four-seamer
dead-red
two-seamer
speedball
hummer
gas
heat
cheese
smoke
smoker
fizzer
heater
cutter
rollerball
fastball
sailer
fireballing
splitfinger
splitter
split
slider
racquets
cannonball
run and gun
sit dead-red
fast break
fireball
slowball
shot put
four-speed
pitch
pea
stretch four
catch
bullet
stringer
speedballer
two-seam fastball
pushball
backshot
worm burner
tenpin bowling
heave
sideline cut
chip shot
laser beam
snipe
slice
sinker
pinball
puntabout
chip
scoop shot
tickle
cambuca
object ball
foreshot
punchball
balls-out
slapshot
physioball
lightspeed
blast
slingy
ball game
double
footy
bunt
attack
shot
serve
drag a bunt
screwback
pure
bowls
multiball
playball
screamer
tee
rate
racquetball
combination
play full
sliotar
on the wings of the wind
scorcher
hike
snapshot
lacrosse ball
superspeed
fireballing
slingy
balls-out
four-seamer
dead-red
two-seamer
speedball
hummer
gas
heat
cheese
smoke
smoker
fizzer
heater
cutter
rollerball
fastball
sailer
splitfinger
splitter
split
slider
racquets
cannonball
fast break
shot put
four-speed
pea
stretch four
catch
stringer
speedballer
two-seam fastball
pushball
backshot
worm burner
tenpin bowling
heave
sideline cut
chip shot
laser beam
sinker
pinball
bullet
puntabout
chip
scoop shot
tickle
cambuca
object ball
foreshot
punchball
slapshot
physioball
lightspeed
blast
ball game
double
footy
shot
screwback
bowls
multiball
playball
screamer
rate
racquetball
combination
sliotar
scorcher
snapshot
lacrosse ball
superspeed
run and gun
sit dead-red
fireball
slowball
pitch
bullet
snipe
slice
bunt
attack
serve
drag a bunt
pure
tee
play full
hike
noun
noun
noun
- A fastball.
- An improvised adhoc airdrop resupply pack, composed of ammo, food and water, and other supplies, stuffed into a body bag or duffle bag.
- An Egyptian racquet sport.
- Coffee with espresso.
- A mix of heroin and cocaine.
- A competitive variant of paintball with an equal playing field, contrasted with woodsball.
verb
noun
- A fastball.
- A humdinger; something or someone exceptional or outstanding of their type.
- The newlyweds took a hummer limo back to their casino resort.
- A hummingbird.
- A Humvee.
- A machine that runs particularly well and smoothly.
- Something that generates a lot of attention, talk, and excitement.
- One who hums.
- Fellatio, especially when the person performing the act vibrates their mouth by humming.
- An arrest on false pretexts.
- A very energetic or lively person; a powerful lively thing.
- Someone who upsets or irritates others; a trouble-maker or controversial figure.
- A type of vehicle resembling a jeep but bulkier.
- A tantrum or fuss.
noun
- A fastball.
- Arterial or venous blood gas.
- Gasoline, a light derivative of petroleum used as fuel.
- An internal virtual currency used in Ethereum to pay for certain operations, such as blockchain transactions.
- Poison gas.
- A hob on a gas cooker.
- A flammable gaseous hydrocarbon or hydrocarbon mixture used as a fuel, e.g. for cooking, heating, electricity generation or as a fuel in internal combustion engines in vehicles, especially natural gas.
- A humorous or entertaining event or person.
- Methane or other waste gases trapped in one's belly as a result of the digestive process; flatus.
- Frothy or boastful talk; chatter.
- Matter in an intermediate state between liquid and plasma that can be contained only if it is fully surrounded by a solid (or in a bubble of liquid, or held together by gravitational pull); it can condense into a liquid, or can (rarely) become a solid directly by deposition.
- Marijuana, typically of high quality.
- A chemical element or compound in such a state.
- A lot of gas had escaped from the cylinder.
verb
- To fill (a vehicle's fuel tank) with fuel.
- To attack or kill with poison gas.
