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verb
- separate with a railing
- enclose with rails
- (transitive) To enclose with rails or a railing.
- provide with rails
- complain bitterly
- spread negative information about
- lay with rails
- criticize severely
- convey (goods etc.) by rails
- travel by rail or train
- fish with a handline over the rails of a boat
- (transitive, rail transport, of rolling stock) To place on a track.
- To complain violently (against, about).
- (transitive, slang, drugs) To snort a line of powdered drugs.
- (intransitive) To travel by railway.
- (transitive, vulgar, slang) To sexually penetrate in a rough manner.
- (transitive) To range in a line.
noun
- A horizontal bar extending between supports and used for support or as a barrier; a railing.
- any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud
- a horizontal bar (usually of wood or metal)
- short for railway
- a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports
- a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll
- Any of several birds in the family Rallidae.
- The metal bar forming part of the track for a railroad.
- (drugs) A large line (portion or serving of a powdery illegal drug).
- A horizontal piece of wood that serves to separate sections of a door or window.
- A railroad; a railway, as a means of transportation.
- (electronics) A conductor maintained at a fixed electrical potential relative to ground, to which other circuit components are connected.
- (surfing) One of the lengthwise edges of a surfboard.
- (backgammon) The raised edge of the game board.
- (Internet) A vertical section on one side of a web page.
- Each of two vertical side bars supporting the rungs of a ladder.
noun
- a railing placed alongside a stairway or road for safety
- A rail set alongside a dangerous place as a barrier, to improve safety.
- (figurative, by extension) Any barrier designed to prevent accidents or mistakes.
- (Canada, US) A strengthened barrier installed on the sides of a (usually major) road to keep vehicles on the highway and reduce the risk and/or impact of crashes.
- (rail transport) Synonym of check rail.
noun
noun
adj
verb
noun
- A structure that bars passage.
- (historical) The lists in a tournament.
- (historical, in the plural) A martial exercise of the 15th and 16th centuries.
- (grammar) A node (in government and binding theory) said to intervene between other nodes A and B if it is a potential governor for B, c-commands B, and does not c-command A.
- An obstacle or impediment.
- (physiology) A separation between two areas of the body where specialized cells allow the entry of certain substances but prevent the entry of others.
- A boundary or limit.
- any condition that makes it difficult to make progress or to achieve an objective
- a structure or object that impedes free movement
- anything serving to maintain separation by obstructing vision or access
verb
noun
adj
- not full or rich
- very light colored; highly diluted with white
- (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble
- lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness
- abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress
- (of human skin) Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).
- Feeble, faint.
- Light in color.
verb
noun
- a wooden strip forming part of a fence
- a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work
- a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack
- a vehicle performing sentinel duty
- 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
- (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 type of fence consisting of panels or boards held between uprights that have grooves on either side to hold the edges of the two adjacent boards.
- A list of substitute workers that are available in a union-controlled business, listed in priority order and by the shift they would like to work.
- (UK, historical) A sign that slides into a frame on the front of a bus for displaying special messages.
- A board sliding in grooves.
noun
- A framework of steel bars resting on side supports to bridge over or around something.
- A gantry crane or gantry scaffold.
- A supporting framework for a barrel.
- (medical imaging) A cylindrical scanner assembly in the bore of which the response of bodies or tissues to some specific exposure can be detected for 3D imaging.
- (Singapore, by extension) A faregate or turnstile controlling the entry and exit of people at a location.
- a framework of steel bars raised on side supports to bridge over or around something; can display railway signals above several tracks or can support a traveling crane etc.
noun
- A trestle bridge.
- A folding or fixed set of legs used to support a tabletop or planks.
- A horizontal member supported near each end by a pair of divergent legs, such as sawhorses.
- A framework, using spreading, divergent pairs of legs used to support a bridge.
- a supporting tower used to support a bridge
- sawhorses used in pairs to support a horizontal tabletop
noun
- a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling
- A rail which can be held, such as on the side of a staircase, ramp or other walkway, and serving as a support or guard.
- A moving continuous belt-like rail on either side of an escalator which users can hold on to for support.
adj
noun
- Something spoken or written, intended to cast shame, disgrace, censure, or reproach on another.
- A harsh or reproachful accusation.
- A severe or violent censure or reproach.
- An expression which inveighs or rails against a person.
- abusive or venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter deep-seated ill will
noun
- a platform projecting from the wall of a building and surrounded by a balustrade or railing or parapet
- an upper floor projecting from the rear over the main floor in an auditorium
- An accessible structure overlooking a stage or the like.
