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verb
noun
- a document or escort providing safe passage through a region especially in time of war
- a precautionary measure warding off impending danger or damage or injury etc.
- One who, or that which, defends or protects; defence; protection.
- A safe-conduct or passport, especially in time of war.
- Something that serves as a guard or protection; a defense.
verb
- accompany as an escort
- conduct someone someplace
- To attend to in order to guard and protect; to accompany as a safeguard (for the person escorted or for others); to give honorable or ceremonious attendance to.
- To go with someone as a partner, for example on a formal date.
- To accompany (a person) in order to compel them to go somewhere (e.g. to leave a building).
- (intransitive) To work as an escort (sex worker).
noun
- someone who escorts and protects a prominent person
- an attendant who is employed to accompany someone
- A guard who travels with a dangerous person, such as a criminal, for the protection of others.
- Protection, care, or safeguard on a journey or excursion.
- a participant in a date
- the act of accompanying someone or something in order to protect them
- A group of people attending as a mark of respect or honor.
- An accompanying person in such a group.
- A group of people or vehicles, generally armed, who go with a person or people of importance to safeguard them on a journey or mission.
- An accompanying person in a social gathering, etc.
- (originally euphemistic) A sex worker who does not operate in a brothel, but with whom clients make appointments; a call girl or male equivalent; a pimp.
verb
noun
- A group of vehicles travelling together for safety, especially one with an escort.
- the act of escorting while in transit
- The act of convoying; protection.
- a procession of land vehicles traveling together
- a collection of merchant ships with an escort of warships
- (nautical) One or more merchant ships sailing in company to the same general destination under the protection of naval vessels.
verb
- accompany or escort
- make walk
- use one's feet to advance; advance by steps
- take a walk; go for a walk; walk for pleasure
- be or act in association with
- obtain a base on balls
- walk at a pace
- give a base on balls to
- live or behave in a specified manner
- traverse or cover by walking
- (machining, intransitive, of a tool, such as a drill bit or reamer) To tend to move radially while feeding axially, whether tending toward on-center or tending toward off-center. Walking may be desirable (e.g., when a reamer walks into concentricity) or undesirable (e.g., when a twist drill walks into eccentricity.)
- (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
- (transitive) To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
- (intransitive) To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.
- (informal, transitive) To move (a guest) to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available on the day of check-in.
- (intransitive) To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the case of animals with four or more feet) forward, with at least one foot on the ground at all times. Compare run.
- (transitive) To cause something to move in such a way.
- (transitive) To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
- (transitive, baseball) To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To leave, resign.
- (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To walk off the field, as if given out, after the fielding side appeals and before the umpire has ruled; done as a matter of sportsmanship when the batsman believes he is out.
- (intransitive, colloquial, law) To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty.
- (intransitive) Of an object or machine, to move by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
- (transitive, historical) To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.
- (transitive) To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
- (intransitive, baseball, of a batter) To reach base by being pitched four balls.
- (transitive, aviation) To operate the left and right throttles of (an aircraft) in alternation.
- (transitive) To full; to beat (cloth) to give it the consistency of felt.
- (intransitive) To go restlessly about; said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, such as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person.
- (transitive) To travel (a distance) by walking.
- (paintball) To pull (a trigger) rapid-fire by alternating two fingers.
noun
- the act of walking somewhere
- manner of walking
- a slow gait of a horse in which two feet are always on the ground
- careers in general
- the act of traveling by foot
- a path set aside for walking
- (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls
- A distance walked.
- (Caribbean, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica) An area of an estate planted with fruit-bearing trees.
- (historical) An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
- (colloquial) Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park.
- A trip made by walking.
- (poker) A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling or raising), once they get their cards.
- (figurative) A person's conduct or course in life.
- A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.
- In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
- (sports) An Olympic Games track event requiring that the heel of the leading foot touch the ground before the toe of the trailing foot leaves the ground.
- (baseball) An award of first base to a batter following four balls being thrown by the pitcher; known in the rules as a "base on balls".
- (historical) A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.
- A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk.
- (graph theory) A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding and following vertices in the sequence. Compare path, trail.
verb
noun
- A type of hood, often ornamental or official, with an attached cape and a tail, later worn as a hat with the face hole put over the top of the head instead.
- An adult who accompanies or supervises one or more young, unmarried men or women during social occasions, usually with the specific intent of preventing some types of social or sexual interactions or illegal behavior.
- A device placed on the foreheads of horses which draw the hearse in pompous funerals.
- one who accompanies and supervises a young woman or gatherings of young people
verb
noun
verb
noun
verb
- bring into safety
- accumulate money for future use
- retain rights to
- refrain from harming
- spend sparingly, avoid the waste of
- spend less; buy at a reduced price
- make unnecessary an expenditure or effort
- save from ruin, destruction, or harm
- to keep up and reserve for personal or special use
- save from sins
- record data on a computer
- (baseball) To preserve, as a relief pitcher, (a win of another pitcher's on one's team) by defending the lead held when the other pitcher left the game.
- (transitive, intransitive, computing, video games) To write a file to disk or other storage medium.
- To keep (something) safe; to safeguard.
- (informal) To avoid saying something.
- (intransitive) To economize or avoid waste.
- (transitive) To obviate or make unnecessary.
- To spare (somebody) from effort, or from something undesirable.
- (transitive) To conserve or prevent the wasting of.
- (reflexive, often with "for") To refrain from romantic or (especially in later use) sexual relationships until one is married or is with a suitable partner.
- (transitive and intransitive) To accumulate money or valuables.
- (transitive) To store for future use.
- (Christianity) To redeem or protect someone from eternal damnation.
- (sports) To catch or deflect (a shot at goal).
- To help (somebody) to survive, or rescue (somebody or something) from harm.
noun
- (sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring
- (roleplaying games) A saving throw.
- An instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.
- (baseball) A successful attempt by a relief pitcher to preserve the win of another pitcher on one's team.
- (professional wrestling, slang) A point in a professional wrestling match when one or more wrestlers run to the ring to aid a fellow wrestler who is being beaten.
- In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring.
- (informal) An action that brings one back out of an awkward situation.
- (computing) The act, process, or result of saving data to a storage medium.
conj
prep
adj
verb
- To escort someone on a date.
- (transitive) To obtain by application by a legal or other official process.
- (idiomatic, slang) To kill or destroy.
- (idiomatic, slang) To stun, amaze; to kill.
- (idiomatic) To immobilize with force; to subdue; to incapacitate.
- To remove.
- (colloquial) To win a sporting event, competition, premiership, etc.
- remove from its packing
- take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy
- take out or remove
- purchase prepared food to be eaten at home
- remove (a commodity) from (a supply source)
- make a date
- prevent from being included or considered or accepted
- bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover
- remove something from a container or an enclosed space
- cause to leave
- obtain by legal or official process
- buy and consume food from a restaurant or establishment that sells prepared food
- remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense
- take liquid out of a container or well
noun
noun
- The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
- a regular route for a sentry or policeman
- (music) The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
- (slang) A makeup look; compare beat one's face.
- The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
- A rhythm.
- A pulsation or throb.
- (journalism) The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
- (authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
- (music) A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
- The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
- (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
- A stroke; a blow.
- (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
- A beatnik.
- the sound of stroke or blow
- a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior
- the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart
- a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations
- the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing
- (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- a regular rate of repetition
- a stroke or blow
- the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music
adj
verb
- (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
- To make a sound when struck.
- To be in agitation or doubt.
- To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
- simple past tense of beat
- (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
- (intransitive, MLE, MTE, slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse.
- (transitive, slang) To rob; to cheat or scam.
- (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
- (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
- (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
- (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
- (especially colloquial) past participle of beat
- To tread, as a path.
- To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
- To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and lesser intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations not perfectly in unison.
- (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.
- (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
- (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
- (transitive) To hit; to strike.
- (transitive, UK, in haggling for a price of a buyer) To persuade the seller to reduce a price.
- move rhythmically
- move with or as if with a regular alternating motion
- strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music
- make a rhythmic sound
- move with a thrashing motion
- produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly
- wear out completely
- stir vigorously
- avoid paying
- hit repeatedly
- be superior
- make a sound like a clock or a timer
- shape by beating
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks
- glare or strike with great intensity
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- make by pounding or trampling
- sail with much tacking or with difficulty
- strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting
- give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression
- beat through cleverness and wit
- move with a flapping motion
adj
noun
- (surveying, countable, informal) A trig point.
- (now chiefly dialectal) A dandy; coxcomb.
- The mark for players at skittles, etc.
- (UK) A stone, block of wood, or anything else, placed under a wheel or barrel to prevent motion; a scotch; a skid.
- (uncountable, informal) Trigonometry.
- (entomology) A cricket in the family Trigonidiidae.
- (medicine, informal) Triglyceride.
- the mathematics of triangles and trigonometric functions
verb
noun
- A guide or escort through an unknown or dangerous area.
- (Australia, road transport) A person authorised to drive such a vehicle during an escort.
- One who flies a kite.
- A pilot light.
- A short plug, sometimes made interchangeable, at the end of a counterbore to guide the tool.
- A person who steers a ship, a helmsman.
