temple
thrum
skein
chain
lease
tenter
warped
figure loom
figured-fabric loom
two-ply
batten
shuttle
warp
Jacquard loom
swaglike
Jacquard
high-warp loom
warp beam
leash
overplaided
broadloom
cast
weft
contortuplicate
screw up
hyperextensible
jacquardlike
rack
dilatation
low-warp-loom
distension
distention
beater
weave
breastbeam
grainline
warpable
moiré
spheno-
creep
weavingly
slackener
incavity
jumper stay
fold
griff
railroad
bias
limbering
warplike
tortile
lathe
springiness
attenuation
weaving
warpage
spring
stretching
give
jacquard
fiddleback
pandation
subweb
linsey-woolsey
wheel stitch
dobby
loom
lockstep
register plate
overtightness
stretchiness
warp lace
dogs-tooth check
deep-throated
tassel
dog's-tooth check
stretch
lisse
repped
dogstooth check
underwebbing
heddle
houndstooth check
stretchability
hound's-tooth check
twist
spiderweb
ravel
coign
tack
telescopic
flexibleness
interthread
satin weave
flexibility
extended
mispick
warped
two-ply
swaglike
overplaided
contortuplicate
hyperextensible
jacquardlike
warpable
warplike
tortile
deep-throated
repped
telescopic
extended
broadloom
weavingly
temple
thrum
skein
chain
lease
figure loom
figured-fabric loom
batten
shuttle
warp
Jacquard loom
Jacquard
high-warp loom
warp beam
leash
broadloom
weft
dilatation
low-warp-loom
distension
distention
beater
weave
breastbeam
grainline
moiré
tenter
creep
slackener
incavity
jumper stay
fold
griff
bias
limbering
lathe
springiness
attenuation
weaving
warpage
spring
stretching
give
jacquard
fiddleback
pandation
subweb
linsey-woolsey
wheel stitch
dobby
lockstep
register plate
overtightness
stretchiness
warp lace
dogs-tooth check
tassel
dog's-tooth check
stretch
lisse
dogstooth check
underwebbing
heddle
houndstooth check
stretchability
hound's-tooth check
twist
spiderweb
ravel
coign
tack
flexibleness
satin weave
flexibility
mispick
tenter
cast
screw up
rack
railroad
loom
interthread
noun
- A contrivance used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely.
- Any place regarded as holding a religious presence.
- A gesture wherein the forefingers are outstretched and touch pad to pad while the other fingers are clasped together.
- Anything regarded as important or minutely cared for.
- The slightly flatter region, on either side of the human head, behind of the eye and forehead, above the zygomatic arch, and forward of the ear.
- Synonym of synagogue, especially a non-Orthodox synagogue.
- As opposed to an LDS meetinghouse, a church closed to non-Mormons and necessary for particular rituals.
- A house of worship dedicated to a polytheistic faith.
- A Buddhist monastery, as opposed to a Shinto shrine.
- A meeting house of the Oddfellows fraternity; its members.
- Either of the sidepieces on a set of spectacles, extending backwards from the hinge toward the ears and, usually, turning down around them.
- Any place seen as an important centre for some activity.
verb
noun
- The ends of the warp threads in a loom which remain unwoven attached to the loom when the web is cut.
- Small pieces of rope yarn used for making mats or mops.
- Any short piece of leftover thread or yarn; a tuft or tassel.
- A fringe made of such threads.
- A spicy taste; a tang.
- A threadlike part of a flower; a stamen.
- A tuft, bundle, or fringe of any threadlike structures, as hairs on a leaf, fibers of a root.
- A bundle of minute blood vessels, a plexus.
- A mat made of canvas and tufts of yarn.
- A thrumming sound; a hum or vibration.
- A shove out of place; a small displacement or fault along a seam.
verb
- To cause a steady rhythmic vibration, usually by plucking.
- To insert short pieces of rope-yarn or spun yarn in.
- To make a monotonous drumming noise.
- To furnish with thrums; to insert tufts in; to fringe.
adj
noun
- A web, a weave, a tangle.
- A group of wild fowl (e.g. geese, goslings) when they are in flight.
- A winning streak.
- The membrane of a fish ovary.
- A metallic strengthening band or thimble on the wooden arm of an axle.
