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adj
- containing moisture or volatile components
- Made up of liquid or moisture, usually (but not always) water.
- covered or soaked with a liquid such as water
- consisting of or trading in alcoholic liquor
- producing or secreting milk
- very drunk
- supporting or permitting the legal production and sale of alcoholic beverages
- (poker slang) Of a board or flop: enabling the creation of many or of strong hands; e.g. containing connectors or suited cards. (Compare dry).
- (slang, euphemistic) Involving assassination or "wet work".
- (retronym) Permitting alcoholic beverages.
- Of a sound recording: having had audio effects applied.
- (biology, chemistry) Of a scientist or laboratory: working with biological or chemical matter.
- (aviation) Using afterburners or water injection for increased engine thrust.
- With a usual complement or consummation; potent.
- (chemistry) Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid.
- (slang) Of a person: inexperienced in a profession or task; having the characteristics of a rookie.
- Of calligraphy and fountain pens: depositing a large amount of ink from the nib or the feed.
- (British, slang) Ineffectual, feeble, showing no strength of character.
- Of a burrito, sandwich, or other food: covered in a sauce.
- (slang, vulgar, of a female) Sexually aroused and thus having the vulva moistened with vaginal secretions.
- Of an object, etc.: covered or impregnated with liquid, usually (but not always) water.
- Of weather or a time period: rainy.
noun
- Liquid or moisture.
- wetness caused by water
- Rainy weather.
- (colloquial, derogatory) A weak or sentimental person; a wimp or softie.
- (motor racing, in the plural) A tyre for use in wet weather.
- (colloquial) An alcoholic drink.
- (Australia) Rainy season. (often capitalized)
- (US, colloquial) One who supports the consumption of alcohol and thus opposes Prohibition.
- (British, UK politics, derogatory) A moderate Conservative; especially, one who opposed the hard-line policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
- Alternative form of wat (“stew or curry eaten in Ethiopia and Eritrea”).
verb
- cause to become wet
- make one's bed or clothes wet by urinating
- Misspelling of whet.
- (transitive) To make (oneself, clothing, a bed, etc.) wet by accidental urination.
- (transitive) To cover or impregnate with liquid.
- (transitive, informal) To celebrate by drinking alcohol.
- (transitive, intransitive) To make or become wet.
- (US, MLE, MTE, slang) To kill or seriously injure.
- (transitive, soldering) To form an intermetallic bond between a solder and a metal substrate.
adj
- lacking moisture or volatile components
- used of solid substances in contrast with liquid ones
- having no adornment or coloration
- having a large proportion of strong liquor
- unproductive especially of the expected results
- not producing milk
- without a mucous or watery discharge
- free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet
- (of food) eaten without a spread or sauce or other garnish
- lacking warmth or emotional involvement
- (of liquor) having a low residual sugar content because of decomposition of sugar during fermentation
- practicing complete abstinence from alcoholic beverages
- lacking interest or stimulation; dull and lifeless
- opposed to or prohibiting the production and sale of alcoholic beverages
- not shedding tears
- humorously sarcastic or mocking
- (Christianity) Of a mass, service, or rite: involving neither consecration nor communion.
- (figurative) Athirst, eager.
- (poker) Of a board or flop: Not permitting the creation of many or of strong hands.
- Free from or lacking alcohol or alcoholic beverages.
- (fine arts) Exhibiting precise execution lacking delicate contours or soft transitions of color.
- (aviation) Not using afterburners or water injection for increased thrust.
- Lacking interest, boring.
- (of a sound recording) Free from applied audio effects (especially reverb).
- In a dry spell (e.g., unemployed, slow).
- Of a bite from an animal: not containing the usual venom.
- Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness, particularly:
- (law) Describing an area where sales of alcoholic or strong alcoholic beverages are banned.
- (wine and other alcoholic beverages, ginger ale) Low in sugar; lacking sugar; unsweetened.
- Unable to produce a liquid, as water, (petrochemistry) oil, or (agriculture) milk.
- (humor) Amusing without showing amusement.
- (chemistry) Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquids.
- (Malaysia, Singapore, of noodles) Mixed with sauce and not served in a soup.
- Without a usual complement or consummation; impotent.
- (masonry) Built without or lacking mortar.
- Free from or lacking moisture.
- (sciences, somewhat derogatory) Involving computations rather than work with biological or chemical matter.
noun
- a reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages
- (Australia) An area of waterless country.
- (US) A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages).
- (British, UK politics) A radical or hard-line Conservative; especially, one who supported the policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
- (chiefly Australia, with "the") The dry season.
- Unsweetened ginger ale; dry ginger.
- An area with little or no rain, or sheltered from it.
- The process by which something is dried.
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adj
- (physical chemistry) Absorbing moisture from the air and forming a solution.
- (especially of certain salts) becoming liquid by absorbing moisture from the air
- (botany) Branching so that the stem is lost in branches, as in most deciduous trees.
- Seeming to melt away.
- (mycology, of the fruiting body of a fungus) Becoming liquid as a phase of its life cycle.
noun
- Dissolved chemicals, etc, included in such water.
- That portion of precipitation or irrigation on an area which does not infiltrate or evaporate, but instead is discharged from the area.
- (politics) A second or further round of an indecisive election, after other candidates (often all but the last two) have been eliminated.
- (sports) A second or further round of a competition, after other competitors (often all but the last two) have been eliminated.
- a final election to resolve an earlier election that did not produce a winner
- the occurrence of surplus liquid (as water) exceeding the limit or capacity
noun
- a substance that is fluid at room temperature and pressure
- continuous amorphous matter that tends to flow and to conform to the outline of its container: a liquid or a gas
- A liquid (as opposed to a solid or gas).
- (specifically, medicine, colloquial, typically in the plural) Intravenous fluids.
- Any substance which can flow with relative ease, tends to assume the shape of its container, and obeys Bernoulli's principle; a liquid, gas or plasma.
adj
- smooth and unconstrained in movement
- in cash or easily convertible to cash
- characteristic of a fluid; capable of flowing and easily changing shape
- subject to change; variable
- affording change (especially in social status)
- In a state of flux; subject to change.
- (of an asset) Convertible into cash.
- (rare) Genderfluid.
- (not comparable) Of or relating to fluid.
- Moving smoothly, or giving the impression of a liquid in motion.
noun
- a substance that is liquid at room temperature and pressure
- the state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility
- fluid matter having no fixed shape but a fixed volume
- a frictionless continuant that is not a nasal consonant (especially ‘l’ and ‘r’)
- (phonetics) Any of a class of consonant sounds that includes l and r.
- (physical chemistry) A substance that is flowing, and keeping no shape, such as water; a substance of which the molecules, while not tending to separate from one another like those of a gas, readily change their relative position, and which therefore retains no definite shape, except that determined by the containing receptacle; an inelastic fluid.
adj
- smooth and unconstrained in movement
- in cash or easily convertible to cash
- clear and bright
- changed from a solid to a liquid state
- smooth and flowing in quality; entirely free of harshness
- filled or brimming with tears
- existing as or having characteristics of a liquid; especially tending to flow
- (physical chemistry) Flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid and not gaseous; composed of particles that move freely among each other on the slightest pressure.