- To give a vehicle more fuel in order to accelerate it.
- To impose upon by talking boastfully.
- To emit gas.
- To impregnate with gas.
- To singe, as in a gas flame, so as to remove loose fibers.
- To talk in a boastful or vapid way; chatter.
adj
noun
- A fastball.
- A condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate; oestrus.
- A hot spell.
- The output of a heating system.
- An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth.
- One cycle of bringing metal to maximum temperature and working it until it is too cool to work further.
- The condition or quality of being hot.
- Heating system; a system that raises the temperature of a room or building.
- A period of intensity, particularly of emotion.
- An undesirable amount of attention.
- A preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race
- A violent action unintermitted; a single effort.
- A stage in a competition, not necessarily a sporting one; a round.
- In omegaverse fiction, a cyclical period in which omegas experience an intense, sometimes irresistible biological urge to mate.
- One or more firearms.
- Thermal energy.
- The police.
verb
- To excite ardour in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.
- To arouse, to excite (sexually).
- To become hotter.
- To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.
- To cause an increase in temperature of (an object or space); to cause to become hot (often with "up").
noun
- A fastball.
- Money.
- A low curtsey; so called on account of the cheese shape assumed by a woman's dress when she stoops after extending the skirts by a rapid gyration.
- That which is melodramatic, overly emotional, or cliché, i.e. cheesy.
- Any particular variety of cheese.
- In skittles, the roughly ovoid object that is thrown to knock down the skittles.
- Smegma.
- A piece of cheese, especially one moulded into a large round shape during manufacture.
- A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk.
- A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the shape of a cheese.
- Wealth, fame, excellence, importance.
- Holed pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.
- A dangerous mixture of black tar heroin and crushed Tylenol PM tablets. The resulting powder resembles grated cheese and is snorted.
- A thick variety of jam (fruit preserve), as distinguished from a thinner variety (sometimes called jelly)
- A substance resembling cream cheese, such as lemon cheese
- The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia) or marshmallow (Althaea officinalis).
intj
verb
- To smile excessively, as for a camera.
- To use a controversial or unsporting tactic to gain an advantage (especially in a game.)
- To use an unconventional, all-in strategy to take one's opponent by surprise early in the game (especially for real-time strategy games).
- To prepare curds for making cheese.
- To make holes in a pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.
- To anger or irritate someone, usually in combination with "off".
- To stop; to refrain from.
noun
- A fastball.
- Bother; problems; hassle.
- A light grey colour/color tinted with blue.
- A cigarette.
- Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.)
- A distinct column of smoke, such as indicating a burning area or fire.
- A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result.
- The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
- An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.
- A particulate of solid or liquid particles dispersed into the air on the battlefield to degrade enemy ground or for aerial observation. Smoke has many uses--screening smoke, signaling smoke, smoke curtain, smoke haze, and smoke deception. Thus it is an artificial aerosol.
- Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke and mirrors.
verb
- To dry or medicate by smoke.
- To give off smoke.
- To burn; to be kindled; to rage.
- To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.
- To cover (a key blank) with soot or carbon to aid in seeing the marks made by impressioning.
- To suffer severely; to be punished.
- To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke.
- To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke.
- To beat someone at something.
- To punish (a person) for a minor offense by excessive physical exercise.
- To kill, especially with a gun.
- Of a fire in a fireplace: to emit smoke outward instead of up the chimney, owing to imperfect draught.
- To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.
- To perform (e.g. music) energetically or skillfully.
noun
- A fastball.
- An illicit boxing match; see Wikipedia:Battle Royal (boxing).
- A two-stroke engine.
- A smoking car on a train.
- Synonym of stag film
- A vent in the deep ocean floor from which a plume of superheated seawater, rich in minerals, erupts.
- A person who smokes tobacco habitually.
- A device that releases smoke intended to distract bees; a bee smoker.
- A person or an apparatus that smokes food.
- Any vehicle with a two-stroke engine, especially a motorcycle, as opposed to a four-stroke motorcycle or stroker.
noun
- A fastball, especially one thrown at high velocity.
