shiver
spall
spalling
scabling
knap
spawl
shard
flinders
splinterlike
smithereen
spelt
speel
hyaloclastite
split
inclusion
flinder
stonish
conglomerate
ride
fragmented
petrous
blad
rubblestone
vitroclastic
crumpling
brittle
whetstone
voussoir
flaw
crevice
microfracturing
chrysolite
gallet
detritus
ordonezite
perlitic
ragstone
hearthstone
posh
rubble
splinterable
burr
comminuted fracture
lithic
splintery
autolith
marble scissors
conjoin
crushed rock
scant
fritter
gravel
flitter
smithereens
crag
crop
conchoid
cheeseparing
princess cut
slablike
blivet
setting
sherd
malleate
poultice
spaller
pitch
scrid
fragmentary
rubblework
joint
spell
clast
crisp
fragment
granitiform
broach
stonelike
fragmentize
forgelike
gouge
set
chockstone
lithotrity
friable
sliver
splinter
scissura
splinteringly
frazzle
quernstone
stonedelf
splinterlike
stonish
conglomerate
fragmented
petrous
vitroclastic
brittle
perlitic
splinterable
lithic
splintery
slablike
malleate
fragmentary
crisp
granitiform
stonelike
forgelike
friable
splinteringly
shiver
spall
spalling
scabling
spawl
shard
flinders
smithereen
spelt
speel
hyaloclastite
split
inclusion
flinder
blad
rubblestone
crumpling
whetstone
voussoir
flaw
crevice
microfracturing
chrysolite
gallet
detritus
ordonezite
ragstone
hearthstone
posh
rubble
burr
comminuted fracture
autolith
marble scissors
conjoin
crushed rock
scant
gravel
smithereens
crag
crop
conchoid
cheeseparing
princess cut
blivet
setting
fritter
sherd
poultice
spaller
scrid
rubblework
joint
spell
clast
fragment
broach
gouge
chockstone
lithotrity
sliver
scissura
frazzle
quernstone
stonedelf
shiver
knap
ride
spall
fritter
flitter
pitch
fragmentize
set
splinter
noun
- A piece of material, especially rock and similar materials, reminding of a broken piece of glass or pottery.
- A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig.
- An instance of an MMORPG that is one of several independent and structurally identical virtual worlds, none of which has so many players as to exhaust a system's resources.
- A piece of crystal methamphetamine.
- A component of a sharded distributed database.
- The plant chard.
- A tough scale, sheath, or shell; especially an elytron of a beetle.
verb
noun
noun
- A piece that is split off, or made thin, by splitting; a splinter; a fragment.
- 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 split-finger fastball.
- 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
- Any material that is trapped inside a mineral during its formation, as a defect in a precious stone.
- A mapping where the domain is a subset of the image.
- Anything foreign that is included in a material,
- The act of including, i.e. adding or annexing, (something) to a group, set, or total.
- A nuclear or cytoplasmic aggregate of stainable substances.
- An addition or annex to a group, set, or total.
- An object completely inside a tissue, such as epidermal inclusion cyst, a cyst in the epidermis.
adj
- Composed of fragments of rock, pebbles, or stones cemented together.
- Clustered together into a mass.
noun
- A rock consisting of gravel or pebbles embedded in a matrix.
- A corporation formed by the combination of several smaller corporations whose activities are unrelated to the corporation's primary activity.
- A cluster of heterogeneous things.
verb
verb
- To overlap (each other); said of bones or fractured fragments.
- To nag or criticize; to annoy (someone).
- To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger.
- To play defense on the defensemen or midfielders, as an attackman.
- To rely, depend (on).
- Of a ship: to sail, to float on the water.
- In jazz, to play in a steady rhythmical style.
- To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc.
- To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
- To monitor (some component of an audiovisual signal) in order to keep it within acceptable bounds.
- To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
- To transport (someone) in a vehicle.
- To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle.
- Of clothing: to gradually move (up) and crease; to ruckle.
- To traverse by riding.