- (finance, of a market) Having sufficient trading activity to make buying or selling easy.
- (finance, of an asset) Easily sold or disposed of without losing value.
- Flowing or sounding smoothly or without abrupt transitions or harsh tones.
- Fluid and transparent.
- (phonology) Belonging to a class of consonants comprising the laterals and the rhotics, which in many languages behave similarly.
noun
- (figurative) Moisture issuing from any substance.
- (video games, slang) An extremely or excessively competitive player.
- Fluid that exits the body through pores in the skin usually due to physical stress and/or high temperature for the purpose of regulating body temperature and removing certain compounds from the circulation.
- (figurative) Hard work; toil.
- (British, military slang, especially WWI) A soldier (especially one who is old or experienced).
- A short run by a racehorse as a form of exercise.
- (historical) The sweating sickness.
- The state of one who is sweating; diaphoresis.
- salty fluid secreted by sweat glands
- condensation of moisture on a cold surface
- agitation resulting from active worry
- use of physical or mental energy; hard work
verb
- (transitive, informal) To extract money, labour, etc. from, by exaction or oppression.
- (intransitive, plumbing) To solder (a pipe joint) together.
- (intransitive) To have drops of water form on (something's surface) due to moisture condensation.
- (transitive, informal) To worry about (something).
- (intransitive, informal) To worry.
- (transitive) To take a racehorse for a short exercise run.
- (intransitive) To emit sweat.
- (transitive, slang) To stress out, to put under pressure.
- (intransitive) To suffer a penalty; to smart for one's misdeeds.
- (intransitive, informal) To work hard.
- To cause to perspire.
- (transitive, intransitive, cooking) To cook slowly at low heat, in shallow oil and without browning, to reduce moisture content.
- (transitive) To emit, in the manner of sweat.
- (transitive) To cause to excrete moisture through skin.
- (video games) To be extremely dedicated to winning a game; to play competitively.
- (intransitive) To emit moisture.
- excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin
noun
- any of various substances (soluble in water) that exude from certain plants; they are gelatinous when moist but harden on drying
- any of various trees of the genera Eucalyptus or Liquidambar or Nyssa that are sources of gum
- a preparation (usually made of sweetened chicle) for chewing
- wood or lumber from any of various gum trees especially the sweet gum
- the tissue (covered by mucous membrane) of the jaws that surrounds the bases of the teeth
- cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive
- (US, dialect, Southern US) A vessel or bin made from a hollow log.
- A gum tree, any of various types of trees or an individual thereof.
- (chiefly uncountable) Chewing gum.
- (US, dialect) A rubber overshoe.
- (countable) A single piece of chewing gum.
- (US, dialect, Southern US) A hive made of a section of a hollow gum tree; hence, any roughly made hive.
- (chiefly uncountable) Any viscous or sticky substance resembling the true gum.
- (often in the plural) The flesh around the teeth.
- (South Africa, often in the plural) A gummi candy.
- (botany, biochemistry, chiefly uncountable) A viscous water-soluble carbohydrate exudate of certain plants that hardens when it becomes dry, or such a substance as a component of a plant exudate.
verb
- cover, fill, fix or smear with or as if with gum
- grind with the gums; chew without teeth and with great difficulty
- become sticky
- exude or form gum
- To stiffen with glue or gum.
- To chew, especially of a toothless person or animal.
- (sometimes with together) To inelegantly attach into a sequence.
- (transitive) To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw), as with a gummer.
- (sometimes with up) To apply an adhesive or gum to; to make sticky by applying a sticky substance to.
- (colloquial, with up) To impair the functioning of a thing or process.
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verb
- To soften (something) or separate it into pieces by soaking it in a heated or unheated liquid.
- To reduce solids to small pieces (in a macerator).
- soften, usually by steeping in liquid, and cause to disintegrate as a result
- separate into constituents by soaking
- cause to grow thin or weak
- become soft or separate and disintegrate as a result of excessive soaking
noun
- (measurement, chemistry) volatile suspended solids
- (aviation, space science) Virgin SpaceShip — spaceship prefix for Virgin Galactic spacelines
- (automotive engineering) vehicle speed sensor
- (computer networking) virtual switching system
- (mathematics) variable structure system
- Initialism of visual snow syndrome
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- make moist
- check; keep in check (a fire)
- reduce the amplitude (of oscillations or waves)
- suppress or constrain so as to lessen in intensity
- deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping
- make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible
- lessen in force or effect
- (transitive) To lessen; to dull; to make less intense (said of emotions and non-physical things).
- (transitive) To make damp or moist; to make moderately wet.
- (transitive, proscribed) To suppress vibrations (mechanical) or oscillations (electrical) by converting energy to heat (or some other form of energy).
- (intransitive) To become damped or deadened.
- (intransitive) To become damp or moist.
verb
- make moist
- move by or as if by water
- cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water
- separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)
- to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking
- remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent
- cleanse (one's body) with soap and water
- wash by removing particles
- admit to testing or proof
- form by erosion
- apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to
- wash or flow against
- be capable of being washed
- clean with some chemical process
- (intransitive) To bear without damage the operation of being washed; to be suitable for washing.
- (transitive) To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten.
- (transitive) To clean with water.
- (transitive) To cause dephosphorization of (molten pig iron) by adding substances containing iron oxide, and sometimes manganese oxide.
- (intransitive) To clean oneself with water.
- (transitive) To cover with a thin or watery coat of colour; to tint lightly and thinly.
- (intransitive) To move with a lapping or swashing sound; to lap or splash.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be cogent, convincing; to withstand critique.
- (chemistry, transitive) To pass or extract (a gas or gaseous mixture) through or over a liquid for the purpose of purifying it, especially by removing soluble constituents.
- (mining) To separate valuable material (such as gold) from worthless material by the action of flowing water.
- (intransitive) To be eroded or carried away by the action of water.
- (mah-jong) To mix up tiles (before a new game) to make them random; to shuffle.
- (transitive) To carry away or erode by the force of water in motion.
- (transitive) To overlay with a thin coat of metal.
noun
- a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other
- a thin coat of water-base paint
- the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
- the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway)
- the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)
- garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
- any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out
- the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
- (finance, slang) A fictitious kind of sale of stock or other securities between parties of one interest, or by a broker who is both buyer and seller, and who minds his own interest rather than that of his clients.
- The quantity of clothes washed at a time.
- A thin coat of paint or metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.
- Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.
- A piece of ground washed by the action of water, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh.
- The turbulence left in the air by a moving airplane.
- A total failure; a washout.
- The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.
- (stagecraft) A lighting fixture that can cast a wide beam of light to evenly fill an area with light, as opposed to a spotlight.
- (nautical) The blade of an oar.
- The bow wave or wake of a moving ship, or the vortex from its screws.
- A shallow body of water.
- Ground washed away to the sea or a river.
- The breaking of waves on the shore; the onwards rush of shallow water towards a beach.
