start
neb
tracial
tongue
pseudopod
calcar
gore
outjutting
point
projecture
jut
protrusion
jutting
projection
prosiliency
ridge
corner
overhang
urdé
Poggendorff illusion
knurl
prong
keel
illusionlike
projectionally
orthography
flange
projectile
projectional
boss
head
hub
knob
rim
lobing
projectivity
ressaut
wedgelet
alternate
subtendent
reangle
salient
prongy
exsertion
coign
Tissot's indicatrix
bretessé
angular
deshape
angle
projecting
ordinate
outjut
projectively
conjugate
fimbriated
calligraphics
labral
exserted
twists and turns
verticillary
project
feather
obtuse
abscissa
Scheimpflug principle
nodularity
visuoproprioceptive
geometricity
limb
nosing
projectingly
projectory
jag
verticillus
indicant
anastigmatic
form
stigmatic
branch
arm
trace
back
contrive
foreshape
angle of Louis
visionlike
Boothian
lobe
obround
projectable
edgelike
geometral
orient
backward
anastigmat
conical
tind
representation
tracial
urdé
illusionlike
projectile
projectional
subtendent
salient
prongy
bretessé
angular
fimbriated
labral
exserted
verticillary
obtuse
visuoproprioceptive
projectory
anastigmatic
stigmatic
visionlike
Boothian
projectable
edgelike
geometral
conical
projectionally
projectively
projectingly
back
backward
start
neb
tongue
pseudopod
calcar
gore
outjutting
point
projecture
jut
protrusion
jutting
projection
prosiliency
ridge
corner
overhang
Poggendorff illusion
knurl
prong
keel
orthography
flange
boss
head
hub
knob
rim
lobing
projectivity
ressaut
wedgelet
alternate
exsertion
coign
Tissot's indicatrix
angle
projecting
ordinate
outjut
conjugate
calligraphics
twists and turns
feather
abscissa
nodularity
geometricity
limb
nosing
jag
verticillus
indicant
branch
arm
trace
foreshape
angle of Louis
lobe
obround
anastigmat
tind
representation
reangle
deshape
project
form
contrive
orient
noun
- A projection or protrusion; that which pokes out.
- The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.
- An appearance in a sports game, horserace, etc., from the beginning of the event.
- The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket.
- The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.
- An initial advantage over somebody else; a head start.
- A handle, especially that of a plough.
- A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later.
- The beginning of an activity.
- An instance of starting.
- A sudden involuntary movement.
verb
- To begin.
- To flinch or draw back.
- To awaken suddenly.
- To put or raise (a question, an objection); to put forward (a subject for discussion).
- To disturb and cause to move suddenly; to startle; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee or fly.
- To break away, to come loose.
- To put into play.
- To move suddenly from its place or position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate.
- To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from.
- To set in motion.
- To have its origin (at), begin.
- To bring onto being or into view; to originate; to invent.
- To jerk suddenly in surprise.
- To start one's periods (menstruation).
- To begin an activity.
- To ready the operation of a vehicle or machine.
noun
- A projection, or slender appendage or fixture.
- This organ, as taken from animals used for food (especially cows).
- Manner of speaking, often habitually.
- A language.
- Any large or long physical protrusion on an automotive or machine part or any other part that fits into a long groove on another part.
- A reed.
- A small sole (type of fish).
- Any similar organ, such as the lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk; the proboscis of a moth or butterfly; or the lingua of an insect.
- Glossolalia.
- In a shoe, the flap of material that goes between the laces and the foot (so called because it resembles a tongue in the mouth).
- An individual point of flame from a fire.
- A long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or lake.
- A division of formation; A layer or member of a formation that pinches out in one direction.
- The power of articulate utterance; speech generally.
- The flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different sounds in speech.
- The pole of a vehicle; especially, the pole of an ox cart, to the end of which the oxen are yoked.
- A short piece of rope spliced into the upper part of standing backstays, etc.; also, the upper main piece of a mast composed of several pieces.
- A person speaking in a specified manner (most often plural).
- The clapper of a bell.
verb
noun
- A projecting point.
- Dirt; mud; filth.
- A triangular or rhomboid piece of fabric, especially one forming part of a three-dimensional surface such as a sail, skirt, hot-air balloon, etc.ᵂᵖ
- A triangular piece of land where roads meet.
- One of the abatements, made of two inwardly curved lines, meeting in the fesse point.
- Murder, bloodshed, violence.
- A small piece of land left unincorporated due to competing surveys or a surveying error.
- The curved surface that lies between two close lines of longitude on a globe
- An elastic gusset for providing a snug fit in a shoe.
- Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.
verb
noun
- Any projecting extremity of an object.
- 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.
- 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.
- A unit of scoring in a game or competition.
- 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 act of projecting out from something
- a prediction made by extrapolating from past observations
- the projection of an image from a film onto a screen
- a planned undertaking
- any structure that branches out from a central support
- any solid convex shape that juts out from something
- (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else
- the acoustic phenomenon that gives sound a penetrating quality
- the representation of a figure or solid on a plane as it would look from a particular direction
- the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting
noun
- Any extended protuberance; a projecting line or strip.
- A chain of hills.
- A chain of mountains.
- The back of any animal; especially the upper or projecting part of the back of a quadruped.
- The line along which two sloping surfaces meet which diverge towards the ground.
- A long narrow elevation on an ocean bottom.
- The highest portion of the glacis proceeding from the salient angle of the covered way.
- An elongated region of high atmospheric pressure.
- The highest point on a roof, represented by a horizontal line where two roof areas intersect, running the length of the area.
verb
noun
- The projection into space of an angle in a solid object.
- An edge or extremity; the part farthest from the center; hence, any quarter or part, or the direction in which it lies.
- A secret or secluded place; a remote or out of the way place; a nook.
- A cornerback.
- A place where people meet for a particular purpose.
- One of the four vertices of the strike zone.
- The group of people who assist a boxer during a bout.
- The space in the angle between converging lines or walls which meet in a point.
- An intersection of two streets; any of the four outer points off the street at that intersection.
- The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.
- An embarrassing situation; a difficulty.
- The corner of the ring, which is where the boxer rests before and during a fight.
- A corner kick.
- First base or third base.
- Denoting a premises that is in a convenient local location, notionally, but not necessarily literally, on the corner of two streets.
- A sufficient interest in a salable security or commodity to allow the cornering party to influence prices.
verb
- To drive (someone or something) into a corner or other confined space.
- To put (someone) in an awkward situation.
- To get sufficient command of (a stock, commodity, etc.), so as to be able to manipulate its price.
- To handle while moving around a corner in a road or otherwise turning.
- To supply with corners.
- To turn a corner or drive around a curve.
- To trap in a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment.
noun
noun
- A form of projection used to represent three-dimensional objects in two dimensions, in which all the projection lines are orthogonal or perpendicular to the projection plane; an orthographic projection, especially when used to draw an elevation, vertical projection, etc., of a building; also (obsolete) a drawing made in this way.
- The aspect of language study concerned with letters and their sequences in words; the study of spelling.
- Correct spelling according to established usage; also (obsolete) pronunciation according to the spelling of a word.
- A set of conventions for writing a language, including norms of spelling, capitalization, emphasis, hyphenation, punctuation, and word breaks.
- A method of representing a language or the sounds of language by written symbols; spelling.
noun
- a projection out from one end
- the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains
- a single domestic animal
- that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason
- a person who is in charge
- the front of a military formation or procession
- the pressure exerted by a fluid
- the top of something
- the source of water from which a stream arises
- (grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent
- the tip of an abscess (where the pus accumulates)
- the length or height based on the size of a human or animal head
- a dense cluster of flowers or foliage
- the educator who has executive authority for a school
- an individual person
- a user of (usually soft) drugs
- a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea)
- a rounded compact mass
- the foam or froth that accumulates at the top when you pour an effervescent liquid into a container
- the part in the front or nearest the viewer
- a difficult juncture
- forward movement
- a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer
- the subject matter at issue
- a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about
- the rounded end of a bone that fits into a rounded cavity in another bone to form a joint
- that part of a skeletal muscle that is away from the bone that it moves
- (computer science) a tiny electromagnetic coil and metal pole used to write and read magnetic patterns on a disk
- (usually plural) the obverse side of a coin that usually bears the representation of a person's head
- the striking part of a tool
- (nautical) a toilet on board a boat or ship
- a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum
- oral stimulation of the genitals
verb
noun
- A rough protuberance or projecting obstruction.
- A point where many routes meet and traffic is distributed, dispensed, or diverted.
- A goal or mark at which quoits, etc., are thrown.
- A computer networking device connecting several Ethernet ports. See switch.
- The central part, usually cylindrical, of a wheel; the nave.
- A central facility providing a range of related services, such as a medical hub or an educational hub.
- A stake with a nail in it, used to mark a temporary point.
- A hardened, engraved steel punch for impressing a device upon a die, used in coining, etc.
- A screw hob.
- A block for scotching a wheel.
- An area in a video game from which individual levels are accessed.
