English words for 'A paper crane.'
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noun
noun
- The projecting arm of a crane.
- One who jibs or balks, refusing to continue forward.
- (slang, especially African-American Vernacular) The mouth, sometimes particularly the tongue, underlip, or tooth.
- An object that is used for performing tricks while skiing, snowboarding, skateboarding, in-line skating, or biking. These objects are usually found in a terrain park or skate park.
- (slang) Crystal meth.
- (metonymic, cinematography, film) A crane used for mounting and moving a video camera.
- (nautical) A triangular staysail set forward of the foremast. In a sloop (see image) the basic jib reaches back roughly to the level of the mast.
- (slang) A person's face.
- (nautical, usually with a modifier) Any of a variety of specialty triangular staysails set forward of the foremast.
- A stationary condition; a standstill.
- any triangular fore-and-aft sail (set forward of the foremast)
verb
noun
- A gantry crane or gantry scaffold.
- A supporting framework for a barrel.
- (medical imaging) A cylindrical scanner assembly in the bore of which the response of bodies or tissues to some specific exposure can be detected for 3D imaging.
- A framework of steel bars resting on side supports to bridge over or around something.
- (Singapore, by extension) A faregate or turnstile controlling the entry and exit of people at a location.
- a framework of steel bars raised on side supports to bridge over or around something; can display railway signals above several tracks or can support a traveling crane etc.
noun
- A horizontal member of a crane or derrick, used for lifting.
- The section of the arm on a backhoe closest to the tractor.
- (economics, business) A period of prosperity, growth, progress, or high market activity.
- (by extension) Ellipsis of boom microphone (a microphone supported on such a pole).
- (sailing) A spar extending the foot of a sail; a spar rigged outboard from a ship's side to which boats are secured in harbour.
- (electronics) The longest element of a Yagi-Uda antenna, on which the other, smaller antennae are transversally mounted.
- A wishbone-shaped piece of windsurfing equipment.
- (aviation) Ellipsis of sonic boom.
- One of the calls of certain monkeys or birds.
- A low-pitched, resonant sound, such as of an explosion.
- (gymnastics) A gymnastics apparatus, similar to a balance beam, which must be traversed as part of an obstacle course, typically as a training exercise in school or as part of basic training for new military recruits.
- A floating barrier used to obstruct navigation, for military or other purposes; or used for the containment of an oil spill or to control the flow of logs from logging operations.
- (computer chess, slang) An instance of booming.
- A specially-designed, movable pole, used to suspend a microphone or camera high above the ground during filming or recording.
- A rapid expansion or increase.
- a pole carrying an overhead microphone projected over a film or tv set
- a state of economic prosperity
- a deep prolonged loud noise
- a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money)
- any of various more-or-less horizontal spars or poles used to extend the foot of a sail or for handling cargo or in mooring
intj
verb
- (transitive, figuratively, of speech) To exclaim with force, to shout, to thunder.
- (of a Eurasian bittern) To make a deep, resonant, territorial vocalisation.
- (of a vehicle) To rush forwards with such violent intensity that it generates a sustained, overwhelming, roaring noise; especially from the perspective of a bystander who has been suddenly subjected to it.
- To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound.
- (usually with "up" or "down") To raise or lower with a crane boom.
- To extend, or push, with a boom or pole.
- (computer chess, slang) To rapidly adjust the evaluation of a position away from zero, indicating a likely win or loss.
- (intransitive) To cause a sonic boom.
- (transitive, slang) To subject (someone or something) to a sonic boom.
- (transitive) To make (something) boom.
- (intransitive) To flourish, grow, or progress.
- grow vigorously
- hit with great force
- make a deep hollow sound
- be the case that thunder is being heard
- make a resonant sound, like artillery
noun
- The moving platform of a container crane.
- (computing, slang) A member of a cracking group who distributes warez.
- A spacer or device for keeping two objects apart.
- A machine for combining and drawing fibers of flax to form a sliver preparatory to spinning.
- A device used to spread bulk material.
- An object or person who spreads.
- A knife or spatula used to distribute a substance such as butter or jelly.
- (nautical) A horizontal athwartships spar attached to the mast of a sailboat in order to extend the shrouds away from the mast.
- a mechanical device for scattering something (seed or fertilizer or sand etc.) in all directions
- a hand tool for spreading something
noun
verb
noun
- a crane for moving material with dispatch as in loading and unloading ships
- A type of crane for loading or unloading a ship.
- a moving belt that transports objects (as in a factory)
- a long truck for carrying motor vehicles
- (science fiction) A device that instantaneously transports, or teleports, a person or object.
- (biochemistry) A carrier.
- A long truck or lorry for carrying vehicles.
- A conveyor belt that transports objects in a factory etc.
noun
- A warehouse crane.
- (nautical) A jiggermast.
- (slang, UK) Ellipsis of jigger gun (“lock pick”).
- (nautical) A light tackle, consisting of a double and single block and the fall, used for various purposes, as to increase the purchase on a topsail sheet in hauling it home; the watch tackle.
