English words for 'A king-sized bed.'
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noun
- A king-sized bed.
- A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy; in an absolute monarchy, the supreme ruler of his nation.
- (countable or uncountable) Something that has a preeminent position.
- (chess) The principal chess piece, that players seek to threaten with unavoidable capture to result in a victory by checkmate. It is often the tallest piece, with a symbolic crown with a cross at the top.
- The monarch with the most power and authority in a monarchy, regardless of sex.
- (Australia, historical) A male leader of a traditional Aboriginal group, often used as a title by colonists.
- The central pin or skittle in bowling games.
- (graph theory) A vertex in a directed graph which can reach every other vertex via a path with a length of at most 2.
- (UK, slang) A king skin.
- (card games) A playing card with the letter "K" and the image of a king on it, the thirteenth card in a given suit.
- A powerful or majorly influential person; someone who holds the preeminent position.
- Alternative form of qing (“Chinese musical instrument”).
- A male dragonfly; a drake.
- A checker (a piece of checkers/draughts) that reached the farthest row forward, thus becoming crowned (either by turning it upside-down, or by stacking another checker on it) and gaining more freedom of movement.
- the husband or widower of a queen
- a checker that has been moved to the opponent's first row where it is promoted to a piece that is free to move either forward or backward
- preeminence in a particular category or group or field
- a male competitor who holds a preeminent position
- a very wealthy or powerful businessperson
- (chess) the weakest but the most important piece
- one of the four playing cards in a deck bearing the picture of a king
- a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom
verb
- To assume or pretend preeminence (over); to lord it over.
- To crown king, to make (a person) king.
- To dress and perform as a drag king.
- To rule over as king.
- To promote a piece of draughts/checkers that has traversed the board to the opposite side, that piece subsequently being permitted to move backwards as well as forwards.
- To perform the duties of a king.
verb
- furnish with a bed
- put to bed
- have sexual intercourse with
- place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil
- prepare for sleep
- (intransitive, hunting) Of large game animals: to be at rest.
- (transitive) To place in a bed.
- (transitive) To dress or prepare the surface of (stone) so it can serve as a bed.
- (ambitransitive) To have sex (with).
- (intransitive) To go to bed; to put oneself to sleep.
- (transitive) To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or enclosed; to embed.
- (transitive) To set out (plants) in a garden bed.
- (transitive) To furnish with a bed or bedding.
- (transitive) To set in a soft matrix, as paving stones in sand, or tiles in cement.
- (transitive) To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position.
- To settle, as machinery.
noun
- a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit
- a depression forming the ground under a body of water
- (geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock)
- a plot of ground in which plants are growing
- the flat surface of a printing press on which the type form is laid in the last stage of producing a newspaper or magazine or book etc.
- a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep
- single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance
- a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track
- (countable) The bottom of a body of water, such as an ocean, sea, lake, or river.
- A shaped piece of timber to hold a cask clear of a ship’s floor; a pallet.
- A piece of music, normally instrumental, over which a radio DJ talks.
- A deposit of ore, coal, etc.
- (uncountable, usually after a preposition) Sleep; rest; getting to sleep.
- (uncountable) Time spent in a bed.
- (masonry) A course of stone or brick in a wall.
- The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.
- (uncountable, usually after a preposition) The time for going to sleep or resting in bed; bedtime.
- Clipping of bedroom.
- (countable, geology) The smallest division of a geologic formation or stratigraphic rock series marked by well-defined divisional planes (bedding planes) separating it from layers above and below.
- An area where a large number of oysters, mussels, other sessile shellfish, or a large amount of seaweed is found.
- (countable) A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep.
- (US, Canada, automotive) The platform of a truck, trailer, wagon, railcar, or other vehicle that supports the load to be hauled.
- (usually after a preposition) One's place of sleep or rest.
- A garden plot.
- (figurative) Marriage.
- (trampoline) The taut surface of a trampoline.
- A foundation or supporting surface formed of a fluid.
- (figurative, uncountable) Sexual activity.
- A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.
- (masonry) The horizontal surface of a building stone.
- A prepared spot in which to spend the night.
- (computing) The flat surface of a scanner on which a document is placed to be scanned.
- (masonry) The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile.
- (darts) Any of the sections of a dartboard with a point value, delimited by a wire.
noun
- A bed, a resting-place.
- Couch grass, a species of persistent grass, Elymus repens, usually considered a weed.
- (metonymic, usually as "the couch") Psychotherapy.
- (art, painting and gilding) A preliminary layer, as of colour or size.
- (figurative, politics, usually as "the couch") Voters who opt out of voting, usually by staying home on their couch.
- The den of an otter.
- (Canada, US, Australia, Ireland) An item of furniture, often upholstered, for the comfortable seating of more than one person; a sofa.
- (brewing) A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley.
- an upholstered seat for more than one person
- a flat coat of paint or varnish used by artists as a primer
- a narrow bed on which a patient lies during psychiatric or psychoanalytic treatment
verb
- (transitive) To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed.
- (ophthalmology, transitive) In the treatment of a cataract in the eye, to displace the opaque lens with a sharp object such as a needle. The technique is regarded as largely obsolete.
- (transitive) To phrase in a particular style; to use specific wording for.
- (sewing, transitive) To attach a thread onto fabric with small stitches in order to add texture.
- (transitive) To lay something upon a bed or other resting place.
- (transitive) To arrange or dispose as if in a bed.
- (transitive) To lower (a spear or lance) to the position of attack.
- (papermaking, transitive) To transfer (for example, sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire mould to a felt blanket for further drying.
- (intransitive) To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch.
- (intransitive) To lie down; to recline (upon a couch or other place of repose).
- formulate in a particular style or language
adj
noun
- (computing) A document scanner with a flat bed.
- Clipping of flatbed trolley.
- A railway freight car with no sides; a flatcar.
- An open freight vehicle with no sides, designed to carry heavy or outsized loads.
- an open truck bed or trailer with no sides; used to carry large heavy objects
- freight car without permanent sides or roof
verb
noun
- A headboard of a bed.
- A protective cover for the head; a helmet.
- A headset.
- (publishing, printing) A decorative page heading used at the start of volumes or chapters.
- The top piece or part of any of various things.
- The head; the brain.
- A headstall.
- A headdress.
- the band that is the part of a bridle that fits around a horse's head
- a protective helmet for the head
noun
- A bedroom.
- Any enclosed space occupying or similar to a room.
- (figuratively) The legislature or division of the legislature itself.
- One of the two atria or two ventricles of the heart.
- The room used for deliberation by a legislature.
- The private office of a judge.
- (biology) An enlarged space in an underground tunnel of a burrowing animal.
- (firearms) The area holding the ammunition round at the initiation of its discharge.
- (UK) A single law office in a building housing several.
- (firearms) One of the bullet-holding compartments in the cylinder of a revolver.
- The private room of an individual, especially of someone wealthy or noble.
- (historical) A short piece of ordnance or cannon which stood on its breech without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for celebrations and theatrical cannonades.
- a room used primarily for sleeping
- a room where a judge transacts business
- a natural or artificial enclosed space
- an enclosed volume in the body
- a deliberative or legislative or administrative or judicial assembly
verb
- (transitive) To create or modify a gun to be a specific caliber.
- (transitive) To place in a chamber, as a round of ammunition.
- (martial arts, transitive) To prepare an offensive, defensive, or counteroffensive action by drawing a limb or weapon to a position where it may be charged with kinetic energy.
- To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers.
- (transitive) To enclose in a room.
- place in a chamber
noun
- A bedroom.
- The place where a bird sleeps (usually its nest or a branch).
- (Scotland) The open cross-joists or inner roof of a cottage or living space.
- Synonym of perch (“a position that is secure and advantageous”).
- (Shetland and Orkney) Alternative form of roust (“a strong tide or current”).
- A group of birds roosting together.
- (Australian rules football) A kick which causes the ball to travel a long distance.
- a perch on which domestic fowl rest or sleep
- a shelter with perches for fowl or other birds
verb
noun
- An improvised bed.
