lineman splice
Western Union splice
rat-tail splice
T-splice
buncher
interwire
quad
multiwires
split-ring
braid
worm
strand
Simple Simon over
stranded
pigtail
cable
bifilar
conduit bender
riddle
square knot
sleeve
draw
gang
round-wound
intrawire
shifter
crimper
shroud
carrick bend
crimping pliers
stud
shroud knot
nail knot
chain cable
shielded twisted pair
wire netting
Flemish bend
adjustable bend
flat lock
trifilar
coupling-box
turnbuckle
vairy
power strip
multiwire
offset overhand bend
thermojunction
chainlink
wirebound
vachette
McIntire joint
string
double lock standing seam
cable-laid
Simple Simon under
spring jack
male plug
Hunter's bend
fisherman's knot
gunter rig
plug
quadrifilar
hand over hand
griff
pin header
twist
wire frame
bobwire
strander
wiremaker
harness bend
chaser
wire
racking bend
gauge
Z-bend
Albright knot
tatting
cringle
Riess spiral
wire gauze
grommet
eyelet
double sheet bend
loop
grummet
fibre
span
wall knot
German wheel
rack
splice
cotter pin
paranemic
patch
cable jointing
tight
overlashing
compressed
interwire
stranded
bifilar
round-wound
intrawire
trifilar
vairy
multiwire
wirebound
cable-laid
quadrifilar
paranemic
tight
compressed
hand over hand
lineman splice
Western Union splice
rat-tail splice
T-splice
buncher
multiwires
split-ring
braid
worm
strand
Simple Simon over
pigtail
cable
conduit bender
riddle
square knot
sleeve
gang
shifter
crimper
shroud
carrick bend
crimping pliers
stud
shroud knot
nail knot
chain cable
shielded twisted pair
wire netting
Flemish bend
adjustable bend
flat lock
coupling-box
turnbuckle
power strip
offset overhand bend
thermojunction
chainlink
vachette
McIntire joint
string
double lock standing seam
Simple Simon under
spring jack
male plug
Hunter's bend
fisherman's knot
gunter rig
plug
griff
pin header
twist
wire frame
bobwire
strander
wiremaker
harness bend
chaser
wire
racking bend
gauge
Z-bend
Albright knot
tatting
cringle
Riess spiral
wire gauze
grommet
eyelet
double sheet bend
loop
grummet
fibre
span
wall knot
German wheel
rack
splice
cotter pin
cable jointing
overlashing
quad
draw
patch
noun
- A machine that twists strands together during the manufacture of metal wire; a strander.
- A person who bunches.
- A circuit that causes electrons or other charged particles in a particle beam to group together.
- An illegitimate supplier of laboratory animals who obtains the animals by kidnapping pets or illegally trapping strays.
- A ground-based radio transmitter, configured within a system to guide aircraft to their allocated airfields.
adj
verb
- To twist four individually insulated conductors together as two pairs of twisted wires that are then twisted together.
- To fill spaces in a line of type with quads. Also quad out.
- To align text with the left or right margin, or centre it.
- to ride a quad bike
noun
- A quadriplegic person.
- A skate with four wheels.
- A quadcopter.
- A blank metal block used to fill short lines of type.
- A keyboard command which aligns text with the left or right margin, or centred between them. In combination, as quad left, quad right, or quad centre.
- A kind of round-robin tournament between four players, where each participant plays every other participant once.
- Quadruplex videotape.
- The quadriceps muscle.
- A quadrupel beer.
- A quad bike (from quadricycle)
- The Bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price bound in a single volume.
- A quadruplet (infant).
- A quadrangle (quadrangular courtyard).
- A serving of four shots of espresso.
- A quadrilateral.
- A joke used to fill long days of setting type.
- A poster, measuring forty by thirty inches, advertising a cinematic film release.
adj
noun
noun
- A stranded wire composed of a number of smaller wires twisted together
- A weave of three or more strands of fibers, ribbons, cords or hair often for decoration.
