jam
pull
game
server
score
multipoint
goal
basket
upcourt
break
rally
backgame
old sledge
seven-up
offensive
equalize
concede
scoring
basketball game
basketball
goalfest
hoops
break the deadlock
basketball court
interscorer
triple double
get off the mark
outpoint
outscore
beaver
three-point line
quadruple double
tie
extra point
draw
shot on target
box out
deuce
notcher
speel
half-century
convert
eye
finger-roll
three-pointer
stroke play
benchball
Phutball
twenty-one
field goal
pointscore
equalizer
place-kick
action point
process
putback
dunkfest
shot
conversion
opener
two-point conversion
inning
Elam ending
horseball
pick
strike
scorebox
bury
knockout
snipe
silver goal
point
checkout
hit the net
basketball hoop
pot
basketball score
carom
advantage
double double
goalscoring
string
poster
double
victory point
touchdown
one-pocket
crease
double break point
finisher
winner
net
tally
rack up
ringoal
multipoint
offensive
interscorer
upcourt
jam
game
server
goal
basket
break
rally
backgame
old sledge
seven-up
scoring
basketball game
basketball
goalfest
hoops
basketball court
triple double
beaver
three-point line
quadruple double
extra point
shot on target
deuce
notcher
speel
half-century
eye
finger-roll
three-pointer
stroke play
benchball
Phutball
twenty-one
field goal
pointscore
equalizer
action point
process
score
putback
dunkfest
shot
conversion
opener
two-point conversion
inning
Elam ending
horseball
pick
scorebox
knockout
silver goal
point
checkout
basketball hoop
basketball score
carom
advantage
double double
goalscoring
string
poster
double
victory point
touchdown
one-pocket
crease
double break point
finisher
winner
ringoal
pull
score
jam
equalize
concede
break the deadlock
get off the mark
outpoint
outscore
tie
draw
box out
convert
place-kick
goal
strike
bury
snipe
hit the net
pot
net
tally
rack up
noun
- A play during which points can be scored.
- A forceful dunk.
- balls, bollocks, courage, machismo
- A blockage, congestion, or immobilization.
- A difficult situation.
- A song; a track.
- The tree Acacia acuminata, with fruity-smelling hard timber.
- Luck.
- A difficult situation for a pitcher or defending team.
- An informal event where people brainstorm and collaborate on projects.
- A sweet mixture of fruit boiled with sugar and allowed to congeal. Often spread on bread or toast or used in jam tarts.
- An informal, impromptu performance or rehearsal.
- Any of several maneuvers requiring wedging of an extremity into a tight space.
- Sexual relations or the contemplation of them.
- That which one particularly prefers, desires, enjoys, or cares about.
verb
- To attempt to score points.
- To get something stuck, often (though not necessarily) in a confined space.
- To block or confuse a radio or radar signal by transmitting a more-powerful signal on the same frequency.
- To brusquely force something into a space; to cram, to squeeze.
- To injure a finger or toe by sudden compression of the digit's tip.
- To give up on a date or some other joint endeavour; to stand up, chicken out, jam out.
- To throw a pitch at or near the batter's hands.
- To play music (especially improvisation as a group, or an informal unrehearsed session).
- To cause congestion or blockage. Often used with "up".
- To bring (a vessel) so close to the wind that half her upper sails are laid aback.
- To dunk.
- To render something unable to move.
verb
- To score a certain number of points in a sport.
- To strike the ball in a particular manner. (See noun sense.)
- To obtain (a permit) from a regulatory authority.
- To row.
- To draw beer from a pump, keg, or other source.
- To do or perform.
- To attract or net; to pull in.
- To pull out from a yard or station; to leave.
- To apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing applying the force.
- To achieve by rowing on a rowing machine.
- To pluck or pick (flowers, fruit etc.).
- To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward oneself; to pluck.
- To draw apart; to tear; to rend.
- To hold back, and so prevent from winning.
- To remove (something), especially from public circulation or availability.
- To toss a frisbee with the intention of launching the disc across the length of a field.
- To persuade (someone) to have sex with one: to be 'on the pull' - looking for a sexual partner.
- To retrieve or generate for use.
- To draw (a hostile non-player character) into combat, or toward or away from some location or target.
- To take a swig or mouthful of drink.
- To strain (a muscle, tendon, ligament, etc.).
- To copy or emulate the actions or behaviour that is associated with the person or thing mentioned.
noun
- The act of drinking; a mouthful or swig of a drink.
- The situation where a client sends out a request for data from a server, as in server pull, pull technology
- A mishit shot which travels in a straight line and (for a right-handed player) left of the intended path.