- (US) A placeholder name for any small mechanical device.
- (pottery) A horizontal lathe used in producing flatware.
- (rail transport, New Zealand) A railway jigger, a small motorized or human powered vehicle used by railway workers to traverse railway tracks.
- (US) A measure of 1½ fluid ounces (approx. 44 ml) of liquor.
- (New Zealand) A short board or plank inserted into a tree for a person to stand on while cutting off higher branches.
- A sandflea, Tunga penetrans, of the order Siphonaptera; chigoe.
- (US) A double-ended vessel, generally of stainless steel or other metal, one end of which typically measures 1½ fluid ounces (approx. 44 ml), the other typically 1 fluid ounce (approx. 30 ml).
- A pendulum rolling machine for slicking or graining leather.
- (Australia, surveying, slang) A total station or its predecessor, a theodolite.
- The bridge or rest for the cue in billiards.
- (mining) One who jigs; a miner who sorts or cleans ore by the process of jigging.
- (fishing) A device used by fishermen to set their nets under the ice of frozen lakes.
- (nautical, New England) A small fishing vessel, rigged like a yawl.
- A larva of any of several mites in the family Trombiculidae; chigger, harvest mite.
- (slang, euphemistic) A vagina.
- (mining) The sieve used in sorting or separating ore.
- (horse racing) An illicit electric shock device used to urge on a horse during a race.
- (textiles) A device used in the dyeing of cloth.
- (US, slang) A drink of whiskey.
- (slang) An illegal distillery.
- larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation
- a small glass adequate to hold a single swallow of whiskey
- any small mast on a sailing vessel; especially the mizzenmast of a yawl
verb
noun
verb
verb
- (mechanical) To alter the vertical angle of the jib of a crane so as to bring it level with the load.
- (nautical, transitive) to let out (a sail) so that it luffs.
- (nautical, of sailing vessels, intransitive) To bring the ship's head up closer to the wind. (Alternatively luff up)
- (nautical, of a sail, intransitive) To shake due to being trimmed improperly.
- sail close to the wind
- flap when the wind is blowing equally on both sides
noun
- (nautical) The act of sailing a ship close to the wind.
- (nautical) The roundest part of a ship's bow.
- (nautical) The vertical edge of a sail that is closest to the direction of the wind.
- (nautical) The forward or weather leech of a sail, especially of the jib, spanker, and other fore-and-aft sails.
- the act of sailing close to the wind
- (nautical) the forward edge of a fore-and-aft sail that is next to the mast
noun
- A trough to prevent waste in a paper-making machine.
- (nautical, now historical) A small sail sometimes set under the foot of another sail, to catch the wind that would pass under it.
- (now chiefly historical) A device in a candlestick to hold the ends of candles, so they can be burned all the way down.
- a net hung between ship and pier while loading a ship
- a receptacle for catching waste products for further use
- a sail set to catch wind spilled from a larger sail
noun
- (nautical, construction) A crane, often working in pairs and usually made of steel, used to lower things over an edge of a long drop off, such as lowering a maintenance trapeze down a building or launching a lifeboat over the side of a ship.
- a crane-like device (usually one of a pair) for suspending or lowering equipment (as a lifeboat)
- (nautical) A spar formerly used on board of ships, as a crane to hoist the flukes of the anchor to the top of the bow, without injuring the sides of the ship.
noun
- A truck from which the load is suspended in some kinds of cranes.
- (British) A hand truck.
- (US) A streetcar or light train.
- (British) A gurney, a stretcher with wheeled legs.
- A truck which travels along the fixed conductors in an electric railway, and forms a means of connection between them and a railway car.
- (Philippines) A handcar.
- (Australia, New Zealand, British, Ireland) A cart or shopping cart; a shopping trolley.
- Clipping of flatbed trolley.
- A trolley pole; a single-pole device for collecting electrical current from an overhead electrical line, normally for a tram/streetcar or a trolleybus.
- (US, colloquial) A light rail, tramway, trolleybus or streetcar system.
- (British) A soapbox car.
- a wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity
verb
noun
verb
- (printing) To straighten up a stack of paper.
- (British) To awaken (someone) as by knocking at the door; rouse; call; summon; also, to go door-to-door on election day to persuade a candidate's supporters to go to the polling station and vote. See also knocker up.
- (racket sports, intransitive) To gently hit the ball back and forth before a tennis match, as practice or warm-up, and to gauge the state of the playing surface, lighting, etc. See knock-up.
- (slang, chiefly US) To impregnate, especially out of wedlock. See knocked up.
- (bookbinding) To make even at the edges, or to shape into book form.
- (colloquial) To put together, fabricate, or assemble, particularly if done hastily or temporarily.
- make pregnant
verb
- roll out (metal) with a rolling machine
- produce a ridge around the edge of
- move about in a confused manner
- grind with a mill
- (transitive) To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine.
- (intransitive) To undergo hulling.
- (transitive) To roll (steel, etc.) into bars.
