stay
busk
stiffening
aspidin
probang
tie
viscoelasticity
bone
pad
stiffener
French grip
scutate
housing
lame
elasticizer
agglutinative
scrimshaw
ray
adherent
reed
plate
mouse-tooth forceps
whaleboning
straplike
elasticate
shive
elastomechanical
whaleboned
rag
brace up
tasse
Italian grip
steel wool
viselike
draw
wire
elastic
French chalk
shim
pattern
parfleche
tooth
wiping cloth
CASE
cleaning cloth
corselet
tenacious
rail saver
tie-on
cement
trowel
bar
gorge
barb
wrapping
sheathing
boardy
band
buffer
suspensory bandage
buff
shelf bra
suspensory
case harden
tightwire
mounture
sealskin
crinoline
spew
house
fag end
spathed
fag-end
trace
corslet
infradentary
strapping
elastic band
plastoid
statozoic
belt-like
tape
technopolymer
provang
saw
clad
crimper
beltlike
claw
semielastic
tier
sewing machine
cyrtomatodont
crimping pliers
baseplate
scutate
agglutinative
adherent
straplike
elastomechanical
whaleboned
viselike
tenacious
tie-on
boardy
spathed
statozoic
belt-like
beltlike
semielastic
stay
busk
stiffening
aspidin
probang
tie
viscoelasticity
bone
pad
stiffener
French grip
housing
lame
elasticizer
agglutinative
scrimshaw
ray
reed
plate
mouse-tooth forceps
whaleboning
shive
rag
tasse
Italian grip
steel wool
wire
elastic
French chalk
shim
pattern
parfleche
tooth
wiping cloth
CASE
cleaning cloth
corselet
rail saver
cement
trowel
bar
gorge
wrapping
sheathing
band
buffer
suspensory bandage
buff
shelf bra
suspensory
tightwire
mounture
sealskin
crinoline
spew
fag end
fag-end
trace
corslet
infradentary
strapping
elastic band
plastoid
tape
technopolymer
provang
saw
crimper
claw
tier
sewing machine
cyrtomatodont
crimping pliers
baseplate
elasticate
brace up
draw
barb
case harden
house
clad
noun
- A piece of stiff material, such as plastic or whalebone, used to stiffen a piece of clothing.
- A guy, rope, or wire supporting or stabilizing a platform, such as a bridge, a pole, such as a tentpole, the mast of a derrick, or other structural element.
- Continuance or a period of time spent in a place; abode for an indefinite time.
- A corset.
- Restraint of passion; prudence; moderation; caution; steadiness; sobriety.
- A fixed state; fixedness; stability; permanence.
- A strong rope or wire supporting a mast, and leading from one masthead down to some other, or other part of the vessel.
- The transverse piece in a chain-cable link.
- A prop; a support.
- A postponement, especially of an execution or other punishment.
- A station or fixed anchorage for vessels.
adv
adj
- Steep; ascending.
- Difficult to negotiate; not easy to access; sheer.
- Stiff; upright; unbending; reserved; haughty; proud.
- (of a roof) Steeply pitched.
verb
- To live; reside
- To incline forward, aft, or to one side by means of stays.
- To put off; defer; postpone; delay; keep back.
- To brace or support with a stay or stays
- To remain in a particular place, especially for a definite or short period of time; sojourn; abide.
- To stop; detain; keep back; delay; hinder.
- To continue to have a particular quality.
- To change; tack; go about; be in stays, as a ship.
- To hold out, as in a race or contest; last or persevere to the end; to show staying power.
- To restrain; withhold; check; stop.
- To hold the attention of.
- To cause to cease; to put an end to.
- To prop; support; sustain; hold up; steady.
- To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time.
- To tack; put on the other tack.
noun
- A twist tie, a piece of wire embedded in paper, strip of plastic with ratchets, or similar object which is wound around something and tightened.
- A horizontal wooden or concrete structural member that supports and ties together rails.
- A necktie (item of clothing consisting of a strip of cloth tied around the neck). See also bow tie, black tie.
- A structural member firmly holding two pieces together.
- A tiewig.
- The situation in which two or more participants in a competition are placed equally.
- A curved line connecting two notes of the same pitch denoting that they should be played as a single note with the combined length of both notes.
- A meeting between two players or teams in a competition.
- The situation at the end of all innings of a match where both sides have the same total of runs (different from a draw).
- A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig.
- A knot; a fastening.
- A lace-up shoe.
- A connection between two vertices.
- One or more equal values or sets of equal values in the data set.
- A curved line connecting two letters (⁀), used in the IPA to denote a coarticulation, as for example /d͡ʒ/.
