English words for 'A rush for weaving baskets.'
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noun
- A rush for weaving baskets.
- Synonym of farasola (“old unit of weight”).
- A basket made of rushes, used chiefly to hold figs and raisins.
- The quantity of fruit or other items contained in a frail.
- the weight of a frail (basket) full of raisins or figs; between 50 and 75 pounds
- a basket for holding dried fruit (especially raisins or figs)
adj
- (medicine) In an infirm state leading one to be easily subject to disease or other health problems, especially regarding the elderly.
- Weak; infirm.
- Easily broken physically; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish.
- Mentally fragile.
- Liable to fall from virtue or be led into sin; not strong against temptation; weak in resolution; unchaste.
- wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings
- physically weak
- easily broken or damaged or destroyed
verb
noun
- A horizontal strand of material used in basket weaving.
- A person who weaves; especially, one who weaves cloth for a living.
- Any of certain fish of the family Pinguipedidae.
- Any of certain spider species, such as the sheet weaver or the funnel weaver, so named because they spin interesting and characteristic webs.
- An aquatic beetle of the genus Gyrinus.
- A weaverbird.
- finch-like African and Asian colonial birds noted for their elaborately woven nests
- a craftsman who weaves cloth
noun
noun
- A wheeled basket chiefly used in textile factories.
- (sugar manufacture) A charge of syrup in the pans.
- (informal) A song, typically one on an album, that is not worth listening to.
- A skipper; the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority.
- (radio) skywave propagation
- (video games) A trick allowing the player to proceed to a later section of the game without playing through a section that was intended to be mandatory.
- (Trinity College, Dublin, historical) A college servant.
- (Commonwealth, UK, Ireland) A large container for waste, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to remove it along with its contents, or to be picked up by hydraulic arms so that its contents can be dumped into the truck.
- (scouting, informal) The scoutmaster of a troop of scouts (youth organization).
- The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
- (Australia, slang) An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent.
- A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) A skep, or basket, such as a creel or a handbasket.
- (curling) The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.
- The captain of a sports team.
- (bowls) The captain of a bowls team, who directs the team's tactics and rolls the side's last wood, so as to be able to retrieve a difficult situation if necessary.
- (steelmaking) A skip car.
- (mining) A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.
- A beehive made of woven straw, wicker, etc.
- (slang) A skip-level manager; the boss of one's boss.
- (music) A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
- A leaping or jumping movement; the action of one who skips.
- a mistake resulting from neglect
- a gait in which steps and hops alternate
verb
- (intransitive) To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.
- (knitting, crochet) To pass by a stitch as if it were not there, continuing with the next stitch.
- (printing) To have insufficient ink transfer.
- To jump rope.
- To cause the stylus to jump back to the previous loop of the record's groove, continuously repeating that part of the sound, as a result of excessive scratching or wear. (of a phonograph record)
- To leap lightly over.
- (transitive) To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).
- (intransitive) To move by hopping on alternate feet.
- (intransitive) To leap about lightly.
- (transitive, informal) Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).
- (transitive, informal) To leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner.
- (transitive) To place an item in a skip (etymology 2, sense 1).
- (transitive) To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.
- intentionally fail to attend
- jump lightly
- leave suddenly
- bound off one point after another
- cause to skip over a surface
- bypass
noun
verb
- To make cloth.
- To hang or rest limply.
- (transitive) To spread over, cover.
- To design drapery, arrange its folds, etc., as for hangings, costumes, statues, etc.
- (transitive) To cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery.
- To rail at; to banter.
- place casually
- cover as if with clothing
- cover or dress loosely with cloth
- arrange in a particular way
noun
- (US) A member of a youth subculture distinguished by its sharp dress, especially peg-leg pants (1950s: e.g. Baltimore, MD). Antonym: square.
- A curtain; a drapery.
- (textiles) The way in which fabric falls or hangs.
- A dress made from an entire piece of cloth, without having pieces cut away as in a fitted garment.
- hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
- the manner in which fabric hangs or falls
- a sterile covering arranged over a patient's body during a medical examination or during surgery in order to reduce the possibility of contamination
noun
- (ropemaking) A bundle of many threads to be tarred.