- (architecture) An accessible structure extending from a building, especially outside a window.
noun
- a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air
- a frame of iron bars to hold a fire
- a harsh rasping sound made by scraping something
- A horizontal metal grill through which liquid, ash, or small objects can fall, while larger objects cannot.
- (historical) A grapper, a metal ring on a lance behind the grip.
- A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning.
verb
- make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together
- reduce to small shreds or pulverize by rubbing against a rough or sharp perforated surface
- furnish with a grate
- gnaw into; make resentful or angry
- scratch repeatedly
- (by extension, transitive) To annoy.
- (intransitive) To make an unpleasant rasping sound, often as the result of rubbing against something.
- (transitive) To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars.
- (by extension, intransitive) To get on one's nerves; to irritate, annoy.
- (transitive, cooking) To shred (things, usually foodstuffs), by rubbing across a grater.
noun
- a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air
- A barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air.
- a frame of iron bars to hold a fire
- optical device consisting of a surface with many parallel grooves in it; disperses a beam of light (or other electromagnetic radiation) into its wavelengths to produce its spectrum
- The sound made by something that grates against something else.
- (nautical, in the plural) The strong wooden lattice used to cover a hatch, admitting light and air; also, a movable lattice used for the flooring of boats.
- The loose material that comes from something being grated.
- A frame of iron bars to hold a fire.
- An optical system of close equidistant and parallel lines or bars, especially lines ruled on a polished surface, used for producing spectra by diffraction.
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noun
- A structure supporting the junction between two spans of a bridge.
- (architecture) A rectangular pillar, or similar structure, that supports an arch, wall or roof, or the hinges of a gate.
- A similar structure, especially at a seaside resort, used to provide entertainment.
- A raised platform built from the shore out over water, supported on piles; used to secure, or provide access to shipping; a jetty.
- a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats
- a support for two adjacent bridge spans
- (architecture) a vertical supporting structure (as a portion of wall between two doors or windows)
verb
- enclose with a fence
- have an argument about something
- receive stolen goods
- fight with fencing swords
- surround with a wall in order to fortify
- (intransitive, equestrianism) To jump over a fence.
- (transitive) To defend or guard.
- (transitive) To engage in the selling or buying of stolen goods.
- (intransitive) To conceal the truth by giving equivocal answers; to hedge; to be evasive.
- (transitive) To enclose, contain or separate by building fence.
- (intransitive, sports) To engage in the sport of fencing.
noun
- a barrier that serves to enclose an area
- a dealer in stolen property
- (by extension) The place whence such a middleman operates.
- A thin artificial barrier that separates two pieces of land or forms a perimeter enclosing the lands of a house, building, etc.
- Skill in oral debate.
- (informal) Someone who hides or buys and sells stolen goods, a criminal middleman for transactions of stolen goods.
- A guard or guide on machinery.
- (cricket) The boundary.
- (programming) A memory barrier.
- (figuratively) A barrier, for example an emotional barrier.
noun
- one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track
- A long, thin wooden beam used as a border in driveways, to hold in soil in gardens, etc.
- (rail transport, US) A heavy, preserved piece of hewn timber laid crossways to and supporting the rails of a railroad or a member of similar shape and function of another material such as concrete.
noun
- one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track
- a passenger car that has berths for sleeping
- a piece of furniture that can be opened up into a bed
- tropical fish that resembles a goby and rests quietly on the bottom in shallow water
- a rester who is sleeping
- pajamas with feet; worn by children
- an unexpected hit
- a spy or saboteur or terrorist planted in an enemy country who lives there as a law-abiding citizen until activated by a prearranged signal
- an unexpected achiever of success
- (science fiction) A pod or similar device containing a person in cryosleep.
- A spy, saboteur, or terrorist who lives unobtrusively in a community until activated by a prearranged signal; may be part of a sleeper cell.
- (rail transport, British) A railroad tie.
- (nautical) The lowest, or bottom, tier of casks.
- A small starter earring, worn to prevent a piercing from closing.
- Someone who sleeps.
- (slang) A sedative.
- A railway sleeping car.
- (martial arts, wrestling) A sleeper hold.
- (nautical) A heavy floor timber in a ship's bottom.
- Something that achieves unexpected success after an interval of time.
- (automotive, slang) An automobile which has been internally modified to excess, while retaining a mostly stock appearance in order to fool opponents in a drag race, or to avoid the attention of the police.