- A strong connection between people or groups of people.
- A bearing and distance between a lot corner or point and a benchmark or iron off site.
- An equalizer, a run, goal, point, etc which causes participants in a competition to be placed equally or have the same score(s).
verb
- To have the same score or position as another in a competition or ordering.
- To unite (musical notes) with a line or slur in the notation.
- To secure (something) by string or the like.
- To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely.
- In the Perl programming language, to extend (a variable) so that standard operations performed upon it invoke custom functionality instead.
- To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like.
- To have the same score or position as (another) in a competition or ordering.
- To form (a knot or the like) in a string or the like.
noun
- One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
- One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music.
- The wishbone formation.
- A domino or dice.
- A cannabis cigarette; a joint.
- The framework of anything.
- A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
- Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
- An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
- A dollar.
- Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.
- An erect penis; a boner.
- A reward.
- A bonefish
- A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
adj
verb
- To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.
- To apprehend, steal.
- To study.
- To have sexual intercourse (with).
- To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
- To nag, especially for an unpaid debt.
- To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.
- To put whalebone into.
- To fertilize with bone.
- To polish boots to a shiny finish.
noun
- A panel or strip of material designed to be sensitive to pressure or touch.
- An electrical extension cord with a multi-port socket on one end: "trip cord"
- The mostly hairless flesh located on the bottom of an animal's foot or paw.
- A small house, apartment, or mobile home occupied by a single person; such as a bachelor, playboy, etc.
- Any cushion-like part of the human body, especially the ends of the fingers.
- A random key (originally written on a disposable pad) of the same length as the plaintext.
- A footpath, particularly one unformed or unmaintained; a road or track.
- A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.
- A soft cover for a batsman's leg that protects it from damage when hit by the ball.
- A soft, or small, cushion.
- The effect produced by sustained lower reed notes in a musical piece, most common in blues music.
- A flat surface or area from which a helicopter or other aircraft may land or be launched.
- A prison cell.
- A type of wickerwork basket, especially as used as a measure of fish or other goods.
- An easy-paced horse; a padnag.
- A cushion-like thickening of the skin on the under side of the toes of animals.
- A toad.
- A flattened mass of anything soft, to sit or lie on.
- A kind of cushion for writing upon, or for blotting, especially one formed of many flat sheets of writing paper; now especially such a block of paper sheets as used to write on.
- A soft bag or cushion to relieve pressure, support a part, etc.
- A synthesizer instrument sound used for sustained background sounds.
- A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame.
- A bed.
- A stuffed guard or protection, especially one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising.
- The sound of soft footsteps, or a similar noise made by an animal etc.
- The amount by which a signal has been reduced.
- A piece of timber fixed on a beam to fit the curve of the deck.
intj
verb
- To imbue uniformly with a mordant.
- To furnish with a pad or padding.
- To wear a path by walking.
- To stuff.
- To deliberately play the ball with the leg pad instead of the bat.
- To travel on foot.
- To travel along (a road, path etc.).
- To increase the size of, especially by adding undesirable filler.
- To walk softly, quietly or steadily, especially without shoes.
noun
- An appendage to the harness or collar of a harness.
- A mechanical component's container or covering.
- Residences, collectively.
- A niche for a statue.
- A houseline.
- That portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel.
- A cover or cloth for a horse's saddle, as an ornamental or military appendage; a saddlecloth; a horse cloth; in plural, trappings.
- The activity of enclosing something or providing a residence for someone.
- The space taken out of one solid to admit the insertion of part of another, such as the end of one timber in the side of another.
noun
- A small ornamental handicraft created by carving or engraving bone (originally whalebone or whales' teeth), ivory, or other materials, formerly produced by sailors on whaling ships to pass the time on long voyages.
- The manufacture of small ornamental handicrafts by carving or engraving bone, ivory, or other materials, formerly by sailors on whaling ships to pass the time on long voyages.
verb
- To carve or engrave (ornamental designs) on bone, ivory, or other materials.
- To create (a small ornamental handicraft also called a scrimshaw) by carving or engraving on bone (originally whalebone or whales' teeth), ivory, or other materials.
- To carve or engrave (bone, ivory, or other materials) with ornamental designs.
- To make a handicraft of scrimshaw.
noun
- A rib-like reinforcement of bone or cartilage in a fish's fin.
- A beam of light or radiation.
- A line extending indefinitely in one direction from a point.
- A marine fish with a flat body, large wing-like fins, and a whip-like tail.
- The letter ⟨/⟩, one of two which represent the r sound in Pitman shorthand.
