scrapheap
junkheap
rejectamenta
flotsam and jetsam
refuse
compendium
assortment
junk
discard
reticences
shopping list
trashery
whatnot
family grouping
disaggregator
item set
scavenger
magpie
spectrum
pack rat
pap
vaporosity
let me count the ways
miscellanea
whatnottery
pablum
mnemonic
buffer
bits and bats
odds and sods
miscellany
farrago
rejectate
discarding
selection
laundry list
set
mass
desensitizer
bits and bobs
packrat
clart
tapestry
friend
grab bag
hyperinnovation
pruck
discardable
idealess
bits and pieces
take away
castoff
sundry
catena
trifle
motley
assorted
kipple
collection
filch
assemblage
mixed
miscellaneous
ghost town
bill
nature
soup sandwich
erratic
congeries
trove
stamp collecting
fume
reservation
wastage
distinctiveness
book
sour grapes
and the like
secondary
anthology
junker
mastodon
arrangement
trash
remains
ambient
crapola
oddment
things
barn find
collectable
wind egg
rummage
esoterica
destash
demystification
wardrobe
mnemonic
idealess
sundry
motley
assorted
mixed
miscellaneous
ambient
scrapheap
junkheap
rejectamenta
flotsam and jetsam
refuse
compendium
assortment
junk
discard
reticences
shopping list
trashery
whatnot
family grouping
disaggregator
item set
scavenger
magpie
spectrum
pack rat
pap
vaporosity
miscellanea
whatnottery
pablum
buffer
bits and bats
odds and sods
miscellany
farrago
rejectate
discarding
selection
laundry list
set
mass
desensitizer
bits and bobs
packrat
clart
tapestry
friend
grab bag
hyperinnovation
pruck
discardable
bits and pieces
castoff
catena
trifle
kipple
collection
filch
assemblage
ghost town
bill
nature
soup sandwich
erratic
congeries
trove
stamp collecting
fume
reservation
wastage
distinctiveness
book
sour grapes
secondary
anthology
junker
mastodon
arrangement
trash
remains
crapola
oddment
motley
things
barn find
collectable
wind egg
rummage
esoterica
demystification
wardrobe
take away
destash
noun
- A collection of miscellaneous items or fragments of little importance.
- That which has been discharged from a ship or boat, especially on the ocean or a sea, (flotsam unintentionally and jetsam intentionally).
- The remains of a shipwreck still floating in the water.
- People considered to be of little worth.
noun
adj
verb
noun
- A collection of miscellaneous items of little value.
- A Chinese sailing vessel.
- The genitalia, especially of a male.
- Discarded or waste material; rubbish, trash, garbage.
- Any narcotic drug, especially heroin.
- Salt beef.
- Pieces of old cable or cordage, used for making gaskets, mats, swabs, etc., and when picked to pieces, forming oakum for filling the seams of ships.
- Nonsense; gibberish.
- Material or resources of a kind lacking commercial value.
verb
noun
- A group of related items.
- A group of individuals who are related by blood and/or by marriage.
- The method in which individuals are grouped together into families that live together.
- The system of grouping children of differing ages together, used primarily at the preschool level.
- A taxonomic grouping at the family level.
- The strategy of putting related inventory items together.
- A group of family members who are posed together.
phrase
noun
- Anything used to maintain slack or isolate different objects.
- The metal barrier to help prevent trains from running off the end of the track.
- A gap that isolates or separates two things.
- A machine with rotary brushes, passed over a hard floor to clean it.
- An isolating circuit, often an amplifier, used to minimize the influence of a driven circuit on the driving circuit.
- A machine for polishing shoes and boots.
- A good-humoured, slow-witted fellow, usually an elderly man.
- A routine or storage medium used to compensate for a difference in rate of flow of data, or time of occurrence of events, when transferring data from one device to another.
- A portion of memory set aside to temporarily store data, often before it is sent to an external device or as it is received from an external device.
- A solution used to stabilize the pH (acidity) of a liquid.
- A buffer zone (such as a demilitarized zone) or a buffer state.
- The chief boatswain's mate.
- A device on trains and carriages designed to cushion the impact between them.
verb
noun
noun
- A variety of items taken from a larger collection.
- The stage of a genetic algorithm in which individual genomes are chosen from a population for later breeding. ᵂᵖ
- The free selection before survey of crown land in some Australian colonies under land legislation introduced in the 1860s. ᵂᵖ
- The ability of predicates to determine the semantic content of their arguments. ᵂᵖ
- A set of data obtained from a database using a query.
