English words for 'A den or cave.'
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noun
- A den or cave.
- (historical) A family of Native Americans, or the persons who usually occupy an Indian lodge; as a unit of enumeration, reckoned from four to six persons.
- A collection of objects lodged together.
- An indigenous American home, such as tipi or wigwam. By extension, the people who live in one such home; a household.
- A rural hotel or resort, an inn.
- Ellipsis of porter's lodge: a building or room near the entrance of an estate or building, especially (UK, Canada) as a college mailroom.
- A beaver's shelter constructed on a pond or lake.
- (US) A local chapter of a trade union.
- (mining) The space at the mouth of a level next to the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore to be deposited for hoisting; called also platt.
- A local chapter of some fraternities, such as freemasons.
- A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.
- The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.
- a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers
- a small (rustic) house used as a temporary shelter
- small house at the entrance to the grounds of a country mansion; usually occupied by a gatekeeper or gardener
- a formal association of people with similar interests
- any of various Native American dwellings
verb
- (transitive) To drive (an animal) to covert.
- (transitive) To put money, jewellery, or other valuables for safety.
- (transitive) To firmly fix in a specified position.
- (intransitive) To become flattened, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.
- (intransitive) To stay in a boarding-house, paying rent to the resident landlord or landlady.
- (intransitive) To be firmly fixed in a specified position.
- (transitive, chiefly law, politics) To place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities (such as courts, etc.).
- (transitive) To cause to flatten, as grass or grain.
- (intransitive) To stay in any place or shelter.
- (transitive) To supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time.
- be a lodger; stay temporarily
- put, fix, force, or implant
- file a formal charge against
- provide housing for
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noun
- A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
- Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
- The branching top of a tree; foliage.
- One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
- (nautical) One of a set of ropes or cables (rigging) attaching a mast to the sides of a vessel or to another anchor point, serving to support the mast sideways; such rigging collectively.
- That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
- (astronautics) A streamlined protective covering used to protect the payload during a rocket-powered launch.
- That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
- a line that suspends the harness from the canopy of a parachute
- burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped
- (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind
verb
noun
noun
- A small cave.
- a small cave (usually with attractive features)
- An artificial cavern-like retreat.
- A Marian shrine, usually built in a cavern-like structure.
- A local organization of cavers that typically organizes trips to caves and provides information and training for caving; a caving club.
- (Philippines) A garden or roadside shrine with a small cave containing a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary (usually Our Lady of Lourdes and sometimes paired with a water feature)
- (Satanism) A secretive name for a local group of underground Satanists.
noun
adj
noun
- A small cavern or hollow place in the side of a hill, or among rocks; especially, a cave used by a wild animal for shelter or concealment.
- A comfortable room not used for formal entertaining.
- Synonym of fort (“structure improvised from furniture, etc. for playing games.”).
- A group of Cub Scouts of the same age who work on projects together.
- A squalid or wretched place; a haunt.
- Abbreviation of denier (a unit of weight).
- (Northumbria, chiefly in place names) Alternative form of dene.
- a hiding place; usually a remote place used by outlaws
- the habitation of wild animals
- a room that is comfortable and secluded
- a unit of 8 to 10 cub scouts
adv
verb
noun
- A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt; a den.
- (card games) A fixed number of cards in some bidding games awarded to the highest bidder allowing him to exchange any or all with cards in his hand.
- A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger.
- A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively.
- A circular bed of pasta, rice, etc. to be topped or filled with other foods.
- (computing) A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.
- A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
- A retreat, or place of habitual resort.
- (military) A fortified position for a weapon.
- (geology) An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock.
- A place used by a monotreme, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.
- A snug, comfortable, or cosy residence or job situation.
- (vulgar, slang, now US) The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself.
- A home that a child or young adult shares with a parent or guardian.
- a structure in which animals lay eggs or give birth to their young
- a cosy or secluded retreat
- a kind of gun emplacement
- a gang of people (criminals or spies or terrorists) assembled in one locality
- furniture pieces made to fit close together
verb
- (intransitive) To successively neatly fit inside another.
- (intransitive) To settle into a home.
- (intransitive) To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").
- (intransitive, of animals) To build or settle into a nest.
- (transitive) To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).
- (transitive) To place in, or as if in, a nest.
