or right, top or bottom, front or back, etc.) of something or someone.
- A group having a particular allegiance in a conflict or competition.
- (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) Sidespin; english
- (LGBTQ, slang) A man who prefers not to engage in anal sex during same-sex sexual activity.
- A flat surface of a three-dimensional object; a face.
- (music) A recorded piece of music; a record, especially in jazz.
- One possible aspect of a concept, person, or thing.
- A group of morris dancers who perform together.
- (baseball) The batters faced in an inning by a particular pitcher.
- (drama) A written monologue or part of a scene to be read by an actor at an audition.
- A line of descent traced through a particular relative, usually a parent or spouse, as distinguished from that traced through another.
- A region in a specified position with respect to something.
- (UK, Australia, Ireland) A sports team.
- (US, Canada, Philippines, colloquial) A dish that accompanies the main course; a side dish.
- a lengthwise dressed half of an animal's carcass used for food
- a place within a region identified relative to a center or reference location
- a surface forming part of the outside of an object
- an elevated geological formation
- either the left or right half of a body
- one of two or more contesting groups
- an aspect of something (as contrasted with some other implied aspect)
- a family line of descent
- an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute
- a line segment forming part of the perimeter of a plane figure
- (sports) the spin given to a ball by striking it on one side or releasing it with a sharp twist
- an extended outer surface of an object
adj
adv
verb
- To lean on one side.
- (transitive, shipbuilding) To work (a timber or rib) to a certain thickness by trimming the sides.
- (intransitive) To ally oneself, be in an alliance, usually with "with" or rarely "in with"
- (transitive, cooking) To provide with, as a side or accompaniment.
- (transitive) To furnish with a siding.
- To clear, tidy or sort.
- take sides for or against
adj
- Having a coiled or twisted structure, involving a helical pattern.
- Having cord-like supporting structures.
- (graph theory) Containing a chord.
- (music) Composed of or containing chords.
- (computing, of a computer keyboard) Through which input is supplied by pressing a relatively small number of keys in combinations, as though playing chords.
verb
verb
noun
- An ice cream cone.
- The fruit of a conifer.
- (anatomy) Any of the small cone-shaped structures in the retina.
- (topology) A space formed by taking the direct product of a given space with a closed interval and identifying all of one end to a point.
- A unit of volume, applied solely to marijuana and only while it is in a smokable state; roughly 1.5 cubic centimetres, depending on use.
- (slang, by extension) A passenger on a cruise ship (that needs to be navigated around).
- (slang) A cone-shaped cannabis joint.
- (geometry) A surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line.
- (slang) The process of smoking cannabis in a bong.
- (slang) The bowl piece on a bong.
- A traffic cone.
- A cone-shaped flower head of various plants, such as banksias and proteas.
- (geometry) A solid of revolution formed by rotating a triangle around one of its altitudes.
- A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form.
- (computing theory) A set of formal languages with certain desirable closure properties, in particular those of the regular languages, the context-free languages and the recursively enumerable languages.
- (category theory) An object V together with an arrow going from V to each object of a diagram such that for any arrow A in the diagram, the pair of arrows from V which subtend A also commute with it. (Then V can be said to be the cone’s vertex and the diagram which the cone subtends can be said to be its base.)
- cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts
- a shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a point
- a visual receptor cell in the retina that is sensitive to bright light and to color
- any cone-shaped artifact
noun
- a connecting shape
- a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it)
- shifting from one form of transportation to another
- the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination
- (usually plural) a person who is influential and to whom you are connected in some way (as by family or friendship)
- the act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication)
- the state of being connected
- an instrumentality that connects
- a supplier (especially of narcotics)
- An established communications or transportation link.
- A feeling of understanding and ease of communication between two or more people.
- Coherence; lack of disjointedness.
- (mathematics) A set of sets that contains the empty set, all one-element sets for any element that is included in any of the sets, and the union of any group of sets that are elements where the intersections of those sets is non-empty.
- (slang) A drug dealer.
- (uncountable) The act of connecting.
- A kinship relationship between people.
- The point at which two or more things are connected.
- A person related to oneself, through either family or business.
- (transport) A transfer from one transportation vehicle to another in scheduled transportation service.
- Sexual intercourse.
- (religion) A Methodist denomination as a whole, as opposed to its constituent churches, circuits, districts and conferences.
noun
- a connecting shape
- a relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it)
- shifting from one form of transportation to another
- the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination
- the act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication)
- an instrumentality that connects
- (Methodism) A Methodist denomination as a whole, as opposed to its constituent churches, circuits, districts and conferences (US spelling: connection).
- (British) Uncommon spelling of connection.
- (historical) The inter-relationship of prayer groups or religious societies under the oversight of an itinerant preacher who is assisted by the local preachers attached to each society.
noun
- a connecting shape
- a unit of length equal to 1/100 of a chain
- a fastener that serves to join or connect
- the means of connection between things linked in series
- (computing) an instruction that connects one part of a program or an element on a list to another program or list
- an interconnecting circuit between two or more locations for the purpose of transmitting and receiving data
- the state of being connected
- a channel for communication between groups
- a two-way radio communication system (usually microwave); part of a more extensive telecommunication network
- (Sussex) A thin wild bank of land splitting two cultivated patches and often linking two hills.
