charge
up front
ord
nest
gun turret
turret
gun enclosure
shield
ward
buckler
cuirass
ground
order arms
stand one's ground
arming
furniture
siege warfare
defensible
rearsight
arm
sniper
pitch
under fire
barded
mortar
knob
withset
couch
melee
add
kill zone
onrushing
weapons emplacement
beweaponed
sighter
subweapon
gun emplacement
armored combat fight
lock and load
weaponism
staff sling
list
assailant
vambrace
plate
port
A.
flanker
battle-array
weaponed
lower cannon
beavertail
outflanker
bracelet
ambusher
handguard
barbed
blade
withstander
sword
defender
wap
brand
quinte
steel
belt-fed
tactic
seconde
knife
emplacement
armed
extension
port arms
tilt
tierce
targeteer
bludgeoning
traverse
fireplan
heavy
upper cannon
arms
rerebrace
fire away
zone of action
wolf hook
present
action
octave
fork
defence system
defense system
figure four
ambush
pell
defensible
barded
melee
onrushing
beweaponed
assailant
weaponed
barbed
belt-fed
armed
heavy
up front
charge
ord
nest
gun turret
turret
gun enclosure
shield
buckler
ground
order arms
arming
furniture
siege warfare
rearsight
arm
sniper
knob
add
kill zone
weapons emplacement
sighter
subweapon
gun emplacement
armored combat fight
weaponism
staff sling
vambrace
plate
port
A.
flanker
battle-array
lower cannon
beavertail
outflanker
bracelet
ambusher
handguard
blade
withstander
sword
defender
wap
brand
quinte
steel
tactic
seconde
knife
emplacement
extension
cuirass
port arms
tierce
targeteer
bludgeoning
fireplan
upper cannon
arms
rerebrace
zone of action
wolf hook
action
octave
defence system
defense system
figure four
ambush
pell
ward
cuirass
stand one's ground
pitch
mortar
withset
couch
list
tilt
traverse
fire away
present
fork
noun
- A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
- A ground attack against a prepared enemy.
- An instruction.
- Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
- A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a cartridge.
- A load or burden; cargo.
- The amount of money levied for a service.
- The scope of someone's responsibility.
- A forceful forward movement.
- An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
- An official description (by the police or a court) of a crime that somebody may be guilty of.
- A sort of plaster or ointment.
- An electric charge.
- An image displayed on an escutcheon.
- Cannabis.
- An accusation by a person or organization.
- A measured amount of explosive.
- An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
verb
- To cause to take on an electric charge.
- To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
- To place a burden, load or responsibility on or in.
- To assign (a debit) to an account.
- To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose with water, a chemical reactor with raw materials.
- To pay on account, as by using a credit card.
- To attack by moving forward quickly in a group.
- To call to account; to challenge.
- To impute or ascribe.
- To replenish energy to (a battery, or a device containing a battery) by use of an electrical device plugged into a power outlet.
- To commit a charging foul.
- To add to or represent on.
- To take a few steps down the pitch towards the bowler as they deliver the ball, either to disrupt the length of the delivery, or to get into a better position to hit the ball.
- To lie on the belly and be still. (A command given by a hunter to a dog)
- To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).
- To ornament with or cause to bear.
- To assume as a bearing.
- To replenish energy.
- To assign a duty or responsibility to.
- To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
noun
- A fortified position for a weapon.
- An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock.
- A home that a child or young adult shares with a parent or guardian.
- A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
- A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger.
- A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively.
- The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself.
- A circular bed of pasta, rice, etc. to be topped or filled with other foods.
- A snug, comfortable, or cosy residence or job situation.
- A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.
- A retreat, or place of habitual resort.
- A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt; a den.
- A place used by another mammal, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.
- A fixed number of cards in some bidding games awarded to the highest bidder allowing him to exchange any or all with cards in his hand.
verb
verb
- To act on the defensive with a weapon.
- To defend, to protect.
- To be vigilant; to keep guard.