- A quantity of yarn, thread, etc. put up together, after it is taken from the reel. A skein of cotton yarn is formed by eighty turns of the thread around a fifty-four inch reel.
verb
noun
- The warp threads of a web.
- A series of interconnected links of known length, used as a measuring device.
- A series of stores or businesses with the same brand name.
- A number of atoms in a series, which combine to form a molecule.
- A unit of length equal to 22 yards. The length of a Gunter's surveying chain. The length of a cricket pitch. Equal to 20.12 metres, 4 rods, or 100 links.
- That which confines, fetters, or secures; a bond.
- A series of interconnected rings or links usually made of metal.
- Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels.
- A long measuring tape.
- A totally ordered set, especially a totally ordered subset of a poset.
- A sequence of linked house purchases, each of which is dependent on the preceding and succeeding purchase (said to be "broken" if a buyer or seller pulls out).
- A livery collar, a chain of office.
- A series of interconnected things.
verb
- To link multiple items together.
- To connect as if with a chain, due to dependence, addiction, or other feelings
- To measure a distance using a 66-foot long chain, as in land surveying.
- To relate data items with a chain of pointers.
- To obstruct the mouth of a river etc with a chain.
- To obligate.
- To fasten something with a chain.
- To secure someone with fetters.
- To load and automatically run (a program).
- To be chained to another data item.
noun
- The place at which the warp-threads cross on a loom.
- An interest in land granting exclusive use or occupation of real estate for a limited period; a leasehold.
- An interest granting exclusive use of any thing, such as a car or boat.
- The period of such an interest.
- The document containing such a contract or deed.
- An open pasture or common.
- The contract or deed under which such an interest is granted.
verb
noun
- The movable bar of a loom, which strikes home or closes the threads of a woof.
- A thin strip of wood used in construction to hold members of a structure together or to provide a fixing point.
- A long strip of wood, metal, fibreglass etc., used for various purposes aboard ship, especially one inserted in a pocket sewn on the sail in order to keep the sail flat.
- In stagecraft, a long pipe, usually metal, affixed to the ceiling or fly system in a theater.
verb
- To furnish with battens.
- To fasten or secure a hatch etc using battens.
- To thrive by feeding; grow fat; feed oneself gluttonously.
- To fertilize or enrich, as land.
- To improve by feeding; fatten; make fat or cause to thrive due to plenteous feeding.
- To thrive, prosper, or live in luxury, especially at the expense of others; fare sumptuously.
- To gratify a morbid appetite or craving; gloat.
- To feed (on); to revel (in).
- To become better; improve in condition, especially by feeding.
noun
- A tool used to carry the woof back and forth between the warp threads on a loom.
- The sliding thread holder in a sewing machine, which carries the lower thread through a loop of the upper thread, to make a lock stitch.
- A transport service (such as a bus or train) that goes back and forth between two or more places.
- A shutter, as for a channel for molten metal.
- Any other item that moves repeatedly back and forth between two positions, possibly transporting something else with it between those points (such as, in chemistry, a molecular shuttle).
- A shuttlecock.
- Such a transport vehicle; a shuttle bus; a space shuttle.
verb
verb
- To twist or warp (of fabric, timber etc.).
- To heave the lead and line in order to ascertain the depth of water.
- To consider; to turn or revolve in the mind; to plan.
- To bring the bows of a sailing ship on to the required tack just as the anchor is weighed by use of the headsail; to bring (a ship) round.
- Of dogs, hunters: to spread out and search for a scent.
- To throw forward (a fishing line, net etc.) into the sea.
- To throw off (the skin) as a process of growth; to shed the hair or fur of the coat.
- To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to make preponderate; to decide.
- To throw.
- To throw down or aside.
- To deposit (a ballot or voting paper); to formally register (one's vote).
- To calculate the astrological value of (a horoscope, birth etc.).
- To throw (light etc.) on or upon something, or in a given direction.
- To open a circle in order to begin a spell or meeting of witches.
- To broadcast (video) over the Internet or a local network, especially to one's television.
- To remove, take off (clothes).
- To direct (one's eyes, gaze etc.).
- To shape (molten metal etc.) by pouring into a mould; to make (an object) in such a way.
- To perform, bring forth (a magical spell or enchantment).
- To set (a bone etc.) in a cast.
- To assign (a role in a play or performance).
- To assign a role in a play or performance to (an actor).
