yoke
pothook
muff
fire bucket
black
kindler
slider pump
stirrup pump
hod
tumbler-washer
arblast
volcano bowl
blue
hob
ashcan
gerb
cannon cracker
igneduct
forestick
phiale
glost oven
reducing flame
dago bomb
trivet
kettle king
linstock
Bramah press
cup
fountain
footman
smoke pole
vacuum pump
punk
hot top
firebrand
feeder head
air pump
chimney balloon
spirit-stand
gather
tourbillon
firestick
service pipe
fire main
squib
forcer
stock
firefan
microblasting
sconce
volute
blue angel
hastener
snuffer
piercel
hydropump
cylindrical
pabulum
stocklike
cracker
gerbe
hoseline
fire basket
rookie
pedestal
hose reel
trammel
penlight
floater
bunger
bell
nigger chaser
gas bracket
bunghole
unsinkable
driver
fountainwise
broach
saggar
flamy
fireplug
plug
bypass
collet chuck
collet
cottrel
sandgun
tap
fireworker
fire hydrant
hot-flue
phalarica
firecock
turtle
weeping tile
cylindrical
stocklike
unsinkable
flamy
fountainwise
yoke
pothook
muff
fire bucket
black
kindler
slider pump
stirrup pump
hod
tumbler-washer
arblast
volcano bowl
blue
hob
ashcan
gerb
cannon cracker
igneduct
forestick
phiale
glost oven
reducing flame
dago bomb
trivet
kettle king
linstock
Bramah press
cup
fountain
footman
smoke pole
vacuum pump
punk
hot top
firebrand
feeder head
air pump
chimney balloon
spirit-stand
gather
tourbillon
firestick
service pipe
fire main
squib
forcer
stock
firefan
microblasting
sconce
volute
blue angel
hastener
snuffer
piercel
hydropump
pabulum
cracker
gerbe
hoseline
fire basket
rookie
pedestal
hose reel
trammel
penlight
floater
bunger
bell
nigger chaser
gas bracket
bunghole
driver
broach
saggar
fireplug
plug
bypass
collet chuck
collet
cottrel
sandgun
tap
fireworker
fire hydrant
hot-flue
phalarica
firecock
turtle
weeping tile
fountain
noun
- A Y-shaped stand used to support a blowpipe or punty while reheating in the glory hole.
- Well-developed muscles of the neck and shoulders.
- From sense 1.3.1: something which oppresses or restrains a person; a burden.
- A miscellaneous object; a gadget.
- A pill of a psychoactive drug.
- A collar placed on the neck of a conquered person or prisoner to restrain movement.
- A pole carried on the neck and shoulders of a person, used for carrying a pair of buckets, etc., one at each end of the pole; a carrying pole.
- A chap, a fellow.
- A similar device used as a game controller.
- Any of various devices with crosspieces used to control an aircraft; specifically, the control column.
- Originally, a metal piece connecting the poles of a magnet or electromagnet; later, a part of magnetic circuit (such as in a generator or motor) not surrounded by windings (“wires wound around the cores of electrical transformers”).
- The electromagnetic coil that deflects the electron beam in a cathode ray tube.
- A pair of draught animals, especially oxen, yoked together to pull something.
- An amount of work done with draught animals, lasting about half a day; (by extension) an amount or shift of any work.
- A frame placed on the neck of an animal such as a cow, pig, or goose to prevent passage through a fence or other barrier.
- A fitting placed across the head of the rudder with a line attached at each end by which a boat may be steered; in modern use it is primarily found in sailing canoes and kayaks.
- A bar or frame by which two oxen or other draught animals are joined at their necks enabling them to pull a cart, plough, etc.; (by extension) a device attached to a single draught animal for the same purpose.
- The part of an item of clothing which fits around the shoulders or the hips from which the rest of the garment hangs, and which is often distinguished by having a double thickness of material, or decorative flourishes.
