bootstrap
self-activity
buck
manage
helplessly
self-handicap
bull
bulldog
gotcha
purchase
workaround
road
power
afford
run riot
conquest
fend for oneself
expatiation
kick
jack off
effortlessly
help oneself
unpassionately
royal road
incurrence
put one's mind to it
run around like a chicken with its head cut off
foiling
home
initiatively
frustration
single-handed
sortie
put a gun to someone's head
cut bait
self-help
thwarting
gird up one's loins
under one's own steam
power posing
get after
leave the nest
relinquishing
relinquishment
self-determination
unhelped
incentiveless
personal transaction
opportunist
nonbeneficially
unpromptedly
life goes on
stroll
chase a rainbow
refraining
botch
overcoming
bring oneself to
go after
mode
piss up a rope
walk the line
entrepreneur
keep off the streets
smooth
movability
nonvoluntarily
retreat
be one's own man
iron man
passport
brute force
carry coals to Newcastle
hit
overexert
nonpractice
pons asinorum
ambulate
unforced
pull oneself up by one's bootstraps
prostrate
put by
chicken out
paint oneself into a corner
escapade
stand on one's own two feet
unstrained
box oneself into a corner
questing
improvisation
pull
live on the edge
rise
stand tall
come to papa
unburdening
surmounting
single-handed
unhelped
incentiveless
smooth
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unstrained
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home
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cut bait
gird up one's loins
get after
leave the nest
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stroll
chase a rainbow
botch
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piss up a rope
walk the line
keep off the streets
be one's own man
carry coals to Newcastle
hit
overexert
ambulate
pull oneself up by one's bootstraps
prostrate
put by
chicken out
paint oneself into a corner
stand on one's own two feet
box oneself into a corner
live on the edge
rise
stand tall
noun
- A means of advancing oneself or accomplishing something without aid.
- A loop (leather or other material) sewn at the side or top rear of a boot to help in pulling the boot on.
- Any method or instance of estimating properties of an estimator (such as its variance) by measuring those properties when sampling from an approximating distribution.
- The process necessary to compile the tools that will be used to compile the rest of the system or program.
- The process by which the operating system of a computer is loaded into its memory.
verb
- To help (oneself) without the aid of others.
- To employ a bootstrap method.
- To expand or advance an activity or a collection based solely on previous actions, work, findings, etc.
- To load the operating system into the memory of a computer. Usually shortened to boot.
- To compile the tools that will be used to compile the rest of the system or program.
verb
- To overcome or shed (e.g., an impediment or expectation), in pursuit of a goal; to force a way through despite (an obstacle); to resist or proceed against.
- To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.
- To move or operate in a sharp, jerking, or uneven manner.
- To copulate, as bucks and does.
- To output a voltage that is lower than the input voltage.
- To resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly.
- To break up or pulverize, as ores.
- To subject to a mode of punishment which consists of tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.
- To press a reinforcing device (bucking bar) against (the force of a rivet) in order to absorb vibration and increase expansion.
- To fuck.
- To throw (a rider or pack) by bucking.
- To bend; buckle.
- To saw a felled tree into shorter lengths, as for firewood.
- To swell out.
- To soak, steep or boil in lye or suds, as part of the bleaching process.
- To leap upward arching its back, coming down with head low and forelegs stiff, forcefully kicking its hind legs upward, often in an attempt to dislodge or throw a rider or pack.
noun
- The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
- A wood or metal frame used by automotive customizers and restorers to assist in the shaping of sheet metal bodywork.
- An uncastrated sheep, a ram.
- A rand (currency unit).
- A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
- Size.
- A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret and shad.
- A euro.
- Synonym of mule (“type of cocktail with ginger ale etc.”)
- One hundred.
- The body of a post mill, particularly in East Anglia. See Wikipedia:Windmill machinery.
- A leather-covered frame used for gymnastic vaulting.
- The beech tree.
- Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
- One million dollars.
- The body of a cart or waggon, especially the front part.
- Belly, breast, chest.
- A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man.
- Money.
- A dollar (one hundred cents).
verb
- To achieve (something) without fuss, or without outside help.