- The distance over which something is hauled or transported, especially if long.
- An act of hauling or pulling, particularly with force; a (violent) pull or tug.
- (Internet) Ellipsis of haul video (“video posted on the Internet consisting of someone showing and talking about recently purchased items”).
- An amount of something that has been taken, especially of fish, illegal loot, or items purchased on a shopping trip.
- (British, soccer) Four goals scored by one player in a game.
- the quantity that was caught
- the act of drawing or hauling something
verb
- (intransitive, nautical) Of the wind: to shift fore (more towards the bow).
- (transitive, figuratively) Followed by up: to summon to be disciplined or held answerable for something.
- (intransitive) To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.
- (transitive) To draw or pull something heavy.
- (ambitransitive, nautical) To steer (a vessel) closer to the wind.
- (transitive) To transport by drawing or pulling, as with horses or oxen, or a motor vehicle.
- (intransitive, US, colloquial) To haul ass (“go fast”).
- (transitive) To carry or transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move.
- (transitive, figuratively) To drag, to pull, to tug.
- transport in a vehicle
- draw slowly or heavily
noun
- A wicker basket.
- The baby Jesus and the manger in a creche or nativity scene, consisting of statues of Mary, Joseph and various other characters such as the magi.
- (cribbage) The card game cribbage.
- A hovel, a roughly constructed building best suited to the shelter of animals but used for human habitation.
- (slang, sometimes African-American Vernacular) One’s residence, house or dwelling place, or usual place of resort.
- A confined space, such as a cage or office cubicle.
- (British) A bed for a child older than a baby.
- (cribbage) The cards discarded by players and used by the dealer.
- A small room or covered structure, especially one of rough construction, used for storage or penning animals.
- A bin for drying or storing grain, such as a corn crib.
- (US) A baby’s bed with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet.
- A boxy structure traditionally built of heavy wooden timbers, to support an existing structure from below, as with a mineshaft or a building being raised off its foundation in preparation for being moved; see cribbing.
- (nautical) A small sleeping berth in a packet or other small vessel.
- (slang) A cheat sheet or past test used by students; crib sheet.
- A manger, a feeding trough for animals elevated off the earth or floor, especially one for fodder such as hay.
- (southern New Zealand) A small holiday home, often near a beach and of simple construction.
- (now chiefly Australia, New Zealand) A snack or packed lunch, especially as taken to work to eat during a break.
- A literal translation, usually of a work originally in Latin or Ancient Greek.
- (Canada) A small raft made of timber.
- (cryptography) A known piece of information corresponding to a section of encrypted text, that is then used to work out the remaining sections.
- (usually in the plural) A collection of quotes or references for use in speaking, for assembling a written document, or as an aid to a project of some sort; a crib sheet.
- baby bed with high sides made of slats
- a bin or granary for storing grains
- a card game (usually for two players) in which each player is dealt six cards and discards one or two
- the cards discarded by players at cribbage
- a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly)
verb
- (intransitive, of a horse) To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind.
- To crowd together, or to be confined, as if in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
- To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
- (intransitive) To install timber supports, as with cribbing.
- (transitive) To collect one or more passages and/or references for use in a speech, written document or as an aid for some task; to create a crib sheet.
- (India) To complain, to grumble
- (transitive, informal) To plagiarize; to copy; to cheat.
- (transitive) To place or confine in a crib.
- (cryptography) To use a known piece of information corresponding to a section of encrypted text, to work out the remaining sections.
- use a crib, as in an exam
- take unauthorized (intellectual material)
- line with beams or planks
verb
noun
- A bed covering consisting of two layers of fabric stitched together, with insulation between, often having a decorative design.
- A quilted skirt worn by women.
- A roll of material with sound-absorbing properties, used in soundproofing.
- (figurative) Something composed of a variety of stitched-together parts; a patchwork.
- bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together
noun
- (dressmaking) Part of an item of clothing consisting of gathered fabric in a bunch.
- (historical) A headdress for women popular in 18th century France.
- Alternative form of puff
- A high hair style for women consisting of a roll or pad of hair, worn up.
- A short skirt gathered into a rounded puffy shape; a puffball.