- To change a variable type from, for example, integer to real, or integer to text.
noun
- Visual appearance.
- An object made in a mould.
- A supportive and immobilising device used to help mend broken bones.
- A squint.
- Animal and insect remains which have been regurgitated by a bird.
- The form of one's thoughts, mind etc.
- The collective group of actors performing a play or production together. Contrasted with crew.
- A small mass of earth "thrown off" or excreted by a worm.
- The number of hawks (or occasionally other birds) cast off at one time; a pair.
- Something which has been thrown, dispersed etc.
- The casting procedure.
- The mould used to make cast objects.
- A group of crabs.
- An instance of throwing out a fishing line.
- An act of throwing.
adj
verb
- stretch to the limits
- go at a rack
- put on a rack and pinion
- obtain by coercion or intimidation
- run before a gale
- fly in high wind
- draw off from the lees
- torment emotionally or mentally
- work on a rack
- seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block
- place in a rack
- torture on the rack
noun
- rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton
- the destruction or collapse of something
- an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims
- a support for displaying ot holding various articles
- a form of torture in which pain is inflicted by stretching the body
- a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately
noun
- A weaving tool designed to push the weft yarn securely into place. It contains the comb-like insert reed and is sometimes a part of the loom.
- An old or dilapidated automobile in poor operating condition.
- A papermaking machine for processing fibres by fibrillation in order to improve bonding strength
- A person who drives game towards shooters in a hunting party, typically working in a group with other beaters.
- In the sport of Quidditch or Muggle quidditch, a player who attempts to hit the opposing team's players with bludgers and to block the bludgers from hitting their own team's players.
- Someone or something that beats.
- A shoe suitable for everyday wear, during which they may get dirty or scuffed, as opposed to more valuable shoes that one wishes to keep in good condition.
- A kitchen implement for mixing.
- A stick used to play a percussion instrument.
- A harp seal pup after its first moult and before its second moult.
- A sleeveless undershirt.
noun
noun
- In sewn books, the tendency of pages on the inside of a quire to stand out farther than those on the outside of it.
- The imperceptible downslope movement of surface rock.
- Someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric.
- A barrier with small openings used to keep large animals out while allowing smaller animals to pass through.
- A relatively small gradual change, variation or deviation (from a planned value) in a measure.
- A slight displacement of an object; the slight movement of something.
- The gradual expansion or proliferation of something beyond its original goals or boundaries, considered negatively.
- A frightening and/or disconcerting person, especially one who gives the speaker chills.
- The movement of something that creeps (like worms or snails).
- An increase in strain with time; the gradual flow or deformation of a material under stress.
verb
- To slip, or to become slightly displaced.
- To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn.
- To covertly have sex (with a person other than one's primary partner); to cheat with.
- To grow across a surface rather than upwards.
- To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction.
- To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl.
- To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground.
- To make small gradual changes, usually in a particular direction.
- To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
- To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or oneself.
noun
- The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window without scrolling; usually the fold.
- A group of sheep or goats.
- A section of source code that can be collapsed out of view in an editor to aid readability.
- Home, family.
- A church congregation, a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church; the Christian church as a whole, the flock of Christ.
- An act of folding.
- That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops; embrace.
- A bend or crease.
- Any correct move in origami.
- A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.
- The division between the top and bottom halves of a broadsheet: headlines above the fold will be readable in a newsstand display; usually the fold.
- In functional programming, any of a family of higher-order functions that process a data structure recursively to build up a value.
- A group of people with shared ideas or goals or who live or work together.
- The bending or curving of one or a stack of originally flat and planar surfaces, such as sedimentary strata, as a result of plastic (i.e. permanent) deformation.
verb
- To stir gently, with a folding action.
- To fall over; to be crushed.
- To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.
- To give way on a point or in an argument.
- To enclose within folded arms (see also enfold).
- To become folded; to form folds.
- To withdraw from betting.
- To withdraw or quit in general.
- To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands.
- To cover or wrap up; to conceal.
- To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
- To confine animals in a fold.
- Of a company, to cease to trade.
verb
- To run fabric horizontally instead of the usual vertically.
- To procedurally bully someone into an unfair agreement.
- To force characters to complete a task before allowing the plot to continue.
- To manipulate and hasten a procedure, as of formal approval of a law or resolution.