- A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.
- A lotion or other liquid with medicinal or hygienic properties.
- In distilling, the fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.
- (television) A lighting effect that fills a scene with a chosen colour.
- Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs; pigwash.
- (idiomatic) A situation in which gains and losses or advantages and disadvantages are equivalent, or in which there is no net change.
- A liquid used for washing.
- (architecture) The upper surface of a member or material when given a slope to shed water; hence, a structure or receptacle shaped so as to receive and carry off water.
- (art) A smooth and translucent painting created using a paintbrush holding a large amount of solvent and a small amount of paint.
- The process or an instance of washing or being washed by water or other liquid.
- In arid and semi-arid regions, the normally dry bed of an intermittent or ephemeral stream; an arroyo or wadi.
noun
- Any water-soluble bioreactive substance.
- A unified taxonomic system, such as the BioCode.
- Alternative form of bio-code.
- An arbitrary number or string for identifying a biological organism.
- The genomes of one or more interacting organisms.
- A single numeric value calculated from a collection of biometric data; profile.
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noun
- (physical chemistry) Liquefaction through absorption of moisture from the air.
- (rare) An abrupt absence of sunlight, e.g. caused by an eclipse.
- (pathology) An abrupt loss of consciousness usually caused by an insufficient blood flow to the brain; fainting.
- (literary, figuratively) A languid, maudlin mood.
- a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain
noun
- The liquid used in this process.
- The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching.
- The act of a quadruped kicking both hind legs upward at once.
- (forestry) The process of cutting a felled and delimbed tree into logs.
- A washing.
- The process of breaking up or pulverizing ores.
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- Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.
- (usually followed by with or on) Elated or emboldened.
- (derogatory) Habitually or frequently in a state of intoxication.
- Intoxicated as a result of excessive alcohol consumption, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.
- as if under the influence of alcohol
- stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol)
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- A solution that has had additional solvent, such as water, added to it into order to make it less concentrated.
- (finance) Ellipsis of share dilution.
- The process of bringing in unskilled workers to replace skilled ones, for example during wartime.
- The process of making something dilute.
- (copyright law) Ellipsis of trademark dilution.
- a diluted solution
- weakening (reducing the concentration) by the addition of water or a thinner
noun
- heating a solid substance in a closed container and collecting the volatile products
- (organic chemistry, physical chemistry) The heating of a material, such as coal or wood, in an inert atmosphere, at a high temperature such as to cause decomposition; the principal products include oils and tars from which many useful organic compounds may be obtained; town gas and coke were obtained in this way.
noun
- Any of the various liquids or semi-molten solids produced and used during the course of such production.
- Any small anadromous fish of the family Osmeridae, found in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and in lakes in North America and northern part of Europe.
- Production of metal, especially iron, from ore in a process that involves heating and chemical reduction of metal compounds into purified metal.
- small trout-like silvery marine or freshwater food fishes of cold northern waters
- small cold-water silvery fish; migrate between salt and fresh water
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- (transitive) To cover with condensed water vapor.
- (intransitive) To rise in vapour; to issue, or pass off, as vapour.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To become angry; to fume; to be incensed.
- (intransitive) To produce or vent steam.
- (transitive) To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing.
- (transitive, cooking) To cook with steam.
- (figuratively or literally) To move with great or excessive purposefulness.
- (intransitive) To travel by means of steam power.
- (transitive, figuratively) To make angry.
- (intransitive, literal, figurative) To be cooked with steam.
- (transitive) To raise steam, e.g. in a steam locomotive.
- cook something by letting steam pass over it
- emit steam
- get very agitated or angry
- clean by means of steaming
- travel by means of steam power
- rise as vapor
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- (figuratively) Pent-up anger.
- Exhaled breath into cold air below the dew point of the exhalation.
- (figuratively) Internal energy for progress or motive power.
- (fencing) Fencing without the use of any electric equipment.
- Mist, fog.
- The hot gaseous form of water, formed when water changes from the liquid phase to the gas phase (at or above its boiling point temperature).
- Pressurized water vapour used for heating, cooking, or to provide mechanical energy.
- A steam-powered vehicle, referring to their use.
- The act of cooking by steaming.
- Travel by means of a steam-powered vehicle.
- water at boiling temperature diffused in the atmosphere
adj
- not saturated; capable of dissolving more of a substance at a given temperature
- used of a compound (especially of carbon) containing atoms sharing more than one valence bond
- (of color) not chromatically pure; diluted
- (of a colour) Not chromatically pure; diluted.
- (chemistry) Of a compound containing atoms sharing more than one valence bond, especially of an organic compound having one or more double bonds or triple bonds between carbon atoms.
- (chemistry, of a solution) Not saturated; capable of dissolving more of a solute at the same temperature.
noun
- the quality of being soluble and easily dissolved in liquid
- the quantity of a particular substance that can dissolve in a particular solvent (yielding a saturated solution)
- the property (of a problem or difficulty) that makes it possible to solve
- (chemistry) The amount of a substance that will dissolve in a given amount of a solvent, to give a saturated solution, under specified conditions.
- The condition of being soluble.
noun
- (chemistry) The substance that remains after evaporation, distillation, filtration or any similar process.
- (modular arithmetic) A representative element of an equivalence class modulo some base, conventionally in the half-open interval from zero to the base; the nonnegative remainder after dividing a number by a base.
- (biochemistry) A molecule that is released from a polymer after bonds between neighbouring monomers are broken, such as an amino acid in a polypeptide chain.
- (law) Whatever property or effects are left in an estate after payment of all debts, other charges and deduction of what is specifically bequeathed by the testator.
- (complex analysis) A form of complex number, proportional to the contour integral of a meromorphic function along a path enclosing one of its singularities.
- That which persists or remains following the removal or elimination of other elements.
- something left after other parts have been taken away
- matter that remains after something has been removed
noun
- a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances
- Any substance or material able to resolve the constituents of a mixture; a solvent.
- (mathematics) An equation upon whose solution the solution of a given problem depends.
- (medicine) That which has power to disperse inflammatory or other tumours; a discutient; anything which aids the absorption of effused products.
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- apply (usually a liquid) to a surface
- to smoke marijuana using butane hash oil
- to perform a dance move in which the dancer simultaneously drops the head while raising an arm and the elbow in a gesture that has been noted to resemble sneezing
- hit lightly
- (transitive) To press lightly in a repetitive motion with a soft object without rubbing.
- (transitive) To apply a substance in this way.
- (dance, intransitive) To perform the dab dance move; to move both arms, parallel with one's head, to either side of the body.
- (slang) To apply hash oil to a heated surface for the purpose of efficient combustion.
- To strike by a thrust; to hit with a sudden blow or thrust.
- (bingo) Synonym of daub (to mark a bingo card)
noun
- a small quantity of something moist or liquid
- a light touch or stroke
- a dance move in which the dancer simultaneously drops the head while raising an arm and the elbow in a gesture that has been noted to resemble sneezing
- (US) A sand dab, a small flatfish of genus Citharichthys.