- Any device meant to be pulled, as a lever, knob, handle, or rope.
- An attractive force which causes motion towards the source.
- Appeal or attraction (e.g. of a movie star).
- A single impression from a handpress.
- A journey made by rowing.
- A proof sheet.
- An act of pulling (applying force toward oneself).
- An injury resulting from a forceful pull on a limb, etc.; a strain.
- An advantage over somebody; a means of influencing.
- The power to influence someone or something; sway, clout.
- A type of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the on side; a pull shot.
intj
noun
- The number of points necessary to win a game.
- The ability to seduce someone, usually by strategy.
- Prostitution. (Now chiefly in on the game.)
- Mastery; the ability to excel at something.
- An activity described by a set of rules, especially for the purpose of entertainment, often competitive or having an explicit goal.
- A school subject during which sports are practised.
- A particular instance of playing a game.
- That which is gained, such as the stake in a game.
- In some games, a point awarded to the player whose cards add up to the largest sum.
- The equipment that enables such activity, particularly as packaged under a title.
- One's manner, style, or performance in playing a game.
- A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.
- An exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants.
- A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal.
- Something that resembles a game with rules, despite not being designed.
- wild animals hunted for food.
- A playful activity that may be unstructured; an amusement or pastime.
verb
- To gamble.
- To play card games, board games, or video games.
- To exploit loopholes in a system or bureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the spirit of the rules in effect, usually to obtain a result which otherwise would be unobtainable.
- To perform premeditated seduction strategy.
adj
verb
- To earn points in a game.
- To extract a bribe.
- To record the tally of points for a game, a match, or an examination.
- To win money by gambling.
- To achieve (a score) in e.g. a test.
- To obtain something desired.
- To provide (a film, etc.) with a musical score.
- To cut a notch or a groove in a surface.
- To acquire or gain.
- To obtain a sexual favor.
noun
- A distance of twenty yards, in ancient archery and gunnery.
- The music of a movie or play.
- In the Lowestoft area, a narrow pathway running down a cliff to the beach.
- A bribe paid to a police officer.
- An account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; debt.
- A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account.
- A robbery.
- The number of points accrued by each of the participants in a game, expressed as a ratio or a series of numbers.
- Subject.
- A weight of twenty pounds.
- The performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a grade.
- An illegal sale, especially of drugs.
- A prostitute's client.
- A sexual conquest.
- Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf.
- The total number of goals, points, runs, etc. earned by a participant in a game.
- An amount of money won in gambling; winnings.
- Twenty, 20.
- The written form of a musical composition showing all instrumental and vocal parts below each other.
intj
noun
- A point scored in a game as a result of placing the object into the goal.
- A noun or noun phrase that receives the action of a verb. The subject of a passive verb or the direct object of an active verb. Also called a patient, target, or undergoer.
- The act of placing the object into the goal.
- A result that one is attempting to achieve.
- In many sports, an area into which the players attempt to put an object.
verb
noun
- The act of putting the ball through the basket, thereby scoring points.
- A lightweight container, generally round, open at the top, and tapering toward the bottom.
- The game of basketball.
- A dance movement in some line dances, where men put their arms round the women's lower backs, and the women put their arms over the men's shoulders, and the group (usually of four, any more is difficult) spins round, which should result in the women's feet leaving the ground.
- The bulge of the male genitals seen through clothing.
- A wire or plastic container similar in shape to a basket, used for carrying articles for purchase in a shop.
- A drogue (or para-drogue) in the probe-and-drogue refueling method
- In an online shop, a listing of a customer's chosen items before they are ordered.
- A circular hoop, from which a net is suspended, which is the goal through which the players try to throw the ball.
- The gondola or wicker basket suspended from the balloon, in which the pilot and passengers travel.
- The male genitalia and region surrounding it.
- A set or collection of intangible things.
- The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital.
- Bastard.
verb
noun
- The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
- The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
- A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
- An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
- A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
- A sharp bit or snaffle.
- An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
- A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
- A temporary split with a romantic partner.
- The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.
- A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
- A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
- A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
- A rest or pause, usually from work.
- The counter-attack.
- A short holiday.
- An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
- A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
- A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
- The beginning (of the morning).
- A game won by the receiving player(s).
- An act of escaping.
- The first shot in a game of billiards.
- The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
- A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
- The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
- The start of a horse race.
- A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
verb
- To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
- To become deeper at puberty.
- To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
- To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
- To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
- To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
- To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
- To counter-attack.
- To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
- To become audible suddenly.
- To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
- To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
- To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
- Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
- To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
- To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
- To ruin financially.
- To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
- To change a steady state abruptly.
- To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
- To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- To end the run of (a play).
