valve oil
piston
sudrophone
clavicor
valved
horn
French horn
trump
trumpet
cornet
pitchpipe
quill
gilding metal
sousaphone
trombone
valvule
brass
brass instrument
shepherd's pipe
bedkey
chaplet
reed knife
pipet
pipette
verrophone
slide
perivalvular
oat
valviform
perivalvar
vibrator
cob
barrel
water key
saxhorn
shuttle
bugle
shell
fipple
drone
stria
natural trumpet
pipetongs
valvular
pilot valve
viscometer
waterphone
hackle
flexatone
retainer
jonathan
musical box
reed pipe
pin
music box
swell
graduation mark
string
brazer
magnifying glass
brass leaf
electric organ
Hammond organ
sounding board
electronic organ
organ stop
pitcher
porte-crayon
bung
spile
valvelet
organ
bazooka
valvula
reversing valve
chabrette
peg
stop
prevalvular
tuning hammer
tensiometer
flaskette
key
aeolomelodicon
outpipe
piping
ondiola
accordion
pallet
fleam
backbore
service pipe
hornpipe
serinette
apollonicon
diapason
valved
perivalvular
valviform
perivalvar
valvular
prevalvular
valve oil
piston
sudrophone
clavicor
horn
French horn
trump
trumpet
cornet
pitchpipe
quill
gilding metal
sousaphone
trombone
valvule
brass
brass instrument
shepherd's pipe
bedkey
chaplet
reed knife
pipet
pipette
verrophone
slide
oat
vibrator
cob
barrel
water key
saxhorn
shuttle
bugle
shell
fipple
drone
stria
natural trumpet
pipetongs
pilot valve
viscometer
waterphone
hackle
flexatone
retainer
jonathan
musical box
reed pipe
pin
music box
swell
graduation mark
string
brazer
magnifying glass
brass leaf
electric organ
Hammond organ
sounding board
electronic organ
organ stop
pitcher
porte-crayon
bung
spile
valvelet
organ
bazooka
valvula
reversing valve
chabrette
peg
stop
tuning hammer
tensiometer
flaskette
key
aeolomelodicon
outpipe
piping
ondiola
accordion
pallet
fleam
backbore
service pipe
hornpipe
serinette
apollonicon
diapason
noun
- a brass musical instrument consisting of a conical tube that is coiled into a spiral and played by means of valves
- a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves
- a noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it
- one of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates
- a noise made by the driver of an automobile to give warning
- a high pommel of a Western saddle (usually metal covered with leather)
- any hard protuberance from the head of an organism that is similar to or suggestive of a horn
- the material (mostly keratin) that covers the horns of ungulates and forms hooves and claws and nails
- a device having the shape of a horn
- an alarm device that makes a loud warning sound
- a device on an automobile for making a warning noise
verb
noun
- The tube of a musical instrument.
- Something having the form of a quill, such as the fold or plain of a ruff, or (weaving) a spindle, or spool, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle.
- The lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs.
- The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.
- A thin piece of bark, especially of cinnamon or cinchona, curled up into a tube.
- A pen made from a feather.
- A sharply pointed, barbed, and easily detached needle-like structure that grows on the skin of a porcupine or hedgehog as a defense against predators.
- The pen of a squid.
- Any pen.
verb
noun
- a wind instrument that consists of a brass tube (usually of variable length) that is blown by means of a cup-shaped or funnel-shaped mouthpiece
- an alloy of copper and zinc
- the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something
- impudent aggressiveness
- an ornament or utensil made of brass
- the section of a band or orchestra that plays brass instruments
- a memorial made of brass
noun
- A metal support for a cylindrical pipe.
- A set of repetitive prayers, other than the Rosary, typically prayed with a string of beads.
- The Chaplet of Divine Mercy, the most well-known chaplet in the Catholic Church.
- A garland or circlet for the head.
- A molding in the form of a string of beads; a bead molding.
- A small chapel or shrine.
- A bent piece of sheet iron, or a pin with thin plates on its ends, for holding a core in place in the mould.
- A headdress in the form of a wreath made of leaves, flowers or twigs woven into a ring.
noun
- A valve that works by sliding, such as in a trombone.
