English words for '(simile) very poor memory'
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verb
- be unable to remember
- shut out from view or get in the way so as to hide from sight
- stop from happening or developing
- hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of
- run on a block system
- shape into a block or blocks
- interfere with or prevent the reception of signals
- block passage through
- support, secure, or raise with a block
- impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball)
- stamp or emboss a title or design on a book with a block
- obstruct
- render unsuitable for passage
- shape by using a block
- prohibit the conversion or use of (assets)
- interrupt the normal function of by means of anesthesia
- (transitive) To shape or sketch out roughly.
- (transitive) To bar (impose a ban on a person or bot, etc.) from connecting via telephone, instant messaging, etc., or from accessing an online account or service, or similar.
- (transitive) To fill or obstruct (something) so that it is not possible to pass.
- (transitive) To shape, stretch, or mould knitted items, hats, books (and book covers), shoes, etc.
- (intransitive, cricket) To play a block shot.
- (transitive, sports) To impede (an opponent or opponent’s play).
- (transitive) To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something).
- (transitive) To bar (a message or communication), or bar connection with (an online account or service, a designated telephone number, IP address, etc.).
- (transitive, cricket) To hit with a block.
- (programming, intransitive) To wait for some condition to become true.
- (transitive) To prevent (something or someone) from passing.
- (intransitive) To experience mental block or creative block.
- (transitive, theater) To specify the positions and movements of the actors for (a section of a play or film).
noun
- a number or quantity of related things dealt with as a unit
- 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
- the act of obstructing or deflecting someone's movements
- (computer science) a sector or group of sectors that function as the smallest data unit permitted
- housing in a large building that is divided into separate units
- an obstruction in a pipe or tube
- a metal casting containing the cylinders and cooling ducts of an engine
- a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides
- a rectangular area in a city surrounded by streets and usually containing several buildings
- a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides)
- a platform from which an auctioneer sells
- an inability to remember or think of something you normally can do; often caused by emotional tension
- (computing, social media) A temporary or permanent ban that prevents access to an online account or service, or connection to or from a designated telephone number, IP address, or similar.
- A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.
- A chopping block: a cuboid base for cutting or beheading.
- A cuboid or approximately cuboid building.
- (slang) The human head.
- Interference or obstruction of cognitive processes.
- (programming) A region of code in a program that acts as a single unit, such as a function or loop.
- (UK) Solitary confinement.
- (cricket) A shot played by holding the bat vertically in the path of the ball, so that it loses momentum and drops to the ground.
- A contiguous group of urban lots of property, typically several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.
- (gymnastics) The portion of the movement where a gymnast pushes off the vault.
- A cellblock.
- (sports) An action to interfere with the movement of an opposing player or of the object of play (ball, puck).
- (chemistry) A portion of a macromolecule, comprising many units, that has at least one feature not present in adjacent portions.
- The distance from one street to another in a city or suburb that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern.
- A physical area or extent of something, often rectangular or approximately rectangular.
- (falconry) The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
- (viticulture) A discrete group of vines in a vineyard, often distinguished from others by variety, clone, canopy training method, irrigation infrastructure, or some combination thereof.
- (cricket) The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket.
- (cricket) The popping crease.
- A section of split logs used as fuel.
- (backgammon) Any point on the board where two or more men rest, and consequently an opponent may not land.
- (rail transport) A section of a railroad where the block system is used.
- (volleyball) A defensive play by one or more players meant to deflect a spiked ball back to the hitter’s court.
- A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end, forming a cuboid shape.
- A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit.
- (cricket) A blockhole.
- Misspelling of bloc.
- A case or frame housing one or more sheaves (pulleys), used with ropes to increase or redirect force, for example as part of lifting gear or a sailing ship's rigging. See also block and tackle.
- (education) A yeargroup at Eton College.
- (philately) A joined group of four (or in some cases nine) postage stamps, forming a roughly square shape.
- (computing) A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors.
- (computing) A contiguous range of Unicode code points used to encode characters of a specific type; can be of any size evenly divisible by 16, up to 65,536 (a full plane).
- A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
- A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
- (cellular automata) In Conway's Game of Life, a still life consisting of four living cells arranged in a two-by-two square.
- Something that prevents something from passing.
- (cryptography) A fixed-length group of bits making up part of a message.
verb
- be unable to remember
- (intransitive) To cease remembering.
- forget to do something
- leave behind unintentionally
- dismiss from the mind; stop remembering
- (transitive, loosely, informal) To not realize something (regardless of whether one has ever known it).
- (transitive) To lose remembrance of.
- (transitive) To unintentionally leave something behind.
- (slang) Euphemism for fuck, screw (a mild oath).
