English words for '(engineering) Initialism of tunnel boring machine.'
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noun
- The act of burrowing a tunnel.
- The practice of exploring tunnel.
- (finance) A type of fraud where assets and profits are transferred out of firms for the benefit of those who control them.
- (computing, Microsoft Windows) A feature of the file system that allows files to preserve certain properties, such as creation date, even after being deleted and recreated.
- (physics) The quantum mechanical passing of a particle through an energy barrier.
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- (engineering) An overheated shaft bearing.
- (rail transport) An overheated axle box, bearing and bearing enclosure.
- A cold frame containing compost that provides a limited amount of warmth.
- A container maintained at elevated temperatures in order to heat or cook its contents.
- A room or house that becomes unbearably hot inside when the weather is hot.
- A small, hot, enclosure, used as a punishment for slaves or prisoners.
- (slang) A sexy woman.
- A room or compartment that is kept artificially warm for some purpose.
- A gas manifold that diverts hot gasses into a heat exchanger.
- A storage container for personal belongings of employees who are hot desking.
- A small, airtight space where people smoke marijuana in order to intensify the high.
- An oven.
- A location where controversial ideas are discussed or practiced.
- A furnace or heat source for a building.
- An incubator.
- (graphical user interface) A context-sensitive dialog that duplicates many of the commands on the menu for users of the Maya Embedded Language.
- A box for hot composting.
- A soundproof box used to hold a camera in order to prevent the sound of its operation interfering with the recording of a film.
- a journal bearing (as of a railroad car) that has overheated
verb
- (slang) To put out a cigarette just before entering a vehicle, then expel smoke in the vehicle.
- (slang) To fart in a small confined area, such as the inside of a car.
- (slang) To smoke a cigarette vigorously and rapidly.
- (transitive, slang) To smoke marijuana in a small confined area, such as the inside of a car, until it is full of smoke, thereby intensifying the drug's effects.
noun
- (figurative) Anything that resembles a tunnel.
- The opening of a chimney for the passage of smoke; a flue.
- (mining) A level passage driven across the measures, or at right angles to veins which it is desired to reach; distinguished from the drift, or gangway, which is led along the vein when reached by the tunnel.
- A vessel with a broad mouth at one end, a pipe or tube at the other, for conveying liquor, fluids, etc., into casks, bottles, or other vessels; a funnel.
- A hole in the ground made by an animal, a burrow.
- An underground or underwater passage.
- (computing, networking) A wrapper for a protocol that cannot otherwise be used because it is unsupported, blocked, or insecure.
- A passage through or under some obstacle.
- a hole made by an animal, usually for shelter
- a passageway through or under something, usually underground (especially one for trains or cars)
verb
- (intransitive) To dig a tunnel.
- (transitive) To make a tunnel through or under something; to burrow.
- (physics) To undergo the quantum-mechanical phenomenon where a particle penetrates through a barrier that it classically cannot surmount.
- (transitive, medicine) To insert a catheter into a vein to allow long-term use.
- (computing, networking) To transmit something through a tunnel (wrapper for an insecure or unsupported protocol).
- move through by or as by digging
- force a way through
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- (mining) The heading or excavation of relatively small dimensions, first made in the driving of a larger tunnel.
- 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.
- 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.
- (Australia, road transport) A person authorised to drive such a vehicle during an escort.
- (rail transport) A cowcatcher.
- A guide or escort through an unknown or dangerous area.
- (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
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- (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
- (mining) Of a boring or a driven tunnel: deviation from the intended course.
- (mining) A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery.
- Anything driven at random.
- A slightly tapered tool of steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal, by being forced or driven into or through it; a broach.
- Driftwood included in flotsam washed up onto the beach.
- The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting.
- (mining) In a coal mine, a heading driven for exploration or ventilation.
- (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball through the air, when bowled by a spin bowler.
- (mining) A heading driven through a seam of coal.
- (uncountable, film) The situation where a performer gradually and unintentionally moves from their proper location within the scene.
- That which is driven, forced, or urged along.
- A tool used to insert or extract a removable pin made of metal or hardwood, for the purpose of aligning and/or securing two pieces of material together.
- In the New Forest National Park, UK, the bi-annual round-up of wild ponies in order to sell them.
- The distance through which a current flows in a given time.
- (architecture) The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.
- A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to obloid projectiles.
- The place in a deep-waisted vessel where the sheer is raised and the rail is cut off, and usually terminated with a scroll, or driftpiece.
- (mining) A sloping winze or road to the surface, for purposes of haulage.
- (mining) An adit or tunnel driven forward for purposes of exploration or exploitation; generally eventually to a dead end.
- A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., especially by wind or water.
- The difference between the size of a bolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of a hoop and that of the mast on which it is to be driven.
- The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention; hence, also, import or meaning of a sentence or discourse; aim.
- Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting.
- The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.
- A place (a ford) along a river where the water is shallow enough to permit crossing to the opposite side.
- The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.
- A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds.
- A tool used to pack down the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework.
- A collection of loose earth and rocks, or boulders, which have been distributed over large portions of the earth's surface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the retreat of continental glaciers, such as that which buries former river valleys and creates young river valleys.
- The distance a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes.
- Slow, cumulative change.
- (uncountable) Minor deviation of audio or video playback from its correct speed.
- the pervading meaning or tenor
- a process of linguistic change over a period of time
- a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
- a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine
- the gradual departure from an intended course due to external influences (as a ship or plane)
- a large mass of material that is heaped up by the wind or by water currents
- a force that moves something along
verb
- (intransitive) To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps.