- move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position
- inhabit a nest, usually after building
- fit together or fit inside
- gather nests
noun
- A place of retreat, such as a man cave.
- (programming) A code cave.
- (figuratively, also slang) The vagina.
- A large, naturally-occurring cavity formed underground or in the face of a cliff or a hillside.
- (caving) A naturally-occurring cavity in bedrock which is large enough to be entered by an adult.
- (nuclear physics) A shielded area where nuclear experiments can be carried out.
- (slang, politics, often "Cave") A group that breaks from a larger political party or faction on a particular issue.
- (drilling, uncountable) Debris, particularly broken rock, which falls into a drill hole and interferes with drilling.
- (mining) A collapse or cave-in.
- A storage cellar, especially for wine or cheese.
- A hole, depression, or gap in earth or rock, whether natural or man-made.
- a geological formation consisting of an underground enclosure with access from the surface of the ground or from the sea
intj
verb
- To collapse.
- To engage in the recreational exploration of caves.
- To hollow out or undermine.
- (figurative) To surrender.
- (mining) In room-and-pillar mining, to extract a deposit of rock by breaking down a pillar which had been holding it in place.
- explore natural caves
- hollow out as if making a cave or opening
noun
- A place inhabited by a wild animal, often a cave or a hole in the ground.
- (figuratively) A place inhabited by a criminal or criminals, a superhero or a supervillain; a refuge, retreat, haven or hideaway.
- A shed or shelter for domestic animals.
- (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A person who dresses in a showy but tasteless manner and behaves in a vulgar and conceited way; a show-off.
- (Scotland) A bog; a mire.
- (British dialectal) A bed or resting place.
- (seduction community) A group where pickup artists meet to discuss and practise seduction techniques.
- (Scotland) A grave; a cemetery plot.
- the habitation of wild animals
verb
adj
- Resembling a cavern in size, shape, or atmosphere.
- being or suggesting a cavern
- Giving the impression of vast, dark depths.
- (anatomy, zootomy) Composed largely of vascular sinuses and capable of dilating with blood to bring about the erection of a body part.
- (dentistry) Having cavities.
- filled with vascular sinuses and capable of becoming distended and rigid as the result of being filled with blood
noun
- small or narrow cave in the side of a cliff or mountain
- (now uncommon) A hollow in a rock; a cave or cavern.
- (architecture) A concave vault or archway, especially the arch of a ceiling.
- a small inlet
- A small coastal inlet, especially one having high cliffs protecting vessels from prevailing winds; bight.
- (Cumbria) A recess or sheltered area on the slopes of a mountain.
- (nautical) The wooden roof of the stern gallery of an old sailing warship.
- (nautical) A thin line, sometimes gilded, along a yacht's strake below deck level.
- (US) A strip of prairie extending into woodland.
- (Appalachia) A valley between two ridges, especially one that, opening to the south and east, is protected by ridges on the north and west from common winter storm tracks.
- (Australia and Polari) A friend; a mate.
verb
noun
- An enclosure or dwelling generally.
- (Christianity) A church congregation, a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church; also, the Christian church as a whole, the flock of Christ.
- (collective) A group of sheep or goats, particularly those kept in a given enclosure.
- (geology) 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.
- One individual part of something described as manifold, twofold, fourfold, etc.
- One of the doorleaves of a folding door.
- (by extension, web design) The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window without scrolling; usually the fold.
- A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.
- A gentle curve of the ground; gentle hill or valley.
- An act of folding.
- A clasp, embrace.
- Any enclosed piece of land belonging to a farm or mill; yard, farmyard.
- (functional programming) Any of a family of higher-order functions that process a data structure recursively to build up a value.
- A bend or crease.
- (newspapers) 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.
- (figuratively) Home, family.
- (figuratively) A group of people with shared ideas or goals or who live or work together.
- (programming) A section of source code that can be collapsed out of view in an editor to aid readability.
- Any correct move in origami.
- A coil of a snake’s body.
- A layer, typically of folded or wrapped cloth.
- a group of sheep or goats
- the act of folding
- an angular or rounded shape made by folding
- a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church
- a geological process that causes a bend in a stratum of rock
- a pen for sheep
- a folded part (as in skin or muscle)
verb
- (transitive) To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
- (transitive) To double or lay together (one’s arms, hands, wings, etc.) so as to overlap with each other.