- Alternative form of poof.
- A ball of fabric (such as nylon monofilament netting) used for washing (as an alternative to a flannel, washcloth, sponge, etc.).
- A low cushioned seat with no back; a padded footstool.
- offensive term for a homosexual man
- thick cushion used as a seat
intj
verb
noun
- (textiles) An attachment to a sewing machine for making gathers in the cloth.
- (glassblowing) A worker who collects molten glass on the end of a rod preparatory to blowing.
- A person who primarily gathers in a hunter-gatherer social system.
- (business) A person who collects rent or taxes.
- A person who gathers things.
- a person who gathers
- a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes)
noun
verb
noun
- The woof in woven fabrics.
- Prepared wort added to ale to cleanse it.
- The contents of a pie, etc.
- Anything that is used to fill something.
- (dentistry) Any material used to fill a cavity in a tooth or the result of using such material.
- (Protestantism) A religious experience attributed to the Holy Ghost "filling" a believer.
- flow into something (as a container)
- any material that fills a space or container
- (dentistry) a dental appliance consisting of any of various substances (as metal or plastic) inserted into a prepared cavity in a tooth
- the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving
- a food mixture used to fill pastry or sandwiches etc.
- the act of filling something
adj
verb
noun
verb
- (transitive) To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another.
- (transitive) To unite by close connection or intermixture.
- (transitive) To compose creatively and intricately; to fabricate.
- (transitive) To make (a path or way) by winding in and out or from side to side.
- (intransitive, of an animal) To move the head back and forth in a stereotyped pattern, typically as a symptom of stress.
- (transitive) To spin a cocoon or a web.
- (intransitive) To move by turning and twisting.
- interlace by or as if by weaving
- create a piece of cloth by interlacing strands of fabric, such as wool or cotton
- to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course
- sway from side to side
noun
verb
noun
- Material used for cloth selvage.
- (ropemaking) A piece of woollen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a worker.
- (computing, programming) 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.
- (tin-plate manufacture) The first thin coating of tin; a wire-like rim of tin left on an edge of the plate after it is coated.
- (in the plural, historical) The barriers or palisades used to fence off a space for jousting or tilting tournaments.
- A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth.
- A register or roll of paper consisting of a compilation or enumeration of a set of possible items; the compilation or enumeration itself.
- (nautical) A careening or tilting to one side, usually not intentionally or under a vessel's own power.
- (architecture) A tilt to a building.
- (architecture) A little square moulding; a fillet or listel.
- (in the plural, military, historical) 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.
- (carpentry) A narrow strip of wood, especially sapwood, cut from the edge of a board or plank.
- a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics)
- the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical
verb
- To give a building of architectural or historical interest listed status; see also the adjective listed.
- (transitive) To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; to stripe as if with list.
- (transitive, nautical) To cause (something) to tilt to one side.
- (transitive) To create or recite a list.
- (transitive) To place in listings.
- (intransitive, nautical) To tilt to one side.
- (intransitive, of a business) To trade on a particular stock exchange.
- (transitive) To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colours, or to form a border.
- (transitive, agriculture, chiefly Southern US) To prepare (land) for a cotton crop by making alternating beds and alleys with a hoe.
- (intransitive, poetic) To listen.
- (transitive, agriculture) To plough and plant with a lister.
- (transitive, military) To enclose (a field, etc.) for combat.
- (transitive, carpentry) To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of.
- (transitive, poetic) To listen to.
- give or make a list of; name individually; give the names of
- cause to lean to the side
- tilt to one side
- include in a list
- enumerate
noun
- The occupation of a draper; cloth-making, or dealing in cloth.
- Cloth, or woollen materials in general.
- (uncountable) Cloth draped gracefully in folds.
- (countable) A piece of cloth, hung vertically as a curtain; a drape.
- cloth gracefully draped and arranged in loose folds
- hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
noun
- (uncountable) A thick pile of fabric.
- (informal, uncountable) Human body hair, especially when abundant.
- (heraldry, countable) One of several patterns or diapers used as tinctures, such as ermine and vair.
- (countable) A furry, a member of the furry fandom.