- (surveying) The length of one joint of Gunter's chain, being the hundredth part of it, or 7.92 inches, the chain being 66 feet in length.
- (engineering) Any intermediate rod or piece for transmitting force or motion, especially a short connecting rod with a bearing at each end; specifically (in steam engines) the slotted bar, or connecting piece, to the opposite ends of which the eccentric rods are jointed, and by means of which the movement of the valve is varied, in a link motion.
- (kinematics) Any one of the several elementary pieces of a mechanism, such as the fixed frame, or a rod, wheel, mass of confined liquid, etc., by which relative motion of other parts is produced and constrained.
- A sausage that is not a patty.
- Anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain.
- (mathematics) A space comprising one or more disjoint knots.
- (broadcasting) An introductory cue.
- Abbreviation of hyperlink.
- One element of a chain or other connected series.
- (chemistry) A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.
- A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.
- (computing) The connection between buses or systems.
- (figurative) An individual person or element in a system
- (in the plural) The windings of a river; the land along a winding stream.
verb
- make a logical or causal connection
- be or become joined or united or linked
- link with or as with a yoke
- connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces
- (transitive, Internet) To post a hyperlink to.
- (Scotland, intransitive) To skip or trip along smartly; to go quickly.
- (transitive) To demonstrate a correlation between (two things).
- (software compilation) To combine objects generated by a compiler into a single executable.
- (transitive, Internet) To supply (someone) with a hyperlink; to direct by means of a link.
- (intransitive, Internet, of a web page) To contain a hyperlink to another page.
- (transitive, slang) To meet with (someone).
- (transitive) To connect (two or more things).
noun
- A pattern of interconnected objects.
- (biology) A network. For example, the endoplasmic reticulum forms a network of cellular components that functions as a transportation system within the cell.
- (cooking) The tripe made from the second compartment of the stomach of a cow (or other ruminant).
- (zoology) The second compartment of the stomach of a cow or other ruminant.
- any fine network (especially one in the body composed of cells or blood vessels)
- the second compartment of the stomach of a ruminant
noun
- A shape.
- A person or thing representing a certain consciousness.
- The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modelling, carving, embroidering, etc.; especially, a representation of the human body.
- The appearance or impression made by the conduct or career of a person.
- A number, an amount.
- (astrology) A horoscope; the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses.
- (music) A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a motif; a florid embellishment.
- Any complex dance moveᵂ.
- (logic) The form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term.
- A human figure, which dress or corset must fit to; the shape of a human body.
- A numeral.
- A drawing or diagram conveying information.
- A figure of speech.
- (music) Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression.
- A visible pattern as in wood or cloth.
- a predetermined set of movements in dancing or skating
- a diagram or picture illustrating textual material
- language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
- a well-known or notable person
- a decorative or artistic work
- the property possessed by a sum or total or indefinite quantity of units or individuals
- alternative names for the body of a human being
- a unitary percept having structure and coherence that is the object of attention and that stands out against a ground
- an amount of money expressed numerically
- the impression produced by a person
- one of the elements that collectively form a system of numeration
- a combination of points and lines and planes that form a visible palpable shape
- a model of a bodily form (especially of a person)
verb
- (music) To embellish.
- (intransitive) To enter into; to be a part of.
- (chiefly US, intransitive) To be reasonable or predictable.
- To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize.
- (chiefly US) To calculate, to solve a mathematical problem.
- (transitive) To represent in a picture or drawing.
- (chiefly US) To come to understand.
- To think, to assume, to suppose, to reckon.
- (music) To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords.
- To embellish with design; to adorn with figures.
- understand
- make a mathematical calculation or computation
- imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
- be or play a part of or in
- judge to be probable
noun
- a toroidal shape
- (Fungi) a remnant of the partial veil that in mature mushrooms surrounds the stem like a collar
- (anatomy) A ring of fibrous tissue; specifically (cardiology), such a ring around an opening of a heart valve, to which the valve leaflets and muscle fibres of the atria and ventricles are attached; an annulus fibrosus cordis.
- (technology) In a well such as an oil well or water well: the space between a pipe or tube and any pipe, tube, casing, or sides of a hole surrounding it.
- (mycology) The membranous remnants of a partial veil which leaves a ring on the stem of a mushroom.
- (astronomy) A ring of light in a celestial body, especially when caused by an annular eclipse (for example, when the Sun and Moon are in line with the Earth, but the Moon does not completely cover the Sun's disc).
- A ring- or donut-shaped area, object, or structure.
- (ichthyology) A dark ring on a fish's scale that is formed when a fish's growth rate slows down in the winter due to low food intake and the scale's circuli move closer to one another. The dark ring is used to estimate the fish's age, approximately one year per annulus.
- (topology) Any topological space homeomorphic to the region in a plane between two concentric circles of different radii.
- (geometry) The region in a plane between two concentric circles of different radii.
- (botany) A structure surrounding a sporangium (or part of it) which shrinks and causes it to rupture for spore dispersal; specifically, in a fern: a structure around about two-thirds of the sporangium consisting of differentially thick-walled cells which dry and distort the sporangium; and in a moss: a complete ring of cells around the tip of the sporangium which dissolves to cause the tip to detach.
noun
- a toroidal shape
- a small ring-shaped friedcake
- (slang, vulgar) A puffy anus with the outward shape of a donut; more generally, any anus.