- (transitive) To unintentionally not do, neglect.
adj
- (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range
- marked by rude or peremptory shortness
- not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices
- primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration
- of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration
- of insufficient quantity to meet a need
- less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so
- tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening
- (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length
- lacking foresight or scope
- low in stature; not tall; describing something or someone with a stature less than normal
- (golf) Of an approach shot or putt, that falls short of the green or the hole.
- Having little duration.
- (cricket) Of a ball, bowled so that it bounces relatively far from the batsman.
- (colloquial) Undiluted; neat.
- (finance) Being in a financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying security declines in the future.
- Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.
- Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied, especially with money; scantily furnished; lacking.
- Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty.
- (baking) Of pastries or (metallurgy) of materials, brittle, crumbly.
- (gambling) Of betting odds, offering a small return for the money wagered.
- Deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard.
- Abrupt, brief, pointed, curt.
- Of a person, living being, or object, having a comparatively small height.
- (followed by for) Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of another).
- (by extension) Doubtful of, skeptical of.
- (cricket) Of a fielder or fielding position, that is relatively close to the batsman.
noun
- the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base
- the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed
- accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference
- (Internet) A short-form vertical video.
- (finance) A short seller.
- A short film.
- A summary account.
- (US, slang) An automobile.
- (finance) A short sale or short position.
- (baseball) A shortstop.
- A short version of a garment in a particular size.
- (phonetics) A short phone (such as a vowel) or syllable.
- A short circuit.
- (programming) An integer variable having a smaller range than normal integers; usually two bytes long.
adv
- so as to interrupt
- at some point or distance before a goal is reached
- quickly and without warning; happening unexpectedly; on impulse; without premeditation
- at a disadvantage
- in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner
- without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold
- clean across
- Without achieving a goal or requirement.
- Abruptly, curtly, briefly.
- (finance) With a negative ownership position.
- (cricket, of the manner of bounce of a cricket ball) Relatively far from the batsman and hence bouncing higher than normal; opposite of full.
- Unawares.
verb
- create a short circuit in
- cheat someone by not returning them enough money
- (transitive) To cause a short circuit in (something).
- (intransitive, of an electrical circuit) To short circuit.
- (transitive, business) To sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for delivery at a later date in hopes of profiting from a decline in the price; to sell short.
- (transitive, informal) To provide with an amount smaller than that agreed or labeled; to shortchange.
prep
noun
- A temporary loss of memory.
- partial or total loss of memory
- (slang, criminology, rare) A mass murder committed, usually in an urban area, to eliminate potential witnesses of a previous crime.
- An instance of censorship, especially a temporary one.
- (Internet) An intentional outage of a website or other online service, typically as a form of protest.
- A large-scale power failure, and resulting loss of electricity to consumers.
- (attributive) The blocking out of as much light as possible.
- (historical) The mandatory blocking of all light emanating from buildings, as well as outdoor and street lighting as a measure against aerial bombing or naval attack, as imposed during, e.g., World War II.
- A temporary loss of consciousness.
- a suspension of radio or tv broadcasting
- a momentary loss of consciousness
- the failure of electric power for a general region
- darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft)
verb
noun
- Memory; the ability to remember.
- (information retrieval, machine learning) The fraction of (all) relevant material that is returned by a search.
- (chiefly US politics) The right or procedure by which a public official may be removed from office before the end of their term of office, by a vote of the people to be taken on the filing of a petition signed by a required number or percentage of qualified voters.
- Request of the return of a faulty product.
- (US politics) The right or procedure by which the decision of a court may be directly reversed or annulled by popular vote, as was advocated, in 1912, in the platform of the Progressive Party for certain cases involving the police power of the state.
- a bugle call that signals troops to return
- the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort)
- a call to return
- a request by the manufacturer of a defective product to return the product (as for replacement or repair)
- the act of removing an official by petition
verb
- recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
- (transitive) To bring back (someone) to or from a particular mental or physical state, activity etc.
- (transitive) To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order).
- (transitive, intransitive) To call again; to call another time.
- (transitive) To call back, bring back, or summon (someone) to a specific place, station, etc.
- (transitive, intransitive) To call back (a situation, event, etc.) to one's mind; to remember; to recollect.
- (transitive, US politics) To remove an elected official through a petition and direct vote.
- (transitive) To hearken back to, evoke; to be reminiscent of.
- (transitive) To request or order the return of (a faulty product).
- make unavailable; bar from sale or distribution
- summon to return
- cause to be returned
- go back to something earlier
- bring to mind
- cause one's (or someone else's) thoughts or attention to return from a reverie or digression
noun
- (figuratively, informal) A person with an unreliable memory.
- Nonstandard form of Goldfish (“a small orange saltine-like cracker shaped in the form of a fish”).
- A type of small fish, Carassius auratus, typically orange-colored.