- (slang) Extortion, especially through blackmail
- (slang) A thorough search; a frisk
- A trial or test period, especially of a ship or aircraft.
- extortion of money (as by blackmail)
- initial adjustments to improve the functioning or the efficiency and to bring to a more satisfactory state
- a very thorough search of a person or a place
adj
noun
- a light mattress
- a metallic tapping sound
- any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis; feed on blood of warm-blooded animals
- a mark indicating that something has been noted or completed etc.
- A slight speck.
- A tap or light touch.
- A tiny woodland arachnid of the suborder Ixodida.
- (ornithology) A whinchat (Saxicola rubetra).
- (UK, colloquial) Credit, trust.
- (video games) A periodic increment of damage or healing caused by an ongoing status effect.
- (Australia, New Zealand, British, Ireland) A mark (✓) made to indicate agreement, correctness or acknowledgement.
- (computing) A jiffy (unit of time defined by basic timer frequency).
- A mark on any scale of measurement; a unit of measurement.
- (uncountable) Ticking.
- (birdwatching) A bird seen (or heard) by a birdwatcher, for the first time that day, year, trip, etc., and thus added to a list of observed birds.
- A relatively quiet but sharp sound generally made repeatedly by moving machinery.
- (colloquial) A short period of time, particularly a second.
- (gaming) Each of the fixed time periods, in a tick-based game, in which players or characters may perform a set number of actions.
- A sheet that wraps around a mattress; the cover of a mattress, containing the filling.
verb
- put a check mark on or near or next to
- make a clicking or ticking sound
- make a sound like a clock or a timer
- sew
- To make a clicking noise similar to the movement of the hands of an analog clock.
- (intransitive) To go on trust, or credit.
- (birdwatching, transitive) To add (a bird) to a list of birds that have been seen (or heard).
- (informal, intransitive) To work or operate, especially mechanically.
- To make a tick or checkmark.
- (transitive) To give tick; to trust.
- To strike gently; to pat.
noun
- The top sheet of a bed.
- (music) A new performance or rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song.
- (uncountable) Area or situation which screens a person or thing from view.
- (cricket) The area of the stumps that is blocked by the batsman so as to defend the wicket.
- (law) In commercial law, a buyer’s purchase on the open market of goods similar or identical to the goods contracted for after a seller has breached a contract of sale by failure to deliver the goods contracted for.
- A lid.
- In a steam engine, the lap of a slide valve.
- (philately) An envelope complete with stamps and postmarks etc.
- (India) A bag or packet.
- (military) A solid object, including terrain, that provides protection from enemy fire.
- (construction) The distance between reinforcing steel and the exterior of concrete.
- (espionage) A persona maintained by a spy or undercover operative; cover story.
- (cricket) A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30° forward of square; a fielder in this position.
- A setting at a restaurant table or formal dinner.
- The front and back of a book, magazine, CD package, etc.
- (cricket) A backup incase any player sustains injury during nets or midseries. Originally have to be declared part of squad before match.
- A cover charge.
- A cloth or similar material, often fitted, placed over an item such as a car or sofa or food to protect it from dust, rain, insects, etc. when not being used.
- (combinatorics, topology) A collection (or family) of subsets of a given set, whose union contains every element of said original set.
- (cricket) A tarpaulin or other device used to cover the wicket during rain, to prevent it getting wet.
- The portion of a slate, tile, or shingle that is hidden by the overlap of the course above.
- (insurance) An insurance contract; coverage by an insurance contract.
- a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something
- fire that makes it difficult for the enemy to fire on your own individuals or formations
- a false identity and background (especially one created for an undercover agent)
- a recording of a song that was first recorded or made popular by somebody else
- bedding that keeps a person warm in bed
- the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book
- the act of concealing the existence of something by obstructing the view of it
- a fixed charge by a restaurant or nightclub over and above the charge for food and drink
- a natural object that covers or envelops
- covering for a hole (especially a hole in the top of a container)
adj
verb
- (military, law enforcement, transitive) To protect using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing; or to protect using continuous, heaving fire at or in the direction of the enemy so as to force the enemy to remain in cover; or to threaten using an aimed firearm.
- (transitive, broadcasting) To air or run locally originated material in place of network material during an internal spot break in a syndicated program.
- (sports, transitive) To defend (mark) a particular player or area.
- (transitive) To set upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
- (intransitive) To act as a replacement.
- (transitive) To be upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
- (transitive) To provide insurance coverage for.
- (transitive) To deal with or include someone or something.
- (transitive) To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
- (transitive, of a publication) To discuss thoroughly; to provide coverage of.
- (music, transitive) To make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist).
- (transitive) To traverse or put behind a certain distance.
- (transitive) To be over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
- (transitive) To supply with funds; to settle or pay the costs for; to foot the bill for.
- (transitive) To invest (oneself with something); to bring upon (oneself).
- (transitive) To have as an assignment or responsibility.
- (transitive) To extend over a given period of time or range, to occupy, to stretch over a given area.
- (chess, transitive) To protect or control (a piece or square).
- (transitive) To copulate with (said of certain male animals such as dogs and horses).
- (transitive) To protect from attack in general, to guard.
- (transitive) To provide an alibi for (someone); to provide excuses or apologia for (someone); to carry water for someone.
- (transitive) To be enough money for.
- form a cover over
- act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression
- hide from view or knowledge
- include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory
- hold within range of an aimed firearm
- cover as if with a shroud
- copulate with a female, used especially of horses
- invest with a large or excessive amount of something
- protect by insurance
- make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities
- be responsible for guarding an opponent in a game
- protect or defend (a position in a game)
- be responsible for reporting the details of, as in journalism
- provide with a covering or cause to be covered
- to take an action to protect against future problems
- spread over a surface to conceal or protect
- maintain a check on; especially by patrolling
- put something on top of something else
- sit on (eggs)
- play a higher card than the one previously played
- be sufficient to meet, defray, or offset the charge or cost of
- provide for
- span an interval of distance, space or time
- help out by taking someone's place and temporarily assuming their responsibilities
- clothe, as if for protection from the elements
- travel across or pass over
noun
- a large sleeping room containing several beds
- a college or university building containing living quarters for students
- A room containing a number of beds (and often some other furniture and/or utilities) for sleeping, often applied to student and backpacker accommodation of this kind.
- A building or part of a building which houses students, soldiers, monks etc. who sleep there and use communal further facilities.
- A dormitory town.
noun
- (attributive, originally Canada, US) Pertaining to a queen-size bed or queen-size bedding.
- (originally UK) A queen scallop.
- A woman pre-eminent in a particular group or field.
- (LGBTQ slang, sometimes derogatory) A homosexual man, especially one who is effeminate or flaming.
- A female monarch.
- (card games) A playing card with a depiction of a queen on it, generally ranking next below the king and above the jack in a given suit.
- (rare) A queen apple.
- (chess) A chess piece that, under contemporary rules, is the most powerful, able to move any number of spaces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.
- (LGBTQ, slang) Ellipsis of drag queen.
- Something regarded as the greatest of its kind or as having pre-eminence or power comparable to that of a queen over a given area.
- The wife, consort, or widow of a king.
- (slang, originally US) An attractive woman; a female partner in a romantic relationship.
- (Christianity) The Virgin Mary (especially in formulations such as Queen of Heaven, Queen of Glory).
- A monarch butterfly (Danaus spp., especially Danaus gilippus).
- A red disk that is the most valuable piece in the Asian game of carrom.
- Ellipsis of queen olive.
- An adult female cat capable of breeding.
- A reproductive female insect in a hive, such as an ant, bee, termite or wasp.
- (now chiefly historical) A type of large roofing slate.
- An excellent woman.
- A girl or woman chosen to preside in an honorary or ceremonial manner over a specified festivity or occasion, as May Queen, Homecoming Queen, prom queen, pearly queen.
- the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
- the wife or widow of a king
- offensive term for a homosexual man
- one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen
- (chess) the most powerful piece
- an especially large mole rat and the only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring which are sired by only a few males
- a female competitor who holds a preeminent position
- a female sovereign ruler
- something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind
- female cat
verb
- (BDSM, slang, transitive, usually of a woman) To sit on a person’s face to receive oral sex, typically while straddling the person’s head.