- A frame or convex crosspiece from which a bell is hung.
- Any of various linking or supporting objects that resembles a yoke (sense 1.1); a crosspiece, a curved bar, etc.
- Chiefly in pass under the yoke: a raised yoke (sense 1.1), or a symbolic yoke formed from two spears installed upright in the ground with another spear connecting their tops, under which a defeated army was made to march as a sign of subjugation.
- A carriage, a horse and cart; (by extension, generally) a car or other vehicle.
- From sense 1.1: a bond of love, especially marriage; also, a bond of friendship or partnership; an obligation or task borne by two or more people.
verb
- To join (several draught animals) together with a yoke; also, to fasten a yoke (on one or more draught animals) to pull a cart, plough, etc.; or to attach (a cart, plough, etc.) to a draught animal.
- To put (one's arm or arms) around someone's neck, waist, etc.; also, to surround (someone's neck, waist, etc.) with one's arms.
- To put (something) around someone's neck like a yoke; also, to surround (someone's neck) with something.
- To place a collar on the neck of (a conquered person or prisoner) to restrain movement.
- To place a frame on the neck of (an animal such as a cow, pig, or goose) to prevent passage through a fence or other barrier.
- To bring (two or more people or things) into a close relationship (often one that is undesired); to connect, to link, to unite.
- To be or become connected, linked, or united in a relationship; to have dealings with.
noun
- A short hollow cylinder surrounding an object such as a pipe.
- A blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet.
- The feathers sticking out from both sides of the face under the beak of some birds.
- A fool, a stupid or poor-spirited person.
- A woman or girl.
- An error, a mistake; a failure to hold a ball when once in the hands.
- A piece of fur or cloth, usually with open ends, used for keeping the hands warm.
- Female pubic hair; female genitals (vulva, vagina), like muffin. See Thesaurus:vagina.
- A bird, the whitethroat.
- A muffin.
verb
noun
- A type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.
- Blackness, the condition of belonging to or being descended from one of these ethnic groups.
- The edge of home plate.
- A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.
- The black ball.
- The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light is reflected, but rather absorbed.
- A black dye or pigment.
- A member of descendant of any of various (African, Aboriginal, etc) ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin. (See usage notes.)
- The person playing with the black set of pieces.
- Something, or a part of a thing, which is black.
- Marijuana.
- A dark smut fungus, harmful to wheat.
- Black cloth hung up at funerals.
verb
- To boycott, usually as part of an industrial dispute.
- To make black; to blacken.
- To apply blacking to (something).
adj
- Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.
- Related to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.
- Of the spades or clubs suits. Compare red (“of the hearts or diamonds suit”)
- Clandestine; relating to a political, military, or espionage operation or site, the existence or details of which is withheld from the general public.
- Foul; dirty, soiled.
- Occult; relating to something (such as mystical or magical knowledge) which is unknown to or kept secret from the general public.
- Said of a symbol or character that is solid, filled with color. Compare white (“said of a character or symbol outline, not filled with color”).
- Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen.
- Without any cream, milk, or creamer.
- Having one or more features (hair, fur, armour, clothes, bark, etc) that is dark (or black); in taxonomy, especially: dark in comparison to another species with the same base name.
- Belonging to or descended from any of various (African, Aboriginal, etc) ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin. (See usage notes below.)
- Bad; evil; ill-omened.
- Of or relating to the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the "black" set (in chess the set used by the player who moves second) (often regardless of the pieces' actual colour).
- Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced.
- Belonging to or descended from any of various sub-Saharan African ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin.
- Anarchist; of or pertaining to anarchism.
- Overcrowded.
- Designated for use by those ethnic groups (as described above).
- Without light.
- Protestant, often with the implication of being militantly pro-British or anti-Catholic. (Compare blackmouth ("Presbyterian").)
noun
- A blowpipe used by a pewterer.
- The amount of material held by a hod (sense 1); a hodful.