- One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran.
- A tiny amount.
- A radiating part of a flower or plant; the marginal florets of a compound flower, such as an aster or a sunflower; one of the pedicels of an umbel or other circular flower cluster; radius.
verb
noun
- A piece of whalebone or similar for stiffening the skirt or waist of a woman's dress.
- Any of various types of tall stiff perennial grass-like plants growing together in groups near water.
- A comb-like part of a beater for beating the weft when weaving.
- The fourth stomach of a ruminant; rennet.
- A musical instrument such as the clarinet or oboe, which produces sound when a musician blows on the reed.
- Straw prepared for thatching a roof.
- Part of the mouthpiece of certain woodwind instruments, comprising a thin piece of wood or metal which shakes very quickly to produce sound when a musician blows over it.
- Reeding.
- A tube containing the train of powder for igniting the charge in blasting.
- The hollow stem of these plants.
verb
noun
- a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic
- any flat platelike body structure or part
- (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score
- a full-page illustration (usually on slick paper)
- dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten
- the quantity contained in a plate
- a rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly
- the thin under portion of the forequarter
- a main course served on a plate
- the positively charged electrode in a vacuum tube
- a flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded
- structural member consisting of a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchorage
- a shallow receptacle for collection in church
- a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
- a dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth
verb
noun
- A piece of thread or fluff on the surface of cloth or other material.
- A beam or plank of split wood.
- A slice, especially of bread.
- A flat, wide cork for plugging a large hole or closing a wide-mouthed bottle.
- A splinter or fragment of the woody core of flax or hemp broken off in braking or scutching
- A plant fragment remaining in scoured wool.
- A dark particle or impurity in finished paper resulting from a bundle of incompletely cooked wood fibres in the pulp.
noun
- A piece of old cloth, especially one used for cleaning, patching, etc.; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred or tatter.
- A poor, low-ranking kicker.
- A society run by university students for the purpose of charitable fundraising.
- A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin.
- A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture; ragstone.
- A ragtime song, dance or piece of music.
- A curtain of various kinds.
- A sail, or any piece of canvas.
- Sanitary napkins, pads, or other materials used to absorb menstrual discharge.
- A newspaper or magazine, especially one whose journalism is considered to be of poor quality.
- Tattered clothes.
- A ragged edge in metalworking.
verb
- To dance to ragtime music.
- To play or compose (a piece, melody, etc.) in syncopated time.
- To drive a car or another vehicle in a hard, fast or unsympathetic manner.
- To scold or tell off; to torment; to banter.
- To decorate (a wall, etc.) by applying paint with a rag.
- To become tattered.
- To tease or torment, especially at a university; to bully, to haze.
- To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.
- To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
verb
- To pull (a belt or other item) so that it tightens or wraps around something more closely.
- 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 make (wire) by pulling it through an aperture; to stretch (metal) into a wire.
- 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 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 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
adj
- Capable of stretching; particularly, capable of stretching so as to return to an original shape or size when force is released.
- Made of elastic.
- springy; bouncy; vivacious
- Pervasive, all-encompassing.
- Sensitive to changes in price.
- Able to return quickly to a former state or condition, after being depressed or overtaxed; having power to recover easily from shocks and trials.
- Of clothing, elasticated.
noun
- A thin piece of material, sometimes tapered, used for alignment or support.
- A small library that transparently intercepts and modifies calls to an API, usually for compatibility purposes.
- A kind of shallow plow used in tillage to break the ground and clear it of weeds.
- A small metal device used to pick open a lock.
- A person characterised by both male and female traits, or by ambiguous male-female traits; a hermaphrodite.
- A wedge.
- A transsexual person, especially a trans woman; (loosely) a drag queen or transvestite.
verb
noun
- The material needed to make a piece of clothing.
- Something from which a copy is made; a model or outline.
- Someone or something seen as an example to be imitated; an exemplar.
- A representative example.
- A design, motif or decoration, especially formed from regular repeated elements.
- A naturally-occurring or random arrangement of shapes, colours etc. which have a regular or decorative effect.
- A particular sequence of events, facts etc. which can be understood, used to predict the future, or seen to have a mathematical, geometric, statistical etc. relationship.
- A text string containing wildcards, used for matching.
- A sample; of coins, an example which was struck but never minted.
- The paper or cardboard template from which the parts of a garment are traced onto fabric prior to cutting out and assembling.
- An intelligible arrangement in a given area of language.
- A sequence of notes, percussion etc. in a tracker module, usable once or many times within the song.
- The given spread, range etc. of shot fired from a gun.