- A musical piece.
- Something selected.
- The process or act of selecting.
- A list of items on which user operations will take place. ᵂᵖ
- A unary operation that denotes a subset of a relation.
noun
- A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
- A punch for setting nails in wood.
- The full number of eggs set under a hen.
- The initial or basic formation of dancers.
- A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
- A young oyster when first attached.
- The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
- The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
- The scenery for a film or play.
- Set theory.
- the general locations and area where a movie’s, a film’s, or a video’s scenery is arranged to be filmed also including places for actors, assorted crew, director, producers which are typically not filmed.
- A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
- A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
- The amount the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
- A rudimentary fruit.
- An object made up of several parts.
- General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
- A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached by the weight, or hammer.
- The camber of a curved roofing tile.
- A drum kit, a drum set.
- A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
- A bias of mind; an attitude or pattern of behaviour.
- A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order or repetition of the objects which may be contained within it.
- A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
- Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is on the board. Compare trips (“three of a kind, especially with two cards on the board and one in one's hand”).
- A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
- A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
- Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
- A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 4, Noun)
- A group of people, usually meeting socially.
- The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
- The pattern of a tartan, etc.
- A permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc.
- A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun.)
- A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
adj
- Fixed in one’s opinion.
- Fixed in a certain style.
- Ready, prepared.
- Rigid, solidified.
- Prearranged.
- Fixed in position.
- Intent, determined (to do something).
verb
- To devise and assign (work) to.
- To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
- To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
- To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
- To place or fix in a setting.
- To extend and bring into position; to spread.
- To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
- To prepare (a stage or film set).
- To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
- To defeat a contract.
- To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
- To put (something) down, to rest.
- To produce after pollination.
- To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
- To acknowledge a dancing partner by facing him or her and moving first to one side and then to the other, while she or he does the opposite.
- To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
- To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
- To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
- To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
- To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
- To sit (be in a seated position).
- To arrange (type).
- To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
- To introduce or describe.
- To solidify.
- To rest or lie somewhere, on something, etc.; to occupy a certain place.
- To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly.
- Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
- Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
- To fit (someone) up in a situation.
- To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
- To adjust.
- To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
- To suit; to become.
- To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
- To determine or settle.
- To fit music to words.
- To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
- To start (a fire).
- To divide a class group in a subject according to ability
- To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to, geographically or temporally.
- To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
noun
- an ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people)
- the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field
- (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
- a body of matter without definite shape
- the common people generally
- the property of something that is great in magnitude
verb
adj
noun
- An object or idea that can be used for good.
- A lover; a boyfriend or girlfriend.
- Used as a form of address when warning someone.
- A spring-loaded camming device.
- A person with whom one is vaguely or indirectly acquainted.
- A person who backs or supports something.
- A person, typically someone other than a family member, spouse or lover, whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels affection.
- Used to refer collectively to a group of associated individuals, especially those comprising a cast, company, or crew
- A function or class granted special access to the private and protected members of another class.
- An associate who provides assistance.
verb
adj
verb
- To remove something, either material or abstract, so that a person no longer has it.
- To subtract or diminish something.
- To remove something and put it in a different place.
- To leave a memory or impression in one's mind that you think about later.
- To make someone leave a place and go somewhere else. Usually not with the person's consent.
- To remove a person, usually a family member or other close friend or acquaintance, by kidnapping or killing the person.
- To prevent, or limit, someone from being somewhere, or from doing something.
prep
noun
noun
- Anything that is of little importance or worth.
- A particular kind of pewter.
- An insignificant amount of money.
- A very small amount (of something).
- Utensils made from this particular kind of pewter.
- An English dessert made from a mixture of thick custard, fruit, sponge cake, jelly and whipped cream.
verb
adj
- consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds
- having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly
noun
- a collection containing a variety of sorts of things
- a garment made of motley (especially a court jester's costume)
- a multicolored woolen fabric woven of mixed threads in 14th to 17th century England
verb
noun
- A set of items or amount of material procured or gathered together.
- A set of college exams generally taken at the start of the term.
- A set of sets; used because such a thing is in general too large to comply with the formal definition of a set.
- The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
- The activity of collecting.
- Multiple related objects associated as a group.
- The quality of being collected; calm composure.
- A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for donations.
- Debt collection.
noun
- A collection of things which have been gathered together or assembled.
- A visual art form similar to collage, which combines two-dimensional and three-dimensional, often found, elements into works of art.
