English words for '(programming) Synonym of pull request.'
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noun
- (software engineering) Initialism of pull request.
- (business) Initialism of purchase requisition.
- (sports) Initialism of Paralympic record.
- Initialism of Puerto Rican.
- Initialism of public relations.
- (sports) Initialism of personal record.
- (medicine) A PR interval.
- Initialism of personal representative.
- (tennis) Initialism of protected ranking.
- (medicine) Initialism of partial response.
- (hematology) Initialism of prothrombin ratio.
- Initialism of proportional representation.
- (electronics) Abbreviation of preset.
- Initialism of permanent residence.
- (biochemistry) Initialism of progesterone receptor.
- Initialism of police report.
- Initialism of personal recognizance (bond).
- a promotion intended to create goodwill for a person or institution
adv
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verb
noun
verb
- (transitive, figuratively) To drag, to pull, to tug.
- (intransitive, nautical) Of the wind: to shift fore (more towards the bow).
- (transitive, figuratively) Followed by up: to summon to be disciplined or held answerable for something.
- (intransitive) To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.
- (transitive) To draw or pull something heavy.
- (ambitransitive, nautical) To steer (a vessel) closer to the wind.
- (transitive) To transport by drawing or pulling, as with horses or oxen, or a motor vehicle.
- (intransitive, US, colloquial) To haul ass (“go fast”).
- (transitive) To carry or transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move.
- transport in a vehicle
- draw slowly or heavily
noun
- An act of hauling or pulling, particularly with force; a (violent) pull or tug.
- The distance over which something is hauled or transported, especially if long.
- (Internet) Ellipsis of haul video (“video posted on the Internet consisting of someone showing and talking about recently purchased items”).
- An amount of something that has been taken, especially of fish, illegal loot, or items purchased on a shopping trip.
- (ropemaking) A bundle of many threads to be tarred.
- (British, soccer) Four goals scored by one player in a game.
- the quantity that was caught
- the act of drawing or hauling something
verb
- To pull or tug (something).
- (intransitive) Followed by at: to pull or tug.
- (construction, pottery) To mix and work (wet clay) until flexible, soft, and free from air pockets and suitable for making bricks, pottery, etc.
- (construction) To fill or stop up (a space) with pug (noun etymology 5 sense 1), clay, sawdust, or other material by tamping; (specifically) to fill in (the space between joists of a floor, a partition, etc.) with some material to deaden sound, make fireproof, etc.
- (rare) To hit or punch (someone or something); also, to poke (someone or something).
noun
- (originally British India) The footprint or pawprint of an animal; a pugmark.
- (UK, historical) Chiefly used by servants: A senior or upper servant in a household.
- In full pug dog: a small dog of an ancient breed originating in China, having a snub nose, wrinkled face, squarish body, short smooth hair, and curled tail.
- Clay, soil, or other material which has been mixed and worked until flexible, soft, and free from air pockets and thus suitable for making bricks, pottery, etc.; also, any other material with a similar consistency or function, especially (Australia) auriferous (“gold-bearing”) clay.
- (clothing, historical) In full pug hood: a hood, sometimes with a short cloak attached, worn by women around the middle of the 18th century.
- (UK, regional, rare) A person or thing that is squat (“broad and short”).
- (informal) Clipping of pugilist (“one who fights with their fists, especially a professional prize fighter; a boxer”).
- Ellipsis of pug mill (“kind of mill for grinding, mixing, and working clay”).
- (rail transport) In full pug engine: a small locomotive chiefly used for shunting (“moving trains from one track to another, or carriages from one train to another”).
- In full pug moth, often with a descriptive word: any geometrid moth of the tribe Eupitheciini, especially the genus Eupithecia; a geometer moth.
- (online gaming) Alternative letter-case form of PuG (“a group of players who are unknown to each other, grouped together to work toward a short-term goal such as completing a dungeon or a raid”).
- (US, regional) A bun or knot of hair; also, a piece of cloth or snood for holding this in place.
- small compact smooth-coated breed of Asiatic origin having a tightly curled tail and broad flat wrinkled muzzle
noun
name
verb
- (transitive) To remove by pulling.