- small golden or orange-red freshwater fishes of Eurasia used as pond or aquarium fishes
adj
noun
prefix
verb
noun
verb
- recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
- get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone
- cause to become available for use, either literally or figuratively
- call to arms; of military personnel
- bring forward for consideration
- (transitive) To retrieve from personal or computer memory.
- (transitive) To select e.g. to a sports squad.
- (transitive) To summon (someone) to report for military service.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To call on the telephone.
noun
verb
- recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
- recapture the past; indulge in memories
- mention as by way of greeting or to indicate friendship
- show appreciation to
- exercise, or have the power of, memory
- mention favorably, as in prayer
- call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony
- keep in mind for attention or consideration
- To keep in mind; to be mindful of.
- To memorize; to put something into memory.
- (intransitive) To engage in the process of recalling memories.
- (transitive) To give (a person) money as a token of appreciation of past service or friendship.
- To recall from one's memory; to have an image in one's memory.
- To not forget (to do something required)
- (rare) Alternative form of re-member.
- To convey greetings from.
- (transitive) To commemorate, to have a remembrance ceremony.
verb
- recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
- run after, pick up, and bring to the master
- go for and bring back
- get or find back; recover the use of
- (transitive) To remember or recall something.
- (sports, transitive) To make a difficult but successful return of the ball.
- (intransitive) To fetch and bring in game systematically.
- (transitive) To salvage something
- (transitive) To rescue (a creature).
- (transitive) To fetch and bring in game.
- (transitive) To remedy or rectify something.
- (transitive) To regain or get back something.
- (transitive) To fetch or carry back something, especially (computing) a file or data record.
- (intransitive) To fetch or carry back systematically, notably as a game.
noun
verb
- recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
- expect, believe, or suppose
- be capable of conscious thought
- bring into a given condition by mental preoccupation
- judge or regard; look upon; judge
- focus one's attention on a certain state
- have in mind as a purpose
- dispose the mind in a certain way
- imagine or visualize
- decide by pondering, reasoning, or reflecting
- have or formulate in the mind
- use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments
- ponder; reflect on, or reason about
- To presume; to venture.
- (transitive) To have (some statement) in one's mind; to say to oneself mentally.
- (intransitive) To conceive of something or someone [with of; or (rare) with on]
- (transitive) To ponder, to go over in one's mind.
- To plan; to be considering; to be of a mind (to do something).
- (informal, used to show obviousness or agreement) Ellipsis of think so.
- (transitive) To guess; to reckon; to believe while admittedly being uncertain.
- (intransitive) To communicate to oneself in one's mind, to try to find a solution to a problem.
- (transitive) To be of opinion (that); to consider, judge, regard, or look upon (something) as.
- (obsolete except in methinks) To seem, to appear.
noun
noun
- The ability to remember things.
- The ability to be aware of things.
- A healthy mental state.
- (uncountable) Attention, consideration or thought.
- Somebody that embodies certain mental qualities.
- Desire, inclination, or intention.
- Judgment, opinion, or view.
- (philosophy) The non-material substance or set of processes in which consciousness, perception, affectivity, judgement, thinking, and will are based.
- The ability to focus the thoughts.
- The capability for rational thought.
- Continual prayer on a dead person's behalf for a period after their death.
- attention
- knowledge and intellectual ability
- an important intellectual
- an opinion formed by judging something
- that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason
- recall or remembrance
- your intention; what you intend to do
verb
- (UK, Ireland) Take note; used to point out an exception or caveat.
- To bring or recall to mind; to remember; bear or keep in mind.
- (chiefly imperative) To pay attention or heed to so as to obey; hence to obey; to make sure, to take care (that).
- (originally and chiefly in negative or interrogative constructions) To dislike, to object to; to be bothered by.
- To turn one's mind to; to observe; to notice.
- (now regional) To remember.
- To be careful about.
- (now rare except in phrases) To pay attention to, in the sense of occupying one's mind with, to heed.
- (now obsolete outside dialect) To purpose, intend, plan.
- To look after, to take care of, especially for a short period of time.
- To regard with attention; to treat as of consequence.
- be on one's guard; be cautious or wary about; be alert to
- pay close attention to; give heed to
- be in charge of or deal with
- keep in mind
- be concerned with or about something or somebody
- be offended or bothered by; take offense with, be bothered by
verb
- pass out of one's memory
- fall to a lower standard
- move smoothly and easily
- move out of position
- cause to move with a smooth or sliding motion
- insert inconspicuously or quickly or quietly
- move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner
- move stealthily
- to make a mistake or be incorrect
- pass on stealthily
- move easily
- (transitive) To cut slips from; to cut; to take off; to make a slip or slips of.
- (intransitive, aviation, of an aircraft) Clipping of sideslip (“to fly with the longitudinal axis misaligned with the relative wind”).