- A three-sided box mounted on a pole for carrying bricks, mortar, or other construction materials over the shoulder.
- A receptacle for carrying coal, particularly one shaped like a bucket which is designed for loading coal or coke through the door of a firebox.
- A bookmaker's bag.
noun
- A type of firecracker.
- A blue uniform. See blues.
- One of the three color charges for quarks.
- A bluefish.
- A bluestocking.
- A dog or cat with a slaty gray coat.
- The ocean; deep waters.
- The sky, literally or figuratively.
- One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of five points.
- An umpire, in reference to the typical dark blue color of the umpire's uniform. Sometimes perceived by umpires as derogatory when used by players or coaches while disputing a call.
- Blue clothing.
- Sporting colours awarded by a university or other institution for sporting achievement, such as representing one's university, especially and originally at Oxford and Cambridge Universities in England. See also full blue, half blue.
- Any of several processes to protect metal against rust.
- A member or supporter of the Conservative Party.
- The far distance; a remote or distant place.
- A liquid with an intense blue colour, added to a laundry wash to prevent yellowing of white clothes.
- A member of law enforcement.
- A blue dye or pigment.
- A member of a sports team that wears blue colours; (in the plural) a nickname for the team as a whole. See also blues.
- Anything coloured blue, especially to distinguish it from similar objects differing only in color.
- The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea, between green and purple in the visible spectrum, and one of the primary additive colours for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and green from white light using magenta and cyan filters; or any colour resembling this.
- A person who has received such sporting colours.
- Any of the butterflies of the subfamily Polyommatinae in the family Lycaenidae, most of which have blue on their wings.
- An argument or brawl.
verb
- To fight, brawl, or argue.
- To make or become blue; to turn blue.
- To treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes more resistant to rust.
- To brighten by treating with blue (laundry aid).
adj
- Risqué; obscene; profane; pornographic.
- Having a color charge of blue.
- Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by the Democratic Party.
- Supportive of or related to the Conservative Party.
- Supportive of or related to the Liberal Party.
- Extra rare; left very raw and cold.
- Having a coat of fur of a slaty gray shade.
- Depressed, melancholic, sad.
- Of the higher-frequency region of the part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation.
- Having blue as its color.
- Having a bluish or purplish shade of the skin due to a lack of oxygen to the normally deep red blood cells.
- Pale, without redness or glare; said of a flame.
noun
- The flat projection or iron shelf at the side of a fire grate, where things are put to be kept warm.
- A rounded peg used as a target in several games, especially in quoits.
- A kind of cutting tool, used to cut the teeth of a gear.
- A male ferret.
- The top cooking surface on a cooker; a cooktop. It typically comprises several cooking elements (often four), also known as 'rings'.
- The hub of a wheel.
verb
noun
noun
- A cup-shaped object placed in the target hole.
- That which is to be received or indured; that which is allotted to one; a portion of blessings and afflictions.
- A concave vessel for drinking from, usually made of opaque material (as opposed to a glass) and with a handle.
- A rigid concave protective covering for the male genitalia.
- A Canadian unit of measure equal to 8 imperial ounces (¹⁄₂₀ imperial gallon; 227.3 mL) or 250 mL.
- A flexible concave membrane used to temporarily attach a handle or hook to a flat surface by means of suction.
- The main knockout tournament in a country, organised alongside the league.
- The contents of said vessel.
- A suit of the minor arcana in tarot, or one of the cards from the suit.
- Anything shaped like a cup.
- The symbol ∪ denoting union and similar operations.
- Prefixed with a letter, used as a measurement of bra or breast size.
- A trophy in the shape of an oversized cup.
- A cupping glass or other vessel or instrument used to produce the vacuum in cupping.
- A defensive style characterized by a three player near defense cupping the thrower; or those three players.
- Any of various sweetened alcoholic drinks.
- A contest for which a cup is awarded.