- (ambitransitive) To turn off (a road onto the side of the road, or onto another road).
- (transitive, idiomatic) To achieve, accomplish, succeed at (something difficult).
- (intransitive, of a vehicle) To begin moving and then move away; to pull away.
- (transitive, reflexive, vulgar, slang, usually of a male) To masturbate manually.
- be successful; achieve a goal
- pull or pull out sharply
- remove by drawing or pulling
- cause to withdraw
verb
- (transitive) To draw out by dragging or tugging.
- (literally, intransitive) To use coitus interruptus as a method of birth control.
- (also figurative, intransitive) To withdraw; especially of military forces; to retreat.
- (transitive) To draw out or lengthen.
- (aviation, intransitive, of an aircraft) To transition from a dive to level or climbing flight.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To remove something from a container.
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To maneuver a vehicle from the side of a road onto the lane.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pull, out.
- bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover
- remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense
- move out or away
- remove oneself from an obligation
verb
- To push; to tug; to tow.
- (transitive) To turn (animals' hide) into leather, usually by soaking it in a certain solution.
- (transitive, by extension) To beat; to scourge.
- (transitive) To dress and prepare, as the skins of sheep, lambs, goats, and kids, for gloves, etc., by imbuing them with alum, salt, and other agents, for softening and bleaching them.
- To shoot a marble.
noun
- (square dancing) A dance partner.
- The 22nd and last letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, and Arabic.
- A line or mark from which the players begin a game of marbles.
- A favorite person; beloved, partner, spouse.
- A favorite marble in the game of marbles.
- a large marble used for shooting in the game of marbles
- the 23rd letter of the Hebrew alphabet
verb
- (transitive, slang, computing, by extension) To fetch (in general).
- (transitive, slang) To eat or consume greedily.
- (transitive, slang) To take something by dubious means, but without the connotations of stealing; to take something without regard to etiquette.
- (transitive, slang, computing) To slurp (computing slang sense); to load in entirely; to copy as a whole.
- make off with belongings of others
noun
- (programming) The act of invoking, such as a function call.
- The act or form of calling for the assistance or presence of some superior being, especially prayer offered to a divine being.
- (chiefly law) A call or summons, especially a judicial call, demand, or order.
- (law) An act of invoking or claiming a legal right.
- the act of appealing for help
- calling up a spirit or devil
- an incantation used in conjuring or summoning a devil
- a prayer asking God's help as part of a religious service
adj
- (computing, of a request or a message) Allowing the client to continue during processing.
- (computing, communication) Having many actions occurring at a time, in any order, without waiting for each other.
- Not synchronous; occurring at different times.
- not synchronous; not occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase
- (digital communication) pertaining to a transmission technique that does not require a common clock between the communicating devices; timing signals are derived from special characters in the data stream itself
noun
adj
- Operated by pushing and pulling.
- Having two electronic devices in opposite phase.
- (rail transport) Operating with locomotives at both the head and rear of a train, or with a locomotive at one end and a driving position in the vehicle at the opposite end, so that the train can be driven from either end.
noun
name
verb
- (computing, transitive) To intercept and modify calls to (an API), usually for compatibility purposes.
- (ambitransitive) To fit one or more shims to a piece of machinery or other assembly; to adjust (something) by using shims.
- To adjust the homogeneity of a magnetic field (after the mechanical devices once used for the purpose).
- (ambitransitive) To attack a point-of-sale card reader with a shim.
noun
- (computing) A small library that transparently intercepts and modifies calls to an API, usually for compatibility purposes.
- (informal, often derogatory) A person characterised by both male and female traits, or by ambiguous male-female traits; a hermaphrodite.
- A kind of shallowly cutting plow used in tillage to break the ground and clear it of weeds.
- (crime) A thin device inserted into a card reader by a criminal to facilitate fraud.
- A wedge.
- A small metal device used to pick open a lock.
- A thin piece of material, sometimes tapered, used for alignment or support.
- (informal, often derogatory) A transsexual person, especially a trans woman; (loosely) a drag queen or transvestite.
- a thin wedge of material (wood or metal or stone) for driving into crevices
noun
- An instance of plucking or pulling sharply.