- To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
- To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
- To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
- To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
- To begin or end.
- To suddenly become.
- To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
- To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
- To demulsify.
- To end (a connection); to disconnect.
- To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
- To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
- To arrive.
- To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
- To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
- To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
- To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
- To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
- To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
- To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
- To end.
- To remove one of the two men on (a point).
- To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
- To violate; to fail to adhere to.
- To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
- To B-boy; to breakdance.
noun
- A sequence of strokes between serving and scoring a point.
- A recovery after a decline in prices (said of the market, stocks, etc.)
- An event in which competitors drive through a series of timed special stages at intervals. The winner is the driver who completes all stages with the shortest cumulative time.
- A public gathering or mass meeting that is not mainly a protest and is organized to inspire enthusiasm for a cause.
- Good-humoured raillery.
- A protest or demonstration for or against something, but often with speeches and often without marching, especially in North America.
verb
- To recover strength after a decline in prices.
- To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight; to assemble.
- To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.
- To collect one's vital powers or forces; to regain health or consciousness.
- To tease; to chaff good-humouredly.
verb
- To make the scoreline equal by scoring points.
- To clear the ears to balance the pressure in the middle ear with the outside pressure by letting air enter along the Eustachian tubes.
- To adjust the balance between frequency components within an electronic signal.
- To make equal; to cause to correspond in amount or degree.
- Said of a morphism: to pre-compose with each of a parallel pair of morphisms so as to yield the same composite morphism.
adj
noun
- A game, in which points are scored by spotting beards.
- A hat, of various shapes, made from a felted beaver fur (or later of silk), fashionable in Europe between 1550 and 1850.
- Beaver cloth, a heavy felted woollen cloth, used chiefly for making overcoats.
- A brown colour, like that of a beaver.
- The fur of the beaver.
- The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself; (attributively) denoting films or literature featuring nude women.
- Beaver pelts as an article of exchange or as a standard of value.
- A woman, especially one who is sexually attractive.
- A semiaquatic rodent of the genus Castor, having a wide, flat tail and webbed feet.
- A beard or a bearded person.
- A move in response to being doubled, in which one immediately doubles the stakes again, keeping the doubling cube on one’s own side of the board.
verb
- To cut a continuous ring around a tree that one is felling.
- After being doubled, to immediately double the stakes again, a move that keeps the doubling cube on one’s own side of the board.
- To form a felt-like texture, similar to the way beaver fur is used for felt-making.
- To work hard.
- To spot a beard in a game of beaver.
verb
- finish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc.
- fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord
- limit or restrict to
- connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces
- form a knot or bow in
- create social or emotional ties
- perform a marriage ceremony
- make by tying pieces together
- unite musical notes by a tie
noun
- neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front
- a social or business relationship
- equality of score in a contest
- a horizontal beam used to prevent two other structural members from spreading apart or separating
- a fastener that serves to join or connect
- the finish of a contest in which the score is tied and the winner is undecided
- (music) a slur over two notes of the same pitch; indicates that the note is to be sustained for their combined time value
- one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track
- a cord (or string or ribbon or wire etc.) with which something is tied
verb
- finish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc.
- cause to move by pulling
- get or derive
- make a mark or lines on a surface
- make, formulate, or derive in the mind
- bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover
- represent by making a drawing of, as with a pencil, chalk, etc. on a surface
- take liquid out of a container or well
- give a description of
- select or take in from a given group or region
- elicit responses, such as objections, criticism, applause, etc.
- suck in or take (air)
- move or go steadily or gradually
- remove (a commodity) from (a supply source)
- choose at random
- earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher
- bring or lead someone to a certain action or condition
- to obtain a liquid from somewhere
- write a legal document or paper
- engage in drawing
- move or pull so as to cover or uncover something
- allow a draft
- require a specified depth for floating
- pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him
- cause to move in a certain direction by exerting a force upon, either physically or in an abstract sense
- take in, also metaphorically
- direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes
- thread on or as if on a string
- stretch back a bowstring (on an archer's bow)
- pass over, across, or through
- shrink
- reduce the diameter of (a wire or metal rod) by pulling it through a die
- steep; pass through a strainer
- remove the entrails of
- flatten, stretch, or mold metal or glass, by rolling or by pulling it through a die or by stretching
- cause to localize at one point
noun
- a gully that is shallower than a ravine
- an entertainer who attracts large audiences
- the finish of a contest in which the score is tied and the winner is undecided
- anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random
- a playing card or cards dealt or taken from the pack
- a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer
- (American football) the quarterback moves back as if to pass and then hands the ball to the fullback who is running toward the line of scrimmage
- poker in which a player can discard cards and receive substitutes from the dealer
- the act of drawing or hauling something
noun
- A tied game where either player can win by scoring two consecutive points.