- A mechanism consisting of a part which slides on or against a guide.
- A shoe that is backless and open-toed.
- A pocket in one's pants (trousers).
- The falling of large amounts of rubble, earth and stones down the slope of a hill or mountain; avalanche.
- A hand-held device made of smooth, hard material, used in the practice of slide guitar.
- A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure.
- A voluntary stutter used as a technique to control stuttering in one's speech.
- A sound which, by a gradual change in the position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly into another sound.
- The act of sliding; smooth, even passage or progress.
- An item of play equipment that children can climb up and then slide down again.
- A flat, usually rectangular piece of glass or similar material on which a prepared sample may be viewed through a microscope Generally referred to as a microscope slide.
- A lever that can be moved in two directions.
- A clasp or brooch for a belt, etc.
- A page of a computer presentation package such as PowerPoint.
- A grace consisting of two or more small notes moving by conjoint degrees, and leading to a principal note either above or below.
- A transparent plate bearing an image to be projected to a screen.
- The act of dropping down and skidding into a base
- A lively dance from County Kerry, in 12/8 time.
- A promiscuous woman, slut.
- An inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide by the force of gravity, especially one constructed on a mountainside for conveying logs by sliding them down.
- A surface of ice, snow, butter, etc. on which someone can slide for amusement or as a practical joke.
verb
- To (cause to) move in continuous contact with a surface.
- To lose one’s balance on a slippery surface.
- To move on a low-friction surface.
- To pass or put imperceptibly; to slip.
- To decrease in amount or value.
- To smoothly pass from one note to another by bending the pitch upwards or downwards.
- To ride down snowy hills upon a toboggan or similar object for recreation.
- To go; to move from one place or to another.
- To pass along smoothly or unobservedly; to move gently onward without friction or hindrance.
- To drop down and skid into a base.
- To subtly direct a facial expression at (someone).
- To kick so that the ball slides along the ground with little or no turning.
adj
noun
adj
noun
- A device for vibrating the pen of a siphon recorder to diminish frictional resistance on the paper.
- A trembler, as of an electric bell.
- An oscillator.
- A device designed to electromechanically interrupt current flowing to the step-up transformer which was used to generate the high tension positive supply in old battery-operated (automotive) valve radios.
- An ink-distributing roller in a printing machine, having an additional vibratory motion.
- An attachment, usually pneumatic, in a moulding machine to shake the pattern loose.
- A vibrating reed for transmitting or receiving pulsating currents in a harmonic telegraph system.
- A vibrating device used for massage or sexual stimulation.
- A vibrating reed in a musical instrument, especially a reed organ.
- Any of various vibrating devices, such as one for slackening the warp as a shed opens.
noun
- A cylinder with pins in it, encoding music to be played back mechanically by a barrel organ.
- A round, often crusty roll or loaf of bread.
- A small fish, the miller's thumb.
- The seed-bearing head of a plant.
- A male swan.
- Any of the gold and silver coins that were minted in the Spanish Empire and valued in reales or escudos, such as the piece of eight—especially those which were crudely struck and irregularly shaped.
- A person of mixed black and white ancestry, especially a griffe; a mulatto.
- A corncob.
- A lump or piece of anything, usually of a somewhat large size, as of coal, or stone.
- A horse having a stout body and short legs.
- A large fish, especially the kabeljou (variant spelling of kob).
- A punishment consisting of blows inflicted on the buttocks with a strap or a flat piece of wood.
- A gull, especially the black-backed gull (Larus marinus); also spelled cobb.
- A spider (cf. cobweb).
- A building material consisting of clay, sand, straw, water, and earth, similar to adobe; also called cobb, rammed earth or pisé.
verb
- To chip off unwanted pieces of stone, so as to form a desired shape or improve the quality of mineral ore.
- To throw, chuck, lob.
- To beat with a flat instrument; to paddle.
- To remove the kernels from a corncob.
- To construct using mud blocks or to seal a wall using mud or an artificial equivalent.
- To break up ground with a hoe.
- To have the heads mature into corncobs.
- To thresh.
noun
- The part of a clarinet which connects the mouthpiece and upper joint, and looks rather like a barrel (1).