- To fend off, to repel, to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches (usually followed by off)
- To keep in safety, to watch over, to guard.
noun
- The ridges on the inside of a lock, or the incisions on a key.
- The action of a watchman; monitoring, surveillance (usually in phrases keep ward etc.)
- An object used for guarding.
- A subdivision of the LDS Church, smaller than and part of a stake, but larger than a branch.
- A part of a hospital, with beds, where patients reside.
- A section or subdivision of a prison.
- An enchantment or spell placed over a designated area or social unit, that prevents any tresspasser from entering; approaching; or even being able to locate said protected premises or demographic.
- A guarding or defensive motion or position.
- Land tenure through military service.
- Guardianship, especially of a child or prisoner.
- A warden; a guard; a guardian or watchman.
- An area of a castle, corresponding to a circuit of the walls.
- An administrative division of a borough, city or council.
- A minor looked after by a guardian.
- A division of a forest.
noun
- a position to be won or defended in battle (or as if in battle)
- the solid part of the earth's surface
- a rational motive for a belief or action
- the loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface
- a relation that provides the foundation for something
- the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground
- material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use)
- a relatively homogeneous percept extending back of the figure on which attention is focused
- a connection between an electrical device and a large conducting body, such as the earth (which is taken to be at zero voltage)
- (art) the surface (as a wall or canvas) prepared to take the paint for a painting
- the first or preliminary coat of paint or size applied to a surface
verb
- fix firmly and stably
- confine or restrict to the ground
- place or put on the ground
- instruct someone in the fundamentals of a subject
- bring to the ground
- hit or reach the ground
- throw to the ground in order to stop play and avoid being tackled behind the line of scrimmage
- (baseball) a hit that travels along the playing field.
- cover with a primer; apply a primer to
- connect to a ground
- use as a basis for; found on
noun
- The affixing and securing on of armor.
- The act of preparing a tool or a weapon for action; activation.
- The act of supplying (oneself or others) with armor and (now especially) arms and ammunition in preparation for a conflict; the act of providing with the means of defense and attack.
- A piece of tallow or soap put in the cavity and over the bottom of a sounding lead to pick up samples of the bottom of the sea.
- The act of supplying with the equipment, knowledge, authority, or other tools needed for a particular task.
- One of the red dress cloths formerly hung fore and aft outside of a ship's upper works on holidays, or used as a visual screen during times of action.
noun
- The stock and forearm of a weapon.
- Fittings, such as handles, of a door, coffin, or other wooden item.
- The harness, trappings etc. of a horse, hawk, or other animal.
- Any material on the page other than the text and pictures of stories.
- A type of mixture organ stop.
- Large movable item(s), usually in a room, which enhance(s) the room's characteristics, functionally or decoratively.
- The pieces of wood or metal put round pages of type to make proper margins and fill the spaces between the pages and the chase.
- Impressive-looking books used for filling out the collection of a private library.
noun
- A weapon.
- A pitcher
- A group of patients in a medical trial.
- A limb, or locomotive or prehensile organ, of an invertebrate animal.
- A long, narrow, more or less rigid part of an object extending from the main part or centre of the object, such as the arm of an armchair, a crane, a pair of spectacles or a pair of compasses.
- The extended portion of the upper limb, from the shoulder to the elbow.
- The part of a piece of clothing that covers the arm.
- One of the two parts of a chromosome.
- Heraldic bearings or insignia.
- A branch of an organization.
- A bay or inlet off a main body of water.
- The portion of the upper human appendage, from the shoulder to the wrist and sometimes including the hand.
- Power; might; strength; support.
adj
verb
- To supply with armour or (later especially) weapons.
- To cover or furnish with a plate, or with whatever will add strength, force, security, or efficiency.
- To take up weapons; to arm oneself.
- To fit (a magnet) with an armature.
- To prepare (a tool, weapon, or system) for action; to activate.
- To supply with the equipment, knowledge, authority, or other tools needed for a particular task; to furnish with capability; to equip.