- (slang, gambling) A bet placed on the gambling table and then forgotten about by the gambler.
- That which lies dormant, as a law.
- (carpentry) A structural beam in a floor running perpendicular to both the joists beneath and floorboards above.
- A type of pajama for a person, especially a child, that covers the whole body, including the feet.
- Any of family Odontobutidae of goby-like bottom-feeding freshwater fish.
- A nurse shark (family Ginglymostomatidae).
verb
noun
- one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track
- a fastener that serves to join or connect
- (music) a slur over two notes of the same pitch; indicates that the note is to be sustained for their combined time value
- equality of score in a contest
- neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front
- a cord (or string or ribbon or wire etc.) with which something is tied
- a horizontal beam used to prevent two other structural members from spreading apart or separating
- a social or business relationship
- the finish of a contest in which the score is tied and the winner is undecided
- (music) A curved line connecting two notes of the same pitch denoting that they should be played as a single note with the combined length of both notes.
- A lace-up shoe.
- (phonetic transcription) A curved line connecting two letters (⁀), used in the IPA to denote a coarticulation, as for example /d͡ʒ/.
- A knot; a fastening.
- A twist tie, a piece of wire embedded in paper, strip of plastic with ratchets, or similar object which is wound around something and tightened.
- A tiewig.
- A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig.
- The situation in which two or more participants in a competition are placed equally.
- (cricket) The situation at the end of all innings of a match where both sides have the same total of runs (different from a draw).
- (sports, British) A meeting between two players or teams in a competition.
- (construction) A structural member firmly holding two pieces together.
- A necktie (item of clothing consisting of a strip of cloth tied around the neck). See also bow tie, black tie.
- A connection between people or groups of people, especially a strong connection.
- (rail transport, US) A horizontal wooden or concrete structural member that supports and ties together rails.
- (graph theory) A connection between two vertices.
- (statistics) One or more equal values or sets of equal values in the data set.
- (surveying) A bearing and distance between a lot corner or point and a benchmark or iron off site.
- (sports, US) An equalizer, a run, goal, point, etc which causes participants in a competition to be placed equally or have the same score(s).
verb
- perform a marriage ceremony
- fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord
- unite musical notes by a tie
- create social or emotional ties
- connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces
- finish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc.
- limit or restrict to
- make by tying pieces together
- form a knot or bow in
- (music) To unite (musical notes) with a line or slur in the notation.
- (US, transitive) To have the same score or position as (another) in a competition or ordering.
- (ambitransitive) To have the same score or position as another in a competition or ordering.
- (programming, transitive) In the Perl programming language, to extend (a variable) so that standard operations performed upon it invoke custom functionality instead.
- (transitive) To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely.
- (transitive) To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like.
- (transitive) To form (a knot or the like) in a string or the like.
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To secure (something) by string or the like.
noun
- a pair of parallel rails providing a runway for wheels
- the act of participating in an athletic competition involving running on a track
- a groove on a phonograph recording
- a course over which races are run
- (computer science) one of the circular magnetic paths on a magnetic disk that serve as a guide for writing and reading data
- a distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc
- evidence pointing to a possible solution
- a line or route along which something travels or moves
- any road or path affording passage especially a rough one
- a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll
- an endless metal belt on which tracked vehicles move over the ground
- The physical track on a record.
- A mark left by something that has passed along.
- A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or animal.
- (uncountable, sports) The racing events of track and field; track and field in general.
- (railways) The way or rails along which a train moves.
- (Philippines, education) A specialization in senior high school. Some tracks consist of strands.
- (computing) A circular (never-ending) data storage unit on a side of magnetic or optical disk, divided into sectors.
- (fashion, colloquial) Clipping of trackshoe.
- A tract or area, such as of land.
- Sound stored on a record.
- (cricket) The pitch.
- (music) A song or other relatively short piece of music, on a record, separated from others by a short silence.
- A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc.
- The direction and progress of someone or something; path.
- Awareness of something, especially when arising from close monitoring.
- (automotive) The distance between two opposite wheels on a same axletree.
- (automotive) Ellipsis of caterpillar track.
- (slang) The street, as a prostitute's place of work.
- A road or other similar beaten path.
- A themed set of talks within a conference.
- The entire lower surface of the foot; said of birds, etc.
- Physical course; way.
verb
- go after with the intent to catch
- observe or plot the moving path of something
- carry on the feet and deposit
- travel across or pass over
- make tracks upon
- (intransitive) To exhibit good cognitive function.