- A dead heat; a race in which two or more competitors reach the finish line simultaneously.
- A medieval European shield having a rounded triangle shape like a clothes iron.
- An extended winning streak.
- A device that produces and radiates heat, typically to raise the temperature of a room or building.
- A person who heats something, for example in metalworking.
noun
- A cut fastball.
- A light sleigh drawn by one horse.
- A flag or similar instrument for blocking light.
- A ship's boat, used for transport ship-to-ship or ship-to-shore.
- A foretooth; an incisor.
- A ball that moves sideways in the air, or off the pitch, because it has been cut.
- A person who practices self-injury by making cuts in the flesh.
- An animal yielding inferior meat, with little or no external fat and marbling.
- A person or device that cuts (in various senses).
- A ten-pence piece. So named because it is the coin most often sharpened by prison inmates to use as a weapon.
- A heavy-duty motor boat for official use.
- A single-masted, fore-and-aft rigged, sailing vessel with at least two headsails, and a mast set further aft than that of a sloop.
- A surgeon.
- A knife.
noun
- A split-finger fastball.
- A device with two electrical plugs that plugs into an electrical outlet, effectively converting the electrical outlet into two; socket converter.
- A scientist in one of various fields who prefers to split categories such as species or dialects up into smaller groups.
- A wheaten cake split and buttered when hot.
- One who splits hairs in argument, etc.
- A wedge used to cut logs down the middle.
- A quarry worker who splits slate into sheets.
- A person or a thing that splits.
- A draggable vertical or horizontal bar used to adjust the relative sizes of two adjacent windows.
noun
- A split-finger fastball.
- A dessert or confection resembling a banana split.
- A workout routine as seen by its distribution of muscle groups or the extent and manner they are targeted in a microcycle.
- The elapsed time at specific intermediate points in a race.
- A recording containing songs by multiple artists.
- A bottle of wine containing 37.5 centiliters, half the volume of a standard 75-centiliter bottle; a demi.
- A division of a stake happening when two cards of the kind on which the stake is laid are dealt in the same turn.
- A tear resulting from tensile stresses.
- A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.
- A result of a first throw that leaves two or more pins standing with one or more pins between them knocked down.
- The elapsed time at specific intermediate points in a speedrun.
- A unit of measure used for champagne or other spirits: 18.75 centiliters or one quarter of a standard 75-centiliter bottle. Commercially comparable to ¹⁄₂₀ (US) gallon, which is ¹⁄₂ of a fifth.
- A maneuver of spreading or sliding the feet apart until the legs are flat on the floor 180 degrees apart, either sideways to the body or with one leg in front and one behind, thus lowering the body completely to the floor in an upright position.
- One of the sections of a skin made by dividing it into two or more thicknesses.
- A split shot or split stroke.
- A crack or longitudinal fissure.
- A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division.
verb
- To factor into linear factors.
- To separate.
- To leave.
- To be broken; to be dashed to pieces.
- To vote for candidates of opposite parties.
- For both teams involved in a doubleheader to win one game each and lose another.
- To break along the grain fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
- To share; to divide.
- To burst out laughing.
- To divide fully or partly along a more or less straight line.
- To (cause to) break up; to throw into discord.
adj
- Comprising half decaffeinated and half caffeinated espresso.
- Given in sixteenths rather than eighths.
- Divided.
- Having the middle group equal to the direct product of the others.
- Designating ordinary stock that has been divided into preferred ordinary and deferred ordinary.
- Divided so as to be done or executed part at one time or price and part at another time or price.
noun
- A served ball that travels with great speed and describes little or no arc in flight.
- The act of jumping (typically into a swimming pool) with the legs bent and the arms wrapped around the knees to create a large splash, mimicking the flight and shape of a cannonball.
- An explosive-filled hollow iron sphere fused through a hole and intended to explode at a calculated distance rather than explode on impact.
- A spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon.
- Something that moves fast, especially a fast train.
verb
verb
noun
- A charge made of a disc-shaped bomb shell, with four sets of flames, at the top, bottom and on either side.