- A kind of tyre for an airplane.
- A toroidal cushion typically used by hemorrhoid patients.
- (physics) A toroidal vacuum chamber.
- (slang, vulgar) A vulva; by extension, a woman's virginity.
- A shaper for making hair into a ponytail or bun
- (colloquial) A foolish or stupid person; an idiot.
- A deep-fried piece of dough or batter, usually mixed with various sweeteners and flavors, often made in a toroidal or ellipsoidal shape flattened sphere shape filled with jelly/jam, custard, or cream.
- A spare car tyre, usually stored in the boot, that is smaller than a full-sized tyre and is only intended for temporary use.
- (attributive) A circular life raft.
- (music, slang) A whole note.
- (Australia, Canada, US) A peel-out or skid mark in the shape of a circle; a 360-degree skid.
verb
noun
- a toroidal shape
- a circle of light around the sun or moon
- an indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint
- (automotive) Ellipsis of halo headlight.
- (advertising) The bias caused by the halo effect.
- (art, religion, iconography) a circular annulus ring, frequently luminous, often golden, floating above the head
- (religion) nimbus, a luminous disc, often of gold, around or over the heads of saints, etc., in religious paintings.
- A circular band of coloured light, visible around the sun or moon etc., caused by reflection and refraction of light by ice crystals in the atmosphere.
- (astronomy) A cloud of gas and other matter surrounding and captured by the gravitational field of a large diffuse astronomical object, such as a galaxy or cluster of galaxies.
- The metaphorical aura of glory, veneration or sentiment which surrounds an idealized entity.
- Anything resembling this band, such as an effect caused by imperfect developing of photographs.
- (motor racing) A roll bar placed in front of the driver, used to protect the cockpit of an open cockpit racecar.
- (medicine) A circular brace used to keep the head and neck in position.
verb
noun
- a toroidal shape
- a strip of material attached to the leg of a bird to identify it (as in studies of bird migration)
- a platform usually marked off by ropes in which contestants box or wrestle
- (chemistry) a chain of atoms in a molecule that forms a closed loop
- an association of criminals
- a rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling
- a characteristic sound
- jewelry consisting of a circlet of precious metal (often set with jewels) worn on the finger
- the sound of a bell ringing
- (colloquial) A telephone call.
- (typography) A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a kroužek.
- Any loud sound; the sound of numerous voices; a sound continued, repeated, or reverberated.
- In a jack plug, the connector between the tip and the sleeve.
- (Internet) Ellipsis of webring.
- A circular group of people or objects.
- (astronomy) A formation of various pieces of material orbiting around a planet or young star.
- (vulgar) The rectum, anus, or anal sphincters.
- (historical) An instrument, formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the graduated inner surface opposite.
- (chemistry) A group of atoms linked by bonds to form a closed chain in a molecule.
- A piece of food in the shape of a ring.
- An exclusive group of people, usually involving some unethical or illegal practices.
- (mathematical analysis, measure theory) A family of sets that is closed under finite unions and set-theoretic differences.
- (geometry) A planar geometrical figure included between two concentric circles.
- (historical) An old English measure of corn equal to the coomb or half a quarter.
- The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it.
- A chime, or set of bells harmonically tuned.
- (algebra) An algebraic structure as above, but only required to be a semigroup under the multiplicative operation, that is, there need not be a multiplicative identity element.
- (figuratively) A sound or appearance that is characteristic of something.
- A long stripe of contrastive material, colour, etc, that encircles something.
- (computing theory) A hierarchical level of privilege in a computer system, usually at hardware level, used to protect data and functionality (also protection ring).
- (British) A large circular prehistoric stone construction such as Stonehenge.
- A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.
- A place where some sports or exhibitions take place; notably a circular or comparable arena, such as a boxing ring or a circus ring; hence the field of a political contest.
- (jewelry) A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger or through the ear, nose, etc.
- (algebra) An algebraic structure which consists of a set with two binary operations: an additive operation and a multiplicative operation, such that the set is an abelian group under the additive operation, a monoid under the multiplicative operation, and such that the multiplicative operation is distributive with respect to the additive operation.
- (networking) A network topology where connected devices form a circular data channel. All computers on the ring can see every message, and there are no collisions, and a single point of failure will occur if any part of the ring breaks.
- (firearms) Either of the pair of clamps used to hold a telescopic sight to a rifle.
- (figuratively) A pleasant or correct sound.
- (UK) A burner on a kitchen stove.
- The open space in front of a racecourse stand, used for betting purposes.
- (cartomancy) The twenty-fifth Lenormand card.
- (botany) A flexible band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns.
- (UK) A bird band, a round piece of metal put around a bird's leg used for identification and studies of migration.
- (mathematics, order theory) A family of sets closed under finite union and finite intersection.
verb
- sound loudly and sonorously
- ring or echo with sound
- attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify
- get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone
- make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification
- extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle
- (transitive) To enclose or surround.
- (intransitive) to resound, reverberate, echo.
- (transitive) To attach a ring to, especially for identification.