- (dance) A hip hop dance move in which the dancer simultaneously drops the head while raising an arm, briefly resting their face in the elbow, as if sneezing into their elbow.
- A soft tap or blow; a blow or peck from a bird's beak; an aimed blow.
- (African-American Vernacular) A soft, playful box given in greeting or approval.
- One who is skilful or proficient; an expert; an adept.
- A small amount, a blob of some soft or wet substance.
- (slang) A small amount of hash oil.
- A small flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae, especially Limanda limanda; a flounder.
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- cleaning implement consisting of absorbent material fastened to a handle; for cleaning floors
- implement consisting of a small piece of cotton that is used to apply medication or cleanse a wound or obtain a specimen of a secretion
- (medicine) A small piece of soft, absorbent material, such as gauze, used to clean wounds, apply medicine, or take samples of body fluids. Often attached to a stick or wire to aid access.
- A sample taken with a swab (piece of absorbent material).
- (slang) A sailor; a swabby.
- (slang) A naval officer's epaulet.
- A piece of material used for cleaning or sampling other items like musical instruments or guns.
- A mop, especially on a ship.
adj
- (comparable) Soaked or drenched with moisture.
- (chemistry) Having all available valence bonds filled; especially of any organic compound containing only single bonds between carbon atoms.
- (mathematics, especially topology, with respect to a function f) Saturated with respect to the equivalence relation x≡y⟺f(x)=f(y) (the kernel, noun sense 10, of f).
- (mathematics, set theory, of a set S, with respect to an equivalence relation ≡) Equal to a union of equivalence classes of ≡; such that if x∈S and x≡y then y∈S.
- (not comparable) Full; unable to hold or contain any more.
- Having a high level of saturation (in various senses).
- (not comparable, chemistry, of a solution) Containing all the solute that can normally be dissolved at a given temperature.
- (computing) Conforming to saturation arithmetic.
- used especially of organic compounds; having all available valence bonds filled
- (of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or grey or black
- being the most concentrated solution possible at a given temperature; unable to dissolve still more of a substance
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- any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue
- promotion by means of an argument and demonstration
- abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance)
- a sports field with predetermined dimensions for playing soccer
- the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration
- a high approach shot in golf
- a vendor's position (especially on the sidewalk)
- the act of throwing a baseball or softball by the pitcher towards home plate, which initiates play by giving the batter a chance to hit it
- an all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump
- degree of deviation from a horizontal plane
- the action or manner of throwing something
- (sports, UK, Australia, New Zealand) The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby, gridiron or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is in the centre of the field; see cricket pitch.) (Not often used in the US or Canada, where "field" is the preferred word.)
- An effort to sell or promote something.
- (geology) Pitchstone.
- The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant.
- The angle at which an object sits.
- (golf) A short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
- An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar.
- A dark, extremely viscous material still remaining after distilling crude oil or natural tar.
- The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread, the centres of holes, or letters in a monospace font.
- Prominence; importance.
- The height a bird reaches in flight, especially a bird of prey preparing to swoop down on its prey.
- (nautical, aviation) The degree to which a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft, rotates on such an axis, tilting its bow or nose up or down.
- (music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.
- (by extension) The place where a busker performs, a prostitute solicits clients, or an illegal gambling game etc. is set up before the public.
- (cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
- (mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
- (climbing) A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
- A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
- (now British, regional) A person's or animal's height.
- A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
- (music, phonetics) The perceived frequency of a sound, note or electromagnetic wave.
- A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
- (music) The standard to which a group of musical instruments are tuned or in which a piece is performed, usually by reference to the frequency to which the musical note A above middle C is tuned.
- (baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.
- A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
- A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
- An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
- (aviation) A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller.
- (caving) A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
- (rare) The field of battle.
- The most thrust-out point of a headland or cape.
verb
- heel over
- set to a certain pitch
- sell or offer for sale from place to place
- move abruptly
- fall or plunge forward
- throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball
- be at an angle
- set the level or character of
- throw or toss with a light motion
- erect and fasten
- lead (a card) and establish the trump suit
- hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin
- To cover or smear with pitch.
- (transitive) To set or fix (a price or value).
- (transitive) To fix or set the tone of.
- (brewing) To add yeast as a step while making beer
- (transitive) To assemble or erect (a tent). Also used figuratively.
- (with on or upon) To fix one's choice.
- (intransitive, Bristol, of snow) To settle and build up, without melting.
- (intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
- (transitive) To set at an angle, especially a downwards one; to cause to tilt.
- (intransitive, baseball) To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
- (intransitive, cricket) To bounce on the playing surface.
- (transitive) To set, face, or pave (an embankment or roadway) with rubble or undressed stones.
- (transitive) To throw away; discard.
- (transitive, golf) To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
- To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
- (intransitive) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
- (transitive) To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
- (transitive or intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
- (transitive) To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
- (intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch.
- (transitive) To throw.
- (transitive, card games, slang) To discard (a card) for some gain.
- To attack, or position or assemble for attack.
- (ambitransitive, aviation or nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternately up and down.
adj
noun
- any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue
- a man who serves as a sailor
- (computing) A program for archiving files, common on Unix systems.
- A Persian long-necked, waisted string instrument, shared by many cultures and countries in the Middle East and the Caucasus.
- A single-headed round frame drum originating in North Africa and the Middle East.
- (computing) A file produced by such a program.
- Coal tar.
- Alternative form of tara (“Indian coin”).
- (uncountable) A solid residual byproduct of tobacco smoke.
- (uncountable) Black tar, a form of heroin.
verb
adj
- containing moisture or volatile components
- Made up of liquid or moisture, usually (but not always) water.
- covered or soaked with a liquid such as water
- consisting of or trading in alcoholic liquor
- producing or secreting milk
- very drunk
- supporting or permitting the legal production and sale of alcoholic beverages
- (poker slang) Of a board or flop: enabling the creation of many or of strong hands; e.g. containing connectors or suited cards. (Compare dry).
- (slang, euphemistic) Involving assassination or "wet work".
- (retronym) Permitting alcoholic beverages.
- Of a sound recording: having had audio effects applied.
- (biology, chemistry) Of a scientist or laboratory: working with biological or chemical matter.
- (aviation) Using afterburners or water injection for increased engine thrust.
- With a usual complement or consummation; potent.
- (chemistry) Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid.
- (slang) Of a person: inexperienced in a profession or task; having the characteristics of a rookie.
- Of calligraphy and fountain pens: depositing a large amount of ink from the nib or the feed.
- (British, slang) Ineffectual, feeble, showing no strength of character.
- Of a burrito, sandwich, or other food: covered in a sauce.
- (slang, vulgar, of a female) Sexually aroused and thus having the vulva moistened with vaginal secretions.
- Of an object, etc.: covered or impregnated with liquid, usually (but not always) water.
- Of weather or a time period: rainy.
noun
- Liquid or moisture.
- wetness caused by water
- Rainy weather.
- (colloquial, derogatory) A weak or sentimental person; a wimp or softie.