- (transitive) To make a queen or (figuratively) to give the status of a queen.
- (beekeeping) To provide with a new queen bee.
- (chess) To promote a pawn to a queen.
- (beekeeping) To be the queen bee of a colony.
- become a queen
- promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess
adj
- (Canada, US) The size of a full bed.
- (US) (of an automobile) Large; specifically, designed to be comfortable for long-distance driving with six occupants and their luggage.
- (art) (of a representational artwork or model) Being the same size as the original.
- Being the normal or standard size for its type.
- being of the same size as an original
noun
- decorative cover for a bed
- a meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed
- a haphazard distribution in all directions
- the expansion of a person's girth (especially at middle age)
- a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures
- two facing pages of a book or other publication
- farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle)
- process or result of distributing or extending over a wide expanse of space
- act of extending over a wider scope or expanse of space or time
- a tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers or used in preparing other dishes
- (geometry) An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
- The act of spreading.
- A piece of material used as a cover (such as a bedspread).
- (gambling) The difference between the teams' final scores at the end of a sport match.
- (debating slang) An act or instance of spreading (speedreading).
- Two facing pages in a book, newspaper etc.
- A numerical difference.
- (trading, finance) The purchase of one delivery month of one commodity against the sale of that same delivery month of a different commodity.
- An expanse of land.
- A large meal, especially one laid out on a table.
- (finance) The difference between the prices of two similar items.
- A large tract of land used to raise livestock; a cattle ranch.
- (cartomancy) A layout, pattern or design of cards arranged for a reading.
- (trading, economics, finance) The difference between the price of a futures month and the price of another month of the same commodity.
- (business, economics) The difference between the wholesale and retail prices.
- (trading) The difference between bidding and asking price.
- (statistics) A measure of how far the data tend to deviate from the average.
- (bread, etc.) Any form of food designed to be spread, such as butters or jams.
- Excessive width of the trails of ink written on overly absorbent paper.
- The surface in proportion to the depth of a cut gemstone.
- (prison slang, uncountable) Food improvised by inmates from various ingredients to relieve the tedium of prison food.
- An item in a newspaper or magazine that occupies more than one column or page.
- Something that has been spread.
- (trading) An arbitrage transaction of the same commodity in two markets, executed to take advantage of a profit from price discrepancies.
- (trading, finance) The purchase of a futures contract of one delivery month against the sale of another futures delivery month of the same commodity.
- (military) A set of multiple torpedoes launched on side-by-side, slowly-diverging paths toward one or more enemy ships.
adj
verb
- cause to become widely known
- cover by spreading something over
- become distributed or widespread
- move outward
- become widely known and passed on
- strew or distribute over an area
- distribute or disperse widely
- spread out or open from a closed or folded state
- distribute over a surface in a layer
- spread across or over
- (transitive) To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.
- (transitive) To disseminate; to cause to proliferate, to make (something) widely known or present.
- (transitive) To smear, to distribute in a thin layer.
- (transitive) To cover (something) with a thin layer of some substance, as of butter.
- (intransitive, transitive, debating slang) To speedread; to recite one's arguments at an extremely fast pace.
- (transitive) To disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area.
- (intransitive) To proliferate; to become more widely present, to be disseminated.
- (intransitive) To take up a larger area or space; to expand, be extended.
- (intransitive, slang) To open one’s legs, especially for sexual favours.
- To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions.
- (transitive) To extend (individual rays, limbs etc.); to stretch out in varying or opposing directions. simple past and past participle of spread
adv
noun
verb
noun
- a low bed to be slid under a higher bed
- Ellipsis of trundle bed (“a low bed on wheels that can be rolled underneath another bed”).
- small wheel or roller
- (engineering) A lantern wheel, or one of its bars.
- The sound made by an object being moved on wheels.
- (heraldry, rare) A spool or skein of golden thread (chiefly in the arms of the Embroiderers Company, now the Company of Broderers).
- A motion as of something moving upon little wheels or rollers; a rolling motion.
verb
- move heavily
- (transitive) To wheel or roll (an object on wheels), especially by pushing, often slowly or heavily.
- (intransitive) To roll or revolve; to roll along.
- (transitive) To move (something or someone), often heavily or clumsily.
- (intransitive) To move, often heavily or clumsily.
- To transport (something or someone) using an object on wheels, especially one that is pushed.
- (intransitive) To move heavily (on wheels).
- (transitive) To cause (something) to roll or revolve; to roll (something) along.
noun
- A bedpan.
- A wide receptacle in which gold grains are separated from gravel by washing the contents with water.
- (music) Ellipsis of steelpan.
- (rail transport, informal) Clipping of pantograph.
- A part; a portion.
- A pond or lake, considered as the expanse of land upon which the water sits.
- A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating as part of manufacture; a vacuum pan.
- (South Africa) Synonym of playa lake: a temporary pond or lake in a playa.
- (firearms) The part of a matchlock, flintlock, or wheellock firearm that holds the priming.
- (figurative) The brain, seen as one's intellect.
- (Ireland) A deep plastic receptacle, used for washing or food preparation; a basin.
- (roofing) The bottom flat part of a roofing panel that is between the ribs of the panel.
- (especially South Africa) A dry lake or playa, especially a salt flat.
- A wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking.
- A cylindrical receptacle about as tall as it is wide, with one long handle, usually made of metal, used for cooking in the home.
- A sequence in a film in which the camera pans over an area.
- (carpentry) A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.
- (slang) A human face, a mug.
- (chiefly Ireland) A loaf of bread; a pan-loaf.
- (fortifications) The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.
- Ellipsis of salt pan: a flat artificial pond used for collecting minerals from evaporated water.
- A leaf of gold or silver.
- The contents of such a receptacle.
- The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the brainpan.
- Alternative form of paan.
- (geology) Ellipsis of hardpan: a hard substrate such as is formed in pans.
- Strong adverse criticism.
- cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel
- shallow container made of metal
adj
verb
- (imaging, intransitive) To shift an image relative to the display window without changing the viewing scale.
- To join or fit together; to unite.
- (intransitive, with out, to pan out) To turn out well; to be successful.
- (sound engineering, intransitive) (of a sound) To move in the multichannel sound field.
- (photography, intransitive) To move the camera lens angle while continuing to expose the film, enabling a contiguous view and enrichment of context. In still-photography large-group portraits the film usually remains on a horizontal fixed plane as the lens and/or the film holder moves to expose the film laterally. The resulting image may extend a short distance laterally or as great as 360° from the point where the film first began to be exposed.
- (sound engineering, transitive) To spread a sound signal into a new stereo or multichannel sound field, typically giving the impression that it is moving across the sound stage.
- (intransitive) (of a camera) To turn horizontally.
- (transitive) To wash in a pan (of earth, sand etc. when searching for gold).
- (transitive, informal, of a contest) To beat one's opposition convincingly.
- (transitive) To disparage; to belittle; to put down; to harshly criticize, especially a work (book, movie, etc.)
- wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious minerals
- express a totally negative opinion of
- make a sweeping movement
noun
- a flat canopy (especially one over a four-poster bed)
- A canopy over a bed.
- someone who administers a test to determine your qualifications
- Alternative form of testiere (“armor for a horse's head”).
- A person who administers a test.
- (cycling) A cyclist who focuses on success in time trials.
- A sample of perfume available in a shop for customers to try before they buy.
- Something that overhangs something else; especially a canopy or soundboard over a pulpit.
- A miniature pot of paint for testing and comparison purposes.
- A device used for testing.
- An old French silver coin.
adj
- having a bed or beds as specified
- deposited or arranged in horizontal layers
- (often in combinations) With a bedding of straw, sand, woodchips, or similar covering the floor.
- Having gone to bed.
- (often in combinations) Furnished with one or more beds; Having (a particular number or type of) beds
- Having sexual experience; not a virgin.
- Lying flat.