- To ring up (enter into a cash register or till)
- (intransitive, figuratively) To produce the sound of a bell or a similar sound.
- (transitive, colloquial, British, Australia, New Zealand) To telephone (someone).
- (Australia, transitive) To ride around (a group of animals, especially cattle) to keep them milling in one place; hence (intransitive), to work as a drover, to muster cattle.
- (transitive, figuratively) To make an incision around; to girdle; to cut away a circular tract of bark from a tree in order to kill it.
- (transitive) To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound.
- (transitive) To surround or fit with a ring, or as if with a ring.
- (intransitive) Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound.
- (transitive) To steal and change the identity of (cars) in order to resell them.
- (transitive) To produce (a sound) by ringing.
- (falconry) To rise in the air spirally.
- (intransitive) To produce music with bells.
- (intransitive, figuratively) Of something spoken or written, to appear to be, to seem, to sound.
noun
noun
- an encircling or ringlike structure
- a band of material around the waist that strengthens a skirt or trousers
- a woman's close-fitting foundation garment
- The removal or inversion of a ring of bark in order to kill or stunt a tree.
- A belt or sash at the waist, often used to support stockings or hosiery.
- That which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumference.
- A garment used to hold the abdomen, hips, buttocks, and/or thighs in a particular shape.
- The clitellum of an earthworm.
- (Scotland, Northern English) Alternative form of griddle.
- The line of greatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting.
- (mining) A thin bed or stratum of stone.
verb
noun
- the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made
- expressing in coherent verbal form
- the act of joining things in such a way that motion is possible
- the aspect of pronunciation that involves bringing articulatory organs together so as to shape the sounds of speech
- (anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion)
- (music, uncountable) The manner in which a note is attacked.
- (uncountable) The quality, clarity, or sharpness of speech; the movement within the mouth that allows for those things.
- (phonetics) The mechanism by which a sound is formed in the vocal tract.
- (countable or uncountable) A joint or the collection of joints at which something is articulated, or hinged, for bending.
- (accounting) The interrelation and congruence of the flow of data between financial statements of an entity, especially between the income statement and balance sheet.
- (anatomy) Such a joint in an animalian body, as for example between bones or between exoskeleton segments.
- (education) The induction of a pupil into a new school or college.
- (countable) A manner or method by which elements of a system are connected.
noun
- the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made
- a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets
- (computing) The act of joining something, such as a network.
- (algebra) The lowest upper bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∨.
- An intersection of piping or wiring; an interconnect.
- An act of joining or the state of being joined; a junction or joining.
- (computing, databases) An intersection of data in two or more database tables.
verb
- be or become joined or united or linked
- come into the company of
- become part of; become a member of a group or organization
- cause to become joined or linked
- make contact or come together
- (transitive) To connect or combine into one; to put together.
- (transitive) To come into the company of.
- To accept, or engage in, as a contest.
- (intransitive) To enter into association or alliance, to unite in a common purpose.
- (intransitive) To come together; to meet.
- To unite in marriage.
- (computing, databases, transitive) To produce an intersection of data in two or more database tables.
- (transitive) To become a member of.
noun
- the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made
- The point where two components of a structure join rigidly.
- junction by which parts or objects are joined together
- a disreputable place of entertainment
- marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking
- a piece of meat roasted or for roasting and of a size for slicing into more than one portion
- (anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion)
- The point where two components of a structure join, but are still able to rotate.
- (anatomy) Any part of an animalian body where two bones or exoskeleton segments are abutted, in most cases allowing that part of the body to be bent or straightened.
- (chiefly US slang, may be somewhat derogatory) A place of business, particularly in the food service or hospitality industries; sometimes extended to any place that is a focus of human connection or activity (e.g., schools, hangouts, party spots).
- (US, slang) The penis.
- A cut of meat, especially (but not necessarily) (a) one containing a joint in the sense of an articulation or (b) one rolled up and tied.
- (slang) A marijuana cigarette.
- (originally an idiolectic sense) A thing.
- (geology) A fracture in which the strata are not offset; a geologic joint.
- (slang, with the definite article) Prison, jail, or lockup.
- The means of securing together the meeting surfaces of components of a structure.
- The part or space included between two joints, knots, nodes, or articulations.
adj
verb
- fit as if by joints
- provide with a joint
- separate (meat) at the joint
- fasten with a joint
- (transitive) To provide with a joint or joints; to articulate.
- (transitive) To unite by a joint or joints; to fit together; to prepare so as to fit together
- (transitive) To join; to connect; to unite; to combine.
- (intransitive) To fit as if by joints; to coalesce as joints do.
- (transitive) To separate the joints; of; to divide at the joint or joints; to disjoint; to cut up into joints, as meat.
noun
- the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made
- something that joins or connects
- the state of being joined together
- the place where two or more things come together
- an act of joining or adjoining things
- (programming) In the Raku programming language, a construct representing a composite of several values connected by an operator.
- (radio, television) A point in time between two unrelated consecutive broadcasts.
- The boundary between two physically different materials, especially between conductors, semiconductors, or metals.
- The act of joining, or the state of being joined.
- (rail transport) A place where two or more railways or railroads meet.
- (computing, Microsoft Windows) A kind of symbolic link to a directory.
- (electronics) electrical junction: a point or area where multiple conductors or semiconductors make physical contact.
