lost ground
counteradvantage
play catch-up
regret
one step ahead
knock off
swings and roundabouts
recruit
pitch
aftercost
losing streak
setback
deprivation
loss
snatch victory from the jaws of defeat
gravy
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antipleion
bucket
hickey
nip and tuck
hinder
handicap
return
hamper
suck the mop
ungained
axe
fall up
opportunity cost
claw back
fall from grace
plumbophilia
abduction
give ground
afterdeal
Dead Sea effect
on the run
disbenefit
disadvantage
residually
steal a march
involution
dissavings
lose ground
sandbag
flattener
outlead
underdeviation
suffer
short
conservation
exchange
negative reinforcer
unawares
missing
demotivated
disfavour
demand destruction
point d'appui
negative reinforcing stimulus
lose
swing
disfavor
preservation
offlead
dislodgment
offshooting
risk
sacrifice
glass ceiling
scaledown
thumbscrew
lay on the line
put on the line
remuneration
extinguished
switchbacky
tradeoff
dislodgement
punt
trim one's sails
catch
descaler
the shoe is on the other foot
con
default
feet of clay
shipwreck
callback
underfoot
remodification
deindustrialization
restitution
rollback
gimmick
white-ant
nip and tuck
ungained
demotivated
extinguished
switchbacky
one step ahead
residually
short
unawares
underfoot
lost ground
counteradvantage
regret
swings and roundabouts
recruit
aftercost
losing streak
setback
deprivation
loss
gravy
downside
antipleion
bucket
hickey
return
axe
opportunity cost
fall from grace
plumbophilia
abduction
afterdeal
Dead Sea effect
disbenefit
disadvantage
involution
dissavings
flattener
underdeviation
conservation
exchange
negative reinforcer
missing
demand destruction
point d'appui
negative reinforcing stimulus
swing
preservation
dislodgment
offshooting
sacrifice
glass ceiling
scaledown
thumbscrew
remuneration
tradeoff
dislodgement
risk
catch
descaler
con
default
feet of clay
shipwreck
callback
remodification
deindustrialization
restitution
rollback
gimmick
play catch-up
knock off
pitch
snatch victory from the jaws of defeat
hinder
handicap
hamper
suck the mop
fall up
claw back
give ground
disadvantage
steal a march
lose ground
sandbag
outlead
suffer
disfavour
lose
disfavor
offlead
risk
lay on the line
put on the line
punt
trim one's sails
white-ant
verb
- To remove, as a discount or estimate.
- To rob.
- To defeat.
- To halt one's work or other activity.
- To have sex with.
- To make a copy of, as of a design.
- To assign (an item) to a bidder at an auction, indicated by knocking on the counter.
- To remove by hitting (something, someone)
- To kill.
- To accomplish hastily.
noun
- A supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a reinforcement.
- A hired worker
- A person enlisted for service in the army; a newly enlisted soldier.
- A new adult or breeding-age member of a certain population.
verb
- To enroll or enlist new members or potential employees on behalf of an employer, organization, sports team, the military, etc.
- To become an adult or breeding-age member of a population.
- To prompt a protein, leucocyte. etc. to intervene in a given region of the body.
- To supply with new men, as an army; to fill up or make up by enlistment; also, to muster
verb
- To discard for some gain.
- To fix or set the tone of.
- To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
- To throw away; discard.
- To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
- To set or fix.
- To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
- To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
- To attack, or position or assemble for attack.
- To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
- To cover or smear with pitch.
- To throw.
- To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
- To assemble or erect (a tent).
- To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternatively up and down.
- To bounce on the playing surface.
- To settle and build up, without melting.
- To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
- To fix one's choice.
- To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones.
- To produce a note of a given pitch.
- To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
noun
- A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
- A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller.
- The angle at which an object sits.
- The standard to which a group of musical instruments are tuned or in which a piece is performed, usually by reference to the frequency to which the musical note A above middle C is tuned.
- In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.
- An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar.
- The degree to which a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft, rotates on such an axis, tilting its bow or nose up or down. Compare with roll, yaw, and heave.
- The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby, gridiron or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is in the centre of the field; see cricket pitch.) (Not often used in the US or Canada, where "field" is the preferred word.)
- A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
- A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
- The most thrust-out point of a headland or cape.
- The height a bird reaches in flight, especially a bird of prey preparing to swoop down on its prey.
- The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread, the centres of holes, or letters in a monospace font.
- The act of pitching a baseball.