- To become prepared for action; to activate.
noun
- Any attacker using a non-contact weapon against a specific target from a concealed position.
- A person or automated process set up by a person who or which attempts to win an online auction by placing a bid only seconds before the auction ends, leaving no time for other bidders to respond
- One who shoots from a concealed position.
- A hunter of snipe (the bird).
- A player who specializes in scoring goals.
- A person using long-range small arms for precise attacks from a concealed position.
- One who criticizes; a person who frequently snipes at others.
verb
- To attack, or position or assemble for attack.
- 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 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 discard for some gain.
- 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.
verb
- To attack (someone or something) using a mortar (weapon).
- To pound in a mortar.
- To use mortar or plaster to join two things together.
- To fire a mortar (weapon).
noun
- A mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks.
- A muzzle-loading, indirect fire weapon with a tube length of 10 to 20 calibers and designed to lob shells at very steep trajectories.
- A hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle.
- In paper milling, a trough in which material is hammered.
noun
- A rounded ornament on the hilt of an edged weapon; a pommel.
- A ball-shaped part of a handle, lever, etc., designed to be grabbed by the hand.
- The head of the penis; the glans.
- A rounded protuberance, especially one arising from a flat surface; a fleshy lump or caruncle.
- A woman's breast.
- A contemptible person; dick.
- A prominent rounded hill.
- A freshman at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina.
- The clitoris.
- A rounded control switch that can be turned on its axis, designed to be operated by the fingers.
- A prominent, rounded bump along a mountain ridge.
- A dollop, an amount just larger than a spoonful (usually referring to butter).
- A chunky branch-like piece, especially of a ginger rhizome.
- A bulb of the garlic plant consisting of multiple cloves.
verb
verb
- To lower (a spear or lance) to the position of attack.
- To attach a thread onto fabric with small stitches in order to add texture.
- To transfer (for example, sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire mould to a felt blanket for further drying.
- To phrase in a particular style; to use specific wording for.
- To arrange or dispose as if in a bed.
- To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch.
- To lay something upon a bed or other resting place.
- To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed.
- To lie down; to recline (upon a couch or other place of repose).
- In the treatment of a cataract in the eye, to displace the opaque lens with a sharp object such as a needle. The technique is regarded as largely obsolete.
noun
- The den of an otter.
- A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley.
- A preliminary layer, as of colour or size.
- Psychotherapy.
- Couch grass, a species of persistent grass, Elymus repens, usually considered a weed.
- An item of furniture, often upholstered, for the comfortable seating of more than one person; a sofa.
- A bed, a resting-place.
adj
noun
- A cavalry exercise in which two groups of riders try to cut paper plumes off the helmets of their opponents, the contest continuing until no member of one group retains his plume.
- A loud, confused or tumultuous fight, argument or scrap.
- Lively contention or debate, skirmish.
- A battle fought at close range, (especially) one not involving ranged weapons; hand-to-hand combat; brawling.
- Any confused, disorganised, disordered or chaotic situation.
- Small cut and polished gemstones sold in lots.
verb
noun
- An additional enemy that joins a fight after the primary target.
- The addition of a song to a station's playlist.
- An act or instance of adding.
verb
- To append (e.g. a statement); to say further information; to add on.
- To summon minions or reinforcements.
- To combine elements of (something) into one quantity.
- To give by way of increased possession (to someone); to bestow (on).
- To make an addition; to augment; to increase; to add on.
- To join or unite (e.g. one thing to another, or as several particulars) so as to increase the number, augment the quantity, or enlarge the magnitude, or so as to form into one aggregate.
- To sum up; to put together mentally; to add up.
- To perform the arithmetical operation of addition.
noun
noun
verb
- To enclose (a field, etc.) for combat.
- To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colours, or to form a border.
- To give a building of architectural or historical interest listed status; see also the adjective listed.
- To create or recite a list.
- To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of.
- To plough and plant with a lister.