- (transitive) To drive into heaps.
- (transitive) To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body.
- (automotive) To oversteer a vehicle, causing loss of traction, while maintaining control from entry to exit of a corner. See Drifting (motorsport).
- (transitive, engineering) To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift.
- (intransitive) To deviate gently from the intended direction of travel.
- (intransitive) To move haphazardly without any destination.
- (mining, US) To make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence of metals or ores; to follow a vein; to prospect.
- (intransitive) To move slowly, especially pushed by currents of water, air, etc.
- move in an unhurried fashion
- live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely
- drive slowly and far afield for grazing
- vary or move from a fixed point or course
- be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current
- move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
- be in motion due to some air or water current
- cause to be carried by a current
- wander from a direct course or at random
- be subject to fluctuation
noun
- (mining) A tunnel serving the coal face.
- A location which serves as a conduit for transport, migration, or trade.
- A doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
- (slang) A place where drugs are illegally sold.
- The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
- (Scotland, Northern England) A street; now used especially as a combining form to make the name of a street e.g. "Briggate" (a common street name in the north of England meaning "Bridge Street") or Kirkgate meaning "Church Street".
- In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
- A passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
- (cinematography) A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
- An individual theme park as part of a larger resort complex with multiple parks.
- A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.
- (electronics) The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
- The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
- (computing) A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
- (now Scotland, Northern England) A way, path.
- (cricket) The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.
- (metalworking) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate; tedge.
- (flow cytometry) A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
- A doorlike structure outside a house.
- A movable barrier.
- total admission receipts at a sports event
- a movable barrier in a fence or wall
- passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark
- a computer circuit with several inputs but only one output that can be activated by particular combinations of inputs
verb
- (transitive) To selectively regulate or restrict (access to something).
- (transitive) To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
- (transitive) To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively, as needed or to avoid damage from excessive light exposure. See autogating.
- (transitive, biochemistry) To open (a closed ion channel).
- (transitive) To furnish with a gate.
- supply with a gate
- control with a valve or other device that functions like a gate
- restrict (school boys') movement to the dormitory or campus as a means of punishment
noun
- (mining, tunnelling) A framework used to protect workmen in making an adit under ground, and capable of being pushed along as excavation progresses.
- (transport) A sign or symbol, usually containing numbers and sometimes letters, identifying a highway route.
- (colloquial, law enforcement) A police badge.
- (heraldry) The escutcheon on which are placed the bearings in coats of arms.
- (geology) A large expanse of exposed stable Precambrian rock.
- (figurative) One who protects or defends.
- (science fiction) A field of energy that protects or defends.
- (lichenology) In lichens, a hardened cup or disk surrounded by a rim and containing the fructification, or asci.
- (geology) A wide and relatively low-profiled volcano, usually composed entirely of lava flows.
- A broad piece of defensive armor, held in hand, formerly in general use in war, for the protection of the body.
- A spot resembling, or having the form of a shield.
- (automotive, British English) Parts at the front and back of a vehicle which are meant to absorb the impact of a collision
- hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles
- a protective covering or structure
- armor carried on the arm to intercept blows
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- (engineering) A rock shaft.
- A skate with a curved blade, somewhat resembling in shape the rocker of a cradle.
- Any implement or machine working with a rocking motion, such as a trough mounted on rockers for separating gold dust from gravel, etc., by agitation in water.
- A musician who plays rock music.
- (informal) A rock music song.
- (military) A curved line accompanying the chevrons that denote rank, qualifying the rank with a grade.
- A rocker board.
- One who rocks something.
- A kind of electrical switch with a spring-loaded actuator.
- (UK) A member of a British subculture of the 1960s, opposed to the mods, who dressed in black leather and were interested in 1950s music.
- Someone passionate about rock music.
- A tool with small teeth that roughens a metal plate to produce tonality in mezzotints.
- A rocking horse.
- A rocking chair.
- A curved piece of wood attached to the bottom of a rocking chair or cradle that enables it to rock back and forth.
- The breve below as in ḫ.
- (surfing) The lengthwise curvature of a surfboard. (More rocker is a more curved board.)
- a curved support that permits the supported object to rock to and fro
- a performer or composer or fan of rock music
- a teenager or young adult in the 1960s who wore leather jackets and rode motorcycles
- an attendant who rocks a child in a cradle
- an ice skate with a curved blade
- a trough that can be rocked back and forth; used by gold miners to shake auriferous earth in water in order to separate the gold
- a chair mounted on rockers
noun
- (mining) A smaller tunnel or well drilled as an auxiliary off a main tunnel or well.
- An alternate train of thought, issue, topic, or activity, that is a deviation or distraction from the topic at hand or central activity, and secondary or subordinate in importance or effectiveness.
- (rail transport) A second, relatively short length of track just to the side of a railroad track, joined to the main track by switches at one or both ends, used either for unloading freight, or to allow two trains on a same track to meet (opposite directions) or pass (same direction); a railroad siding.
- (sometimes) Any auxiliary railroad track, as differentiated from a siding, that runs adjacent to the main track.
- a short stretch of railroad track used to store rolling stock or enable trains on the same line to pass
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- (intransitive) To deviate briefly from the topic at hand.
- (rail transport) To divert (a locomotive or train) on to a lesser used track in order to allow other trains to pass.