- (motor racing, in the plural) A tyre for use in wet weather.
- (colloquial) An alcoholic drink.
- (Australia) Rainy season. (often capitalized)
- (US, colloquial) One who supports the consumption of alcohol and thus opposes Prohibition.
- (British, UK politics, derogatory) A moderate Conservative; especially, one who opposed the hard-line policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
- Alternative form of wat (“stew or curry eaten in Ethiopia and Eritrea”).
verb
- cause to become wet
- make one's bed or clothes wet by urinating
- Misspelling of whet.
- (transitive) To make (oneself, clothing, a bed, etc.) wet by accidental urination.
- (transitive) To cover or impregnate with liquid.
- (transitive, informal) To celebrate by drinking alcohol.
- (transitive, intransitive) To make or become wet.
- (US, MLE, MTE, slang) To kill or seriously injure.
- (transitive, soldering) To form an intermetallic bond between a solder and a metal substrate.
noun
- Dissolved chemicals, etc, included in such water.
- That portion of precipitation or irrigation on an area which does not infiltrate or evaporate, but instead is discharged from the area.
- (politics) A second or further round of an indecisive election, after other candidates (often all but the last two) have been eliminated.
- (sports) A second or further round of a competition, after other competitors (often all but the last two) have been eliminated.
- a final election to resolve an earlier election that did not produce a winner
- the occurrence of surplus liquid (as water) exceeding the limit or capacity
noun
- a substance that is fluid at room temperature and pressure
- continuous amorphous matter that tends to flow and to conform to the outline of its container: a liquid or a gas
- A liquid (as opposed to a solid or gas).
- (specifically, medicine, colloquial, typically in the plural) Intravenous fluids.
- Any substance which can flow with relative ease, tends to assume the shape of its container, and obeys Bernoulli's principle; a liquid, gas or plasma.
adj
- smooth and unconstrained in movement
- in cash or easily convertible to cash
- characteristic of a fluid; capable of flowing and easily changing shape
- subject to change; variable
- affording change (especially in social status)
- In a state of flux; subject to change.
- (of an asset) Convertible into cash.
- (rare) Genderfluid.
- (not comparable) Of or relating to fluid.
- Moving smoothly, or giving the impression of a liquid in motion.
noun
- a substance that is liquid at room temperature and pressure
- the state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility
- fluid matter having no fixed shape but a fixed volume
- a frictionless continuant that is not a nasal consonant (especially ‘l’ and ‘r’)
- (phonetics) Any of a class of consonant sounds that includes l and r.
- (physical chemistry) A substance that is flowing, and keeping no shape, such as water; a substance of which the molecules, while not tending to separate from one another like those of a gas, readily change their relative position, and which therefore retains no definite shape, except that determined by the containing receptacle; an inelastic fluid.
adj
- smooth and unconstrained in movement
- in cash or easily convertible to cash
- clear and bright
- changed from a solid to a liquid state
- smooth and flowing in quality; entirely free of harshness
- filled or brimming with tears
- existing as or having characteristics of a liquid; especially tending to flow
- (physical chemistry) Flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid and not gaseous; composed of particles that move freely among each other on the slightest pressure.
- (finance, of a market) Having sufficient trading activity to make buying or selling easy.
- (finance, of an asset) Easily sold or disposed of without losing value.
- Flowing or sounding smoothly or without abrupt transitions or harsh tones.
- Fluid and transparent.
- (phonology) Belonging to a class of consonants comprising the laterals and the rhotics, which in many languages behave similarly.
noun
- (figurative) Moisture issuing from any substance.
- (video games, slang) An extremely or excessively competitive player.
- Fluid that exits the body through pores in the skin usually due to physical stress and/or high temperature for the purpose of regulating body temperature and removing certain compounds from the circulation.
- (figurative) Hard work; toil.
- (British, military slang, especially WWI) A soldier (especially one who is old or experienced).
- A short run by a racehorse as a form of exercise.
- (historical) The sweating sickness.
- The state of one who is sweating; diaphoresis.
- salty fluid secreted by sweat glands
- condensation of moisture on a cold surface
- agitation resulting from active worry
- use of physical or mental energy; hard work
verb
- (transitive, informal) To extract money, labour, etc. from, by exaction or oppression.
- (intransitive, plumbing) To solder (a pipe joint) together.
- (intransitive) To have drops of water form on (something's surface) due to moisture condensation.
- (transitive, informal) To worry about (something).
- (intransitive, informal) To worry.
- (transitive) To take a racehorse for a short exercise run.
- (intransitive) To emit sweat.
- (transitive, slang) To stress out, to put under pressure.
- (intransitive) To suffer a penalty; to smart for one's misdeeds.
- (intransitive, informal) To work hard.
- To cause to perspire.
- (transitive, intransitive, cooking) To cook slowly at low heat, in shallow oil and without browning, to reduce moisture content.
- (transitive) To emit, in the manner of sweat.
- (transitive) To cause to excrete moisture through skin.
- (video games) To be extremely dedicated to winning a game; to play competitively.
- (intransitive) To emit moisture.
- excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin
noun
- any of various substances (soluble in water) that exude from certain plants; they are gelatinous when moist but harden on drying
- any of various trees of the genera Eucalyptus or Liquidambar or Nyssa that are sources of gum
- a preparation (usually made of sweetened chicle) for chewing
- wood or lumber from any of various gum trees especially the sweet gum
- the tissue (covered by mucous membrane) of the jaws that surrounds the bases of the teeth
- cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive
- (US, dialect, Southern US) A vessel or bin made from a hollow log.
- A gum tree, any of various types of trees or an individual thereof.
- (chiefly uncountable) Chewing gum.
- (US, dialect) A rubber overshoe.
- (countable) A single piece of chewing gum.
- (US, dialect, Southern US) A hive made of a section of a hollow gum tree; hence, any roughly made hive.
- (chiefly uncountable) Any viscous or sticky substance resembling the true gum.
- (often in the plural) The flesh around the teeth.
- (South Africa, often in the plural) A gummi candy.
- (botany, biochemistry, chiefly uncountable) A viscous water-soluble carbohydrate exudate of certain plants that hardens when it becomes dry, or such a substance as a component of a plant exudate.
verb
- cover, fill, fix or smear with or as if with gum
- grind with the gums; chew without teeth and with great difficulty
- become sticky
- exude or form gum
- To stiffen with glue or gum.
- To chew, especially of a toothless person or animal.
- (sometimes with together) To inelegantly attach into a sequence.
- (transitive) To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw), as with a gummer.
- (sometimes with up) To apply an adhesive or gum to; to make sticky by applying a sticky substance to.
- (colloquial, with up) To impair the functioning of a thing or process.
noun
verb
- To soften (something) or separate it into pieces by soaking it in a heated or unheated liquid.
- To reduce solids to small pieces (in a macerator).