- To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; to stripe as if with list.
- To place in listings.
- To listen to.
- To listen.
- To prepare (land) for a cotton crop by making alternating beds and alleys with a hoe.
- To cause (something) to tilt to one side.
- To tilt to one side.
noun
- Material used for cloth selvage.
- A narrow strip of wood, especially sapwood, cut from the edge of a board or plank.
- A careening or tilting to one side, usually not intentionally or under a vessel's own power.
- A little square moulding; a fillet or listel.
- The first thin coating of tin; a wire-like rim of tin left on an edge of the plate after it is coated.
- A tilt to a building.
- The barriers or palisades used to fence off a space for jousting or tilting tournaments.
- The scene of a military contest; the ground or field of combat; an enclosed space that serves as a battlefield; the site of a pitched battle.
- A register or roll of paper consisting of a compilation or enumeration of a set of possible items; the compilation or enumeration itself.
- A piece of woollen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a worker.
- A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth.
- A codified representation of a list used to store data or in processing; especially, in the Lisp programming language, a data structure consisting of a sequence of zero or more items.
noun
- Plate armor.
- A slightly curved but almost flat dish from which food is served or eaten.
- A flat electrode such as can be found in an accumulator battery, or in an electrolysis tank.
- One of the thin parts of the brisket of an animal.
- A horizontal framing member at the top or bottom of a group of vertical studs.
- An illustration in a book, either black and white, or colour, usually on a page of paper of different quality from the text pages.
- A very light steel horseshoe for racehorses.
- Any flat piece of material such as coated glass or plastic.
- A vehicle license plate.
- The ability of a travel agent to issue tickets on behalf of a particular airline.
- A record, usually vinyl.
- A course at a meal.
- A weighted disk, usually of metal, with a hole in the center for use with a barbell, dumbbell, or exercise machine.
- A shaped and fitted surface, usually ceramic or metal that fits into the mouth and in which teeth are implanted; a dental plate.
- Home plate.
- The contents of such a dish.
- Precious metal, especially silver.
- A foot, from "plates of meat".
- A taxi permit, especially of a metal disc.
- A layer of a material on the surface of something, usually qualified by the type of the material; plating
- A tectonic plate.
- An image or copy.
- Any of various larger scales found in some reptiles.
- A flat object of uniform thickness.
- A prize given to the winner in a contest.
- An engraved surface used to transfer an image to paper.
- The fine nap (as of beaver, musquash, etc.) on a hat whose body is made from inferior material.
- trauma plate.
- An agenda of tasks, problems, or responsibilities
- A material covered with such a layer.
- The anode of a vacuum tube.
- A roundel of silver or argent.
- Such dishes collectively.
- A VIN plate, particularly with regard to the car's year of manufacture.
- Skins for fur linings of garments, sewn together and roughly shaped, but not finally cut or fitted.
verb
- To place the various elements of a meal on the diner's plate prior to serving.
- To arm or defend with metal plates.
- To beat into thin plates.
- To specify which airline a ticket will be issued on behalf of.
- to categorise stamps based on their position on the original sheet, in order to reconstruct an entire sheet.
- (particularly with early British stamps) to identify the printing plate used.
- To cover the surface material of an object with a thin coat of another material, usually a metal.
- To score a run.
noun
- The position of a weapon when ported; a rifle position executed by throwing the weapon diagonally across the front of the body, with the right hand grasping the small of the stock and the barrel sloping upward and crossing the point of the left shoulder.
- A set of files used to build and install a binary executable file from the source code of an application.
- A type of very sweet fortified wine, mostly dark red, traditionally made in Portugal.
- A program that has been adapted, modified, or recoded so that it works on a different platform from the one for which it was created; the act of this adapting.
- A suitcase or schoolbag.
- A logical or physical construct in and from which data are transferred. Computer port (hardware) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- A female connector of an electronic device, into which a cable's male connector can be inserted.
- The portfolio of a model or artist.
