stumble
trip
overwander
katabasis
stack
spill
sally
take a spill
cropper
stray
degringolade
false step
tripper
tootle
wandering
floater
snapper
tramp
swan dive
go astray
tatter
plummet
umgang
go
lostness
mispark
dive
downfall
homegoing
go off into the weeds
excurse
range
trounce
catspraddle
randonnée
journeying
peregrination
lossily
fall off
frivol
sink
slump
misclimb
pass on
misnegotiate
declinal
pitch
trek
misseat
stuff-up
lapse
through the floor
nest
stumbler
infallen
go down the wrong pipe
sunkenness
counter-commute
wanderingness
crater
miswander
delapsion
en passant
head
mess-up
float
stank
excursionist
gronk
down
wanderluster
fell by the wayside
outing
purler
itchy feet
decursive
took a hike
shaughraun
diversionary
flob
drop off the radar
diversion
faring
trip up
downslope
countertrippant
evagation
do
journey
hodo-
travel
stray
wandering
declinal
infallen
down
decursive
diversionary
countertrippant
lossily
en passant
stumble
trip
katabasis
stack
spill
sally
cropper
degringolade
false step
tripper
tootle
floater
snapper
swan dive
plummet
umgang
lostness
dive
homegoing
range
trounce
randonnée
journeying
peregrination
frivol
trek
stuff-up
lapse
nest
stumbler
sunkenness
counter-commute
wanderingness
delapsion
mess-up
excursionist
wanderluster
outing
purler
itchy feet
shaughraun
diversion
faring
downslope
evagation
overwander
take a spill
tramp
snapper
go astray
tatter
go
mispark
stumble
downfall
go off into the weeds
excurse
catspraddle
fall off
sink
slump
misclimb
pass on
misnegotiate
pitch
misseat
go down the wrong pipe
crater
miswander
trek
head
float
stank
gronk
fell by the wayside
took a hike
flob
drop off the radar
trip up
do
journey
travel
noun
verb
noun
- A stumble or misstep.
- A trip-switch or cut-out.
- A journey; an excursion or jaunt.
- A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip.
- Intense involvement in or enjoyment of a condition.
- A flock of wigeons.
- A period of time in which one experiences drug-induced reverie or hallucinations.
- The act of tripping someone, or causing them to lose their footing.
- A single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to windward.
- A mechanical cutout device.
- A faux pas, a social error.
verb
- To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free.
- To fall over or stumble over an object as a result of striking it with one's foot
- To activate or set in motion, as in the activation of a trap, explosive, or switch.
- To be activated, as by a signal or an event
- To cause (a person or animal) to fall or stumble by knocking their feet from under them.
- To become unreasonably upset, especially over something unimportant; to cause a scene or a disruption.
- To pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it.
- To be guilty of a misstep or mistake; to commit an offence against morality, propriety, etc
- To experience a state of reverie or to hallucinate, due to consuming psychoactive drugs.
- To journey, to make a trip.
adj
noun
- A fall or crash, a prang.
- A combination of interdependent, yet individually replaceable, software components or technologies used together on a system.
- A holding pattern, with aircraft circling one above the other as they wait to land.
- A number of flues embodied in one structure, rising above the roof.
- A blend of various dietary supplements or anabolic steroids with supposed synergistic benefits.
- A large amount of an object.
- An implementation of a protocol suite (set of protocols forming a layered architecture).
- A coastal landform, consisting of a large vertical column of rock in the sea.
- A vertical drainpipe.
- Compactly spaced bookshelves used to house large collections of books.
- A pile of similar objects, each directly on top of the last.
- An extensive collection
- The amount of money a player has on the table.
- The quantity of a given item which fills up an inventory slot or bag.
- A pile of wood containing 108 cubic feet. (~3 m³)
- A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, larger at the bottom than the top, sometimes covered with thatch.
- A smokestack.
- A generalization of schemes in algebraic geometry and of sheaves.
- A pile of poles or wood, indefinite in quantity.