- A ball of fire, especially one associated with an explosion.
- A class of sailing dinghy with a single trapeze and a symmetrical spinnaker, sailed by a crew of two.
- A ball filled with combustibles to be thrown among enemies.
- A meteor bright enough to cast shadows.
- A feisty, strong-willed person.
verb
- To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
- To fix or set the tone of.
- To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
- To throw away; discard.
- 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.
- To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
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
- A ball travelling at high velocity.
- The edible seed of various other pea plants.
- Any of several varieties of bean.
- The edible seed of Pisum sativum; the green pea.
- A plant, Pisum sativum, member of the legume (Fabaceae) family.
- Money.
- Any plant of the family Fabaceae.
- Any of the small numbered balls used in a pea shake game.
noun
- a cooperative game in which a ball is passed back and forth
- a drawback or difficulty that is not readily evident
- the quantity that was caught
- a person regarded as a good matrimonial prospect
- anything that is caught (especially if it is worth catching)
- a break or check in the voice (usually a sign of strong emotion)
- a restraint that checks the motion of something
- a fastener that fastens or locks a door or window
- the act of catching an object with the hands
- the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
verb
- discover or come upon accidentally, suddenly, or unexpectedly; catch somebody doing something or in a certain state
- perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily
- reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot
- take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of
- succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
- to hook or entangle
- attract and fix
- capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping
- reach in time
- get or regain something necessary, usually quickly or briefly
- catch up with and possibly overtake
- be struck or affected by
- check oneself during an action
- hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers
- see or watch
- cause to become accidentally or suddenly caught, ensnared, or entangled
- detect a blunder or misstep
- grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of
- come down with
- start burning
- perceive by hearing
- suffer from the receipt of
- attract; cause to be enamored
- apprehend and reproduce accurately
- take in and retain
- spread or be communicated
- be the catcher
- become aware of
- delay or hold up; prevent from proceeding on schedule or as planned
verb
- To make a shot, especially with great speed.
- To speed, like a bullet.
- To draw attention to (text) by, or as if by, placing a graphic bullet in front of it.
noun
- chess played at an extremely fast time control, with one minute given to each player. (Short for bullet chess.)
- A young or little bull; a male calf.
- An entire round of unfired ammunition for a firearm, including the projectile, the cartridge casing, the propellant charge, etc.
- One year of prison time.
- A plumb or sinker.
- An ace (the playing card).
- A roughly bullet-shaped sweet consisting of a cylinder of liquorice covered in chocolate.
- A projectile, usually of metal, shot from a gun at high speed.
- Ammunition for a sling or slingshot which has been manufactured for such use.
- A rejection letter, as for employment, admission to a school or a competition.
- Very fast (speedy).
- Anything that is projected extremely fast.
- A notation used on pop music charts to indicate that a song is climbing in the rankings.
- A large scheduled repayment of the principal of a loan; a balloon payment.
- A printed symbol in the form of a solid circle, “•”, often used to mark items in a list.
- The heavy projectile thrown in a game of road bowling.
noun
- A hard-hit ball.
- The side rail supporting the rungs of a ladder or the steps of a flight of stairs.
- Someone who strings someone along.
- A horizontal timber that supports upright posts, or supports the hull of a vessel.
- Wooden strip running lengthwise down the centre of a surfboard, for strength.
- Someone who threads something; one who makes or provides strings, especially for bows.
- A cord or chain, sometimes with additional loops, that is threaded through the mouth and gills of caught fish.
- A pallet or skid used when shipping less than truckload (LTL) freight. A platform typically constructed of timber or plastic designed such that freight may be stacked on top, able to be lifted by a forklift.
- A person who plays on a particular string.
- A person who deliberately states that a certain bird is present when it is not; one who knowingly misleads other birders about the occurrence of a bird, especially a rarity.
- A small screw-hook to which piano strings are sometimes attached.