- A male weasel; a buck; a dog; a jack.
noun
noun
- Figures or tinctures that succeed each other by turns.
- A substitute; an alternative; one designated to take the place of another, if necessary, in performing some duty.
- A replacement of equal or greater value or function.
- A proportion derived from another proportion by interchanging the means.
- That which alternates with something else; vicissitude.
adj
- Other; alternative.
- Distributed singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence
- Designating the members in a series, which regularly intervene between the members of another series, as the odd or even numbers of the numerals; every other; every second.
- Happening by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; first one and then the other (repeatedly)
verb
- To vary by turns.
- To perform by turns, or in succession; to cause to succeed by turns; to interchange regularly.
- To perform an alternation (removal of alternate vertices) on (a polytope or tessellation); to remove vertices (from a face or edge) as part of an alternation.
- To happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time; followed by with.
adj
- Projecting outwards, pointing outwards.
- Worthy of note; pertinent or relevant.
- Depicted in a leaping posture.
- Prominent; conspicuous.
- Denoting any angle less than two right angles.
noun
- An outwardly projecting part of a fortification, trench system, or line of defense.
- 1919, “General Pershing's Story”, in Americans Defending Democracy: Our Soldiers' Own Stories, World's War Stories, Inc., page 9
- 1978, Jan Morris, chapter 9, in Farewell the Trumpets, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, page 193
- On April 26 the First Division had gone into the line in the Montdidier salient on the Picardy battlefront.
- The battlefronts were often no more than a few hundred yards wide, and the salients never more than a few miles deep.
- An elongated protrusion of a geopolitical entity, such as a subnational entity or a sovereign state.
noun
- A projecting corner or angle; a cornerstone.
- A wedge used in typesetting.
- The keystone of an arch.
- A a corner of a crystal formed by the intersection of three or more faces at a point (in crystallography)
- An original angular elevation of land around which continental growth has taken place (in geology)
adj
- Relating or pertaining to an angle or angles.
- Lean, lank.
- Sharp and stiff in character.
- Having an angle or angles; forming an angle or corner
- Sharp-cornered; pointed.
- Composed of three or more rings attached to a single carbon atom (the rings not all being in the same plane).
- Ungraceful; lacking grace.
- Measured by an angle.
noun
noun
- A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment.
- A figure formed by two rays which start from a common point (a plane angle) or by three planes that intersect (a solid angle).
- A change in direction.
- Any of the four cardinal points of an astrological chart: the Ascendant, the Midheaven, the Descendant and the Imum Coeli.
- A fishhook; tackle for catching fish, consisting of a line, hook, and bait, with or without a rod.
- A corner where two walls intersect.
- A storyline between two wrestlers, providing the background for and approach to a feud.
- Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
- The focus of a news story.
- The measure of such a figure. In the case of a plane angle, this is the ratio (or proportional to the ratio) of the arc length to the radius of a section of a circle cut by the two rays, centered at their common point. In the case of a solid angle, this is the ratio of the surface area to the square of the radius of the section of a sphere.
- An ulterior motive; a scheme or means of benefitting from a situation, usually hidden, often immoral
- A viewpoint; a way of looking at something.
verb
- To present or argue something in a particular way or from a particular viewpoint.
- To change direction rapidly.
- To try to catch fish with a hook and line.
- To place (something) at an angle.
- To attempt to subtly persuade someone to offer a desired thing.
- To hamper (oneself or one's opponent) by leaving the cue ball in the jaws of a pocket such that the surround of the pocket (the "angle") blocks the path from cue ball to object ball.
noun
- An explementary angle.
- Given a field extension L / K and an element α ∈ L, any other element β ∈ L that is another root of the minimal polynomial of α over K.
- A word agreeing in derivation with another word, and therefore generally resembling it in meaning.
- A complex conjugate.
- A weak and a strong antigen covalently linked together
- Any entity formed by joining two or more smaller entities together.
- More generally, any of a set of irrational or complex numbers that are zeros of the same polynomial with integral coefficients.
verb
- To multiply on the left by one element and on the right by its inverse.
- To inflect (a verb) for each person, in order, for one or more tenses; to list or recite its principal parts.
- To join together, to unite; to juxtapose.
- To temporarily fuse, exchanging or transferring DNA.
adj
- Presenting themselves simultaneously and having reciprocal properties; said of quantities, points, lines, axes, curves, etc.
- United in pairs; yoked together; coupled.
- Agreeing in derivation and radical signification; said of words.
- In single pairs; coupled.