- To travel by railroad.
- To engage in a hobby pertaining to railroads.
- To operate a railroad.
- To work for a railroad.
- To transport via railroad.
- To convict of a crime by circumventing due process.
noun
- A permanent track consisting of fixed metal rails to drive trains or similar motorized vehicles on.
- The transportation system comprising such tracks and vehicles fitted to travel on the rails, usually with several vehicles connected together in a train.
- A procedure conducted in haste without due consideration.
- A single, privately or publicly owned property comprising one or more such tracks and usually associated assets
noun
- The diagonal line between warp and weft in a woven fabric.
- A person's favourite member of a K-pop band.
- A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (such as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.
- Inclination towards something.
- The difference between the expectation of the sample estimator and the true population value, which reduces the representativeness of the estimator by systematically distorting it.
- In the games of crown green bowls and lawn bowls: a weight added to one side of a bowl so that as it rolls, it will follow a curved rather than a straight path; the oblique line followed by such a bowl; the lopsided shape or structure of such a bowl. In lawn bowls, the curved course is caused only by the shape of the bowl. The use of weights is prohibited.
- A voltage or current applied to an electronic device, such as a transistor electrode, to move its operating point to a desired part of its transfer function.
adv
verb
adj
noun
- A fabrication process in which a material is stretched out into a thin shape.
- A reduction in the level of some property with distance, especially the amplitude of a wave or the strength of a signal.
- The reduction of the active principles of medicines to minute doses.
- The tapering of a leaf etc to a fine point.
- A weakening in the virulence of a pathogen or other microorganism.
- The proportion of sugar that is converted to ethanol by a yeast.
- A gradual diminishing of strength.
noun
- the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length
- the season of growth; spring; the beginning of spring
- a metal elastic device that returns to its shape or position when pushed or pulled or pressed
- a natural flow of ground water
- a point at which water issues forth
- a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
verb
noun
verb
- cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense
- be the cause or source of
- transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody
- convey or reveal information
- convey, as of a compliment, regards, attention, etc.; bestow
- organize or be responsible for
- convey or communicate; of a smile, a look, a physical gesture
- give as a present; make a gift of
- cause to happen or be responsible for
- dedicate
- give or supply
- transmit (knowledge or skills)
- bring about
- leave with; give temporarily
- emit or utter
- endure the loss of
- place into the hands or custody of
- give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause
- give (as medicine)
- give or convey physically
- bestow
- bestow, especially officially
- move in order to make room for someone for something
- give food to
- contribute to some cause
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- estimate the duration or outcome of something
- execute and deliver
- deliver in exchange or recompense
- afford access to
- present to view
- perform for an audience
- be flexible under stress of physical force
- propose
- accord by verdict
- manifest or show
- offer in good faith
- submit for consideration, judgment, or use
- guide or direct, as by behavior of persuasion
- allow to have or take
- inflict as a punishment
- occur
- consent to engage in sexual intercourse with a man
- proffer (a body part)
noun
noun
- A narrow silk ribbon, or similar, sewed to a book to be put between the pages.
- A kind of bur used in dressing cloth; a teasel.
- A ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads from which at one end protrudes a cord on which the ball is hung, and which may have loose, dangling threads at the other end (often used as decoration along the bottom of garments, curtains or other hangings).
- A thin plate of gold on the back of a bishop's gloves.
- The panicle on a male plant of maize, which consists of loose threads with anthers on them.
- The loose hairs at the end of a braid.
- A piece of board that is laid upon a wall as a sort of plate, to give a level surface to the ends of floor timbers.
verb
noun
- the capacity for being stretched
- a large and unbroken expanse or distance
- the act of physically reaching or thrusting out
- a straightaway section of a racetrack
- exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent
- extension to or beyond the ordinary limit
- an unbroken period of time during which you do something
adj
verb
- occupy a large, elongated area
- extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body
- extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length
- become longer by being stretched and pulled
- make long or longer by pulling and stretching
- lie down comfortably
- pull in opposite directions
- extend the scope or meaning of; often unduly
- corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
- increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance
- extend one's body or limbs
noun
- A component in a loom, being one of a number of similar components, through the eye of each of which a distinct strand of the warp is threaded.