- (transitive or intransitive) To create a musical recording (a track).
- (transitive) To observe the (measured) state of a person or object over time.
- (transitive) To follow the tracks of.
- (transitive) To traverse; to move across.
- (intransitive, chiefly of a storm) To move.
- To separate into educational tracks, each of which teaches to a different level of ability.
- (transitive or intransitive, of a camera) To travel so that a moving object remains in shot.
- (transitive) To match the movement or change of a person or object.
- (computing, transitive or intransitive) To create music using tracker software.
- (transitive) To discover the location of a person or object by following traces.
- (transitive) To tow.
- (transitive) To make tracks on or to leave in the form of tracks.
- (transitive) To monitor the movement of a person or object.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To make sense; to be consistent with known information
noun
- A fence made of usually barbed wire.
- (slang) A covert signal sent between people cheating in a card game.
- (journalism, informal) Clipping of wire service and/or newswire.
- (billiards) A wire strung with beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep score.
- (sports) A finish line of a racetrack.
- (by extension) An electric telegraph; a telegram.
- (informal) A telecommunication wire or cable.
- (slang) A hidden listening device on the person of an undercover operative for the purposes of obtaining incriminating spoken evidence.
- (uncountable) Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.
- A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable.
- A metal conductor that carries electricity.
- (informal) A deadline or critical endpoint.
- (usually in the plural) Any of the system of wires used to operate the puppets in a puppet show; hence, the network of hidden influences controlling the action of a person or organization; strings.
- (Scotland) A knitting needle.
- The slender shaft of the plumage of certain birds.
- ligament made of metal and used to fasten things or make cages or fences etc
- a metal conductor that carries electricity over a distance
- a message transmitted by telegraph
- the finishing line on a racetrack
verb
- To string on a wire.
- (slang) To make someone tense or psyched up. See also adjective wired.
- To snare by means of a wire or wires.
- To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.
- To add or connect (something) into a system as if with wires (for example, with nerves).
- (slang) To install eavesdropping equipment.
- (transitive, croquet) To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.
- To connect, involve or embed (something) deeply or intimately into (something else, such as an organization or political scene), so that it is plugged in (to that thing) (“keeping up with current information about (the thing)”) or has insinuated itself into (the thing).
- (figuratively, usually passive) To set or predetermine (someone's personality or behaviour, or an organization's culture) in a particular way.
- To equip with wires for use with electricity.
- To add (something) into a system (especially an electrical system) by means of wiring.
- To send a message or monetary funds to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominantly by telegraph.
- send cables, wires, or telegrams
- equip for use with electricity
- string on a wire
- fasten with wire
- provide with electrical circuits
noun
- A Y-shaped steel fencing post or stake.
- Any of several species of plants in the genus Telopea, native to southeastern Australia.
- straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes
- tall shrub of eastern Australia having oblanceolate to obovate leaves and red flowers in compact racemes
noun
- a fencelike structure around a deck
- an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes
- a protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away
- A defense or safeguard.
- (figurative) Any means of defence or security.
- A breakwater.
- (nautical) The planking or plating along the sides of a nautical vessel above her gunwale that reduces the likelihood of seas washing over the gunwales and people being washed overboard.
- A defensive wall or rampart.
verb
noun
- a railing placed alongside a stairway or road for safety
- A rail set alongside a dangerous place as a barrier, to improve safety.
- (figurative, by extension) Any barrier designed to prevent accidents or mistakes.
- (Canada, US) A strengthened barrier installed on the sides of a (usually major) road to keep vehicles on the highway and reduce the risk and/or impact of crashes.
- (rail transport) Synonym of check rail.
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adj
verb
verb
- separate with a railing
- enclose with rails
- (transitive) To enclose with rails or a railing.
- provide with rails
- complain bitterly
- spread negative information about
- lay with rails
- criticize severely
- convey (goods etc.) by rails
- travel by rail or train
- fish with a handline over the rails of a boat
- (transitive, rail transport, of rolling stock) To place on a track.
- To complain violently (against, about).
- (transitive, slang, drugs) To snort a line of powdered drugs.
- (intransitive) To travel by railway.
- (transitive, vulgar, slang) To sexually penetrate in a rough manner.
- (transitive) To range in a line.
noun
- A horizontal bar extending between supports and used for support or as a barrier; a railing.
- any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud
- a horizontal bar (usually of wood or metal)
- short for railway
- a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports
- a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll
- Any of several birds in the family Rallidae.