- A US unit of liquid measure equal to 8 fluid ounces (¹⁄₁₆ of a US gallon; 236.5882365 mL) or 240 mL.
- One of the two parts of a brassiere which each cover a breast.
verb
noun
- A ground-based firework that projects sparks similar to a water fountain.
- Anything that resembles a fountain in operation.
- An artificial, usually ornamental, water feature (usually in a garden or public place) consisting of one or more streams of water originating from a statue or other structure.
- A natural source of water; a spring.
- A reservoir from which liquid can be drawn.
- A source or origin of a flow (e.g., of favors or knowledge).
- A juggling pattern typically done with an even number of props where each prop is caught by the same hand that throws it.
- A roundel barry wavy argent and azure.
- The structure from which an artificial fountain can issue.
- A drink poured from a soda fountain, or the cup it is poured into.
- A soda fountain.
verb
noun
- A metallic stand with four feet, for keeping anything warm before a fire.
- Coordinate term: footwoman
- A man in waiting; a male servant whose duties are to attend the door, the carriage, the table, etc.
- especially, the common footman (Manulea lurideola)
- A bar that connects the treadle of a spinning wheel to the wheel.
- A servant who runs in front of his master's carriage.
- A moth of the family Arctiidae (or subfamily Arctiinae); -- so called from its livery-like colors.
noun
- A utensil for lighting wicks or fuses (such as those of fireworks) resembling stick incense.
- Any of the punk genres: dieselpunk, solarpunk, steampunk etc.
- Any material used as tinder for lighting fires, such as agaric, dried wood, or touchwood, but especially wood altered by certain fungi.
- A young, untrained animal or worker.
- The larger nonconformist social movement associated with punk rock and its fans.
- Synonym of fellow: any person, especially a male comrade.
- Synonym of amateur.
- Synonym of prostitute: a person paid for sex.
- A worthless person
- Synonym of faggot: any male homosexual.
- Synonym of bitch: a man forced or coerced into a homosexual relationship, especially in prison.
- Synonym of bottom: any passive or effeminate homosexual male.
- Synonym of sissy: a weak, timid person.
- A petty criminal, especially a juvenile delinquent.
- A boy who accompanies a hobo, especially as used for sex.
verb
- To pimp.
- To adapt or embellish in the style of the punk movement.
- To prank.
- To give up or concede; to act like a wimp.
- To forcibly perform anal sex upon an unwilling partner.
adj
noun
- A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe.
- The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather (transitive verb).
- A gathering.
- The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
- A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
verb
- To grow gradually larger by accretion.
- To bring stitches closer together.
- To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.
- To accumulate over time, to amass little by little.
- To haul in; to take up.
- To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.
- To congregate, or assemble.
- Especially, to harvest food.
- To collect; normally separate things.
- To bring parts of a whole closer.
- To gain; to win.
- To be filled with pus
- To add pleats or folds to a piece of cloth, normally to reduce its width.
- To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as for example where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue.
noun
- A small firework that is intended to spew sparks rather than explode.
- A sketched concept or visual solution, usually very quick and not too detailed.
- A malfunction in which the fired projectile does not have enough force behind it to exit the barrel, and thus becomes stuck.
- In special effects, a small explosive used to replicate a bullet hitting a surface.
- A short article, often published in journals, that introduces theoretically problematic empirical data or discusses an overlooked theoretical problem. In contrast to a typical article, a squib need not answer the questions that it poses.
- Any small firecracker sold to the general public, usually in special clusters designed to explode in series after a single master fuse is lit.
- A similar device used to ignite an explosive or launch a rocket, etc.
- The heating element used to set off the sodium azide pellets in a vehicle's airbag.
- A kind of slow match or safety fuse.
- An unimportant, paltry, or mean-spirited person.
- In a legal casebook, a short summary of a legal action placed between more extensively quoted cases.
verb
noun
- A pipe (vertical cylinder of ore)
- A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.