- The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang, uncountable) Cheap wine.
- (informal, figurative, uncountable) Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.
- the act of pulling and releasing a taut cord
- the trait of showing courage and determination in spite of possible loss or injury
verb
- (intransitive) To pull or twitch sharply.
- (transitive) To play a string instrument pizzicato.
- (transitive) To remove feathers from (a bird).
- Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing.
- (transitive, music) To play (a single string on a musical instrument) by pulling and then releasing it, such as on a guitar.
- (transitive) To pull something sharply; to pull something out
- (transitive) To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation.
- sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity
- look for and gather
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- pull or pull out sharply
- pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
- strip of feathers
verb
noun
- Annular ligament of the finger.
- (engineering, countable) One of the simple machines; a sheave, a wheel with a grooved rim, in which a pulled rope or chain lifts an object (more useful when two or more pulleys are used together, as in a block and tackle arrangement, such that a small force moving through a greater distance can exert a larger force through a smaller distance).
- a simple machine consisting of a wheel with a groove in which a rope can run to change the direction or point of application of a force applied to the rope
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To receive a load.
- (intransitive) To be placed into storage or conveyance.
- (transitive) To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition.
- (intransitive) To be put into use in an apparatus.
- (transitive) To provide in abundance.
- (transitive) To place in or on a conveyance or a place of storage.
- (transitive) To fill (an apparatus) with raw material.
- (transitive) To encumber with something negative, to place as an encumbrance.
- (transitive, computing) To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.
- (Philippines) to top up or purchase phone credits
- (transitive) To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).
- (intransitive, computing) To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.
- (transitive) To tamper with so as to produce a biased outcome.
- (intransitive) To put a load on something.
- (transitive) To insert (an item or items) into an apparatus so as to ready it for operation, such as a reel of film into a camera, sheets of paper into a printer etc.
- (transitive) To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way.
- (transitive) To weight (a cane, whip, etc.) with lead or similar.
- (transitive, baseball) To put runners on first, second and third bases
- corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
- transfer from a storage device to a computer's memory
- put (something) on a structure or conveyance
- fill or place a load on
- provide (a device) with something necessary
noun
- A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar.
- (engineering) The force exerted on a structural component such as a beam, girder, cable etc.
- (vulgar, slang) The contents (e.g. semen) of an ejaculation.
- (in combination) Used to form nouns that indicate a large quantity, often corresponding to the capacity of a vehicle
- The charge of powder for a firearm; a loaded cartridge or round of ammunition.
- A unit of measure for various quantities.
- (computing) The process of loading something, i.e. transferring it into memory or over a network, etc.
- (euphemistic) Nonsense; rubbish.
- Ellipsis of viral load.
- A burden; a weight to be carried.
- (engineering) A resistive force encountered by a prime mover when performing work.
- The volume of work required to be performed.
- (figuratively) A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind.
- A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time.
- A quantity of washing put into a washing machine for a wash cycle.
- (electrical engineering) Any component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit.
- (Philippines) prepaid phone credit
- (often in the plural, colloquial) A large number or amount.
- (vulgar, slang) defecation
- (electrical engineering) The electrical current or power delivered by a device.
- weight to be borne or conveyed
- a quantity that can be processed or transported at one time
- electrical device to which electrical power is delivered
- an onerous or difficult concern
- the power output of a generator or power plant
- a deposit of valuable ore occurring within definite boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks
- the front part of a guided missile or rocket or torpedo that carries the nuclear or explosive charge or the chemical or biological agents
- an amount of alcohol sufficient to intoxicate
- goods carried by a large vehicle
verb
- (transitive) To pull with a jerk.
- (intransitive) To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling.
- (intransitive, UK) To strike the legs together in going, as horses; to interfere.
- (intransitive) To move interruptedly or with halts, jerks, or steps; said of something obstructed or impeded.
- (informal, transitive) Clipping of hitchhike, to thumb a ride.
- (informal) To marry oneself to; especially to get hitched.
- (transitive) To attach, tie or fasten.
- jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched
- walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury
- to hook or entangle
- travel by getting free rides from motorists
- connect to a vehicle:
noun
- (informal) A problem, delay or source of difficulty.
