backup
reservor
reservedly
hold
back
trump
third-string
substitution
substitutionally
replacer
stand-in
diffident
immobilize
immobilise
stand in
bewith
supply
reservative
foredeal
lay away
backlog
RSVP
bags
on hold
speak for
up one's sleeve
backfill
blue-light special
scrubeenie
restraint
second-string
backseat
spoken for
scrimp
substituend
nest egg
fall back on
divergent
dibs
sub
secrete
fill in
substitute
book
prorector
deputise
surrogate
step in
word
deputize
in the tank
subminimum
basen
rank
put by
substitutor
pozzy
discountenancer
leftover
possie
underpuppy
prolegate
ones
short
stash
hold over
subsidiary
proppage
disadvantage
reclusiveness
dry powder
low status
replacement
unwedge
equipositional
modesty
adversary
lowness
lowliness
detail
elevated
backbencher
substitutingly
counterposition
position
remuneration
coxswain
assistant
shortener
flutter
pro-claimant
foreway
subordinate
backup
third-string
diffident
reservative
second-string
spoken for
divergent
leftover
subsidiary
equipositional
elevated
assistant
pro-claimant
subordinate
reservedly
substitutionally
substitutingly
backup
reservor
back
trump
substitution
replacer
stand-in
stand in
bewith
backlog
blue-light special
scrubeenie
restraint
backseat
substituend
nest egg
substitute
prorector
surrogate
word
sub
subminimum
substitutor
pozzy
discountenancer
possie
underpuppy
backfill
prolegate
ones
short
stash
proppage
disadvantage
reclusiveness
dry powder
low status
replacement
modesty
adversary
lowness
lowliness
detail
backbencher
counterposition
position
remuneration
coxswain
shortener
flutter
foreway
hold
immobilize
immobilise
supply
foredeal
lay away
RSVP
bags
speak for
backfill
scrimp
fall back on
dibs
stand in
sub
secrete
fill in
substitute
book
deputise
step in
deputize
basen
rank
put by
hold over
unwedge
noun
- A reserve or substitute.
- reinforcements
- A copy of a file or record, stored separately from the original, that can be used to recover the original if it is destroyed or damaged.
- An accumulation of material caused by a (partial) obstruction or (complete) blockage of the flow or movement of the material, or an accumulation of material that causes an overflow due to the flow being greater than the maximum possible flow.
adj
verb
- To reserve.
- To detain.
- To take place, to occur.
- In a food or drink order at an informal restaurant etc., requesting that a component normally included in that order be omitted.
- To have and keep possession of something.
- Not to move; to halt; to stop.
- To be or remain valid; to apply (usually in the third person).
- To contain or store.
- To be in possession of illicit drugs for sale.
- To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
- To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain.
- To win one's own service game.
- To cause to wait or delay.
- To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain.
- To bind (someone) to a consequence of his or her actions.
- To maintain, to consider, to opine.
- To grasp or grip.
- To bear, carry, or manage.
- To keep oneself in a particular state.
- To remain continent; to control an excretory bodily function.
- Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or unsubdued.
- To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain.
noun
- The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
- The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
- Power over someone or something.
- A place where animals are held for safety
- An act or instance of holding.
- Keep a firm hold on the handlebars.
- A position or grip used to control the opponent.
- The wager amount, the total hold.
- A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
- The cargo area of a ship or aircraft (often holds or cargo hold).
- The ability to persist.
- An exercise involving holding a position for a set time
- An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
- Something reserved or kept.
- A grasp or grip.
- The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
- As of Monday night the total Melbourne Cup hold was $848,015
- The House Hold on the game is 10,000, this is the amount of decision or risk the house wishes to assume.
- The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when all lines are busy.
- A statistic awarded to a relief pitcher who is not still pitching at the end of the game and who records at least one out and maintains a lead for his team.
- An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
- A region of airspace reserved for aircraft being kept in a holding pattern.
noun
- A support or resource in reserve.
- 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.
- 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.
postp
adv
- 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.
- In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
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.
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
- Something that gives one an advantage, especially one held in reserve.
- The noise made by an elephant through its trunk.
- The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others.
- A playing card of that suit.
- An old card game, almost identical to whist; the game of ruff.
- A card of the major arcana of the tarot.
- Flatulence.
verb
adv
verb
- To act as a substitute.
- To furnish or equip with.
- To fill up, or keep full.
- To serve instead of; to take the place of.
- To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office; to occupy; to have possession of.
- To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.
- To compensate for, or make up a deficiency of.
adv
noun
prep_phrase
verb
- To provide reserve support.
- To enter an online game that's already in progress, replacing a player who left early.
- To replenish or restock due to attrition or loss.
- To refill a hole with the material dug out of it.
- To refill an excavation unit to restore the former ground surface and/or to preserve the unit and make it recognizable as having been excavated.
noun
noun
verb
- To reserve (something) for future use.
- To record bets as bookmaker.
- To receive the highest grade in a class.
- To leave.
- To record the name and other details of a suspected offender and the offence for later judicial action.
- To issue a caution to, usually a yellow card, or a red card if a yellow card has already been issued.
- simple past tense of bake
- To write down, to register or record in a book or as in a book.
- To add a name to the list of people who are participating in something.
- To travel very fast.
noun
- A record of betting (from the use of a notebook to record what each person has bet).
- A book award, a recognition for receiving the highest grade in a class (traditionally an actual book, but recently more likely a letter or certificate acknowledging the achievement).
- A list of all players who have been booked (received a warning) in a game.
- A major division of a long work.
- A convenient collection, in a form resembling a book, of small paper items for individual use.
- Records of the accounts of a business.
- A bookmaker (a person who takes bets on sporting events and similar); bookie; turf accountant.