- Containing two or more radicals supposed to act the part of a single one.
verb
- draw a projection of
- communicate vividly
- extend out or project in space
- transfer (ideas or principles) from one domain into another
- project on a screen
- cause to be heard
- make or work out a plan for; devise
- present for consideration, examination, criticism, etc.
- imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
- put or send forth
- throw, send, or cast forward
- regard as objective
noun
noun
- A longitudinal strip projecting from an object to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sideways but permit motion lengthwise; a spline.
- A junction indicator attached to a colour-light signal at an angle, which lights up, typically with four white lights in a row, when a diverging route is set up.
- One of the two shims of the three-piece stone-splitting tool known as plug and feather or plug and feathers; the feathers are placed in a borehole and then a wedge is driven between them, causing the stone to split.
- Partridges and pheasants, as opposed to rabbits and hares (called fur).
- One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.
- Anything petty or trifling; a whit or jot.
- The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.
- Kind; nature; species (from the proverbial phrase "birds of a feather").
- A branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds, used for flight, swimming, protection and display.
- Long hair on the lower legs of a dog or horse, especially a draft horse, notably the Clydesdale breed. Narrowly only the rear hair.
verb
- To cover or furnish with feathers; (when of an arrow) to fletch.
- To intergrade or blend the pixels of an image with those of a background or neighboring image.
- To adorn, as if with feathers; to fringe.
- To render light as a feather; to give wings to.
- To rotate the oars while they are out of the water to reduce wind resistance.
- To arrange in the manner or appearance of feathers.
- Of written or printed ink: to take on a blurry appearance as a result of spreading through the receiving medium.
- To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.
- To streamline the blades of an aircraft's propeller by rotating them perpendicular to the axis of the propeller when the engine is shut down so that the propeller does not windmill during flight.
- To touch lightly, like (or as if with) a feather.
- To finely shave or bevel an edge.
- To tread, as a cockerel.
- To move the cue back and forth along the bridge in preparation for striking the cue ball.
- To accidentally touch the cue ball with the tip of the cue when taking aim.
- To move softly, like a feather.
adj
- Obtuse-angled, having an obtuse angle.
- Blunt; not sharp, pointed, or acute in form.
- Intellectually dull or dim-witted.
- Blunt, or rounded at the extremity.
- Of sound, etc.: deadened, muffled, muted.
- Indirect or circuitous.
- Larger than one, and smaller than two right angles, or more than 90° and less than 180°.
noun
- any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm
- one of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping: arm; leg; wing; flipper
- any of the main branches arising from the trunk or a bough of a tree
- (astronomy) the circumferential edge of the apparent disc of the sun or the moon or a planet
- either of the two halves of a bow from handle to tip
- the graduated arc that is attached to an instrument for measuring angles
adj
noun
verb
- To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).
- To provide (a hare) with a form.
- To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
- To constitute, to compose, to make up.
- To put together or bring into being; assemble.
- To treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage battery, causing one plate to be composed more or less of spongy lead, and the other of lead peroxide. This was formerly done by repeated slow alternations of the charging current, but later the plates or grids were coated or filled, one with a paste of red lead and the other with litharge, introduced into the cell, and formed by a direct charging current.
- To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.
- To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
- To take shape.
noun
- A specific way of performing a movement.
- A quantic.
- A class or year of school pupils (often preceded by an ordinal number to specify the year, as in sixth form).
- Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system.
- Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality.
- A specimen document to be copied or imitated.
- A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech.
- A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
- Level of performance.
- Regularity, beauty, or elegance.
- The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.
- A window or dialogue box.
- Characteristics not involving atomic components.
- A thing that gives shape to other things as in a mold.
- Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula.
- The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body.
- A criminal record; loosely, past history (in a given area).
- The inherent nature of an object; that which the mind itself contributes as the condition of knowing; that in which the essence of a thing consists.
- An order of doing things, as in religious ritual.
- The shape or visible structure of a thing or person.
- The den or home of a hare.
- An infraspecific rank.
noun
- any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm
- a division of some larger or more complex organization
- a division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant
- a part of a forked or branching shape
- a natural consequence of development
- a stream or river connected to a larger one
verb
noun
- any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm
- a human limb; technically the part of the superior limb between the shoulder and the elbow but commonly used to refer to the whole superior limb
- any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting
- the part of an armchair or sofa that supports the elbow and forearm of a seated person
- a division of some larger or more complex organization
- the part of a garment that is attached at the armhole and that provides a cloth covering for the arm
verb
noun
- The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
- The ground plan of a work or works.
- The sum of the diagonal elements of a square matrix.