- (transitive) To cause to mill, or circle around.
- (intransitive, slang) To take part in a fistfight; to box.
- (transitive, collectible card games) To move (a card) from a deck to the discard pile.
- (zoology, of air-breathing creatures) To swim underwater.
- (transitive, mining) To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.
- (zoology, of a whale) To swim suddenly in a new direction.
- (transitive, Hearthstone) To destroy (a card) due to having a full hand.
- To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
- (transitive) To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine.
- (intransitive, followed by around, about, etc.) To move about in an aimless fashion.
- (transitive) To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin).
- (transitive, slang) To beat; to pound.
- (transitive) To make (drinking chocolate) frothy, as by churning.
noun
- machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing
- a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing
- the act of grinding to a powder or dust
- One thousandth part in millage rates of property tax.
- (historical) A prison treadmill.
- (collectible card games) A strategy centered on depleting the opponent's deck.
- One thousandth of a US dollar, or one tenth of a cent.
- A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process; any similar apparatus that otherwise processes.
- (engineering, manufacturing) Alternative form of mil (“one thousandth of an inch”).
- A milling cutter used on such a machine.
- (mining) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
- (CB radio slang) A typewriter used to transcribe messages received.
- A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc. (Some are small and simple, and some are large and complex.)
- (US military slang, World War I, World War II) A military prison, either guardhouse or post prison.
- (collectible card games) Discarding a card from one's deck.
- (figurative, derogatory) An institution or pseudo-institutional business awarding credentials (such as diplomas, degrees, certificates, or certifications) of either dubious value or fraudulent nature; one selling essays or other documents for the buyers (usually students) to fraudulently pass off as their own.
- A milling machine for machining of solid metal, wood, or plastic.
- The building housing such a grinding apparatus; also, any similar building that houses a similarly material activity (such as weaving, fulling, dying, etc.); the place of business comprising such a building and its outbuildings and grounds.
- A line of three matching pieces in nine men's morris and related games.
- (informal) Clipping of millimeter.
- The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, such as a coin or screw.
- The building complex housing such a plant; the place of business comprising such buildings and their grounds.
- (informal) An engine.
- A machine for grinding and polishing.
- (figurative, usually derogatory) An establishment that handles a certain type of situation or procedure routinely, or produces large quantities of an item without much regard to quality. (The notion of churning out massive amounts indiscriminately underlies the figurative metaphor.)
- A manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, flooring, and some other kinds of materials.
- (military slang, World War I, World War II) A delousing station: a cootie mill.
- (die sinking) A hardened steel roller with a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, such as copper.
- (informal) Alternative form of mil (“million”).
- (mining) A passage underground through which ore is shot.
noun
- A machine for calendering paper.
- (biology) A device for depositing cells on a plate.
- Someone who installs sheet metal and armour plating, particularly on trains, ships, tanks, and similar items.
- Someone who plates metal.
- (horse-racing) A horse that runs chiefly in selling plates; hence, an inferior racehorse.
- a skilled worker who coats articles with a film of metal (usually silver or gold)
noun
noun
- A form of dredging machine.
- (Australia) A type of chocolate cake (or slice), somewhat similar to an American brownie.
- Retzia capensis of South Africa.
- A way of serving food at a party, consisting of a half melon or potato etc. with individual cocktail sticks of cheese and pineapple stuck into it.
- (military) Ellipsis of Czech hedgehog (“an antitank obstacle constructed from three steel rails”).
- (chiefly philosophy) Someone who has one big overarching personal philosophy or worldview.
- Medicago intertexta, the pods of which are armed with short spines.
- A kind of electrical transformer with open magnetic circuit, the ends of the iron wire core being turned outward and presenting a bristling appearance.
- (US) Any of several spiny mammals, such as the porcupine, that are similar to the hedgehog.
- (differential geometry) A type of plane curve; see Hedgehog (geometry).
- The edible fungus Hydnum repandum.
- (informal, military, historical) A spigot mortar-type of depth charge weapon from World War II that simultaneously fires a number of explosives into the water to create a pattern of underwater explosions intended to attack submerged submarines.
- A small mammal of the subfamily Erinaceinae, characterized by their spiny back and often by the habit of rolling up into a ball when attacked, native to Afro-Eurasia.
- relatively large rodents with sharp erectile bristles mingled with the fur
- small nocturnal Old World mammal covered with both hair and protective spines
verb
noun
- Initialism of rubber tyred gantry (“a type of crane”).
- Initialism of research task group (“an R&D administrative entity within NATO”).
- Initialism of radioisotope thermoelectric generator (“a device that generates electricity from the natural decay of radioactive material”).
- Initialism of regular tree grammar (“a mathematical formal grammar”).
- (aviation) Abbreviation of radiotelegraph.
- Initialism of renal threshold of glucose (“a factor in the medical condition of glycosuria”).
name
- Initialism of Royal Thai Government.
- Initialism of Retargetable graphics (“a device driver API for the AmigaOS operating system”).