- To handle or control (a situation, job).
- To direct or be in charge of.
- To manage to say; to say while fighting back embarrassment, laughter, etc.
- To succeed at an attempt in spite of difficulty.
- To train (a horse) in the manège; to exercise in graceful or artful action.
- To handle with skill, wield (a tool, weapon etc.).
noun
verb
- To force oneself (in a particular direction).
- To lie, to tell untruths.
- To polish boots to a high shine.
- To be in heat; to be ready for mating with a bull.
- To mate with (a cow or heifer).
- To endeavour to raise prices in.
- To mock; to cheat.
- To endeavour to raise the market price of.
noun
- A policeman.
- The central portion of a target, inside the inner and magpie.
- Any adult male bovine.
- Beef.
- Specifically, one that is uncastrated.
- An adult male of certain large mammals, such as whales, elephants, camels and seals.
- A man who has sex with another man's wife or girlfriend with the consent of both.
- An investor who buys (commodities or securities) in anticipation of a rise in prices.
- A male of domesticated cattle or oxen of any age.
- An adult male of domesticated cattle or oxen.
- A lie.
- Nonsense.
- An elderly lesbian.
- A papal bull, an official document or edict from the Pope.
- A seal affixed to a document, especially a document from the Pope.
- A large, strong man.
- Specifically, a policeman employed in a railroad yard.
- A man or boy (derived from the Philadelphia English pronunciation of “boy”, which is practically a homophone of “bull”)
adj
verb
- To force oneself (in a particular direction).
- To chase (a steer) on horseback and wrestle it to the ground by twisting its horns (as a rodeo performance).
noun
- Any move in which the wrestler grabs an opponent's head and jumps forward, so that the wrestler lands, often in a sitting position, and drives the opponent's face into the mat.
- A breed of dog developed in England by the crossing of the bullbaiting dog and the Pug to produce a ladies' companion dog, having a very smooth coat, a flattened face, wrinkly cheeks, powerful front legs, and smaller hind legs.
- A stubborn or determined person.
- The original form of this breed, the British bulldog.
- A bulldog edition.
- Any of various species of African freshwater fish in the genus Marcusenius, a type of elephantfish.
- One of the proctors' officers.
- A refractory material used as a furnace lining, obtained by calcining the cinder or slag from the puddling furnace of a rolling mill.
noun
- An instance of accomplishing a tricky idea or overcoming a difficult obstacle.
- A feature of a system or a program that works in the way it is documented but is counter-intuitive and almost invites mistake or non-function.
- An attempt to disprove or refute someone's argument, usually in a deceptive or disingenuous way.
- An instance of publicly tricking someone or exposing them to ridicule, especially by means of an elaborate deception.
- A potential problem or source of trouble.
abbrev
- Understand you; comprehend you.
- Got you covered, got your back; when you have an advantage or responsibility over someone.
- Got you; have you; as in capture or apprehend.
- Got you back; as in after causing some form of retaliation or revenge against someone.
- Got you by surprise; exclamation indicating a successful trick or prank.
verb
- To put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to exert oneself.
- To apply to (anything) a device for obtaining a mechanical advantage; to get a purchase upon, or apply a purchase to; to raise or move by mechanical means.
- To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire.
- To constitute the buying power for a purchase, have a trading value.
- To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.
- To buy, obtain by payment of a price in money or its equivalent.
- To expiate by a fine or forfeit.
noun
- A price paid for a house or estate, etc. equal to the amount of the rent or income during the stated number of years.
- The apparatus, tackle or device by which such mechanical advantage is gained and in nautical terminology the ratio of such a device, like a pulley, or block and tackle.
- The amount of hold one has from an individual foothold or ledge.
- Any mechanical hold or advantage, applied to the raising or removing of heavy bodies, as by a lever, a tackle or capstan.
- That which is obtained for a price in money or its equivalent.
- The acquisition of title to, or property in, anything for a price; buying for money or its equivalent.
- That which is obtained, got or acquired, in any manner, honestly or dishonestly; property; possession; acquisition.
noun
- A means of overcoming some obstacle, especially an obstacle consisting of constraints, or laws or regulations.