- To divert or distract (someone) from a main issue or course of action with an alternate or less relevant topic or activity; or, to use deliberate trickery or sly wordplay when talking to (a person) in order to avoid discussion of a subject.
- To sideline; to push aside; to divert or distract from, reducing (something) to a secondary or subordinate position.
- wander from a direct or straight course
noun
- (mining) A tunnel for drawing spent air away from the working face of a mine.
- The downstream gate in the lock on a canal or river, or in an irrigation system.
- (automotive) A hinged board or hatch at the rear of a vehicle that can be lowered for loading and unloading.
- (US) Ellipsis of tailgate party.
- (especially British) The hinged rear door of a hatchback.
- a gate at the rear of a vehicle; can be lowered for loading
verb
- (finance, of a broker) To privately purchase or sell a security immediately after trading in the same security for a client.
- To follow another person through access control on their access, rather than on one’s own credentials, especially when entering a door controlled by a card reader.
- (automotive, intransitive, transitive) To drive dangerously close behind another vehicle.
- (US, intransitive) To have a tailgate party.
- follow at a dangerously close distance
noun
- An underground tunnel in a mine.
- (nautical, usually in the plural) A partly sheltered area of water near a shore in which vessels may ride at anchor; a roadstead.
- (uncountable) Roads in general as a means of travel, especially by motor vehicle.
- (figuratively) A path chosen, as in life or career.
- (cricket) A hard, flat pitch, typically favourable for batters.
- (US, UK, rail transport) A single railroad track (railway track).
- A way used for travelling between places, originally one wide enough to allow foot passengers and horses to travel, now (US) usually one surfaced with asphalt or concrete and designed to accommodate many vehicles travelling in both directions. In the UK both senses are heard: a country road is the same as a country lane.
- an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation
- a way or means to achieve something
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- (construction, civil engineering) A borrow pit.
- (programming) In Rust and some other programming languages, the situation where the ownership of a value is temporarily transferred to another region of code.
- (golf, countable, uncountable) Deviation of the path of a rolling ball from a straight line; slope; slant.
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- (informal) To receive (something, usually of trifling value) from somebody, with little possibility of returning it.
- (linguistics) To adopt a word from another language.
- (ditransitive) To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone).
- (informal) To interrupt the current activity of (a person) and lead them away in order to speak with them, get their help, etc.
- (obsolete except in ballads) To secure the release of (someone) from prison.
- To feign or counterfeit.
- To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.
- To adopt (an idea) as one's own.
- (golf) To adjust one's aim in order to compensate for the slope of the green.
- (Upper Midwestern US, West Midlands, Malaysia, Singapore, proscribed) To lend.
- (arithmetic) In a subtraction, to deduct (one) from a digit of the minuend and add ten to the following digit, in order that the subtraction of a larger digit in the subtrahend from the digit in the minuend to which ten is added gives a positive result.
- To receive money from a bank or other lender under the agreement that the lender will be paid back over time.
- take up and practice as one's own
- get temporarily
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- (mining) The inner end of a drift or tunnel.
- (figurative) A position that offers no hope of change or progress.
- A split end in the hair.
- (idiomatic) A street or path or tunnel that goes nowhere or is blocked on one end.
- a passage with access only at one end
- a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible
adj
- Related to mechanics (the design and construction of machines).
- Using mechanics (the design and construction of machines): being a machine.
- (of a person) Acting as if one were a machine: lifeless or mindless.
- Related to mechanics (the branch of physics that deals with forces acting on matter).
- (figurative) As if performed by a machine: lifeless, mindless, thoughtless, automatic.
- Relating to the mechanics of a game.
- Done by machine.
- (informal) Handy with machines.
- relating to or concerned with machinery or tools
- relating to or governed by or in accordance with mechanics
- using (or as if using) mechanisms or tools or devices
noun
- (science fiction) A robot or mechanical creature.
- One who does manual labor, especially one who is similar to Shakespeare's rude mechanicals
- (cycling) An instance of equipment failure.
- (music) A stop on an organ that is operated by a hand or foot control rather than having to be manually set up in advance.
- (advertising) Manually created layout of artwork that is camera ready for photographic reproduction.
- (engineering) A mechanical engineer.
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- A kind of self-propelled excavator used to form underground drains, or to clear underground pipelines.
- (espionage) An internal spy; a person who involves themself with an enemy organisation, especially an intelligence or governmental organisation, to determine and betray its secrets from within.
- A hemorrhagic mass of tissue in the uterus caused by a dead ovum.
- Any of several spicy sauces typical of the cuisine of Mexico and neighboring Central America countries, especially one that contains chocolate and is used in cooking main dishes, not desserts.
- (historical) An Ancient Roman mausoleum.
- A type of underground drain used in farm fields, in which a mole plow creates an unlined channel through clay subsoil.
- (chemistry, physics) In the International System of Units, the base unit of amount of substance; the amount of substance of a system which contains exactly 6.02214076×10²³ elementary entities (atoms, ions, molecules, etc.). Symbol: mol. The number of atoms is known as Avogadro’s number. [from 1897]
- (rare) A haven or harbour, protected with such a breakwater.
- A naevus, a pigmented, slightly raised, and sometimes hairy spot on the skin.
- Any of the burrowing rodents also called mole-rats.
- Any of several small, burrowing, insectivorous mammals of the family Talpidae.
- (nautical) A massive structure, usually of stone, used as a pier, breakwater or junction between places separated by water.
- (slang, derogatory, chiefly Australia and New Zealand) A moll, a bitch, a slut.