- (intransitive, poker) To withdraw from betting.
- (intransitive) To fail, to collapse, to disband.
- (transitive) To enclose within folded arms, to clasp, to embrace (see also enfold).
- (transitive, computing) To split (a line of text) across multiple lines, to obey line length limitations.
- (intransitive, business) Of a company, to cease to trade.
- (intransitive) To give way on a point or in an argument.
- (intransitive) To become folded; to form folds.
- (intransitive, informal) To fall over; to collapse or give way; to be crushed.
- (transitive) To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.
- (transitive) To confine (animals) in a fold, to pen in.
- (transitive) To place sheep on (a piece of land) in order to manure it.
- (transitive, cooking) To stir (semisolid ingredients) gently, with an action as if folding over a solid.
- (transitive, figuratively) To cover up, to conceal.
- (transitive, figuratively) To include in a spiritual ‘flock’ or group of the saved, etc.
- (intransitive, by extension) To withdraw or quit in general.
- (transitive) To draw or coil (one’s arms, a snake’s body, etc.) around something so as to enclose or embrace it.
- (transitive) To enclose in a fold of material, to swathe, wrap up, cover, enwrap.
- bend or lay so that one part covers the other
- cease to operate or cause to cease operating
- become folded or folded up
- confine in a fold, like sheep
- incorporate a food ingredient into a mixture by repeatedly turning it over without stirring or beating
noun
- (caving) A portion of a cave that is wider than a passage.
- (in the plural) A set of rooms inhabited by someone; one's lodgings.
- (nautical) A space between the timbers of a ship's frame.
- A place or position in society; office; rank; post, sometimes when vacated by its former occupant.
- (mining) An area for working in a coal mine.
- A quantity of furniture sufficient to furnish one room.
- (Internet, countable) An IRC or chat room.
- (usually in the singular, metonymic) The people in a room.
- (countable) A separate part of a building, enclosed by walls, a floor and a ceiling.
- (countable, with possessive pronoun) (One's) bedroom.
- Alternative form of roum (“deep blue dye”).
- (uncountable, figuratively) Sufficient space for or to do something.
- (uncountable) Space for something, or to carry out an activity.
- the people who are present in a room
- an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling
- space for movement
- opportunity for
adv
verb
noun
- (caving) A cave passage containing water with low, or no, airspace.
- Ellipsis of architectural duck; a building intentionally constructed in the shape of an everyday object to which it is related.
- (US, LGBTQ, prison slang) Synonym of bitch (“a man forced or coerced into a homosexual relationship, especially in prison”).
- (cricket) A batsman's score of zero after getting out. (Short for duck's egg.)
- (Midlands) Dear, mate (informal way of addressing a friend or stranger).
- (US) A cairn used to mark a trail.
- (medicine) A long-necked medical urinal for men; a bed urinal.
- A tightly-woven cotton or linen fabric, often used as sailcloth.
- (uncountable) The flesh of a duck used as food.
- One of the weights used to hold a spline in place for the purpose of drawing a curve.
- A term of endearment; pet; darling.
- (in the plural) Trousers made of such material.
- A marble to be shot at with another marble (the shooter) in children's games.
- An aquatic bird of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet.
- (slang) A playing card with the rank of two.
- Specifically, an adult female duck; contrasted with drake and with duckling.
- small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs
- a heavy cotton fabric of plain weave; used for clothing and tents
- flesh of a duck (domestic or wild)
- (cricket) a score of nothing by a batsman
verb
- (transitive) To surreptitiously leave a rubber duck on someone's parked Jeep as an act of kindness (see Jeep ducking).
- (transitive) To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw.
- (transitive) To quickly lower (the head or body), often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
- (intransitive) To bow.
- (transitive) To lower the volume of (a sound) so that other sounds in the mix can be heard more clearly.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To enter a place for a short moment.
- (intransitive) To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to plunge one's head into water or other liquid.
- (transitive, figurative) To evade doing something, especially something considered a responsibility.
- dip into a liquid
- avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
- submerge or plunge suddenly
- to move (the head or body) quickly downwards or away
adj
- (zoology) Living in a cavity or small cave.
- (crosswording) Of a crossword puzzle, or a clue in such a puzzle, using, in addition to definitions, wordplay such as anagrams, homophones and hidden words to indicate solutions.
- (zoology) Serving as camouflage.