- The quantity which constitutes a full barrel: the volume or weight this represents varies by local law and custom.
- A waste receptacle.
- A round (cylindrical) vessel, such as a cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends (heads). Sometimes applied to a similar cylindrical container made of metal, usually called a drum.
- The ribs and belly of a horse or pony.
- A ceiling-mounted tube from which lights are suspended.
- A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case
- The hollow basal part of a feather.
- A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged.
- A wave that breaks with a hollow compartment.
- Any of the dark-staining regions in the somatosensory cortex of rodents, etc., where somatosensory inputs from the contralateral side of the body come in from the thalamus.
- Such a cask of a certain size, holding one-eighth of what a tun holds. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.)
- A statistic derived from launch angle and exit velocity of a ball hit in play.
verb
noun
- A shutter, as for a channel for molten metal.
- The sliding thread holder in a sewing machine, which carries the lower thread through a loop of the upper thread, to make a lock stitch.
- A transport service (such as a bus or train) that goes back and forth between two or more places.
- A tool used to carry the woof back and forth between the warp threads on a loom.
- Any other item that moves repeatedly back and forth between two positions, possibly transporting something else with it between those points (such as, in chemistry, a molecular shuttle).
- A shuttlecock.
- Such a transport vehicle; a shuttle bus; a space shuttle.
verb
noun
- A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
- The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
- A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper; a racing shell or dragon boat.
- The exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects.
- A gouge bit or shell bit.
- A pod containing the seeds of certain plants, such as the legume Phaseolus vulgaris.
- The onset and coda of a syllable.
- A psychological barrier to social interaction.
- The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
- An engraved copper roller used in print works.
- The covering, or outside part, of a nut.
- A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
- An emaciated person.
- The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims added for tuning and for attaching the drum head.
- The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
- The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
- The overlapping hard plates comprising the armor covering the armadillo's body.
- The conjoined scutes that constitute the "shell" (carapace) of a tortoise or turtle.
- The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
- A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that often fastens in the rear.
- One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
- The outward form independent of what is inside.
- A legal entity that has no operations.
- The empty outward form of someone or something.
- An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs and control their interactions; the user's command interpreter. Shell is a way to separate the internal complexity of the implementation of the command from the user. The internals can change while the user experience/interface remains the same.
- A person's ear.
- Husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is sometimes used as a substitute or adulterant for cocoa and its products such as chocolate.
- The thin coating of copper on an electrotype.
- The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
- A hollow, usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon. It contains an explosive substance designed to be ignited by a fuse or by percussion at the target site so that it will burst and scatter at high velocity its contents and fragments. Formerly called a bomb.
- A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
- Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in, as the shell of a house.
- The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
- Any mollusk having such a covering.
- A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
verb
- To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
- To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
- To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
- To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
- To remove the outer covering or shell of something.
- To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
- To form a shelling.
- To switch to a shell or command line.
noun
- One of the fixed-pitch pipes on a bagpipe.
- One who performs menial or tedious work.
- A person without the ability to think critically and independently, especially one who follows a group blindly; a non-player character.
- A remotely controlled aircraft, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
- A Toyota HiAce or a similar van, especially one used by Ugandan state agents to kidnap opposition members.
- A male ant, bee or wasp, which does not work but can fertilize the queen.
- A genre of music that uses repeated lengthy droning sounds.
- A humming or deep murmuring sound.
- A low-pitched hum or buzz.
verb
noun
- An instrument for detecting leaks in pipes by their sound, consisting of a rod attached to an earpiece.
- An acoustic percussion instrument consisting of a resonator bowl or pan with a cylindrical neck, surrounded by rods of different lengths and diameters. Water may be added to the bowl to modify the sound.
noun
- An instrument with steel pins used to comb out flax or hemp.
- By extension (because the hackles of a rooster are lifted when it is angry), the hair on the nape of the neck in dogs and other animals; also used figuratively for humans.
- Any flimsy substance unspun, such as raw silk.
- A feather plume on some soldier's uniforms, especially the hat or helmet.
- A type of jagged crack extending inwards from the broken surface of a fractured material.