- The process of assembling or bringing together.
- A group of different artifacts found in association with one another.
- A gathering of people.
noun
- A set of items presented together.
- A writing binding the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without interest, as may be stated in the document; a bill of exchange. In the United States, it is usually called a note, a note of hand, or a promissory note.
- The beak of a bird, especially when small or flattish; sometimes also used with reference to a platypus, turtle, or other animal.
- Of a cap or hat: the brim or peak, serving as a shade to keep sun off the face and out of the eyes.
- A written list or inventory. (Now obsolete except in specific senses or set phrases; bill of lading, bill of goods, etc.)
- A document, originally sealed; a formal statement or official memorandum. (Now obsolete except with certain qualifying words; bill of health, bill of sale etc.)
- The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke (also called the peak).
- A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle, used in pruning, etc.; a billhook.
- The bell, or boom, of the bittern.
- A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; an invoice.
- Any of various bladed or pointed hand weapons, originally designating an Anglo-Saxon sword, and later a weapon of infantry, especially in the 14th and 15th centuries, commonly consisting of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, with a short pike at the back and another at the top, attached to the end of a long staff.
- A piece of paper money; a banknote.
- One hundred dollars.
- A pickaxe, or mattock.
- A beak-like projection, especially a promontory.
- Somebody armed with a bill; a billman.
- A draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.
- A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods
verb
noun
- a particular type of thing
- the essential qualities or characteristics by which something is recognized
- a causal agent creating and controlling things in the universe
- the natural physical world including plants and animals and landscapes etc.
- the complex of emotional and intellectual attributes that determine a person's characteristic actions and reactions
noun
- Anything unsubstantial or airy; idle conceit; vain imagination.
- Rage or excitement which deprives the mind of self-control.
- The incense of praise; inordinate flattery.
- A gas or vapour/vapor that is strong-smelling or dangerous to inhale.
- A material that has been vaporized from the solid or liquid state to the gas state and re-coalesced to the solid state.
verb
noun
- Something that is withheld or kept back.
- The area which separates opposing lanes of traffic on a divided motorway or dual carriageway; see also central reservation.
- The practice of reserving part of the consecrated bread of the Eucharist for the communion of the sick.
- A limiting qualification regarding certainty; a doubt.
- An arrangement by which accommodation or transport arrangements are secured in advance.
- A power of an overseeing authority to suspend legislation in the jurisdiction being overseen pending the approval of a higher authority. Such as a provincial/state governor reserving a bill passed by the state/provincial legislature from assent, pending approval of the federal government; or a federal bill passed by federal parliament being reserved by the viceroy pending approval by the crown.
- A tract of land set apart by the US government for the use of a Native American people; Indian reservation (compare Canadian reserve).
- The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back.
- The act of the pope to reserve to himself the right to nominate to certain benefices.
- The setting aside of a certain percentage of vacancies in government institutions for members of backward and underrepresented communities (defined primarily by caste and tribe).
noun
- Anything lost by wear or waste.
- The amount or proportion of something that is wasted or lost by deterioration or other natural process.
- The periodical turnover of personnel in an organisation by death, retirement or resignation, as perceived by those aspiring to promotion or appointment in the organisation.
- Goods that are damaged, out of date, reduced, or generally unsaleable, which are destined to be thrown away and which are written off as a loss.
- The act of abandoning animal carcasses or parts, usually illegal.
noun
- A convenient collection, in a form resembling a book, of small paper items for individual use.
- A record of betting (from the use of a notebook to record what each person has bet).
- A book award, a recognition for receiving the highest grade in a class (traditionally an actual book, but recently more likely a letter or certificate acknowledging the achievement).
- A list of all players who have been booked (received a warning) in a game.
- A major division of a long work.
- Records of the accounts of a business.
- A bookmaker (a person who takes bets on sporting events and similar); bookie; turf accountant.
- Six tricks taken by one side.
- Four of a kind.
- The accumulated body of knowledge passed down among black pimps.
- The script of a musical or opera.
- A portfolio of one's previous work in the industry.
- The twenty-sixth Lenormand card.
- A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material, pictures, etc.
- Any source of instruction.
- The sum of chess knowledge in the opening or endgame.
- A long work fit for publication, typically prose, such as a novel or textbook, and typically published as such a bound collection of sheets, but now sometimes electronically as an e-book.
- A document, held by the referee, of the incidents happened in the game.
verb
- To record bets as bookmaker.