- A tubular sheath made of braided strands of metal placed around a central cable for shielding against electromagnetic interference.
verb
noun
- The spiral wire of a corkscrew.
- Either a mythical "dragon" (especially wingless), a gigantic sea serpent, or a creature that resembles a Mongolian death worm.
- A strip of linked tiles sharing parallel edges in a tiling.
- The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to save space.
- Anything helical, especially the thread of a screw.
- A self-replicating program that propagates through a network.
- A short revolving screw whose threads drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel or rack by gearing into its teeth.
- A graphical representation of the total runs scored in an innings.
- More loosely, any of various tubular invertebrates resembling annelids but not closely related to them, such as velvet worms, acorn worms, flatworms, or roundworms.
- A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms.
- An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one’s mind with remorse.
- The lytta.
- A contemptible or devious being.
- A dance, or dance move, in which the dancer lies on the floor and undulates the body horizontally thereby moving forwards.
- A muscular band in the tongue of some animals, such as dogs; the lytta.
- A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum; an earthworm.
verb
- To work one's way by artful or devious means.
- To fill in the contlines of (a rope) before parcelling and serving.
- To drag out of, to get information that someone is reluctant or unwilling to give (through artful or devious means or by pleading or asking repeatedly).
- To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm.
- To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of (a dog, etc.) for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw, and formerly supposed to guard against canine madness.
- To move with one's body dragging the ground.
- To make (one's way) with a crawling motion.
- To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means.
- To work (one's way or oneself) (into) gradually or slowly; to insinuate.
- To deworm (an animal).
noun
- A group of wires, usually twisted or braided.
- The shore or beach of the sea or ocean; shore; beach.
- A small brook or rivulet.
- A passage for water; gutter.
- A nucleotide chain.
- A string.
- A series of programmes on a particular theme or linked subject.
- An element in a composite whole; a sequence of linked events or facts; a logical thread.
- A street.
- An individual length of any fine, string-like substance.
- Each of the strings which, twisted together, make up a yarn, rope or cord.
verb
noun
- A short length of twisted electrical wire.
- A braided plait of hair; now especially, either of two braids or "tails" on the side of the head.
- The tail of a pig.
- Twisted stent terminal; stent-end, usually but not necessarily a different fastened part.
- The flamingo flower (anthurium)
- Tobacco twisted into a string or roll.
- A person who wears a pigtail or queue.
noun
- An assembly of two or more cable-laid ropes.
- 100 fathoms, 600 imperial feet, approximately 185 m.
- A strong rope or chain used to moor or anchor a ship.
- An assembly of two or more wires, used for electrical power or data circuits; one or more and/or the whole may be insulated.
- The currency pair British Pound against United States Dollar.
- A strong, large-diameter wire or rope, or something resembling such a rope.
- A telegram, notably when sent by (submarine) telegraph cable.
- A system for transmitting television or Internet services over a network of coaxial or fibreoptic cables.
- A unit of length equal to one tenth of a nautical mile.
- A textural pattern achieved by passing groups of stitches over one another.
- A moulding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to resemble the spiral twist of a rope.
verb
noun
- A board with a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
- A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature.
- A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.
- An ancient verbal, poetic, or literary form, in which, rather than a rhyme scheme, there are parallel opposing expressions with a hidden meaning.
- One of the pair of curtains enclosing an altar on the north and south.
verb
noun
- A double tube of copper into which the ends of bare wires are pushed so that when the tube is twisted an electrical connection is made. The joint thus made is called a McIntire joint.
- The part of a garment that covers the arm.
- A serving of beer smaller than a pint, typically measuring between 12 and 16 ounces.
- A long, cylindrical plastic bag of cookies or crackers.
- A protective jacket or case, especially for a record, containing art and information about the contents; also the analogous leaflet found in a packaged CD.
- A (usually tubular) covering or lining to protect a piece of machinery etc.
- Sleave; untwisted thread.
- A tattoo covering the whole arm.
- A narrow channel of water.
verb
verb
- To make (wire) by pulling it through an aperture; to stretch (metal) into a wire.