- A freelance correspondent not on the regular newspaper staff, especially one retained on a part-time basis to report on events in a particular place.
noun
- A shot that sends something backwards, such as a shot that sends the ball behind the player making it.
- A shot taken from behind the subject.
- A shot in the back.
- A measurement of the azimuth when sighting to an earlier point along a path that is being measured with a compass.
- A sexual position in which one partner penetrates the other from behind; doggy style.
adj
noun
- A forceful shot in which the ball follows a high trajectory
- A horizontal dislocation in a metallic lode, taking place at an intersection with another lode.
- An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake, etc.
- An effort to vomit; retching.
- Broken wind in horses.
- The measure of extent to which a nautical vessel goes up and down in a short period of time. Compare pitch.
- An effort to raise something, such as a weight or one's own body, or to move something heavy.
verb
- To throw, cast.
- To displace (a vein, stratum).
- To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).
- To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound.
- To rise and fall.
- To utter with effort.
- To pull up with a rope or cable.
- To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to strain to do something difficult.
- To move in a certain direction or into a certain position or situation.
- To retch, to make an effort to vomit; to vomit.
noun
- A shot where the ball is angled sharply toward the sideline, just barely in bounds.
- A penalty shot awarded against a player who runs over the sideline with the ball. The opponents take a free puck from where the ball crossed the line; side puck.
- A sudden change of direction and run for the sideline.
noun
- A shot in which the ball is kicked from underneath with accuracy but with less than maximum force, to launch it high into the air in order either to pass it over the heads of opponents or to score a goal.
- A takeout shot aimed at hitting a rock at an angle.
- The achievement of a goal or the striking of a target with a ball or other projectile in relatively nonchallenging or routine circumstances, by throwing (as in basketball) or by discharging a firearm (as in hunting).
- Something that is easy to do or to achieve.
- An approach shot made from a location a short distance from the golf green in which the ball is launched into the air with only low or moderate force, so that it will land on the green and roll toward the hole.
- A relatively easy field goal, made from a short distance.
verb
- To move the ball quickly in a different direction.
- To attach a note or sticker to (an existing poster) to provide further information, political criticism, etc.
- To hunt snipe.
- To score a goal.
- To make malicious, underhand remarks or attacks.
- To nose (a log) to make it drag or slip easily in skidding.
- To shoot with a sniper rifle.
- To watch a timed online auction and place a winning bid against (the current high bidder) at the last possible moment.
- To shoot at individuals from a concealed place.
noun
- A strip of copy announcing some late breaking news or item of interest, typically placed in a print advertisement in such a way that it stands out from the ad.
- A sharp, clever answer; sarcasm.
- A goal.
- A member of the engineering department on a ship.
- A cigarette butt.
- Any of various limicoline game birds of the genera Gallinago, Lymnocryptes and Coenocorypha in the family Scolopacidae, having a long, slender, nearly straight beak.
- A note or sticker attached to an existing poster to provide further information (e.g. an event is sold out), political criticism, etc.
- A end of a log remaining after timber has been cut away - sometimes referred to as a snipe-end.
- A fool; a blockhead.
- A bottle of wine measuring 0.1875 liters, one fourth the volume of a standard bottle; a quarter bottle or piccolo.
- A shot fired from a concealed place.
- An animated promotional logo during a television show.
verb
- To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).
- To cut into slices.
- To kick the ball so that it goes in an unintended direction, at too great an angle or too high.
- To cut with an edge utilizing a drawing motion.
- To angle the blade so that it goes too deeply into the water when starting to take a stroke.
- To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.
- To hit the ball with a stroke that causes a spin, resulting in the ball swerving or staying low after a bounce.
- To hit the shuttlecock with the racket at an angle, causing it to move sideways and downwards.
adj
noun
- A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.)
- A piece of pizza, shaped like a sector of a circle.
- A contiguous portion of an array.
- A removable sliding bottom to a galley.
- A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling.
- That which is thin and broad.
- One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
- A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw
- A thin, broad piece cut off.
- A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray.
- Any of a class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.
- A salver, platter, or tray.
- A broad, thin piece of plaster.