- To receive the highest grade in a class.
- To leave.
- To reserve (something) for future use.
- To record the name and other details of a suspected offender and the offence for later judicial action.
- To issue a caution to, usually a yellow card, or a red card if a yellow card has already been issued.
- simple past tense of bake
- To write down, to register or record in a book or as in a book.
- To add a name to the list of people who are participating in something.
- To travel very fast.
noun
- Anything secondary or of lesser importance.
- One who occupies a subordinate or auxiliary place; a delegate deputy.
- A radar return generated by the response of an aircraft's transponder to an interrogation signal broadcast by a radar installation, containing additional encoded identification and situational data not available from a simple primary return.
- The defensive backs.
- An inductive coil or loop that is magnetically powered by a primary in a transformer or similar.
- Any flight feather attached to the ulna (forearm) of a bird.
- A satellite.
- An act of issuing more stock by an already publicly traded corporation.
- The second stage of a multistage thermonuclear weapon, which generates a fusion explosion when imploded as an indirect result of the fission explosion of the primary, and which, in a few extremely large weapons, itself implodes a fusion tertiary.
- A secondary circle.
- A secondary school.
adj
- Produced by alteration or deposition subsequent to the formation of the original rock mass.
- Derived from a parent compound by replacement of two atoms of hydrogen by organic radicals
- Developed by pressure or other causes.
- Dependent or consequent upon another disease, or occurring in the second stage of a disease.
- Related to secondary education, i.e. schooling between the ages of (approximately) 11 and 18.
- Of less than primary importance.
- Originating from a deputy or delegated person or body
- Representing a reversion to an ancestral state.
- Formed by mixing primary colors.
- Next in order to the first or primary; of second place in origin, rank, etc.
- Pertaining to the second joint of the wing of a bird.
- Relating to the manufacture of goods from raw materials.
noun
- Useless physical things to be discarded; rubbish; refuse.
- A container into which things are discarded.
- Something worthless or of poor quality.
- (fandom slang, humorous, uncountable) A fan who is excessively obsessed with their fandom and its fanworks.
- The disused stems, leaves, or vines of a crop, as well as any weeds mixed therewith, which will either be plowed in as green manure or be removed by raking, grazing, or burning.
- A dubious assertion, either for appearing untrue or for being excessively boastful.
- (slang, derogatory) People of low social status or class. (See, for example, white trash or Eurotrash.)
- Temporary storage on disk for files that the user has deleted, allowing them to be recovered if necessary.
- Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, with much less commercial value than the principal grades.
verb
- To disrespect someone or something
- To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop.
- To make into a mess.
- To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or crush.
- To hold back by a trash or leash, as a dog in pursuing game; hence, to retard, encumber, or restrain; to clog; to hinder vexatiously.
- To discard.
- To beat soundly in a game.
noun
- Something that does not match the things it is with or cannot easily be categorized; a miscellaneous item.
- A part of something that is left over, such as a piece of cloth.
- A person who does not fit in with others or is considered to be strange in some way.
- A varied collection (of items).
- A part of a book that is not a portion of the text, such as the title, index, etc. (usually plural).
- Something strange or unusual.
- An item that was originally part of a set but is sold individually; an excess item of stock.
- A remaining number or amount (after a calculation).
noun
- A disorganized collection of miscellaneous objects; a jumble.
- A place or room for the stowage of cargo in a ship.
- A thorough search, usually resulting in disorder.
- The act of stowing cargo; the pulling and moving about of packages incident to close stowage.
verb
- To hastily search for something in a confined space and among many items by carelessly turning things over or pushing things aside.
- To search a vessel for smuggled goods.
- To arrange (cargo, goods, etc.) in the hold of a ship; to move or rearrange such goods.
- To search something thoroughly and with disregard for the way in which things were arranged.
noun
- Any collection of anything.
- Anything that similarly stores or houses something.
- A governmental office or department in a monarchy which purchases, keeps, and cares for royal clothes.
- A room for keeping costumes and other property safe at a theater; a prop room.
- The building housing such a department.
- A movable cupboard or cabinet designed for storing clothes, particularly as a large piece of bedroom furniture.
- A tall built-in cupboard or closet for storing clothes, often including a rail for coat-hangers, and usually located in a bedroom.
- The contents of a wardrobe: an individual's entire collection of clothing.
- Any collection of clothing.
- The department of a theater, movie studio, etc which purchases, keeps, and cares for costumes; its staff; its room(s) or building(s).
verb
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