- Growing or arranged in a bed or beds (garden plot or area in which a large number of plants, seaweed, or shellfish are found together.)
- Forming or containing a bed or beds (a horizontal deposit of a mineral or ore).
verb
noun
- a bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers
- a place where a craft can be made fast
- a job in an organization
- An assigned place for a person in (chiefly historical) a horse-drawn coach or other means of transportation, or (military) in a barracks.
- (by extension) A room in a vessel in which the officers or company mess (“eat together”) and reside; also, a room or other place in a vessel for storage.
- (road transport) A place for a vehicle on land to park.
- Chiefly in wide berth: a sufficient space for manoeuvring or safety.
- A bunk or other bed for sleeping on in a caravan, a train, etc.
- A position on a field of play.
- (by extension) A place on a vessel to sleep, especially a bed on the side of a cabin.
- (chiefly nautical, slang) A proper place for a thing.
- A position or seed in a tournament bracket.
- (by extension) A place for a vessel to lie at anchor or to moor.
- An appointment, job, or position, especially one regarded as comfortable or good.
- (by extension) A job or position on a vessel.
verb
- come into or dock at a wharf
- provide with a berth
- secure in or as if in a berth or dock
- (by extension) Of a person: to occupy a berth.
- (reflexive, nautical) Of a vessel: to move into a berth.
- (nautical) To bring (a ship or other vessel) into a berth (noun etymology 1 sense 1.1); also, to provide a berth for (a vessel).
- (by extension, chiefly passive voice) To assign (someone) a berth (noun etymology 1 sense 1.3 or etymology 1 sense 2.2) or place to sleep on a vessel, a train, etc.
- (figurative) To provide (someone) with a berth (noun etymology 1 sense 3.1) or appointment, job, or position.
- (specifically, astronautics) To use a device to bring (a spacecraft) into its berth or dock.
noun
- a bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers
- beds built one above the other
- unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)
- a message that seems to convey no meaning
- a rough bed (as at a campsite)
- a long trough for feeding cattle
- (nautical) A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other.
- (Singapore, military, by extension) A dormitory or bunkroom where soldiers sleep.
- One of a series of berths or beds placed in tiers.
- (military) A cot.
- (slang) A specimen of a recreational drug with insufficient active ingredient.
- (US, dialect) A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.
- (US) A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.
verb
adj
noun
- A flat sheet for use on a bed.
- (American football) The areas behind the line of scrimmage to either side of an offensive football formation.
- (rail transport) A flat spot on the wheel of a rail vehicle.
- (publishing) A flat, glossy children's book with few pages.
- An area of level ground (sometimes covered with shallow or tidal water).
- (technical, theatre, stagecraft) A rectangular wooden structure covered with masonite, lauan, or muslin, often produced in standard modules, that is used to build wall surfaces on stage. Flats can be painted and outfitted with doors and/or windows to depict a building or other part of a scene, and are a hard-surfaced alternative to a backcloth or backdrop.
- (entomology) Any of various hesperiid butterflies that spread their wings open when they land.
- (horse racing, with 'the' or attributively, sometimes with capital) Level horse-racing ground, as contrasted with courses incorporating jumps, or the racing done on such ground.
- (postal) A large mail piece measuring at least 8 1/2 by 11 inches, such as catalogs, magazines, and unfolded paper enclosed in large envelopes.
- (music) A note played one chromatic semitone lower than a natural, denoted by the symbol ♭ placed after the letter representing the note (e.g., B♭) or in front of the note symbol (e.g. ♭♪).
- (in the plural) A type of ladies' shoe with a very low heel.
- (informal, automotive) A flat tyre/flat tire.
- (painting) A thin, broad brush used in oil and watercolour painting.
- (optics) A flat (i.e. plane) mirror
- Ellipsis of flat ride (“spinning amusement ride”).
- A wide, shallow container or pallet.
- (geometry) A subset of n-dimensional space that is congruent to a Euclidean space of lower dimension.
- (in the plural) A type of flat-soled running shoe without spikes.
- The most prominent flat part of something.
- A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
- (swordfighting) The flat side of a blade, as opposed to the sharp edge.
- A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
- A platform on a wheel, upon which emblematic designs etc. are carried in processions.
- (Australia, horse racing, with 'the' or attributively, sometimes with capital) the area in the centre of a racecourse.
- (gambling, slang) A cheater's die with the edges shaved to make certain rolls more likely.
- (in the phrase 'the flat') Level ground in general.
- (historical) An early kind of toy soldier having a flat design.
- (US) Ellipsis of flat water (“nonfizzy drinking water”).
- (chiefly British, New England, South Africa, India, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, archaic elsewhere) A complete domicile occupying only part of a building, especially one for rent
- (Canadian Prairies, British Columbia) A 24-case of beer.
- The palm of the hand, with the adjacent part of the fingers.
- (rail transport, US) A railroad car without a roof, and whose body is a platform without sides; a platform car or flatcar.
- (mining) A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.
- a shallow box in which seedlings are started
- a deflated pneumatic tire
- scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting
- a level tract of land
- a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named
- a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house
- freight car without permanent sides or roof
adj
- (not comparable, commerce) Of fees, fares etc., fixed; unvarying.
- Smooth; having no protrusions, indentations or other surface irregularities, or relatively so.
- (golf, of a golf club) Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft.
- At a consistently depressed level; consistently lacklustre.
- (of colours) Without variation in tone or hue (uniform), and dull (not glossy).
- (algebra, ring theory, of a ring homomorphism) Such that its target, regarded as a module over its source, is flat (as above).
- (music, note) Lowered by one semitone.
- In a horizontal line or plane; not sloping.
- (juggling, of a throw) Without spin; spinless.
- (algebraic geometry, scheme theory, of a morphism of schemes) Such that the induced map on every stalk is flat (as a map of rings).
- (authorship, figuratively, especially of a character) Lacking in depth, substance, or believability; underdeveloped; one-dimensional.
- (horticulture, of certain fruits) Flattening at the ends.
- (slang) Having small or invisible breasts and/or buttocks.
- (phonetics, of a vowel) Not diphthongal; without variation in height or backness.
- (of a tire or other inflated object) Deflated, especially because of a puncture.
- (homological algebra, of a module) Such that the tensor product preserves exact sequences. See Flat module on Wikipedia.Wikipedia.
- (of a battery) Unable to emit power; dead.
- (of measurements of time) Exact.
- Without variation in level, quantity, value, tone etc.
- Having no variations in height.
- (music) Of a note or voice, lower in pitch than it should be.
- (music, voice) Without variations in pitch.
- (figurative) Lacking liveliness or action; depressed; uninteresting; dull and boring.
- Absolute; downright; peremptory.
- (grammar) Not having an inflectional ending or sign, such as a noun used as an adjective, or an adjective as an adverb, without the addition of a formative suffix; or an infinitive without the sign "to".
- (wine) Lacking acidity without being sweet.
- (of coffee) Having little froth and little milk.
- (of a carbonated drink) With all or most of its carbon dioxide having come out of solution so that the drink no longer fizzes or contains any bubbles.
- sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch
- not reflecting light; not glossy
- having lost effervescence
- lacking contrast or shading between tones
- horizontally level
- stretched out and lying at full length along the ground
- having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness
- lacking taste or flavor or tang
- flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)
- not modified or restricted by reservations
- commercially inactive
- lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting
- having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another
- (of a musical note) lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone
- lacking the expected range or depth; not designed to give an illusion or depth
adv
- Completely, firmly, or unequivocally.
- Directly; flatly.
- (with units of time, distance, etc) Used to emphasize the smallness of the measurement.
- (finance, slang) Without allowance for accrued interest.
- Completely.
- (of accurately measured timings) Exactly, precisely.
- So as to be flat.
- (of a sentence) Without parole.
- with flat sails
- in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly
verb
- (transitive) To dash or throw
- (poker slang) To make a flat call; to call without raising.
- (intransitive) To become flat or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.
- (intransitive, music, colloquial) To fall from the pitch.