- A hand gesture consisting of a raised index and middle fingers, a peace sign.
- A two-year prison sentence.
- A cast of dice totalling two.
- A '32 Ford.
- A card with two pips, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards.
- 2-barrel (twin choke) carburetors (in the phrase 3 deuces: an arrangement on a common intake manifold).
- A table seating two diners.
- The Devil, used in exclamations of confusion or anger.
- A piece of excrement.
- A curveball.
- A side of a die with two spots.
verb
- score an extra point or points after touchdown by kicking the ball through the uprights or advancing the ball into the end zone
- change from one system to another or to a new plan or policy
- change the nature, purpose, or function of something
- change religious beliefs, or adopt a religious belief
- exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category
- cause to adopt a new or different faith
- make (someone) agree, understand, or realize the truth or validity of something
- exchange a penalty for a less severe one
- change in nature, purpose, or function; undergo a chemical change
noun
noun
- An empty point or group of points surrounded by one player's stones.
- A fitting consisting of a loop of metal or other material, suitable for receiving a hook or the passage of a cord or line.
- A hole at the blunt end of a needle through which thread is passed.
- The dark spot on a black-eyed pea.
- A meaningful stare or look.
- One of the holes in certain kinds of cheese.
- The circle in the centre of a volute.
- The relatively clear and calm center of a hurricane or other cyclonic storm.
- The iris of the eye, being of a specified colour.
- A private eye: a privately hired detective or investigator.
- A mark on an animal, such as a peacock or butterfly, resembling a human eye.
- The oval hole of an axehead through which the axehandle is fitted.
- The visual sense.
- A loop forming part of anything, or a hole through anything, to receive a rope, hook, pin, shaft, etc.; for example, at the end of a tie bar in a bridge truss, through a crank, at the end of a rope, or through a millstone.
- The enclosed counter (negative space) of the small letter e.
- Tinge; shade of colour.
- The ability to notice what others might miss.
- The name of the Latin-script letter I.
- Attention, notice.
- An organ through which animals see (perceive surroundings via light).
- View or opinion.
- A reproductive bud in a potato.
- A brood.
- The dark brown center of a black-eyed Susan flower.
- That which resembles the eye in relative importance or beauty.
verb
noun
- A goal, run, point, etc. that equalizes the score.
- A device that balances various quantities.
- One who makes equal; a balancer.
- A device, such as a bar, for operating two brakes, especially a pair of hub brakes for an automobile, with equal force.
- A sliding panel to preserve the lateral stability of an aeroplane.
- A morphism whose codomain is the domain of a parallel pair of morphisms and which forms part of the limit of that parallel pair. Equivalently, a morphism which equalizes a parallel pair of morphisms in a limiting way, which is to say that any other morphism which equalizes that parallel pair factors through this limiting morphism; and moreover such factorization is unique.
- A weapon, usually a blackjack or gun.
- A set of arguments where two or more functions have equal values; the solution set of an equation.
- An electronic audio device for altering the frequencies of sound recordings.
- Any device for equalizing the pull of electromagnets.
- A conductor of low resistance joining the armature ends of the series field coils of dynamos connected in parallel.
noun
- The centre mark that players aim at in the game of squails.
- Successive physiological responses to keep or restore health.
- A path of succession of states through which a system passes.
- A set of procedures used to produce a product, most commonly in the food and chemical industries.
- A series of events which produce a result (the product).
- An executable task or program.
- Documents issued by a court in the course of a lawsuit or action at law, such as a summons, mandate, or writ.
- A structure that arises above a surface.
- An outgrowth of tissue or cell.
verb
- To perform a particular process on a thing.
- To develop photographic film.
- To take legal proceedings against.
- To walk in a procession
- To retrieve, store, classify, manipulate, transmit etc. (data, signals, etc.), especially using computer techniques.
- To think about a piece of information, or a concept, in order to assimilate it, and perhaps accept it in a modified state.
noun
- an attempt to score in a game
- the act of firing a projectile
- a solid missile discharged from a firearm
- (sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand
- a chance to do something
- a person who shoots (usually with respect to their ability to shoot)
- a consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a film
- the act of putting a liquid into the body by means of a syringe
- a small drink of liquor
- an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
- an estimate based on little or no information
- an informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera
- sports equipment consisting of a heavy metal ball used in the shot put
- an explosive charge used in blasting
- a blow hard enough to cause injury
- informal words for any attempt or effort
- the launching of a missile or spacecraft to a specified destination
- throwing the basketball toward the hoop
adj
noun
- An extra point (or two) scored by kicking a field goal or carrying the ball into the end zone after scoring a touchdown.