- To be carried or supported by something lightly and quickly; to travel in such a way, as though on horseback.
- To mount (someone) to have sex with them; to have sexual intercourse with.
- Of clothing: to rest (in a given way on a part of the body).
noun
- A lift given to someone in another person's vehicle.
- A person (or sometimes a thing or a place) that is visually attractive.
- An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park.
- An instance of riding.
- A vehicle.
- An act of sexual intercourse
- In jazz, a steady rhythmical style.
- A wild, bewildering experience of some duration.
- A road or avenue cut in a wood, for riding; a bridleway or other wide country path.
adj
- Said of rocks and minerals with a conchoidal fracture; capable of being knapped or flaked.
- Poorly error- or fault-tolerant; having little in the way of redundancy or defense in depth; susceptible to catastrophic failure in the event of a relatively-minor malfunction or deviance.
- Diabetes that is characterized by dramatic swings in blood sugar level.
- Not physically tough or tenacious; apt to break or crumble when bending.
- Inflexible; liable to break, snap, or shatter easily under stress, pressure, or impact.
- Emotionally fragile, easily offended.
noun
- A confection of caramelized sugar and nuts.
- Anything resembling this confection, such as flapjack, a cereal bar, etc.
verb
noun
- An inclusion, stain, or other defect of a diamond or other gemstone.
- A storm of short duration.
- A sudden burst of noise and disorder
- A crack or breach, a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion.
- A defect or error in a contract or other document which may make the document invalid or ineffective.
- A defect, fault, or imperfection, especially one that is hidden.
- A sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration; windflaw.
verb
noun
- A sharp, pointy object, such as a sliver or splinter.
- A uvular "r" sound, or (by extension) an accent characterized by this sound.
- And when his body was against the burr of the spear, he took his sword in both his hands and he swung the sword above his head, and he smote King Arthur with the edge of the sword upon the helmet.
- A thin flat piece of metal, formed from a sheet by punching; a small washer put on the end of a rivet before it is swaged down.
- Many saddles, especially those for use on warhorses, had high burr plates and cantles. this was especially important when knights began using stirrups and the couched lance.
- A rough humming sound.
- 1819, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopaedia
- A metal ring at the top of the hand-rest on a spear.
- 2015, James B. Tschen-Emmons, Artifacts from Medieval Europe, page 280
- A burr knot or burl.
- 1724, John Guillim, A Display of Heraldry
- A revolving disk or cone with abrasive surfaces used to grind hard products in a grinder or mill.
- We are made to witness a cathartic shuffling-off of mortalities and of hatreds: Mordred's pulling himself up to the 'burr' of Arthur's spear is Malory's own detail and one of the most memorable in the book.
- A bur; a seed pod with sharp features that stick in fur or clothing.
- A broad iron ring on a tilting lance just below the grip, to prevent the hand from slipping.
- The ear lobe.
- A small piece of material left on an edge after a cutting operation.
- The knot at the bottom of an antler.
- The front of it was defended by an iron-plate, called a vam-plat, that is, an avant-plate, and behind it was a broad iron ring, called a burr.
- burr or ring of iron behind the hand
- 2003, Thomas Howard Crofts, Fifteenth-century Malory, page 290
- 2012, Howard Pyle, The Story of the Grail and the Passing of Arthur
verb
verb
- To break into small pieces or fragments.
- To cut (meat etc.) into small pieces for frying.
- To sinter.
- To squander or waste time, money, or other resources; e.g. occupy oneself idly or without clear purpose, to tinker with an unimportant part of a project, to dally, sometimes as a form of procrastination.
noun
noun
- An outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
- Tin ore prepared for smelting.
- The lashing end of a whip.
- A plant, especially a cereal, grown to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose.
- A group, cluster or collection of things occurring at the same time.
- A photograph or other image that has been reduced by removing the outer parts.
- The foliate part of a finial.
- The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of a tree.
- An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding; a riding crop.
- An entire oxhide.
- A rocky outcrop.