- In tectology, an aggregate or colony of individuals, such as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
- Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola.
- Broth made from meat (originally bones) or vegetables, used as a basis for stew or soup.
- A stack of undealt cards made available to the players.
- The measure of how highly a person or institution is valued.
- The plant upon which the scion is grafted.
- Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
- The type of paper used in printing.
- Any of several types of security that are similar to a stock, or marketed like one.
- Lineage, family, ancestry.
- The part of a rifle or shotgun that rests against the shooter's shoulder.
- Plain soap before it is coloured and perfumed.
- The axle attached to the rudder, which transfers the movement of the helm to the rudder.
- The longest part of a split tally stick formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness.
- The tailstock of a lathe.
- The handle of a whip, fishing rod, etc.
- A share in a company.
- A necktie or cravat, particularly a wide necktie popular in the eighteenth century, often seen today as a part of formal wear for horse riding competitions.
- A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.
- A piece of black cloth worn under a clerical collar.
- A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
- Farm or ranch animals; livestock.
- A bar going through an anchor, perpendicular to the flukes.
- A bed for infants; a crib, cot, or cradle
- The population of a given type of animal (especially fish) available to be captured from the wild for economic use.
- A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical beings.
- The beater of a fulling mill.
- Stock theater, summer stock theater.
- A ski pole.
- A supply of anything ready for use.
- A larger grouping of language families: a superfamily or macrofamily.
- The headstock of a lathe, drill, etc.
- The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction.
- The price or value of the stock of a company on the stock market.
- Railroad rolling stock.
- The trunk and woody main stems of a tree. The base from which something grows or branches.
adj
- Straightforward, ordinary, just another, very basic.
- Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.
- Having the same configuration as cars sold to the non-racing public, or having been modified from such a car.
verb
noun
- The casing in a centrifugal pump, whose shape is somewhat similar to architectural volutes.
- The spirals or whorls on a gastropod's shell.
- A scroll-shaped carving at the tuning head of a stringed musical instrument, similar to architectural volutes.
- The characteristic spiral curve on an Ionic capital, widely copied in other styles and in neoclassical architecture.
- Any marine gastropod of the family Volutidae.
- A spiral or scroll form.
adj
noun
noun
- A firecracker.
- A police officer.
- A dry, thin, crispy baked bread (usually salty or savoury, but sometimes sweet, as in the case of graham crackers and animal crackers).
- An ambitious or hard-working person (i.e. someone who arises at the 'crack' of dawn).
- Refinery equipment used to pyrolyse organic feedstocks. If catalyst is used to aid pyrolysis it is informally called a cat-cracker
- A Christmas cracker.
- A person or thing that cracks, or that cracks a thing (e.g. whip cracker; nutcracker).
- One who cracks (i.e. overcomes) computer software or security restrictions.
- A short piece of twisted string tied to the end of a whip that creates the distinctive sound when the whip is thrown or cracked.
- A northern pintail, species of dabbling duck.
- A fine, great thing or person (crackerjack).
- An impoverished white person from the southeastern United States, originally associated with Georgia and parts of Florida; (by extension) any white person.
- The final section of certain whips, which is made of a short, thin piece of unravelled rope and produces a cracking sound.
noun
- A type of firecracker, used by farmers to scare rooks.
- A novice.
- An athlete either new to the sport or to a team or in his first year of professional competition, especially said of baseball, basketball, hockey and American football players.
- An inexperienced recruit, especially in the police or armed forces.
adj
noun
- a pedestal coil, group of connected straight pipes arranged side by side and one above another, used in a radiator.
- An iron socket, or support, for the foot of a brace at the end of a truss where it rests on a pier.
- The measured value when no input signal is given.
- A casting secured to the frame of a truck of a railcar and forming a jaw for holding a journal box.
- The central part of the cockpit, between the pilots, where various controls are located.