- (uncountable) The layer of epithelial debris on a tongue.
- (uncountable) The hairy coat of various mammal species, especially when fine, soft and thick.
- (vulgar, slang, uncountable) Sexual attractiveness.
- (uncountable) The hairy skins of animals used as a material for clothing.
- (vulgar, slang, uncountable) Pubic hair.
- (uncountable) The deposit formed on the interior of boilers and other vessels by hard water.
- (countable) A garment made of fur.
- (hunting, uncountable) Rabbits and hares, as opposed to partridges and pheasants (called feathers).
- (uncountable) The soft, downy covering on the skin of a peach.
- (countable) An animal pelt used to make, trim or line clothing.
- a garment made of animal pelts or synthetic fur
- the dressed hairy coat of a mammal
- dense coat of fine silky hairs on mammals (e.g., cat or seal or weasel)
conj
prep
verb
noun
adj
- Of surpassing excellence; magnificent.
- Highly intelligent.
- Shining brightly.
- (of a voice or sound) Having a sharp, clear tone.
- (of a colour) Both bright and saturated.
- clear and sharp and ringing
- full of light; shining intensely
- having or marked by unusual and impressive intelligence
- characterized by grandeur
- having strong or striking color
- of surpassing excellence
verb
noun
- (basketry) A woven row supporting the foundation rods for the uprights of a basket.
- (uncountable) Disturbance or disruption.
- (mathematics) An upper set; a subset (X,≤) of a partially ordered set with the property that, if x is in U and x≤y, then y is in U.
- (automobile insurance) An overturn.
- (countable, sports, politics) An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win.
- (aviation) The dangerous situation where the flight attitude or airspeed of an aircraft is outside the designed bounds of operation, possibly resulting in loss of control.
- An upset stomach.
- a tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging
- an improbable and unexpected victory
- an unhappy and worried mental state
- the act of upsetting something
- the act of disturbing the mind or body
- a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning
adj
- (of a stomach or gastrointestinal tract) Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit.
- (of a person, predicative only) Angry, distressed, or unhappy
- used of an unexpected defeat of a team favored to win
- thrown into a state of disarray or confusion
- mildly physically distressed
- afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief
- having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom
verb
- To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.
- (transitive) To defeat unexpectedly.
- (intransitive) To be upset or knocked over.
- (transitive, basketry) To support with an upset (type of woven row).
- (transitive) To tip or overturn (something).
- (transitive) To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
- (metalworking) To thicken and shorten a soft or heated piece of metal, by forging or hammering on the end, to shape, for example, rivets or internal combustion engine valves.
- (transitive) To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).
- form metals with a swage
- disturb the balance or stability of
- cause to lose one's composure
- cause to overturn from an upright or normal position
- defeat suddenly and unexpectedly
- move deeply
noun
- (weaving) A contrivance used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely.
- A house of worship dedicated to a polytheistic faith.
- (figurative) Any place regarded as holding a religious presence.
- (figurative) Anything regarded as important or minutely cared for.
- (ophthalmology) Either of the sidepieces on a set of spectacles, extending backwards from the hinge toward the ears and, usually, turning down around them.
- (anatomy) The slightly flatter region, on either side of the head of a vertebrate, including a human, behind the eye and forehead, above the zygomatic arch, and forward of the ear.
- (Mormonism) As opposed to an LDS meetinghouse, a church closed to non-Mormons and necessary for particular rituals.
- A meeting house of the Oddfellows fraternity; its members.
- (figurative) A gesture wherein the forefingers are outstretched and touch pad to pad while the other fingers are clasped together.
- (figurative) Any place seen as an important centre for some activity.
- (Judaism) Synonym of synagogue, especially a non-Orthodox synagogue.
- the flat area on either side of the forehead
- place of worship consisting of an edifice for the worship of a deity
- an edifice devoted to special or exalted purposes
- (Judaism) the place of worship for a Jewish congregation
verb
noun
- a basket usually with a cover
- a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner)
- (nautical) Articles ordinarily indispensable, but in the way at certain times.
- (US) A wicker or plastic basket specifically for holding laundry (from clothes hamper).
- A shackle; a fetter; anything which impedes.