- A stack data structure stored in main memory that is manipulated during machine language procedure call related instructions.
- A pile of rifles or muskets in a cone shape.
- A linear data structure in which items inserted are removed in reverse order (the last item inserted is the first one to be removed).
verb
- To deliberately distort the composition of (an assembly, committee, etc.).
- To place (aircraft) into a holding pattern.
- To collect precious metal in the form of various small objects such as coins and bars.
- To operate cumulatively.
- To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner.
- To crash; to fall.
- To take all the money another player currently has on the table.
- To have excessive ink transfer.
- To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack.
noun
- A fall or stumble.
- A metallic rod or pin.
- One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.
- A small stick or piece of paper used to light a candle, cigarette etc by the transfer of a flame from a fire.
- A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile.
- A declaration that the leadership of a parliamentary party is vacant, and open for re-election. Short form of leadership spill.
- A mess of something that has been dropped.
- The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
verb
- To mar; to damage; to destroy by misuse; to waste.
- To drop something that was intended to be caught.
- To open the leadership of a parliamentary party for re-election.
- To reveal information to an uninformed party.
- To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.
- To relieve a sail from the pressure of the wind, so that it can be more easily reefed or furled, or to lessen the strain.
- To come undone.
- To spread out or fall out, as above.
- To cause to flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed.
- To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to accidentally pour.
noun
- An excursion or side trip.
- A kind of stonefly.
- A willow
- An object made from the above trees' wood
- A witty statement or quip, usually at the expense of one's interlocutor.
- A sudden rushing forth.
- Any tree that looks like a willow
- A tufted woollen part of a bellrope, used to provide grip when ringing a bell.
- A wren.
- A member of the Salvation Army.
- A sortie of troops from a besieged place against an enemy.
verb
verb
adj
verb
- To wander from company or outside proper limits; to rove or roam at large; to go astray.
- To wander from the path of duty or rectitude; to err.
- To cause to stray; lead astray.
- To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way.
noun
- An area of common land for use by domestic animals generally.
- Any domestic animal that has no enclosure nor proper place and company, but that instead wanders at large or is lost; an estray.
- An instance of atmospheric interference.
- One who is lost, literally or figuratively.
- An act of wandering off or going astray.
noun
- A misstep; a faux pas.
- 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 piece of faeces that floats.
- 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
- A stumble, a trip.
- The fish Chrysophrys auratus, especially an adult of the species.
- A telegraphic device with a flexible metal tongue for producing clicks like those of the sounder.
- The green woodpecker, or yaffle (Picus viridis).
- One who, or that which, snaps.
- The snapping turtle.
- Small, paper-wrapped item containing a minute quantity of explosive composition coated on small bits of sand, which explodes noisily when thrown onto a hard surface.
- A string bean.
- A punchline.
- A (human) baby.
- One who takes snaps; a photographer.
- The vulva.
- The player who snaps the ball to start the play.
- An error, a blunder, especially a moral slip-up.
- Any of the family Lutjanidae of percoid fishes, especially the red snapper.
- A snap beetle (family Elateridae).
verb
verb
- To travel or wander through.
- To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.
- To cleanse, as clothes, by treading upon them in water.
- To hitchhike.
- To walk with heavy footsteps.
- To walk for a long time (usually through difficult terrain).
noun
- see Wikipedia:tramp steamer
- A long walk, possibly of more than one day, in a scenic or wilderness area.
- A disreputable, promiscuous woman; a slut.
- Of objects, stray and intrusive and unwanted
- A metal plate worn by diggers under the hollow of the foot to save the shoe.
- A homeless person; a vagabond.
- Any ship which does not have a fixed schedule or published ports of call.
verb
- To be lost.
- To travel or pass along.
- To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things like people or cars, or intangible things like moods or information.)
- To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend.
- To elapse, to pass; to slip away. (Compare go by.)
- To be spent or used up.
- To belong (somewhere).
- To (begin to) date or have sex with (a particular race).