- (transitive) To elude or evade by smooth movement.
- (transitive) To cause to slip or slide off, or out of place.
- (transitive, hunting, falconry) To release (a dog, a bird of prey, etc.) to go after a quarry.
- (transitive) To pass (a note, money, etc.), often covertly.
- (intransitive) To err.
- (intransitive) To move quickly and often secretively; to depart, withdraw, enter, appear, intrude, or escape as if by sliding.
- (transitive) To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.
- (intransitive) To lose one’s traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To move down; to slide.
- (intransitive) To move or fly (out of place); to shoot; often with out, off, etc.
- To bring forth (young) prematurely; to slink.
- (intransitive) To accidentally reveal a secret or otherwise say something unintentionally.
- (transitive, business) To cause (a schedule or release, etc.) to go, or let it go, beyond the allotted deadline.
- (transitive, cooking) To remove the skin of a soft fruit, such as a tomato or peach, by blanching briefly in boiling water, then transferring to cold water so that the skin peels, or slips, off easily.
noun
- a place where a craft can be made fast
- a slippery smoothness
- bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow
- potter's clay that is thinned and used for coating or decorating ceramics
- a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting
- the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning)
- a young and slender person
- artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall
- an unexpected slide
- a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.
- a small sheet of paper
- a flight maneuver; aircraft slides sideways in the air
- a socially awkward or tactless act
- A mistake or error.
- A twig or shoot; a cutting.
- (engineering) The motion of the centre of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an oar, through the water horizontally, or the difference between a vessel's actual speed and the speed it would have if the propelling instrument acted upon a solid; also, the velocity, relatively to still water, of the backward current of water produced by the propeller.
- (medicine) A one-time return to previous maladaptive behavior after cure.
- A young person (now usually with of introducing descriptive qualifier).
- (mining) A dislocation of a lead, destroying continuity.
- An outside covering or case.
- A leash or string by which a dog is held; so called from its being made in such a manner as to slip, or become loose, by relaxation of the hand.
- (nautical, aviation) A difference between the theoretical distance traveled per revolution of the propeller and the actual advance of the vessel.
- (cricket) Any of several fielding positions to the off side of the wicket keeper, designed to catch the ball after being deflected from the bat; a fielder in that position (See first slip, second slip, third slip, fourth slip and fifth slip.)
- (marine insurance) A memorandum of the particulars of a risk for which a policy is to be executed. It usually bears the broker's name and is initiated by the underwriters.
- Either side of the gallery in a theater.
- A fish, the sole.
- (nautical) A berth; a space for a ship to moor.
- (US) A long seat or narrow pew in churches, often without a door.
- (ceramics) A thin, slippery mix of clay and water.
- A woman's undergarment worn under a skirt or dress to conceal unwanted nudity that may otherwise be revealed by the skirt or dress itself; a shift.
- A slipdress.
- An escape; a secret or unexpected desertion.
- Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge tools.
- (electricity) The difference between the actual and synchronous speeds of an induction motor.
- A long, thin piece of something.
- A particular quantity of yarn.
- (nautical) A slipway.
- (crosswording) A newsletter produced by the setter of a cryptic clue-writing competition, containing a full list of winners and commentary on the clues.
- A number between 0 and 1 that is the difference between the angular speed of a rotating magnetic field and the angular speed of its rotor, divided by the angular speed of the magnetic field.
- An act or instance of slipping.
- (telecommunications) The positional displacement in a sequence of transmitted symbols that causes the loss or insertion of one or more symbols.
- (aviation) Clipping of sideslip.
- A small piece of paper, especially one longer than it is wide, typically a form for writing on or one giving printed information.
noun
- The ability to recall past events; recollection.
- (Christianity) The remembrance and celebration of God’s works by the liturgy of the church.
- (epistemology, Platonism) The recollection of innate knowledge acquired before birth, according to Plato’s theory of epistemology.
- (rhetoric) The mention of the past; quotation of exemplary authors from memory to establish one’s authority.
- (medicine) A patient's account of their medical history.
- the ability to recall past occurrences
- the case history of a medical patient as recalled by the patient
noun
- A temporary loss of memory.
- partial or total loss of memory
- (slang, criminology, rare) A mass murder committed, usually in an urban area, to eliminate potential witnesses of a previous crime.
- An instance of censorship, especially a temporary one.
- (Internet) An intentional outage of a website or other online service, typically as a form of protest.
- A large-scale power failure, and resulting loss of electricity to consumers.
- (attributive) The blocking out of as much light as possible.
- (historical) The mandatory blocking of all light emanating from buildings, as well as outdoor and street lighting as a measure against aerial bombing or naval attack, as imposed during, e.g., World War II.
- A temporary loss of consciousness.
- a suspension of radio or tv broadcasting
- a momentary loss of consciousness
- the failure of electric power for a general region
- darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft)
verb
noun
- Memory; the ability to remember.