- a spy who works against enemy espionage
- a protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away
- the molecular weight of a substance expressed in grams; the basic unit of amount of substance adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites
- a small congenital pigmented spot on the skin
- small velvety-furred burrowing mammal having small eyes and fossorial forefeet
- spicy sauce often containing chocolate
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- a hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for exploratory purposes
- diameter of a tube or gun barrel
- a person who evokes boredom
- a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary)
- Something dull or uninteresting.
- A hole drilled or milled through something, or (by extension) its diameter.
- A sudden and rapid flow of tide occurring in certain rivers and estuaries which rolls up as a wave.
- A tool, such as an auger, for making a hole by boring.
- The place where such a well exists.
- The tunnel inside of a gun's barrel through which the bullet travels when fired, or (by extension) its diameter.
- A capped well drilled to tap artesian water.
- One who inspires boredom or lack of interest; an uninteresting person.
- Calibre; importance.
verb
- make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool
- cause to be bored
- (intransitive) To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
- (intransitive) To make a hole with, or as if with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool.
- (transitive, sports, slang) To push or drive (a boxer into the ropes, a boat out of its course, etc.).
- (transitive) To form or enlarge (something) by means of a boring instrument or apparatus.
- simple past of bear
- (intransitive) To glare (as if to drill a hole with the eyes).
- (intransitive) To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns.
- (transitive) To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.
- (colloquial) past participle of bear
- (proscribed) simple past of bare
- (transitive) To inspire boredom in somebody.
- (transitive) To make a hole through something.
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- weight with lead
- examine thoroughly and in great depth
- adjust with a plumb line so as to make vertical
- measure the depth of something
- To use a plumb bob as a measuring or aligning tool.
- (transitive, figurative) To think about or explore in depth, to get to the bottom of.
- To attach to a water supply and drain.
- (rare) To fall or sink like a plummet.
- (nautical) To position vertically above or below.
- (intransitive) To work as a plumber.
- To determine the depth, generally of a liquid; to sound.
- To accurately align vertically or horizontally.
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- a long vertical passage sunk into the earth, as for a mine or tunnel
- an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
- a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon
- obscene terms for penis
- the main (mid) section of a long bone
- a revolving rod that transmits power or motion
- the hollow spine of a feather
- a column of light (as from a beacon)
- a vertical passageway through a building (as for an elevator)
- a line that forms the length of an arrow pointer
- a long rod or pole (especially the handle of an implement or the body of a weapon like a spear or arrow)
- (architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column
- A ventilation or heating conduit.
- The long, narrow, central body of a spear, arrow, or javelin.
- (meteorology) A relatively small area of precipitation that an onlook can discern from the dry surrounding area.
- (architecture) Any column or pillar, particularly the body of a column between its capital and pedestal.
- (literary) A beam or ray of light.
- The main axis of a feather.
- One of the poles between which a draught animal is harnessed to a vehicle.
- (anatomy) The main cylindrical part of the penis.
- A vertical passage housing a lift or elevator.
- (weaving) A component of a loom which holds the heddles and is raised by treadles to create the shed.
- The chamber of a blast furnace.
- (lacrosse) The long narrow body of a lacrosse stick.
- A vertical or inclined passage sunk into the earth as part of a mine.
- (slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
- A rotating machine element used to transmit power; a driveshaft
- (by extension) Anything cast or thrown as a spear or javelin.
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- (mining) A passage supplying ventilation into a mine tunnel or other underground facility.
- (architecture) A vertical (or near vertical) opening (shaft) running from a courtyard to the sky, thus allowing air to circulate to high-rise apartments or offices.
- (manufacturing) A device used for handling winding reels in the processing of web-fed materials, such as in continuous-process printing presses.
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- a duct that provides ventilation (as in mines)
- a commercial enterprise that provides scheduled flights for passengers
- a designated route followed by airplanes in flying from one airport to another
- the passages through which air enters and leaves the body
- (anatomy) The trachea.
- (aviation) A flight path used by aeroplanes.
- (mining) A roadway used for ventilation.
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- (plumbing) A component used to connect two pipes of different bores.
- (photography) A liquid used in the process of developing a negative to reduce its darkness.
- Something or someone that reduces.
- (software) A function that takes state and action as arguments and returns the next state of the app.
- (chemistry) A reducing agent.
- (soccer) The reduction of the contribution to a football game of a more talented opponent by intimidation using a brutal tackle.
- (hydraulics) A hydraulic device for reducing pressure and hence increasing movement, used to transmit the load from the hydraulic support of the lower shackle to the lever weighing apparatus in some kinds of heavy testing machine.
- a substance capable of bringing about the reduction of another substance as it itself is oxidized; used in photography to lessen the density of a negative or print by oxidizing some of the loose silver
- pipefitting that joins two pipes of different diameter
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- The act of burrowing a tunnel.
- The practice of exploring tunnel.
- (finance) A type of fraud where assets and profits are transferred out of firms for the benefit of those who control them.
- (computing, Microsoft Windows) A feature of the file system that allows files to preserve certain properties, such as creation date, even after being deleted and recreated.
- (physics) The quantum mechanical passing of a particle through an energy barrier.
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- (engineering) An overheated shaft bearing.
- (rail transport) An overheated axle box, bearing and bearing enclosure.
- A cold frame containing compost that provides a limited amount of warmth.
- A container maintained at elevated temperatures in order to heat or cook its contents.
- A room or house that becomes unbearably hot inside when the weather is hot.