- An amount of anything.
- A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.
- A plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel, or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel.
noun
- Any of several high speed pitches that have a downward motion near the plate; a two-seam fastball, a split-finger fastball, or a forkball.
- In knitting machines, one of the thin plates, blades, or other devices, that depress the loops upon or between the needles.
- Sinker nail, used for framing in current construction.
- A doughnut; a biscuit.
- A weight used in fishing to cause the line or net to sink.
- One who sinks something.
noun
- A low shot that travels further along the ground than it does in the air.
- A shot during which the ball travels more predominantly upwards than in a regular shot, as to clear an obstacle.
- A circuit fabricated in one piece on a small, thin substrate.
- Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making hats or bonnets.
- A thin, crisp, fried slice of potato, or sometimes another vegetable; a crisp.
- A dried piece of dung, often used as fuel.
- A takeout that hits a rock at an angle.
- A small rectangle of colour printed on coated paper for colour selection and matching. A virtual equivalent in software applications.
- A token used in place of cash.
- A small, near-conical piece of food added in baking.
- A hybrid device mounted in a substrate, containing electronic circuitry and miniaturised mechanical, chemical and/or biochemical devices.
- A damaged area of a surface where a small piece has been broken off.
- The triangular piece of wood attached to the log line.
- A receptacle, usually for strawberries or other fruit.
- A small piece broken from a larger piece of solid material.
verb
- To make fun of.
- To chop or cut into small pieces.
- To become chipped.
- to upgrade an engine management system, usually to increase power.
- To fit (an animal) with a microchip.
- To break small pieces from.
- To play a shot hitting the ball predominantly upwards rather than forwards. In association football specifically, when the shot is a shot on goal, the opposing goalkeeper may be the direct object of the verb, rather than the ball.
- to contribute.
- To ante (up).
noun
- A light tap of the ball.
- The act of tickling.
- An itchy feeling resembling the result of tickling.
- A narrow strait.
verb
- To appeal to someone's taste, curiosity etc.
- To unexpectedly touch or stroke delicately in a manner which causes displeasure or withdrawal.
- To catch fish in the hand (usually in rivers or smaller streams) by manually stimulating the fins.
- To touch repeatedly or stroke delicately in a manner which causes laughter, pleasure and twitching.
- To cause delight or amusement in.
- To feel titillation.
- To feel as if the body part in question is being tickled.
noun
- A shot that sends something forewards, such as a shot that sends the ball ahead the player making it.
- The spirits that first come over when an alcoholic liquid is distilled
- A measurement of the azimuth when sighting to the next point along a path that is being measured with a compass.
- A portion of a building that protrudes out.
- The foreground of a photographic image.
noun
noun
- Any game played with a ball.
- A decisive outcome in regard to some ongoing situation; game over.
- Affair, issue, matter, subject, story, topic.
- A specific contest or match between teams playing such a game, in particular a baseball game.
- A sport played in the Aztec and Mayan civilizations; Mesoamerican ballgame.
noun
- A strike in which the object ball is struck so as to make it rebound against the cushion to an opposite pocket.
- The narrow outermost ring on a dartboard.
- Twice the number, amount, size, etc.
- A ghostly apparition of a living person; a doppelgänger.
- A two-base hit.
- Playing the same part on two instruments, alternately.
- A sharp turn, especially a return on one's own tracks.
- Synonym of double-quick (“fast marching pace”)
- A bet on two horses in different races in which any winnings from the first race are placed on the horse in the later race.
- A double-precision floating-point number.
- A former French coin worth one-sixth of a sou.
- A call that increases certain scoring points if the last preceding bid becomes the contract.
- A double feast.
- A redundant item for which an identical item already exists.
- A tile that has the same value (i.e., the same number of pips) on both sides.
- A person who resembles and stands in for another person, often for safety purposes
- Two competitions, usually one league and one cup, won by the same team in a single season.
- A drink with two portions of alcohol.
- A hit on this ring.
- A boat for two scullers.
- The feat of scoring twice in one game.