- Initialism of Radeon Technology Group (“a division of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), who produces a brand of computer products”).
- Initialism of Radio Télévision Guinéenne (“a public broadcaster in Guinea”).
noun
- A machine that mechanically inserts sheets of printed paper into envelopes.
- An advertisement, flyer, or other unsolicited printed material contained in an envelope received by mail.
- One whose job is to manually insert sheets of printed paper into envelopes for mailing, especially as an example of a person whose work is menial and unfulfilling.
noun
- roller that has teeth on the rims to pull film or paper through
- thin wheel with teeth that engage with a chain
- tooth on the rim of gear wheel
- (architecture) A flared extension at the base of a sloped roof.
- A placeholder name for an unnamed, unspecified, or hypothetical manufactured good or product.
- (mechanical engineering) A toothed wheel that enmeshes with a chain or other perforated band.
- (usually in the plural) The tooth of such a wheel.
noun
- a machine that smooths or glazes paper or cloth by pressing it between plates or passing it through rollers
- Misspelling of calendar.
- One who pursues the business of calendering.
- A machine, used for the purpose of giving cloth, paper etc., a smooth, even, and glossy or glazed surface, by cold or hot pressure, or for watering them and giving them a wavy appearance; it consists of two or more cylinders revolving nearly in contact, with the necessary apparatus for moving and regulating.
- Alternative spelling of qalandar.
verb
noun
- The type of paper used in printing.
- (finance) The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares; the total of shares held by an individual shareholder.
- (nautical) A bar going through an anchor, perpendicular to the flukes.
- (biology) In tectology, an aggregate or colony of individuals, such as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
- The handle of a whip, fishing rod, etc.
- Plain soap before it is coloured and perfumed.
- (figurative) The measure of how highly a person or institution is valued.
- (UK, historical) The longest part of a split tally stick formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness.
- The trunk and woody main stems or limbs of a tree; the base from which something grows or branches.
- A supply of anything, stored until used; especially, such a supply that is ready for use.
- The headstock of a lathe, drill, etc.
- (geology) A pipe (vertical cylinder of ore)
- (shipbuilding, in the plural) The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction.
- (especially US) A share in a company.
- A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.
- Any of several types of security that are similar to a stock, or marketed like one.
- Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola.
- Stock theater, summer stock theater.
- Ellipsis of film stock.
- A piece of black cloth worn under a clerical collar.
- A store or supply.
- (UK, in the plural) Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
- A bed for infants; a crib, cot, or cradle
- The price or value of the stock of a company on the stock market.
- Railroad rolling stock.
- (cooking, uncountable, countable) Broth made from meat (originally bones) or vegetables, used as a basis for stew or soup.
- Farm or ranch animals; livestock.
- The beater of a fulling mill.
- A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
- (operations) A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.
- (linguistics) A larger grouping of language families: a superfamily or macrofamily.
- The population of a given type of animal (especially fish) available to be captured from the wild for economic use.
- (folklore) A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical beings.
- (horticulture) The plant upon which the scion is grafted.
- A ski pole.
- (firearms) The part of a rifle or shotgun that rests against the shooter's shoulder.
- (card games, in a card game) A stack of undealt cards made available to the players.
- The tailstock of a lathe.
- A necktie or cravat, particularly a wide necktie popular in the eighteenth century, often seen today as a part of formal wear for horse riding competitions.
- (nautical) The axle attached to the rudder, which transfers the movement of the helm to the rudder.
- (by extension) Lineage; family; ancestry.
- persistent thickened stem of a herbaceous perennial plant
- the capital raised by a corporation through the issue of shares entitling holders to an ownership interest (equity)
- lumber used in the construction of something
- the handle end of some implements or tools
- any animals kept for use or profit
- the hereditary derivation of an individual
- a plant or stem onto which a graft is made; especially a plant grown specifically to provide the root part of grafted plants
- the merchandise that a shop has on hand
- any of several Old World plants cultivated for their brightly colored flowers
- a special variety of domesticated animals within a species
- any of various ornamental flowering plants of the genus Malcolmia
- liquid in which meat and vegetables are simmered; used as a basis for e.g. soups or sauces
- a supply of something available for future use
- an ornamental white cravat
- the reputation and popularity a person has
- a certificate documenting the shareholder's ownership in the corporation
- the handle of a handgun or the butt end of a rifle or shotgun or part of the support of a machine gun or artillery gun
adj
- (motor racing, of a race car) Having the same configuration as cars sold to the non-racing public, or having been modified from such a car.
- Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.
- Straightforward, ordinary, just another, very basic.
- routine
- repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
- regularly and widely used or sold
verb
- To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale.
- To have on hand for sale.
- To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply.
- To put in the stocks as punishment.
- (nautical) To fit (an anchor) with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.
- supply with fish
- put forth and grow sprouts or shoots
- equip with a stock
- provide or furnish with a stock of something
- amass so as to keep for future use or sale or for a particular occasion or use
- have on hand
- supply with livestock
noun
noun
- The projecting arm of a crane.