- An opening where a connection (such as a pipe) is made.
- The left-hand side of a vessel, including aircraft, when one is facing the front. Used to unambiguously refer to directions relative to the vessel structure, rather than to a person or object on board.
- A space between two stones wide enough for a delivered stone or bowl to pass through.
- A small medical appliance installed beneath the skin, connected to a vein by a catheter, and used to inject drugs or to draw blood samples.
- An entryway or gate.
- A town or city containing such a place, a port city.
- Something used to carry a thing, especially a frame for wicks in candle-making.
- A sweep rower that primarily rows with an oar on the port side.
- A place on the coast at which ships can shelter, or dock to load and unload cargo or passengers.
- An opening or doorway in the side of a ship, especially for boarding or loading; an embrasure through which a cannon may be discharged; a porthole.
adj
verb
- To hold or carry (a weapon) with both hands so that it lays diagonally across the front of the body, with the barrel or similar part near the left shoulder and the right hand grasping the small of the stock; or, to throw (the weapon) into this position on command.
- To turn or put to the left or larboard side of a ship; said of the helm.
- To carry, bear, or transport. See porter.
- To adapt, modify, or create a new version of, a program so that it works on a different platform. Porting (computing) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- To transfer a voucher or subsidy from one jurisdiction to another.
- To carry or transfer (an existing telephone number) from one telephone service provider to another.
noun
- attack
- apprentice
- absorbance; absorbancy
- accusative case
- amphibian
- August
- author
- automobile
- application
- Amos, the book of
- adjutant
- accumulator
- acre; acres
- Angstrom
- ana; anna
- April
- anode
- answer
- artificer
- air branch
- atomic weight
- associate; association
- academy; academician
- age; aged
- airman
- assault, as on a badge
- air
- administration
- admiral
- alfa
- amateur
- aqua
- annus (a year)
- Artillery
- amplitude
- absolute temperature
- address
- adult
- acid
- aircraft; airplane
- article
- Atlantic
- arctic
- army
- accommodation
- America; Americanization
- ambassador
- alto
verb
prep
adj
- amphibious
- avancé (fast)
- Asian
- asked
- Australian
- arterial
- alto
- auxiliary
- adjusted
- asymmetric
- accepted
- astragal
- anterior
- American
- arctic
- approved
- atomic
- Absolute
- absent
adv
noun
- a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard
- especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole
- a dashing young man
- something long and thin resembling a blade of grass
- a cut of beef from the shoulder blade
- a broad flat body part (as of the shoulder or tongue)
- the part of the skate that slides on the ice
- flat surface that rotates and pushes against air or water
- the flat part of a tool or weapon that (usually) has a cutting edge
adj
- Equipped, especially with a weapon.
- Having horns, claws, teeth, a beak, etc. in a particular tincture, as contrasted with that of the animal as a whole.
- Possessing arms of a specified number or type.
- Prepared for use; loaded.
- Having an arm or arms, often of a specified number or type.
- Having prickles or thorns.
noun
- A simple offensive action, consisting of extending the weapon arm forward.
- The set of tuples of values that, used as arguments, satisfy the predicate.
- Capacity of a concept or general term to include a greater or smaller number of objects; — correlative of intension.
- A file extension.
- University programs that are targeted at the broader (usually adults) community whose participants are not full-time enrolled students.
- That property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space (or time, e.g. "spatiotemporal extension")
- A part of a building that has been extended from the original
- semantic widening, broadening of meaning
- An optional software component that adds functionality to an application.
- The act of extending; a stretching out; enlargement in length, breadth, or time; an increase
- The operation of stretching a broken bone so as to bring the fragments into the same straight line.
- The state of being extended
- A written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt.
- A numerical code used to specify a specific telephone in a telecommunication network.
- An exercise in which an arm or leg is straightened against resistance.
- A kind of derivative morpheme applied to verbs in Bantu languages.
verb
- To point or thrust a weapon at.
- To slope or incline (something); to slant.