- An empty category occupying a position in the syntactic structure from which something has been moved, used to explain constructions such as wh-movement and the passive.
- A residue of some substance or material.
- An enquiry sent out for a missing article, such as a letter or an express package.
- A connecting bar or rod, pivoted at each end to the end of another piece, for transmitting motion, especially from one plane to another; specifically, such a piece in an organ stop action to transmit motion from the trundle to the lever actuating the stop slider.
- A mark left as a sign of passage of a person or animal.
- An act of tracing.
- A very small amount.
- One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whippletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be drawn; a tug.
- An informal road or prominent path in an arid area.
- A current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board.
verb
- To follow the execution of the program by making it to stop after every instruction, or by making it print a message after every step.
- To draw or sketch lightly or with care.
- To follow the trail of.
- To follow the history of.
- To copy onto a sheet of paper superimposed over the original, by drawing over its lines.
adv
- In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
- In a direction opposite to the usual or desired direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively.
- So as to reverse direction and return.
- Away from someone or something; at a distance.
- Away from the front or from an edge.
- In a manner that impedes.
- In a reciprocal manner; in return.
- So as shrink, recede or move aside, or cause to do so.
- To a later point in time. See also put back.
- Towards, into or in the past.
- To or in a previous condition or place.
- Earlier, ago.
verb
- To go in the reverse direction.
- To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
- To push or force backwards.
- To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
- To support.
- To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
- To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship.
- To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
- To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
- To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.
- To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender).
- To draw from behind the back [+accusative = a knife etc.] (as also back out).
- To row backward with (oars).
- To carry an infant on one's back.
noun
- Effort, usually physical.
- The reverse side; the side that is not normally seen.
- The keel and keelson of a ship.
- A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
- The part of something that goes last.
- The spine and associated tissues.
- The backrest, the part of a piece of furniture which receives the human back.
- A ferryboat.
- The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
- Large and attractive buttocks.
- The inside margin of a page.
- The edge of a book which is bound.
- In some team sports, a position behind most players on the team.
- A support or resource in reserve.
- The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
- A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
- Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
- Area behind, such as the backyard of a house.
- The side of a blade opposite the side used for cutting.
- The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side.
- That which is farthest away from the front.
- The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back.
- Upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal's back.
adj
- Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel).
- Not current.
- Situated away from the main or most frequented areas.
- At or near the rear.
- Returned or restored to a previous place or condition.
- Moving or operating backward.
- In arrears; overdue.
postp
verb
- To direct towards or point at a particular direction.
- To familiarize (oneself or someone) with a circumstance or situation.
- To set the focus of (something) so as to appeal or relate to a certain group.
- To change direction to face a certain way.
- To build or place (something) so as to face eastward.
- To align or place (a person or object) so that his, her, or its east side, north side, etc., is positioned toward the corresponding points of the compass; (specifically, surveying) to rotate (a map attached to a plane table) until the line of direction between any two of its points is parallel to the corresponding direction in nature.
- To determine which direction one is facing.
name
noun
- The brilliance or colour of a high-quality pearl.
- The part of the horizon where the sun first appears in the morning; the east.
adj
adv
- In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
- In a direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.
- At, near or towards the rear of something.
- Oppositely to the desired direction of progress, or from a better to a worse state.
- In a reversed orientation; back to front.
- Toward or into the past;
- By way of reflection; reflexively.
- In a reversed order or sequence.
noun
adj
- Acting or moving in the direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.
- Of a pawn, further behind than pawns of the same colour on adjacent files and unable to be moved forward safely.
- Further behind the batsman's popping crease than something else.
- Late or behindhand.
- Situated toward or at the rear of something.
- Lacking progressive or enlightened thought; outdated.
- On that part of the field behind the batsman's popping crease.
- Slow to apprehend; having difficulties in learning.
- Reluctant or unable to advance or act.
- Acting or moving in the direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing.
- Acting or moving oppositely to the desired direction of progress.
- Reversed in order or sequence.
- Of a culture, country, practice etc., undeveloped or unsophisticated.
noun
- A figure, image or idea that substitutes reality.
- The act of representing.
- An object that describes an abstract group in terms of linear transformations of vector spaces; (more formally) a homomorphism from a group on a vector space to the general linear group (group of all bijective linear transformations) on the space.
- A statement; a presentation of opinion or position, or an utterance made to influence the opinions or actions of others
- The lawyers and staff who argue on behalf of another in court.
- That which represents something else.
- The ability to elect a representative to speak on one's behalf in government; the role of this representative in government.
- A theatrical performance.
- An act of representing, i.e. presenting again.
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