- One of the sets of parallel doubled threads which, with mounting, compose the harness employed to guide the warp threads to the lathe or batten in a loom.
verb
noun
- The degree of stress or strain when twisted.
- A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc.
- A distortion to the meaning of a word or passage.
- A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.
- A twisting force.
- The form given in twisting.
- An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.
- A roll or baton of baked dough or pastry in a twisted shape.
- The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
- A type of dance characterised by rotating one’s hips. See Twist (dance) on Wikipedia for more details.
- A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination.
- Anything twisted, or the act of twisting.
- A small roll of tobacco.
- A sprain, especially to the ankle.
- A girl, a woman.
- A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.
- A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together.
- A rotation of the body when diving.
verb
- To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
- To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
- To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.
- In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.
- To turn a knob etc.
- To join together by twining one part around another.
- To wind into; to insinuate.
- To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).
- To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.
- To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.
- To cause to rotate.
- To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
- To coax.
- To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).
noun
- A thread which has unravelled from fabric, etc.; also, a situation of fabric, etc., coming apart; an unravelling.
- A tangled mess; an entanglement, a snarl, a tangle.
- A confusing, intricate, or perplexing situation; a complication.
verb
- To unwind (a reel of thread, a skein of yarn, etc.); to pull apart (cloth, a seam, etc.); to fray, to unpick, to unravel; also, to pull out (a string of yarn, a thread, etc.) from a piece of fabric, or a skein or reel.
- To entwine or tangle (something) confusedly; to entangle.
- To confuse or perplex (someone or something).
- To become entangled or snarled.
- Often followed by up: to form (something) out of discrete elements, like weaving fabric from threads; to knit.
- Often followed by out: of a reel of thread or skein of yarn; or a thread on a reel or a string of yarn in a skein, etc.: to become untwisted or unwound.
- Often followed by out: of clothing, fabric, etc.: to become unwoven; to fray, to unravel.
- In the APL programming language: to reshape (a variable) into a vector.
noun
- A wedge used in typesetting.
- A projecting corner or angle; a cornerstone.
- The keystone of an arch.
- A a corner of a crystal formed by the intersection of three or more faces at a point (in crystallography)
- An original angular elevation of land around which continental growth has taken place (in geology)
noun
- A loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth.
- The distance a sailing vessel runs between these maneuvers when working to windward; a board.
- A rope used to hold in place the foremost lower corners of the courses when the vessel is close-hauled; also, a rope employed to pull the lower corner of a studding sail to the boom.
- Any of the various equipment and accessories worn by horses in the course of their use as domesticated animals.
- The maneuver by which a sailing vessel turns its bow through the wind so that the wind changes from one side to the other.
- A contract by which the use of a thing is set, or let, for hire; a lease.
- The stickiness of a compound, related to its cohesive and adhesive properties.
- That which is tacky; something cheap and gaudy.
- A small nail with a flat head.
- A stain; a tache.
- That which is attached; a supplement; an appendix.
- A direction or course of action, especially a new one.
- A course or heading that enables a sailing vessel to head upwind.
- Food generally; fare, especially of the bread kind.
- A thumbtack.
- The lower corner on the leading edge of a sail relative to the direction of the wind.
verb
- To nail with a tack (small nail with a flat head).
- To maneuver a sailing vessel so that its bow turns through the wind, i.e. the wind changes from one side of the vessel to the other.
- To add something as an extra item.
- To sew/stitch with a tack (loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth).
- to tack (something) onto (something)
- To place the tack on a horse; often paired with "up".
adj
- Able to be extended or retracted by the use of parts that slide over one another.
- Referring to parts being extended or retracted along coinciding axes (with or without direct contact between the parts).
- Pertaining to, or carried out by means of, a telescope.
- Seen by means of a telescope; only visible through a telescope.
- Capable of seeing distant objects; far-seeing.
verb
- To pass (strands of material) over and under one another to create a fabric; (by analogy) to weave long, narrow objects together.
- To alter a fabric by weaving additional strands into it; to bring (two or more things) together like the strands in fabric; to bring (one thing) together (with another thing).
- To move alternately on either side of people or objects; to weave in and out.
- To integrate (strands of material into a fabric) by weaving.
- To be present in every part of (something) like strands running through it.
- To be or become woven or twisted together (with something); to be or become inextricably associated like strands woven or twisted together.
adj
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