- To point or thrust (a weapon).
- To intentionally let the ball fall down to the drain by disabling flippers and most targets, done as a punishment to the player when the machine is nudged too violently or frequently.
- To play worse than usual (often as a result of previous bad luck or losses).
- To charge (at someone) with a lance.
- To forge (something) with a tilt hammer.
- To be at an angle.
- To cover with a tilt, or awning.
noun
- An attempt at something, such as a tilt at public office.
- A jousting contest. (countable)
- A canvas covering for carts, boats, etc.
- Any covering overhead; especially, a tent.
- The controlled vertical movement of a camera, or a device to achieve this.
- A thrust, as with a lance.
- A tilt hammer.
- A slope or inclination.
- The inclination of part of the body, such as backbone, pelvis, head, etc.
noun
- The third defensive position, with the sword hand held at waist height, and the tip of the sword at head height.
- A measure of capacity equal to a third of a pipe, or a cask or other vessel holding such a quantity; a cask larger than a barrel, and smaller than a hogshead or a puncheon, in which wine or salt provisions, rice, etc., are packed for shipment.
- An ordinary that covers the left or right third of the field of a shield or flag.
- The third tone of the scale. See mediant.
- Synonym of terce: the third canonical hour or its service.
- A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. Tierce of ace, king and queen is called tierce-major.
verb
- To rotate a gun around a vertical axis to bear upon a military target.
- To use the motions of opposition or counteraction.
- To travel across, often under difficult conditions.
- To lay in a cross direction; to cross.
- To (make a cutting, an incline) across the gradients of a sloped face at safe rate.
- To plane in a direction across the grain of the wood.
- To deny formally.
- To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.
- To climb or descend a steep hill at a wide angle (relative to the slope).
- To act against; to thwart or obstruct.
- To pass over and view; to survey carefully.
noun
- In trench warfare, a defensive trench built to prevent enfilade.
- A formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the opposite party in any stage of the pleadings. The technical words introducing a traverse are absque hoc ("without this", i.e. without what follows).
- Something that thwarts or obstructs.
- The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
- A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
- A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.
- A series of points, with angles and distances measured between, traveled around a subject, usually for use as "control" i.e. angular reference system for later surveying work.
- A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
- A traverse board.
adj
adv
adj
- Armed.
- Having high viscosity.
- Laden to a great extent.
- Serious, somber.
- Laden with that which is weighty; encumbered; burdened; bowed down, either with an actual burden, or with grief, pain, disappointment, etc.
- Not easy to bear; burdensome; oppressive.
- Of a market: in which the price of shares is declining.
- Containing one or more isotopes that are heavier than the normal one.
- especially, having a maximum takeoff weight exceeding 300,000 tons, as almost all widebodies do, generating high wake turbulence.
- Doing the specified activity more intensely than most other people.
- High, great.
- Heavily-armed.
- Having great weight.
- Not raised or leavened.
- Having the heaves.
- Having much body or strength.
- High in fat or protein; difficult to digest.
- Loud, distorted, or intense.
- Slow; sluggish; inactive; or lifeless, dull, inanimate, stupid.
- Of great force, power, or intensity; deep or intense.
- Hot and humid.
- With eyelids difficult to keep open due to tiredness.
- Impeding motion; cloggy; clayey.
- Having a relatively high takeoff weight and payload,
noun
- A newspaper of the quality press.
- A villain or bad guy; the one responsible for evil or aggressive acts.
- A relatively large multi-engined aircraft.
- A doorman, bouncer or bodyguard.
verb
- To make heavier.
- To use power or wealth to exert influence on, e.g., governments or corporations; to pressure.
- To sadden.
adv
noun
- A kind of modern-day assault rifle handle in a similar shape.
- A kind of trap used to catch wolves, consisting of an upper part resembling a crescent moon, meant to be fastened between tree branches, and a lower part (connected by a chain) in the form of a double hook, meant to be covered with meat and swallowed by a wolf.