- (Australia, road transport, informal) A pilot vehicle.
- (aviation) A person who is in charge of the controls of an aircraft.
- Something serving as a test or trial.
- (mining) The heading or excavation of relatively small dimensions, first made in the driving of a larger tunnel.
- An instrument for detecting the compass error.
- (telecommunications, often attributive) A tone or signal, usually a single frequency, transmitted over a communications system for control or synchronization purposes.
- A guide book for maritime navigation.
- A person who knows well the depths, shoals, and currents of a harbor or coastal area, who is hired by a vessel to help navigate the harbor or coast.
- (television) A sample episode of a proposed TV series produced to decide if it should be made or not. If approved, typically the first episode of an actual TV series.
- (rail transport) A cowcatcher.
- (Europe, motor racing) A racing driver.
- a person qualified to guide ships through difficult waters going into or out of a harbor
- small auxiliary gas burner that provides a flame to ignite a larger gas burner
- something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies
- an inclined metal frame at the front of a locomotive to clear the track
- a program exemplifying a contemplated series; intended to attract sponsors
- someone who is licensed to operate an aircraft in flight
adj
verb
- (transitive) To guide (a vessel) through coastal waters.
- (transitive) To control (an aircraft or watercraft).
- (transitive) To guide or conduct (a person) somewhere.
- (rail transport, of a locomotive) To serve as the leading locomotive on a double-headed train.
- (transitive) To test or have a preliminary trial of (an idea, a new product, television show, etc.)
- act as the navigator in a car, plane, or vessel and plan, direct, plot the path and position of the conveyance
- operate an airplane
noun
- A safeguard.
- A chemical element (symbol Pd) with an atomic number of 46: a rare, lustrous silvery-white metal.
- (countable) A single atom of this element.
- a silver-white metallic element of the platinum group that resembles platinum; occurs in some copper and nickel ores; does not tarnish at ordinary temperatures and is used (alloyed with gold) in jewelry
verb
- (transitive) To wait upon; attend, escort.
- (gambling, transitive) To respond to another player's bet with a bet of equal value.
- To come to a realization of having been mistaken or misled.
- To examine something closely, or to utilize something, often as a temporary alternative.
- (used in the imperative) Used to emphasise a proposition.
- (by extension) Chiefly followed by that: to ensure that something happens, especially by personally witnessing it.
- To have an interview with; especially, to make a call upon; to visit.
- (used in the imperative) To reference or to study for further details.
- (transitive) To perceive or detect someone or something with the eyes, or as if by sight.
- To determine by trial or experiment; to find out (if or whether).
- To witness or observe by personal experience.
- (figuratively) To understand.
- To date frequently.
- To form a mental picture of.
- To include as one of something's experiences.
- To watch (a movie) at a cinema, or a show on television etc.
- (transitive) To foresee, predict, or prophesy.
- To visit for a medical appointment.
- (ergative) To be the setting or time of.
- match or meet
- perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight
- make sense of; assign a meaning to
- observe as if with an eye
- deliberate or decide
- be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something
- perceive or be contemporaneous with
- date regularly; have a steady relationship with
- conduct someone someplace
- find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort
- take charge of or deal with
- perceive (an idea or situation) mentally
- come together
- see and understand, have a good eye
- go to see for professional or business reasons
- deem to be
- imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
- go to see for a social visit
- undergo or live through a difficult experience
- go to see a place, as for entertainment
- get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
- observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect
- see or watch
- receive as a specified guest
intj
noun
- The office of a bishop or archbishop.
- Alternative form of cee; the name of the Latin script letter C/c.
- A diocese or archdiocese: a region of a church, generally headed by a bishop or an archbishop.
- A seat; a site; a place where sovereign, autonomous, or autocephalous power is exercised.
- the seat within a bishop's diocese where the bishop's cathedral is located
noun
- A male escort who accompanies a woman to an event.
- A walking frame or baby walker.
- Alternative form of waulker.
- The agent noun of to walk: a person who walks or a thing which walks, especially a pedestrian or a participant in a walking race.
- (rare) One who walks (takes for a walk).
- (law) A forester.
- (science fiction) A kind of military robot or mecha with legs for locomotion.
- (fiction) A zombie.
- A gressorial bird.
- (cricket) A batsman or batswoman who directly walks off the field when out without waiting for the umpire's decision.
- (often in the plural) A shoe designed for comfortable walking.
- (Philippines) A prostitute, streetwalker.
- a person who travels by foot
- a shoe designed for comfortable walking
- an enclosing framework on casters or wheels; helps babies learn to walk
- a light enclosing framework (trade name Zimmer) with rubber castors or wheels and handles; helps invalids or the handicapped or the aged to walk
verb
noun
- a group that goes through a region at regular intervals for the purpose of security
- the activity of going around or through an area at regular intervals for security purposes
- a detachment used for security or reconnaissance
- (military) A movement, by a small body of troops beyond the line of outposts, to explore the country and gain intelligence of the enemy's whereabouts.
- (military) A going of the rounds along the chain of sentinels and between the posts, by a guard, usually consisting of three or four men, to insure greater security from attacks on the outposts.
- (scouting) A unit of a troop, usually defined by certain ranks or age groups within the troop, and ideally comprised of six to eight members.
- (law enforcement) The largest division of officers within a police department or sheriff's office, whose assignment is to patrol and respond to calls for service.
- Any perambulation of a particular line or district to guard it; also, the people thus guarding.
- (military) The guards who go the rounds for observation; a detachment whose duty it is to patrol.
verb
noun
- the force of policemen and officers
- (Canada, US and historical) A department of local (usually municipal) government responsible for general law enforcement.
- (law enforcement) A constituted body of officers representing the civil authority of government, empowered to maintain public order and safety, enforce the law, and prevent, detect, and investigate crime.
- (Australia, New Zealand) Any of the formally enacted law enforcement agencies at various levels of government.
- (figuratively, usually ironic and mildly derogatory) People who try to enforce norms or standards as if granted authority similar to the police.
- (usually plural only) The staff of such a department or agency, particularly its officers; (regional, chiefly US, Caribbean, Jamaica, Scotland, countable) an individual police officer.
- (military, slang) Cleanup of a military facility, as a formal duty.
- (UK) A branch of the Home Office responsible for general law enforcement within a specific territory.
verb
- maintain in safety from injury, harm, or danger
- hold and prevent from leaving
- supply with room and board
- retain possession of
- prevent the action or expression of
- behave as expected during holidays or rites
- stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state
- to rear
- store or keep customarily
- maintain for use and service
- retain rights to
- look after; be the keeper of; have charge of
- have as a supply
- supply with necessities and support
- fail to spoil or rot
- stick to correctly or closely
- maintain by writing regular records
- cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity
- allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature
- conform one's action or practice to
- continue a certain state, condition, or activity
- prevent (food) from rotting
- (transitive, Singapore, Wales) To put (something) back (to its original location or appropriate place); to put away.
- (transitive) To enter (accounts, records, etc.) in a book.
- (transitive) To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; to not swerve from or violate.
- To have habitually in stock for sale.
- (ditransitive) To maintain the condition of; to preserve in a certain state.
- (transitive) To continue in (a course or mode of action); to not intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain.
- (of living things) To raise; to care for.
- To restrain.
- (transitive) To remain faithful to a given promise or word.
- (transitive) To record transactions, accounts, or events in.
- (intransitive, cricket) To act as wicket-keeper.
- (with from) To watch over, look after, guard, protect.
- To maintain possession of.
- To supply with necessities and financially support (a person).
- To refrain from freely disclosing (a secret).
- To maintain (an establishment or institution); to conduct; to manage.
- To remain edible or otherwise usable.
- To continue.
- (copulative) To remain in a state.
noun
- a cell in a jail or prison
- the financial means whereby one lives
- the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress
- The state of being kept; hence, the resulting condition; case.
- (engineering) A cap for holding something, such as a journal box, in place.
- (historical) The main tower of a castle or fortress, located within the castle walls.
- The food or money required to keep someone alive and healthy; one's support, maintenance.
verb
- maintain in safety from injury, harm, or danger
- keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction
- keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last
- to keep up and reserve for personal or special use
- keep undisturbed for personal or private use for hunting, shooting, or fishing
- prevent (food) from rotting
- To save from decay by the use of some preservative substance, such as sugar or salt; to season and prepare (fruits, meat, etc.) for storage.
- To protect; to keep from harm or injury.
- To maintain throughout; to keep intact.
noun
noun
- An automobile equipped with armour to protect important passengers.
- An armoured truck to transfer valuables between locations, which possesses armour against light firearms
- (law enforcement) An armoured vehicle resistant to small arms fire.
- (military) A small wheeled armoured fighting vehicle.
- a military combat vehicle on wheels with light armor (and usually a machine gun)
- an armor-plated truck with strong doors and locks used to transport money or valuables
noun
- a vehicle performing sentinel duty
- a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work
- a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack
- a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
- a form of military punishment used by the British in the late 17th century in which a soldier was forced to stand on one foot on a pointed stake
- a wooden strip forming part of a fence
- (sometimes figurative) A sentry.
- (military) One of the soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance; or any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.