- The metal bar forming part of the track for a railroad.
- (drugs) A large line (portion or serving of a powdery illegal drug).
- A horizontal piece of wood that serves to separate sections of a door or window.
- A railroad; a railway, as a means of transportation.
- (electronics) A conductor maintained at a fixed electrical potential relative to ground, to which other circuit components are connected.
- (surfing) One of the lengthwise edges of a surfboard.
- (backgammon) The raised edge of the game board.
- (Internet) A vertical section on one side of a web page.
- Each of two vertical side bars supporting the rungs of a ladder.
noun
- A structure that bars passage.
- (historical) The lists in a tournament.
- (historical, in the plural) A martial exercise of the 15th and 16th centuries.
- (grammar) A node (in government and binding theory) said to intervene between other nodes A and B if it is a potential governor for B, c-commands B, and does not c-command A.
- An obstacle or impediment.
- (physiology) A separation between two areas of the body where specialized cells allow the entry of certain substances but prevent the entry of others.
- A boundary or limit.
- any condition that makes it difficult to make progress or to achieve an objective
- a structure or object that impedes free movement
- anything serving to maintain separation by obstructing vision or access
verb
noun
adj
- not full or rich
- very light colored; highly diluted with white
- (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble
- lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness
- abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress
- (of human skin) Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).
- Feeble, faint.
- Light in color.
verb
noun
- a wooden strip forming part of a fence
- a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work
- a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack
- a vehicle performing sentinel duty
- 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
- (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 type of fence consisting of panels or boards held between uprights that have grooves on either side to hold the edges of the two adjacent boards.
- A list of substitute workers that are available in a union-controlled business, listed in priority order and by the shift they would like to work.
- (UK, historical) A sign that slides into a frame on the front of a bus for displaying special messages.
- A board sliding in grooves.
noun
- A framework of steel bars resting on side supports to bridge over or around something.
- A gantry crane or gantry scaffold.
- A supporting framework for a barrel.
- (medical imaging) A cylindrical scanner assembly in the bore of which the response of bodies or tissues to some specific exposure can be detected for 3D imaging.
- (Singapore, by extension) A faregate or turnstile controlling the entry and exit of people at a location.
- a framework of steel bars raised on side supports to bridge over or around something; can display railway signals above several tracks or can support a traveling crane etc.
noun
- A trestle bridge.
- A folding or fixed set of legs used to support a tabletop or planks.
- A horizontal member supported near each end by a pair of divergent legs, such as sawhorses.
- A framework, using spreading, divergent pairs of legs used to support a bridge.
- a supporting tower used to support a bridge
- sawhorses used in pairs to support a horizontal tabletop
noun
- a railing at the side of a staircase or balcony to prevent people from falling
- A rail which can be held, such as on the side of a staircase, ramp or other walkway, and serving as a support or guard.
- A moving continuous belt-like rail on either side of an escalator which users can hold on to for support.
noun
- a platform projecting from the wall of a building and surrounded by a balustrade or railing or parapet
- an upper floor projecting from the rear over the main floor in an auditorium
- An accessible structure overlooking a stage or the like.
- (architecture) An accessible structure extending from a building, especially outside a window.
noun
- a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air
- a frame of iron bars to hold a fire
- a harsh rasping sound made by scraping something
- A horizontal metal grill through which liquid, ash, or small objects can fall, while larger objects cannot.
- (historical) A grapper, a metal ring on a lance behind the grip.
- A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning.
verb
- make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together
- reduce to small shreds or pulverize by rubbing against a rough or sharp perforated surface
- furnish with a grate
- gnaw into; make resentful or angry
- scratch repeatedly
- (by extension, transitive) To annoy.
- (intransitive) To make an unpleasant rasping sound, often as the result of rubbing against something.
- (transitive) To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars.
- (by extension, intransitive) To get on one's nerves; to irritate, annoy.
- (transitive, cooking) To shred (things, usually foodstuffs), by rubbing across a grater.
noun
- a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air
- A barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air.
- a frame of iron bars to hold a fire
- optical device consisting of a surface with many parallel grooves in it; disperses a beam of light (or other electromagnetic radiation) into its wavelengths to produce its spectrum
- The sound made by something that grates against something else.
- (nautical, in the plural) The strong wooden lattice used to cover a hatch, admitting light and air; also, a movable lattice used for the flooring of boats.
- The loose material that comes from something being grated.
- A frame of iron bars to hold a fire.