- An impromptu and temporary response to an unforeseen problem or risk.
- A procedure or a temporary fix that bypasses a problem and allows a user to continue working until a better solution can be provided.
noun
- The ability to do or undergo something.
- Physical force or strength.
- Control or coercion, particularly legal or political (jurisdiction).
- The people in charge of legal or political power, the government.
- A measure of the rate of doing work or transferring energy.
- An influential nation, company, or other such body.
- Any of the elementary forms or parts of machines: three primary (the lever, inclined plane, and pulley) and three secondary (the wheel-and-axle, wedge, and screw).
- In Christian angelology, an intermediate level of angels, ranked above archangels, but exact position varies by classification scheme.
- A measure of the effectiveness that a force producing a physical effect has over time. If linear, the quotient of: (force multiplied by the displacement of or in an object) ÷ time. If rotational, the quotient of: (force multiplied by the angle of displacement) ÷ time.
- The strength by which a lens or mirror magnifies an optical image.
- The probability that a statistical test will reject the null hypothesis when the alternative hypothesis is true.
- The ability to affect or influence.
- A product of equal factors (and generalizations of this notion): xⁿ, read as "x to the power of n" or the like, is called a power and denotes the product x⨯x⨯⋯⨯x, where x appears n times in the product; x is called the base and n the exponent.
- Cardinality.
- The ability to coerce, influence, or control.
- Electricity or a supply of electricity.
adj
verb
verb
- To incur, stand, or bear without serious detriment, as an act which might under other circumstances be injurious; (usually after an expression of ability, as could, able, difficult) to be able or rich enough.
- To give, grant, or confer, with a remoter reference to its being the natural result; to provide; to furnish.
- To give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue.
noun
- An act or instance of overcoming an obstacle.
- Victory gained through combat; the subjugation of an enemy.
- That which is conquered; possession gained by force, physical or moral.
- A competitive mode found in first-person shooter games in which competing teams (usually two) attempt to take over predetermined spawn points labeled by flags.
- A person whose romantic affections one has gained, or with whom one has had sex, or the act of gaining another's romantic affections.
verb
verb
- To overcome (a bothersome or difficult issue or obstacle); to free oneself of (a problem).
- To direct to a particular place by a blow with the foot or leg.
- To recoil; to push by recoiling.
- To be emphatically excellent.
- To make a sharp jerking movement of the leg, as to strike something.
- To show opposition or resistance.
- To reset (a watchdog timer).
- To accelerate quickly with a few pedal strokes in an effort to break away from other riders.
- To eject summarily.
- To reproach oneself for making a mistake or missing an opportunity.
- To strike or hit with the foot or other extremity of the leg.
- To attack (a piece) in order to force it to move.
- To move or push suddenly and violently.
- To die.
- To forcibly remove a participant from an online activity.
- To work a press by impact of the foot on a treadle.
noun
- Something that tickles the fancy; something fun or amusing.
- Any bucking motion of an object that lacks legs or feet.
- A pass played by kicking with the foot.
- The recoil of a gun.
- Synonym of kicker (“backlight positioned at an angle”)
- A hit or strike with the leg, foot or knee.
- The removal of a person from an online activity.
- A stimulation provided by an intoxicating substance.
- The distance traveled by kicking the ball.
- Piquancy.
- A pocket.
- The action of swinging a foot or leg.
- An increase in speed in the final part of a running race.
verb
verb
adv
- To one's place of residence or one's customary or official location
- To a full and intimate degree; to the heart of the matter; fully, directly.
- At or in one's place of residence or one's customary or official location; at home
- into the goal
- To the home page
- To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length
- To one's place of birth
- into the right, proper or stowed position
adj
- Of, from, or pertaining to one’s dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign
- Relating to the home team (the team at whose venue a game is played).
noun
- The ultimate point aimed at in a progress; the goal.
- Home plate.
- The place of a player in front of an opponent’s goal; also, the player.
- The landing page of a website; the site's homepage.