- (historical) A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.
- A stake driven into the ground.
- (card games, uncountable) The card game piquet.
- A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.
- A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.
verb
- fasten with a picket
- serve as pickets or post pickets
- (intransitive) To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.
- (transitive) To enclose or fortify with pickets or pointed stakes.
- (transitive) To tether to, or as if to, a picket.
- (transitive) To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.
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verb
- proceed along in a vehicle
- force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically
- strive and make an effort to reach a goal
- cause to move rapidly by striking or throwing with force
- cause to move back by force or influence
- (hunting) chase from cover into more open ground
- cause someone or something to move by driving
- move by being propelled by a force
- operate or control a vehicle
- to compel or force or urge relentlessly or exert coercive pressure on, or motivate strongly
- (hunting) search for game
- move into a desired direction of discourse
- push, propel, or press with force
- work as a driver
- excavate horizontally
- cause to function by supplying the force or power for or by controlling
- urge forward
- travel or be transported in a vehicle
- strike with a driver, as in teeing off
- have certain properties when driven
- compel somebody to do something, often against their own will or judgment
- hit very hard, as by swinging a bat horizontally
- (transitive) To cause (a mechanism) to operate.
- (intransitive) To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.
- (transitive, slang, aviation) To operate (an aircraft); to pilot.
- (intransitive) To move forcefully.
- (transitive) To separate the lighter (feathers or down) from the heavier, by exposing them to a current of air.
- (transitive) (especially animals) To cause to flee out of.
- (transitive, intransitive) To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.
- (transitive) To compel, exert pressure, coerce (to do something).
- (intransitive, sports, cricket, tennis, baseball) To hit the ball with a drive.
- (transitive) To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
- (transitive) To displace either physically or non-physically, through the application of force.
- To be the dominant party in a sex act.
- (transitive) To convey (a person, etc.) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.
- (transitive) To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.
- (transitive) (especially of animals) To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.
- (transitive) To cause to become.
- (transitive, ergative) To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).
- (transitive) To motivate through the application or demonstration of force; to impel or urge onward in such a way.
- (transitive) To provide an impetus for motion or other physical change, to move an object by means of the provision of force thereto.
- (transitive) To motivate; to provide an incentive for.
- (mining) To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
- (American football) To put together a drive (n.): to string together offensive plays and advance the ball down the field.
- (intransitive) To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship).
- (transitive) To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
- (transitive) To provide an impetus for a change in one's situation or state of mind.
noun
- the act of applying force to propel something
- a mechanism by which force or power is transmitted in a machine
- hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver
- a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
- a wide scenic road planted with trees
- the act of driving a herd of animals overland
- the trait of being highly motivated
- a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile)
- (computer science) a device that writes data onto or reads data from a storage medium
- a physiological state corresponding to a strong need or desire
- (sports) a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash)
- a road leading up to a private house
- (American football) An offensive possession, generally one consisting of several plays and/ or first downs, often leading to a scoring opportunity.
- (retail) A campaign aimed at selling more of a certain product or promoting a public service.
- (golf) A stroke made with a driver.
- (philanthropy) A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive.
- (soccer) A straight level shot or pass.
- (typography) An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift.
- An act of driving livestock animals forward, to transport a herd.
- (psychology) Desire or interest.
- A mechanism used to power or give motion to a vehicle or other machine or machine part.
- A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.
- A trip made in a vehicle (now generally in a motor vehicle).
- (automotive) The gear into which one usually shifts an automatic transmission when one is driving a car or truck. (Denoted with symbol D on a shifter's labeling.)
- Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; (especially) a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
- Planned, usually long-lasting, effort to achieve something; ability coupled with ambition, determination, and motivation.
- (computer hardware) An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk.
- (military) A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take an objective.
- (computer hardware) A mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with the mechanism for storing data.
- A type of public roadway.
- (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a vertical arc, through the line of the ball, and hitting it along the ground, normally between cover and midwicket.
- (baseball, tennis) A ball struck in a flat trajectory.
- An act of driving game animals forward, to be captured or hunted.
- A driveway.
- (UK, especially Bristol and Wales, slang) Friendly term of address for a bus driver.
verb
- proceed along in a vehicle
- admit into a group or community
- take into consideration for exemplifying purposes
- assume, as of positions or roles
- take somebody somewhere
- experience or feel or submit to
- develop a habit; apply oneself to a practice or occupation
- receive or obtain regularly
- serve oneself to, or consume regularly
- take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect
- be a student of a certain subject
- be seized or affected in a specified way
- point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards
- take something or somebody with oneself somewhere
- accept or undergo, often unwillingly
- ascertain or determine by measuring, computing or take a reading from a dial
- make use of or accept for some purpose
- remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
- get into one's hands, take physically
- be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
- travel or go by means of a certain kind of transportation, or a certain route
- be designed to hold or take
- take into one's possession
- have with oneself; have on one's person
- require (time or space)
- interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression
- obtain by winning
- lay claim to; as of an idea
- occupy or take on
- require as useful, just, or proper
- buy, select
- head into a specified direction
- make a film or photograph of something
- to get into a position of having, e.g., safety, comfort
- receive willingly something given or offered
- carry out
- pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives
- take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs
- engage for service under a term of contract
- conquer by force
- have sex with; archaic use
- be capable of holding or containing
- (transitive, cricket) To catch the ball; especially as a wicket-keeper and after the batsman has missed or edged it.
- (transitive) To carry or lead (something or someone).
- (of a plant, etc.) To begin to grow after being grafted or planted; to (literally or figuratively) take root, take hold.
- (transitive) To bind oneself by.
- (transitive) To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
- (transitive) To avail oneself of; to exploit.
- (transitive) To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
- (transitive) To experience or feel.
- (transitive) To receive or accept (something) as payment or compensation.
- (reflexive) To go.
- (transitive) To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
- (transitive) To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
- (intransitive, dialectal, proscribed) An intensifier.
- (transitive) To receive or accept (something, especially something which was given).
- (transitive) To assume and undertake the duties of (a job, an office, etc.).
- (transitive) To assume (a form).
- (transitive) To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
- (transitive) To fill or require: to last or expend (an amount of time).
- (transitive) To exact.
- (transitive) To proceed to fill.
- (transitive) To accept and follow (advice, etc.).
- (transitive) To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
- (transitive, mathematics, computing) To accept (zero or more arguments).
- (transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
- (of ink, dye, etc.) To adhere or be absorbed properly.
- (transitive) To adopt (select) as one's own.
- (transitive) To go into, through, or along.
- (transitive) To believe, to accept the statements of.
- (transitive) To seize or capture.
- (transitive) To participate in.
- (transitive) To suffer; to endure (a hardship or damage).
- (transitive, of a ship) To let in (water).
- (transitive, baseball) To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow to pass.
- (transitive) To perform (a role).
- (transitive) To receive into some relationship.
- (transitive) To catch or contract (an illness, etc.).
- (transitive) To receive (medicine or drugs) into one's body, e.g. by inhalation or swallowing; to ingest.
- (transitive) To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
- (transitive) To pass (or attempt to pass) through or around.
- (intransitive, copulative) To become; to be affected in a specified way.
- (transitive, of a material) To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc.); to be susceptible to being treated by (polish, etc.).
- (transitive) To accept, be given (rightly or wrongly), or assume (especially as if by right).
- (transitive) To obtain or receive regularly by (paid) subscription.
- (transitive, especially of a vehicle) To transport or carry; to convey to another place.
- (transitive) To use as a means of transportation.
- (transitive) To submit to; to endure (without ill humor, resentment, or physical failure).
- (transitive) To obtain for use by payment or lease.
- (of a mechanical device) To catch; to engage.
- (transitive) To appropriate or transfer into one's own possession, sometimes by physically carrying off.
- (transitive, of a path, road, etc.) To lead (to a place); to serve as a means of reaching.
- (transitive, grammar) To have to be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc.).
- (transitive) To undergo; to put oneself into, to be subjected to.
- (transitive) To practice; perform; execute; carry out; do.
- (transitive) To have sex with.
- (transitive) To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
- (transitive) To remove or end by death; to kill.
- (transitive) To subtract.
- Used in phrasal verbs: take in, take off, take on, take out, take to, take something to, take up.
- (transitive) To go or move into.
- (transitive) To fill, occupy, require, or use up (space).
- (transitive) To understand (especially in a specified way).
- (transitive) To select or choose; to pick.
- (transitive) To remove.
- (transitive) To require (a person, resource or thing in order to achieve an outcome).
- (transitive) To grasp or grip.
- (transitive) To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
- (transitive) To capture or win (a piece or trick) in a game.
- (transitive) To deal with.
- (transitive) To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
- (transitive) To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
- (transitive) To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
- (transitive, Greece, Cyprus, informal) To buy.
- (intransitive) To engage, take hold or have effect.
- (transitive, intransitive, law) To receive or acquire (property) by law (e.g. as an heir).
- (transitive) To regard in a specified way.
- (intransitive) To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
- (transitive) To escort or conduct (a person).
- (transitive, now chiefly by enrolling in a class or course) To apply oneself to the study of.