- A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
- The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant.
- A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
- The field of battle.
- A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
- That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
- The perceived frequency of a sound or note.
- A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar.
- Pitchstone.
- An effort to sell or promote something.
- The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
- A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
- The place where a busker performs, a prostitute solicits clients, or an illegal gambling game etc. is set up before the public.
- An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
- A person's or animal's height.
- Prominence; importance.
noun
- An obstacle, delay, disadvantage, blow (an adverse event which retards or prevents progress towards a desired outcome)
- An offset to the temperature setting of a thermostat to cover a period when more or less heating is required than usual.
- A step-like recession in a wall.
- The required distance between a structure and a road.
noun
- the disadvantage that results from losing something
- something that is lost
- gradual decline in amount or activity
- the act of losing someone or something
- the experience of losing a loved one
- the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue
- military personnel lost by death or capture
- euphemistic expressions for death
noun
- A mechanism for avoiding the allocation of targets in cases of mismanagement.
- A bucket bag.
- A helmet.
- Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket (container).
- A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items.
- A great deal of anything.
- A turbine blade driven by hot gas or steam.
- A large amount of liquid.
- The leather socket for holding the whip when driving, or for the carbine or lance when mounted.
- an insult term used in Toronto to refer to someone who habitually uses crack cocaine.
- An old vehicle that is not in good working order.
- A field goal.
- The amount held in this container.
- A storage space in a hash table for every item sharing a particular key.
- The basket.
- The pitcher in certain orchids.
verb
- To make, or cause to make (the recovery), with a certain hurried or unskillful forward swing of the body.
- To ride (a horse) hard or mercilessly.
- To rain heavily.
- To place inside a bucket.
- To draw or lift in, or as if in, buckets.
- To travel very quickly.
- To criticize vehemently; to denigrate.
- To categorize (data) by splitting it into buckets, or groups of related items.
noun
- An unintended negative outcome or loss in regards to a deal or action.
- A bruise-like mark made during petting by pressing the mouth to the skin on one’s partner’s body and sucking.
- A serif or other ornamentation on type.
- A tool for making smooth, semicircular bends in conduit and pipe.
- A printing defect caused by foreign matter on the printing surface resulting in a ring where the ink is missing, appearing as a spot of ink surrounded by a halo, or as an unprinted spot within a solid printed area.
- Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.
- An object whose name is unknown or cannot be recalled.
noun
- Gain or loss from an investment.
- The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.
- An answer.
- A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.
- A return pipe, returning fluid to a boiler or other central plant (compare with flow pipe, which carries liquid away from a central plant).
- The act of catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.
- A return ticket.
- An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect, or the act of returning it.
- An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, etc.; especially, in the plural, a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general information.
- The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, such as a moulding; applied to the shorter in contradistinction to the longer.
- A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax payment amounts; a tax return.
- A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
- A carriage return character.
- The act of returning.
- A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.
verb
- To elect according to the official report of the election officers.
- To recur; to come again.
- To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in the field.
- To come or go back (to a place or person).
- To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
- To give something back to its original holder or owner.
- To report, or bring back and make known.
- To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
- To place or put back something where it had been.
- To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve.
- To play a card as a result of another player's lead.
- To pass (data) back to the calling procedure.
- To say in reply; to respond.
- To take back something to a vendor for a complete or partial refund.
- To relinquish control to the calling procedure.
noun
- A drastic reduction or cutback.
- A position, interest, or reason in buying and selling stock, often with ulterior motives.
- An ancient weapon consisting of a head that has one or two blades and a long handle.
- A dismissal or rejection.
- A tool for felling trees or chopping wood etc. consisting of a heavy head flattened to a blade on one side, and a handle attached to it.
- A gigging musician's particular instrument, especially a guitar in rock music or a saxophone in jazz.
verb
noun
- Leading away; a carrying away.
- A syllogism or form of argument in which the major premise is evident, but the minor is only probable.
- The wrongful, and usually forcible, carrying off of a human being.
- The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; the movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body.
noun
noun
- A cessation of development or progress despite intense inner competition.
- A complicated grammatical construction.
- The regressive changes in the body occurring with old age.
- The shrinking of an organ (such as the uterus) to a former size.
- An endofunction whose square is equal to the identity function; a function equal to its inverse.
- Entanglement; a spiralling inwards; intricacy.
- A state of increased competition for limited resources, requiring great effort to stay ahead.
verb
- To conceal or misrepresent one's true position, potential, or intent in order to gain an advantage.