- One who jibs or balks, refusing to continue forward.
- (slang, especially African-American Vernacular) The mouth, sometimes particularly the tongue, underlip, or tooth.
- An object that is used for performing tricks while skiing, snowboarding, skateboarding, in-line skating, or biking. These objects are usually found in a terrain park or skate park.
- (slang) Crystal meth.
- (metonymic, cinematography, film) A crane used for mounting and moving a video camera.
- (nautical) A triangular staysail set forward of the foremast. In a sloop (see image) the basic jib reaches back roughly to the level of the mast.
- (slang) A person's face.
- (nautical, usually with a modifier) Any of a variety of specialty triangular staysails set forward of the foremast.
- A stationary condition; a standstill.
- any triangular fore-and-aft sail (set forward of the foremast)
verb
noun
- A gantry crane or gantry scaffold.
- A supporting framework for a barrel.
- (medical imaging) A cylindrical scanner assembly in the bore of which the response of bodies or tissues to some specific exposure can be detected for 3D imaging.
- A framework of steel bars resting on side supports to bridge over or around something.
- (Singapore, by extension) A faregate or turnstile controlling the entry and exit of people at a location.
- a framework of steel bars raised on side supports to bridge over or around something; can display railway signals above several tracks or can support a traveling crane etc.
noun
- A horizontal member of a crane or derrick, used for lifting.
- The section of the arm on a backhoe closest to the tractor.
- (economics, business) A period of prosperity, growth, progress, or high market activity.
- (by extension) Ellipsis of boom microphone (a microphone supported on such a pole).
- (sailing) A spar extending the foot of a sail; a spar rigged outboard from a ship's side to which boats are secured in harbour.
- (electronics) The longest element of a Yagi-Uda antenna, on which the other, smaller antennae are transversally mounted.
- A wishbone-shaped piece of windsurfing equipment.
- (aviation) Ellipsis of sonic boom.
- One of the calls of certain monkeys or birds.
- A low-pitched, resonant sound, such as of an explosion.
- (gymnastics) A gymnastics apparatus, similar to a balance beam, which must be traversed as part of an obstacle course, typically as a training exercise in school or as part of basic training for new military recruits.
- A floating barrier used to obstruct navigation, for military or other purposes; or used for the containment of an oil spill or to control the flow of logs from logging operations.
- (computer chess, slang) An instance of booming.
- A specially-designed, movable pole, used to suspend a microphone or camera high above the ground during filming or recording.
- A rapid expansion or increase.
- a pole carrying an overhead microphone projected over a film or tv set
- a state of economic prosperity
- a deep prolonged loud noise
- a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money)
- any of various more-or-less horizontal spars or poles used to extend the foot of a sail or for handling cargo or in mooring
intj
verb
- (transitive, figuratively, of speech) To exclaim with force, to shout, to thunder.
- (of a Eurasian bittern) To make a deep, resonant, territorial vocalisation.
- (of a vehicle) To rush forwards with such violent intensity that it generates a sustained, overwhelming, roaring noise; especially from the perspective of a bystander who has been suddenly subjected to it.
- To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound.
- (usually with "up" or "down") To raise or lower with a crane boom.
- To extend, or push, with a boom or pole.
- (computer chess, slang) To rapidly adjust the evaluation of a position away from zero, indicating a likely win or loss.
- (intransitive) To cause a sonic boom.
- (transitive, slang) To subject (someone or something) to a sonic boom.
- (transitive) To make (something) boom.
- (intransitive) To flourish, grow, or progress.
- grow vigorously
- hit with great force
- make a deep hollow sound
- be the case that thunder is being heard
- make a resonant sound, like artillery
noun
- The moving platform of a container crane.
- (computing, slang) A member of a cracking group who distributes warez.
- A spacer or device for keeping two objects apart.
- A machine for combining and drawing fibers of flax to form a sliver preparatory to spinning.
- A device used to spread bulk material.
- An object or person who spreads.
- A knife or spatula used to distribute a substance such as butter or jelly.
- (nautical) A horizontal athwartships spar attached to the mast of a sailboat in order to extend the shrouds away from the mast.
- a mechanical device for scattering something (seed or fertilizer or sand etc.) in all directions
- a hand tool for spreading something
noun
verb
noun
- a crane for moving material with dispatch as in loading and unloading ships
- A type of crane for loading or unloading a ship.
- a moving belt that transports objects (as in a factory)
- a long truck for carrying motor vehicles
- (science fiction) A device that instantaneously transports, or teleports, a person or object.
- (biochemistry) A carrier.
- A long truck or lorry for carrying vehicles.
- A conveyor belt that transports objects in a factory etc.
noun
- A warehouse crane.
- (nautical) A jiggermast.
- (slang, UK) Ellipsis of jigger gun (“lock pick”).
- (nautical) A light tackle, consisting of a double and single block and the fall, used for various purposes, as to increase the purchase on a topsail sheet in hauling it home; the watch tackle.
- (US) A placeholder name for any small mechanical device.