- Six tricks taken by one side.
- Four of a kind.
- The accumulated body of knowledge passed down among black pimps.
- The script of a musical or opera.
- A portfolio of one's previous work in the industry.
- The twenty-sixth Lenormand card.
- A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material, pictures, etc.
- Any source of instruction.
- The sum of chess knowledge in the opening or endgame.
- A long work fit for publication, typically prose, such as a novel or textbook, and typically published as such a bound collection of sheets, but now sometimes electronically as an e-book.
- A document, held by the referee, of the incidents happened in the game.
noun
- A substitute (usually of a person, position or role).
- A politician or person of influence campaigning for a presidential candidate.
- Any of a range of Unicode codepoints which are used in pairs in UTF-16 to represent characters beyond the Basic Multilingual Plane.
- An ersatz good.
- A deputy for a bishop in granting licences for marriage.
- A person or animal that acts as a substitute for the social or pastoral role of another, such as a surrogate parent.
- A judicial officer of limited jurisdiction, who administers matters of probate and intestate succession and, in some cases, adoptions.
verb
adj
verb
- To take rank of; to outrank.
- To have a ranking.
- To place abreast, or in a line.
- To assign a suitable place in a class or order; to classify.
noun
- A hierarchical level in an organization such as the military.
- One of the eight horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a number).
- The maximal number of linearly independent columns (or rows) of a matrix.
- The maximum quantity of D-linearly independent elements of a module (over an integral domain D).
- The size of any basis of a given matroid.
- One's position in a list sorted by a shared property such as physical location, population, or quality.
- The level of one's position in a class-based society.
- The dimensionality of an array (computing) or tensor.
- In a pipe organ, a set of pipes of a certain quality for which each pipe corresponds to one key or pedal.
- A level in a scientific taxonomy system.
- A category of people, such as those who share an occupation or belong to an organisation.
- A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers.
adj
- Strong in growth; growing with vigour or rapidity, hence, coarse or gross.
- Complete, used as an intensifier (usually negative, referring to incompetence).
- Strong to the senses; offensive; noisome.
- Having a very strong and bad taste or odor.
- Causing strong growth; producing luxuriantly; rich and fertile.
- Suffering from overgrowth or hypertrophy; plethoric.
- Strong of its kind or in character; unmitigated; virulent; thorough; utter (used of negative things).
- Gross, disgusting.
verb
- To store, or place in reserve; to save (money, etc.) for later use.
- Of a ship: to be run aground intentionally to avoid a collision
- To perform an action without attracting the attention of.
- To remove (something) from the present context and into its proper place; (figurative) to reject or disregard.
noun
- A short sale or short position.
- A short version of a garment in a particular size.
- A short sound, syllable, or vowel.
- A short film.
- A shortstop.
- A short seller.
- An automobile; especially in crack shorts, to break into automobiles.
- A short circuit.
- An integer variable having a smaller range than normal integers; usually two bytes long.
- A summary account.
verb
- To shortchange.
- To provide with a smaller than agreed or labeled amount.
- To sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for delivery at a later date in hopes of profiting from a decline in the price; to sell short.
- To short circuit.
- To cause a short circuit in (something).
adj
- Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant.
- bowled so that it bounces relatively far from the batsman.
- Of betting odds, offering a small return for the money wagered.
- Having little duration.
- that falls short of the green or the hole.
- Of comparatively small height.
- Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty.
- Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of another).
- Brittle, crumbly. (See shortbread, shortcake, shortcrust, shortening, hot short, cold-short.)
- Deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard.
- that is relatively close to the batsman.
- Undiluted; neat.
- Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.
- Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied, especially with money; scantily furnished; lacking.
- Being in a financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying security declines in the future.
- Doubtful of, skeptical of.
prep
adv
noun
- A temporary unit or assignment.
- An individual feature, fact, or other item, considered separately from the whole of which it is a part.
- A part considered trivial enough to ignore.
- A person's name, address and other personal information.
- A narrative which relates minute points; an account which dwells on particulars.
- A selected portion of a painting.
- A part small enough to escape casual notice.
- The small parts that can escape casual notice.
- A profusion of details.
verb
noun
- A member of a team who does not usually play, but who is held in reserve.
- A Member of Parliament who does not have cabinet rank, and who therefore sits on one of the backbenches or in one of the back rows of the legislature.
- A student who does not perform well, especially one who sits at the back of the classroom.
- Someone who does not play an active role in a process.
noun
- A status or rank.
- A commitment, or a group of commitments, such as options or futures, to buy or sell a given amount of financial instruments, such as securities, currencies or commodities, for a given price.
- The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
- A situation suitable to perform some action.
- The order in which players are seated around the table.
- A place or location.
- A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and error.
- An opinion, stand, or stance.
- A posture.
- A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
- A post of employment; a job.
- An amount of securities, commodities, or other financial instruments held by a person, firm, or institution.
verb
noun
- A small bet or risky investment.
- A state of agitation.
- The rapid variation of signal parameters, such as amplitude, phase, and frequency.
- The act of fluttering; quick and irregular motion.
- An extremely dangerous divergent oscillation caused by a positive feedback loop between the elastic deformation of an object and the aerodynamic forces acting on it, potentially resulting in rapid structural failure.
- A hasty game of cards or similar.
- An abnormal rapid pulsation of the heart.
verb
- To be in a state of agitation or uncertainty.
- To subject to a lie detector test.
- Of a winged animal: to flap the wings without flying; to fly with a light flapping of the wings.
- To flap or wave quickly but irregularly.
- To undergo divergent oscillations (potentially to the point of causing structural failure) due to a positive feedback loop between elastic deformation and aerodynamic forces.
- To cause something to flap.
- To drive into disorder; to throw into confusion.
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