- To strike someone with a sandbag or other object to disable or render unconscious.
- To construct a barrier of sandbags around.
- To pretend to drink early on so that, as the night draws on, one can drink everybody else "under the table".
- To deceive someone by pretending to be weak, or (card games) by pretending to have a weak hand.
noun
adv
- at a disadvantage
- clean across
- without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold
- at some point or distance before a goal is reached
- so as to interrupt
- in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner
- quickly and without warning; happening unexpectedly; on impulse; without premeditation
adj
- of insufficient quantity to meet a need
- less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so
- lacking foresight or scope
- tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening
- marked by rude or peremptory shortness
adj
- primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration
- (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length
- low in stature; not tall; describing something or someone with a stature less than normal
- (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range
- not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices
- of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration
noun
- the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed
- accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference
- the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base
verb
noun
- The loss of one piece and associated capture of another.
- The transfer of substances or elements like gas, amino-acids, ions etc. sometimes through a surface like a membrane.
- The fourth through sixth digits of a ten-digit phone number (the first three before the introduction of area codes).
- The loss of a minor piece (typically a bishop or knight) and associated capture of the more advantageous rook.
- A telephone exchange.
- A conversation.
- An act of exchanging or trading.
- The difference between the values of money in different places.
- A place for conducting trading.
verb
verb
- be set at a disadvantage
- fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense
- fail to win
- suffer the loss of a person through death or removal
- miss from one's possessions; lose sight of
- allow to go out of sight or mind
- fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit
- fail to get or obtain
- fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind
- withdraw, as from reality
noun
- The amount of change towards or away from something.
- In a musical theater production, a performer who understudies several roles.
- Influence or power of anything put in motion.
- The genre of music associated with this dance style.
- The manner in which something is swung.
- The sweep or compass of a swinging body.
- A dance style.
- In an election, the increase or decrease in the number of votes for opposition parties compared with votes for the incumbent party.
- A basic dance step in which a pair link hands and turn round together in a circle.
- A type of hook with the arm more extended.
- A hanging seat that can swing back and forth, in a children's playground, for acrobats in a circus, or on a porch for relaxing.
- A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing.
- Sideways movement of the ball as it flies through the air.
- Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in it.
- The maximum amount of change that has occurred or can occur; the sum of the maximum changes in any direction.
verb
- To move one's arm in a punching motion.
- To put (a door, gate, etc.) on hinges so that it can swing or turn.
- To move sideways in its trajectory.
- To change (a numerical result); especially to change the outcome of an election.
- To hang from the gallows; to be punished by hanging, swing for something or someone; (often hyperbolic) to be severely punished.
- To make (something) work; especially to afford (something) financially.
- To admit or turn something for the purpose of shaping it; said of a lathe.
- To turn in a different direction.
- To play notes that are in pairs by making the first of the pair slightly longer than written (augmentation) and the second shorter, resulting in a bouncy, uneven rhythm.
- To move (an object) backward and forward; to wave.
- To ride on a swing.
- To dance.
- To fluctuate or change.
- (of a bowler) To make the ball move sideways in its trajectory.
- To participate in the swinging lifestyle; to participate in wife-swapping.
- To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor.
- To rotate about an off-centre fixed point.
- In dancing, to turn around in a small circle with one's partner, holding hands or arms.
verb
verb
noun
noun
- A loss of profit.
- The offering of anything to a god; a consecratory rite.
- Something sacrificed.
- The destruction or surrender of anything for the sake of something else; the devotion of something desirable to something higher, or to a calling deemed more pressing.
- A play in which the batter is intentionally out so that one or more runners can advance around the bases.
verb
- To advance (a runner on base) by batting the ball so it can be fielded, placing the batter out, but with insufficient time to put the runner out.
- To offer (something) as a gift to a deity.
- To give away (something valuable) to get at least a possibility of gaining something else of value (such as self-respect, trust, love, freedom, prosperity), or to avoid an even greater loss.
- To intentionally give up (a piece) in order to improve one’s position on the board.
- To destroy; to kill.
- To trade (a value of higher worth) for something of lesser worth in order to gain something else valued more, such as an ally or business relationship, or to avoid an even greater loss; to sell without profit to gain something other than money.
- To kill a test animal for autopsy.
verb
- To retreat from one's objective; to abandon an effort one still notionally supports.
- To propel a punt or similar craft by means of a pole.
- To kick a bouncing ball far and high.