- A large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles or small animals.
- (UK) A gift basket.
verb
noun
- A rush for weaving baskets.
- Synonym of farasola (“old unit of weight”).
- A basket made of rushes, used chiefly to hold figs and raisins.
- The quantity of fruit or other items contained in a frail.
- the weight of a frail (basket) full of raisins or figs; between 50 and 75 pounds
- a basket for holding dried fruit (especially raisins or figs)
adj
- (medicine) In an infirm state leading one to be easily subject to disease or other health problems, especially regarding the elderly.
- Weak; infirm.
- Easily broken physically; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish.
- Mentally fragile.
- Liable to fall from virtue or be led into sin; not strong against temptation; weak in resolution; unchaste.
- wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings
- physically weak
- easily broken or damaged or destroyed
verb
noun
- A horizontal strand of material used in basket weaving.
- A person who weaves; especially, one who weaves cloth for a living.
- Any of certain fish of the family Pinguipedidae.
- Any of certain spider species, such as the sheet weaver or the funnel weaver, so named because they spin interesting and characteristic webs.
- An aquatic beetle of the genus Gyrinus.
- A weaverbird.
- finch-like African and Asian colonial birds noted for their elaborately woven nests
- a craftsman who weaves cloth
noun
noun
- A wheeled basket chiefly used in textile factories.
- (sugar manufacture) A charge of syrup in the pans.
- (informal) A song, typically one on an album, that is not worth listening to.
- A skipper; the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority.
- (radio) skywave propagation
- (video games) A trick allowing the player to proceed to a later section of the game without playing through a section that was intended to be mandatory.
- (Trinity College, Dublin, historical) A college servant.
- (Commonwealth, UK, Ireland) A large container for waste, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to remove it along with its contents, or to be picked up by hydraulic arms so that its contents can be dumped into the truck.
- (scouting, informal) The scoutmaster of a troop of scouts (youth organization).
- The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
- (Australia, slang) An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent.
- A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) A skep, or basket, such as a creel or a handbasket.
- (curling) The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.
- The captain of a sports team.
- (bowls) The captain of a bowls team, who directs the team's tactics and rolls the side's last wood, so as to be able to retrieve a difficult situation if necessary.
- (steelmaking) A skip car.
- (mining) A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.
- A beehive made of woven straw, wicker, etc.
- (slang) A skip-level manager; the boss of one's boss.
- (music) A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
- A leaping or jumping movement; the action of one who skips.
- a mistake resulting from neglect
- a gait in which steps and hops alternate
verb
- (intransitive) To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.
- (knitting, crochet) To pass by a stitch as if it were not there, continuing with the next stitch.
- (printing) To have insufficient ink transfer.
- To jump rope.
- To cause the stylus to jump back to the previous loop of the record's groove, continuously repeating that part of the sound, as a result of excessive scratching or wear. (of a phonograph record)
- To leap lightly over.
- (transitive) To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).
- (intransitive) To move by hopping on alternate feet.
- (intransitive) To leap about lightly.
- (transitive, informal) Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).
- (transitive, informal) To leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner.
- (transitive) To place an item in a skip (etymology 2, sense 1).
- (transitive) To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.
- intentionally fail to attend
- jump lightly
- leave suddenly
- bound off one point after another
- cause to skip over a surface
- bypass
noun
noun
- (ropemaking) A bundle of many threads to be tarred.
- The distance over which something is hauled or transported, especially if long.
- An act of hauling or pulling, particularly with force; a (violent) pull or tug.
- (Internet) Ellipsis of haul video (“video posted on the Internet consisting of someone showing and talking about recently purchased items”).
- An amount of something that has been taken, especially of fish, illegal loot, or items purchased on a shopping trip.
- (British, soccer) Four goals scored by one player in a game.
- the quantity that was caught
- the act of drawing or hauling something
verb
- (intransitive, nautical) Of the wind: to shift fore (more towards the bow).
- (transitive, figuratively) Followed by up: to summon to be disciplined or held answerable for something.
- (intransitive) To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked.
- (transitive) To draw or pull something heavy.
- (ambitransitive, nautical) To steer (a vessel) closer to the wind.