- A place of reverence or honor.
- The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp.
- A ground-level housing for a passive connection point for underground cables.
- A pillow block; a low housing.
verb
noun
- an adjustable pothook set in a fireplace
- a fishing net with three layers; the outer two are coarse mesh and the loose inner layer is fine mesh
- a restraint that is used to teach a horse to amble
- a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner)
verb
noun
- A piece of faeces that floats.
- An unaffiliated player.
- One who votes illegally in various polling places or election districts, either under false registration made by himself or under the name of some properly registered person who has not already voted.
- A small suet dumpling put into soup.
- Someone who attaches themselves to a group of people, much to the dismay of that group, and repeatedly shows up to participate in group activities despite attempts to get rid of, or “flush,” said individual.
- A policy covering property at more than one location or which may be in transit.
- A floating rate bond.
- A maneuver in which a surfer transitions above the unbroken face of the wave onto the lip, or on top of the breaking section of the wave.
- One who or that which floats.
- A kind of river mussel (genus Anodonta).
- A book circulated between prisoners that is not part of the official prison library.
- A threadlike speck in the visual field that seems to move, possibly caused by degeneration of the vitreous humour.
- A misstep; a faux pas.
- A voter who shifts from party to party, especially one whose vote can be purchased.
- A person, such as a delegate to a convention or a member of a legislature, who represents an irregular constituency, such as one formed by a union of the voters of two counties neither of which has a number sufficient to be allowed a (or an extra) representative of its own.
- A corpse floating in a body of water.
- An employee of a company who does not have fixed tasks to do but fills in wherever needed, usually when someone else is away.
- An "extra" male at a dinner party, or a young friend of the hostess, whose assignment is to entertain the female guests.
- A coin which does not spin when thrown in the air.
- A pie floater.
- A sandal.
- Early layup taken by a player moving towards the rim where, upon release, the ball floats in the air over the top of a defender before dropping softly into the hoop.
noun
- The flared end of a pipe, designed to mate with a narrow spigot.
- An instrument that emits a ringing sound, situated on a bicycle's handlebar and used by the cyclist to warn of his or her presence.
- The part of the capital of a column included between the abacus and neck molding; also used for the naked core of nearly cylindrical shape, assumed to exist within the leafage of a capital.
- The bellow or bay of certain animals, such as a hound on the hunt or a stag in rut.
- Any of a series of strokes on a bell (or similar), struck every half hour to indicate the time (within a four hour watch)
- A telephone call.
- A signal at a school that tells the students when a class is starting or ending.
- The flared end of a brass or woodwind instrument.
- The bell character.
- Anything shaped like a bell, such as the cup or corolla of a flower.
- The sounding of a bell as a signal.
- A percussive instrument made of metal or other hard material, typically but not always in the shape of an inverted cup with a flared rim, which resonates when struck.
verb
noun
- A cooper's hammer for driving on barrel hoops.
- A person who drives some other vehicle.
- A golf club used to drive the ball a great distance.
- A mallet.
- One who drives something, in any sense of the verb drive.
- A screwdriver.
- a kind of sail, smaller than a fore and aft spanker on a square-rigged ship, a driver is tied to the same spars.
- Something that drives something, in any sense of the verb drive.
- A pilot (person who flies aircraft).
- A device driver; a program that acts as an interface between an application and hardware, written specifically for the device it controls.
- A person who drives a motorized vehicle such as a car or a bus.
- A tamping iron.
noun
- The stick from which candle wicks are suspended for dipping.
- A spire rising from a tower.
- A broad chisel for stone-cutting.
- An awl; a bodkin; also, a wooden rod or pin, sharpened at each end, used by thatchers.
- A spit-like start on the head of a young stag.
- The pin in a lock which enters the barrel of the key.
- A spit for cooking food.