- A feather used to make a fishing lure or a fishing lure incorporating a feather.
- A plate with rows of pointed needles used to blend or straighten hair.
- One of the long, narrow feathers on the neck of birds, most noticeable on the rooster.
verb
noun
- A peg in musical instruments for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings.
- A piece of jewellery that is attached to clothing with a pin.
- The spot at the exact centre of the target, originally a literal pin that fastened the target in place.
- A cylinder often of wood or metal used to fasten or as a bearing between two parts.
- A simple accessory that can be attached to clothing with a pin or fastener, often round and bearing a design, logo or message, and used for decoration, identification or to show political affiliation, etc.
- Any of the individual connecting elements of a multipole electrical connector.
- The flagstick: the flag-bearing pole which marks the location of a hole
- A thing of small value; a trifle.
- A size of brewery cask, equal to half a firkin, or eighth of a barrel.
- A pinball machine.
- One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each person should drink.
- The spot at the exact centre of the house (the target area)
- A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal.
- The victory condition of holding the opponent's shoulders on the wrestling mat for a prescribed period of time.
- A needle without an eye (usually) made of drawn-out steel wire with one end sharpened and the other flattened or rounded into a head, used for fastening.
- Either a scenario in which moving a lesser piece to escape from attack would expose a more valuable piece to being taken instead, or one where moving a piece is impossible as it would place the king in check.
- The tenon of a dovetail joint.
- A small cylindrical object which blocks the rotation of a pin-tumbler lock when the incorrect key is inserted.
- A small nail with a head and a sharp point.
- A slender object specially designed for use in a specific game or sport, such as skittles or bowling.
- A leg.
verb
- To attach (an icon, application, message etc.) to another item so that it persists.
- To cause an analog gauge to reach the stop pin at the high end of the range.
- To enclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.
- To fix (an array in memory, a security certificate, etc.) so that it cannot be modified.
- To cause (a piece) to be in a pin.
- To pin down (someone).
- To fasten or attach (something) with a pin.
noun
- A device for controlling the volume of a pipe organ.
- A hillock or similar raised area of terrain.
- The act of swelling; increase in size.
- The front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
- An upward protrusion of strata from whose central region the beds dip quaquaversally at a low angle.
- A division in a pipe organ, usually the largest enclosed division.
- A person of high social standing; an important person.
- Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.
- A bulge or protuberance.
- A long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased.
- A gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo.
verb
- To be elated; to rise arrogantly.
- To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant.
- To protuberate; to bulge out.
- To cause to grow gradually in force or loudness.
- To grow gradually in force or loudness.
- To be raised to arrogance.
- To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate.
- To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.
- To cause to become bigger.
adv
noun
- A stringed instrument.
- A length of nylon or other material on the head of a racquet.
- The members of a sports team or squad regarded as most likely to achieve success. (Perhaps metaphorical as the "strings" that hold the squad together.) Often first string, second string etc.
- In various games and competitions, a certain number of turns at play, of rounds, etc.
- An ordered sequence of text characters stored consecutively in memory and capable of being processed as a single entity.
- The main object of study in string theory, a branch of theoretical physics.
- The conditions and limitations in a contract collectively.
- An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.
- Part of the game of billiards, where the order of the play is determined by testing who can get a ball closest to the bottom rail by shooting it onto the end rail.
- A segment of wire (typically made of plastic or metal) or other material used as vibrating element on a musical instrument.
- A series of items or events.
- The buttons strung on a wire by which the score is kept.
- A thread or cord on which a number of objects or parts are strung or arranged in close and orderly succession; hence, a line or series of things arranged on a thread, or as if so arranged.
- A column of drill pipe that transmits drilling fluid (via the mud pumps) and torque (via the kelly drive or top drive) to the drill bit.
- A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.
- A thread
- The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericarp of leguminous plants.
- The stringed instruments as a section of an orchestra, especially those played by a bow, or the persons playing those instruments.
- A long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together.
- A cohesive substance taking the form of a string.
- The line from behind and over which the cue ball must be played after being out of play, as by being pocketed or knocked off the table; also called the string line.