- (military, slang) A period of time spent in the military.
- A fastener or connection point, as for a trailer.
- Any of various knots used to attach a rope to an object other than another rope.
- (mining) A hole cut into the wall of a mine on which timbers are rested.
- A large Californian minnow, Lavinia exilicauda.
- A sudden pull.
- A hidden or unfavorable condition or element.
- a connection between a vehicle and the load that it pulls
- the state of inactivity following an interruption
- any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome
- a knot that can be undone by pulling against the strain that holds it; a temporary knot
- an unforeseen obstacle
- the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg
- a period of time spent in military service
verb
noun
verb
noun
verb
- (transitive) To lengthen by pulling.
- (figuratively, transitive) To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
- (figuratively, transitive) To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
- (intransitive) To increase, to grow.
- (physics, transitive) To make a pulse or particle bunch longer by applying dispersion to it.
- (nautical) To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
- (transitive) To increase.
- (transitive) To make great demands on the capacity or resources of something.
- (intransitive) To extend physically, especially from a limit point and/or to a limit point.
- (intransitive, transitive) To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body, for example in order to improve the elasticity of one's muscles.
- (transitive) To pull tight.
- (intransitive) To lengthen when pulled.
- become longer by being stretched and pulled
- extend the scope or meaning of; often unduly
- extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length
- extend one's body or limbs
- corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
- make long or longer by pulling and stretching
- occupy a large, elongated area
- pull in opposite directions
- extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body
- increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance
- lie down comfortably
noun
- Ellipsis of stretch limousine.
- A segment or length of material.
- (informal) Term of address for a tall person.
- The ability to lengthen when pulled.
- A segment of a journey or route.
- (baseball) A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman in order to catch the ball sooner.
- (slang) A jail or prison term of one year's duration.
- (horse racing) The homestretch, the final straight section of the track leading to the finish.
- (Ireland) Extended daylight hours, especially said of the evening in springtime when compared to the shorter winter days.
- (slang) A jail or prison term.
- A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief or exaggeration.
- (baseball) A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead of lifting it.
- (sports) The period of the season between the trade deadline and the beginning of the playoffs.
- An act of stretching.
- A length of time.
- A single uninterrupted sitting; a turn.
- an unbroken period of time during which you do something
- the capacity for being stretched
- exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent
- the act of physically reaching or thrusting out
- extension to or beyond the ordinary limit
- a large and unbroken expanse or distance
- a straightaway section of a racetrack
adj
noun
- (computing, specifically) An act of fetching data.
- (originally Ireland, dialectal) The apparition of a living person; a person's double, the sight of which is supposedly a sign that they are fated to die soon, a doppelganger; a wraith (“a person's likeness seen just after their death; a ghost, a spectre”).
- (also figuratively) An act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance.
- An area over which wind is blowing (over water) and generating waves.
- The length of such an area; the distance a wave can travel across a body of water (without obstruction).
- (uncountable) A game played with a dog in which a person throws an object for the dog to retrieve.
- A stratagem or trick; an artifice.
- The object of fetching; the source of an attraction; a force, propensity, or quality which attracts.
- the action of fetching
intj
verb
- (transitive, ditransitive) To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.
- (transitive) To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
- (transitive) To reduce; to throw.
- (nautical) To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
- (intransitive) To bring oneself; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
- (nautical, transitive) To make (a pump) draw water by pouring water into the top and working the handle.
- (transitive, rare, literary) To take (a breath); to heave (a sigh).
- (transitive) To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
- be sold for a certain price
- go or come after and bring or take back
- take someone to hell
noun
- (software engineering) Initialism of pull request.
- (business) Initialism of purchase requisition.
- (sports) Initialism of Paralympic record.
- Initialism of Puerto Rican.
- Initialism of public relations.
- (sports) Initialism of personal record.
- (medicine) A PR interval.
- Initialism of personal representative.
- (tennis) Initialism of protected ranking.
- (medicine) Initialism of partial response.
- (hematology) Initialism of prothrombin ratio.
- Initialism of proportional representation.
- (electronics) Abbreviation of preset.
- Initialism of permanent residence.