- A thunderbolt drawn as a straight-edged runic s with a horizontal bar in the middle and the ends angled at 90 degrees centerwise, especially a Nazi one.
verb
- To point (a firearm) at something, to hold (a weapon) in a position ready to fire.
- To come forward, appear in a particular place or before a particular person, especially formally.
- To nominate (a member of the clergy) for an ecclesiastical benefice; to offer to the bishop or ordinary as a candidate for institution.
- To put (something) forward in order for it to be seen; to show, exhibit.
- To offer (a problem, complaint) to a court or other authority for consideration.
- To give a gift or presentation to (someone).
- To offer oneself for mental consideration; to occur to the mind.
- To give (a gift or presentation) to someone; to bestow.
- To bring (someone) into the presence of (a person); to introduce formally.
- In omegaverse fiction, to have one's secondary sex (alpha, omega, or beta) become apparent, typically at puberty.
- To deliver (something abstract) as though as a gift; to offer.
- To hand over (a bill etc.) to be paid.
- To appear or represent oneself (as having a certain gender).
- To make clear to one's mind or intelligence; to put forward for consideration.
- To put on, stage (a play etc.).
- To come to the attention of medical staff, especially with a specific symptom.
- To appear (in a specific way) for delivery (of a fetus); to appear first at the mouth of the uterus during childbirth.
- To act as presenter on (a radio, television programme etc.).
- To display one's female genitalia in a way that signals to others that one is ready for copulation. Also referred to as lordosis behaviour.
adj
- Located in the immediate vicinity.
- Attentive; alert; focused.
- Neither for or against (used in voting to express abstention)
- Relating to now, for the time being; current.
- Relating to something a person is referring to in the very context, with a deictic use similar to the demonstrative adjective this.
noun
noun
- Combat.
- Something done, often so as to accomplish a purpose.
- A religious performance or solemn function, i.e. action sermon, a sacramental sermon in the Scots Presbyterian Church.
- The mechanism, that is the set of moving mechanical parts, of a keyboard instrument, like a piano, which transfers the motion of the key to the sound-making device.
- The effort of performing or doing something.
- a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings).
- A way of motion or functioning.
- The way in which a mechanical device acts when used; especially a firearm.
- Fast-paced activity.
- The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem, or other composition; the unfolding of the drama of events.
- The distance separating the strings and the fretboard on a guitar or other string instrument.
- A charge or other process in a law court (also called lawsuit and actio).
- A mapping from a pairing of mathematical objects to one of them, respecting their individual structures. The pairing is typically a Cartesian product or a tensor product. The object that is not part of the output is said to act on the other object. In any given context, action is used as an abbreviation for a more fully named notion, like group action or left group action.
- The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive of the sentiment or passion depicted.
- Sexual intercourse.
- spin put on the bowling ball.
- The product of energy and time, especially the product of the Lagrangian and time.
- The way in which cartridges are loaded, locked, and extracted from the mechanism.
intj
verb
adj
noun
- The eighth defensive position, with the sword hand held at waist height, and the tip of the sword out straight at knee level.
- An interval of twelve semitones spanning eight degrees of the diatonic scale, representing a doubling or halving in pitch frequency.
- An eight-day period beginning on a feast day in the Latin rite of the Catholic Church.
- The day that is one week after a feast day in the Latin rite of the Catholic Church.
- A poetic stanza consisting of eight lines; usually used as one part of a sonnet.
- A coupler on an organ which allows the organist to sound the note an octave above the note of the key pressed (cf sub-octave)
- Any of a number of coherent-noise functions of differing frequency that are added together to form Perlin noise.
- The subjective vibration of a planet.
- The pitch an octave higher than a given pitch.
verb
- place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces
- lift with a pitchfork
- divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
- shape like a fork
noun
- cutlery used for serving and eating food
- the act of branching out or dividing into branches
- the region of the angle formed by the junction of two branches
- an agricultural tool used for lifting or digging; has a handle and metal prongs
- the angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk
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