- A design pattern.
adj
verb
- To apply a pattern.
- To serve as an example for.
- To observe an animal closely over time in order to discern its habitual movements and behaviours.
- To fit into a pattern.
- To follow an example.
- To make or design (anything) by, from, or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate.
noun
- hard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates; used for biting and chewing or for attack and defense
- something resembling the tooth of an animal
- toothlike structure in invertebrates found in the mouth or alimentary canal or on a shell
- a means of enforcement
- one of a number of uniform projections on a gear
noun
- A tight-fitting item of clothing which covers the body and not the limbs.
- An entire suit of armor, made up chiefly of the breastplate and backpiece worn with a headpiece and with a gorget, pauldrons, vambraces, gauntlets, and tassets attached.
- The thorax of an insect.
- Armor for the body, for example a breastplate and backpiece taken together.
- A type of women's underwear, combining a bra and a girdle in one garment; a corselette.
noun
- something that hardens to act as adhesive material
- concrete pavement is sometimes referred to as cement
- a building material that is a powder made of a mixture of calcined limestone and clay; used with water and sand or gravel to make concrete and mortar
- any of various materials used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth
- a specialized bony substance covering the root of a tooth
verb
noun
- a rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening or obstruction or weapon
- a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter
- a counter where you can obtain food or drink
- musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats
- an obstruction (usually metal) placed at the top of a goal
- the act of preventing
- (meteorology) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes per square centimeter
- a submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along a shore
- the body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction
- a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background
- a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax)
- a horizontal rod that serves as a support for gymnasts as they perform exercises
- a heating element in an electric fire
- (law) a railing that encloses the part of the courtroom where the judges and lawyers sit and the case is tried
verb
noun
- A primitive device used instead of a hook to catch fish, consisting of an object that is easy to swallow but difficult to eject or loosen, such as a piece of bone or stone pointed at each end and attached in the middle to a line.
- The rearward side of an outwork, a bastion, or a fort, often open, or not protected against artillery; a narrow entry passage into the outwork of an enclosed fortification.
- A deep, narrow passage with steep, rocky sides, particularly one with a stream running through it; a ravine.
- The groove of a pulley.
- Food that has been taken into the gullet or the stomach, particularly if it is regurgitated or vomited out.
- A choking or filling of a channel or passage by an obstruction; the obstruction itself.
- An act of gorging.
- A concave moulding; a cavetto.
adj
verb
- To fill up (an organ, a vein, etc.); to block up or obstruct; (US, specifically) of ice: to choke or fill a channel or passage, causing an obstruction.
- To fill up to the throat; to glut, to satiate.
- To stuff the gorge or gullet with food; to eat greedily and in large quantities.
- To swallow, especially with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.
verb
- To furnish with barbs, or with that which will hold or hurt like barbs, as an arrow, fishhook, spear, etc.
- To cut (hair).
- To cover a horse in armor.
noun
- One of the many side branches of a feather, which collectively constitute the vane.
- A barbiturate.
- Armor for a horse.
- A hurtful or disparaging remark.
- The sciaenid fish Menticirrhus americanus, found along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States.
- A blackish or dun variety of pigeon, originally brought from Barbary.
- Paps, or little projections, of the mucous membrane, which mark the opening of the submaxillary glands under the tongue in horses and cattle. The name is mostly applied when the barbs are inflamed and swollen.
- The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else.
- A hair or bristle ending in a double hook.
- Any of various species of freshwater carp-like fish that have barbels and belong to the cyprinid family.
- A beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it.
- A plastic fastener, shaped roughly like a capital I (with serifs), used to attach socks etc. to their packaging.
- The Barbary horse, a superior breed introduced from Barbary into Spain by the Moors.
noun
- A narrow strip of cloth or other material on clothing, to bind, strengthen, or ornament it.
- A strip of material wrapped around things to hold them together.
- A linen collar or ruff worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- A belt or strap that is part of a machine.
- In Gothic architecture, the moulding, or suite of mouldings, which encircles the pillars and small shafts.
- A continuous tablet, stripe, or series of ornaments, as of carved foliage, of colour, or of brickwork.
- A part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
- A type of orchestra originally playing janissary music.
- A long strip of material, color, etc, that is different from the surrounding area.
- Two strips of linen hanging from the neck in front as part of a clerical, legal, or academic dress.
- A ring, such as a wedding ring (wedding band), or a ring put on a bird's leg to identify it.
- A wad of money totaling $1K, held together by a band; (by extension) money
- A marching band.
- A group of aboriginals that has official recognition as an organized unit by the federal government of Canada.