- The act of converting something or someone.
- Under the common law, the tort of the taking of someone's personal property with intent to permanently deprive them of it, or damaging property to the extent that the owner is deprived of the utility of that property, thus making the tortfeasor liable for the entire value of the property.
- A free kick, after scoring a try, worth two points.
- A chemical reaction wherein a substrate is transformed into a product.
- The process whereby a new word is created without changing the form, often by allowing the word to function as a new part of speech.
- A change or reduction of the form or value of a proposition.
- A software product converted from one platform to another.
- An online advertising performance metric representing a visitor performing whatever the intended result of an ad is defined to be.
- The act of interchanging the terms of a proposition, as by putting the subject in the place of the predicate, or vice versa.
- Changing a miniature figure into another character, usually by mixing different parts, or molding the model's parts, or doing both.
noun
- The first goal or point scored.
- A person who opens something.
- A device that opens something; specifically a tin-opener/can-opener, or a bottle opener.
- An establishment that opens.
- The player who starts the betting.
- The first act in a variety show or concert.
- A period of time when it is legal to commercially fish.
- Cards of sufficient value to enable a player to open the betting.
- A person employed to separate sheets of hot metal that become stuck together.
- A batsman who normally plays in the first two positions of an innings.
- The first game played in a competition.
- The first in a series of events, items etc.; the first remark or sentence of a conversation.
- A pitcher who specializes in getting the first outs of a game before being replaced, either by a long reliever or a pitcher who would normally start.
noun
- A player (or team)'s turn at the table to make shots until ended by a miss or a foul.
- A chance or opportunity to perform some deed or act.
- A period of play in which members of a visiting baseball team attempt to hit a baseball pitched by the opposing home team until three players are called out, followed by a similar attempt by members of the home baseball team against the visiting team's pitching. There are nine or more innings in a regulation baseball game.
- A similar period of play.
noun
- a basketball maneuver; obstructing an opponent with one's body
- the person or thing chosen or selected
- the quantity of a crop that is harvested
- the best people or things in a group
- the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving
- a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument
- a thin sharp implement used for removing unwanted material
- a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends
- the act of choosing or selecting
verb
- select carefully from a group
- look for and gather
- harass with constant criticism
- provoke
- remove in small bits
- remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits
- pilfer or rob
- pay for something
- pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
- attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example
- hit lightly with a picking motion
- eat intermittently; take small bites of
verb
- To score a goal.
- To hit.
- To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.
- To create an impression.
- To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
- To affect by a sudden impression or impulse.
- To sound by percussion, with blows, or as if with blows.
- To haul down or lower (a flag, mast, etc.)
- To make a sudden impression upon, as if by a blow; to affect with some strong emotion.
- To balance (a ledger or account).
- To dismantle and take away (a theater set; a tent; etc.).
- To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.
- To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke.
- To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
- To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
- To act suddenly, especially in a violent or criminal way.
- To impress, seem or appear (to).
- To capitulate; to signal a surrender by hauling down the colours.
- To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level of the top.
- To impinge upon.
- To discover a source of something, often a buried raw material such as ore (especially gold) or crude oil.
- To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
- To touch; to act by appulse.
- To manufacture, as by stamping.
- To make and ratify.
- To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.
- To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes. Of a clock, to announce (an hour of the day), usually by one or more sounds.
- To cause to ignite by friction.
- To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
- To set off on a walk or trip.
- To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.
- To punish; to afflict; to smite.
- To carry out a violent or illegal action.
- To unfasten, to loosen (chains, bonds, etc.).
- To stop working as a protest to achieve better working conditions.
noun
- A nibble on the bait by a fish.
- In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise the option.
- The strike plate of a door.
- A cancellation postmark.
- An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
- The primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen.
- An instrument with a straight edge for levelling a measure of grain, salt, etc., scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle.
- A status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch when the ball goes in the strike zone, or hitting a foul ball that is not caught.
- The status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at.
- The act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame.
- An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
- A blow or application of physical force against something.
- A work stoppage (or otherwise concerted stoppage of an activity) as a form of protest.
- The compass direction of the line of intersection between a rock layer and the surface of the Earth.
- The discovery of a source of something.
- A puddler's stirrer.
verb
- To score a goal.
- To render imperceptible by other, more prominent stimuli; drown out.
- To outlive.
- To place in the ground.
- To suppress and hide away in one's mind.
- To hide or conceal as if by covering with earth or another substance.
- To ritualistically inter in a grave or tomb.
- To put an end to; to abandon.