- (intransitive) To dash, rush
- (transitive, music) To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.
noun
- A king-sized bed.
- A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy; in an absolute monarchy, the supreme ruler of his nation.
- (countable or uncountable) Something that has a preeminent position.
- (chess) The principal chess piece, that players seek to threaten with unavoidable capture to result in a victory by checkmate. It is often the tallest piece, with a symbolic crown with a cross at the top.
- The monarch with the most power and authority in a monarchy, regardless of sex.
- (Australia, historical) A male leader of a traditional Aboriginal group, often used as a title by colonists.
- The central pin or skittle in bowling games.
- (graph theory) A vertex in a directed graph which can reach every other vertex via a path with a length of at most 2.
- (UK, slang) A king skin.
- (card games) A playing card with the letter "K" and the image of a king on it, the thirteenth card in a given suit.
- A powerful or majorly influential person; someone who holds the preeminent position.
- Alternative form of qing (“Chinese musical instrument”).
- A male dragonfly; a drake.
- A checker (a piece of checkers/draughts) that reached the farthest row forward, thus becoming crowned (either by turning it upside-down, or by stacking another checker on it) and gaining more freedom of movement.
- the husband or widower of a queen
- a checker that has been moved to the opponent's first row where it is promoted to a piece that is free to move either forward or backward
- preeminence in a particular category or group or field
- a male competitor who holds a preeminent position
- a very wealthy or powerful businessperson
- (chess) the weakest but the most important piece
- one of the four playing cards in a deck bearing the picture of a king
- a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom
verb
- To assume or pretend preeminence (over); to lord it over.
- To crown king, to make (a person) king.
- To dress and perform as a drag king.
- To rule over as king.
- To promote a piece of draughts/checkers that has traversed the board to the opposite side, that piece subsequently being permitted to move backwards as well as forwards.
- To perform the duties of a king.
noun
- A bed, a resting-place.
- Couch grass, a species of persistent grass, Elymus repens, usually considered a weed.
- (metonymic, usually as "the couch") Psychotherapy.
- (art, painting and gilding) A preliminary layer, as of colour or size.
- (figurative, politics, usually as "the couch") Voters who opt out of voting, usually by staying home on their couch.
- The den of an otter.
- (Canada, US, Australia, Ireland) An item of furniture, often upholstered, for the comfortable seating of more than one person; a sofa.
- (brewing) A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley.
- an upholstered seat for more than one person
- a flat coat of paint or varnish used by artists as a primer
- a narrow bed on which a patient lies during psychiatric or psychoanalytic treatment
verb
- (transitive) To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed.
- (ophthalmology, transitive) In the treatment of a cataract in the eye, to displace the opaque lens with a sharp object such as a needle. The technique is regarded as largely obsolete.
- (transitive) To phrase in a particular style; to use specific wording for.
- (sewing, transitive) To attach a thread onto fabric with small stitches in order to add texture.
- (transitive) To lay something upon a bed or other resting place.
- (transitive) To arrange or dispose as if in a bed.
- (transitive) To lower (a spear or lance) to the position of attack.
- (papermaking, transitive) To transfer (for example, sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire mould to a felt blanket for further drying.
- (intransitive) To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch.
- (intransitive) To lie down; to recline (upon a couch or other place of repose).
- formulate in a particular style or language
noun
- A headboard of a bed.
- A protective cover for the head; a helmet.
- A headset.
- (publishing, printing) A decorative page heading used at the start of volumes or chapters.
- The top piece or part of any of various things.
- The head; the brain.
- A headstall.
- A headdress.
- the band that is the part of a bridle that fits around a horse's head
- a protective helmet for the head
noun
- A bedroom.
- Any enclosed space occupying or similar to a room.
- (figuratively) The legislature or division of the legislature itself.
- One of the two atria or two ventricles of the heart.
- The room used for deliberation by a legislature.
- The private office of a judge.
- (biology) An enlarged space in an underground tunnel of a burrowing animal.
- (firearms) The area holding the ammunition round at the initiation of its discharge.
- (UK) A single law office in a building housing several.
- (firearms) One of the bullet-holding compartments in the cylinder of a revolver.
- The private room of an individual, especially of someone wealthy or noble.
- (historical) A short piece of ordnance or cannon which stood on its breech without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for celebrations and theatrical cannonades.
- a room used primarily for sleeping
- a room where a judge transacts business
- a natural or artificial enclosed space
- an enclosed volume in the body
- a deliberative or legislative or administrative or judicial assembly
verb
- (transitive) To create or modify a gun to be a specific caliber.
- (transitive) To place in a chamber, as a round of ammunition.
- (martial arts, transitive) To prepare an offensive, defensive, or counteroffensive action by drawing a limb or weapon to a position where it may be charged with kinetic energy.
- To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers.
- (transitive) To enclose in a room.
- place in a chamber
noun
- A bedroom.
- The place where a bird sleeps (usually its nest or a branch).
- (Scotland) The open cross-joists or inner roof of a cottage or living space.
- Synonym of perch (“a position that is secure and advantageous”).
- (Shetland and Orkney) Alternative form of roust (“a strong tide or current”).
- A group of birds roosting together.
- (Australian rules football) A kick which causes the ball to travel a long distance.
- a perch on which domestic fowl rest or sleep
- a shelter with perches for fowl or other birds
verb
noun
- An improvised bed.
- (slang) Extortion, especially through blackmail
- (slang) A thorough search; a frisk
- A trial or test period, especially of a ship or aircraft.
- extortion of money (as by blackmail)
- initial adjustments to improve the functioning or the efficiency and to bring to a more satisfactory state
- a very thorough search of a person or a place
adj
noun
- a light mattress
- a metallic tapping sound
- any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis; feed on blood of warm-blooded animals
- a mark indicating that something has been noted or completed etc.
- A slight speck.
- A tap or light touch.
- A tiny woodland arachnid of the suborder Ixodida.
- (ornithology) A whinchat (Saxicola rubetra).
- (UK, colloquial) Credit, trust.
- (video games) A periodic increment of damage or healing caused by an ongoing status effect.
- (Australia, New Zealand, British, Ireland) A mark (✓) made to indicate agreement, correctness or acknowledgement.
- (computing) A jiffy (unit of time defined by basic timer frequency).
- A mark on any scale of measurement; a unit of measurement.
- (uncountable) Ticking.
- (birdwatching) A bird seen (or heard) by a birdwatcher, for the first time that day, year, trip, etc., and thus added to a list of observed birds.
- A relatively quiet but sharp sound generally made repeatedly by moving machinery.
- (colloquial) A short period of time, particularly a second.
- (gaming) Each of the fixed time periods, in a tick-based game, in which players or characters may perform a set number of actions.
- A sheet that wraps around a mattress; the cover of a mattress, containing the filling.
verb
- put a check mark on or near or next to
- make a clicking or ticking sound
- make a sound like a clock or a timer
- sew
- To make a clicking noise similar to the movement of the hands of an analog clock.
- (intransitive) To go on trust, or credit.
- (birdwatching, transitive) To add (a bird) to a list of birds that have been seen (or heard).
- (informal, intransitive) To work or operate, especially mechanically.
- To make a tick or checkmark.
- (transitive) To give tick; to trust.
- To strike gently; to pat.
noun
- The top sheet of a bed.
- (music) A new performance or rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song.
- (uncountable) Area or situation which screens a person or thing from view.
- (cricket) The area of the stumps that is blocked by the batsman so as to defend the wicket.
- (law) In commercial law, a buyer’s purchase on the open market of goods similar or identical to the goods contracted for after a seller has breached a contract of sale by failure to deliver the goods contracted for.
- A lid.
- In a steam engine, the lap of a slide valve.
- (philately) An envelope complete with stamps and postmarks etc.
- (India) A bag or packet.
- (military) A solid object, including terrain, that provides protection from enemy fire.
- (construction) The distance between reinforcing steel and the exterior of concrete.
- (espionage) A persona maintained by a spy or undercover operative; cover story.
- (cricket) A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30° forward of square; a fielder in this position.
- A setting at a restaurant table or formal dinner.