- Involving use of a code or cipher.
- (biology, not comparable) Apparently identical, but actually genetically distinct.
- Mystified or of an obscure nature; not easy to perceive.
- Having hidden (unapparent) meaning.
- (zoology) Well camouflaged; having good camouflage.
- having a puzzling terseness
- of an obscure nature
- having a secret or hidden meaning
noun
noun
- (architecture) A concave moulding; a cavetto.
- (heraldry, usually in the plural) A whirlpool used as a heraldic charge.
- (US) A choking or filling of a channel or passage by an obstruction; the obstruction itself.
- (geography) A deep, narrow passage with steep, rocky sides, particularly one with a stream running through it; a ravine.
- (botany) The throat of a flower.
- An act of gorging.
- (architecture, military, fortification) The rearward side of an outwork, a bastion, or a fort, often open, or not protected against artillery; a narrow entry passage into the outwork of an enclosed fortification.
- (mechanical engineering) The groove of a pulley.
- (fishing) A primitive device used instead of a hook to catch fish, consisting of an object that is easy to swallow but difficult to eject or loosen, such as a piece of bone or stone pointed at each end and attached in the middle to a line.
- Food that has been taken into the gullet or the stomach, particularly if it is regurgitated or vomited out.
- the passage between the pharynx and the stomach
- a deep ravine (usually with a river running through it)
- a narrow pass (especially one between mountains)
adj
verb
- (transitive) To fill up to the throat; to glut, to satiate.
- (transitive) To fill up (an organ, a vein, etc.); to block up or obstruct; (US, specifically) of ice: to choke or fill a channel or passage, causing an obstruction.
- (intransitive, reflexive) To stuff the gorge or gullet with food; to eat greedily and in large quantities. [with on]
- (transitive) To swallow, especially with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
- overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
noun
verb
noun
- someone who lives in a cave
- one who lives in solitude
- A member of a supposed prehistoric race that lived in caves or holes, a caveman.
- The Eurasian wren, Troglodytes troglodytes.
- (computing) A person who chooses not to keep up to date with the latest software and hardware.
- (derogatory) A reclusive, reactionary or out-of-date person, especially if brutish.
- (by extension) Anything that lives underground.
noun
noun
- A den or cave.
- (historical) A family of Native Americans, or the persons who usually occupy an Indian lodge; as a unit of enumeration, reckoned from four to six persons.
- A collection of objects lodged together.
- An indigenous American home, such as tipi or wigwam. By extension, the people who live in one such home; a household.
- A rural hotel or resort, an inn.
- Ellipsis of porter's lodge: a building or room near the entrance of an estate or building, especially (UK, Canada) as a college mailroom.
- A beaver's shelter constructed on a pond or lake.
- (US) A local chapter of a trade union.
- (mining) The space at the mouth of a level next to the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore to be deposited for hoisting; called also platt.
- A local chapter of some fraternities, such as freemasons.
- A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.
- The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.
- a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers
- a small (rustic) house used as a temporary shelter
- small house at the entrance to the grounds of a country mansion; usually occupied by a gatekeeper or gardener
- a formal association of people with similar interests
- any of various Native American dwellings
verb
- (transitive) To drive (an animal) to covert.
- (transitive) To put money, jewellery, or other valuables for safety.
- (transitive) To firmly fix in a specified position.
- (intransitive) To become flattened, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.
- (intransitive) To stay in a boarding-house, paying rent to the resident landlord or landlady.
- (intransitive) To be firmly fixed in a specified position.
- (transitive, chiefly law, politics) To place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities (such as courts, etc.).
- (transitive) To cause to flatten, as grass or grain.
- (intransitive) To stay in any place or shelter.
- (transitive) To supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time.
- be a lodger; stay temporarily
- put, fix, force, or implant
- file a formal charge against
- provide housing for
noun
- A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
- Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
- The branching top of a tree; foliage.
- One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
- (nautical) One of a set of ropes or cables (rigging) attaching a mast to the sides of a vessel or to another anchor point, serving to support the mast sideways; such rigging collectively.
- That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
- (astronautics) A streamlined protective covering used to protect the payload during a rocket-powered launch.
- That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
- a line that suspends the harness from the canopy of a parachute
- burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped
- (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind
verb
noun
noun
- A small cave.