- (nautical) The place where a distributary departs from the main stream.
- A place where two things meet, especially where two roads meet.
verb
noun
- the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made
- an event that occurs at a critical time
- a crisis situation or point in time when a critical decision must be made
- (linguistics) The manner of moving (transition) or mode of relationship between two consecutive sounds; a suprasegmental phonemic cue, by which a listener can distinguish between two otherwise identical sequences of sounds that have different meanings.
- A critical moment in time.
- A place where things join, a junction.
noun
noun
verb
- become limp
- droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness
- hang loosely or laxly
- (intransitive) To lose all energy, enthusiasm or happiness; to flag.
- (intransitive) To hang downward; to sag.
- (intransitive, figurative) To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline.
- (transitive) To allow to droop or sink.
- (intransitive) To slowly become limp; to bend gradually.
noun
- a shape that sags
- A place where the surface (of a seat, the earth, etc) sinks or droops, like a depression or a dip in a ridge.
- The state of sinking or bending; a droop.
- The difference in height or depth between the vertex and the rim of a curved surface, specifically used for optical elements such as a mirror or lens.
- The difference in elevation of a wire, cable, chain or rope suspended between two consecutive points.
- Alternative form of saag.
verb
- droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness
- cause to sag
- (transitive) To cause to bend or give way; to load.
- (by extension) To lean, give way, or settle from a vertical position.
- To loiter in walking; to idle along; to drag or droop heavily.
- (informal, Canada) To pull down someone else's pants as a prank.
- (informal) To wear one's trousers so that their top is well below the waist.
- (figuratively) To lose firmness, elasticity, vigor, or a thriving state; to sink; to droop; to flag; to bend; to yield, as the mind or spirits, under the pressure of care, trouble, doubt, or the like; to be unsettled or unbalanced.
- To sink, in the middle, by its weight or under applied pressure, below a horizontal line or plane.
noun
- A basic geometric shape from which more complex shapes can be constructed.
- (linguistics) An original or primary word; a word not derived from another, as opposed to derivative.
- A simple-minded person.
- (mathematics) A function whose derivative is a given function; an antiderivative.
- Primitive or primeval nature; the innate, instinctive element within a person; the deep, instinctive, precultural layer of human nature.
- Natural or premodern environment or conditions; life lacking modern technology and society.
- A member of a primitive society.
- (programming) A data type that is built into the programming language, as opposed to more complex structures.
- (programming) Any of the simplest elements (instructions, statements, etc.) available in a programming language.
- a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived
- a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization
- a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms
adj
- Relating to an art style characterized by asymmetrical shapes and faded colors.
- Crude, obsolete.
- (mathematics) Not derived from another of the same type
- (grammar) Original; primary; radical; not derived.
- (biology) Occurring in or characteristic of an early stage of development or evolution.
- Of or pertaining to the beginning or origin, or to early times; original; primordial; primeval; first.
- Of or pertaining to or harking back to a former time; old-fashioned; characterized by simplicity.
- used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies
- little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type
- of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style
- belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness
noun
- an indistinct shapeless form
- Ellipsis of extended Lyman-Alpha blob, a huge body of gas that may be the precursor to a galaxy.
- The partially inflated air bag used in the sport of blobbing.
- (as the blob) Physarum polycephalum, a bright yellow acellular slime mold known for solving puzzles, making decisions, etc. without a nervous system.
- A shapeless or amorphous mass; a vague shape or amount, especially of a liquid or semisolid substance; a clump, group or collection that lacks definite shape.
- (dialect) A bubble; a bleb.
- A small freshwater fish (Cottus bairdii); the miller's thumb.
- (sports, slang) A score of zero.
- An extremely morbidly obese person, to the point of most of their body being composed of fat and nothing else.
- (astronomy) A large cloud of gas.
- (databases) Alternative spelling of BLOB.
verb
- make a spot or mark onto
- (transitive) To drop a blob or blobs onto; to cover with blobs.
- (intransitive, slang) To relax idly and mindlessly; to veg out.
- (intransitive) To catch eels by means of worms strung on a thread.
- (transitive) To splash in the form of a blob or blobs.
- (intransitive) To fall in the form of a blob or blobs.
- (intransitive, UK, colloquial) To spill sauce on oneself while eating.
noun
- a connecting point at which several lines come together
- (computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a computer network
- (botany) the small swelling that is the part of a plant stem from which one or more leaves emerge
- the source of lymph and lymphocytes
- (physics) the point of minimum displacement in a periodic system
- (astronomy) a point where an orbit crosses a plane
- any bulge or swelling of an anatomical structure or part
- any thickened enlargement
- (rare) The knot, intrigue, or plot of a dramatic work.
- (syntax) A point in a parse tree that can be assigned a syntactic category label.
- (physics) A point along a standing wave where the wave has minimal amplitude.
- (engineering) The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions.
- (botany) A leaf node.
- (biology) A point in a cladogram from which two clades branch, representing the presumed ancestor.
- (astronomy) The point where the orbit of a planet, as viewed from the Sun, intersects the ecliptic. The ascending and descending nodes refer respectively to the points where the planet moves from South to North and N to S; their respective symbols are ☊ and ☋.