- The front and back of a book, magazine, CD package, etc.
- (cricket) A backup incase any player sustains injury during nets or midseries. Originally have to be declared part of squad before match.
- A cover charge.
- A cloth or similar material, often fitted, placed over an item such as a car or sofa or food to protect it from dust, rain, insects, etc. when not being used.
- (combinatorics, topology) A collection (or family) of subsets of a given set, whose union contains every element of said original set.
- (cricket) A tarpaulin or other device used to cover the wicket during rain, to prevent it getting wet.
- The portion of a slate, tile, or shingle that is hidden by the overlap of the course above.
- (insurance) An insurance contract; coverage by an insurance contract.
- a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something
- fire that makes it difficult for the enemy to fire on your own individuals or formations
- a false identity and background (especially one created for an undercover agent)
- a recording of a song that was first recorded or made popular by somebody else
- bedding that keeps a person warm in bed
- the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book
- the act of concealing the existence of something by obstructing the view of it
- a fixed charge by a restaurant or nightclub over and above the charge for food and drink
- a natural object that covers or envelops
- covering for a hole (especially a hole in the top of a container)
adj
verb
- (military, law enforcement, transitive) To protect using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing; or to protect using continuous, heaving fire at or in the direction of the enemy so as to force the enemy to remain in cover; or to threaten using an aimed firearm.
- (transitive, broadcasting) To air or run locally originated material in place of network material during an internal spot break in a syndicated program.
- (sports, transitive) To defend (mark) a particular player or area.
- (transitive) To set upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
- (intransitive) To act as a replacement.
- (transitive) To be upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
- (transitive) To provide insurance coverage for.
- (transitive) To deal with or include someone or something.
- (transitive) To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
- (transitive, of a publication) To discuss thoroughly; to provide coverage of.
- (music, transitive) To make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist).
- (transitive) To traverse or put behind a certain distance.
- (transitive) To be over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
- (transitive) To supply with funds; to settle or pay the costs for; to foot the bill for.
- (transitive) To invest (oneself with something); to bring upon (oneself).
- (transitive) To have as an assignment or responsibility.
- (transitive) To extend over a given period of time or range, to occupy, to stretch over a given area.
- (chess, transitive) To protect or control (a piece or square).
- (transitive) To copulate with (said of certain male animals such as dogs and horses).
- (transitive) To protect from attack in general, to guard.
- (transitive) To provide an alibi for (someone); to provide excuses or apologia for (someone); to carry water for someone.
- (transitive) To be enough money for.
- form a cover over
- act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression
- hide from view or knowledge
- include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory
- hold within range of an aimed firearm
- cover as if with a shroud
- copulate with a female, used especially of horses
- invest with a large or excessive amount of something
- protect by insurance
- make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities
- be responsible for guarding an opponent in a game
- protect or defend (a position in a game)
- be responsible for reporting the details of, as in journalism
- provide with a covering or cause to be covered
- to take an action to protect against future problems
- spread over a surface to conceal or protect
- maintain a check on; especially by patrolling
- put something on top of something else
- sit on (eggs)
- play a higher card than the one previously played
- be sufficient to meet, defray, or offset the charge or cost of
- provide for
- span an interval of distance, space or time
- help out by taking someone's place and temporarily assuming their responsibilities
- clothe, as if for protection from the elements
- travel across or pass over
noun
- a large sleeping room containing several beds
- a college or university building containing living quarters for students
- A room containing a number of beds (and often some other furniture and/or utilities) for sleeping, often applied to student and backpacker accommodation of this kind.
- A building or part of a building which houses students, soldiers, monks etc. who sleep there and use communal further facilities.
- A dormitory town.
noun
- (attributive, originally Canada, US) Pertaining to a queen-size bed or queen-size bedding.
- (originally UK) A queen scallop.
- A woman pre-eminent in a particular group or field.
- (LGBTQ slang, sometimes derogatory) A homosexual man, especially one who is effeminate or flaming.
- A female monarch.
- (card games) A playing card with a depiction of a queen on it, generally ranking next below the king and above the jack in a given suit.
- (rare) A queen apple.
- (chess) A chess piece that, under contemporary rules, is the most powerful, able to move any number of spaces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.
- (LGBTQ, slang) Ellipsis of drag queen.
- Something regarded as the greatest of its kind or as having pre-eminence or power comparable to that of a queen over a given area.
- The wife, consort, or widow of a king.
- (slang, originally US) An attractive woman; a female partner in a romantic relationship.
- (Christianity) The Virgin Mary (especially in formulations such as Queen of Heaven, Queen of Glory).
- A monarch butterfly (Danaus spp., especially Danaus gilippus).
- A red disk that is the most valuable piece in the Asian game of carrom.
- Ellipsis of queen olive.
- An adult female cat capable of breeding.
- A reproductive female insect in a hive, such as an ant, bee, termite or wasp.
- (now chiefly historical) A type of large roofing slate.
- An excellent woman.
- A girl or woman chosen to preside in an honorary or ceremonial manner over a specified festivity or occasion, as May Queen, Homecoming Queen, prom queen, pearly queen.
- the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
- the wife or widow of a king
- offensive term for a homosexual man
- one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen
- (chess) the most powerful piece
- an especially large mole rat and the only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring which are sired by only a few males
- a female competitor who holds a preeminent position
- a female sovereign ruler
- something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind
- female cat
verb
- (BDSM, slang, transitive, usually of a woman) To sit on a person’s face to receive oral sex, typically while straddling the person’s head.
- (transitive) To make a queen or (figuratively) to give the status of a queen.
- (beekeeping) To provide with a new queen bee.
- (chess) To promote a pawn to a queen.
- (beekeeping) To be the queen bee of a colony.
- become a queen
- promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess
noun
- decorative cover for a bed
- a meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed
- a haphazard distribution in all directions
- the expansion of a person's girth (especially at middle age)
- a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures
- two facing pages of a book or other publication
- farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle)
- process or result of distributing or extending over a wide expanse of space
- act of extending over a wider scope or expanse of space or time
- a tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers or used in preparing other dishes
- (geometry) An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
- The act of spreading.
- A piece of material used as a cover (such as a bedspread).
- (gambling) The difference between the teams' final scores at the end of a sport match.
- (debating slang) An act or instance of spreading (speedreading).
- Two facing pages in a book, newspaper etc.
- A numerical difference.
- (trading, finance) The purchase of one delivery month of one commodity against the sale of that same delivery month of a different commodity.
- An expanse of land.
- A large meal, especially one laid out on a table.
- (finance) The difference between the prices of two similar items.
- A large tract of land used to raise livestock; a cattle ranch.
- (cartomancy) A layout, pattern or design of cards arranged for a reading.
- (trading, economics, finance) The difference between the price of a futures month and the price of another month of the same commodity.
- (business, economics) The difference between the wholesale and retail prices.
- (trading) The difference between bidding and asking price.
- (statistics) A measure of how far the data tend to deviate from the average.
- (bread, etc.) Any form of food designed to be spread, such as butters or jams.
- Excessive width of the trails of ink written on overly absorbent paper.
- The surface in proportion to the depth of a cut gemstone.
- (prison slang, uncountable) Food improvised by inmates from various ingredients to relieve the tedium of prison food.
- An item in a newspaper or magazine that occupies more than one column or page.
- Something that has been spread.
- (trading) An arbitrage transaction of the same commodity in two markets, executed to take advantage of a profit from price discrepancies.
- (trading, finance) The purchase of a futures contract of one delivery month against the sale of another futures delivery month of the same commodity.
- (military) A set of multiple torpedoes launched on side-by-side, slowly-diverging paths toward one or more enemy ships.
adj
verb
- cause to become widely known
- cover by spreading something over
- become distributed or widespread
- move outward
- become widely known and passed on
- strew or distribute over an area
- distribute or disperse widely
- spread out or open from a closed or folded state
- distribute over a surface in a layer
- spread across or over
- (transitive) To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.
- (transitive) To disseminate; to cause to proliferate, to make (something) widely known or present.