- a small cave (usually with attractive features)
- An artificial cavern-like retreat.
- A Marian shrine, usually built in a cavern-like structure.
- A local organization of cavers that typically organizes trips to caves and provides information and training for caving; a caving club.
- (Philippines) A garden or roadside shrine with a small cave containing a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary (usually Our Lady of Lourdes and sometimes paired with a water feature)
- (Satanism) A secretive name for a local group of underground Satanists.
noun
adj
noun
- A small cavern or hollow place in the side of a hill, or among rocks; especially, a cave used by a wild animal for shelter or concealment.
- A comfortable room not used for formal entertaining.
- Synonym of fort (“structure improvised from furniture, etc. for playing games.”).
- A group of Cub Scouts of the same age who work on projects together.
- A squalid or wretched place; a haunt.
- Abbreviation of denier (a unit of weight).
- (Northumbria, chiefly in place names) Alternative form of dene.
- a hiding place; usually a remote place used by outlaws
- the habitation of wild animals
- a room that is comfortable and secluded
- a unit of 8 to 10 cub scouts
adv
verb
noun
- A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt; a den.
- (card games) A fixed number of cards in some bidding games awarded to the highest bidder allowing him to exchange any or all with cards in his hand.
- A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger.
- A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively.
- A circular bed of pasta, rice, etc. to be topped or filled with other foods.
- (computing) A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.
- A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
- A retreat, or place of habitual resort.
- (military) A fortified position for a weapon.
- (geology) An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock.
- A place used by a monotreme, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.
- A snug, comfortable, or cosy residence or job situation.
- (vulgar, slang, now US) The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself.
- A home that a child or young adult shares with a parent or guardian.
- a structure in which animals lay eggs or give birth to their young
- a cosy or secluded retreat
- a kind of gun emplacement
- a gang of people (criminals or spies or terrorists) assembled in one locality
- furniture pieces made to fit close together
verb
- (intransitive) To successively neatly fit inside another.
- (intransitive) To settle into a home.
- (intransitive) To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").
- (intransitive, of animals) To build or settle into a nest.
- (transitive) To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).
- (transitive) To place in, or as if in, a nest.
- move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position
- inhabit a nest, usually after building
- fit together or fit inside
- gather nests
noun
- A place of retreat, such as a man cave.
- (programming) A code cave.
- (figuratively, also slang) The vagina.
- A large, naturally-occurring cavity formed underground or in the face of a cliff or a hillside.
- (caving) A naturally-occurring cavity in bedrock which is large enough to be entered by an adult.
- (nuclear physics) A shielded area where nuclear experiments can be carried out.
- (slang, politics, often "Cave") A group that breaks from a larger political party or faction on a particular issue.
- (drilling, uncountable) Debris, particularly broken rock, which falls into a drill hole and interferes with drilling.
- (mining) A collapse or cave-in.
- A storage cellar, especially for wine or cheese.
- A hole, depression, or gap in earth or rock, whether natural or man-made.
- a geological formation consisting of an underground enclosure with access from the surface of the ground or from the sea
intj
verb
- To collapse.
- To engage in the recreational exploration of caves.
- To hollow out or undermine.
- (figurative) To surrender.
- (mining) In room-and-pillar mining, to extract a deposit of rock by breaking down a pillar which had been holding it in place.
- explore natural caves
- hollow out as if making a cave or opening
noun
- A place inhabited by a wild animal, often a cave or a hole in the ground.
- (figuratively) A place inhabited by a criminal or criminals, a superhero or a supervillain; a refuge, retreat, haven or hideaway.
- A shed or shelter for domestic animals.
- (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A person who dresses in a showy but tasteless manner and behaves in a vulgar and conceited way; a show-off.
- (Scotland) A bog; a mire.
- (British dialectal) A bed or resting place.
- (seduction community) A group where pickup artists meet to discuss and practise seduction techniques.
- (Scotland) A grave; a cemetery plot.
- the habitation of wild animals
verb
noun
- small or narrow cave in the side of a cliff or mountain
- (now uncommon) A hollow in a rock; a cave or cavern.
- (architecture) A concave vault or archway, especially the arch of a ceiling.
- a small inlet
- A small coastal inlet, especially one having high cliffs protecting vessels from prevailing winds; bight.
- (Cumbria) A recess or sheltered area on the slopes of a mountain.