- The feat of winning two events in a single meet or competition.
- A copper coin worth one-eighth of a penny.
adv
verb
- To get a two-base hit.
- To act as substitute for (another theatrical performer in a certain role, etc).
- To serve a second role or have a second purpose.
- To turn sharply, following a winding course.
- To increase by 100%, to become twice as large in size.
- To fold over so as to make two folds.
- To operate as a double agent.
- To be the double of; to exceed by twofold; to contain or be worth twice as much as.
- (often followed by together or up) To join or couple.
- To be capable of performing (upon an additional instrument).
- To play (both one part and another, in the same play, etc).
- To double down.
- To multiply by two.
- (sometimes followed by up) To clench (a fist).
- To make a call that will double certain scoring points if the preceding bid becomes the contract.
- To transmit simultaneously on the same channel as another station, either unintentionally or deliberately, causing interference.
- To multiply the strength or effect of by two.
- To duplicate (a part) either in unison or at the octave above or below it.
- To unite, as ranks or files, so as to form one from each two.
- To repeat exactly; copy.
- To sail around (a headland or other point).
- To go or march at twice the normal speed.
- To cause (a ball) to rebound from a cushion before entering the pocket.
adj
- Folded in two; composed of two layers.
- Having two aspects; ambiguous.
- False, deceitful, or hypocritical.
- Stooping; bent over.
- Of flowers, having more than the normal number of petals.
- Of twice the quantity.
- Of time, twice as fast.
- Made up of two matching or complementary elements.
- Of a family relationship, related on both the maternal and paternal sides of a family.
- Designed for two users.
- Of an instrument, sounding an octave lower.
verb
noun
- (baseball) the act of hitting a baseball or softball lightly by holding the bat in a stationary position rather than swinging it
- disease of wheat characterized by replacement of the grains with greasy masses of smelly smut spores
- similar to Tilletia caries
- fungus that destroys kernels of wheat by replacing them with greasy masses of smelly spores
verb
- To bat aggressively, so as to score runs quickly.
- To begin to affect; to act upon injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.
- To aim balls at the batsman’s wicket.
- To aggressively challenge a person, idea, etc., with words (particularly in newspaper headlines, because it typesets into less space than "criticize" or similar).
- (Of a chemical species) To approach a chemical species or bond in order to form a bond with it.
- To apply violent force to someone or something.
- To set a field, or bowl in a manner designed to get wickets.
- To accelerate quickly in an attempt to get ahead of the other riders.
- To move forward in an active attempt to score a point, as opposed to trying not to concede.
- To deal with something in a direct way; to set to work upon.
noun
- Any contact with the ball other than a serve or block which sends the ball across the plane of the net.
- The amount of time it takes for the volume of an audio signal to go from zero to maximum level (e.g. an audio waveform representing a snare drum hit would feature a very fast attack, whereas that of a wave washing to shore would feature a slow attack).
- An attempt to detract from the worth or credibility of, a person, position, idea, object, or thing, by physical, verbal, emotional, or other assault.
- The three attackmen on the field or all the attackmen of a team.
- A time in which one attacks; the offence of a battle.
- The beginning of active operations on anything.
- The sudden onset of a disease or condition.
- An attempt to cause damage, injury to, or death of opponent or enemy.
- Collectively, the bowlers of a cricket side.
- An attempt to exploit a vulnerability in a computer system.
- The onset of a musical note, particularly with respect to the strength (and duration) of that onset.