- (geometry) The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See crunode and acnode.
- (medicine) A hard concretion or incrustation which forms upon bones attacked with rheumatism, gout, or syphilis; sometimes also, a swelling in the neighborhood of a joint.
- (computational linguistics) The word of interest in a KWIC, surrounded by left and right cotexts.
- A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.
- (electronics) A region of an electric circuit connected only by (ideal) wires (i.e. the voltage between any two points on the same node must be zero).
- (networking) A computer or other device attached to a network.
- (technical) A hole in the gnomon of a sundial, through which passes the ray of light which marks the hour of the day, the parallels of the Sun's declination, its place in the ecliptic, etc.
- (graph theory) A vertex or a leaf in a graph of a network, or other element in a data structure.
- (geometry) A similar point on a surface, where there is more than one tangent-plane.
noun
- a tortuous and twisted shape or position
- a twisting force
- (surgery) The stopping of arterial haemorrhage in certain cases, by twisting the cut end of the artery.
- (mathematics) An element of a homology or cohomology group for which there exists a non-zero integer that, when the element is multiplied by that integer, yields zero.
- The act of turning or twisting, or the state of being twisted; the twisting or wrenching of a body by the exertion of a lateral force tending to turn one end or part of it about a longitudinal axis, while the other is held fast or turned in the opposite direction.
- (mechanics) That force with which a thread, wire, or rod of any material returns, or tends to return, to a state of rest after it has been twisted; torsibility.
- (mathematics) A finite order element of a group that, when raised to a positive integer power results in the identity element of the group.
- (medicine) A type of holistic complimentary medicine that involves balancing theoretical energy fields through energy healing, meditation, and similar practices.
verb
noun
- the property of holding together and retaining its shape
- an individual 3-dimensional object that has mass and that is distinguishable from other objects
- the central message of a communication
- a natural object consisting of a dead animal or person
- a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity
- a collection of particulars considered as a system
- the entire physical structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being)
- the external structure of a vehicle
- a resonating chamber in a musical instrument (as the body of a violin)
- the main mass of a thing
- the body excluding the head and neck and limbs
- The fleshly or corporeal nature of a human, as opposed to the spirit or soul.
- (architecture, of a church) nave.
- (geometry) A three-dimensional object, such as a cube or cone.
- (sociology) A human being, regarded as marginalized or oppressed.
- Main section.
- The largest or most important part of anything, as distinct from its appendages or accessories; (of vehicles, sometimes) the outer shell (as contrasted with the frame and powertrain).
- A unified collection of details, knowledge or information.
- An organisation, company or other authoritative group.
- (archaic or informal except in compounds) A person.
- (uncountable) Substance; physical presence.
- (countable) The physical structure of a human or animal seen as one single organism.
- The torso, the main structure of a human or animal frame excluding the extremities (limbs, head, tail).
- (programming) The code of a subroutine, contrasted to its signature and parameters.
- An agglomeration of some substance, especially one that would be otherwise uncountable.
- The content of a letter, message, or other printed or electronic document, as distinct from signatures, salutations, headers, and so on.
- (printing) The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated).
- A group of people having a common purpose or opinion; a mass.
- (countable) Any physical object or material thing.
- (uncountable) Comparative viscosity, solidity or substance (in wine, colours etc.).
- (countable) A corpse.
verb
noun
noun
- the property of holding together and retaining its shape
- a harmonious uniformity or agreement among things or parts
- (logic) an attribute of a logical system that is so constituted that none of the propositions deducible from the axioms contradict one another
- logical coherence and accordance with the facts
- Reliability or uniformity; the quality of being consistent.
- Correspondence or compatibility.
- The degree of viscosity of something.
- Local coherence.
- (logic) Freedom from contradiction; the state of a system of axioms such that none of the propositions deduced from them are mutually contradictory.
noun
- the property of holding together and retaining its shape
- material of a particular kind or constitution
- the idea that is intended
- considerable capital (wealth or income)
- the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists
- content communicating a message; what something is about
- a particular kind or species of matter with uniform properties
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
- Material possessions; estate; property; resources.
- Physical matter; material.
- Substantiality; solidity; firmness.
- The essential part of anything; the most vital part.
- A form of matter that has constant chemical composition and characteristic properties.
- (theology, philosophy) Ousia, essence; underlying reality or hypostasis in the philosophical sense.
- Drugs (illegal narcotics)
verb
noun
- something that joins or connects
- the state of being joined together
- the grammatical relation between linguistic units (words or phrases or clauses) that are connected by a conjunction
- the temporal property of two things happening at the same time
- an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences
- (astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac
- (astrology) An aspect in which planets are in close proximity to one another.
- (grammar) A word used to join other words, phrases, or clauses together into sentences. (The specific conjunction used shows how the two joined parts are related semantically.)
- The act of joining, or condition of being joined.
- (astronomy) The alignment of two bodies in the solar system such that they have the same longitude when seen from Earth.
- A place where multiple things meet.
- Cooccurrence; coincidence.
- (logic) The proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the ∧ ( and ) operator.
noun
- a pattern forming a unity within a larger structural whole
- a very slender natural or synthetic fiber
- a poetic term for a shore (as the area periodically covered and uncovered by the tides)
- line consisting of a complex of fibers or filaments that are twisted together to form a thread or a rope or a cable
- a necklace made by stringing objects together
- A small brook or rivulet.