- soften, usually by steeping in liquid, and cause to disintegrate as a result
- separate into constituents by soaking
- cause to grow thin or weak
- become soft or separate and disintegrate as a result of excessive soaking
noun
- (measurement, chemistry) volatile suspended solids
- (aviation, space science) Virgin SpaceShip — spaceship prefix for Virgin Galactic spacelines
- (automotive engineering) vehicle speed sensor
- (computer networking) virtual switching system
- (mathematics) variable structure system
- Initialism of visual snow syndrome
name
symbol
noun
- Any water-soluble bioreactive substance.
- A unified taxonomic system, such as the BioCode.
- Alternative form of bio-code.
- An arbitrary number or string for identifying a biological organism.
- The genomes of one or more interacting organisms.
- A single numeric value calculated from a collection of biometric data; profile.
verb
noun
- (physical chemistry) Liquefaction through absorption of moisture from the air.
- (rare) An abrupt absence of sunlight, e.g. caused by an eclipse.
- (pathology) An abrupt loss of consciousness usually caused by an insufficient blood flow to the brain; fainting.
- (literary, figuratively) A languid, maudlin mood.
- a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain
noun
- The liquid used in this process.
- The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching.
- The act of a quadruped kicking both hind legs upward at once.
- (forestry) The process of cutting a felled and delimbed tree into logs.
- A washing.
- The process of breaking up or pulverizing ores.
verb
noun
- A solution that has had additional solvent, such as water, added to it into order to make it less concentrated.
- (finance) Ellipsis of share dilution.
- The process of bringing in unskilled workers to replace skilled ones, for example during wartime.
- The process of making something dilute.
- (copyright law) Ellipsis of trademark dilution.
- a diluted solution
- weakening (reducing the concentration) by the addition of water or a thinner
noun
- heating a solid substance in a closed container and collecting the volatile products
- (organic chemistry, physical chemistry) The heating of a material, such as coal or wood, in an inert atmosphere, at a high temperature such as to cause decomposition; the principal products include oils and tars from which many useful organic compounds may be obtained; town gas and coke were obtained in this way.
noun
- Any of the various liquids or semi-molten solids produced and used during the course of such production.
- Any small anadromous fish of the family Osmeridae, found in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and in lakes in North America and northern part of Europe.
- Production of metal, especially iron, from ore in a process that involves heating and chemical reduction of metal compounds into purified metal.
- small trout-like silvery marine or freshwater food fishes of cold northern waters
- small cold-water silvery fish; migrate between salt and fresh water
verb
noun
- the quality of being soluble and easily dissolved in liquid
- the quantity of a particular substance that can dissolve in a particular solvent (yielding a saturated solution)
- the property (of a problem or difficulty) that makes it possible to solve
- (chemistry) The amount of a substance that will dissolve in a given amount of a solvent, to give a saturated solution, under specified conditions.
- The condition of being soluble.
noun
- (chemistry) The substance that remains after evaporation, distillation, filtration or any similar process.
- (modular arithmetic) A representative element of an equivalence class modulo some base, conventionally in the half-open interval from zero to the base; the nonnegative remainder after dividing a number by a base.
- (biochemistry) A molecule that is released from a polymer after bonds between neighbouring monomers are broken, such as an amino acid in a polypeptide chain.
- (law) Whatever property or effects are left in an estate after payment of all debts, other charges and deduction of what is specifically bequeathed by the testator.
- (complex analysis) A form of complex number, proportional to the contour integral of a meromorphic function along a path enclosing one of its singularities.
- That which persists or remains following the removal or elimination of other elements.
- something left after other parts have been taken away
- matter that remains after something has been removed
noun
- a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances
- Any substance or material able to resolve the constituents of a mixture; a solvent.
- (mathematics) An equation upon whose solution the solution of a given problem depends.
- (medicine) That which has power to disperse inflammatory or other tumours; a discutient; anything which aids the absorption of effused products.
adj
noun
adj
noun
- any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue
- promotion by means of an argument and demonstration
- abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance)
- a sports field with predetermined dimensions for playing soccer
- the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration
- a high approach shot in golf
- a vendor's position (especially on the sidewalk)
- the act of throwing a baseball or softball by the pitcher towards home plate, which initiates play by giving the batter a chance to hit it
- an all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump
- degree of deviation from a horizontal plane
- the action or manner of throwing something
- (sports, UK, Australia, New Zealand) The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby, gridiron or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is in the centre of the field; see cricket pitch.) (Not often used in the US or Canada, where "field" is the preferred word.)
- An effort to sell or promote something.
- (geology) Pitchstone.
- The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant.
- The angle at which an object sits.
- (golf) A short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
- An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar.
- A dark, extremely viscous material still remaining after distilling crude oil or natural tar.
- The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread, the centres of holes, or letters in a monospace font.
- Prominence; importance.
- The height a bird reaches in flight, especially a bird of prey preparing to swoop down on its prey.
- (nautical, aviation) The degree to which a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft, rotates on such an axis, tilting its bow or nose up or down.
- (music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.
- (by extension) The place where a busker performs, a prostitute solicits clients, or an illegal gambling game etc. is set up before the public.
- (cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
- (mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
- (climbing) A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
- A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
- (now British, regional) A person's or animal's height.
- A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
- (music, phonetics) The perceived frequency of a sound, note or electromagnetic wave.
- A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
- (music) The standard to which a group of musical instruments are tuned or in which a piece is performed, usually by reference to the frequency to which the musical note A above middle C is tuned.
- (baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.
- A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
- A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
- An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
- (aviation) A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller.
- (caving) A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
- (rare) The field of battle.
- The most thrust-out point of a headland or cape.
verb
- heel over
- set to a certain pitch
- sell or offer for sale from place to place
- move abruptly
- fall or plunge forward
- throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball
- be at an angle
- set the level or character of
- throw or toss with a light motion
- erect and fasten
- lead (a card) and establish the trump suit
- hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin
- To cover or smear with pitch.
- (transitive) To set or fix (a price or value).
- (transitive) To fix or set the tone of.
- (brewing) To add yeast as a step while making beer
- (transitive) To assemble or erect (a tent). Also used figuratively.
- (with on or upon) To fix one's choice.
- (intransitive, Bristol, of snow) To settle and build up, without melting.
- (intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
- (transitive) To set at an angle, especially a downwards one; to cause to tilt.
- (intransitive, baseball) To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
- (intransitive, cricket) To bounce on the playing surface.
- (transitive) To set, face, or pave (an embankment or roadway) with rubble or undressed stones.
- (transitive) To throw away; discard.
- (transitive, golf) To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
- To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
- (intransitive) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
- (transitive) To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
- (transitive or intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
- (transitive) To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
- (intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch.
- (transitive) To throw.
- (transitive, card games, slang) To discard (a card) for some gain.
- To attack, or position or assemble for attack.
- (ambitransitive, aviation or nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternately up and down.
adj
noun
- any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue
- a man who serves as a sailor
- (computing) A program for archiving files, common on Unix systems.
- A Persian long-necked, waisted string instrument, shared by many cultures and countries in the Middle East and the Caucasus.
- A single-headed round frame drum originating in North Africa and the Middle East.
- (computing) A file produced by such a program.
- Coal tar.