- A small, hot, enclosure, used as a punishment for slaves or prisoners.
- (slang) A sexy woman.
- A room or compartment that is kept artificially warm for some purpose.
- A gas manifold that diverts hot gasses into a heat exchanger.
- A storage container for personal belongings of employees who are hot desking.
- A small, airtight space where people smoke marijuana in order to intensify the high.
- An oven.
- A location where controversial ideas are discussed or practiced.
- A furnace or heat source for a building.
- An incubator.
- (graphical user interface) A context-sensitive dialog that duplicates many of the commands on the menu for users of the Maya Embedded Language.
- A box for hot composting.
- A soundproof box used to hold a camera in order to prevent the sound of its operation interfering with the recording of a film.
- a journal bearing (as of a railroad car) that has overheated
verb
- (slang) To put out a cigarette just before entering a vehicle, then expel smoke in the vehicle.
- (slang) To fart in a small confined area, such as the inside of a car.
- (slang) To smoke a cigarette vigorously and rapidly.
- (transitive, slang) To smoke marijuana in a small confined area, such as the inside of a car, until it is full of smoke, thereby intensifying the drug's effects.
noun
- (figurative) Anything that resembles a tunnel.
- The opening of a chimney for the passage of smoke; a flue.
- (mining) A level passage driven across the measures, or at right angles to veins which it is desired to reach; distinguished from the drift, or gangway, which is led along the vein when reached by the tunnel.
- A vessel with a broad mouth at one end, a pipe or tube at the other, for conveying liquor, fluids, etc., into casks, bottles, or other vessels; a funnel.
- A hole in the ground made by an animal, a burrow.
- An underground or underwater passage.
- (computing, networking) A wrapper for a protocol that cannot otherwise be used because it is unsupported, blocked, or insecure.
- A passage through or under some obstacle.
- a hole made by an animal, usually for shelter
- a passageway through or under something, usually underground (especially one for trains or cars)
verb
- (intransitive) To dig a tunnel.
- (transitive) To make a tunnel through or under something; to burrow.
- (physics) To undergo the quantum-mechanical phenomenon where a particle penetrates through a barrier that it classically cannot surmount.
- (transitive, medicine) To insert a catheter into a vein to allow long-term use.
- (computing, networking) To transmit something through a tunnel (wrapper for an insecure or unsupported protocol).
- move through by or as by digging
- force a way through
noun
noun
- (mining) The heading or excavation of relatively small dimensions, first made in the driving of a larger tunnel.
- 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.
- 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.
- (Australia, road transport) A person authorised to drive such a vehicle during an escort.
- (rail transport) A cowcatcher.
- A guide or escort through an unknown or dangerous area.
- (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
- (mining) Of a boring or a driven tunnel: deviation from the intended course.
- (mining) A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery.
- Anything driven at random.
- A slightly tapered tool of steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal, by being forced or driven into or through it; a broach.
- Driftwood included in flotsam washed up onto the beach.
- The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting.
- (mining) In a coal mine, a heading driven for exploration or ventilation.
- (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball through the air, when bowled by a spin bowler.
- (mining) A heading driven through a seam of coal.
- (uncountable, film) The situation where a performer gradually and unintentionally moves from their proper location within the scene.
- That which is driven, forced, or urged along.
- A tool used to insert or extract a removable pin made of metal or hardwood, for the purpose of aligning and/or securing two pieces of material together.
- In the New Forest National Park, UK, the bi-annual round-up of wild ponies in order to sell them.
- The distance through which a current flows in a given time.
- (architecture) The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.
- A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to obloid projectiles.
- The place in a deep-waisted vessel where the sheer is raised and the rail is cut off, and usually terminated with a scroll, or driftpiece.
- (mining) A sloping winze or road to the surface, for purposes of haulage.
- (mining) An adit or tunnel driven forward for purposes of exploration or exploitation; generally eventually to a dead end.
- A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., especially by wind or water.
- The difference between the size of a bolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of a hoop and that of the mast on which it is to be driven.
- The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention; hence, also, import or meaning of a sentence or discourse; aim.
- Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting.
- The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.
- A place (a ford) along a river where the water is shallow enough to permit crossing to the opposite side.
- The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.
- A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds.
- A tool used to pack down the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework.
- A collection of loose earth and rocks, or boulders, which have been distributed over large portions of the earth's surface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the retreat of continental glaciers, such as that which buries former river valleys and creates young river valleys.
- The distance a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes.
- Slow, cumulative change.
- (uncountable) Minor deviation of audio or video playback from its correct speed.
- the pervading meaning or tenor
- a process of linguistic change over a period of time
- a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
- a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine
- the gradual departure from an intended course due to external influences (as a ship or plane)
- a large mass of material that is heaped up by the wind or by water currents
- a force that moves something along
verb
- (intransitive) To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps.
- (transitive) To drive into heaps.
- (transitive) To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body.
- (automotive) To oversteer a vehicle, causing loss of traction, while maintaining control from entry to exit of a corner. See Drifting (motorsport).
- (transitive, engineering) To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift.
- (intransitive) To deviate gently from the intended direction of travel.
- (intransitive) To move haphazardly without any destination.
- (mining, US) To make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence of metals or ores; to follow a vein; to prospect.
- (intransitive) To move slowly, especially pushed by currents of water, air, etc.