- To kill or murder.
noun
noun
- A simple game for two or more players, derived from basketball.
- Something wildly popular, entertaining, or funny.
- The deactivation of anything.
- The act of making one unconscious, or at least unable to come back on one's feet within a certain period of time; a TKO.
- A very attractive person, especially a beautiful woman.
- The deactivation of a particular gene.
- A tournament in which a team or player must beat the opponent in order to progress to the next round.
- A partially punched opening meant for optional later removal.
- A creature engineered with a particular gene deactivated.
- An event where a foreground color causes a background color not to print.
adj
verb
- To score a goal.
- To attach a note or sticker to (an existing poster) to provide further information, political criticism, etc.
- To hunt snipe.
- To make malicious, underhand remarks or attacks.
- To nose (a log) to make it drag or slip easily in skidding.
- To shoot with a sniper rifle.
- To watch a timed online auction and place a winning bid against (the current high bidder) at the last possible moment.
- To shoot at individuals from a concealed place.
- To move the ball quickly in a different direction.
noun
- A strip of copy announcing some late breaking news or item of interest, typically placed in a print advertisement in such a way that it stands out from the ad.
- A sharp, clever answer; sarcasm.
- A goal.
- A member of the engineering department on a ship.
- A cigarette butt.
- Any of various limicoline game birds of the genera Gallinago, Lymnocryptes and Coenocorypha in the family Scolopacidae, having a long, slender, nearly straight beak.
- A note or sticker attached to an existing poster to provide further information (e.g. an event is sold out), political criticism, etc.
- A end of a log remaining after timber has been cut away - sometimes referred to as a snipe-end.
- A fool; a blockhead.
- A bottle of wine measuring 0.1875 liters, one fourth the volume of a standard bottle; a quarter bottle or piccolo.
- A shot fired from a concealed place.
- An animated promotional logo during a television show.
noun
- A unit of scoring in a game or competition.
- The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game.
- A focus of conversation or consideration; the main idea.
- A particular moment in an event or occurrence; a juncture.
- Pointedness of speech or writing; a penetrating or decisive quality of expression.
- A tine or snag of an antler.
- Each of the main directions on a compass, usually considered to be 32 in number; a direction.
- A topic of discussion or debate; a proposition.
- A decimal point (now especially when reading decimal fractions aloud).
- A spot to which a straight run is made; hence, a straight run from point to point; a cross-country run.
- A peninsula or promontory.
- The position of the player of each side who stands a short distance in front of the goalkeeper.
- Any projecting extremity of an object.
- A full stop or other terminal punctuation mark.
- A specific location or place, seen as a spatial position.
- The position at the front or vanguard of an advancing force.
- A distinguishing quality or characteristic.
- a unit of measure equal to 1/12 of a pica, or approximately 1/72 of an inch (exactly 1/72 of an inch in the digital era).
- Each of the marks or strokes written above letters, especially in Semitic languages, to indicate vowels, stress etc.
- A purpose or objective, which makes something meaningful.
- Either of the two metal surfaces in a distributor which close or open to allow or prevent the flow of current through the ignition coil. There is usually a moving point, pushed by the distributor cam, and a fixed point, and they are built together as a unit.
- An object which has a sharp or tapering tip.
- A unit of measure for rain, equal to 0.254 mm or 0.01 of an inch.
- An operational or public leadership position in a risky endeavor.
- The difference between two points of the compass.
- A railroad switch.
- Something tiny, as a pinprick; a very small mark.
- An electric power socket.
- A movement executed with the sabre or foil.
- An individual element in a larger whole; a particular detail, thought, or quality.
- An area of contrasting colour on an animal, especially a dog; a marking.
- A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails.
- The act of pointing, as of the foot downward in certain dance positions.
- A dot or mark used to designate certain tones or time. In ancient music, it distinguished or characterized certain tones or styles (points of perfection, of augmentation, etc.). In modern music, it is placed on the right of a note to raise its value, or prolong its time, by one half.
- The sharp tip of an object.
- A string or lace used to tie together certain garments.
- A unit used to express differences in prices of stocks and shares.
- The perpendicular rising of a hawk over the place where its prey has gone into cover.
- A note; a tune.
- A zero-dimensional mathematical object representing a location in one or more dimensions; something considered to have position but no magnitude or direction.
- The position of the pitcher and catcher.
- The gesture of extending the index finger in a direction in order to indicate something.
- A fielding position square of the wicket on the off side, between gully and cover.
- Each of the twelve triangular positions in either table of a backgammon board, on which the stones are played.
- A tenth; formerly also a twelfth.
- One of the several different parts of the escutcheon.
- Lace worked by the needle.