- (figurative) An element in a composite whole; a sequence of linked events or facts; a logical thread.
- A string.
- (broadcasting) A series of programmes on a particular theme or linked subject.
- (electronics) A group of wires, usually twisted or braided.
- (British dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A passage for water; gutter.
- An individual length of any fine, string-like substance.
- A street.
- (informal) Synonym of track.
- (genetics) A nucleotide chain.
- (formal) A specialization of a senior high school track.
- The shore or beach of the sea or ocean.
- Each of the strings which, twisted together, make up a yarn, rope or cord.
verb
- leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue
- bring to the ground
- drive (a vessel) ashore
- (baseball) To cause the third out of an inning to be made, leaving a runner on base.
- (transitive, figuratively) To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert.
- (transitive) To break a strand of (a rope).
- (transitive, grammar) To leave an element (e.g., an adposition) without its complement adjacent to it.
- (transitive, nautical) To run aground; to beach.
- (transitive) To form by uniting strands.
noun
- (mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape
- an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets
- a level of existence or development
- a power tool for smoothing or shaping wood
- a carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood
- (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies, of various genera, having a slow gliding flight.
- (entomology) The butterfly Bindahara phocides, family Lycaenidae, of Asia and Australasia.
- (geometry) A flat surface extending infinitely in all directions (e.g. horizontal or vertical plane); a bounded portion thereof.
- A roughly flat, thin, often moveable structure used to create lateral force by the flow of air or water over its surface, found on aircraft, submarines, etc.
- (countable) A deciduous tree of the genus Platanus.
- (computing, Unicode) Any of 17 designated ranges of 2¹⁶ (65,536) sequential code points each.
- An airplane; an aeroplane.
- (countable, carpentry) A tool for smoothing wood by removing thin layers from the surface.
- (anatomy) An imaginary plane which divides the body into two portions.
- A level or flat surface.
- A level of existence or development.
- (Northern UK) A sycamore.
adj
verb
noun
- (mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape
- newspaper with half-size pages
- bed linen consisting of a large rectangular piece of cotton or linen cloth; used in pairs
- a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel
- (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind
- any broad thin expanse or surface
- a flat artifact that is thin relative to its length and width
- paper used for writing or printing
- A flat metal pan, often without raised edge, used for baking.
- (curling) The area of ice on which the game of curling is played.
- A thin bed cloth used as a covering for a mattress or as a layer over the sleeper.
- (euphemistic, slang) Euphemistic form of shit.
- A broad, flat expanse or covering of a material on a surface.
- (geology) An extensive bed of an eruptive rock intruded between, or overlying, other strata.
- (nautical, nonstandard) A sail.
- (nonstandard) A layer of veneer.
- (nautical) A line (rope) used to adjust the trim of a sail.
- A thin, flat piece or layer of solid material.
- (figuratively) Precipitation of such quantity and force as to resemble a thin, virtually solid wall.
- An expanse of something.
- A piece of paper, usually rectangular, that has been prepared for writing, artwork, drafting, wrapping, manufacture of packaging (boxes, envelopes, etc.), and for other uses. The word does not include scraps and irregular small pieces destined to be recycled, used for stuffing or cushioning or paper mache, etc. In modern books, each sheet of paper is typically folded in half, to produce two leaves and four pages. In the absence of folding, "leaf" and "sheet" are equivalent.
- (nautical) The space in the forward or after part of a boat where there are no rowers.
verb
noun
- The solid enclosed by such a surface; an anchor ring.
- (geometry) The surface described by the circumference of a circle revolving about a straight line in its own plane.
- The dead grass that remains on mowing land in winter and spring.
- (architecture) Alternative form of torus.
- commonly the lowest molding at the base of a column
verb
noun
- A bounding straight edge of a two-dimensional shape.
- One set of competitors in a game.
- One surface of a sheet of paper (used instead of "page", which can mean one or both surfaces.)
- The portion of the human torso usually covered by the arms when they are not raised; the areas on the left and right between the belly or chest and the back.
- One half (left or right, top or bottom, front or back, etc.) of something or someone.
- A group having a particular allegiance in a conflict or competition.
- (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) Sidespin; english
- (LGBTQ, slang) A man who prefers not to engage in anal sex during same-sex sexual activity.
- A flat surface of a three-dimensional object; a face.
- (music) A recorded piece of music; a record, especially in jazz.
- One possible aspect of a concept, person, or thing.
- A group of morris dancers who perform together.
- (baseball) The batters faced in an inning by a particular pitcher.
- (drama) A written monologue or part of a scene to be read by an actor at an audition.
- A line of descent traced through a particular relative, usually a parent or spouse, as distinguished from that traced through another.
- A region in a specified position with respect to something.
- (UK, Australia, Ireland) A sports team.
- (US, Canada, Philippines, colloquial) A dish that accompanies the main course; a side dish.