- Alternative form of tara (“Indian coin”).
- (uncountable) A solid residual byproduct of tobacco smoke.
- (uncountable) Black tar, a form of heroin.
verb
verb
- make moist
- check; keep in check (a fire)
- reduce the amplitude (of oscillations or waves)
- suppress or constrain so as to lessen in intensity
- deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping
- make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible
- lessen in force or effect
- (transitive) To lessen; to dull; to make less intense (said of emotions and non-physical things).
- (transitive) To make damp or moist; to make moderately wet.
- (transitive, proscribed) To suppress vibrations (mechanical) or oscillations (electrical) by converting energy to heat (or some other form of energy).
- (intransitive) To become damped or deadened.
- (intransitive) To become damp or moist.
verb
- make moist
- move by or as if by water
- cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water
- separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals)
- to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking
- remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent
- cleanse (one's body) with soap and water
- wash by removing particles
- admit to testing or proof
- form by erosion
- apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to
- wash or flow against
- be capable of being washed
- clean with some chemical process
- (intransitive) To bear without damage the operation of being washed; to be suitable for washing.
- (transitive) To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten.
- (transitive) To clean with water.
- (transitive) To cause dephosphorization of (molten pig iron) by adding substances containing iron oxide, and sometimes manganese oxide.
- (intransitive) To clean oneself with water.
- (transitive) To cover with a thin or watery coat of colour; to tint lightly and thinly.
- (intransitive) To move with a lapping or swashing sound; to lap or splash.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be cogent, convincing; to withstand critique.
- (chemistry, transitive) To pass or extract (a gas or gaseous mixture) through or over a liquid for the purpose of purifying it, especially by removing soluble constituents.
- (mining) To separate valuable material (such as gold) from worthless material by the action of flowing water.
- (intransitive) To be eroded or carried away by the action of water.
- (mah-jong) To mix up tiles (before a new game) to make them random; to shuffle.
- (transitive) To carry away or erode by the force of water in motion.
- (transitive) To overlay with a thin coat of metal.
noun
- a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other
- a thin coat of water-base paint
- the work of cleansing (usually with soap and water)
- the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway)
- the dry bed of an intermittent stream (as at the bottom of a canyon)
- garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
- any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out
- the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
- (finance, slang) A fictitious kind of sale of stock or other securities between parties of one interest, or by a broker who is both buyer and seller, and who minds his own interest rather than that of his clients.
- The quantity of clothes washed at a time.
- A thin coat of paint or metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.
- Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.
- A piece of ground washed by the action of water, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh.
- The turbulence left in the air by a moving airplane.
- A total failure; a washout.
- The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.
- (stagecraft) A lighting fixture that can cast a wide beam of light to evenly fill an area with light, as opposed to a spotlight.
- (nautical) The blade of an oar.
- The bow wave or wake of a moving ship, or the vortex from its screws.
- A shallow body of water.
- Ground washed away to the sea or a river.
- The breaking of waves on the shore; the onwards rush of shallow water towards a beach.
- A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.
- A lotion or other liquid with medicinal or hygienic properties.
- In distilling, the fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.
- (television) A lighting effect that fills a scene with a chosen colour.
- Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs; pigwash.
- (idiomatic) A situation in which gains and losses or advantages and disadvantages are equivalent, or in which there is no net change.
- A liquid used for washing.
- (architecture) The upper surface of a member or material when given a slope to shed water; hence, a structure or receptacle shaped so as to receive and carry off water.
- (art) A smooth and translucent painting created using a paintbrush holding a large amount of solvent and a small amount of paint.
- The process or an instance of washing or being washed by water or other liquid.
- In arid and semi-arid regions, the normally dry bed of an intermittent or ephemeral stream; an arroyo or wadi.
verb
- (transitive) To cover with condensed water vapor.
- (intransitive) To rise in vapour; to issue, or pass off, as vapour.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To become angry; to fume; to be incensed.
- (intransitive) To produce or vent steam.
- (transitive) To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing.
- (transitive, cooking) To cook with steam.
- (figuratively or literally) To move with great or excessive purposefulness.
- (intransitive) To travel by means of steam power.
- (transitive, figuratively) To make angry.
- (intransitive, literal, figurative) To be cooked with steam.
- (transitive) To raise steam, e.g. in a steam locomotive.
- cook something by letting steam pass over it
- emit steam
- get very agitated or angry
- clean by means of steaming
- travel by means of steam power
- rise as vapor
adj
noun
- (figuratively) Pent-up anger.
- Exhaled breath into cold air below the dew point of the exhalation.
- (figuratively) Internal energy for progress or motive power.
- (fencing) Fencing without the use of any electric equipment.
- Mist, fog.
- The hot gaseous form of water, formed when water changes from the liquid phase to the gas phase (at or above its boiling point temperature).
- Pressurized water vapour used for heating, cooking, or to provide mechanical energy.
- A steam-powered vehicle, referring to their use.
- The act of cooking by steaming.
- Travel by means of a steam-powered vehicle.
- water at boiling temperature diffused in the atmosphere
verb
- apply (usually a liquid) to a surface
- to smoke marijuana using butane hash oil
- to perform a dance move in which the dancer simultaneously drops the head while raising an arm and the elbow in a gesture that has been noted to resemble sneezing
- hit lightly
- (transitive) To press lightly in a repetitive motion with a soft object without rubbing.
- (transitive) To apply a substance in this way.
- (dance, intransitive) To perform the dab dance move; to move both arms, parallel with one's head, to either side of the body.
- (slang) To apply hash oil to a heated surface for the purpose of efficient combustion.
- To strike by a thrust; to hit with a sudden blow or thrust.
- (bingo) Synonym of daub (to mark a bingo card)
noun
- a small quantity of something moist or liquid
- a light touch or stroke
- a dance move in which the dancer simultaneously drops the head while raising an arm and the elbow in a gesture that has been noted to resemble sneezing
- (US) A sand dab, a small flatfish of genus Citharichthys.
- (dance) A hip hop dance move in which the dancer simultaneously drops the head while raising an arm, briefly resting their face in the elbow, as if sneezing into their elbow.
- A soft tap or blow; a blow or peck from a bird's beak; an aimed blow.
- (African-American Vernacular) A soft, playful box given in greeting or approval.
- One who is skilful or proficient; an expert; an adept.
- A small amount, a blob of some soft or wet substance.
- (slang) A small amount of hash oil.
- A small flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae, especially Limanda limanda; a flounder.
adv
verb
noun
- cleaning implement consisting of absorbent material fastened to a handle; for cleaning floors
- implement consisting of a small piece of cotton that is used to apply medication or cleanse a wound or obtain a specimen of a secretion
- (medicine) A small piece of soft, absorbent material, such as gauze, used to clean wounds, apply medicine, or take samples of body fluids. Often attached to a stick or wire to aid access.
- A sample taken with a swab (piece of absorbent material).
- (slang) A sailor; a swabby.
- (slang) A naval officer's epaulet.
- A piece of material used for cleaning or sampling other items like musical instruments or guns.