- (pottery) A horizontal lathe used in producing flatware.
- (rail transport, New Zealand) A railway jigger, a small motorized or human powered vehicle used by railway workers to traverse railway tracks.
- (US) A measure of 1½ fluid ounces (approx. 44 ml) of liquor.
- (New Zealand) A short board or plank inserted into a tree for a person to stand on while cutting off higher branches.
- A sandflea, Tunga penetrans, of the order Siphonaptera; chigoe.
- (US) A double-ended vessel, generally of stainless steel or other metal, one end of which typically measures 1½ fluid ounces (approx. 44 ml), the other typically 1 fluid ounce (approx. 30 ml).
- A pendulum rolling machine for slicking or graining leather.
- (Australia, surveying, slang) A total station or its predecessor, a theodolite.
- The bridge or rest for the cue in billiards.
- (mining) One who jigs; a miner who sorts or cleans ore by the process of jigging.
- (fishing) A device used by fishermen to set their nets under the ice of frozen lakes.
- (nautical, New England) A small fishing vessel, rigged like a yawl.
- A larva of any of several mites in the family Trombiculidae; chigger, harvest mite.
- (slang, euphemistic) A vagina.
- (mining) The sieve used in sorting or separating ore.
- (horse racing) An illicit electric shock device used to urge on a horse during a race.
- (textiles) A device used in the dyeing of cloth.
- (US, slang) A drink of whiskey.
- (slang) An illegal distillery.
- larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation
- a small glass adequate to hold a single swallow of whiskey
- any small mast on a sailing vessel; especially the mizzenmast of a yawl
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- A trough to prevent waste in a paper-making machine.
- (nautical, now historical) A small sail sometimes set under the foot of another sail, to catch the wind that would pass under it.
- (now chiefly historical) A device in a candlestick to hold the ends of candles, so they can be burned all the way down.
- a net hung between ship and pier while loading a ship
- a receptacle for catching waste products for further use
- a sail set to catch wind spilled from a larger sail
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- (nautical, construction) A crane, often working in pairs and usually made of steel, used to lower things over an edge of a long drop off, such as lowering a maintenance trapeze down a building or launching a lifeboat over the side of a ship.
- a crane-like device (usually one of a pair) for suspending or lowering equipment (as a lifeboat)
- (nautical) A spar formerly used on board of ships, as a crane to hoist the flukes of the anchor to the top of the bow, without injuring the sides of the ship.
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- A truck from which the load is suspended in some kinds of cranes.
- (British) A hand truck.
- (US) A streetcar or light train.
- (British) A gurney, a stretcher with wheeled legs.
- A truck which travels along the fixed conductors in an electric railway, and forms a means of connection between them and a railway car.
- (Philippines) A handcar.
- (Australia, New Zealand, British, Ireland) A cart or shopping cart; a shopping trolley.
- Clipping of flatbed trolley.
- A trolley pole; a single-pole device for collecting electrical current from an overhead electrical line, normally for a tram/streetcar or a trolleybus.
- (US, colloquial) A light rail, tramway, trolleybus or streetcar system.
- (British) A soapbox car.
- a wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity
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- A machine for calendering paper.
- (biology) A device for depositing cells on a plate.
- Someone who installs sheet metal and armour plating, particularly on trains, ships, tanks, and similar items.
- Someone who plates metal.
- (horse-racing) A horse that runs chiefly in selling plates; hence, an inferior racehorse.
- a skilled worker who coats articles with a film of metal (usually silver or gold)
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- A form of dredging machine.
- (Australia) A type of chocolate cake (or slice), somewhat similar to an American brownie.
- Retzia capensis of South Africa.
- A way of serving food at a party, consisting of a half melon or potato etc. with individual cocktail sticks of cheese and pineapple stuck into it.
- (military) Ellipsis of Czech hedgehog (“an antitank obstacle constructed from three steel rails”).
- (chiefly philosophy) Someone who has one big overarching personal philosophy or worldview.
- Medicago intertexta, the pods of which are armed with short spines.
- A kind of electrical transformer with open magnetic circuit, the ends of the iron wire core being turned outward and presenting a bristling appearance.
- (US) Any of several spiny mammals, such as the porcupine, that are similar to the hedgehog.
- (differential geometry) A type of plane curve; see Hedgehog (geometry).
- The edible fungus Hydnum repandum.
- (informal, military, historical) A spigot mortar-type of depth charge weapon from World War II that simultaneously fires a number of explosives into the water to create a pattern of underwater explosions intended to attack submerged submarines.
- A small mammal of the subfamily Erinaceinae, characterized by their spiny back and often by the habit of rolling up into a ball when attacked, native to Afro-Eurasia.
- relatively large rodents with sharp erectile bristles mingled with the fur
- small nocturnal Old World mammal covered with both hair and protective spines
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- Initialism of rubber tyred gantry (“a type of crane”).
- Initialism of research task group (“an R&D administrative entity within NATO”).
- Initialism of radioisotope thermoelectric generator (“a device that generates electricity from the natural decay of radioactive material”).