- (information retrieval, machine learning) The fraction of (all) relevant material that is returned by a search.
- (chiefly US politics) The right or procedure by which a public official may be removed from office before the end of their term of office, by a vote of the people to be taken on the filing of a petition signed by a required number or percentage of qualified voters.
- Request of the return of a faulty product.
- (US politics) The right or procedure by which the decision of a court may be directly reversed or annulled by popular vote, as was advocated, in 1912, in the platform of the Progressive Party for certain cases involving the police power of the state.
- a bugle call that signals troops to return
- the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort)
- a call to return
- a request by the manufacturer of a defective product to return the product (as for replacement or repair)
- the act of removing an official by petition
verb
- recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
- (transitive) To bring back (someone) to or from a particular mental or physical state, activity etc.
- (transitive) To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order).
- (transitive, intransitive) To call again; to call another time.
- (transitive) To call back, bring back, or summon (someone) to a specific place, station, etc.
- (transitive, intransitive) To call back (a situation, event, etc.) to one's mind; to remember; to recollect.
- (transitive, US politics) To remove an elected official through a petition and direct vote.
- (transitive) To hearken back to, evoke; to be reminiscent of.
- (transitive) To request or order the return of (a faulty product).
- make unavailable; bar from sale or distribution
- summon to return
- cause to be returned
- go back to something earlier
- bring to mind
- cause one's (or someone else's) thoughts or attention to return from a reverie or digression
noun
- (figuratively, informal) A person with an unreliable memory.
- Nonstandard form of Goldfish (“a small orange saltine-like cracker shaped in the form of a fish”).
- A type of small fish, Carassius auratus, typically orange-colored.
- small golden or orange-red freshwater fishes of Eurasia used as pond or aquarium fishes
noun
- The ability to remember things.
- The ability to be aware of things.
- A healthy mental state.
- (uncountable) Attention, consideration or thought.
- Somebody that embodies certain mental qualities.
- Desire, inclination, or intention.
- Judgment, opinion, or view.
- (philosophy) The non-material substance or set of processes in which consciousness, perception, affectivity, judgement, thinking, and will are based.
- The ability to focus the thoughts.
- The capability for rational thought.
- Continual prayer on a dead person's behalf for a period after their death.
- attention
- knowledge and intellectual ability
- an important intellectual
- an opinion formed by judging something
- that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason
- recall or remembrance
- your intention; what you intend to do
verb
- (UK, Ireland) Take note; used to point out an exception or caveat.
- To bring or recall to mind; to remember; bear or keep in mind.
- (chiefly imperative) To pay attention or heed to so as to obey; hence to obey; to make sure, to take care (that).
- (originally and chiefly in negative or interrogative constructions) To dislike, to object to; to be bothered by.
- To turn one's mind to; to observe; to notice.
- (now regional) To remember.
- To be careful about.
- (now rare except in phrases) To pay attention to, in the sense of occupying one's mind with, to heed.
- (now obsolete outside dialect) To purpose, intend, plan.
- To look after, to take care of, especially for a short period of time.
- To regard with attention; to treat as of consequence.
- be on one's guard; be cautious or wary about; be alert to
- pay close attention to; give heed to
- be in charge of or deal with
- keep in mind
- be concerned with or about something or somebody
- be offended or bothered by; take offense with, be bothered by
noun
- The ability to recall past events; recollection.
- (Christianity) The remembrance and celebration of God’s works by the liturgy of the church.
- (epistemology, Platonism) The recollection of innate knowledge acquired before birth, according to Plato’s theory of epistemology.
- (rhetoric) The mention of the past; quotation of exemplary authors from memory to establish one’s authority.
- (medicine) A patient's account of their medical history.
- the ability to recall past occurrences
- the case history of a medical patient as recalled by the patient
verb
- be unable to remember
- shut out from view or get in the way so as to hide from sight
- stop from happening or developing
- hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of
- run on a block system
- shape into a block or blocks
- interfere with or prevent the reception of signals
- block passage through
- support, secure, or raise with a block
- impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball)
- stamp or emboss a title or design on a book with a block
- obstruct
- render unsuitable for passage
- shape by using a block
- prohibit the conversion or use of (assets)
- interrupt the normal function of by means of anesthesia
- (transitive) To shape or sketch out roughly.
- (transitive) To bar (impose a ban on a person or bot, etc.) from connecting via telephone, instant messaging, etc., or from accessing an online account or service, or similar.
- (transitive) To fill or obstruct (something) so that it is not possible to pass.
- (transitive) To shape, stretch, or mould knitted items, hats, books (and book covers), shoes, etc.
- (intransitive, cricket) To play a block shot.
- (transitive, sports) To impede (an opponent or opponent’s play).