- (biochemistry) Initialism of progesterone receptor.
- Initialism of police report.
- Initialism of personal recognizance (bond).
- a promotion intended to create goodwill for a person or institution
adv
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verb
noun
noun
verb
- (transitive, figuratively) To drag, to pull, to tug.
- (intransitive, nautical) Of the wind: to shift fore (more towards the bow).
- (transitive, figuratively) Followed by up: to summon to be disciplined or held answerable for something.
- (intransitive) To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.
- (transitive) To draw or pull something heavy.
- (ambitransitive, nautical) To steer (a vessel) closer to the wind.
- (transitive) To transport by drawing or pulling, as with horses or oxen, or a motor vehicle.
- (intransitive, US, colloquial) To haul ass (“go fast”).
- (transitive) To carry or transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move.
- transport in a vehicle
- draw slowly or heavily
noun
- An act of hauling or pulling, particularly with force; a (violent) pull or tug.
- The distance over which something is hauled or transported, especially if long.
- (Internet) Ellipsis of haul video (“video posted on the Internet consisting of someone showing and talking about recently purchased items”).
- An amount of something that has been taken, especially of fish, illegal loot, or items purchased on a shopping trip.
- (ropemaking) A bundle of many threads to be tarred.
- (British, soccer) Four goals scored by one player in a game.
- the quantity that was caught
- the act of drawing or hauling something
noun
- (programming) The act of invoking, such as a function call.
- The act or form of calling for the assistance or presence of some superior being, especially prayer offered to a divine being.
- (chiefly law) A call or summons, especially a judicial call, demand, or order.
- (law) An act of invoking or claiming a legal right.
- the act of appealing for help
- calling up a spirit or devil
- an incantation used in conjuring or summoning a devil
- a prayer asking God's help as part of a religious service
noun
noun
- An instance of plucking or pulling sharply.
- The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang, uncountable) Cheap wine.
- (informal, figurative, uncountable) Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.
- the act of pulling and releasing a taut cord
- the trait of showing courage and determination in spite of possible loss or injury
verb
- (intransitive) To pull or twitch sharply.
- (transitive) To play a string instrument pizzicato.
- (transitive) To remove feathers from (a bird).
- Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing.
- (transitive, music) To play (a single string on a musical instrument) by pulling and then releasing it, such as on a guitar.
- (transitive) To pull something sharply; to pull something out
- (transitive) To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation.
- sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity
- look for and gather
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- pull or pull out sharply
- pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
- strip of feathers
noun
noun
- (computing, specifically) An act of fetching data.
- (originally Ireland, dialectal) The apparition of a living person; a person's double, the sight of which is supposedly a sign that they are fated to die soon, a doppelganger; a wraith (“a person's likeness seen just after their death; a ghost, a spectre”).
- (also figuratively) An act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance.
- An area over which wind is blowing (over water) and generating waves.
- The length of such an area; the distance a wave can travel across a body of water (without obstruction).
- (uncountable) A game played with a dog in which a person throws an object for the dog to retrieve.
- A stratagem or trick; an artifice.
- The object of fetching; the source of an attraction; a force, propensity, or quality which attracts.
- the action of fetching
intj
verb
- (transitive, ditransitive) To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.
- (transitive) To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
- (transitive) To reduce; to throw.
- (nautical) To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
- (intransitive) To bring oneself; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
- (nautical, transitive) To make (a pump) draw water by pouring water into the top and working the handle.
- (transitive, rare, literary) To take (a breath); to heave (a sigh).
- (transitive) To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
- be sold for a certain price
- go or come after and bring or take back
- take someone to hell
verb
- (transitive, figuratively) To drag, to pull, to tug.
- (intransitive, nautical) Of the wind: to shift fore (more towards the bow).
- (transitive, figuratively) Followed by up: to summon to be disciplined or held answerable for something.
- (intransitive) To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.
- (transitive) To draw or pull something heavy.
- (ambitransitive, nautical) To steer (a vessel) closer to the wind.
- (transitive) To transport by drawing or pulling, as with horses or oxen, or a motor vehicle.
- (intransitive, US, colloquial) To haul ass (“go fast”).
- (transitive) To carry or transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move.