- To equivocate and delay or put off (answering a question, addressing an issue, etc).
- To make the best choice from a set of non-ideal alternatives.
- To stake against the bank, to back a horse, to gamble or take a chance more generally
- To make a highly speculative investment or other commitment, or take a wild guess.
- To dropkick; to kick something a considerable distance.
- Of a fish, to walk along the seafloor using its fins as limbs.
- To kick a ball dropped from the hands before it hits the ground. (This puts the ball farther from the goal across which the opposing team is attempting to score, so improves the chances of the team punting.)
- To play at basset, baccara, faro, etc.
- To eject; to kick out of a place.
noun
- A pontoon; a narrow shallow boat propelled by a pole.
- A kick made by a player who drops the ball and kicks it before it hits the ground.
- Gambling, as a pastime, especially betting on horseraces or the dogs. E.g anyone up for a punt on Randwick?
- A highly speculative investment or other commitment.
- A wild guess.
- A thin glass rod which is temporarily attached to a larger piece in order to better manipulate the larger piece.
- A bet or wager.
- The act of playing at basset, baccara, faro, etc.
- An indentation in the base of a wine bottle.
- A point in the game of faro.
- The Irish pound, used as the unit of currency of Ireland until it was replaced by the euro in 2002.
noun
- a drawback or difficulty that is not readily evident
- the quantity that was caught
- a person regarded as a good matrimonial prospect
- anything that is caught (especially if it is worth catching)
- a break or check in the voice (usually a sign of strong emotion)
- a restraint that checks the motion of something
- a fastener that fastens or locks a door or window
- a cooperative game in which a ball is passed back and forth
- the act of catching an object with the hands
- the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
verb
- discover or come upon accidentally, suddenly, or unexpectedly; catch somebody doing something or in a certain state
- perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily
- reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot
- take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of
- succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
- to hook or entangle
- attract and fix
- capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping
- reach in time
- get or regain something necessary, usually quickly or briefly
- catch up with and possibly overtake
- be struck or affected by
- check oneself during an action
- hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers
- see or watch
- cause to become accidentally or suddenly caught, ensnared, or entangled
- detect a blunder or misstep
- grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of
- come down with
- start burning
- perceive by hearing
- suffer from the receipt of
- attract; cause to be enamored
- apprehend and reproduce accurately
- take in and retain
- spread or be communicated
- be the catcher
- become aware of
- delay or hold up; prevent from proceeding on schedule or as planned
noun
- A disadvantage of something, especially when contrasted with its advantages (pros).
- The conversion of part of a building.
- A fraud; something carried out with the intention of deceiving, usually for personal, often illegal, gain.
- An organized gathering, such as a convention, conference, or congress.
- A convicted criminal, a convict.
- A political conservative.
verb
noun
- A loss incurred by failing to compete.
- The condition of failing to meet an obligation.
- The condition of being an obligation that has not been met.
- The failure of a defendant to appear and answer a summons and complaint.
- the original software programming settings as set by the factory
- A selection made in the absence of an alternative.
- A value used when none has been given; a tentative value or standard that is presumed.
verb
noun
- The return of a situation to a previous position or state.
- A joke which references an earlier joke in the same routine.
- A follow-up audition in casting.
- A function pointer passed as an argument to another function.
- A return telephone or radio call; especially one made automatically to authenticate a logon to a computer network.
- A form of audience participation in which the audience shout lines in response to the dialog of a film.
- A product recall because of a defect or safety concern.
noun
- A process of compensation for losses.
- The movement of rotation which usually occurs in childbirth after the head has been delivered, and which causes the latter to point towards the side to which it was directed at the beginning of labour.
- That which is offered or given in return for what has been lost, injured, or destroyed; compensation.
- The act of making good or compensating for loss or injury.
- A return or restoration to a previous condition or position.
noun
- A return to a prior state by undoing some operation, especially of policy or price changes.
- A withdrawal of military forces.
- The situation where a rollercoaster fails to reach the top of a hill and instead rolls backward.
- An operation which returns a database, or group of records in a database, to a previous state (normally to the previous commit point).
- A form of flatbed truck adapted or designed specifically as a tow truck or for transporting other vehicles.
- An uncommanded reduction in the thrust of a jet engine.
- The strategy of forcing a change in the major policies of a state, usually by replacing its ruling regime, or by totally annihilating an enemy's armed forces and occupying the country, as was done in World War II to Italy, Germany, and Japan.
verb
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