- To make the (specified) sound.
- To fit.
- To urinate or defecate.
- To tend (toward a result).
- To have (final) authority; to be authoritative.
- I woke up just before the clock went.
- To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
- Let's go halves on this.
- Synonyms: crumble, collapse, disintegrate, give way
- To continuously or habitually be in a state.
- I went at him with a knife.
- To be in general; to be usually; often in comparison to others of the same group.
- To enjoy. (Compare go for.)
- To attend.
- To be sold.
- To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
- Synonyms: become, turn, change into
- To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving.
- To proceed (often in a specified manner, indicating the perceived quality of an event or state).
- To apply oneself; to undertake; to have as one's goal or intention. (Compare be going to.)
- To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc).
- To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
- To sound; to make a noise.
- To leave; to move away.
- To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
- To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
- To come to (a certain condition or state).
- To start; to begin (an action or process).
- To work (through or over), especially mentally.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:urinate, see also Thesaurus:defecate
- To attack.
- To say (something, aloud or to oneself). (Often used in present tense.)
- To date.
- Yesterday was the second-wettest day on record; you have to go all the way back to 1896 to find a day when more rain fell.
- Synonyms: function, work, operate
- To break down or decay.
- To be accepted.
- We've only gone twenty miles today.
- To be valid.
- To have a certain record.
- To take a turn, especially in a game.
- To make an effort, to subject oneself (to something).
- To be out.
- To resort (to).
- To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion).
- To yield or weigh.
- Those babies go five tons apiece.
- To be discarded or disposed of.
- To follow or proceed according to (a course or path).
- To lead (to a place); to give access to.
- To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
- Anything goes around here.
- Why don’t you go with us?
- Let's go this way for a while.
- To end or disappear. (Compare go away.)
- To fight or attack.
- How long can you go without water?
- To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
- To proceed (especially to do something foolish).
- To collapse or give way, to break apart.
- Expressing encouragement or approval.
- To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.)
- To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's mind or knowledge of the historical record). (See also go back.)
- To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
- To die.
- To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
- To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
- To be compatible, especially of colors or food and drink.
noun
- A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
- An attempt, a try.
- An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
- Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
- The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.
- An act; the working or operation.
- A period of activity.
- Synonym: green light
- A strategic board game, originally from China and today also popular in Japan and Korea, in which two players (black and white) attempt to control the largest area of the board with their counters.
- Synonyms: attempt, bash, shot, stab, try
- The act of going.
adj
noun
- A decline.
- A downward swooping motion.
- A swim under water.
- A jump or plunge into water.
- Aerial descent with the nose pointed down.
- A deliberate fall after a challenge.
- A seedy bar, nightclub, etc.
- A headfirst jump toward the ground or into another substance.
verb
- To deliberately fall down after a challenge, imitating being fouled, in the hope of getting one's opponent penalised.
- To descend sharply or steeply.
- To cause to descend, dunk; to plunge something into water.
- To jump headfirst toward the ground or into another substance.
- To undertake with enthusiasm.
- To swim under water.
- To explore by diving; to plunge into.
- To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore.
- To jump into water head-first.
noun
- A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
- A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many hotplates.
- An area for practicing shooting at targets.
- The extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope.
- An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land.
- The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce.
- The distance from a person or sensor to an object, target, emanation, or event.
- The length of the smallest interval which contains all the data in a sample; the difference between the largest and smallest observations in the sample.
- The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found.
- A sequential list of values specified by an iterator.
- The maximum distance or reach of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, etc.).
- The set of values (points) which a function can obtain.
- An area for military training or equipment testing.
- A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc.
- In the public land system, a row or line of townships lying between two succession meridian lines six miles apart.
- The distance a vehicle (e.g., a car, bicycle, lorry, or aircraft) can travel without refueling.
- Selection, array.
- The defensive area that a player can cover.
- An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.
- The variety of roles that an actor can play in a satisfactory way.
verb
- To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else.
- To classify.
- Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range.
- To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region.