- transport in a vehicle
- draw slowly or heavily
noun
- An act of hauling or pulling, particularly with force; a (violent) pull or tug.
- The distance over which something is hauled or transported, especially if long.
- (Internet) Ellipsis of haul video (“video posted on the Internet consisting of someone showing and talking about recently purchased items”).
- An amount of something that has been taken, especially of fish, illegal loot, or items purchased on a shopping trip.
- (ropemaking) A bundle of many threads to be tarred.
- (British, soccer) Four goals scored by one player in a game.
- the quantity that was caught
- the act of drawing or hauling something
verb
- To pull or tug (something).
- (intransitive) Followed by at: to pull or tug.
- (construction, pottery) To mix and work (wet clay) until flexible, soft, and free from air pockets and suitable for making bricks, pottery, etc.
- (construction) To fill or stop up (a space) with pug (noun etymology 5 sense 1), clay, sawdust, or other material by tamping; (specifically) to fill in (the space between joists of a floor, a partition, etc.) with some material to deaden sound, make fireproof, etc.
- (rare) To hit or punch (someone or something); also, to poke (someone or something).
noun
- (originally British India) The footprint or pawprint of an animal; a pugmark.
- (UK, historical) Chiefly used by servants: A senior or upper servant in a household.
- In full pug dog: a small dog of an ancient breed originating in China, having a snub nose, wrinkled face, squarish body, short smooth hair, and curled tail.
- Clay, soil, or other material which has been mixed and worked until flexible, soft, and free from air pockets and thus suitable for making bricks, pottery, etc.; also, any other material with a similar consistency or function, especially (Australia) auriferous (“gold-bearing”) clay.
- (clothing, historical) In full pug hood: a hood, sometimes with a short cloak attached, worn by women around the middle of the 18th century.
- (UK, regional, rare) A person or thing that is squat (“broad and short”).
- (informal) Clipping of pugilist (“one who fights with their fists, especially a professional prize fighter; a boxer”).
- Ellipsis of pug mill (“kind of mill for grinding, mixing, and working clay”).
- (rail transport) In full pug engine: a small locomotive chiefly used for shunting (“moving trains from one track to another, or carriages from one train to another”).
- In full pug moth, often with a descriptive word: any geometrid moth of the tribe Eupitheciini, especially the genus Eupithecia; a geometer moth.
- (online gaming) Alternative letter-case form of PuG (“a group of players who are unknown to each other, grouped together to work toward a short-term goal such as completing a dungeon or a raid”).
- (US, regional) A bun or knot of hair; also, a piece of cloth or snood for holding this in place.
- small compact smooth-coated breed of Asiatic origin having a tightly curled tail and broad flat wrinkled muzzle
verb
- (transitive) To remove by pulling.
- (ambitransitive) To turn off (a road onto the side of the road, or onto another road).
- (transitive, idiomatic) To achieve, accomplish, succeed at (something difficult).
- (intransitive, of a vehicle) To begin moving and then move away; to pull away.
- (transitive, reflexive, vulgar, slang, usually of a male) To masturbate manually.
- be successful; achieve a goal
- pull or pull out sharply
- remove by drawing or pulling
- cause to withdraw
verb
- (transitive) To draw out by dragging or tugging.
- (literally, intransitive) To use coitus interruptus as a method of birth control.
- (also figurative, intransitive) To withdraw; especially of military forces; to retreat.
- (transitive) To draw out or lengthen.
- (aviation, intransitive, of an aircraft) To transition from a dive to level or climbing flight.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To remove something from a container.
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To maneuver a vehicle from the side of a road onto the lane.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pull, out.
- bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover
- remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense
- move out or away
- remove oneself from an obligation
verb
- To push; to tug; to tow.
- (transitive) To turn (animals' hide) into leather, usually by soaking it in a certain solution.
- (transitive, by extension) To beat; to scourge.
- (transitive) To dress and prepare, as the skins of sheep, lambs, goats, and kids, for gloves, etc., by imbuing them with alum, salt, and other agents, for softening and bleaching them.
- To shoot a marble.
noun
- (square dancing) A dance partner.
- The 22nd and last letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, and Arabic.