- A drove of horses, or a group of racehorses kept by one owner or at one stable.
- Such a structure considered as a substance.
- A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.
- Cannabis or marijuana.
- The points made in a game of billiards.
- A stringcourse.
- Synonym of stable (“group of prostitutes managed by one pimp”)
verb
- To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc.
- To drive the ball against the end of the table and back, in order to determine which player is to open the game.
- To deliberately state that a certain bird is present when it is not; to knowingly mislead other birders about the occurrence of a bird, especially a rarity; to misidentify a common bird as a rare species.
- To put strings on (something).
- To put (items) on a string.
noun
- A thin board that forms part of the resonating chamber of a musical instrument and serves to reinforce its sound
- Any device or means used to spread an idea or point of view
- A person, or group, whose reactions to a new idea or proposal serve to assess its acceptability
- A structure that reflects sound towards the intended listeners
noun
- A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids, with a spout or protruding lip and a handle; a water jug or jar with a large ear or handle.
- The player who delivers the ball to the batter.
- A drug dealer.
- One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.
- The top partner in a homosexual relationship or penetrator in a sexual encounter between two men.
- A tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the leaves of certain plants. See pitcher plant.
noun
noun
- (music) an electronic simulation of a pipe organ
- a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function
- a government agency or instrument devoted to the performance of some specific function
- a periodical that is published by a special interest group
- wind instrument whose sound is produced by means of pipes arranged in sets supplied with air from a bellows and controlled from a large complex musical keyboard
- a free-reeded instrument with a piano keyboard in which air is forced through the reeds by bellows
noun
- A primitive trombone having wide tubes.
- Crack cocaine.
- A shoulder-held rocket launcher used as an antitank weapon, developed by America during World War II and so-called from its resemblance to the bazooka musical instrument.
- A woman's breast, especially a big one.
- Any shoulder-fired rocket grenade launcher.
verb
noun
noun
- One of the pins of a musical instrument, on which the strings are strained.
- A cylindrical wooden or metal object used to fasten or as a bearing between objects.
- A stump.
- A support; a reason; a pretext.
- A fixed exchange rate, where a currency's value is matched to the value of another currency or measure such as gold.
- The penetration of one's (male) partner in the anus using a dildo.
- A peg moved on a crib board to keep score.
- A small quantity of a strong alcoholic beverage.
- A protrusion used to hang things on.
- A step; a degree.
- A serving of any hard spirit, particularly whisky.
- A topic of interest, such as an ongoing event or an anniversary, around which various features can be developed.
- A place formally allotted for fishing
verb
- To affix or pin.
- To fasten using a peg.
- To move one's pegs to indicate points scored; to score with a peg.
- To throw.
- To indicate or ascribe an attribute to. (Assumed to originate from the use of pegs or pins as markers on a bulletin board or a list.)
- To engage in anal sex by penetrating (one's male partner) with a dildo.
- To narrow the cuff openings of a pair of pants so that the legs take on a peg shape.
- To keep working hard at something; to peg away.
- To reach or exceed the maximum value on (a scale or gauge).
- To fix a value or price.
noun
- (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes
- the event of something ending
- the act of stopping something
- a brief stay in the course of a journey
- the state of inactivity following an interruption
- a spot where something halts or pauses
- a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
- a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
- a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens
- a restraint that checks the motion of something
- an obstruction in a pipe or tube
verb
- come to a halt, stop moving
- put an end to a state or an activity
- stop from happening or developing
- interrupt a trip
- cause to end
- prevent completion
- hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
- seize on its way
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
- render unsuitable for passage
- stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
noun
- In musical instruments, one of the valve levers used to select notes, such as a lever opening a hole on a woodwind.
- The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance.
- A piece of wood used as a wedge.
- A piece of information (e.g., a password or passphrase) used to encode or decode a message or messages.
- A modification of an advertisement so as to target a particular group or demographic.
- One of several small, usually square buttons on a typewriter or computer keyboard, mostly corresponding to text characters.
- A scale or group of pitches constituting the basis of a musical composition.
- A series of logically organized groups of discriminating information which aims to allow the user to correctly identify a taxon.