- To take (air, smoke etc.) into the lungs; to inhale.
- To provoke or attract (a particular response or reaction).
- To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
- To take (water) from a well or other source.
- To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes it to take a backward direction on striking another ball.
- To receive (a salary); to withdraw (money) from a bank etc.
- To elicit information from (someone); to induce (a person) to speak on some subject. (Now frequently in passive.)
- To pull out, unsheathe (a sword, firearm etc.).
- To move steadily in a particular direction or into a specific position.
- To extract (a tooth).
- To take or be dealt a playing card from the deck. See also draw out.
- To pull (something) in a particular manner or direction.
- To call forth (something) from a person, to elicit.
- To take or be dealt (a card) from the deck; to have (a particular hand) as a result of this.
- To make a shot that lands gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones.
- To attract (something) by means of a physical force, especially magnetism or gravity; (figurative) to act as an inducement or enticement.
- To come to, towards (a particular moment in time); to approach (a time).
- To produce (a shape, figure, picture etc.) with pencil, crayon, chalk, or other implement.
- To cause (someone) to come to a particular place, condition, or course of action; to attract (a person).
- To conduct (a lottery); to select (the numbers) for a lottery; to win (a prize) in a lottery.
- To depict (something) linguistically; to portray in words.
- To produce a visual representation of (a person or thing) by lines and marks with pencil, pen, paints etc.
- To drag (a person, thing, or part of the body), especially along the ground.
- To move (a part of one's body) in a particular direction.
- To stretch or elongate.
- To deduce or infer (a conclusion); to make (a deduction).
- To draw up, compose (a document).
- To have a draught; to allow air to be passed through in order to allow for combustion.
- To induce (the mind, eyes, attention etc.) to be directed at or focused on something.
- To cause (something); to bring (something) about as a consequence.
- To become contracted; to shrink.
- To pull (a curtain, blinds etc.) open or closed.
- To assume a specific position or attitude.
- To require (a depth of water) for floating.
- To pull back (the string of a bow) in preparation for shooting.
- To pull (one's face, features) out of shape, from emotion etc.
- Of a sail, to fill with wind.
- To select (an item) at random to decide which of a group of people will receive or undergo something; to select (a person) by this process.
- To disembowel (someone); to remove the viscera from (an animal), especially before cooking.
- To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).
- To steep; to leave (tea) temporarily in water to allow the flavour to increase.
- To run (a bath).
- To produce an image of something by artistic means; to make drawings.
- To pull (a belt or other item) so that it tightens or wraps around something more closely.
- To take (something) from a particular source, especially of information; to derive.
- To pull (a plough, vehicle etc.); to cause (something) to move forwards by pulling it.
- To extract (juice, fluids etc.) from something by pressure, osmosis or similar.
- To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect the ball between the legs and the wicket.
- To consume (power).
noun
- A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
- The act of drawing.
- The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.
- Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.
- Cannabis.
- The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.
- The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.
- A shot that is intended to land gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones; cf. takeout.
- A bag of cannabis.
- Draft in the sense of the flow through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process, possibly adjustable with a damper.
- The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings before time ran out (as distinguished from a tie).
- A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice, fade.
- In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
- A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary cards for a straight and requires a further card to make their flush or straight.
- The result of a contest that neither side has won; a tie.
noun
- A group of wires attached as a bundle.
- A criminal group with a common cultural background and identifying features, often associated with a particular section of a city.
- A combination of similar tools or implements arranged so as, by acting together, to save time or labor; a set.
- A number of switches or other electrical devices wired into one unit and covered by one faceplate.
- A group of politicians united in furtherance of a political goal.
- A chain gang.
- A number going in company; a number of friends or persons associated for a particular purpose.
- A group of laborers under one foreman; a squad.
- A going, journey; a course, path, track.
- A group of criminals or alleged criminals who band together for mutual protection and profit.
- A set; all required for an outfit.
verb
noun
- A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc.
- A word whose meaning changes depending on the situation, as by deixis.