- A line or mark from which the players begin a game of marbles.
- A favorite person; beloved, partner, spouse.
- A favorite marble in the game of marbles.
- a large marble used for shooting in the game of marbles
- the 23rd letter of the Hebrew alphabet
verb
- (transitive, slang, computing, by extension) To fetch (in general).
- (transitive, slang) To eat or consume greedily.
- (transitive, slang) To take something by dubious means, but without the connotations of stealing; to take something without regard to etiquette.
- (transitive, slang, computing) To slurp (computing slang sense); to load in entirely; to copy as a whole.
- make off with belongings of others
verb
- (computing, transitive) To intercept and modify calls to (an API), usually for compatibility purposes.
- (ambitransitive) To fit one or more shims to a piece of machinery or other assembly; to adjust (something) by using shims.
- To adjust the homogeneity of a magnetic field (after the mechanical devices once used for the purpose).
- (ambitransitive) To attack a point-of-sale card reader with a shim.
noun
- (computing) A small library that transparently intercepts and modifies calls to an API, usually for compatibility purposes.
- (informal, often derogatory) A person characterised by both male and female traits, or by ambiguous male-female traits; a hermaphrodite.
- A kind of shallowly cutting plow used in tillage to break the ground and clear it of weeds.
- (crime) A thin device inserted into a card reader by a criminal to facilitate fraud.
- A wedge.
- A small metal device used to pick open a lock.
- A thin piece of material, sometimes tapered, used for alignment or support.
- (informal, often derogatory) A transsexual person, especially a trans woman; (loosely) a drag queen or transvestite.
- a thin wedge of material (wood or metal or stone) for driving into crevices
verb
noun
- Annular ligament of the finger.
- (engineering, countable) One of the simple machines; a sheave, a wheel with a grooved rim, in which a pulled rope or chain lifts an object (more useful when two or more pulleys are used together, as in a block and tackle arrangement, such that a small force moving through a greater distance can exert a larger force through a smaller distance).
- a simple machine consisting of a wheel with a groove in which a rope can run to change the direction or point of application of a force applied to the rope
verb
- (intransitive) To receive a load.
- (intransitive) To be placed into storage or conveyance.
- (transitive) To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition.
- (intransitive) To be put into use in an apparatus.
- (transitive) To provide in abundance.
- (transitive) To place in or on a conveyance or a place of storage.
- (transitive) To fill (an apparatus) with raw material.
- (transitive) To encumber with something negative, to place as an encumbrance.
- (transitive, computing) To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.
- (Philippines) to top up or purchase phone credits
- (transitive) To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).
- (intransitive, computing) To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.
- (transitive) To tamper with so as to produce a biased outcome.
- (intransitive) To put a load on something.
- (transitive) To insert (an item or items) into an apparatus so as to ready it for operation, such as a reel of film into a camera, sheets of paper into a printer etc.
- (transitive) To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way.
- (transitive) To weight (a cane, whip, etc.) with lead or similar.
- (transitive, baseball) To put runners on first, second and third bases
- corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
- transfer from a storage device to a computer's memory
- put (something) on a structure or conveyance
- fill or place a load on
- provide (a device) with something necessary
noun
- A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar.
- (engineering) The force exerted on a structural component such as a beam, girder, cable etc.
- (vulgar, slang) The contents (e.g. semen) of an ejaculation.
- (in combination) Used to form nouns that indicate a large quantity, often corresponding to the capacity of a vehicle
- The charge of powder for a firearm; a loaded cartridge or round of ammunition.
- A unit of measure for various quantities.
- (computing) The process of loading something, i.e. transferring it into memory or over a network, etc.
- (euphemistic) Nonsense; rubbish.
- Ellipsis of viral load.
- A burden; a weight to be carried.
- (engineering) A resistive force encountered by a prime mover when performing work.
- The volume of work required to be performed.
- (figuratively) A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind.
- A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time.
- A quantity of washing put into a washing machine for a wash cycle.
- (electrical engineering) Any component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit.
- (Philippines) prepaid phone credit
- (often in the plural, colloquial) A large number or amount.
- (vulgar, slang) defecation
- (electrical engineering) The electrical current or power delivered by a device.