- One’s own dwelling place; the house or structure in which one lives; especially the house in which one lives with one's family; the habitual abode of one’s family.
- The place (residence, settlement, country, etc.), where a person was born and/or raised; childhood or parental home; home of one’s parents or guardian.
- A house that has been made home-like, to suit the comfort of those who live there.
- The chord at which a melody starts and to which it can resolve.
- The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections.
- One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt.
- A place of refuge, rest or care; an asylum.
- The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat.
- The grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul.
noun
- An act of venturing out to do a task, etc.
- An operational flight carried out by a spacecraft involving a return to Earth.
- An operational flight carried out by a single military aircraft.
- An attack made by troops from a besieged position; a sally.
- An act of trying to enter a new field of activity.
- An attacking move.
- Synonym of sally port (“an entry to or opening into a fortification to enable a sally”)
- A series of aerial photographs taken during the flight of an aircraft; (by extension) a photography session.
verb
verb
- To do something without skill, without care, or clumsily.
- To repair or mend clumsily.
- To perform (a task) in an unacceptable or incompetent manner; to make a mess of something
noun
- An action, job, or task that has been performed very badly; a ruined, defective, or clumsy piece of work.
- A mistake that is very stupid or embarrassing.
- A messy, disorderly or confusing combination; conglomeration; hodgepodge.
- A case or outbreak of boils or sores.
- A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.
noun
- A particular means of accomplishing something.
- A series of settings on a device used for a specific purpose.
- The openwork between the solid parts of a pattern.
- A verb form that depends on how its containing clause relates to the speaker’s or writer’s wish, intent, or assertion about reality.
- The most frequently occurring value in a distribution
- A variation in gameplay, such as a difficulty level.
- One of several common scales in modern Western music, one of which corresponds to the modern major scale and one to the natural minor scale.
- Style or fashion; popular trend.
- That which exists only as a quality of substance.
- One of various related sets of rules for processing data; more generally, any state of the system associated with certain behaviours.
- One of several ancient Greek scales.
- A particular state of being, or frame of mind.
- A state of a system that is represented by an eigenfunction of that system.
- In lace-making, a small decorative piece inserted into a pattern.
verb
- To act in a non destructive or damaging manner, whether physically or mentally to those you hold dear and/or respect. To exercise self-control.
- To participate in the procession at a graduation ceremony; to graduate.
- To maintain an intermediate position between contrasting choices, opinions, etc.
- To mark or secure a boundary by walking along it.
noun
- A person who strives for success and takes on risk by starting their own venture, service, etc.
- A person who organizes a risky activity of any kind and acts substantially in the manner of a business entrepreneur.
- A person who organizes and operates a business venture and assumes much of the associated risk.
adj
- Involuntary and non-striated.
- Having derivatives of all finite orders at all points within the function’s domain.
- Flowing or uttered without check, obstruction, or hesitation; not harsh; fluent.
- Natural; unconstrained.
- Not grainy; having an even texture.
- Without difficulty, problems, or unexpected consequences or incidents.
- That factors completely into small prime numbers.
- Having a texture that lacks friction. Not rough.
- Unbroken.
- Lacking marked aspiration.
- Lacking projections or indentations; not serrated.
- Placid, calm.
- Having a pleasantly rounded flavor; neither rough nor astringent.
- Suave; sophisticated.
- Bland; glib.
noun
- The analysis obtained through a smoothing procedure.
- Something that is smooth, or that goes smoothly and easily.
- A domestic animal having a smooth coat.
- A member of an anti-hippie fashion movement in 1970s Britain.
- A smoothing action.
verb
- To make smooth or even.
- To make straightforward or easy.
- To stroke; especially to stroke an animal's fur.
- To reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure; to press, to flatten.
- To calm or palliate.
- To capture important patterns in the data, while leaving out noise.
adv
noun
- the act of withdrawing or going backward (especially to escape something hazardous or unpleasant)
- (military) withdrawal of troops to a more favorable position to escape the enemy's superior forces or after a defeat
- a place of privacy; a place affording peace and quiet
- (military) a signal to begin a withdrawal from a dangerous position
- (military) a bugle call signaling the lowering of the flag at sunset
- an area where you can be alone
- withdrawal for prayer and study and meditation
verb
noun
- A method of accomplishing something primarily by means of strength, without the use of great skill, mechanical aids or thought.