- (transitive) To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something).
- (transitive) To bar (a message or communication), or bar connection with (an online account or service, a designated telephone number, IP address, etc.).
- (transitive, cricket) To hit with a block.
- (programming, intransitive) To wait for some condition to become true.
- (transitive) To prevent (something or someone) from passing.
- (intransitive) To experience mental block or creative block.
- (transitive, theater) To specify the positions and movements of the actors for (a section of a play or film).
noun
- a number or quantity of related things dealt with as a unit
- 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
- the act of obstructing or deflecting someone's movements
- (computer science) a sector or group of sectors that function as the smallest data unit permitted
- housing in a large building that is divided into separate units
- an obstruction in a pipe or tube
- a metal casting containing the cylinders and cooling ducts of an engine
- a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides
- a rectangular area in a city surrounded by streets and usually containing several buildings
- a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides)
- a platform from which an auctioneer sells
- an inability to remember or think of something you normally can do; often caused by emotional tension
- (computing, social media) A temporary or permanent ban that prevents access to an online account or service, or connection to or from a designated telephone number, IP address, or similar.
- A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.
- A chopping block: a cuboid base for cutting or beheading.
- A cuboid or approximately cuboid building.
- (slang) The human head.
- Interference or obstruction of cognitive processes.
- (programming) A region of code in a program that acts as a single unit, such as a function or loop.
- (UK) Solitary confinement.
- (cricket) A shot played by holding the bat vertically in the path of the ball, so that it loses momentum and drops to the ground.
- A contiguous group of urban lots of property, typically several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.
- (gymnastics) The portion of the movement where a gymnast pushes off the vault.
- A cellblock.
- (sports) An action to interfere with the movement of an opposing player or of the object of play (ball, puck).
- (chemistry) A portion of a macromolecule, comprising many units, that has at least one feature not present in adjacent portions.
- The distance from one street to another in a city or suburb that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern.
- A physical area or extent of something, often rectangular or approximately rectangular.
- (falconry) The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
- (viticulture) A discrete group of vines in a vineyard, often distinguished from others by variety, clone, canopy training method, irrigation infrastructure, or some combination thereof.
- (cricket) The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket.
- (cricket) The popping crease.
- A section of split logs used as fuel.
- (backgammon) Any point on the board where two or more men rest, and consequently an opponent may not land.
- (rail transport) A section of a railroad where the block system is used.
- (volleyball) A defensive play by one or more players meant to deflect a spiked ball back to the hitter’s court.
- A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end, forming a cuboid shape.
- A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit.
- (cricket) A blockhole.
- Misspelling of bloc.
- A case or frame housing one or more sheaves (pulleys), used with ropes to increase or redirect force, for example as part of lifting gear or a sailing ship's rigging. See also block and tackle.
- (education) A yeargroup at Eton College.
- (philately) A joined group of four (or in some cases nine) postage stamps, forming a roughly square shape.
- (computing) A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors.
- (computing) A contiguous range of Unicode code points used to encode characters of a specific type; can be of any size evenly divisible by 16, up to 65,536 (a full plane).
- A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
- A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
- (cellular automata) In Conway's Game of Life, a still life consisting of four living cells arranged in a two-by-two square.
- Something that prevents something from passing.
- (cryptography) A fixed-length group of bits making up part of a message.
verb
- be unable to remember
- (intransitive) To cease remembering.
- forget to do something
- leave behind unintentionally
- dismiss from the mind; stop remembering
- (transitive, loosely, informal) To not realize something (regardless of whether one has ever known it).
- (transitive) To lose remembrance of.
- (transitive) To unintentionally leave something behind.
- (slang) Euphemism for fuck, screw (a mild oath).
- (transitive) To unintentionally not do, neglect.
noun
- Memory; the ability to remember.
- (information retrieval, machine learning) The fraction of (all) relevant material that is returned by a search.
- (chiefly US politics) The right or procedure by which a public official may be removed from office before the end of their term of office, by a vote of the people to be taken on the filing of a petition signed by a required number or percentage of qualified voters.
- Request of the return of a faulty product.
- (US politics) The right or procedure by which the decision of a court may be directly reversed or annulled by popular vote, as was advocated, in 1912, in the platform of the Progressive Party for certain cases involving the police power of the state.
- a bugle call that signals troops to return
- the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort)
- a call to return
- a request by the manufacturer of a defective product to return the product (as for replacement or repair)
- the act of removing an official by petition
verb
- recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
- (transitive) To bring back (someone) to or from a particular mental or physical state, activity etc.
- (transitive) To withdraw, retract (one's words etc.); to revoke (an order).
- (transitive, intransitive) To call again; to call another time.
- (transitive) To call back, bring back, or summon (someone) to a specific place, station, etc.