- (transitive) To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
- (transitive) To have and use one's recourse to.
- (transitive) To catch or get possession of (fish or game).
noun
- the act of photographing a scene or part of a scene without interruption
- the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property
- Money that is taken in, (legal or illegal) proceeds, income; (in particular) profits; takings.
- (medicine) An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
- (film) A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a scene.
- (music) A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
- (rugby, cricket) A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
- A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response to an event.
- (printing) The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.
- The or an act of taking.
- An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
- An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective; a statement expressing such a position.
- The or a quantity of fish, game animals or pelts, etc which have been taken at one time; catch.
verb
- (transitive) To guide or escort.
- (transitive) To bestow; to confer.
- (intransitive, card games) To reveal one's hand of cards.
- (intransitive, informal) To have an enlarged belly and thus be recognizable as pregnant.
- (intransitive) To be visible; to be seen; to appear.
- (intransitive, motor racing) To finish third, especially of horses or dogs.
- (transitive) To indicate (a fact) to be true; to demonstrate.
- (intransitive, informal) To put in an appearance; show up.
- (transitive) To display, to have somebody see (something).
- show in, or as in, a picture
- give expression to
- indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments
- give evidence of, as of records
- establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment
- be or become visible or noticeable
- finish third or better in a horse or dog race
- give an exhibition of to an interested audience
- indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively
- make visible or noticeable
- provide evidence for
- take (someone) to their seats, as in theaters or auditoriums
noun
- (uncountable) Mere display or pomp with no substance. (Usually seen in the phrases "all show" and "for show".)
- A project or presentation.
- (Australia, New Zealand, countable) An agricultural exhibition.
- (military, slang) A battle; local conflict.
- Synonym of shive (“wood fragment of the husk of flax or hemp”).
- (countable) A demonstration.
- (countable) A play, dance, or other entertainment.
- (countable) A movie.
- (countable) A broadcast program, especially a light entertainment program.
- (medicine) A discharge, from the vagina, of mucus streaked with blood, occurring a short time before labor.
- (baseball, with "the") The major leagues.
- Outward appearance; wileful or deceptive appearance.
- (countable) An exhibition of items.
- pretending that something is the case in order to make a good impression
- an act or social event involving a public performance or entertainment
- something intended to communicate a particular impression
noun
- a safe place
- act of turning to for assistance
- something or someone turned to for assistance or security
- a shelter from danger or hardship
- A state of safety, protection or shelter.
- An expedient to secure protection or defence.
- A place providing safety, protection or shelter.
- A refuge island.
- Something or someone turned to for safety or assistance; a recourse or resort.
verb
noun
- a safe place
- contraceptive device consisting of a sheath of thin rubber or latex that is worn over the penis during intercourse
- a score in American football; a player is tackled behind their own goal line
- a device designed to prevent injury or accidents
- the state of being certain that adverse effects will not be caused by some agent under defined conditions
- (baseball) the successful act of striking a baseball in such a way that the batter reaches base safely
- Preservation from escape; close custody.
- The condition or feeling of being safe; security; certainty.
- (American football) An instance of a player being sacked or tackled in the end zone, or stepping out of the end zone and off the field, resulting in two points to the opposite team.
- (American football) Any of the defensive players who are in position furthest from the line of scrimmage and whose responsibility is to defend against passes as well as to be the tacklers of last resort.
- (mechanics) A safety lock or safety catch: a mechanism on a weapon or dangerous equipment designed to prevent accidental firing or operation.
- (baseball) A safety squeeze.
- (snooker) A safety shot or sequence of such shots.
verb
noun
- a regular route for a sentry or policeman
- (sports) a division of a game during which one team is on the offensive
- an outburst of applause
- any circular or rotating mechanism
- the course along which communications spread
- the activity of playing 18 holes of golf
- a partsong in which voices follow each other; one voice starts and others join in one after another until all are singing different parts of the song at the same time
- a cut of beef between the rump and the lower leg
- a charge of ammunition for a single shot
- (often plural) a series of professional calls (usually in a set order)
- a serving to each of a group (usually alcoholic)
- a crosspiece between the legs of a chair
- the usual activities in your day
- an interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs
- Rotation, as in office; succession.
- A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole.
- (sports) One of the specified pre-determined segments of the total time of a sport event, such as a boxing or wrestling match, during which contestants compete before being signaled to stop.
- A series of changes or events ending where it began; a series of like events recurring in continuance; a cycle; a periodical revolution.
- A general outburst from a group of people at an event.
- (butchery) The hindquarters of a bovine; a round of beef.
- A course of action or conduct performed by a number of persons in turn, or one after another, as if seated in a circle.
- A general discharge of firearms by a body of troops in which each soldier fires once.
- (engineering, drafting, CAD) A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an outside edge, added for a finished appearance and to soften sharp edges.
- A firearm cartridge, bullet, or any individual ammunition projectile. Originally referring to the spherical projectile ball of a smoothbore firearm. Compare round shot and solid shot.
- (UK) One slice of bread.
- A strip of material with a circular face that covers an edge, gap, or crevice for decorative, sanitary, or security purposes.
- (art) A long-bristled, circular-headed paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting.
- (countable, music) A song that is sung by groups of people with each subset of people starting at a different time.
- A circular or repetitious route.
- (sports) In some sports, e.g. golf or showjumping: one complete way around the course.
- A crosspiece that joins and braces the legs of a chair.
- A circular dance.
- (nautical) A round-top.
- A series of duties or tasks which must be performed in turn, and then repeated.
- A serving of something; a portion of something to each person in a group.
- (card games) The play after each deal.
- One sandwich (two full slices of bread with filling).
- (sports) A stage in a competition.
- An assembly; a group; a circle.
- (video games) A stage or level of a game.
- A circular or spherical object or part of an object.
- A single individual portion or dose of medicine.
adj
- (of sounds) full and rich
- having the shape or form of a circle
- (mathematics) expressed to the nearest integer, ten, hundred, or thousand
- Circular or cylindrical; having a circular cross-section in one direction.
- Complete, whole, not lacking.
- Outspoken; plain and direct; unreserved; not mincing words.
- Returning to its starting point.
- Finished; polished; not defective or abrupt; said of authors or their writing style.
- (phonetics) Pronounced with the lips drawn together; rounded.
- Spherical; shaped like a ball; having a circular cross-section in more than one direction.
- (architecture) Vaulted.
- Lacking sharp angles; having gentle curves.
- Plump.
- (authorship, of a fictional character) Well-written and well-characterized; complex and reminiscent of a real person.
- Loosely or approximately circular.
- Large in magnitude.
- (of a number) Convenient for rounding other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero.
adv
verb
- make round
- become round, plump, or shapely
- pronounce with rounded lips
- express as a round number
- wind around; move along a circular course
- attack in speech or writing
- bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state
- (intransitive) To turn and attack someone or something (used with on).
- (with "out") To finish; to complete; to fill out; see also round out.
- To grow round or full; hence, to attain to fullness, completeness, or perfection.
- (medicine, colloquial) To do ward rounds.
- (transitive) To turn past a boundary.
- (transitive) To shape something into a curve.
- To encircle; to encompass.
- (transitive, baseball) To advance to home plate.
- (intransitive) To become shaped into a curve.
- (transitive, intransitive) To approximate (a number, especially a decimal number) by the closest whole number, or some other close number, especially a whole number of hundreds, thousands, etc.; see also round down, round up.
- (transitive) To go round, pass, go past.
prep
verb
noun
- (science fiction) An emergency vehicle carried aboard a spaceship.
- (nautical) A boat especially designed for saving the lives of shipwrecked people or people in distress at sea (either launched from the shore with a crew, or else carried on board a larger ship).
- a strong sea boat designed to rescue people from a sinking ship
verb
noun
- A group of vehicles travelling together for safety, especially one with an escort.
- the act of escorting while in transit
- The act of convoying; protection.
- a procession of land vehicles traveling together
- a collection of merchant ships with an escort of warships
- (nautical) One or more merchant ships sailing in company to the same general destination under the protection of naval vessels.
verb
- accompany as an escort
- conduct someone someplace
- To attend to in order to guard and protect; to accompany as a safeguard (for the person escorted or for others); to give honorable or ceremonious attendance to.
- To go with someone as a partner, for example on a formal date.
- To accompany (a person) in order to compel them to go somewhere (e.g. to leave a building).
- (intransitive) To work as an escort (sex worker).
noun
- someone who escorts and protects a prominent person
- an attendant who is employed to accompany someone
- A guard who travels with a dangerous person, such as a criminal, for the protection of others.
- Protection, care, or safeguard on a journey or excursion.
- a participant in a date
- the act of accompanying someone or something in order to protect them
- A group of people attending as a mark of respect or honor.
- An accompanying person in such a group.
- A group of people or vehicles, generally armed, who go with a person or people of importance to safeguard them on a journey or mission.
- An accompanying person in a social gathering, etc.
- (originally euphemistic) A sex worker who does not operate in a brothel, but with whom clients make appointments; a call girl or male equivalent; a pimp.
verb
noun
- a document or escort providing safe passage through a region especially in time of war
- a precautionary measure warding off impending danger or damage or injury etc.