- Initialism of regular tree grammar (“a mathematical formal grammar”).
- (aviation) Abbreviation of radiotelegraph.
- Initialism of renal threshold of glucose (“a factor in the medical condition of glycosuria”).
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- Initialism of Royal Thai Government.
- Initialism of Retargetable graphics (“a device driver API for the AmigaOS operating system”).
- Initialism of Radeon Technology Group (“a division of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), who produces a brand of computer products”).
- Initialism of Radio Télévision Guinéenne (“a public broadcaster in Guinea”).
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- A machine that mechanically inserts sheets of printed paper into envelopes.
- An advertisement, flyer, or other unsolicited printed material contained in an envelope received by mail.
- One whose job is to manually insert sheets of printed paper into envelopes for mailing, especially as an example of a person whose work is menial and unfulfilling.
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- roller that has teeth on the rims to pull film or paper through
- thin wheel with teeth that engage with a chain
- tooth on the rim of gear wheel
- (architecture) A flared extension at the base of a sloped roof.
- A placeholder name for an unnamed, unspecified, or hypothetical manufactured good or product.
- (mechanical engineering) A toothed wheel that enmeshes with a chain or other perforated band.
- (usually in the plural) The tooth of such a wheel.
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- a machine that smooths or glazes paper or cloth by pressing it between plates or passing it through rollers
- Misspelling of calendar.
- One who pursues the business of calendering.
- A machine, used for the purpose of giving cloth, paper etc., a smooth, even, and glossy or glazed surface, by cold or hot pressure, or for watering them and giving them a wavy appearance; it consists of two or more cylinders revolving nearly in contact, with the necessary apparatus for moving and regulating.
- Alternative spelling of qalandar.
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- The type of paper used in printing.
- (finance) The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares; the total of shares held by an individual shareholder.
- (nautical) A bar going through an anchor, perpendicular to the flukes.
- (biology) In tectology, an aggregate or colony of individuals, such as trees, chains of salpae, etc.
- The handle of a whip, fishing rod, etc.
- Plain soap before it is coloured and perfumed.
- (figurative) The measure of how highly a person or institution is valued.
- (UK, historical) The longest part of a split tally stick formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness.
- The trunk and woody main stems or limbs of a tree; the base from which something grows or branches.
- A supply of anything, stored until used; especially, such a supply that is ready for use.
- The headstock of a lathe, drill, etc.
- (geology) A pipe (vertical cylinder of ore)
- (shipbuilding, in the plural) The frame or timbers on which a ship rests during construction.
- (especially US) A share in a company.
- A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.
- Any of several types of security that are similar to a stock, or marketed like one.
- Any of the several species of cruciferous flowers in the genus Matthiola.
- Stock theater, summer stock theater.
- Ellipsis of film stock.
- A piece of black cloth worn under a clerical collar.
- A store or supply.
- (UK, in the plural) Red and grey bricks, used for the exterior of walls and the front of buildings.
- A bed for infants; a crib, cot, or cradle
- The price or value of the stock of a company on the stock market.
- Railroad rolling stock.
- (cooking, uncountable, countable) Broth made from meat (originally bones) or vegetables, used as a basis for stew or soup.
- Farm or ranch animals; livestock.
- The beater of a fulling mill.
- A block of wood; something fixed and solid; a pillar; a firm support; a post.
- (operations) A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.
- (linguistics) A larger grouping of language families: a superfamily or macrofamily.
- The population of a given type of animal (especially fish) available to be captured from the wild for economic use.
- (folklore) A piece of wood magically made to be just like a real baby and substituted for it by magical beings.
- (horticulture) The plant upon which the scion is grafted.
- A ski pole.
- (firearms) The part of a rifle or shotgun that rests against the shooter's shoulder.
- (card games, in a card game) A stack of undealt cards made available to the players.
- The tailstock of a lathe.
- A necktie or cravat, particularly a wide necktie popular in the eighteenth century, often seen today as a part of formal wear for horse riding competitions.
- (nautical) The axle attached to the rudder, which transfers the movement of the helm to the rudder.
- (by extension) Lineage; family; ancestry.
- persistent thickened stem of a herbaceous perennial plant
- the capital raised by a corporation through the issue of shares entitling holders to an ownership interest (equity)
- lumber used in the construction of something
- the handle end of some implements or tools
- any animals kept for use or profit
- the hereditary derivation of an individual
- a plant or stem onto which a graft is made; especially a plant grown specifically to provide the root part of grafted plants
- the merchandise that a shop has on hand
- any of several Old World plants cultivated for their brightly colored flowers
- a special variety of domesticated animals within a species
- any of various ornamental flowering plants of the genus Malcolmia
- liquid in which meat and vegetables are simmered; used as a basis for e.g. soups or sauces
- a supply of something available for future use
- an ornamental white cravat
- the reputation and popularity a person has
- a certificate documenting the shareholder's ownership in the corporation
- the handle of a handgun or the butt end of a rifle or shotgun or part of the support of a machine gun or artillery gun
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- (motor racing, of a race car) Having the same configuration as cars sold to the non-racing public, or having been modified from such a car.
- Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.
- Straightforward, ordinary, just another, very basic.
- routine
- repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
- regularly and widely used or sold
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- To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale.
- To have on hand for sale.
- To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply.
- To put in the stocks as punishment.
- (nautical) To fit (an anchor) with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.
- supply with fish
- put forth and grow sprouts or shoots
- equip with a stock
- provide or furnish with a stock of something
- amass so as to keep for future use or sale or for a particular occasion or use
- have on hand
- supply with livestock
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- (mechanical) To alter the vertical angle of the jib of a crane so as to bring it level with the load.
- (nautical, transitive) to let out (a sail) so that it luffs.
- (nautical, of sailing vessels, intransitive) To bring the ship's head up closer to the wind. (Alternatively luff up)
- (nautical, of a sail, intransitive) To shake due to being trimmed improperly.
- sail close to the wind
- flap when the wind is blowing equally on both sides
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- (nautical) The act of sailing a ship close to the wind.
- (nautical) The roundest part of a ship's bow.
- (nautical) The vertical edge of a sail that is closest to the direction of the wind.
- (nautical) The forward or weather leech of a sail, especially of the jib, spanker, and other fore-and-aft sails.
- the act of sailing close to the wind
- (nautical) the forward edge of a fore-and-aft sail that is next to the mast
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- (printing) To straighten up a stack of paper.
- (British) To awaken (someone) as by knocking at the door; rouse; call; summon; also, to go door-to-door on election day to persuade a candidate's supporters to go to the polling station and vote. See also knocker up.
- (racket sports, intransitive) To gently hit the ball back and forth before a tennis match, as practice or warm-up, and to gauge the state of the playing surface, lighting, etc. See knock-up.
- (slang, chiefly US) To impregnate, especially out of wedlock. See knocked up.
- (bookbinding) To make even at the edges, or to shape into book form.
- (colloquial) To put together, fabricate, or assemble, particularly if done hastily or temporarily.
- make pregnant
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- roll out (metal) with a rolling machine
- produce a ridge around the edge of
- move about in a confused manner
- grind with a mill
- (transitive) To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine.
- (intransitive) To undergo hulling.
- (transitive) To roll (steel, etc.) into bars.
- (transitive) To cause to mill, or circle around.
- (intransitive, slang) To take part in a fistfight; to box.
- (transitive, collectible card games) To move (a card) from a deck to the discard pile.
- (zoology, of air-breathing creatures) To swim underwater.
- (transitive, mining) To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.
- (zoology, of a whale) To swim suddenly in a new direction.
- (transitive, Hearthstone) To destroy (a card) due to having a full hand.
- To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
- (transitive) To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine.
- (intransitive, followed by around, about, etc.) To move about in an aimless fashion.
- (transitive) To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin).
- (transitive, slang) To beat; to pound.
- (transitive) To make (drinking chocolate) frothy, as by churning.
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- machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing
- a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing
- the act of grinding to a powder or dust
- One thousandth part in millage rates of property tax.
- (historical) A prison treadmill.
- (collectible card games) A strategy centered on depleting the opponent's deck.
- One thousandth of a US dollar, or one tenth of a cent.
- A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process; any similar apparatus that otherwise processes.
- (engineering, manufacturing) Alternative form of mil (“one thousandth of an inch”).
- A milling cutter used on such a machine.
- (mining) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
- (CB radio slang) A typewriter used to transcribe messages received.
- A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc. (Some are small and simple, and some are large and complex.)
- (US military slang, World War I, World War II) A military prison, either guardhouse or post prison.
- (collectible card games) Discarding a card from one's deck.
- (figurative, derogatory) An institution or pseudo-institutional business awarding credentials (such as diplomas, degrees, certificates, or certifications) of either dubious value or fraudulent nature; one selling essays or other documents for the buyers (usually students) to fraudulently pass off as their own.
- A milling machine for machining of solid metal, wood, or plastic.
- The building housing such a grinding apparatus; also, any similar building that houses a similarly material activity (such as weaving, fulling, dying, etc.); the place of business comprising such a building and its outbuildings and grounds.
- A line of three matching pieces in nine men's morris and related games.
- (informal) Clipping of millimeter.
- The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, such as a coin or screw.
- The building complex housing such a plant; the place of business comprising such buildings and their grounds.
- (informal) An engine.
- A machine for grinding and polishing.
- (figurative, usually derogatory) An establishment that handles a certain type of situation or procedure routinely, or produces large quantities of an item without much regard to quality. (The notion of churning out massive amounts indiscriminately underlies the figurative metaphor.)
- A manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, flooring, and some other kinds of materials.
- (military slang, World War I, World War II) A delousing station: a cootie mill.
- (die sinking) A hardened steel roller with a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, such as copper.
- (informal) Alternative form of mil (“million”).
- (mining) A passage underground through which ore is shot.
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