- (transitive) To transport by drawing or pulling, as with horses or oxen, or a motor vehicle.
- (intransitive, US, colloquial) To haul ass (“go fast”).
- (transitive) To carry or transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move.
- (transitive, figuratively) To drag, to pull, to tug.
- transport in a vehicle
- draw slowly or heavily
noun
- A wicker basket.
- The baby Jesus and the manger in a creche or nativity scene, consisting of statues of Mary, Joseph and various other characters such as the magi.
- (cribbage) The card game cribbage.
- A hovel, a roughly constructed building best suited to the shelter of animals but used for human habitation.
- (slang, sometimes African-American Vernacular) One’s residence, house or dwelling place, or usual place of resort.
- A confined space, such as a cage or office cubicle.
- (British) A bed for a child older than a baby.
- (cribbage) The cards discarded by players and used by the dealer.
- A small room or covered structure, especially one of rough construction, used for storage or penning animals.
- A bin for drying or storing grain, such as a corn crib.
- (US) A baby’s bed with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet.
- A boxy structure traditionally built of heavy wooden timbers, to support an existing structure from below, as with a mineshaft or a building being raised off its foundation in preparation for being moved; see cribbing.
- (nautical) A small sleeping berth in a packet or other small vessel.
- (slang) A cheat sheet or past test used by students; crib sheet.
- A manger, a feeding trough for animals elevated off the earth or floor, especially one for fodder such as hay.
- (southern New Zealand) A small holiday home, often near a beach and of simple construction.
- (now chiefly Australia, New Zealand) A snack or packed lunch, especially as taken to work to eat during a break.
- A literal translation, usually of a work originally in Latin or Ancient Greek.
- (Canada) A small raft made of timber.
- (cryptography) A known piece of information corresponding to a section of encrypted text, that is then used to work out the remaining sections.
- (usually in the plural) A collection of quotes or references for use in speaking, for assembling a written document, or as an aid to a project of some sort; a crib sheet.
- baby bed with high sides made of slats
- a bin or granary for storing grains
- a card game (usually for two players) in which each player is dealt six cards and discards one or two
- the cards discarded by players at cribbage
- a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly)
verb
- (intransitive, of a horse) To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind.
- To crowd together, or to be confined, as if in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
- To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
- (intransitive) To install timber supports, as with cribbing.
- (transitive) To collect one or more passages and/or references for use in a speech, written document or as an aid for some task; to create a crib sheet.
- (India) To complain, to grumble
- (transitive, informal) To plagiarize; to copy; to cheat.
- (transitive) To place or confine in a crib.
- (cryptography) To use a known piece of information corresponding to a section of encrypted text, to work out the remaining sections.
- use a crib, as in an exam
- take unauthorized (intellectual material)
- line with beams or planks
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- (dressmaking) Part of an item of clothing consisting of gathered fabric in a bunch.
- (historical) A headdress for women popular in 18th century France.
- Alternative form of puff
- A high hair style for women consisting of a roll or pad of hair, worn up.
- A short skirt gathered into a rounded puffy shape; a puffball.
- Alternative form of poof.
- A ball of fabric (such as nylon monofilament netting) used for washing (as an alternative to a flannel, washcloth, sponge, etc.).
- A low cushioned seat with no back; a padded footstool.
- offensive term for a homosexual man
- thick cushion used as a seat
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- (textiles) An attachment to a sewing machine for making gathers in the cloth.
- (glassblowing) A worker who collects molten glass on the end of a rod preparatory to blowing.
- A person who primarily gathers in a hunter-gatherer social system.
- (business) A person who collects rent or taxes.
- A person who gathers things.
- a person who gathers
- a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes)
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- The woof in woven fabrics.
- Prepared wort added to ale to cleanse it.
- The contents of a pie, etc.
- Anything that is used to fill something.
- (dentistry) Any material used to fill a cavity in a tooth or the result of using such material.
- (Protestantism) A religious experience attributed to the Holy Ghost "filling" a believer.
- flow into something (as a container)
- any material that fills a space or container
- (dentistry) a dental appliance consisting of any of various substances (as metal or plastic) inserted into a prepared cavity in a tooth
- the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving
- a food mixture used to fill pastry or sandwiches etc.