- One who, or that which, defends or protects; defence; protection.
- A safe-conduct or passport, especially in time of war.
- Something that serves as a guard or protection; a defense.
noun
- The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
- a regular route for a sentry or policeman
- (music) The rhythm signalled by a conductor or other musician to the members of a group of musicians.
- (slang) A makeup look; compare beat one's face.
- The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
- A rhythm.
- A pulsation or throb.
- (journalism) The primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
- (authorship) A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
- (music) A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
- The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
- (hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.
- A stroke; a blow.
- (fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.
- A beatnik.
- the sound of stroke or blow
- a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior
- the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart
- a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations
- the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing
- (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
- a regular rate of repetition
- a stroke or blow
- the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music
adj
verb
- (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
- To make a sound when struck.
- To be in agitation or doubt.
- To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
- simple past tense of beat
- (military, intransitive) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
- (intransitive, MLE, MTE, slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse.
- (transitive, slang) To rob; to cheat or scam.
- (transitive) To arrive at a place before someone.
- (intransitive) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
- (intransitive) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
- (transitive) To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
- (especially colloquial) past participle of beat
- To tread, as a path.
- To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
- To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and lesser intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations not perfectly in unison.
- (transitive) To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do or be better than (someone); to excel in a particular, competitive event.
- (transitive) To indicate by beating or drumming.
- (transitive) To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
- (transitive) To hit; to strike.
- (transitive, UK, in haggling for a price of a buyer) To persuade the seller to reduce a price.
- move rhythmically
- move with or as if with a regular alternating motion
- strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music
- make a rhythmic sound
- move with a thrashing motion
- produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly
- wear out completely
- stir vigorously
- avoid paying
- hit repeatedly
- be superior
- make a sound like a clock or a timer
- shape by beating
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks
- glare or strike with great intensity
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- make by pounding or trampling
- sail with much tacking or with difficulty
- strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting
- give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression
- beat through cleverness and wit
- move with a flapping motion
noun
- A guide or escort through an unknown or dangerous area.
- (Australia, road transport) A person authorised to drive such a vehicle during an escort.
- One who flies a kite.
- A pilot light.
- A short plug, sometimes made interchangeable, at the end of a counterbore to guide the tool.
- A person who steers a ship, a helmsman.
- (Australia, road transport, informal) A pilot vehicle.
- (aviation) A person who is in charge of the controls of an aircraft.
- Something serving as a test or trial.
- (mining) The heading or excavation of relatively small dimensions, first made in the driving of a larger tunnel.
- An instrument for detecting the compass error.
- (telecommunications, often attributive) A tone or signal, usually a single frequency, transmitted over a communications system for control or synchronization purposes.
- A guide book for maritime navigation.
- A person who knows well the depths, shoals, and currents of a harbor or coastal area, who is hired by a vessel to help navigate the harbor or coast.
- (television) A sample episode of a proposed TV series produced to decide if it should be made or not. If approved, typically the first episode of an actual TV series.
- (rail transport) A cowcatcher.
- (Europe, motor racing) A racing driver.
- a person qualified to guide ships through difficult waters going into or out of a harbor
- small auxiliary gas burner that provides a flame to ignite a larger gas burner
- something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies
- an inclined metal frame at the front of a locomotive to clear the track
- a program exemplifying a contemplated series; intended to attract sponsors
- someone who is licensed to operate an aircraft in flight
adj
verb
- (transitive) To guide (a vessel) through coastal waters.
- (transitive) To control (an aircraft or watercraft).
- (transitive) To guide or conduct (a person) somewhere.
- (rail transport, of a locomotive) To serve as the leading locomotive on a double-headed train.
- (transitive) To test or have a preliminary trial of (an idea, a new product, television show, etc.)
- act as the navigator in a car, plane, or vessel and plan, direct, plot the path and position of the conveyance
- operate an airplane
noun
- A safeguard.
- A chemical element (symbol Pd) with an atomic number of 46: a rare, lustrous silvery-white metal.
- (countable) A single atom of this element.
- a silver-white metallic element of the platinum group that resembles platinum; occurs in some copper and nickel ores; does not tarnish at ordinary temperatures and is used (alloyed with gold) in jewelry
noun
- A male escort who accompanies a woman to an event.
- A walking frame or baby walker.
- Alternative form of waulker.
- The agent noun of to walk: a person who walks or a thing which walks, especially a pedestrian or a participant in a walking race.
- (rare) One who walks (takes for a walk).
- (law) A forester.
- (science fiction) A kind of military robot or mecha with legs for locomotion.
- (fiction) A zombie.
- A gressorial bird.
- (cricket) A batsman or batswoman who directly walks off the field when out without waiting for the umpire's decision.
- (often in the plural) A shoe designed for comfortable walking.
- (Philippines) A prostitute, streetwalker.
- a person who travels by foot
- a shoe designed for comfortable walking
- an enclosing framework on casters or wheels; helps babies learn to walk
- a light enclosing framework (trade name Zimmer) with rubber castors or wheels and handles; helps invalids or the handicapped or the aged to walk
noun
- An automobile equipped with armour to protect important passengers.
- An armoured truck to transfer valuables between locations, which possesses armour against light firearms
- (law enforcement) An armoured vehicle resistant to small arms fire.
- (military) A small wheeled armoured fighting vehicle.
- a military combat vehicle on wheels with light armor (and usually a machine gun)
- an armor-plated truck with strong doors and locks used to transport money or valuables
noun
- a vehicle performing sentinel duty
- a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work
- a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack
- a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
- a form of military punishment used by the British in the late 17th century in which a soldier was forced to stand on one foot on a pointed stake
- a wooden strip forming part of a fence
- (sometimes figurative) A sentry.
- (military) One of the soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance; or any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.
- (historical) A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.
- A stake driven into the ground.
- (card games, uncountable) The card game piquet.
- A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.
- A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.
verb
- fasten with a picket
- serve as pickets or post pickets
- (intransitive) To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.
- (transitive) To enclose or fortify with pickets or pointed stakes.
- (transitive) To tether to, or as if to, a picket.
- (transitive) To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.
noun
- a safe place
- act of turning to for assistance
- something or someone turned to for assistance or security
- a shelter from danger or hardship
- A state of safety, protection or shelter.
- An expedient to secure protection or defence.
- A place providing safety, protection or shelter.
- A refuge island.
- Something or someone turned to for safety or assistance; a recourse or resort.
verb
noun
- a safe place
- contraceptive device consisting of a sheath of thin rubber or latex that is worn over the penis during intercourse
- a score in American football; a player is tackled behind their own goal line
- a device designed to prevent injury or accidents
- the state of being certain that adverse effects will not be caused by some agent under defined conditions
- (baseball) the successful act of striking a baseball in such a way that the batter reaches base safely
- Preservation from escape; close custody.
- The condition or feeling of being safe; security; certainty.
- (American football) An instance of a player being sacked or tackled in the end zone, or stepping out of the end zone and off the field, resulting in two points to the opposite team.
- (American football) Any of the defensive players who are in position furthest from the line of scrimmage and whose responsibility is to defend against passes as well as to be the tacklers of last resort.
- (mechanics) A safety lock or safety catch: a mechanism on a weapon or dangerous equipment designed to prevent accidental firing or operation.
- (baseball) A safety squeeze.
- (snooker) A safety shot or sequence of such shots.
verb
noun
- a regular route for a sentry or policeman
- (sports) a division of a game during which one team is on the offensive
- an outburst of applause
- any circular or rotating mechanism
- the course along which communications spread
- the activity of playing 18 holes of golf
- a partsong in which voices follow each other; one voice starts and others join in one after another until all are singing different parts of the song at the same time
- a cut of beef between the rump and the lower leg
- a charge of ammunition for a single shot
- (often plural) a series of professional calls (usually in a set order)
- a serving to each of a group (usually alcoholic)
- a crosspiece between the legs of a chair
- the usual activities in your day
- an interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs
- Rotation, as in office; succession.
- A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole.
- (sports) One of the specified pre-determined segments of the total time of a sport event, such as a boxing or wrestling match, during which contestants compete before being signaled to stop.
- A series of changes or events ending where it began; a series of like events recurring in continuance; a cycle; a periodical revolution.
- A general outburst from a group of people at an event.
- (butchery) The hindquarters of a bovine; a round of beef.
- A course of action or conduct performed by a number of persons in turn, or one after another, as if seated in a circle.
- A general discharge of firearms by a body of troops in which each soldier fires once.
- (engineering, drafting, CAD) A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an outside edge, added for a finished appearance and to soften sharp edges.
- A firearm cartridge, bullet, or any individual ammunition projectile. Originally referring to the spherical projectile ball of a smoothbore firearm. Compare round shot and solid shot.
- (UK) One slice of bread.
- A strip of material with a circular face that covers an edge, gap, or crevice for decorative, sanitary, or security purposes.
- (art) A long-bristled, circular-headed paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting.
- (countable, music) A song that is sung by groups of people with each subset of people starting at a different time.
- A circular or repetitious route.
- (sports) In some sports, e.g. golf or showjumping: one complete way around the course.
- A crosspiece that joins and braces the legs of a chair.