- A switcher or shunter: a railroad locomotive used for shunting.
- One who, or that which, shifts or changes.
- An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions.
- A component used by the rider to control the gearing mechanisms and select the desired gear ratio, usually connected to the derailleur by a mechanical actuation cable.
- An arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another.
- A genre of erotica focusing on lycanthropes or other shapeshifters, such as werewolves.
- A spanner with an adjustable jaw size.
- A person who changes the reality their consciousness resides in, through meditation or other means.
- A person employed to repair the horseways and other passages, and keep them unobstructed.
- A shape-shifter, or a person or other being capable of changing their physical form.
noun
- a hand tool used for joining two pieces of metal or other ductile material (usually a wire and a metal plate) by deforming one or both of them to hold the other.
- someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or soldiers
- a mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it
noun
- One of a set of ropes or cables (rigging) attaching a mast to the sides of a vessel or to another anchor point, serving to support the mast sideways; such rigging collectively.
- That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
- One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
- The branching top of a tree; foliage.
- A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
- That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
- A streamlined protective covering used to protect the payload during a rocket-powered launch.
- Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
verb
noun
- An iron brace across the shorter diameter of the link of a chain cable.
- A male animal, especially a stud horse (stallion), kept for breeding.
- A type of poker where an individual cannot throw cards away and some of her cards are exposed.
- A stud bolt.
- A short rod or pin, fixed in and projecting from something, and sometimes forming a journal.
- A sexually dominant lesbian, chiefly African-American.
- A group of such animals.
- A small round earring.
- A female animal, especially a studmare (broodmare), kept for breeding.
- A small object that protrudes from something; an ornamental knob.
- A sexually attractive male.
- A place, such as a ranch, where such animals are kept.
- An animal (usually livestock) that has been registered and is retained for breeding.
- A vertical post, especially one of the small uprights in the framing for lath and plaster partitions, and furring, and upon which the laths are nailed.
verb
noun
- A long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together.
- 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.
- A stringed instrument.
- 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 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
- an electrical device with two or three pins that is inserted in a socket to make an electrical connection
- blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly
- a wad of something chewable as tobacco
- blatant or sensational promotion
- electrical device that fits into the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine and ignites the gas by means of an electric spark
- an upright hydrant for drawing water to use in fighting a fire
- an old or over-worked horse
verb
noun
- A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together.
- A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc.
- A distortion to the meaning of a word or passage.
- A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.
- A twisting force.
- The form given in twisting.
- An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.
- A roll or baton of baked dough or pastry in a twisted shape.
- The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
- A type of dance characterised by rotating one’s hips. See Twist (dance) on Wikipedia for more details.
- A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination.
- The degree of stress or strain when twisted.
- Anything twisted, or the act of twisting.
- A small roll of tobacco.
- A sprain, especially to the ankle.
- A girl, a woman.
- A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.
- A rotation of the body when diving.
verb
- To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
- To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
- To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.
- In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.
- To turn a knob etc.
- To join together by twining one part around another.
- To wind into; to insinuate.
- To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).
- To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.
- To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.
- To cause to rotate.
- To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
- To coax.
- To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).
noun
noun
noun
- A long piece of flexible wire used to draw an electrical cable through a wall cavity.
- Synonym of prison chaser (“person who guards military prisoners”)
- A horse: (originally) a horse used for hunting; (now) a horse trained for steeplechasing, a steeplechaser.
- A drink drunk after another of a different kind.
- A piece of music, etc. played after a performance while the audience leaves.
- A chubby chaser.
- In the sport of Quidditch or Muggle quidditch, a player responsible for passing the quaffle and scoring goals with it.
- A tranny chaser.
- A chase gun.
- Any dragonfly of family Libellulidae.
- One of a series of adjacent light bulbs that cycle on and off to give the illusion of movement.
- A person who seeks partners with HIV in order to become infected.
- A person or thing (ship, plane, car, etc.) that chases.
- One who unhooks chokers from the logs at the landing.