- move in an unhurried fashion
- live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely
- drive slowly and far afield for grazing
- vary or move from a fixed point or course
- be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current
- move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
- be in motion due to some air or water current
- cause to be carried by a current
- wander from a direct course or at random
- be subject to fluctuation
noun
- (mining) A tunnel serving the coal face.
- A location which serves as a conduit for transport, migration, or trade.
- A doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
- (slang) A place where drugs are illegally sold.
- The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
- (Scotland, Northern England) A street; now used especially as a combining form to make the name of a street e.g. "Briggate" (a common street name in the north of England meaning "Bridge Street") or Kirkgate meaning "Church Street".
- In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
- A passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
- (cinematography) A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
- An individual theme park as part of a larger resort complex with multiple parks.
- A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.
- (electronics) The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
- The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
- (computing) A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
- (now Scotland, Northern England) A way, path.
- (cricket) The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.
- (metalworking) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate; tedge.
- (flow cytometry) A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
- A doorlike structure outside a house.
- A movable barrier.
- total admission receipts at a sports event
- a movable barrier in a fence or wall
- passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark
- a computer circuit with several inputs but only one output that can be activated by particular combinations of inputs
verb
- (transitive) To selectively regulate or restrict (access to something).
- (transitive) To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
- (transitive) To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively, as needed or to avoid damage from excessive light exposure. See autogating.
- (transitive, biochemistry) To open (a closed ion channel).
- (transitive) To furnish with a gate.
- supply with a gate
- control with a valve or other device that functions like a gate
- restrict (school boys') movement to the dormitory or campus as a means of punishment
noun
- (mining, tunnelling) A framework used to protect workmen in making an adit under ground, and capable of being pushed along as excavation progresses.
- (transport) A sign or symbol, usually containing numbers and sometimes letters, identifying a highway route.
- (colloquial, law enforcement) A police badge.
- (heraldry) The escutcheon on which are placed the bearings in coats of arms.
- (geology) A large expanse of exposed stable Precambrian rock.
- (figurative) One who protects or defends.
- (science fiction) A field of energy that protects or defends.
- (lichenology) In lichens, a hardened cup or disk surrounded by a rim and containing the fructification, or asci.
- (geology) A wide and relatively low-profiled volcano, usually composed entirely of lava flows.
- A broad piece of defensive armor, held in hand, formerly in general use in war, for the protection of the body.
- A spot resembling, or having the form of a shield.
- (automotive, British English) Parts at the front and back of a vehicle which are meant to absorb the impact of a collision
- hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles
- a protective covering or structure
- armor carried on the arm to intercept blows
verb
noun
- (engineering) A rock shaft.
- A skate with a curved blade, somewhat resembling in shape the rocker of a cradle.
- Any implement or machine working with a rocking motion, such as a trough mounted on rockers for separating gold dust from gravel, etc., by agitation in water.
- A musician who plays rock music.
- (informal) A rock music song.
- (military) A curved line accompanying the chevrons that denote rank, qualifying the rank with a grade.
- A rocker board.
- One who rocks something.
- A kind of electrical switch with a spring-loaded actuator.
- (UK) A member of a British subculture of the 1960s, opposed to the mods, who dressed in black leather and were interested in 1950s music.
- Someone passionate about rock music.
- A tool with small teeth that roughens a metal plate to produce tonality in mezzotints.
- A rocking horse.
- A rocking chair.
- A curved piece of wood attached to the bottom of a rocking chair or cradle that enables it to rock back and forth.
- The breve below as in ḫ.
- (surfing) The lengthwise curvature of a surfboard. (More rocker is a more curved board.)
- a curved support that permits the supported object to rock to and fro
- a performer or composer or fan of rock music
- a teenager or young adult in the 1960s who wore leather jackets and rode motorcycles
- an attendant who rocks a child in a cradle
- an ice skate with a curved blade
- a trough that can be rocked back and forth; used by gold miners to shake auriferous earth in water in order to separate the gold
- a chair mounted on rockers
noun
- (mining) A smaller tunnel or well drilled as an auxiliary off a main tunnel or well.
- An alternate train of thought, issue, topic, or activity, that is a deviation or distraction from the topic at hand or central activity, and secondary or subordinate in importance or effectiveness.
- (rail transport) A second, relatively short length of track just to the side of a railroad track, joined to the main track by switches at one or both ends, used either for unloading freight, or to allow two trains on a same track to meet (opposite directions) or pass (same direction); a railroad siding.
- (sometimes) Any auxiliary railroad track, as differentiated from a siding, that runs adjacent to the main track.
- a short stretch of railroad track used to store rolling stock or enable trains on the same line to pass
verb
- (intransitive) To deviate briefly from the topic at hand.
- (rail transport) To divert (a locomotive or train) on to a lesser used track in order to allow other trains to pass.
- To divert or distract (someone) from a main issue or course of action with an alternate or less relevant topic or activity; or, to use deliberate trickery or sly wordplay when talking to (a person) in order to avoid discussion of a subject.
- To sideline; to push aside; to divert or distract from, reducing (something) to a secondary or subordinate position.
- wander from a direct or straight course
noun
- (mining) A tunnel for drawing spent air away from the working face of a mine.
- The downstream gate in the lock on a canal or river, or in an irrigation system.
- (automotive) A hinged board or hatch at the rear of a vehicle that can be lowered for loading and unloading.
- (US) Ellipsis of tailgate party.
- (especially British) The hinged rear door of a hatchback.
- a gate at the rear of a vehicle; can be lowered for loading
verb
- (finance, of a broker) To privately purchase or sell a security immediately after trading in the same security for a client.