- A circular dance.
- (nautical) A round-top.
- A series of duties or tasks which must be performed in turn, and then repeated.
- A serving of something; a portion of something to each person in a group.
- (card games) The play after each deal.
- One sandwich (two full slices of bread with filling).
- (sports) A stage in a competition.
- An assembly; a group; a circle.
- (video games) A stage or level of a game.
- A circular or spherical object or part of an object.
- A single individual portion or dose of medicine.
adj
- (of sounds) full and rich
- having the shape or form of a circle
- (mathematics) expressed to the nearest integer, ten, hundred, or thousand
- Circular or cylindrical; having a circular cross-section in one direction.
- Complete, whole, not lacking.
- Outspoken; plain and direct; unreserved; not mincing words.
- Returning to its starting point.
- Finished; polished; not defective or abrupt; said of authors or their writing style.
- (phonetics) Pronounced with the lips drawn together; rounded.
- Spherical; shaped like a ball; having a circular cross-section in more than one direction.
- (architecture) Vaulted.
- Lacking sharp angles; having gentle curves.
- Plump.
- (authorship, of a fictional character) Well-written and well-characterized; complex and reminiscent of a real person.
- Loosely or approximately circular.
- Large in magnitude.
- (of a number) Convenient for rounding other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero.
adv
verb
- make round
- become round, plump, or shapely
- pronounce with rounded lips
- express as a round number
- wind around; move along a circular course
- attack in speech or writing
- bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state
- (intransitive) To turn and attack someone or something (used with on).
- (with "out") To finish; to complete; to fill out; see also round out.
- To grow round or full; hence, to attain to fullness, completeness, or perfection.
- (medicine, colloquial) To do ward rounds.
- (transitive) To turn past a boundary.
- (transitive) To shape something into a curve.
- To encircle; to encompass.
- (transitive, baseball) To advance to home plate.
- (intransitive) To become shaped into a curve.
- (transitive, intransitive) To approximate (a number, especially a decimal number) by the closest whole number, or some other close number, especially a whole number of hundreds, thousands, etc.; see also round down, round up.
- (transitive) To go round, pass, go past.
prep
verb
noun
- a document or escort providing safe passage through a region especially in time of war
- a precautionary measure warding off impending danger or damage or injury etc.
- One who, or that which, defends or protects; defence; protection.
- A safe-conduct or passport, especially in time of war.
- Something that serves as a guard or protection; a defense.
verb
- accompany as an escort
- conduct someone someplace
- To attend to in order to guard and protect; to accompany as a safeguard (for the person escorted or for others); to give honorable or ceremonious attendance to.
- To go with someone as a partner, for example on a formal date.
- To accompany (a person) in order to compel them to go somewhere (e.g. to leave a building).
- (intransitive) To work as an escort (sex worker).
noun
- someone who escorts and protects a prominent person
- an attendant who is employed to accompany someone
- A guard who travels with a dangerous person, such as a criminal, for the protection of others.
- Protection, care, or safeguard on a journey or excursion.
- a participant in a date
- the act of accompanying someone or something in order to protect them
- A group of people attending as a mark of respect or honor.
- An accompanying person in such a group.
- A group of people or vehicles, generally armed, who go with a person or people of importance to safeguard them on a journey or mission.
- An accompanying person in a social gathering, etc.
- (originally euphemistic) A sex worker who does not operate in a brothel, but with whom clients make appointments; a call girl or male equivalent; a pimp.
verb
noun
- A group of vehicles travelling together for safety, especially one with an escort.
- the act of escorting while in transit
- The act of convoying; protection.
- a procession of land vehicles traveling together
- a collection of merchant ships with an escort of warships
- (nautical) One or more merchant ships sailing in company to the same general destination under the protection of naval vessels.
verb
- accompany or escort
- make walk
- use one's feet to advance; advance by steps
- take a walk; go for a walk; walk for pleasure
- be or act in association with
- obtain a base on balls
- walk at a pace
- give a base on balls to
- live or behave in a specified manner
- traverse or cover by walking
- (machining, intransitive, of a tool, such as a drill bit or reamer) To tend to move radially while feeding axially, whether tending toward on-center or tending toward off-center. Walking may be desirable (e.g., when a reamer walks into concentricity) or undesirable (e.g., when a twist drill walks into eccentricity.)
- (intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
- (transitive) To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
- (intransitive) To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.
- (informal, transitive) To move (a guest) to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available on the day of check-in.
- (intransitive) To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the case of animals with four or more feet) forward, with at least one foot on the ground at all times. Compare run.
- (transitive) To cause something to move in such a way.
- (transitive) To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
- (transitive, baseball) To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To leave, resign.
- (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To walk off the field, as if given out, after the fielding side appeals and before the umpire has ruled; done as a matter of sportsmanship when the batsman believes he is out.
- (intransitive, colloquial, law) To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty.
- (intransitive) Of an object or machine, to move by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
- (transitive, historical) To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.
- (transitive) To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
- (intransitive, baseball, of a batter) To reach base by being pitched four balls.
- (transitive, aviation) To operate the left and right throttles of (an aircraft) in alternation.
- (transitive) To full; to beat (cloth) to give it the consistency of felt.
- (intransitive) To go restlessly about; said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, such as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person.
- (transitive) To travel (a distance) by walking.
- (paintball) To pull (a trigger) rapid-fire by alternating two fingers.
noun
- the act of walking somewhere
- manner of walking
- a slow gait of a horse in which two feet are always on the ground
- careers in general
- the act of traveling by foot
- a path set aside for walking
- (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls
- A distance walked.
- (Caribbean, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica) An area of an estate planted with fruit-bearing trees.
- (historical) An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
- (colloquial) Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park.
- A trip made by walking.
- (poker) A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling or raising), once they get their cards.
- (figurative) A person's conduct or course in life.
- A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.
- In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
- (sports) An Olympic Games track event requiring that the heel of the leading foot touch the ground before the toe of the trailing foot leaves the ground.
- (baseball) An award of first base to a batter following four balls being thrown by the pitcher; known in the rules as a "base on balls".
- (historical) A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.
- A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk.
- (graph theory) A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding and following vertices in the sequence. Compare path, trail.
verb
noun
- A type of hood, often ornamental or official, with an attached cape and a tail, later worn as a hat with the face hole put over the top of the head instead.
- An adult who accompanies or supervises one or more young, unmarried men or women during social occasions, usually with the specific intent of preventing some types of social or sexual interactions or illegal behavior.
- A device placed on the foreheads of horses which draw the hearse in pompous funerals.
- one who accompanies and supervises a young woman or gatherings of young people
verb
noun
verb
noun
verb
- bring into safety
- accumulate money for future use
- retain rights to
- refrain from harming
- spend sparingly, avoid the waste of
- spend less; buy at a reduced price
- make unnecessary an expenditure or effort
- save from ruin, destruction, or harm
- to keep up and reserve for personal or special use
- save from sins
- record data on a computer
- (baseball) To preserve, as a relief pitcher, (a win of another pitcher's on one's team) by defending the lead held when the other pitcher left the game.
- (transitive, intransitive, computing, video games) To write a file to disk or other storage medium.
- To keep (something) safe; to safeguard.
- (informal) To avoid saying something.
- (intransitive) To economize or avoid waste.
- (transitive) To obviate or make unnecessary.
- To spare (somebody) from effort, or from something undesirable.
- (transitive) To conserve or prevent the wasting of.
- (reflexive, often with "for") To refrain from romantic or (especially in later use) sexual relationships until one is married or is with a suitable partner.
- (transitive and intransitive) To accumulate money or valuables.
- (transitive) To store for future use.
- (Christianity) To redeem or protect someone from eternal damnation.
- (sports) To catch or deflect (a shot at goal).
- To help (somebody) to survive, or rescue (somebody or something) from harm.
noun
- (sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring
- (roleplaying games) A saving throw.
- An instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.
- (baseball) A successful attempt by a relief pitcher to preserve the win of another pitcher on one's team.
- (professional wrestling, slang) A point in a professional wrestling match when one or more wrestlers run to the ring to aid a fellow wrestler who is being beaten.
- In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring.
- (informal) An action that brings one back out of an awkward situation.
- (computing) The act, process, or result of saving data to a storage medium.
conj
prep
verb
- To escort someone on a date.
- (transitive) To obtain by application by a legal or other official process.
- (idiomatic, slang) To kill or destroy.
- (idiomatic, slang) To stun, amaze; to kill.
- (idiomatic) To immobilize with force; to subdue; to incapacitate.
- To remove.
- (colloquial) To win a sporting event, competition, premiership, etc.
- remove from its packing
- take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy
- take out or remove
- purchase prepared food to be eaten at home
- remove (a commodity) from (a supply source)
- make a date
- prevent from being included or considered or accepted
- bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover
- remove something from a container or an enclosed space
- cause to leave
- obtain by legal or official process
- buy and consume food from a restaurant or establishment that sells prepared food
- remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense
- take liquid out of a container or well
noun
verb
- (transitive) To wait upon; attend, escort.
- (gambling, transitive) To respond to another player's bet with a bet of equal value.
- To come to a realization of having been mistaken or misled.