- (nautical) The wooden roof of the stern gallery of an old sailing warship.
- (nautical) A thin line, sometimes gilded, along a yacht's strake below deck level.
- (US) A strip of prairie extending into woodland.
- (Appalachia) A valley between two ridges, especially one that, opening to the south and east, is protected by ridges on the north and west from common winter storm tracks.
- (Australia and Polari) A friend; a mate.
verb
noun
- An enclosure or dwelling generally.
- (Christianity) A church congregation, a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church; also, the Christian church as a whole, the flock of Christ.
- (collective) A group of sheep or goats, particularly those kept in a given enclosure.
- (geology) 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.
- One individual part of something described as manifold, twofold, fourfold, etc.
- One of the doorleaves of a folding door.
- (by extension, web design) The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window without scrolling; usually the fold.
- A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.
- A gentle curve of the ground; gentle hill or valley.
- An act of folding.
- A clasp, embrace.
- Any enclosed piece of land belonging to a farm or mill; yard, farmyard.
- (functional programming) Any of a family of higher-order functions that process a data structure recursively to build up a value.
- A bend or crease.
- (newspapers) 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.
- (figuratively) Home, family.
- (figuratively) A group of people with shared ideas or goals or who live or work together.
- (programming) A section of source code that can be collapsed out of view in an editor to aid readability.
- Any correct move in origami.
- A coil of a snake’s body.
- A layer, typically of folded or wrapped cloth.
- a group of sheep or goats
- the act of folding
- an angular or rounded shape made by folding
- a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church
- a geological process that causes a bend in a stratum of rock
- a pen for sheep
- a folded part (as in skin or muscle)
verb
- (transitive) To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
- (transitive) To double or lay together (one’s arms, hands, wings, etc.) so as to overlap with each other.
- (intransitive, poker) To withdraw from betting.
- (intransitive) To fail, to collapse, to disband.
- (transitive) To enclose within folded arms, to clasp, to embrace (see also enfold).
- (transitive, computing) To split (a line of text) across multiple lines, to obey line length limitations.
- (intransitive, business) Of a company, to cease to trade.
- (intransitive) To give way on a point or in an argument.
- (intransitive) To become folded; to form folds.
- (intransitive, informal) To fall over; to collapse or give way; to be crushed.
- (transitive) To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.
- (transitive) To confine (animals) in a fold, to pen in.
- (transitive) To place sheep on (a piece of land) in order to manure it.
- (transitive, cooking) To stir (semisolid ingredients) gently, with an action as if folding over a solid.
- (transitive, figuratively) To cover up, to conceal.
- (transitive, figuratively) To include in a spiritual ‘flock’ or group of the saved, etc.
- (intransitive, by extension) To withdraw or quit in general.
- (transitive) To draw or coil (one’s arms, a snake’s body, etc.) around something so as to enclose or embrace it.
- (transitive) To enclose in a fold of material, to swathe, wrap up, cover, enwrap.
- bend or lay so that one part covers the other
- cease to operate or cause to cease operating
- become folded or folded up
- confine in a fold, like sheep
- incorporate a food ingredient into a mixture by repeatedly turning it over without stirring or beating
noun
- (caving) A portion of a cave that is wider than a passage.
- (in the plural) A set of rooms inhabited by someone; one's lodgings.
- (nautical) A space between the timbers of a ship's frame.
- A place or position in society; office; rank; post, sometimes when vacated by its former occupant.
- (mining) An area for working in a coal mine.
- A quantity of furniture sufficient to furnish one room.
- (Internet, countable) An IRC or chat room.
- (usually in the singular, metonymic) The people in a room.
- (countable) A separate part of a building, enclosed by walls, a floor and a ceiling.
- (countable, with possessive pronoun) (One's) bedroom.
- Alternative form of roum (“deep blue dye”).
- (uncountable, figuratively) Sufficient space for or to do something.
- (uncountable) Space for something, or to carry out an activity.
- the people who are present in a room
- an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling
- space for movement
- opportunity for
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noun
- (caving) A cave passage containing water with low, or no, airspace.
- Ellipsis of architectural duck; a building intentionally constructed in the shape of an everyday object to which it is related.
- (US, LGBTQ, prison slang) Synonym of bitch (“a man forced or coerced into a homosexual relationship, especially in prison”).