- (transitive, intransitive) To call back (a situation, event, etc.) to one's mind; to remember; to recollect.
- (transitive, US politics) To remove an elected official through a petition and direct vote.
- (transitive) To hearken back to, evoke; to be reminiscent of.
- (transitive) To request or order the return of (a faulty product).
- make unavailable; bar from sale or distribution
- summon to return
- cause to be returned
- go back to something earlier
- bring to mind
- cause one's (or someone else's) thoughts or attention to return from a reverie or digression
verb
noun
verb
- recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
- get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone
- cause to become available for use, either literally or figuratively
- call to arms; of military personnel
- bring forward for consideration
- (transitive) To retrieve from personal or computer memory.
- (transitive) To select e.g. to a sports squad.
- (transitive) To summon (someone) to report for military service.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To call on the telephone.
noun
verb
- recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
- recapture the past; indulge in memories
- mention as by way of greeting or to indicate friendship
- show appreciation to
- exercise, or have the power of, memory
- mention favorably, as in prayer
- call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony
- keep in mind for attention or consideration
- To keep in mind; to be mindful of.
- To memorize; to put something into memory.
- (intransitive) To engage in the process of recalling memories.
- (transitive) To give (a person) money as a token of appreciation of past service or friendship.
- To recall from one's memory; to have an image in one's memory.
- To not forget (to do something required)
- (rare) Alternative form of re-member.
- To convey greetings from.
- (transitive) To commemorate, to have a remembrance ceremony.
verb
- recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
- run after, pick up, and bring to the master
- go for and bring back
- get or find back; recover the use of
- (transitive) To remember or recall something.
- (sports, transitive) To make a difficult but successful return of the ball.
- (intransitive) To fetch and bring in game systematically.
- (transitive) To salvage something
- (transitive) To rescue (a creature).
- (transitive) To fetch and bring in game.
- (transitive) To remedy or rectify something.
- (transitive) To regain or get back something.
- (transitive) To fetch or carry back something, especially (computing) a file or data record.
- (intransitive) To fetch or carry back systematically, notably as a game.
noun
verb
- recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
- expect, believe, or suppose
- be capable of conscious thought
- bring into a given condition by mental preoccupation
- judge or regard; look upon; judge
- focus one's attention on a certain state
- have in mind as a purpose
- dispose the mind in a certain way
- imagine or visualize
- decide by pondering, reasoning, or reflecting
- have or formulate in the mind
- use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments
- ponder; reflect on, or reason about
- To presume; to venture.
- (transitive) To have (some statement) in one's mind; to say to oneself mentally.
- (intransitive) To conceive of something or someone [with of; or (rare) with on]
- (transitive) To ponder, to go over in one's mind.
- To plan; to be considering; to be of a mind (to do something).
- (informal, used to show obviousness or agreement) Ellipsis of think so.
- (transitive) To guess; to reckon; to believe while admittedly being uncertain.
- (intransitive) To communicate to oneself in one's mind, to try to find a solution to a problem.
- (transitive) To be of opinion (that); to consider, judge, regard, or look upon (something) as.
- (obsolete except in methinks) To seem, to appear.
noun
verb
- pass out of one's memory
- fall to a lower standard
- move smoothly and easily
- move out of position
- cause to move with a smooth or sliding motion
- insert inconspicuously or quickly or quietly
- move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner
- move stealthily
- to make a mistake or be incorrect
- pass on stealthily
- move easily
- (transitive) To cut slips from; to cut; to take off; to make a slip or slips of.
- (intransitive, aviation, of an aircraft) Clipping of sideslip (“to fly with the longitudinal axis misaligned with the relative wind”).
- (transitive) To elude or evade by smooth movement.
- (transitive) To cause to slip or slide off, or out of place.
- (transitive, hunting, falconry) To release (a dog, a bird of prey, etc.) to go after a quarry.
- (transitive) To pass (a note, money, etc.), often covertly.
- (intransitive) To err.
- (intransitive) To move quickly and often secretively; to depart, withdraw, enter, appear, intrude, or escape as if by sliding.
- (transitive) To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.
- (intransitive) To lose one’s traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To move down; to slide.
- (intransitive) To move or fly (out of place); to shoot; often with out, off, etc.
- To bring forth (young) prematurely; to slink.
- (intransitive) To accidentally reveal a secret or otherwise say something unintentionally.
- (transitive, business) To cause (a schedule or release, etc.) to go, or let it go, beyond the allotted deadline.
- (transitive, cooking) To remove the skin of a soft fruit, such as a tomato or peach, by blanching briefly in boiling water, then transferring to cold water so that the skin peels, or slips, off easily.
noun
- a place where a craft can be made fast
- a slippery smoothness
- bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow
- potter's clay that is thinned and used for coating or decorating ceramics
- a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting
- the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning)
- a young and slender person
- artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall
- an unexpected slide
- a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.