- A pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds (and some other animals), used to store food before digestion or for regurgitation; a craw.
- A short haircut.
- The natural production for a specific year, particularly of plants.
- A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease.
- The act of cropping.
verb
- To remove the outer parts of a photograph or other image, typically in order to frame the subject better.
- To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.
- To cause to bear a crop.
- To beat with a crop, or riding-whip.
- To yield harvest.
- To mow, reap or gather.
- To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
noun
- A conchoidal fracture in rock.
- Any of a family of curves defined as the locus of points p, such that each p is on a line that passes through a given fixed point P and intersects a given curve, C, and the distance from p to the point of intersection with C is a specified constant (note that for nontrivial cases two such points p satisfy the criteria, and the resultant curve has two parts).
noun
- A hammer used by geologists to chop rock samples from boulders for examination.
- A container/tank for refrigerant gas.
- Anything overfull.
- A hammer used by electric welders to knock slag off of the welded joint, sometimes having a spring handle to lessen shock to the hands.
- An impossible trident .
- Used in construction utility linework to create an open point in distribution lines.
- A program that has messy source code.
- An electronic signal that is normally high or on, but goes low for a very short period and then returns to high. A low going spike.
- An item of unknown purpose, often unnecessary or useless or annoying.
- A portable, collapsible container for liquid fuel.
noun
- A piece of metal in which a precious stone or gem is fixed to form a piece of jewelry.
- The act of marking the position of game, as a setter does.
- The mounting of a play, etc., for the stage.
- The direction of a current of wind.
- A piece of vocal or choral music composed for particular words (set to music).
- A level or placement that a knob or control is set to.
- The time, place and circumstance in which something (such as a story or picture) is set; context; scenario.
- The act of setting.
- Hunting with a setter.
- Something set in, or inserted.
adj
verb
- To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones.
- 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 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 fracture in which the strata are not offset; a geologic joint.
- A marijuana cigarette.
- The point where two components of a structure join rigidly.
- The means of securing together the meeting surfaces of components of a structure.
- A cut of meat, especially (but not necessarily) (a) one containing a joint in the sense of an articulation or (b) one rolled up and tied.
- The part or space included between two joints, knots, nodes, or articulations.
- A place of business, particularly in the food service or hospitality industries.
- Prison.
- The penis.
- The point where two components of a structure join, but are still able to rotate.
- Any part of the body where two bones join, in most cases allowing that part of the body to be bent or straightened.
- A thing.
verb
- To provide with a joint or joints; to articulate.
- To unite by a joint or joints; to fit together; to prepare so as to fit together
- To fit as if by joints; to coalesce as joints do.
- To join; to connect; to unite; to combine.
- To separate the joints; of; to divide at the joint or joints; to disjoint; to cut up into joints, as meat.
adj
noun
- A splinter, usually of wood; a spelk.
- An uninterrupted series of alternate overs bowled by a single bowler.
- A magical effect or influence induced by an incantation or formula.
- An indefinite period of time (usually with a qualifier); by extension, a relatively short distance.
- Words or a formula supposed to have magical powers.
- A definite period (of work or other activity).
- The wooden bat in the game of trap ball, or knurr and spell.
- A period of rest; time off.
- A period of illness, or sudden interval of bad spirits, disease etc.
- A shift (of work); (rare) a set of workers responsible for a specific turn of labour.
verb
- To be able to write or say the letters that form words.
- To work in place of (someone).
- To constitute; to measure.
- To rest (someone or something), to give someone or something a rest or break.
- To clarify; to explain in detail.
- Of letters: to compose (a word).
- To indicate that (some event) will occur.
- To rest from work for a time.
- To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm.
- To write or say the letters that form a word or part of a word.
adj
- Brittle; friable; in a condition to break with a short, sharp fracture.
- Sharp, clearly defined.
- Brief and to the point.
- having a refreshing amount of acidity; having less acidity than green wine, but more than a flabby one.
- Quick and accurate.