- weight to be borne or conveyed
- a quantity that can be processed or transported at one time
- electrical device to which electrical power is delivered
- an onerous or difficult concern
- the power output of a generator or power plant
- a deposit of valuable ore occurring within definite boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks
- the front part of a guided missile or rocket or torpedo that carries the nuclear or explosive charge or the chemical or biological agents
- an amount of alcohol sufficient to intoxicate
- goods carried by a large vehicle
verb
- (transitive) To pull with a jerk.
- (intransitive) To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling.
- (intransitive, UK) To strike the legs together in going, as horses; to interfere.
- (intransitive) To move interruptedly or with halts, jerks, or steps; said of something obstructed or impeded.
- (informal, transitive) Clipping of hitchhike, to thumb a ride.
- (informal) To marry oneself to; especially to get hitched.
- (transitive) To attach, tie or fasten.
- jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched
- walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury
- to hook or entangle
- travel by getting free rides from motorists
- connect to a vehicle:
noun
- (informal) A problem, delay or source of difficulty.
- (military, slang) A period of time spent in the military.
- A fastener or connection point, as for a trailer.
- Any of various knots used to attach a rope to an object other than another rope.
- (mining) A hole cut into the wall of a mine on which timbers are rested.
- A large Californian minnow, Lavinia exilicauda.
- A sudden pull.
- A hidden or unfavorable condition or element.
- a connection between a vehicle and the load that it pulls
- the state of inactivity following an interruption
- any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome
- a knot that can be undone by pulling against the strain that holds it; a temporary knot
- an unforeseen obstacle
- the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg
- a period of time spent in military service
verb
noun
verb
noun
verb
- (transitive) To lengthen by pulling.
- (figuratively, transitive) To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
- (figuratively, transitive) To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
- (intransitive) To increase, to grow.
- (physics, transitive) To make a pulse or particle bunch longer by applying dispersion to it.
- (nautical) To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
- (transitive) To increase.
- (transitive) To make great demands on the capacity or resources of something.
- (intransitive) To extend physically, especially from a limit point and/or to a limit point.
- (intransitive, transitive) To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body, for example in order to improve the elasticity of one's muscles.
- (transitive) To pull tight.
- (intransitive) To lengthen when pulled.
- become longer by being stretched and pulled
- extend the scope or meaning of; often unduly
- extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length
- extend one's body or limbs
- corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
- make long or longer by pulling and stretching
- occupy a large, elongated area
- pull in opposite directions
- extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body
- increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance
- lie down comfortably
noun
- Ellipsis of stretch limousine.
- A segment or length of material.
- (informal) Term of address for a tall person.
- The ability to lengthen when pulled.
- A segment of a journey or route.
- (baseball) A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman in order to catch the ball sooner.
- (slang) A jail or prison term of one year's duration.
- (horse racing) The homestretch, the final straight section of the track leading to the finish.
- (Ireland) Extended daylight hours, especially said of the evening in springtime when compared to the shorter winter days.
- (slang) A jail or prison term.
- A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief or exaggeration.
- (baseball) A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead of lifting it.
- (sports) The period of the season between the trade deadline and the beginning of the playoffs.
- An act of stretching.
- A length of time.
- A single uninterrupted sitting; a turn.
- an unbroken period of time during which you do something
- the capacity for being stretched
- exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent
- the act of physically reaching or thrusting out
- extension to or beyond the ordinary limit
- a large and unbroken expanse or distance
- a straightaway section of a racetrack
adj
adj
- (computing, of a request or a message) Allowing the client to continue during processing.
- (computing, communication) Having many actions occurring at a time, in any order, without waiting for each other.
- Not synchronous; occurring at different times.
- not synchronous; not occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase
- (digital communication) pertaining to a transmission technique that does not require a common clock between the communicating devices; timing signals are derived from special characters in the data stream itself
adj
- Operated by pushing and pulling.
- Having two electronic devices in opposite phase.
- (rail transport) Operating with locomotives at both the head and rear of a train, or with a locomotive at one end and a driving position in the vehicle at the opposite end, so that the train can be driven from either end.