- The degree of roughness, or retention ability of a surface to have applied a liquid such as paint, or glue.
- One of a string of small islands.
- A crucial step or requirement.
- A password restricting access to an IRC channel.
- In instruments with a keyboard such as an organ or piano, one of the levers, or especially the exposed front end of it, which are depressed to cause a particular sound or note to be produced.
- In musical notation, a sign at the head of a staff indicating the musical key.
- A value that uniquely identifies an entry in a container.
- A keystone.
- The last board of a floor when laid down.
- The lowest note of a scale; keynote.
- A wooden support for a rail on the bullhead rail system.
- In musical theory, the total melodic and harmonic relations, which exist between the tones of an ideal scale, major or minor; tonality.
- An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, such as the fruit of the ash and maple; a samara.
- A guide to the correct answers of a worksheet or test.
- The thirty-third card of the Lenormand deck.
- A guide explaining the symbols or terminology of a map or chart; a legend.
- That part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place.
- In musical theory and notation, the tonality centering in a given tone, or the several tones taken collectively, of a given scale, major or minor.
- A manual electrical switching device primarily used for the transmission of Morse code.
- The black ink layer, especially in relation to the three color layers of cyan, magenta, and yellow. See also CMYK.
- The free-throw lane together with the circle surrounding the free-throw line, the free-throw lane having formerly been narrower, giving the area the shape of a skeleton key hole.
- A color to be masked or made transparent.
- An object designed to open and close a lock.
- In a relational database, a field used as an index into another table (not necessarily unique).
- An object designed to fit between two other objects (such as a shaft and a wheel) in a mechanism and maintain their relative orientation.
adj
verb
- To be identified as a certain taxon when using a key.
- (more usually to key in) To enter (information) by typing on a keyboard or keypad.
- To fasten or secure firmly; to fasten or tighten with keys or wedges.
- To link (as one might do with a key or legend).
- To depress (a telegraph key).
- To prepare for plastering by adding the key (that part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place).
- To attune to; to set at; to pitch.
- To vandalize (a car, etc.) by scratching with an implement such as a key.
- To operate (the transmitter switch of a two-way radio).
- To modify (an advertisement) so as to target a particular group or demographic.
- To fit (pieces of a mechanical assembly) with a key to maintain the orientation between them.
- To mark or indicate with a symbol indicating membership in a class.
- To fit (a lock) with a key.
noun
- The sound of musical pipes.
- An act of making music or noise with pipes.
- A system of pipes that compose a structure; pipework.
- The process of an animal just beginning to break out of its egg; precedes hatching.
- An ornamentation on the edges of a garment; a small cord covered with cloth.
- Icing extruded from a piping bag.
- propagation by cuttings
- A piece cut off to be set or planted; a cutting.
adj
noun
- A box-shaped musical instrument with means of keys and buttons, whose tones are generated by play of the wind from a squeezed bellows upon free metallic reeds.
- A set of items (concepts, links, or otherwise) that can be packed and unpacked cognitively, or their representation as a set of virtual objects.
- A vertical list of items that can be individually expanded and collapsed to reveal their contents.
verb
noun
- In the organ, a valve between the wind chest and the mouth of a pipe or row of pipes.
- A straw bed.
- A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.
- A portable platform, usually designed to be easily moved by a forklift, on which goods can be stacked, for transport or storage.
- A potter's wheel.
- A makeshift bed.
- One of the pieces or levers connected with the pendulum of a clock, or the balance of a watch, which receive the immediate impulse of the scape-wheel, or balance wheel.
- A cup containing three ounces, formerly used by surgeons.
- A wooden implement, often oval or round, used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works.
- One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, such as the Teredo.
- A board on which a newly moulded brick is conveyed to the hack.
- An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it.
- A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.
- One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump.
- A narrow vertical stripe, narrower than a pale. Diminutive of pale.
verb
noun
- A musical instrument consisting of a wooden pipe, with holes at intervals.
- Music played to the hornpipe dance
- A solo dance commonly associated with seamen, involving kicking of the legs, with the arms mostly crossed.
- A hard-shoe solo dance commonly performed in Irish stepdance, usually danced in 2/4 time.
verb
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