- the act of filling something
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- (transitive) To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another.
- (transitive) To unite by close connection or intermixture.
- (transitive) To compose creatively and intricately; to fabricate.
- (transitive) To make (a path or way) by winding in and out or from side to side.
- (intransitive, of an animal) To move the head back and forth in a stereotyped pattern, typically as a symptom of stress.
- (transitive) To spin a cocoon or a web.
- (intransitive) To move by turning and twisting.
- interlace by or as if by weaving
- create a piece of cloth by interlacing strands of fabric, such as wool or cotton
- to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course
- sway from side to side
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- Material used for cloth selvage.
- (ropemaking) A piece of woollen cloth with which the yarns are grasped by a worker.
- (computing, programming) 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.
- (tin-plate manufacture) The first thin coating of tin; a wire-like rim of tin left on an edge of the plate after it is coated.
- (in the plural, historical) The barriers or palisades used to fence off a space for jousting or tilting tournaments.
- A strip of fabric, especially from the edge of a piece of cloth.
- A register or roll of paper consisting of a compilation or enumeration of a set of possible items; the compilation or enumeration itself.
- (nautical) A careening or tilting to one side, usually not intentionally or under a vessel's own power.
- (architecture) A tilt to a building.
- (architecture) A little square moulding; a fillet or listel.
- (in the plural, military, historical) 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.
- (carpentry) A narrow strip of wood, especially sapwood, cut from the edge of a board or plank.
- a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics)
- the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical
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- To give a building of architectural or historical interest listed status; see also the adjective listed.
- (transitive) To cover with list, or with strips of cloth; to put list on; to stripe as if with list.
- (transitive, nautical) To cause (something) to tilt to one side.
- (transitive) To create or recite a list.
- (transitive) To place in listings.
- (intransitive, nautical) To tilt to one side.
- (intransitive, of a business) To trade on a particular stock exchange.
- (transitive) To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colours, or to form a border.
- (transitive, agriculture, chiefly Southern US) To prepare (land) for a cotton crop by making alternating beds and alleys with a hoe.
- (intransitive, poetic) To listen.
- (transitive, agriculture) To plough and plant with a lister.
- (transitive, military) To enclose (a field, etc.) for combat.
- (transitive, carpentry) To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of.
- (transitive, poetic) To listen to.
- give or make a list of; name individually; give the names of
- cause to lean to the side
- tilt to one side
- include in a list
- enumerate
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- The occupation of a draper; cloth-making, or dealing in cloth.
- Cloth, or woollen materials in general.
- (uncountable) Cloth draped gracefully in folds.
- (countable) A piece of cloth, hung vertically as a curtain; a drape.
- cloth gracefully draped and arranged in loose folds
- hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
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- (uncountable) A thick pile of fabric.
- (informal, uncountable) Human body hair, especially when abundant.
- (heraldry, countable) One of several patterns or diapers used as tinctures, such as ermine and vair.
- (countable) A furry, a member of the furry fandom.
- (uncountable) The layer of epithelial debris on a tongue.
- (uncountable) The hairy coat of various mammal species, especially when fine, soft and thick.
- (vulgar, slang, uncountable) Sexual attractiveness.
- (uncountable) The hairy skins of animals used as a material for clothing.
- (vulgar, slang, uncountable) Pubic hair.
- (uncountable) The deposit formed on the interior of boilers and other vessels by hard water.
- (countable) A garment made of fur.
- (hunting, uncountable) Rabbits and hares, as opposed to partridges and pheasants (called feathers).
- (uncountable) The soft, downy covering on the skin of a peach.
- (countable) An animal pelt used to make, trim or line clothing.
- a garment made of animal pelts or synthetic fur
- the dressed hairy coat of a mammal
- dense coat of fine silky hairs on mammals (e.g., cat or seal or weasel)
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- Of surpassing excellence; magnificent.
- Highly intelligent.
- Shining brightly.
- (of a voice or sound) Having a sharp, clear tone.
- (of a colour) Both bright and saturated.