- To form a line or a row.
- To place among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; usually, reflexively and figuratively, to espouse a cause, to join a party, etc.
- To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near.
- Of a player, to travel a significant distance for a defensive play.
- To rove over or through.
- To determine the range to a target.
- To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander.
- To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order.
- To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
noun
- A journey involving quick travel; also, one that is dangerous or laborious.
- A walk involving some difficulty or effort; a trek, a tramp, a trudge.
- An act of trouncing: a severe beating, a thrashing; a thorough defeat.
verb
- To pass across or over; to traverse.
- To travel quickly over a long distance.
- To punish by bringing a lawsuit against; to sue.
- To walk heavily or with some difficulty; to tramp, to trudge.
- To beat or overcome thoroughly, to defeat heavily; especially (games, sports) to win against (someone) by a wide margin.
- To beat severely; to thrash.
- To chastise or punish physically or verbally; to scold with abusive language.
noun
adv
verb
- fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly
- fall or descend to a lower place or level
- cause to sink
- pass into a specified state or condition; sink into
- go under
- descend into or as if into some soft substance or place
- appear to move downward
- fall or sink heavily
- embed deeply
noun
- plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe
- (technology) a process that acts to absorb or remove energy or a substance from a system
- a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof
- a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it
verb
- To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
- To fix or set the tone of.
- To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
- To throw away; discard.
- To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
- To set or fix.
- To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
- To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
- To attack, or position or assemble for attack.
- To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
- To cover or smear with pitch.
- To throw.
- To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
- To assemble or erect (a tent).
- To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternatively up and down.
- To bounce on the playing surface.
- To settle and build up, without melting.
- To discard for some gain.
- To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
- To fix one's choice.
- To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones.
- To produce a note of a given pitch.
noun
- A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
- A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller.
- The angle at which an object sits.
- The standard to which a group of musical instruments are tuned or in which a piece is performed, usually by reference to the frequency to which the musical note A above middle C is tuned.
- In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.
- An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar.
- The degree to which a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft, rotates on such an axis, tilting its bow or nose up or down. Compare with roll, yaw, and heave.
- The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby, gridiron or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is in the centre of the field; see cricket pitch.) (Not often used in the US or Canada, where "field" is the preferred word.)
- A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
- A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
- The most thrust-out point of a headland or cape.
- The height a bird reaches in flight, especially a bird of prey preparing to swoop down on its prey.
- The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread, the centres of holes, or letters in a monospace font.
- The act of pitching a baseball.
- A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
- The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant.
- A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
- The field of battle.
- A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
- That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
- The perceived frequency of a sound or note.
- A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar.
- Pitchstone.
- An effort to sell or promote something.
- The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
- A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
- The place where a busker performs, a prostitute solicits clients, or an illegal gambling game etc. is set up before the public.
- An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
- A person's or animal's height.
- Prominence; importance.
noun
noun
- A fall or apostasy.
- A temporary failure; a slip.
- A decline or fall in standards.
- A common-law rule that if the person to whom property is willed were to die before the testator, then the gift would be ineffective.
- A pause in continuity.
- A marked decrease in air temperature with increasing altitude because the ground is warmer than the surrounding air.
- An interval of time between events.
- A termination of a right etc., through disuse or neglect.
- memory lapse
verb
prep_phrase
noun
- A retreat, or place of habitual resort.
- An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock.
- A home that a child or young adult shares with a parent or guardian.
- A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
- 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.
- The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself.
- A circular bed of pasta, rice, etc. to be topped or filled with other foods.
- A snug, comfortable, or cosy residence or job situation.
- A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.
- A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt; a den.
- A place used by another mammal, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.
- 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 fortified position for a weapon.
verb
verb
- To crash or fall.
- To form craters in a surface.
- To collapse catastrophically; to become devastated or completely destroyed.
noun
- Any large, roughly circular depression or hole.
- The basin-like opening or mouth of a volcano, through which the chief eruption comes; similarly, the mouth of a geyser, about which a cone of silica is often built up.