- To follow another person through access control on their access, rather than on one’s own credentials, especially when entering a door controlled by a card reader.
- (automotive, intransitive, transitive) To drive dangerously close behind another vehicle.
- (US, intransitive) To have a tailgate party.
- follow at a dangerously close distance
noun
- An underground tunnel in a mine.
- (nautical, usually in the plural) A partly sheltered area of water near a shore in which vessels may ride at anchor; a roadstead.
- (uncountable) Roads in general as a means of travel, especially by motor vehicle.
- (figuratively) A path chosen, as in life or career.
- (cricket) A hard, flat pitch, typically favourable for batters.
- (US, UK, rail transport) A single railroad track (railway track).
- A way used for travelling between places, originally one wide enough to allow foot passengers and horses to travel, now (US) usually one surfaced with asphalt or concrete and designed to accommodate many vehicles travelling in both directions. In the UK both senses are heard: a country road is the same as a country lane.
- an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation
- a way or means to achieve something
adj
noun
- (construction, civil engineering) A borrow pit.
- (programming) In Rust and some other programming languages, the situation where the ownership of a value is temporarily transferred to another region of code.
- (golf, countable, uncountable) Deviation of the path of a rolling ball from a straight line; slope; slant.
verb
- (informal) To receive (something, usually of trifling value) from somebody, with little possibility of returning it.
- (linguistics) To adopt a word from another language.
- (ditransitive) To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone).
- (informal) To interrupt the current activity of (a person) and lead them away in order to speak with them, get their help, etc.
- (obsolete except in ballads) To secure the release of (someone) from prison.
- To feign or counterfeit.
- To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.
- To adopt (an idea) as one's own.
- (golf) To adjust one's aim in order to compensate for the slope of the green.
- (Upper Midwestern US, West Midlands, Malaysia, Singapore, proscribed) To lend.
- (arithmetic) In a subtraction, to deduct (one) from a digit of the minuend and add ten to the following digit, in order that the subtraction of a larger digit in the subtrahend from the digit in the minuend to which ten is added gives a positive result.
- To receive money from a bank or other lender under the agreement that the lender will be paid back over time.
- take up and practice as one's own
- get temporarily
noun
- (mining) The inner end of a drift or tunnel.
- (figurative) A position that offers no hope of change or progress.
- A split end in the hair.
- (idiomatic) A street or path or tunnel that goes nowhere or is blocked on one end.
- a passage with access only at one end
- a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible
noun
adj
verb
noun
- A kind of self-propelled excavator used to form underground drains, or to clear underground pipelines.
- (espionage) An internal spy; a person who involves themself with an enemy organisation, especially an intelligence or governmental organisation, to determine and betray its secrets from within.
- A hemorrhagic mass of tissue in the uterus caused by a dead ovum.
- Any of several spicy sauces typical of the cuisine of Mexico and neighboring Central America countries, especially one that contains chocolate and is used in cooking main dishes, not desserts.
- (historical) An Ancient Roman mausoleum.
- A type of underground drain used in farm fields, in which a mole plow creates an unlined channel through clay subsoil.
- (chemistry, physics) In the International System of Units, the base unit of amount of substance; the amount of substance of a system which contains exactly 6.02214076×10²³ elementary entities (atoms, ions, molecules, etc.). Symbol: mol. The number of atoms is known as Avogadro’s number. [from 1897]
- (rare) A haven or harbour, protected with such a breakwater.
- A naevus, a pigmented, slightly raised, and sometimes hairy spot on the skin.
- Any of the burrowing rodents also called mole-rats.
- Any of several small, burrowing, insectivorous mammals of the family Talpidae.
- (nautical) A massive structure, usually of stone, used as a pier, breakwater or junction between places separated by water.
- (slang, derogatory, chiefly Australia and New Zealand) A moll, a bitch, a slut.
- a spy who works against enemy espionage
- a protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away
- the molecular weight of a substance expressed in grams; the basic unit of amount of substance adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites
- a small congenital pigmented spot on the skin
- small velvety-furred burrowing mammal having small eyes and fossorial forefeet
- spicy sauce often containing chocolate
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noun
verb
noun
- a hole or passage made by a drill; usually made for exploratory purposes
- diameter of a tube or gun barrel
- a person who evokes boredom
- a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary)
- Something dull or uninteresting.
- A hole drilled or milled through something, or (by extension) its diameter.
- A sudden and rapid flow of tide occurring in certain rivers and estuaries which rolls up as a wave.
- A tool, such as an auger, for making a hole by boring.
- The place where such a well exists.
- The tunnel inside of a gun's barrel through which the bullet travels when fired, or (by extension) its diameter.
- A capped well drilled to tap artesian water.
- One who inspires boredom or lack of interest; an uninteresting person.
- Calibre; importance.
verb
- make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool
- cause to be bored
- (intransitive) To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
- (intransitive) To make a hole with, or as if with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool.
- (transitive, sports, slang) To push or drive (a boxer into the ropes, a boat out of its course, etc.).
- (transitive) To form or enlarge (something) by means of a boring instrument or apparatus.
- simple past of bear
- (intransitive) To glare (as if to drill a hole with the eyes).
- (intransitive) To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns.
- (transitive) To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.
- (colloquial) past participle of bear
- (proscribed) simple past of bare
- (transitive) To inspire boredom in somebody.