- Not using fuzzy logic; based on a binary distinction between true and false.
- Dry and cold.
- Possessing a certain degree of firmness and freshness.
verb
noun
noun
- A broad chisel for stone-cutting.
- A spire rising from a tower.
- An awl; a bodkin; also, a wooden rod or pin, sharpened at each end, used by thatchers.
- A spit-like start on the head of a young stag.
- The stick from which candle wicks are suspended for dipping.
- The pin in a lock which enters the barrel of the key.
- A spit for cooking food.
- A series of chisel points mounted on one piece of steel. For example, the toothed stone chisel shown here.
verb
- To cause to turn sideways to oncoming waves, especially large or breaking waves (usually followed by to; also figurative).
- To make a hole in, especially a cask of liquor, and put in a tap in order to draw the liquid.
- To begin discussion about (something).
- To open, to make an opening into; to pierce.
- To break the surface of the water.
- To be turned sideways to oncoming waves, especially large or breaking waves.
noun
- Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein of ore.
- A bookbinder's tool with a curved face, used for blind tooling or gilding.
- An incising tool that cuts blanks or forms for envelopes, gloves, etc., from leather, paper, or other materials.
- An impostor.
- Information.
- An act of gouging.
- A cut or groove, as left by a gouge or something sharp.
- A chisel with a curved blade for cutting or scooping channels, grooves, or holes in wood, stone, etc.
- A cheat, a fraud; an imposition.
verb
- To make a groove, hole, or mark in by scooping with or as if with a gouge.
- To cheat or impose upon; in particular, to charge an unfairly or unreasonably high price.
- To use a gouge.
- To dig or scoop (something) out with or as if with a gouge; in particular, to use a thumb to push or try to push the eye (of a person) out of its socket.
verb
- To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
- To devise and assign (work) to.
- To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
- To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
- To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
- To place or fix in a setting.
- To extend and bring into position; to spread.
- To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
- To prepare (a stage or film set).
- To defeat a contract.
- To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
- To put (something) down, to rest.
- To produce after pollination.
- To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
- To acknowledge a dancing partner by facing him or her and moving first to one side and then to the other, while she or he does the opposite.
- To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
- To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
- To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
- To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
- To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
- To sit (be in a seated position).
- To arrange (type).
- To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
- To introduce or describe.
- To solidify.
- To rest or lie somewhere, on something, etc.; to occupy a certain place.
- To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly.
- Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
- Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
- To fit (someone) up in a situation.
- To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
- To adjust.
- To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
- To suit; to become.
- To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
- To determine or settle.
- To fit music to words.
- To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
- To start (a fire).
- To divide a class group in a subject according to ability
- To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to, geographically or temporally.
- To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
noun
- A punch for setting nails in wood.
- The full number of eggs set under a hen.
- The initial or basic formation of dancers.
- A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
- A young oyster when first attached.
- The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
- The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
- The scenery for a film or play.
- Set theory.
- the general locations and area where a movie’s, a film’s, or a video’s scenery is arranged to be filmed also including places for actors, assorted crew, director, producers which are typically not filmed.
- A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
- A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
- The amount the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
- A rudimentary fruit.
- An object made up of several parts.
- General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
- A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached by the weight, or hammer.
- The camber of a curved roofing tile.
- A drum kit, a drum set.
- A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
- A bias of mind; an attitude or pattern of behaviour.
- A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order or repetition of the objects which may be contained within it.
- A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
- Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is on the board. Compare trips (“three of a kind, especially with two cards on the board and one in one's hand”).
- A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
- A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
- Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
- A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 4, Noun)
- A group of people, usually meeting socially.
- The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
- The pattern of a tartan, etc.
- A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
- A permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc.
- A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun.)
- A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
adj
noun
- A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter.
- A narrow high-rise apartment building.
- A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which precedes spinning.
- Specifically, a splinter caught under the skin.
- Bait made of pieces of small fish. Compare kibblings.
- A small amount of something; a drop in the bucket; a shred.
verb
noun
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