- A hemispherical pit created by the impact of a meteorite or other object.
- The pit left by the explosion of a mine or bomb.
verb
- to go or travel towards
- be in charge of
- travel in front of; go in advance of others
- be the first or leading member of (a group) and excel
- direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
- take its rise
- be in the front of or on top of
- form a head or come or grow to a head
- remove the head of
noun
- the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains
- a single domestic animal
- that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason
- a person who is in charge
- the front of a military formation or procession
- the pressure exerted by a fluid
- the top of something
- the source of water from which a stream arises
- (grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent
- the tip of an abscess (where the pus accumulates)
- the length or height based on the size of a human or animal head
- a dense cluster of flowers or foliage
- the educator who has executive authority for a school
- an individual person
- a user of (usually soft) drugs
- a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea)
- a rounded compact mass
- the foam or froth that accumulates at the top when you pour an effervescent liquid into a container
- the part in the front or nearest the viewer
- a difficult juncture
- forward movement
- a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer
- the subject matter at issue
- a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about
- the rounded end of a bone that fits into a rounded cavity in another bone to form a joint
- that part of a skeletal muscle that is away from the bone that it moves
- (computer science) a tiny electromagnetic coil and metal pole used to write and read magnetic patterns on a disk
- (usually plural) the obverse side of a coin that usually bears the representation of a person's head
- the striking part of a tool
- (nautical) a toilet on board a boat or ship
- a projection out from one end
- a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum
- oral stimulation of the genitals
verb
- To drift or wander aimlessly.
- To allow (the exchange value of a currency) to be determined by the markets.
- To circulate.
- To spread plaster over (a surface), using the tool called a float.
- (of currencies) To have an exchange value determined by the markets, as opposed to by central fiat.
- To move in a particular direction with the liquid in which one is floating.
- To be capable of floating.
- To be supported by a liquid of greater density, such that part (of the object or substance) remains above the surface.
- To cause something to be suspended in a liquid of greater density.
- To remain airborne, without touching down, for an excessive length of time during landing, due to excessive airspeed during the landing flare.
- To propose (an idea) for consideration.
- To move in a fluid manner.
- To drift gently through the air.
- To issue or sell shares in a company (or units in a trust) to members of the public, followed by listing on a stock exchange.
- To be supported by a fluid of greater density (than the object).
- To automatically adjust a parameter as related parameters change.
- To use a float (rasp-like tool) upon.
- (of an idea or scheme) To be viable.
- To extend a short-term loan to.
- To transport by float (vehicular trailer).
- To perform a float.
- To cause (an element within a document) to float above or beside others.
noun
- A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.
- An elaborately decorated trailer or vehicle, intended for display in a parade or pageant.
- A float board.
- A soft beverage with a scoop of ice-cream floating in it.
- Premiums taken in but not yet paid out.
- A floating-point number, especially one that has lower precision than a double.
- A small sum of money put in a cashier's till, or otherwise secured, at the start of business, to enable change to be made.
- A visual style on a web page that causes the styled elements to float above or beside others.
- A tool similar to a rasp, used in various trades.
- The gas-filled sac, bag, or body of a siphonophore; a pneumatophore.
- Any object (element) whose location in composition (page makeup, pagination) does not flow within body text but rather floats outside of it, usually anchored loosely (in buoy metaphor) to spots within it (citations, callouts): a figure (image), table, box, pull quote, ornament, or other floated element.
- A sort of trowel used for finishing concrete surfaces or smoothing plaster.
- A buoyant device used to support something in water or another liquid.
- A car carrier or car transporter truck or truck-and-trailer combination.
- One of the loose ends of yarn on an unfinished work.
- A small vehicle used for local deliveries, especially in the term milk float.
- The total amount of checks/cheques or other drafts written against a bank account but not yet cleared and charged against the account.
- A lowboy trailer.
- Funds committed to be paid but not yet paid.