- A strip along the spine of a book where the pages are attached.
- A small group of people living in a simple society, contrasted with tribes, chiefdoms, and states.
- A group of musicians who perform together as an ensemble, usually for a professional recording artist.
- A group of energy levels in a solid state material.
- Any distinguishing line formed by chromatography, electrophoresis etc
- That which serves as the means of union or connection between persons; a tie.
- A group of people loosely united for a common purpose (a band of thieves).
verb
noun
- an implement consisting of soft material mounted on a block; used for polishing (as in manicuring)
- (chemistry) an ionic compound that resists changes in its pH
- a neutral zone between two rival powers that is created in order to diminish the danger of conflict
- an inclined metal frame at the front of a locomotive to clear the track
- (computer science) a part of RAM used for temporary storage of data that is waiting to be sent to a device; used to compensate for differences in the rate of flow of data between components of a computer system
- a power tool used to buff surfaces
- a cushion-like device that reduces shock due to an impact
verb
noun
noun
- Adhesive that is squeezed from a joint under pressure and held across the joint by a fillet, thereby strengthening the joint.
- Nonsense or lies.
- A white powder or dark crystals that appear on the surface of improperly tanned leather.
- Ejaculate or ejaculation.
- Material that has been ejected in a stream, or the act of spewing.
- Vomit.
verb
- To ejaculate.
- To be forcibly ejected.
- To develop a white powder or dark crystals on the surface of finished leather, as a result from improper tanning.
- To eject forcibly and in a stream,
- To speak or write quickly and voluminously, especially words that are not worth listening to or reading.
- To be written or spoken voluminously.
- To vomit.
verb
- To contain or cover mechanical parts.
- To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.
- To admit to residence; to harbor.
- To contain one part of an object for the purpose of locating the whole.
- To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.
- To eat.
- To keep within a structure or container.
- To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe.
noun
- House music.
- A workhouse.
- An animal's shelter or den, or the shell of an animal such as a snail, used for protection.
- A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities.
- A theatre.
- An apartment building within a public housing estate.
- One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart.
- A dynasty; a family with its ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble one.
- Size and quality of residential accommodations.
- The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice.
- A place of business; a company or organisation, especially a printing press, a publishing company, or a couturier.
- A place of public accommodation or entertainment, especially a public house, an inn, a restaurant, a theatre, or a casino; or the management thereof.
- The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance.
- Lotto; bingo.
- A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word).
- A children's game in which the players pretend to be members of a household.
- A small stand of trees in a swamp.
- A set of cells in a Sudoku puzzle which must contain each digit exactly once, such as a row, column, or 3×3 box in classic Sudoku.
- The people who live in a house; a household.
- A building intended to contain a single household, as opposed to an apartment or condominium or building containing these.
- A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence the assembly itself, particularly a component of a legislature.
- The fourth Lenormand card.
- A place of rest or repose.
- A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings.
noun
- One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whippletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be drawn; a tug.
- The ground plan of a work or works.
- The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
- The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix.
- An empty category occupying a position in the syntactic structure from which something has been moved, used to explain constructions such as wh-movement and the passive.
- A residue of some substance or material.
- An enquiry sent out for a missing article, such as a letter or an express package.
- A connecting bar or rod, pivoted at each end to the end of another piece, for transmitting motion, especially from one plane to another; specifically, such a piece in an organ stop action to transmit motion from the trundle to the lever actuating the stop slider.
- A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal.
- An act of tracing.
- A very small amount.
- An informal road or prominent path in an arid area.
- A current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board.
verb
- To follow the execution of the program by making it to stop after every instruction, or by making it print a message after every step.
- To draw or sketch lightly or with care.
- To follow the trail of.
- To follow the history of.
- To copy onto a sheet of paper superimposed over the original, by drawing over its lines.
noun
- a long thin piece of cloth or paper as used for binding or fastening
- a recording made on magnetic tape
- the finishing line for a foot race
- measuring instrument consisting of a narrow strip (cloth or metal) marked in inches or centimeters and used for measuring lengths
- memory device consisting of a long thin plastic strip coated with iron oxide; used to record audio or video signals or to store computer information
verb
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
- A mechanical device resembling a claw, used for gripping or lifting.
- The pincer (chela) of a crustacean or other arthropod.
- A curved, pointed horny nail on each digit of the foot of a mammal, reptile, or bird.
- A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, such as the base of petals of the pink.
- The act of catching a ball overhand.
- A human fingernail, particularly one extending well beyond the fingertip.
- A foot equipped with such.
verb
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