- (transitive) To make a hole through something.
noun
adj
adv
verb
- weight with lead
- examine thoroughly and in great depth
- adjust with a plumb line so as to make vertical
- measure the depth of something
- To use a plumb bob as a measuring or aligning tool.
- (transitive, figurative) To think about or explore in depth, to get to the bottom of.
- To attach to a water supply and drain.
- (rare) To fall or sink like a plummet.
- (nautical) To position vertically above or below.
- (intransitive) To work as a plumber.
- To determine the depth, generally of a liquid; to sound.
- To accurately align vertically or horizontally.
noun
verb
noun
- a long vertical passage sunk into the earth, as for a mine or tunnel
- an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
- a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon
- obscene terms for penis
- the main (mid) section of a long bone
- a revolving rod that transmits power or motion
- the hollow spine of a feather
- a column of light (as from a beacon)
- a vertical passageway through a building (as for an elevator)
- a line that forms the length of an arrow pointer
- a long rod or pole (especially the handle of an implement or the body of a weapon like a spear or arrow)
- (architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column
- A ventilation or heating conduit.
- The long, narrow, central body of a spear, arrow, or javelin.
- (meteorology) A relatively small area of precipitation that an onlook can discern from the dry surrounding area.
- (architecture) Any column or pillar, particularly the body of a column between its capital and pedestal.
- (literary) A beam or ray of light.
- The main axis of a feather.
- One of the poles between which a draught animal is harnessed to a vehicle.
- (anatomy) The main cylindrical part of the penis.
- A vertical passage housing a lift or elevator.
- (weaving) A component of a loom which holds the heddles and is raised by treadles to create the shed.
- The chamber of a blast furnace.
- (lacrosse) The long narrow body of a lacrosse stick.
- A vertical or inclined passage sunk into the earth as part of a mine.
- (slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
- A rotating machine element used to transmit power; a driveshaft
- (by extension) Anything cast or thrown as a spear or javelin.
verb
noun
- (mining) A passage supplying ventilation into a mine tunnel or other underground facility.
- (architecture) A vertical (or near vertical) opening (shaft) running from a courtyard to the sky, thus allowing air to circulate to high-rise apartments or offices.
- (manufacturing) A device used for handling winding reels in the processing of web-fed materials, such as in continuous-process printing presses.
noun
- a duct that provides ventilation (as in mines)
- a commercial enterprise that provides scheduled flights for passengers
- a designated route followed by airplanes in flying from one airport to another
- the passages through which air enters and leaves the body
- (anatomy) The trachea.
- (aviation) A flight path used by aeroplanes.
- (mining) A roadway used for ventilation.
noun
verb
noun
- (plumbing) A component used to connect two pipes of different bores.
- (photography) A liquid used in the process of developing a negative to reduce its darkness.
- Something or someone that reduces.
- (software) A function that takes state and action as arguments and returns the next state of the app.
- (chemistry) A reducing agent.
- (soccer) The reduction of the contribution to a football game of a more talented opponent by intimidation using a brutal tackle.
- (hydraulics) A hydraulic device for reducing pressure and hence increasing movement, used to transmit the load from the hydraulic support of the lower shackle to the lever weighing apparatus in some kinds of heavy testing machine.
- a substance capable of bringing about the reduction of another substance as it itself is oxidized; used in photography to lessen the density of a negative or print by oxidizing some of the loose silver
- pipefitting that joins two pipes of different diameter
noun
- (figurative) Anything that resembles a tunnel.
- The opening of a chimney for the passage of smoke; a flue.
- (mining) A level passage driven across the measures, or at right angles to veins which it is desired to reach; distinguished from the drift, or gangway, which is led along the vein when reached by the tunnel.
- A vessel with a broad mouth at one end, a pipe or tube at the other, for conveying liquor, fluids, etc., into casks, bottles, or other vessels; a funnel.
- A hole in the ground made by an animal, a burrow.
- An underground or underwater passage.
- (computing, networking) A wrapper for a protocol that cannot otherwise be used because it is unsupported, blocked, or insecure.
- A passage through or under some obstacle.
- a hole made by an animal, usually for shelter
- a passageway through or under something, usually underground (especially one for trains or cars)
verb
- (intransitive) To dig a tunnel.
- (transitive) To make a tunnel through or under something; to burrow.
- (physics) To undergo the quantum-mechanical phenomenon where a particle penetrates through a barrier that it classically cannot surmount.
- (transitive, medicine) To insert a catheter into a vein to allow long-term use.
- (computing, networking) To transmit something through a tunnel (wrapper for an insecure or unsupported protocol).
- move through by or as by digging
- force a way through
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adj
- Related to mechanics (the design and construction of machines).
- Using mechanics (the design and construction of machines): being a machine.
- (of a person) Acting as if one were a machine: lifeless or mindless.
- Related to mechanics (the branch of physics that deals with forces acting on matter).
- (figurative) As if performed by a machine: lifeless, mindless, thoughtless, automatic.
- Relating to the mechanics of a game.
- Done by machine.
- (informal) Handy with machines.
- relating to or concerned with machinery or tools
- relating to or governed by or in accordance with mechanics
- using (or as if using) mechanisms or tools or devices
noun
- (science fiction) A robot or mechanical creature.
- One who does manual labor, especially one who is similar to Shakespeare's rude mechanicals
- (cycling) An instance of equipment failure.
- (music) A stop on an organ that is operated by a hand or foot control rather than having to be manually set up in advance.
- (advertising) Manually created layout of artwork that is camera ready for photographic reproduction.
- (engineering) A mechanical engineer.