- A method of computation wherein the computer is let to try all permutations of a problem until one is found that provides a solution, in contrast to the implementation of a more intelligent algorithm.
verb
verb
- To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
- To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
- To come up to bat.
- To have sex with.
- To attack.
- To affect negatively.
- To strike against something.
- To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.
- To attack, especially amphibiously.
- In blackjack, to deal a card to.
- to work out
- To manage to touch (a target) in the right place.
- To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.
- To guess; to light upon or discover.
- To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often by luck.
- To switch on.
- To affect someone, as if dealing a blow to that person.
- To reach or achieve.
- To use; to connect to.
- (of an exercise) to affect, to work a body part.
- To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
- To briefly visit.
- To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.
- To activate a button or key by pressing and releasing it.
noun
- The hit was very slight.
- A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
- A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
- A match found by searching a computer system or search engine
- An approximately correct answer in a test set.
- Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim.
- An attack on a location, person or people.
- The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.
- A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
- A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
- A move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point.
- A collision of a projectile with the target.
- In the game of Battleship, a correct guess at where one's opponent ship is.
- A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
pron
adj
verb
- To perform an action without attracting the attention of.
- Of a ship: to be run aground intentionally to avoid a collision
- To store, or place in reserve; to save (money, etc.) for later use.
- To remove (something) from the present context and into its proper place; (figurative) to reject or disregard.
noun
- An act of pulling (applying force toward oneself).
- The act of drinking; a mouthful or swig of a drink.
- The situation where a client sends out a request for data from a server, as in server pull, pull technology
- A mishit shot which travels in a straight line and (for a right-handed player) left of the intended path.
- Any device meant to be pulled, as a lever, knob, handle, or rope.
- An attractive force which causes motion towards the source.
- Appeal or attraction (e.g. of a movie star).
- A single impression from a handpress.
- A journey made by rowing.
- A proof sheet.
- An injury resulting from a forceful pull on a limb, etc.; a strain.
- An advantage over somebody; a means of influencing.
- The power to influence someone or something; sway, clout.
- A type of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the on side; a pull shot.
verb
- To strike the ball in a particular manner. (See noun sense.)
- To obtain (a permit) from a regulatory authority.
- To row.
- To draw beer from a pump, keg, or other source.
- To do or perform.
- To score a certain number of points in a sport.
- To attract or net; to pull in.
- To pull out from a yard or station; to leave.
- To apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing applying the force.
- To achieve by rowing on a rowing machine.
- To pluck or pick (flowers, fruit etc.).
- To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward oneself; to pluck.
- To draw apart; to tear; to rend.
- To hold back, and so prevent from winning.
- To remove (something), especially from public circulation or availability.
- To toss a frisbee with the intention of launching the disc across the length of a field.
- To persuade (someone) to have sex with one: to be 'on the pull' - looking for a sexual partner.
- To retrieve or generate for use.
- To draw (a hostile non-player character) into combat, or toward or away from some location or target.
- To take a swig or mouthful of drink.
- To strain (a muscle, tendon, ligament, etc.).
- To copy or emulate the actions or behaviour that is associated with the person or thing mentioned.
intj
verb
- exert oneself to meet a challenge
- move upward
- increase in value or to a higher point
- rise to one's feet
- rise up
- come to the surface
- come into existence; take on form or shape
- move to a better position in life or to a better job
- go up or advance
- become more extreme
- get up and out of bed
- rise in rank or status
- become heartened or elated
- take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance
- increase in volume
- come up, of celestial bodies
- return from the dead
noun
- a growth in strength or number or importance
- the act of changing location in an upward direction
- an upward slope or grade (as in a road)
- a movement upward; rise above the ground
- the amount a salary is increased
- the property possessed by a slope or surface that rises
- a wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground
- (theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost
- an increase in cost
- increase in price or value
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