- A unit of bearing equal to one thirty-second of a circle, i.e. 11.25°.
verb
- To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end.
- To repair mortar.
- To direct toward an object; to aim.
- To direct the central processing unit to seek information at a certain location in memory.
- To draw attention to something or indicate a direction.
- To face in a particular direction.
- To separate an integer from a decimal with a decimal point.
- To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or to draw attention to it.
- To indicate the presence of game by a fixed and steady look, as certain hunting dogs do.
- To mark with diacritics.
- To direct or encourage (someone) in a particular direction.
- To direct requests sent to a domain name to the IP address corresponding to that domain name.
- To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or mortar, and bringing it to a smooth surface.
- To indicate a probability of something.
- To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.
- To sail close to the wind.
- To approximate to the surface; to head.
noun
- The number of points that a player scores on their final, winning visit to the oche.
- The process of checking out items at a supermarket or library.
- A test to see if some device is functioning properly.
- The process of confirming and paying for an online purchase.
- The process of checking out of a hotel, or the latest time to vacate a room in one.
- The place in a supermarket where this is done.
- An inspection or investigation.
verb
verb
- To score (a drop goal).
- To put (something) into a pot.
- To secure; gain; win; bag.
- To fade volume in or out by means of a potentiometer.
- To send someone to gaol, expeditiously.
- To drain (e.g. sugar of the molasses) in a perforated cask.
- To preserve by bottling or canning.
- To cause a ball to fall into a pocket.
- To be capable of being potted.
- To apply a plaster cast to a broken limb.
- To shoot with a firearm.
- To catch (a fish, eel, etc) via a pot.
- To seat a person, usually a young child, on a potty or toilet, typically during toilet teaching.
noun
- A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food.
- A vessel used to hold soil for growing plants, particularly flowers: a flowerpot.
- A glass of beer in Australia whose size varies regionally but is typically around 10 fl oz (285 mL).
- Pothole, sinkhole, vertical cave.
- An iron hat with a broad brim worn as a helmet.
- Marijuana.
- A favorite: a heavily-backed horse.
- A vessel used for brewing or serving drinks: a coffeepot or teapot.
- A pot-shaped trap used for catching lobsters or other seafood: a lobster pot.
- A perforated cask for draining sugar.
- A vessel (usually earthenware) used with a seal for storing food, such as a honeypot.
- A pot-shaped non-conducting (usually ceramic) stand that supports an electrified rail while insulating it from the ground.
- The money available to be won in a hand of poker or a round of other games of chance; (figuratively) any sum of money being used as an enticement.
- A shallow hole used in certain games played with marbles. The marbles placed in it are called potsies.
- A pot-shaped metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney: a chimney pot.
- A plaster cast.
- Any of various traditional units of volume notionally based on the capacity of a pot.
- A crucible: a melting pot.
- Ruin or deterioration.
- A simple electromechanical device used to control resistance or voltage (often to adjust sound volume) in an electronic device by rotating or sliding when manipulated by a human thumb, screwdriver, etc.
noun
- A billiard-like Indian game in which players take turns flicking checker-like pieces into one of four goals on the corners of a board measuring one meter by one meter.
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- A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more balls with the player's ball.
verb
noun
- The score where one player wins a point after deuce but needs the next to carry the game.
- Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit
- The continuation of the game after a foul against the attacking team, because the attacking team are in an advantageous position.
- Any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable or chance to success, or to any desired end.
- Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen).
verb
noun
- The points made in a game of billiards.
- 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 long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together.
- A cohesive substance taking the form of a string.
- The line from behind and over which the cue ball must be played after being out of play, as by being pocketed or knocked off the table; also called the string line.
- A drove of horses, or a group of racehorses kept by one owner or at one stable.
- Such a structure considered as a substance.
- A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.
- Cannabis or marijuana.
- A stringcourse.
- Synonym of stable (“group of prostitutes managed by one pimp”)
verb
- To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc.
- To drive the ball against the end of the table and back, in order to determine which player is to open the game.
- To deliberately state that a certain bird is present when it is not; to knowingly mislead other birders about the occurrence of a bird, especially a rarity; to misidentify a common bird as a rare species.
- To put strings on (something).
- To put (items) on a string.
noun
- A shot that hits a goalpost, scoring one point.
- An advertisement to be posted on a pole, wall etc. to advertise something.
- A shot that hits a goalpost instead of passing into the goal.
- A dunk over a defending player.
- A picture of a celebrity, an event etc., intended to be attached to a wall.
- One who posts a message.
verb
noun
- The feat of scoring twice in one game.
- The narrow outermost ring on a dartboard.
- Twice the number, amount, size, etc.