- (cricket) A batsman's score of zero after getting out. (Short for duck's egg.)
- (Midlands) Dear, mate (informal way of addressing a friend or stranger).
- (US) A cairn used to mark a trail.
- (medicine) A long-necked medical urinal for men; a bed urinal.
- A tightly-woven cotton or linen fabric, often used as sailcloth.
- (uncountable) The flesh of a duck used as food.
- One of the weights used to hold a spline in place for the purpose of drawing a curve.
- A term of endearment; pet; darling.
- (in the plural) Trousers made of such material.
- A marble to be shot at with another marble (the shooter) in children's games.
- An aquatic bird of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet.
- (slang) A playing card with the rank of two.
- Specifically, an adult female duck; contrasted with drake and with duckling.
- small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs
- a heavy cotton fabric of plain weave; used for clothing and tents
- flesh of a duck (domestic or wild)
- (cricket) a score of nothing by a batsman
verb
- (transitive) To surreptitiously leave a rubber duck on someone's parked Jeep as an act of kindness (see Jeep ducking).
- (transitive) To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw.
- (transitive) To quickly lower (the head or body), often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
- (intransitive) To bow.
- (transitive) To lower the volume of (a sound) so that other sounds in the mix can be heard more clearly.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To enter a place for a short moment.
- (intransitive) To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to plunge one's head into water or other liquid.
- (transitive, figurative) To evade doing something, especially something considered a responsibility.
- dip into a liquid
- avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
- submerge or plunge suddenly
- to move (the head or body) quickly downwards or away
noun
- (architecture) A concave moulding; a cavetto.
- (heraldry, usually in the plural) A whirlpool used as a heraldic charge.
- (US) A choking or filling of a channel or passage by an obstruction; the obstruction itself.
- (geography) A deep, narrow passage with steep, rocky sides, particularly one with a stream running through it; a ravine.
- (botany) The throat of a flower.
- An act of gorging.
- (architecture, military, fortification) The rearward side of an outwork, a bastion, or a fort, often open, or not protected against artillery; a narrow entry passage into the outwork of an enclosed fortification.
- (mechanical engineering) The groove of a pulley.
- (fishing) A primitive device used instead of a hook to catch fish, consisting of an object that is easy to swallow but difficult to eject or loosen, such as a piece of bone or stone pointed at each end and attached in the middle to a line.
- Food that has been taken into the gullet or the stomach, particularly if it is regurgitated or vomited out.
- the passage between the pharynx and the stomach
- a deep ravine (usually with a river running through it)
- a narrow pass (especially one between mountains)
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- (transitive) To fill up to the throat; to glut, to satiate.
- (transitive) To fill up (an organ, a vein, etc.); to block up or obstruct; (US, specifically) of ice: to choke or fill a channel or passage, causing an obstruction.
- (intransitive, reflexive) To stuff the gorge or gullet with food; to eat greedily and in large quantities. [with on]
- (transitive) To swallow, especially with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
- overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
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noun
- someone who lives in a cave
- one who lives in solitude
- A member of a supposed prehistoric race that lived in caves or holes, a caveman.
- The Eurasian wren, Troglodytes troglodytes.
- (computing) A person who chooses not to keep up to date with the latest software and hardware.
- (derogatory) A reclusive, reactionary or out-of-date person, especially if brutish.
- (by extension) Anything that lives underground.
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adj
- Resembling a cavern in size, shape, or atmosphere.
- being or suggesting a cavern
- Giving the impression of vast, dark depths.
- (anatomy, zootomy) Composed largely of vascular sinuses and capable of dilating with blood to bring about the erection of a body part.
- (dentistry) Having cavities.
- filled with vascular sinuses and capable of becoming distended and rigid as the result of being filled with blood
adj
- (zoology) Living in a cavity or small cave.
- (crosswording) Of a crossword puzzle, or a clue in such a puzzle, using, in addition to definitions, wordplay such as anagrams, homophones and hidden words to indicate solutions.
- (zoology) Serving as camouflage.
- Involving use of a code or cipher.
- (biology, not comparable) Apparently identical, but actually genetically distinct.
- Mystified or of an obscure nature; not easy to perceive.
- Having hidden (unapparent) meaning.
- (zoology) Well camouflaged; having good camouflage.
- having a puzzling terseness
- of an obscure nature
- having a secret or hidden meaning