- An active episode of a chronic or recurrent disease.
noun
- sports equipment consisting of a heavy metal ball used in the shot put
- the act of firing a projectile
- a solid missile discharged from a firearm
- (sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand
- a chance to do something
- a person who shoots (usually with respect to their ability to shoot)
- a consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a film
- the act of putting a liquid into the body by means of a syringe
- a small drink of liquor
- an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
- an estimate based on little or no information
- an informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera
- an explosive charge used in blasting
- a blow hard enough to cause injury
- an attempt to score in a game
- informal words for any attempt or effort
- the launching of a missile or spacecraft to a specified destination
- throwing the basketball toward the hoop
adj
verb
- put the ball into play
- serve a purpose, role, or function
- do duty or hold offices; serve in a specific function
- contribute or conduce to
- be used by; as of a utility
- help to some food; help with food or drink
- provide (usually but not necessarily food)
- devote (part of) one's life or efforts to, as of countries, institutions, or ideas
- promote, benefit, or be useful or beneficial to
- spend time in prison or in a labor camp
- work for, or be a servant to
- deliver a warrant or summons to someone
- be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity
- do military service
- mate with
noun
noun
- A powerful shot that imparts a spin to the ball.
- A tightening screw on the back of a hand tool.
- A type of case for a pocket watch where the mechanism is accessed by a removable back plate that screws onto the back of the case. Also, a watch that has such a case.
- A type of propeller in which the blades are angled to produce a motion similar to threading a screw. Also, the angle of the blades on such a propeller.
- The period of screw rotation during injection molding when the plastic can flow into the mold.
- A masonry abutment on an arch that is wedge-shaped in order to transmit the thrust downward.
- An industrial digging machine that uses a large screw at the back to drill into the ground.
- A hook-shapped attachment for an earring that sits behind the earlobe and tightens with a screw. Also, an earring that uses this type of attachment.
- The effect of putting backspin on the cue ball.
- A mechanism for attaching a small item to clothing that operates by a post which goes through the cloth and a small backing plate that screws to the post. Also, the medal, tie pin, button, etc. that uses this type of attachment.
- A half-volley executed by holding the racket loosely and swinging it straight at the ball.
verb
adj
- Of a single, simple sound or tone; said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants.
- Free of foreign material or pollutants.
- Free of flaws or imperfections; unsullied.
- Done for its own sake instead of serving another branch of science.
- Mere; that and that only.
- Without harmonics or overtones; not harsh or discordant.
- A lot of.
- Free of immoral behavior or qualities; clean.
noun
adv
verb
noun
- Something shaped like the letter T.
- The name of the Latin-script letter T.
- A usually wooden or plastic peg from which a ball is kicked or hit.
- A flat area of ground from which players hit their first shots on a golf hole.
- The target area of a curling rink
- A finial resembling an umbrella, crowning a dagoba in Indochinese countries.
- The mark at which players aim in quoits.
- T-shirt.
noun
- Speed.
- A class into which ships were assigned based on condition, size etc.; by extension, rank.
- The price of (an individual) thing; cost.
- The gain or loss of a timepiece in a unit of time.
- The relative speed of change or progress.
- The proportional relationship between one amount, value etc. and another.
- A set price or charge for all examples of a given case, commodity, service etc.
- A wage calculated in relation to a unit of time.
- Any of various taxes, especially those levied by a local authority.
verb
- To ascertain the exact rate of the gain or loss of (a chronometer) as compared with true time.
- To berate, scold.
- To assign or be assigned a particular rank or level.
- To evaluate a property's value for the purposes of local taxation.
- To evaluate or estimate the value of.
- To have position (in a certain class).
- To deserve; to be worth.
- To have value or standing.
- To determine the limits of safe functioning for a machine or electrical device.
- To consider or regard.
- To like; to think highly of.
- To ratify.
noun
- A combination shot; a billiard; a shot where the cue ball hits a ball that strikes another ball on the table.
- One or more elements selected from a set without regard to the order of selection.
- An association or alliance of people for some common purpose.
- A sequence of numbers or letters used to open a combination lock.
- The act of combining, the state of being combined or the result of combining.
- A rapid sequence of punches or strikes in boxing or other combat sports.
- A motorcycle and sidecar.
- An object formed by combining.
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noun
- A quick offhand shot, made without deliberately taking aim over the sights.
- A quick, unplanned or unexpected shot.
- A file or set of files captured at a particular time, often capable of being reloaded to restore the earlier state.
- A photograph, especially one taken quickly or in a sudden moment of opportunity.
- A glimpse of something; a portrayal of something at a moment in time.
verb
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