- A floating toy made of foam, used in swimming pools.
- A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft.
- A breakdancing move in which the body is held parallel to the floor while balancing on one or both hands.
- An offering of shares in a company (or units in a trust) to members of the public, normally followed by a listing on a stock exchange.
- A maneuver where a player calls on the flop or turn with a weak hand, with the intention of bluffing after a subsequent community card.
verb
- To stumble or lurch.
- To surround or guard.
- To seal off an area of the mine in which a fire has started.
- To trample.
- To pack in tightly.
- To stink; to smell bad.
- To dam up; to block the flow of water or other liquid.
- To cause to smell bad.
- simple past tense of stink
- To cause (the udders) to become blocked and inflamed from lack of milking.
noun
- A stink; a foul smell.
- Water retained by an embankment; a pool of water.
- A dam or mound to stop water.
adj
adj
- Fallen or felled.
- Sad, unhappy, depressed, feeling low.
- Mechanically failed, collided, shot down, or otherwise suddenly unable to fly.
- Having a lower score than an opponent.
- Sick or ill.
- Negative about; hostile to.
- Comfortable with, accepting of.
- Wounded and unable to move normally, or killed.
- Facing downwards.
- At a lower level than before.
- Accepted, respected, or loyally participating in the (thug) community.
- Finished (of a task); defeated or dealt with (of an opponent or obstacle); elapsed (of time). Often coupled with to go (remaining).
- Out.
- Thoroughly practiced, learned or memorised; mastered. (Compare down pat.)
- Inoperable; out of order; out of service.
adv
- At or towards any place that is visualised as 'down' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
- So as to reduce size, weight or volume.
- From less to greater detail.
- So as to lessen quantity, level or intensity.
- Forward, straight ahead.
- In the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
- To the south (as south is at the bottom of typical maps).
- From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
- At a lower or further place or position along a set path.
- As a down payment.
- On paper (or in a durable record).
- Get down.
- Into a state of non-operation.
- To a subordinate or less prestigious position or rank.
- Towards the opponent's side (in ball-sports).
- Away from the city (regardless of direction).
- Used with verbs to indicate that the action of the verb was carried to some state of completion, permanence, or success rather than being of indefinite duration.
- From a remoter or higher antiquity.
- So as to secure or compress something to the floor, ground, or other (usually horizontal) surface.
noun
- The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, such as the thistle.
- That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down.
- Down payment.
- A hill, especially a chalk hill; rolling grassland
- A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep.
- Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping bags and jackets.
- The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
- An act of swallowing an entire drink at once.
- A negative aspect; a downer, a downside.
- A clue whose solution runs vertically in the grid.
- A downstairs room of a two-story house.
- The lightest quark with a charge number of −¹⁄₃.
- A field, especially one used for horse racing.
- A single play, from the time the ball is snapped (the start) to the time the whistle is blown (the end) when the ball is down, or is downed.
verb
- To disparage; to put down.
- To drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing the liquid is empty.
- To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down; to fell.
- Specifically, to cause (something in the air) to fall to the ground; to bring down (with a missile etc.).
- To render (the ball) dead, typically by touching the ground while in possession.
- To lower; to put (something) down.
- To defeat; to overpower.
- To sink (a ball) into a hole or pocket.
- To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.
prep
noun
- A detour, such as during road construction.
- A hobby; an activity that distracts the mind.
- Officially halting or suspending a formal criminal or juvenile justice proceeding and referral of the accused person to a treatment or care program.
- The act of diverting.
- Removal of water via a canal.
- The rerouting of cargo or passengers to a new transshipment point or destination, or to a different mode of transportation before arrival at the ultimate destination.
- A tactic used to draw attention away from the real threat or action.
verb
- travel or traverse (a distance)
- engage in
- carry out or perform an action
- get (something) done
- proceed or get along
- give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally
- carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions
- be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity
- create or design, often in a certain way
- behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself
- spend time in prison or in a labor camp
- carry on or function
- arrange attractively
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