- To examine something closely, or to utilize something, often as a temporary alternative.
- (used in the imperative) Used to emphasise a proposition.
- (by extension) Chiefly followed by that: to ensure that something happens, especially by personally witnessing it.
- To have an interview with; especially, to make a call upon; to visit.
- (used in the imperative) To reference or to study for further details.
- (transitive) To perceive or detect someone or something with the eyes, or as if by sight.
- To determine by trial or experiment; to find out (if or whether).
- To witness or observe by personal experience.
- (figuratively) To understand.
- To date frequently.
- To form a mental picture of.
- To include as one of something's experiences.
- To watch (a movie) at a cinema, or a show on television etc.
- (transitive) To foresee, predict, or prophesy.
- To visit for a medical appointment.
- (ergative) To be the setting or time of.
- match or meet
- perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight
- make sense of; assign a meaning to
- observe as if with an eye
- deliberate or decide
- be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something
- perceive or be contemporaneous with
- date regularly; have a steady relationship with
- conduct someone someplace
- find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort
- take charge of or deal with
- perceive (an idea or situation) mentally
- come together
- see and understand, have a good eye
- go to see for professional or business reasons
- deem to be
- imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
- go to see for a social visit
- undergo or live through a difficult experience
- go to see a place, as for entertainment
- get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
- observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect
- see or watch
- receive as a specified guest
intj
noun
- The office of a bishop or archbishop.
- Alternative form of cee; the name of the Latin script letter C/c.
- A diocese or archdiocese: a region of a church, generally headed by a bishop or an archbishop.
- A seat; a site; a place where sovereign, autonomous, or autocephalous power is exercised.
- the seat within a bishop's diocese where the bishop's cathedral is located
verb
noun
- a group that goes through a region at regular intervals for the purpose of security
- the activity of going around or through an area at regular intervals for security purposes
- a detachment used for security or reconnaissance
- (military) A movement, by a small body of troops beyond the line of outposts, to explore the country and gain intelligence of the enemy's whereabouts.
- (military) A going of the rounds along the chain of sentinels and between the posts, by a guard, usually consisting of three or four men, to insure greater security from attacks on the outposts.
- (scouting) A unit of a troop, usually defined by certain ranks or age groups within the troop, and ideally comprised of six to eight members.
- (law enforcement) The largest division of officers within a police department or sheriff's office, whose assignment is to patrol and respond to calls for service.
- Any perambulation of a particular line or district to guard it; also, the people thus guarding.
- (military) The guards who go the rounds for observation; a detachment whose duty it is to patrol.
verb
noun
- the force of policemen and officers
- (Canada, US and historical) A department of local (usually municipal) government responsible for general law enforcement.
- (law enforcement) A constituted body of officers representing the civil authority of government, empowered to maintain public order and safety, enforce the law, and prevent, detect, and investigate crime.
- (Australia, New Zealand) Any of the formally enacted law enforcement agencies at various levels of government.
- (figuratively, usually ironic and mildly derogatory) People who try to enforce norms or standards as if granted authority similar to the police.
- (usually plural only) The staff of such a department or agency, particularly its officers; (regional, chiefly US, Caribbean, Jamaica, Scotland, countable) an individual police officer.
- (military, slang) Cleanup of a military facility, as a formal duty.
- (UK) A branch of the Home Office responsible for general law enforcement within a specific territory.
verb
- maintain in safety from injury, harm, or danger
- hold and prevent from leaving
- supply with room and board
- retain possession of
- prevent the action or expression of
- behave as expected during holidays or rites
- stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state
- to rear
- store or keep customarily
- maintain for use and service
- retain rights to
- look after; be the keeper of; have charge of
- have as a supply
- supply with necessities and support
- fail to spoil or rot
- stick to correctly or closely
- maintain by writing regular records
- cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity
- allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature
- conform one's action or practice to
- continue a certain state, condition, or activity
- prevent (food) from rotting
- (transitive, Singapore, Wales) To put (something) back (to its original location or appropriate place); to put away.
- (transitive) To enter (accounts, records, etc.) in a book.
- (transitive) To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; to not swerve from or violate.
- To have habitually in stock for sale.
- (ditransitive) To maintain the condition of; to preserve in a certain state.
- (transitive) To continue in (a course or mode of action); to not intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain.
- (of living things) To raise; to care for.
- To restrain.
- (transitive) To remain faithful to a given promise or word.
- (transitive) To record transactions, accounts, or events in.
- (intransitive, cricket) To act as wicket-keeper.
- (with from) To watch over, look after, guard, protect.
- To maintain possession of.
- To supply with necessities and financially support (a person).
- To refrain from freely disclosing (a secret).
- To maintain (an establishment or institution); to conduct; to manage.
- To remain edible or otherwise usable.
- To continue.
- (copulative) To remain in a state.
noun
- a cell in a jail or prison
- the financial means whereby one lives
- the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress
- The state of being kept; hence, the resulting condition; case.
- (engineering) A cap for holding something, such as a journal box, in place.
- (historical) The main tower of a castle or fortress, located within the castle walls.
- The food or money required to keep someone alive and healthy; one's support, maintenance.
verb
- maintain in safety from injury, harm, or danger
- keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction
- keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last
- to keep up and reserve for personal or special use
- keep undisturbed for personal or private use for hunting, shooting, or fishing
- prevent (food) from rotting
- To save from decay by the use of some preservative substance, such as sugar or salt; to season and prepare (fruits, meat, etc.) for storage.
- To protect; to keep from harm or injury.
- To maintain throughout; to keep intact.
noun
verb
- proceed along in a vehicle
- force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically
- strive and make an effort to reach a goal
- cause to move rapidly by striking or throwing with force
- cause to move back by force or influence
- (hunting) chase from cover into more open ground
- cause someone or something to move by driving
- move by being propelled by a force
- operate or control a vehicle
- to compel or force or urge relentlessly or exert coercive pressure on, or motivate strongly
- (hunting) search for game
- move into a desired direction of discourse
- push, propel, or press with force
- work as a driver
- excavate horizontally
- cause to function by supplying the force or power for or by controlling
- urge forward
- travel or be transported in a vehicle
- strike with a driver, as in teeing off
- have certain properties when driven
- compel somebody to do something, often against their own will or judgment
- hit very hard, as by swinging a bat horizontally
- (transitive) To cause (a mechanism) to operate.
- (intransitive) To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.
- (transitive, slang, aviation) To operate (an aircraft); to pilot.
- (intransitive) To move forcefully.
- (transitive) To separate the lighter (feathers or down) from the heavier, by exposing them to a current of air.
- (transitive) (especially animals) To cause to flee out of.
- (transitive, intransitive) To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.
- (transitive) To compel, exert pressure, coerce (to do something).
- (intransitive, sports, cricket, tennis, baseball) To hit the ball with a drive.
- (transitive) To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
- (transitive) To displace either physically or non-physically, through the application of force.
- To be the dominant party in a sex act.
- (transitive) To convey (a person, etc.) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.
- (transitive) To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.
- (transitive) (especially of animals) To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.
- (transitive) To cause to become.
- (transitive, ergative) To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).
- (transitive) To motivate through the application or demonstration of force; to impel or urge onward in such a way.
- (transitive) To provide an impetus for motion or other physical change, to move an object by means of the provision of force thereto.
- (transitive) To motivate; to provide an incentive for.
- (mining) To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
- (American football) To put together a drive (n.): to string together offensive plays and advance the ball down the field.
- (intransitive) To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship).
- (transitive) To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
- (transitive) To provide an impetus for a change in one's situation or state of mind.
noun
- the act of applying force to propel something
- a mechanism by which force or power is transmitted in a machine
- hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver
- a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
- a wide scenic road planted with trees
- the act of driving a herd of animals overland
- the trait of being highly motivated
- a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile)
- (computer science) a device that writes data onto or reads data from a storage medium
- a physiological state corresponding to a strong need or desire
- (sports) a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash)
- a road leading up to a private house
- (American football) An offensive possession, generally one consisting of several plays and/ or first downs, often leading to a scoring opportunity.
- (retail) A campaign aimed at selling more of a certain product or promoting a public service.
- (golf) A stroke made with a driver.
- (philanthropy) A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive.
- (soccer) A straight level shot or pass.
- (typography) An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift.
- An act of driving livestock animals forward, to transport a herd.
- (psychology) Desire or interest.
- A mechanism used to power or give motion to a vehicle or other machine or machine part.
- A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.
- A trip made in a vehicle (now generally in a motor vehicle).
- (automotive) The gear into which one usually shifts an automatic transmission when one is driving a car or truck. (Denoted with symbol D on a shifter's labeling.)
- Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; (especially) a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
- Planned, usually long-lasting, effort to achieve something; ability coupled with ambition, determination, and motivation.
- (computer hardware) An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk.
- (military) A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take an objective.
- (computer hardware) A mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with the mechanism for storing data.
- A type of public roadway.
- (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a vertical arc, through the line of the ball, and hitting it along the ground, normally between cover and midwicket.
- (baseball, tennis) A ball struck in a flat trajectory.
- An act of driving game animals forward, to be captured or hunted.
- A driveway.