- A tool used for cleaning out screw threads, either as an integral part of a tap or die to remove waste material produced by the cutting tool, or as a separate tool to repair damaged threads.
- Someone who chases (decorates) metal; a person who decorates metal by engraving or embossing.
noun
- A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable.
- Any of the system of wires used to operate the puppets in a puppet show; hence, the network of hidden influences controlling the action of a person or organization; strings.
- A knitting needle.
- Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.
- A telecommunication wire or cable.
- An electric telegraph; a telegram.
- A hidden listening device on the person of an undercover operative for the purposes of obtaining incriminating spoken evidence.
- A fence made of usually barbed wire.
- A deadline or critical endpoint.
- A metal conductor that carries electricity.
- A finish line of a racetrack.
- A wire strung with beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep score.
- The slender shaft of the plumage of certain birds.
- A covert signal sent between people cheating in a card game.
verb
- To send a message or monetary funds to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominantly by telegraph.
- To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.
- To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.
- To set or predetermine (someone's personality or behaviour, or an organization's culture) in a particular way.
- To string on a wire.
- To add (something) into a system (especially an electrical system) by means of wiring.
- To snare by means of a wire or wires.
- To install eavesdropping equipment.
- To make someone tense or psyched up. See also adjective wired.
- To connect, involve or embed (something) deeply or intimately into (something else, such as an organization or political scene), so that it is plugged in (to that thing) (“keeping up with current information about (the thing)”) or has insinuated itself into (the thing).
- To add or connect (something) into a system as if with wires (for example, with nerves).
- To equip with wires for use with electricity.
noun
- the thickness of wire
- a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc.
- accepted or approved instance or example of a quantity or quality against which others are judged or measured or compared
- the distance between the rails of a railway or between the wheels of a train
- diameter of a tube or gun barrel
verb
noun
- fastener consisting of a metal ring for lining a small hole to permit the attachment of cords or lines
- a small hole (usually round and finished around the edges) in cloth or leather for the passage of a cord or hook or bar
- fabric decorated with small holes with finely stitched edges that form an ornamental pattern.
noun
- fastener consisting of a metal ring for lining a small hole to permit the attachment of cords or lines
- anything with a round or oval shape (formed by a curve that is closed and does not intersect itself)
- (computer science) a single execution of a set of instructions that are to be repeated
- an inner circle of advisors (especially under President Reagan)
- the basic pattern of the human fingerprint
- a computer program that performs a series of instructions repeatedly until some specified condition is satisfied
- the topology of a network whose components are serially connected in such a way that the last component is connected to the first component
- an intrauterine device in the shape of a loop
- a complete electrical circuit around which current flows or a signal circulates
- a flight maneuver; aircraft flies a complete circle in the vertical plane
verb
noun
- A single piece of a given material, elongated and roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibres to form thread.
- Material in the form of fibres.
- A kind of lightweight thread of execution.
- A long tubular cell found in bodily tissue.
- Said to be of a morphism over a global element: The pullback of the said morphism along the said global element.
- Dietary fibre.
- Moral strength and resolve.
- The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.
noun
- The length of a cable, wire, rope, chain between two consecutive supports.
- The space of all linear combinations of something.
- A portion of something by length; a subsequence.
- A small space or a brief portion of time.
- The spread or extent of an arch or between its abutments, or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or the like, between supports.
- The time required to execute a parallel algorithm on an infinite number of processors, i.e. the shortest distance across a directed acyclic graph representing the computation steps.
- wingspan of a plane or bird
- Any of various traditional units of length approximating this distance, especially the English handspan of 9 inches forming ⅛ fathom and equivalent to 22.86 cm.
- A pair of horses or other animals driven together; usually, such a pair of horses when similar in color, form, and action.
- A rope having its ends made fast so that a purchase can be hooked to the bight; also, a rope made fast in the center so that both ends can be used.
- The full width of an open hand from the end of the thumb to the end of the little finger used as an informal unit of length.
verb
noun
- A friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with five or more metal bars, around which the rope is threaded.