- A mop, especially on a ship.
noun
verb
- To soften (something) or separate it into pieces by soaking it in a heated or unheated liquid.
- To reduce solids to small pieces (in a macerator).
- soften, usually by steeping in liquid, and cause to disintegrate as a result
- separate into constituents by soaking
- cause to grow thin or weak
- become soft or separate and disintegrate as a result of excessive soaking
adj
- containing moisture or volatile components
- Made up of liquid or moisture, usually (but not always) water.
- covered or soaked with a liquid such as water
- consisting of or trading in alcoholic liquor
- producing or secreting milk
- very drunk
- supporting or permitting the legal production and sale of alcoholic beverages
- (poker slang) Of a board or flop: enabling the creation of many or of strong hands; e.g. containing connectors or suited cards. (Compare dry).
- (slang, euphemistic) Involving assassination or "wet work".
- (retronym) Permitting alcoholic beverages.
- Of a sound recording: having had audio effects applied.
- (biology, chemistry) Of a scientist or laboratory: working with biological or chemical matter.
- (aviation) Using afterburners or water injection for increased engine thrust.
- With a usual complement or consummation; potent.
- (chemistry) Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid.
- (slang) Of a person: inexperienced in a profession or task; having the characteristics of a rookie.
- Of calligraphy and fountain pens: depositing a large amount of ink from the nib or the feed.
- (British, slang) Ineffectual, feeble, showing no strength of character.
- Of a burrito, sandwich, or other food: covered in a sauce.
- (slang, vulgar, of a female) Sexually aroused and thus having the vulva moistened with vaginal secretions.
- Of an object, etc.: covered or impregnated with liquid, usually (but not always) water.
- Of weather or a time period: rainy.
noun
- Liquid or moisture.
- wetness caused by water
- Rainy weather.
- (colloquial, derogatory) A weak or sentimental person; a wimp or softie.
- (motor racing, in the plural) A tyre for use in wet weather.
- (colloquial) An alcoholic drink.
- (Australia) Rainy season. (often capitalized)
- (US, colloquial) One who supports the consumption of alcohol and thus opposes Prohibition.
- (British, UK politics, derogatory) A moderate Conservative; especially, one who opposed the hard-line policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
- Alternative form of wat (“stew or curry eaten in Ethiopia and Eritrea”).
verb
- cause to become wet
- make one's bed or clothes wet by urinating
- Misspelling of whet.
- (transitive) To make (oneself, clothing, a bed, etc.) wet by accidental urination.
- (transitive) To cover or impregnate with liquid.
- (transitive, informal) To celebrate by drinking alcohol.
- (transitive, intransitive) To make or become wet.
- (US, MLE, MTE, slang) To kill or seriously injure.
- (transitive, soldering) To form an intermetallic bond between a solder and a metal substrate.
adj
- lacking moisture or volatile components
- used of solid substances in contrast with liquid ones
- having no adornment or coloration
- having a large proportion of strong liquor
- unproductive especially of the expected results
- not producing milk
- without a mucous or watery discharge
- free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet
- (of food) eaten without a spread or sauce or other garnish
- lacking warmth or emotional involvement
- (of liquor) having a low residual sugar content because of decomposition of sugar during fermentation
- practicing complete abstinence from alcoholic beverages
- lacking interest or stimulation; dull and lifeless
- opposed to or prohibiting the production and sale of alcoholic beverages
- not shedding tears
- humorously sarcastic or mocking
- (Christianity) Of a mass, service, or rite: involving neither consecration nor communion.
- (figurative) Athirst, eager.
- (poker) Of a board or flop: Not permitting the creation of many or of strong hands.
- Free from or lacking alcohol or alcoholic beverages.
- (fine arts) Exhibiting precise execution lacking delicate contours or soft transitions of color.
- (aviation) Not using afterburners or water injection for increased thrust.
- Lacking interest, boring.
- (of a sound recording) Free from applied audio effects (especially reverb).
- In a dry spell (e.g., unemployed, slow).
- Of a bite from an animal: not containing the usual venom.
- Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness, particularly:
- (law) Describing an area where sales of alcoholic or strong alcoholic beverages are banned.
- (wine and other alcoholic beverages, ginger ale) Low in sugar; lacking sugar; unsweetened.
- Unable to produce a liquid, as water, (petrochemistry) oil, or (agriculture) milk.
- (humor) Amusing without showing amusement.
- (chemistry) Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquids.
- (Malaysia, Singapore, of noodles) Mixed with sauce and not served in a soup.
- Without a usual complement or consummation; impotent.
- (masonry) Built without or lacking mortar.
- Free from or lacking moisture.
- (sciences, somewhat derogatory) Involving computations rather than work with biological or chemical matter.
noun
- a reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages
- (Australia) An area of waterless country.
- (US) A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages).
- (British, UK politics) A radical or hard-line Conservative; especially, one who supported the policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
- (chiefly Australia, with "the") The dry season.
- Unsweetened ginger ale; dry ginger.
- An area with little or no rain, or sheltered from it.
- The process by which something is dried.
verb
adj
- (physical chemistry) Absorbing moisture from the air and forming a solution.
- (especially of certain salts) becoming liquid by absorbing moisture from the air
- (botany) Branching so that the stem is lost in branches, as in most deciduous trees.
- Seeming to melt away.
- (mycology, of the fruiting body of a fungus) Becoming liquid as a phase of its life cycle.
adj
- Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.
- (usually followed by with or on) Elated or emboldened.
- (derogatory) Habitually or frequently in a state of intoxication.
- Intoxicated as a result of excessive alcohol consumption, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.
- as if under the influence of alcohol
- stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol)
adv
noun
verb
adj
- not saturated; capable of dissolving more of a substance at a given temperature
- used of a compound (especially of carbon) containing atoms sharing more than one valence bond
- (of color) not chromatically pure; diluted
- (of a colour) Not chromatically pure; diluted.
- (chemistry) Of a compound containing atoms sharing more than one valence bond, especially of an organic compound having one or more double bonds or triple bonds between carbon atoms.
- (chemistry, of a solution) Not saturated; capable of dissolving more of a solute at the same temperature.
adj
- (comparable) Soaked or drenched with moisture.
- (chemistry) Having all available valence bonds filled; especially of any organic compound containing only single bonds between carbon atoms.
- (mathematics, especially topology, with respect to a function f) Saturated with respect to the equivalence relation x≡y⟺f(x)=f(y) (the kernel, noun sense 10, of f).
- (mathematics, set theory, of a set S, with respect to an equivalence relation ≡) Equal to a union of equivalence classes of ≡; such that if x∈S and x≡y then y∈S.
- (not comparable) Full; unable to hold or contain any more.
- Having a high level of saturation (in various senses).
- (not comparable, chemistry, of a solution) Containing all the solute that can normally be dissolved at a given temperature.
- (computing) Conforming to saturation arithmetic.
- used especially of organic compounds; having all available valence bonds filled
- (of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or grey or black
- being the most concentrated solution possible at a given temperature; unable to dissolve still more of a substance