- An optical system of close equidistant and parallel lines or bars, especially lines ruled on a polished surface, used for producing spectra by diffraction.
adj
verb
noun
- A structure supporting the junction between two spans of a bridge.
- (architecture) A rectangular pillar, or similar structure, that supports an arch, wall or roof, or the hinges of a gate.
- A similar structure, especially at a seaside resort, used to provide entertainment.
- A raised platform built from the shore out over water, supported on piles; used to secure, or provide access to shipping; a jetty.
- a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats
- a support for two adjacent bridge spans
- (architecture) a vertical supporting structure (as a portion of wall between two doors or windows)
noun
- one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track
- A long, thin wooden beam used as a border in driveways, to hold in soil in gardens, etc.
- (rail transport, US) A heavy, preserved piece of hewn timber laid crossways to and supporting the rails of a railroad or a member of similar shape and function of another material such as concrete.
noun
- one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track
- a passenger car that has berths for sleeping
- a piece of furniture that can be opened up into a bed
- tropical fish that resembles a goby and rests quietly on the bottom in shallow water
- a rester who is sleeping
- pajamas with feet; worn by children
- an unexpected hit
- a spy or saboteur or terrorist planted in an enemy country who lives there as a law-abiding citizen until activated by a prearranged signal
- an unexpected achiever of success
- (science fiction) A pod or similar device containing a person in cryosleep.
- A spy, saboteur, or terrorist who lives unobtrusively in a community until activated by a prearranged signal; may be part of a sleeper cell.
- (rail transport, British) A railroad tie.
- (nautical) The lowest, or bottom, tier of casks.
- A small starter earring, worn to prevent a piercing from closing.
- Someone who sleeps.
- (slang) A sedative.
- A railway sleeping car.
- (martial arts, wrestling) A sleeper hold.
- (nautical) A heavy floor timber in a ship's bottom.
- Something that achieves unexpected success after an interval of time.
- (automotive, slang) An automobile which has been internally modified to excess, while retaining a mostly stock appearance in order to fool opponents in a drag race, or to avoid the attention of the police.
- (slang, gambling) A bet placed on the gambling table and then forgotten about by the gambler.
- That which lies dormant, as a law.
- (carpentry) A structural beam in a floor running perpendicular to both the joists beneath and floorboards above.
- A type of pajama for a person, especially a child, that covers the whole body, including the feet.
- Any of family Odontobutidae of goby-like bottom-feeding freshwater fish.
- A nurse shark (family Ginglymostomatidae).
verb
noun
- one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track
- a fastener that serves to join or connect
- (music) a slur over two notes of the same pitch; indicates that the note is to be sustained for their combined time value
- equality of score in a contest
- neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front
- a cord (or string or ribbon or wire etc.) with which something is tied
- a horizontal beam used to prevent two other structural members from spreading apart or separating
- a social or business relationship
- the finish of a contest in which the score is tied and the winner is undecided
- (music) A curved line connecting two notes of the same pitch denoting that they should be played as a single note with the combined length of both notes.
- A lace-up shoe.
- (phonetic transcription) A curved line connecting two letters (⁀), used in the IPA to denote a coarticulation, as for example /d͡ʒ/.
- A knot; a fastening.
- A twist tie, a piece of wire embedded in paper, strip of plastic with ratchets, or similar object which is wound around something and tightened.
- A tiewig.
- A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig.
- The situation in which two or more participants in a competition are placed equally.
- (cricket) The situation at the end of all innings of a match where both sides have the same total of runs (different from a draw).
- (sports, British) A meeting between two players or teams in a competition.
- (construction) A structural member firmly holding two pieces together.
- A necktie (item of clothing consisting of a strip of cloth tied around the neck). See also bow tie, black tie.
- A connection between people or groups of people, especially a strong connection.
- (rail transport, US) A horizontal wooden or concrete structural member that supports and ties together rails.
- (graph theory) A connection between two vertices.
- (statistics) One or more equal values or sets of equal values in the data set.
- (surveying) A bearing and distance between a lot corner or point and a benchmark or iron off site.
- (sports, US) An equalizer, a run, goal, point, etc which causes participants in a competition to be placed equally or have the same score(s).
verb
- perform a marriage ceremony
- fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord
- unite musical notes by a tie
- create social or emotional ties
- connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces
- finish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc.
- limit or restrict to
- make by tying pieces together
- form a knot or bow in
- (music) To unite (musical notes) with a line or slur in the notation.
- (US, transitive) To have the same score or position as (another) in a competition or ordering.