- clear and sharp and ringing
- full of light; shining intensely
- having or marked by unusual and impressive intelligence
- characterized by grandeur
- having strong or striking color
- of surpassing excellence
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- (basketry) A woven row supporting the foundation rods for the uprights of a basket.
- (uncountable) Disturbance or disruption.
- (mathematics) An upper set; a subset (X,≤) of a partially ordered set with the property that, if x is in U and x≤y, then y is in U.
- (automobile insurance) An overturn.
- (countable, sports, politics) An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win.
- (aviation) The dangerous situation where the flight attitude or airspeed of an aircraft is outside the designed bounds of operation, possibly resulting in loss of control.
- An upset stomach.
- a tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging
- an improbable and unexpected victory
- an unhappy and worried mental state
- the act of upsetting something
- the act of disturbing the mind or body
- a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning
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- (of a stomach or gastrointestinal tract) Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit.
- (of a person, predicative only) Angry, distressed, or unhappy
- used of an unexpected defeat of a team favored to win
- thrown into a state of disarray or confusion
- mildly physically distressed
- afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief
- having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom
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- To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.
- (transitive) To defeat unexpectedly.
- (intransitive) To be upset or knocked over.
- (transitive, basketry) To support with an upset (type of woven row).
- (transitive) To tip or overturn (something).
- (transitive) To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
- (metalworking) To thicken and shorten a soft or heated piece of metal, by forging or hammering on the end, to shape, for example, rivets or internal combustion engine valves.
- (transitive) To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).
- form metals with a swage
- disturb the balance or stability of
- cause to lose one's composure
- cause to overturn from an upright or normal position
- defeat suddenly and unexpectedly
- move deeply
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- (weaving) A contrivance used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely.
- A house of worship dedicated to a polytheistic faith.
- (figurative) Any place regarded as holding a religious presence.
- (figurative) Anything regarded as important or minutely cared for.
- (ophthalmology) Either of the sidepieces on a set of spectacles, extending backwards from the hinge toward the ears and, usually, turning down around them.
- (anatomy) The slightly flatter region, on either side of the head of a vertebrate, including a human, behind the eye and forehead, above the zygomatic arch, and forward of the ear.
- (Mormonism) As opposed to an LDS meetinghouse, a church closed to non-Mormons and necessary for particular rituals.
- A meeting house of the Oddfellows fraternity; its members.
- (figurative) A gesture wherein the forefingers are outstretched and touch pad to pad while the other fingers are clasped together.
- (figurative) Any place seen as an important centre for some activity.
- (Judaism) Synonym of synagogue, especially a non-Orthodox synagogue.
- the flat area on either side of the forehead
- place of worship consisting of an edifice for the worship of a deity
- an edifice devoted to special or exalted purposes
- (Judaism) the place of worship for a Jewish congregation
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- a basket usually with a cover
- a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner)
- (nautical) Articles ordinarily indispensable, but in the way at certain times.
- (US) A wicker or plastic basket specifically for holding laundry (from clothes hamper).
- A shackle; a fetter; anything which impedes.
- A large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles or small animals.
- (UK) A gift basket.
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- To make cloth.
- To hang or rest limply.
- (transitive) To spread over, cover.
- To design drapery, arrange its folds, etc., as for hangings, costumes, statues, etc.
- (transitive) To cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery.
- To rail at; to banter.
- place casually
- cover as if with clothing
- cover or dress loosely with cloth
- arrange in a particular way
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- (US) A member of a youth subculture distinguished by its sharp dress, especially peg-leg pants (1950s: e.g. Baltimore, MD). Antonym: square.
- A curtain; a drapery.
- (textiles) The way in which fabric falls or hangs.
- A dress made from an entire piece of cloth, without having pieces cut away as in a fitted garment.
- hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
- the manner in which fabric hangs or falls
- a sterile covering arranged over a patient's body during a medical examination or during surgery in order to reduce the possibility of contamination
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- A bed covering consisting of two layers of fabric stitched together, with insulation between, often having a decorative design.
- A quilted skirt worn by women.
- A roll of material with sound-absorbing properties, used in soundproofing.
- (figurative) Something composed of a variety of stitched-together parts; a patchwork.
- bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together
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