- (transitive) To smear, to distribute in a thin layer.
- (transitive) To cover (something) with a thin layer of some substance, as of butter.
- (intransitive, transitive, debating slang) To speedread; to recite one's arguments at an extremely fast pace.
- (transitive) To disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area.
- (intransitive) To proliferate; to become more widely present, to be disseminated.
- (intransitive) To take up a larger area or space; to expand, be extended.
- (intransitive, slang) To open one’s legs, especially for sexual favours.
- To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions.
- (transitive) To extend (individual rays, limbs etc.); to stretch out in varying or opposing directions. simple past and past participle of spread
noun
verb
noun
- a low bed to be slid under a higher bed
- Ellipsis of trundle bed (“a low bed on wheels that can be rolled underneath another bed”).
- small wheel or roller
- (engineering) A lantern wheel, or one of its bars.
- The sound made by an object being moved on wheels.
- (heraldry, rare) A spool or skein of golden thread (chiefly in the arms of the Embroiderers Company, now the Company of Broderers).
- A motion as of something moving upon little wheels or rollers; a rolling motion.
verb
- move heavily
- (transitive) To wheel or roll (an object on wheels), especially by pushing, often slowly or heavily.
- (intransitive) To roll or revolve; to roll along.
- (transitive) To move (something or someone), often heavily or clumsily.
- (intransitive) To move, often heavily or clumsily.
- To transport (something or someone) using an object on wheels, especially one that is pushed.
- (intransitive) To move heavily (on wheels).
- (transitive) To cause (something) to roll or revolve; to roll (something) along.
noun
- A bedpan.
- A wide receptacle in which gold grains are separated from gravel by washing the contents with water.
- (music) Ellipsis of steelpan.
- (rail transport, informal) Clipping of pantograph.
- A part; a portion.
- A pond or lake, considered as the expanse of land upon which the water sits.
- A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating as part of manufacture; a vacuum pan.
- (South Africa) Synonym of playa lake: a temporary pond or lake in a playa.
- (firearms) The part of a matchlock, flintlock, or wheellock firearm that holds the priming.
- (figurative) The brain, seen as one's intellect.
- (Ireland) A deep plastic receptacle, used for washing or food preparation; a basin.
- (roofing) The bottom flat part of a roofing panel that is between the ribs of the panel.
- (especially South Africa) A dry lake or playa, especially a salt flat.
- A wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking.
- A cylindrical receptacle about as tall as it is wide, with one long handle, usually made of metal, used for cooking in the home.
- A sequence in a film in which the camera pans over an area.
- (carpentry) A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.
- (slang) A human face, a mug.
- (chiefly Ireland) A loaf of bread; a pan-loaf.
- (fortifications) The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.
- Ellipsis of salt pan: a flat artificial pond used for collecting minerals from evaporated water.
- A leaf of gold or silver.
- The contents of such a receptacle.
- The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the brainpan.
- Alternative form of paan.
- (geology) Ellipsis of hardpan: a hard substrate such as is formed in pans.
- Strong adverse criticism.
- cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel
- shallow container made of metal
adj
verb
- (imaging, intransitive) To shift an image relative to the display window without changing the viewing scale.
- To join or fit together; to unite.
- (intransitive, with out, to pan out) To turn out well; to be successful.
- (sound engineering, intransitive) (of a sound) To move in the multichannel sound field.
- (photography, intransitive) To move the camera lens angle while continuing to expose the film, enabling a contiguous view and enrichment of context. In still-photography large-group portraits the film usually remains on a horizontal fixed plane as the lens and/or the film holder moves to expose the film laterally. The resulting image may extend a short distance laterally or as great as 360° from the point where the film first began to be exposed.
- (sound engineering, transitive) To spread a sound signal into a new stereo or multichannel sound field, typically giving the impression that it is moving across the sound stage.
- (intransitive) (of a camera) To turn horizontally.
- (transitive) To wash in a pan (of earth, sand etc. when searching for gold).
- (transitive, informal, of a contest) To beat one's opposition convincingly.
- (transitive) To disparage; to belittle; to put down; to harshly criticize, especially a work (book, movie, etc.)
- wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious minerals
- express a totally negative opinion of
- make a sweeping movement
noun
- a flat canopy (especially one over a four-poster bed)
- A canopy over a bed.
- someone who administers a test to determine your qualifications
- Alternative form of testiere (“armor for a horse's head”).
- A person who administers a test.
- (cycling) A cyclist who focuses on success in time trials.
- A sample of perfume available in a shop for customers to try before they buy.
- Something that overhangs something else; especially a canopy or soundboard over a pulpit.
- A miniature pot of paint for testing and comparison purposes.
- A device used for testing.
- An old French silver coin.
noun
- a bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers
- a place where a craft can be made fast
- a job in an organization
- An assigned place for a person in (chiefly historical) a horse-drawn coach or other means of transportation, or (military) in a barracks.
- (by extension) A room in a vessel in which the officers or company mess (“eat together”) and reside; also, a room or other place in a vessel for storage.
- (road transport) A place for a vehicle on land to park.
- Chiefly in wide berth: a sufficient space for manoeuvring or safety.
- A bunk or other bed for sleeping on in a caravan, a train, etc.
- A position on a field of play.
- (by extension) A place on a vessel to sleep, especially a bed on the side of a cabin.
- (chiefly nautical, slang) A proper place for a thing.
- A position or seed in a tournament bracket.
- (by extension) A place for a vessel to lie at anchor or to moor.
- An appointment, job, or position, especially one regarded as comfortable or good.
- (by extension) A job or position on a vessel.
verb
- come into or dock at a wharf
- provide with a berth
- secure in or as if in a berth or dock
- (by extension) Of a person: to occupy a berth.
- (reflexive, nautical) Of a vessel: to move into a berth.
- (nautical) To bring (a ship or other vessel) into a berth (noun etymology 1 sense 1.1); also, to provide a berth for (a vessel).
- (by extension, chiefly passive voice) To assign (someone) a berth (noun etymology 1 sense 1.3 or etymology 1 sense 2.2) or place to sleep on a vessel, a train, etc.
- (figurative) To provide (someone) with a berth (noun etymology 1 sense 3.1) or appointment, job, or position.
- (specifically, astronautics) To use a device to bring (a spacecraft) into its berth or dock.
noun
- a bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers
- beds built one above the other
- unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)
- a message that seems to convey no meaning
- a rough bed (as at a campsite)
- a long trough for feeding cattle
- (nautical) A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other.
- (Singapore, military, by extension) A dormitory or bunkroom where soldiers sleep.
- One of a series of berths or beds placed in tiers.
- (military) A cot.
- (slang) A specimen of a recreational drug with insufficient active ingredient.
- (US, dialect) A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.
- (US) A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.
verb
adj
noun
- A flat sheet for use on a bed.
- (American football) The areas behind the line of scrimmage to either side of an offensive football formation.
- (rail transport) A flat spot on the wheel of a rail vehicle.
- (publishing) A flat, glossy children's book with few pages.
- An area of level ground (sometimes covered with shallow or tidal water).
- (technical, theatre, stagecraft) A rectangular wooden structure covered with masonite, lauan, or muslin, often produced in standard modules, that is used to build wall surfaces on stage. Flats can be painted and outfitted with doors and/or windows to depict a building or other part of a scene, and are a hard-surfaced alternative to a backcloth or backdrop.
- (entomology) Any of various hesperiid butterflies that spread their wings open when they land.
- (horse racing, with 'the' or attributively, sometimes with capital) Level horse-racing ground, as contrasted with courses incorporating jumps, or the racing done on such ground.
- (postal) A large mail piece measuring at least 8 1/2 by 11 inches, such as catalogs, magazines, and unfolded paper enclosed in large envelopes.
- (music) A note played one chromatic semitone lower than a natural, denoted by the symbol ♭ placed after the letter representing the note (e.g., B♭) or in front of the note symbol (e.g. ♭♪).
- (in the plural) A type of ladies' shoe with a very low heel.
- (informal, automotive) A flat tyre/flat tire.