- (ambitransitive) To have the same score or position as another in a competition or ordering.
- (programming, transitive) In the Perl programming language, to extend (a variable) so that standard operations performed upon it invoke custom functionality instead.
- (transitive) To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely.
- (transitive) To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like.
- (transitive) To form (a knot or the like) in a string or the like.
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To secure (something) by string or the like.
noun
- a pair of parallel rails providing a runway for wheels
- the act of participating in an athletic competition involving running on a track
- a groove on a phonograph recording
- a course over which races are run
- (computer science) one of the circular magnetic paths on a magnetic disk that serve as a guide for writing and reading data
- a distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc
- evidence pointing to a possible solution
- a line or route along which something travels or moves
- any road or path affording passage especially a rough one
- a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll
- an endless metal belt on which tracked vehicles move over the ground
- The physical track on a record.
- A mark left by something that has passed along.
- A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or animal.
- (uncountable, sports) The racing events of track and field; track and field in general.
- (railways) The way or rails along which a train moves.
- (Philippines, education) A specialization in senior high school. Some tracks consist of strands.
- (computing) A circular (never-ending) data storage unit on a side of magnetic or optical disk, divided into sectors.
- (fashion, colloquial) Clipping of trackshoe.
- A tract or area, such as of land.
- Sound stored on a record.
- (cricket) The pitch.
- (music) A song or other relatively short piece of music, on a record, separated from others by a short silence.
- A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc.
- The direction and progress of someone or something; path.
- Awareness of something, especially when arising from close monitoring.
- (automotive) The distance between two opposite wheels on a same axletree.
- (automotive) Ellipsis of caterpillar track.
- (slang) The street, as a prostitute's place of work.
- A road or other similar beaten path.
- A themed set of talks within a conference.
- The entire lower surface of the foot; said of birds, etc.
- Physical course; way.
verb
- go after with the intent to catch
- observe or plot the moving path of something
- carry on the feet and deposit
- travel across or pass over
- make tracks upon
- (intransitive) To exhibit good cognitive function.
- (transitive or intransitive) To create a musical recording (a track).
- (transitive) To observe the (measured) state of a person or object over time.
- (transitive) To follow the tracks of.
- (transitive) To traverse; to move across.
- (intransitive, chiefly of a storm) To move.
- To separate into educational tracks, each of which teaches to a different level of ability.
- (transitive or intransitive, of a camera) To travel so that a moving object remains in shot.
- (transitive) To match the movement or change of a person or object.
- (computing, transitive or intransitive) To create music using tracker software.
- (transitive) To discover the location of a person or object by following traces.
- (transitive) To tow.
- (transitive) To make tracks on or to leave in the form of tracks.
- (transitive) To monitor the movement of a person or object.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To make sense; to be consistent with known information
noun
- A fence made of usually barbed wire.
- (slang) A covert signal sent between people cheating in a card game.
- (journalism, informal) Clipping of wire service and/or newswire.
- (billiards) A wire strung with beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep score.
- (sports) A finish line of a racetrack.
- (by extension) An electric telegraph; a telegram.
- (informal) A telecommunication wire or cable.
- (slang) A hidden listening device on the person of an undercover operative for the purposes of obtaining incriminating spoken evidence.
- (uncountable) Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.
- A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable.
- A metal conductor that carries electricity.
- (informal) A deadline or critical endpoint.
- (usually in the plural) Any of the system of wires used to operate the puppets in a puppet show; hence, the network of hidden influences controlling the action of a person or organization; strings.
- (Scotland) A knitting needle.
- The slender shaft of the plumage of certain birds.
- ligament made of metal and used to fasten things or make cages or fences etc
- a metal conductor that carries electricity over a distance
- a message transmitted by telegraph
- the finishing line on a racetrack
verb
- To string on a wire.
- (slang) To make someone tense or psyched up. See also adjective wired.
- To snare by means of a wire or wires.
- To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.
- To add or connect (something) into a system as if with wires (for example, with nerves).
- (slang) To install eavesdropping equipment.
- (transitive, croquet) To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.
- To connect, involve or embed (something) deeply or intimately into (something else, such as an organization or political scene), so that it is plugged in (to that thing) (“keeping up with current information about (the thing)”) or has insinuated itself into (the thing).
- (figuratively, usually passive) To set or predetermine (someone's personality or behaviour, or an organization's culture) in a particular way.
- To equip with wires for use with electricity.
- To add (something) into a system (especially an electrical system) by means of wiring.