- a small sheet of paper
- a flight maneuver; aircraft slides sideways in the air
- a socially awkward or tactless act
- A mistake or error.
- A twig or shoot; a cutting.
- (engineering) The motion of the centre of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an oar, through the water horizontally, or the difference between a vessel's actual speed and the speed it would have if the propelling instrument acted upon a solid; also, the velocity, relatively to still water, of the backward current of water produced by the propeller.
- (medicine) A one-time return to previous maladaptive behavior after cure.
- A young person (now usually with of introducing descriptive qualifier).
- (mining) A dislocation of a lead, destroying continuity.
- An outside covering or case.
- A leash or string by which a dog is held; so called from its being made in such a manner as to slip, or become loose, by relaxation of the hand.
- (nautical, aviation) A difference between the theoretical distance traveled per revolution of the propeller and the actual advance of the vessel.
- (cricket) Any of several fielding positions to the off side of the wicket keeper, designed to catch the ball after being deflected from the bat; a fielder in that position (See first slip, second slip, third slip, fourth slip and fifth slip.)
- (marine insurance) A memorandum of the particulars of a risk for which a policy is to be executed. It usually bears the broker's name and is initiated by the underwriters.
- Either side of the gallery in a theater.
- A fish, the sole.
- (nautical) A berth; a space for a ship to moor.
- (US) A long seat or narrow pew in churches, often without a door.
- (ceramics) A thin, slippery mix of clay and water.
- A woman's undergarment worn under a skirt or dress to conceal unwanted nudity that may otherwise be revealed by the skirt or dress itself; a shift.
- A slipdress.
- An escape; a secret or unexpected desertion.
- Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge tools.
- (electricity) The difference between the actual and synchronous speeds of an induction motor.
- A long, thin piece of something.
- A particular quantity of yarn.
- (nautical) A slipway.
- (crosswording) A newsletter produced by the setter of a cryptic clue-writing competition, containing a full list of winners and commentary on the clues.
- A number between 0 and 1 that is the difference between the angular speed of a rotating magnetic field and the angular speed of its rotor, divided by the angular speed of the magnetic field.
- An act or instance of slipping.
- (telecommunications) The positional displacement in a sequence of transmitted symbols that causes the loss or insertion of one or more symbols.
- (aviation) Clipping of sideslip.
- A small piece of paper, especially one longer than it is wide, typically a form for writing on or one giving printed information.
adj
- (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range
- marked by rude or peremptory shortness
- not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices
- primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration
- of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration
- of insufficient quantity to meet a need
- less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so
- tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening
- (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length
- lacking foresight or scope
- low in stature; not tall; describing something or someone with a stature less than normal
- (golf) Of an approach shot or putt, that falls short of the green or the hole.
- Having little duration.
- (cricket) Of a ball, bowled so that it bounces relatively far from the batsman.
- (colloquial) Undiluted; neat.
- (finance) Being in a financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying security declines in the future.
- Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.
- Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied, especially with money; scantily furnished; lacking.
- Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty.
- (baking) Of pastries or (metallurgy) of materials, brittle, crumbly.
- (gambling) Of betting odds, offering a small return for the money wagered.
- Deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard.
- Abrupt, brief, pointed, curt.
- Of a person, living being, or object, having a comparatively small height.
- (followed by for) Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of another).
- (by extension) Doubtful of, skeptical of.
- (cricket) Of a fielder or fielding position, that is relatively close to the batsman.
noun
- the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base
- the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed
- accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference
- (Internet) A short-form vertical video.
- (finance) A short seller.
- A short film.
- A summary account.
- (US, slang) An automobile.
- (finance) A short sale or short position.
- (baseball) A shortstop.
- A short version of a garment in a particular size.
- (phonetics) A short phone (such as a vowel) or syllable.
- A short circuit.
- (programming) An integer variable having a smaller range than normal integers; usually two bytes long.
adv
- so as to interrupt
- at some point or distance before a goal is reached
- quickly and without warning; happening unexpectedly; on impulse; without premeditation
- at a disadvantage
- in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner
- without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold
- clean across
- Without achieving a goal or requirement.
- Abruptly, curtly, briefly.
- (finance) With a negative ownership position.
- (cricket, of the manner of bounce of a cricket ball) Relatively far from the batsman and hence bouncing higher than normal; opposite of full.
- Unawares.
verb
- create a short circuit in
- cheat someone by not returning them enough money
- (transitive) To cause a short circuit in (something).
- (intransitive, of an electrical circuit) To short circuit.
- (transitive, business) To sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for delivery at a later date in hopes of profiting from a decline in the price; to sell short.
- (transitive, informal) To provide with an amount smaller than that agreed or labeled; to shortchange.