- A ghostly apparition of a living person; a doppelgänger.
- A two-base hit.
- A strike in which the object ball is struck so as to make it rebound against the cushion to an opposite pocket.
- Playing the same part on two instruments, alternately.
- A sharp turn, especially a return on one's own tracks.
- Synonym of double-quick (“fast marching pace”)
- A bet on two horses in different races in which any winnings from the first race are placed on the horse in the later race.
- A double-precision floating-point number.
- A former French coin worth one-sixth of a sou.
- A call that increases certain scoring points if the last preceding bid becomes the contract.
- A double feast.
- A redundant item for which an identical item already exists.
- A tile that has the same value (i.e., the same number of pips) on both sides.
- A person who resembles and stands in for another person, often for safety purposes
- Two competitions, usually one league and one cup, won by the same team in a single season.
- A drink with two portions of alcohol.
- A hit on this ring.
- A boat for two scullers.
- The feat of winning two events in a single meet or competition.
- A copper coin worth one-eighth of a penny.
adv
verb
- To get a two-base hit.
- To act as substitute for (another theatrical performer in a certain role, etc).
- To serve a second role or have a second purpose.
- To turn sharply, following a winding course.
- To increase by 100%, to become twice as large in size.
- To fold over so as to make two folds.
- To operate as a double agent.
- To be the double of; to exceed by twofold; to contain or be worth twice as much as.
- (often followed by together or up) To join or couple.
- To be capable of performing (upon an additional instrument).
- To play (both one part and another, in the same play, etc).
- To double down.
- To multiply by two.
- (sometimes followed by up) To clench (a fist).
- To make a call that will double certain scoring points if the preceding bid becomes the contract.
- To transmit simultaneously on the same channel as another station, either unintentionally or deliberately, causing interference.
- To multiply the strength or effect of by two.
- To duplicate (a part) either in unison or at the octave above or below it.
- To unite, as ranks or files, so as to form one from each two.
- To repeat exactly; copy.
- To sail around (a headland or other point).
- To go or march at twice the normal speed.
- To cause (a ball) to rebound from a cushion before entering the pocket.
adj
- Folded in two; composed of two layers.
- Having two aspects; ambiguous.
- False, deceitful, or hypocritical.
- Stooping; bent over.
- Of flowers, having more than the normal number of petals.
- Of twice the quantity.
- Of time, twice as fast.
- Made up of two matching or complementary elements.
- Of a family relationship, related on both the maternal and paternal sides of a family.
- Designed for two users.
- Of an instrument, sounding an octave lower.
noun
- A six-point score occurring when the ball enters possession of a team's player in the opponent's end zone.
- A try (scoring play of grounding the ball in the opposing team's in-goal).
- The moment when an aircraft or spacecraft makes first or final contact with the ground during a landing.
- A defensive action of grounding the ball in the team's own in-goal to stop the play.
- The moment of contact of a tornado with the ground.
noun
- The goal crease; an area in front of each goal.
- A crack.
- One of the white lines drawn on the pitch to show different areas of play; especially the popping crease, but also the bowling crease and the return crease.
- The circle around the goal, where no offensive players can go.
- A line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, however produced.
verb
noun
- A player who scores points for their team.
- A substitute player who plays at the end of the game.
- The person who applies the gilding and decoration in bookbinding.
- The blow that ends a fight; the knock-out blow.
- A construction machine used to smooth a newly constructed road surface.
- A person who applies a finish to something, such as furniture.
- A finishing move.
- A person who finishes or completes something.
verb
- To score (a goal).
- To form a netting or network; to knit.
- To yield as profit for.
- To enclose or cover with a net.
- To catch in a trap, or by stratagem.
- To catch by means of a net.
- To receive as profit.
- To fully hedge a position.
- To hit the ball into the net.
adv
adj
- Final; end.
- Free from extraneous substances; pure; unadulterated; neat.
- Remaining after expenses or deductions.
noun
- A conductor that interconnects two or more component terminals.
- The amount remaining after expenses are deducted; profit.
- Any set of polygons joined edge to edge that, when folded along the edges between adjoining polygons so that the outer edges touch, form a given polyhedron.
- A device made from such mesh, generally used for trapping something.
- Anything that has the appearance of such a device.
- The area of the court close to the net (mesh stretched to divide the court).
- A mesh of string, cord or rope.
- A system that interconnects a number of users, locations etc. allowing transport or communication between them.
- A framework backed by a mesh, serving as the goal in hockey, soccer, lacrosse, etc.
- A trap.
- A device made from such mesh, used for catching fish, butterflies, etc.
- A mesh stretched to divide the court in tennis, badminton, volleyball, etc.
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