- To send a message or monetary funds to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominantly by telegraph.
- send cables, wires, or telegrams
- equip for use with electricity
- string on a wire
- fasten with wire
- provide with electrical circuits
noun
- A Y-shaped steel fencing post or stake.
- Any of several species of plants in the genus Telopea, native to southeastern Australia.
- straggling shrub with narrow leaves and conspicuous red flowers in dense globular racemes
- tall shrub of eastern Australia having oblanceolate to obovate leaves and red flowers in compact racemes
noun
- a fencelike structure around a deck
- an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes
- a protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away
- A defense or safeguard.
- (figurative) Any means of defence or security.
- A breakwater.
- (nautical) The planking or plating along the sides of a nautical vessel above her gunwale that reduces the likelihood of seas washing over the gunwales and people being washed overboard.
- A defensive wall or rampart.
verb
verb
- enclose with a fence
- have an argument about something
- receive stolen goods
- fight with fencing swords
- surround with a wall in order to fortify
- (intransitive, equestrianism) To jump over a fence.
- (transitive) To defend or guard.
- (transitive) To engage in the selling or buying of stolen goods.
- (intransitive) To conceal the truth by giving equivocal answers; to hedge; to be evasive.
- (transitive) To enclose, contain or separate by building fence.
- (intransitive, sports) To engage in the sport of fencing.
noun
- a barrier that serves to enclose an area
- a dealer in stolen property
- (by extension) The place whence such a middleman operates.
- A thin artificial barrier that separates two pieces of land or forms a perimeter enclosing the lands of a house, building, etc.
- Skill in oral debate.
- (informal) Someone who hides or buys and sells stolen goods, a criminal middleman for transactions of stolen goods.
- A guard or guide on machinery.
- (cricket) The boundary.
- (programming) A memory barrier.
- (figuratively) A barrier, for example an emotional barrier.
verb
- separate with a railing
- enclose with rails
- (transitive) To enclose with rails or a railing.
- provide with rails
- complain bitterly
- spread negative information about
- lay with rails
- criticize severely
- convey (goods etc.) by rails
- travel by rail or train
- fish with a handline over the rails of a boat
- (transitive, rail transport, of rolling stock) To place on a track.
- To complain violently (against, about).
- (transitive, slang, drugs) To snort a line of powdered drugs.
- (intransitive) To travel by railway.
- (transitive, vulgar, slang) To sexually penetrate in a rough manner.
- (transitive) To range in a line.
noun
- A horizontal bar extending between supports and used for support or as a barrier; a railing.
- any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud
- a horizontal bar (usually of wood or metal)
- short for railway
- a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports
- a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll
- Any of several birds in the family Rallidae.
- The metal bar forming part of the track for a railroad.
- (drugs) A large line (portion or serving of a powdery illegal drug).
- A horizontal piece of wood that serves to separate sections of a door or window.
- A railroad; a railway, as a means of transportation.
- (electronics) A conductor maintained at a fixed electrical potential relative to ground, to which other circuit components are connected.
- (surfing) One of the lengthwise edges of a surfboard.
- (backgammon) The raised edge of the game board.
- (Internet) A vertical section on one side of a web page.
- Each of two vertical side bars supporting the rungs of a ladder.
verb
- enclose with a fence
- have an argument about something
- receive stolen goods
- fight with fencing swords
- surround with a wall in order to fortify
- (intransitive, equestrianism) To jump over a fence.
- (transitive) To defend or guard.
- (transitive) To engage in the selling or buying of stolen goods.
- (intransitive) To conceal the truth by giving equivocal answers; to hedge; to be evasive.
- (transitive) To enclose, contain or separate by building fence.
- (intransitive, sports) To engage in the sport of fencing.
noun
- a barrier that serves to enclose an area
- a dealer in stolen property
- (by extension) The place whence such a middleman operates.
- A thin artificial barrier that separates two pieces of land or forms a perimeter enclosing the lands of a house, building, etc.
- Skill in oral debate.
- (informal) Someone who hides or buys and sells stolen goods, a criminal middleman for transactions of stolen goods.
- A guard or guide on machinery.
- (cricket) The boundary.
- (programming) A memory barrier.
- (figuratively) A barrier, for example an emotional barrier.
adj
noun
- Something spoken or written, intended to cast shame, disgrace, censure, or reproach on another.
- A harsh or reproachful accusation.
- A severe or violent censure or reproach.
- An expression which inveighs or rails against a person.
- abusive or venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter deep-seated ill will