- (UK, especially Bristol and Wales, slang) Friendly term of address for a bus driver.
verb
- proceed along in a vehicle
- admit into a group or community
- take into consideration for exemplifying purposes
- assume, as of positions or roles
- take somebody somewhere
- experience or feel or submit to
- develop a habit; apply oneself to a practice or occupation
- receive or obtain regularly
- serve oneself to, or consume regularly
- take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect
- be a student of a certain subject
- be seized or affected in a specified way
- point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards
- take something or somebody with oneself somewhere
- accept or undergo, often unwillingly
- ascertain or determine by measuring, computing or take a reading from a dial
- make use of or accept for some purpose
- remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
- get into one's hands, take physically
- be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
- travel or go by means of a certain kind of transportation, or a certain route
- be designed to hold or take
- take into one's possession
- have with oneself; have on one's person
- require (time or space)
- interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression
- obtain by winning
- lay claim to; as of an idea
- occupy or take on
- require as useful, just, or proper
- buy, select
- head into a specified direction
- make a film or photograph of something
- to get into a position of having, e.g., safety, comfort
- receive willingly something given or offered
- carry out
- pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives
- take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs
- engage for service under a term of contract
- conquer by force
- have sex with; archaic use
- be capable of holding or containing
- (transitive, cricket) To catch the ball; especially as a wicket-keeper and after the batsman has missed or edged it.
- (transitive) To carry or lead (something or someone).
- (of a plant, etc.) To begin to grow after being grafted or planted; to (literally or figuratively) take root, take hold.
- (transitive) To bind oneself by.
- (transitive) To ascertain or determine by measurement, examination or inquiry.
- (transitive) To avail oneself of; to exploit.
- (transitive) To cause to change to a specified state or condition.
- (transitive) To experience or feel.
- (transitive) To receive or accept (something) as payment or compensation.
- (reflexive) To go.
- (transitive) To obtain money from, especially by swindling.
- (transitive) To come upon or catch (in a particular state or situation).
- (intransitive, dialectal, proscribed) An intensifier.
- (transitive) To receive or accept (something, especially something which was given).
- (transitive) To assume and undertake the duties of (a job, an office, etc.).
- (transitive) To assume (a form).
- (transitive) To conclude or form (a decision or an opinion) in the mind.
- (transitive) To fill or require: to last or expend (an amount of time).
- (transitive) To exact.
- (transitive) To proceed to fill.
- (transitive) To accept and follow (advice, etc.).
- (transitive) To write down; to get in, or as if in, writing.
- (transitive, mathematics, computing) To accept (zero or more arguments).
- (transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
- (of ink, dye, etc.) To adhere or be absorbed properly.
- (transitive) To adopt (select) as one's own.
- (transitive) To go into, through, or along.
- (transitive) To believe, to accept the statements of.
- (transitive) To seize or capture.
- (transitive) To participate in.
- (transitive) To suffer; to endure (a hardship or damage).
- (transitive, of a ship) To let in (water).
- (transitive, baseball) To decline to swing at (a pitched ball); to refrain from hitting at, and allow to pass.
- (transitive) To perform (a role).
- (transitive) To receive into some relationship.
- (transitive) To catch or contract (an illness, etc.).
- (transitive) To receive (medicine or drugs) into one's body, e.g. by inhalation or swallowing; to ingest.
- (transitive) To assume or suppose; to reckon; to regard or consider.
- (transitive) To pass (or attempt to pass) through or around.
- (intransitive, copulative) To become; to be affected in a specified way.
- (transitive, of a material) To absorb or be impregnated by (dye, ink, etc.); to be susceptible to being treated by (polish, etc.).
- (transitive) To accept, be given (rightly or wrongly), or assume (especially as if by right).
- (transitive) To obtain or receive regularly by (paid) subscription.
- (transitive, especially of a vehicle) To transport or carry; to convey to another place.
- (transitive) To use as a means of transportation.
- (transitive) To submit to; to endure (without ill humor, resentment, or physical failure).
- (transitive) To obtain for use by payment or lease.
- (of a mechanical device) To catch; to engage.
- (transitive) To appropriate or transfer into one's own possession, sometimes by physically carrying off.
- (transitive, of a path, road, etc.) To lead (to a place); to serve as a means of reaching.
- (transitive, grammar) To have to be used with (a certain grammatical form, etc.).
- (transitive) To undergo; to put oneself into, to be subjected to.
- (transitive) To practice; perform; execute; carry out; do.
- (transitive) To have sex with.
- (transitive) To derive (as a title); to obtain from a source.
- (transitive) To remove or end by death; to kill.
- (transitive) To subtract.
- Used in phrasal verbs: take in, take off, take on, take out, take to, take something to, take up.
- (transitive) To go or move into.
- (transitive) To fill, occupy, require, or use up (space).
- (transitive) To understand (especially in a specified way).
- (transitive) To select or choose; to pick.
- (transitive) To remove.
- (transitive) To require (a person, resource or thing in order to achieve an outcome).
- (transitive) To grasp or grip.
- (transitive) To make (a photograph, film, or other reproduction of something).
- (transitive) To capture or win (a piece or trick) in a game.
- (transitive) To deal with.
- (transitive) To defeat (someone or something) in a fight.
- (transitive) To consider in a particular way, or to consider as an example.
- (transitive) To draw, derive, or deduce (a meaning from something).
- (transitive, Greece, Cyprus, informal) To buy.
- (intransitive) To engage, take hold or have effect.
- (transitive, intransitive, law) To receive or acquire (property) by law (e.g. as an heir).
- (transitive) To regard in a specified way.
- (intransitive) To get or accept (something) into one's possession.
- (transitive) To escort or conduct (a person).
- (transitive, now chiefly by enrolling in a class or course) To apply oneself to the study of.
- (transitive) To captivate or charm; to gain or secure the interest or affection of.
- (transitive) To have and use one's recourse to.
- (transitive) To catch or get possession of (fish or game).
noun
- the act of photographing a scene or part of a scene without interruption
- the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property
- Money that is taken in, (legal or illegal) proceeds, income; (in particular) profits; takings.
- (medicine) An instance of successful inoculation/vaccination.
- (film) A scene recorded (filmed) at one time, without an interruption or break; a recording of such a scene.
- (music) A recording of a musical performance made during an uninterrupted single recording period.
- (rugby, cricket) A catch of the ball (in cricket, especially one by the wicket-keeper).
- A visible (facial) response to something, especially something unexpected; a facial gesture in response to an event.
- (printing) The quantity of copy given to a compositor at one time.
- The or an act of taking.
- An approach, a (distinct) treatment.
- An interpretation or view, opinion or assessment; perspective; a statement expressing such a position.
- The or a quantity of fish, game animals or pelts, etc which have been taken at one time; catch.
verb
- (transitive) To guide or escort.
- (transitive) To bestow; to confer.
- (intransitive, card games) To reveal one's hand of cards.
- (intransitive, informal) To have an enlarged belly and thus be recognizable as pregnant.
- (intransitive) To be visible; to be seen; to appear.
- (intransitive, motor racing) To finish third, especially of horses or dogs.
- (transitive) To indicate (a fact) to be true; to demonstrate.
- (intransitive, informal) To put in an appearance; show up.
- (transitive) To display, to have somebody see (something).
- show in, or as in, a picture
- give expression to
- indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments
- give evidence of, as of records
- establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment
- be or become visible or noticeable
- finish third or better in a horse or dog race
- give an exhibition of to an interested audience
- indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively
- make visible or noticeable
- provide evidence for
- take (someone) to their seats, as in theaters or auditoriums
noun
- (uncountable) Mere display or pomp with no substance. (Usually seen in the phrases "all show" and "for show".)
- A project or presentation.
- (Australia, New Zealand, countable) An agricultural exhibition.
- (military, slang) A battle; local conflict.
- Synonym of shive (“wood fragment of the husk of flax or hemp”).
- (countable) A demonstration.
- (countable) A play, dance, or other entertainment.
- (countable) A movie.
- (countable) A broadcast program, especially a light entertainment program.
- (medicine) A discharge, from the vagina, of mucus streaked with blood, occurring a short time before labor.
- (baseball, with "the") The major leagues.
- Outward appearance; wileful or deceptive appearance.
- (countable) An exhibition of items.
- pretending that something is the case in order to make a good impression
- an act or social event involving a public performance or entertainment
- something intended to communicate a particular impression
verb
noun
- (science fiction) An emergency vehicle carried aboard a spaceship.
- (nautical) A boat especially designed for saving the lives of shipwrecked people or people in distress at sea (either launched from the shore with a crew, or else carried on board a larger ship).
- a strong sea boat designed to rescue people from a sinking ship
adj
adj
noun
- (surveying, countable, informal) A trig point.
- (now chiefly dialectal) A dandy; coxcomb.
- The mark for players at skittles, etc.
- (UK) A stone, block of wood, or anything else, placed under a wheel or barrel to prevent motion; a scotch; a skid.
- (uncountable, informal) Trigonometry.
- (entomology) A cricket in the family Trigonidiidae.
- (medicine, informal) Triglyceride.
- the mathematics of triangles and trigonometric functions