- A cranequin, a mechanism including a rack, pinion and pawl, providing both mechanical advantage and a ratchet, used to bend and cock a crossbow.
- Any of various kinds of frame for holding luggage or other objects on a vehicle or vessel.
- A distaff.
- A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other
- A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs.
- A woman's breasts.
- A climber's set of equipment for setting up protection and belays, consisting of runners, slings, carabiners, nuts, Friends, etc.
- A thousand pounds (£1,000), especially if proceeds of crime
- Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky.
- A bunk.
- A grate on which bacon is laid.
- A set of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).
- Sleep.
- A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.
- A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.
- A hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game.
- A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with a pawl as a ratchet allowing movement in one direction only, used for example in a handbrake or crossbow.
- A set with a distributive binary operation whose result is unique.
- A fast amble.
- A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with those of a gearwheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive or be driven by it.
verb
- To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.
- To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.
- To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
- To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.
- To cause (someone) to suffer pain.
- To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round.
- To fly, as vapour or broken clouds.
- To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace.
- To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir.
- To place in or hang on a rack.
- To torture (someone) on the rack.
- To tend to shear a structure (that is, force it to bend, lean, or move in different directions at different points).
- To strike in the testicles.
- To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
- To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.
noun
- A junction or joining of ropes made by splicing them together.
- The electrical and mechanical connection between two pieces of wire or cable.
- That part of a bat where the handle joins the blade.
- Bonding or joining of overlapping materials.
- The process of removing intron sequences from the pre-messenger RNA, and then joining together exons.
verb
- To unite as if splicing.
- To unite, as spars, timbers, rails, etc., by lapping the two ends together, or by applying a piece which laps upon the two ends, and then binding, or in any way making fast.
- To remove intron sequences from the pre-messenger RNA, and then join together exons.
- To unite, as two ropes, or parts of a rope, by a particular manner of interweaving the strands, the union being between two ends, or between an end and the body of a rope.
- To unite in marriage.
verb
- To connect two pieces of electrical equipment using a cable.
- To mend with pieces; to repair by fastening pieces on.
- To join or unite the pieces of; to patch the skirt.
- To repair or arrange in a hasty or clumsy manner
- To employ a temporary, removable electronic connection, as one between two components in a communications system.
- To make out of pieces or patches, like a quilt.
- To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like
- To make a quick and possibly temporary change to a program.
- To fix or improve a computer program without a complete upgrade.
noun
- A cover worn over a damaged eye, an eyepatch.
- A piece of any size, used to repair something for a temporary period only, or that it is temporary because it is not meant to last long or will be removed as soon as a proper repair can be made, which will happen in the near future.
- A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, especially upon an old garment to cover a hole.
- A small area, a small plot of land or piece of ground.
- A small, usually contrasting but always somehow different or distinct, part of something else (location, time, size)
- A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting.
- A sound setting for a musical synthesizer (originally selected by means of a patch cable).
- An overlay used to obtain a stronger impression.
- A small piece of anything used to repair damage or a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc.
- A cable connecting two pieces of electrical equipment.
- A small piece of black silk stuck on the face or neck to heighten beauty by contrast, worn by ladies in the 17th and 18th centuries; an imitation beauty mark.
- A small piece of material that is manually passed through a gun barrel to clean it.
- A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore.
- A local region of professional responsibility.
- A piece of material used to cover a wound.
- An adhesive piece of material, impregnated with a drug, which is worn on the skin, the drug being slowly absorbed over a period of time.
- A patch file, a file that describes changes to be made to a computer file or files, usually changes made to a computer program that fix a programming bug.
adj
- pressed tightly together
- pulled or drawn tight
- set so close together as to be invulnerable to penetration
- (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity
- affected by scarcity and expensive to borrow
- of textiles
- securely or solidly fixed in place; rigid
- (of a contest or contestants) evenly matched
- very drunk
- exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent
- demanding strict attention to rules and procedures
- packed closely together
adj
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