- a lengthwise dressed half of an animal's carcass used for food
- a place within a region identified relative to a center or reference location
- a surface forming part of the outside of an object
- an elevated geological formation
- either the left or right half of a body
- one of two or more contesting groups
- an aspect of something (as contrasted with some other implied aspect)
- a family line of descent
- an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute
- a line segment forming part of the perimeter of a plane figure
- (sports) the spin given to a ball by striking it on one side or releasing it with a sharp twist
- an extended outer surface of an object
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- To lean on one side.
- (transitive, shipbuilding) To work (a timber or rib) to a certain thickness by trimming the sides.
- (intransitive) To ally oneself, be in an alliance, usually with "with" or rarely "in with"
- (transitive, cooking) To provide with, as a side or accompaniment.
- (transitive) To furnish with a siding.
- To clear, tidy or sort.
- take sides for or against
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- trace the shape of
- describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of
- draw up an outline or sketch for something
- (transitive, software compilation) To optimize for size by replacing repeated code fragments with function calls.
- (transitive) To draw an outline of; to describe.
- (transitive) To summarize.
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- a schematic or preliminary plan
- a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory
- the line that appears to bound an object
- The outer shape of an object or figure.
- A general description of some subject.
- A preliminary plan for a project.
- A sketch or drawing in which objects are delineated in contours without shading.
- A statement summarizing the important points of a text.
- (fishing) A setline or trotline.
- A line marking the boundary of an object figure.
- (film) A prose telling of a story intended to be turned into a screenplay; generally longer and more detailed than a treatment.
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- (geology) A geological feature consisting of symmetrical anticlines that intersect where each one reaches its apex.
- (informal) A person's head.
- (by extension) Any erection resembling the dome or cupola of a building, such as the upper part of a furnace, the vertical steam chamber on the top of a boiler, etc.
- (by extension) Anything shaped like an upset bowl, often used as a cover.
- (architecture) A structural element resembling the hollow upper half of a sphere.
- (crystallography) A prism formed by planes parallel to a lateral axis which meet above in a horizontal edge, like the roof of a house; also, one of the planes of such a form.
- (sewing) A press stud or snap fastener.
- (slang) head, oral sex
- a hemispherical roof
- informal terms for a human head
- a stadium that has a roof
- a concave shape whose distinguishing characteristic is that the concavity faces downward
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- any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline)
- a feature (or the order or arrangement of features) of anything having a complex structure
- a line drawn on a map connecting points of equal height
- (figurative) A general description giving the most important points.
- An outline, boundary or border, usually of curved shape.
- (linguistics) a speech sound which behaves as a single segment, but which makes an internal transition from one quality, place, or manner to another.
- A line on a map or chart delineating those points which have the same altitude or other plotted quantity: a contour line or isopleth; (metonymically) the landform or its surface.
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- A flywheel, a weight attached to a spindle.
- (zoology) A volution, or turn, of the spire of a univalve shell.
- (botany) A circle of three or more leaves, flowers, or other organs, about the same part or joint of a stem.
- Each circle, volution or equivalent in a pattern of concentric circles, ovals, arcs, or a spiral.
- (anatomy) Any volution, as for example in the human ear or fingerprint.
- a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops
- a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
- lock of hair in the shape of a spiral or curl
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- An ice cream cone.
- The fruit of a conifer.
- (anatomy) Any of the small cone-shaped structures in the retina.
- (topology) A space formed by taking the direct product of a given space with a closed interval and identifying all of one end to a point.
- A unit of volume, applied solely to marijuana and only while it is in a smokable state; roughly 1.5 cubic centimetres, depending on use.
- (slang, by extension) A passenger on a cruise ship (that needs to be navigated around).
- (slang) A cone-shaped cannabis joint.
- (geometry) A surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line.
- (slang) The process of smoking cannabis in a bong.
- (slang) The bowl piece on a bong.
- A traffic cone.
- A cone-shaped flower head of various plants, such as banksias and proteas.
- (geometry) A solid of revolution formed by rotating a triangle around one of its altitudes.
- A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form.
- (computing theory) A set of formal languages with certain desirable closure properties, in particular those of the regular languages, the context-free languages and the recursively enumerable languages.
- (category theory) An object V together with an arrow going from V to each object of a diagram such that for any arrow A in the diagram, the pair of arrows from V which subtend A also commute with it. (Then V can be said to be the cone’s vertex and the diagram which the cone subtends can be said to be its base.)
- cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts
- a shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a point
- a visual receptor cell in the retina that is sensitive to bright light and to color
- any cone-shaped artifact
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- having the shape of
- shaped to fit by or as if by altering the contours of a pliable mass (as by work or effort)
- (in compounds) Having a particular shape (sharing the appearance of something in space, especially its outline – often a basic geometric two-dimensional figure).
- (in compounds) Designed for a particular person or thing.
- Having been given a shape, especially a curved shape.
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- Having multiple points of attachment in a lattice-like pattern.
- Compartmentalized; separated into isolated compartments or components.
- Arranged in a grid pattern; Interleaved.
- Having a texture with regular indentations similar to that of an egg carton or regular holes in a grid pattern; corrugated or latticed.
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- Having a coiled or twisted structure, involving a helical pattern.
- Having cord-like supporting structures.
- (graph theory) Containing a chord.
- (music) Composed of or containing chords.
- (computing, of a computer keyboard) Through which input is supplied by pressing a relatively small number of keys in combinations, as though playing chords.