- A series of chisel points mounted on one piece of steel. For example, the toothed stone chisel shown here.
verb
- To cause to turn sideways to oncoming waves, especially large or breaking waves (usually followed by to; also figurative).
- To make a hole in, especially a cask of liquor, and put in a tap in order to draw the liquid.
- To begin discussion about (something).
- To open, to make an opening into; to pierce.
- To break the surface of the water.
- To be turned sideways to oncoming waves, especially large or breaking waves.
noun
- an upright hydrant for drawing water to use in fighting a fire
- blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly
- a wad of something chewable as tobacco
- blatant or sensational promotion
- electrical device that fits into the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine and ignites the gas by means of an electric spark
- an electrical device with two or three pins that is inserted in a socket to make an electrical connection
- an old or over-worked horse
verb
noun
- A section of pipe that conducts a fluid around some other fixture.
- The act of going past or around.
- An electrical shunt.
- A road that passes around something, such as a residential area or business district.
- An alternative passage created to divert a bodily fluid around a damaged organ; the surgical procedure to construct such a bypass.
verb
noun
- A tapering cylindrical pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask.
- A device used to dispense liquids.
- A device used to listen in secretly on telephone calls.
- A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound [ɾ] in the standard American English pronunciation of body.
- An interception of communication by authority.
- A device used to cut an internal screw thread. (External screw threads are cut with a die.)
- The situation where a borrowing government authority issues bonds over a period of time, usually at a fixed price, with volumes sold on a particular day dependent on market conditions.
- A gentle or slight blow; a light rap; a pat.
- A piece of leather fastened upon the bottom of a boot or shoe in repairing or renewing the sole or heel.
- A place where liquor is drawn for drinking.
- A signal, by drum or trumpet, for extinguishing all lights in soldiers' quarters and retiring to bed; usually given about a quarter of an hour after tattoo.
- Liquor drawn through a tap; hence, a certain kind or quality of liquor.
- A procedure that removes fluid from a body cavity.
- An Indian malarial fever.
- The act of touching a touch screen.
- A connection made to an electrical or fluid conductor without breaking it.
verb
- To operate an electronic device (e.g. a mobile phone) by tapping a specific place on its (capacitive or other) touch screen.
- To draw off liquid from a vessel.
- To drain off fluid by paracentesis.
- To have sexual intercourse with.
- To put a new sole or heel on.
- To place a listening or recording device on a telephone or wired connection.
- To designate for some duty or for membership, as in 'a tap on the shoulder'.
- To touch one's finger, foot, or other body parts on a surface (usually) repeatedly.
- To deplete, especially of a liquid via a tap; to tap out.
- To furnish with taps.
- To exploit.
- To cadge, borrow or beg.
- To turn or flip a card or playing piece to remind players that it has already been used that turn (by analogy to "tapping," in the sense of drawing on to the point of temporary exhaustion, the resources or abilities represented by the card).
- To submit to an opponent by tapping one's hand repeatedly.
- To strike lightly.
- To advance someone for a post or job, or for membership of a club.
- To cut an internal screw thread.
- To make a sharp noise.
- To intercept a communication without authority.
- To force (an opponent) to submit.
noun
- The curved plate in which the form is held in a type-revolving cylinder press.
- A small element towards the end of a list of items to be bubble sorted, and thus tending to take a long time to be swapped into its correct position. Compare rabbit.
- A type of robot having a domed case (and so resembling the reptile), used in education, especially for making line drawings by means of a computer program.
- An Ancient Roman attack method, where the shields held by the soldiers hide them, not only left, right, front and back, but also from above.
- A low stand for a lamp etc.
- A breakdancing move consisting of a float during which the dancer's weight shifts from one hand to the other, producing rotation or a circular "walk".
- An on-screen cursor that serves the same function as a turtle for drawing.
- A marine reptile of that order.
- Any land or marine reptile of the order Testudines, characterised by a protective shell enclosing its body. See also tortoise.
verb
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