- (painting) A thin, broad brush used in oil and watercolour painting.
- (optics) A flat (i.e. plane) mirror
- Ellipsis of flat ride (“spinning amusement ride”).
- A wide, shallow container or pallet.
- (geometry) A subset of n-dimensional space that is congruent to a Euclidean space of lower dimension.
- (in the plural) A type of flat-soled running shoe without spikes.
- The most prominent flat part of something.
- A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
- (swordfighting) The flat side of a blade, as opposed to the sharp edge.
- A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
- A platform on a wheel, upon which emblematic designs etc. are carried in processions.
- (Australia, horse racing, with 'the' or attributively, sometimes with capital) the area in the centre of a racecourse.
- (gambling, slang) A cheater's die with the edges shaved to make certain rolls more likely.
- (in the phrase 'the flat') Level ground in general.
- (historical) An early kind of toy soldier having a flat design.
- (US) Ellipsis of flat water (“nonfizzy drinking water”).
- (chiefly British, New England, South Africa, India, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, archaic elsewhere) A complete domicile occupying only part of a building, especially one for rent
- (Canadian Prairies, British Columbia) A 24-case of beer.
- The palm of the hand, with the adjacent part of the fingers.
- (rail transport, US) A railroad car without a roof, and whose body is a platform without sides; a platform car or flatcar.
- (mining) A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.
- a shallow box in which seedlings are started
- a deflated pneumatic tire
- scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting
- a level tract of land
- a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named
- a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house
- freight car without permanent sides or roof
adj
- (not comparable, commerce) Of fees, fares etc., fixed; unvarying.
- Smooth; having no protrusions, indentations or other surface irregularities, or relatively so.
- (golf, of a golf club) Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft.
- At a consistently depressed level; consistently lacklustre.
- (of colours) Without variation in tone or hue (uniform), and dull (not glossy).
- (algebra, ring theory, of a ring homomorphism) Such that its target, regarded as a module over its source, is flat (as above).
- (music, note) Lowered by one semitone.
- In a horizontal line or plane; not sloping.
- (juggling, of a throw) Without spin; spinless.
- (algebraic geometry, scheme theory, of a morphism of schemes) Such that the induced map on every stalk is flat (as a map of rings).
- (authorship, figuratively, especially of a character) Lacking in depth, substance, or believability; underdeveloped; one-dimensional.
- (horticulture, of certain fruits) Flattening at the ends.
- (slang) Having small or invisible breasts and/or buttocks.
- (phonetics, of a vowel) Not diphthongal; without variation in height or backness.
- (of a tire or other inflated object) Deflated, especially because of a puncture.
- (homological algebra, of a module) Such that the tensor product preserves exact sequences. See Flat module on Wikipedia.Wikipedia.
- (of a battery) Unable to emit power; dead.
- (of measurements of time) Exact.
- Without variation in level, quantity, value, tone etc.
- Having no variations in height.
- (music) Of a note or voice, lower in pitch than it should be.
- (music, voice) Without variations in pitch.
- (figurative) Lacking liveliness or action; depressed; uninteresting; dull and boring.
- Absolute; downright; peremptory.
- (grammar) Not having an inflectional ending or sign, such as a noun used as an adjective, or an adjective as an adverb, without the addition of a formative suffix; or an infinitive without the sign "to".
- (wine) Lacking acidity without being sweet.
- (of coffee) Having little froth and little milk.
- (of a carbonated drink) With all or most of its carbon dioxide having come out of solution so that the drink no longer fizzes or contains any bubbles.
- sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch
- not reflecting light; not glossy
- having lost effervescence
- lacking contrast or shading between tones
- horizontally level
- stretched out and lying at full length along the ground
- having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness
- lacking taste or flavor or tang
- flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)
- not modified or restricted by reservations
- commercially inactive
- lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting
- having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another
- (of a musical note) lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone
- lacking the expected range or depth; not designed to give an illusion or depth
adv
- Completely, firmly, or unequivocally.
- Directly; flatly.
- (with units of time, distance, etc) Used to emphasize the smallness of the measurement.
- (finance, slang) Without allowance for accrued interest.
- Completely.
- (of accurately measured timings) Exactly, precisely.
- So as to be flat.
- (of a sentence) Without parole.
- with flat sails
- in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly
verb
- (transitive) To dash or throw
- (poker slang) To make a flat call; to call without raising.
- (intransitive) To become flat or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.
- (intransitive, music, colloquial) To fall from the pitch.
- (intransitive) To dash, rush
- (transitive, music) To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.
verb
- furnish with a bed
- put to bed
- have sexual intercourse with
- place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil
- prepare for sleep
- (intransitive, hunting) Of large game animals: to be at rest.
- (transitive) To place in a bed.
- (transitive) To dress or prepare the surface of (stone) so it can serve as a bed.
- (ambitransitive) To have sex (with).
- (intransitive) To go to bed; to put oneself to sleep.
- (transitive) To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or enclosed; to embed.
- (transitive) To set out (plants) in a garden bed.
- (transitive) To furnish with a bed or bedding.
- (transitive) To set in a soft matrix, as paving stones in sand, or tiles in cement.
- (transitive) To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position.
- To settle, as machinery.
noun
- a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit
- a depression forming the ground under a body of water
- (geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock)
- a plot of ground in which plants are growing
- the flat surface of a printing press on which the type form is laid in the last stage of producing a newspaper or magazine or book etc.
- a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep
- single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance
- a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track
- (countable) The bottom of a body of water, such as an ocean, sea, lake, or river.
- A shaped piece of timber to hold a cask clear of a ship’s floor; a pallet.
- A piece of music, normally instrumental, over which a radio DJ talks.
- A deposit of ore, coal, etc.
- (uncountable, usually after a preposition) Sleep; rest; getting to sleep.
- (uncountable) Time spent in a bed.
- (masonry) A course of stone or brick in a wall.
- The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.
- (uncountable, usually after a preposition) The time for going to sleep or resting in bed; bedtime.
- Clipping of bedroom.
- (countable, geology) The smallest division of a geologic formation or stratigraphic rock series marked by well-defined divisional planes (bedding planes) separating it from layers above and below.
- An area where a large number of oysters, mussels, other sessile shellfish, or a large amount of seaweed is found.
- (countable) A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep.
- (US, Canada, automotive) The platform of a truck, trailer, wagon, railcar, or other vehicle that supports the load to be hauled.
- (usually after a preposition) One's place of sleep or rest.
- A garden plot.
- (figurative) Marriage.
- (trampoline) The taut surface of a trampoline.
- A foundation or supporting surface formed of a fluid.
- (figurative, uncountable) Sexual activity.
- A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.
- (masonry) The horizontal surface of a building stone.
- A prepared spot in which to spend the night.
- (computing) The flat surface of a scanner on which a document is placed to be scanned.
- (masonry) The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile.
- (darts) Any of the sections of a dartboard with a point value, delimited by a wire.
adv
adj
noun
- (computing) A document scanner with a flat bed.
- Clipping of flatbed trolley.
- A railway freight car with no sides; a flatcar.
- An open freight vehicle with no sides, designed to carry heavy or outsized loads.
- an open truck bed or trailer with no sides; used to carry large heavy objects
- freight car without permanent sides or roof
verb
adj
- (Canada, US) The size of a full bed.
- (US) (of an automobile) Large; specifically, designed to be comfortable for long-distance driving with six occupants and their luggage.
- (art) (of a representational artwork or model) Being the same size as the original.
- Being the normal or standard size for its type.
- being of the same size as an original
adj
- having a bed or beds as specified
- deposited or arranged in horizontal layers
- (often in combinations) With a bedding of straw, sand, woodchips, or similar covering the floor.
- Having gone to bed.
- (often in combinations) Furnished with one or more beds; Having (a particular number or type of) beds
- Having sexual experience; not a virgin.
- Lying flat.
- Growing or arranged in a bed or beds (garden plot or area in which a large number of plants, seaweed, or shellfish are found together.)
- Forming or containing a bed or beds (a horizontal deposit of a mineral or ore).