rat
rit
shoot
recoil
punto
interscorer
scotch
run in
pique
snatch
upscore
drive
overwin
get back
knock
get even
decacuminated
took one for the team
cheaply
score-off
mark
runscoring
mucronulate
claut
whoopsy
on a roll
ace
notcher
convert
opener
prompt
stuff-up
donk
down
sin
semirant
nicking
dot down
repique
misstep
captain's try
misachievement
heartbreaker
tryscoring
get over
cross
beating
bonus
go over
kicking
concede
scrab
upset
touch down
run over
bridesmaid
extra point
trip
grift
point after
point after touchdown
cod
misstart
jump
weakness
slip
punch in
backgammon
goof
fault
failing
blob
drag
boo-boo
scrattle
goal
little Dick Fisher
on song
spurt
tad
shade
drawn
nibbed
touché
deficit
take someone's head off
balk
stot
major
adversary
mix-up
chopped
flyer
margin of victory
swindle
interscorer
decacuminated
mucronulate
down
upset
drawn
nibbed
chopped
cheaply
rat
rit
recoil
punto
snatch
upscore
drive
overwin
knock
score-off
mark
runscoring
whoopsy
notcher
opener
prompt
stuff-up
donk
sin
semirant
nicking
misstep
captain's try
misachievement
heartbreaker
tryscoring
beating
bonus
kicking
bridesmaid
extra point
trip
grift
point after
point after touchdown
cod
jump
weakness
slip
backgammon
goof
fault
failing
blob
boo-boo
goal
spurt
tad
shade
deficit
balk
stot
major
adversary
mix-up
flyer
margin of victory
swindle
rat
rit
shoot
scotch
run in
pique
get back
get even
took one for the team
claut
ace
convert
dot down
repique
upscore
get over
cross
go over
concede
scrab
touch down
run over
misstart
punch in
drag
scrattle
take someone's head off
noun
- A scratch or a score.
- Vagina.
- Any of the numerous members of several rodent families (e.g. voles and mice) that resemble true rats in appearance, usually having a pointy snout, a long, bare tail, and body length greater than about 12 cm, or 5 inches.
- A roll of material used to puff out the hair, which is turned over it.
- A scab: a worker who acts against trade union policies.
- A person who routinely spends time at a particular location.
- A ration.
- A person who is known for betrayal; a scoundrel; a quisling.
- A medium-sized rodent belonging to the genus Rattus.
- A place in the sea with rapid currents and crags where a ship is likely to be torn apart in stormy weather.
- A wad of shed hair used as part of a hairstyle.
- An informant or snitch.
verb
verb
- score
- hit with a missile from a weapon
- kill by firing a missile
- fire a shot; release
- make a film or photograph of something
- send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly
- run or move very quickly or hastily
- move quickly and violently
- throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective
- record on photographic film
- emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully
- cause a sharp and sudden pain in
- force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing
- variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors
- throw dice, as in a crap game
- spend frivolously and unwisely
- utter fast and forcefully
- measure the altitude of by using a sextant
- produce buds, branches, or germinate
- give an injection to
noun
noun
- A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking.
- The energy transmitted back to the shooter from a firearm which has fired. Recoil is a function of the weight of the weapon, the weight of the projectile, and the speed at which it leaves the muzzle.
- An escapement in which, after each beat, the scape-wheel recoils slightly.
- The state or condition of having recoiled.
verb
adj
verb
- To score (a try).
- To arrest; (especially) to track down and arrest.
- To insert (a word, etc.) without making a line break or new paragraph (so that it is not free-hanging).
- To use new machinery at less than full speed, preventing damage.
- To start a new regime slowly.
- To use new machinery at less than full speed, preventing damage. (transitive sense)
- To alter the position of matter to fill vacant space.
adj
verb
- To score a pique against (someone).
- To excite to action, especially by causing jealousy, resentment, etc.; also, to stimulate an emotion or feeling, especially curiosity or interest.
- To excite (someone) to action, especially by causing jealousy, resentment, etc.; also, to stimulate (an emotion or feeling, especially curiosity or interest).
- To pride (oneself) on something.
- To wound the pride of (someone); to excite to anger; to irritate, to offend.
- To take pride in.
noun
- Enmity, ill feeling; (countable) a feeling of animosity or a dispute.
- Irritation or resentment awakened by a social injury or slight; offence, especially taken in an emotional sense with little consideration or thought; (countable) especially in fit of pique: a transient feeling of wounded pride.
- In piquet, the right of the elder hand to count thirty in hand, or to play before the adversary counts one.
noun
- A quick grab or catch.
- A short period.
- A competitive weightlifting event in which a barbell is lifted from the platform to locked arms overhead in a smooth continuous movement.
- Rapid, uncommanded jerking or oscillation of the ailerons of some aircraft at high Mach numbers, resulting from shock wave formation at transonic speeds.
- The vulva.
- A piece of some sound, usually music or conversation.
verb
noun
- A straight level shot or pass.
- Planned, usually long-lasting, effort to achieve something; ability coupled with ambition, determination, and motivation.
- A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective.
- An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift.
- Desire or interest.
- A stroke made with a driver.
- An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk.
- An offensive possession, generally one consisting of several plays and/ or first downs, often leading to a scoring opportunity.
- An act of driving (prompting) livestock animals forward, to transport a herd.
- A driveway.
- A campaign aimed at selling more of a certain product, e.g. by offering a discount.
- A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.
- Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
- A trip made in a vehicle (now generally in a motor vehicle).
- A mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with the mechanism for storing data.
- An act of driving (prompting) game animals forward, to be captured or hunted.
- A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a vertical arc, through the line of the ball, and hitting it along the ground, normally between cover and midwicket.
- A mechanism used to power or give motion to a vehicle or other machine or machine part.
- A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive.
- A type of public roadway.
- A ball struck in a flat trajectory.
verb
- To provide an impetus for motion or other physical change, to move an object by means of the provision of force thereto.
- To cause intrinsic motivation through the application or demonstration of force: to impel or urge onward thusly, to compel to move on, to coerce, intimidate or threaten.
- To cause (a mechanism) to operate.
- To hit the ball with a drive.
- To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.
- To motivate; to provide an incentive for.
- To convey (a person, etc.) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.
- To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship).
- To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.
- To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
- To separate the lighter (feathers or down) from the heavier, by exposing them to a current of air.
- To move forcefully.
- To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
- To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).
- To move (something) by hitting it with great force.
- To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
- To operate (an aircraft).
- To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.
- To provide an impetus for a non-physical change, especially a change in one's state of mind.
- To cause animals to flee out of.
- To displace either physically or non-physically, through the application of force.
- (especially of animals) To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.
- To cause to become.
- To compel (to do something).
- To put together a drive (n.): to string together offensive plays and advance the ball down the field.
- To be the dominant party in a sex act.
noun
- A blow or setback.
- An abrupt rapping sound, as from an impact of a hard object against wood.
- A sharp impact.
- A batsman's innings.
- Preignition, a type of abnormal combustion occurring in spark ignition engines caused by self-ignition; also, the characteristic knocking sound associated with it.
- Synonym of hunger knock
- A criticism.
verb
noun
- A score for a sporting achievement.
- A particular design or make of an item (now usually with following numeral).
- A stamp or other indication of provenance, quality etc.
- A stone or post used to indicate position and guide travellers.
- A half pound, a traditional unit of mass equivalent to 226.8 g.
- A common, or area of common land, especially among early Germanic peoples.
- Importance, noteworthiness. (Generally in postmodifier “of mark”.)
- A catch of the ball directly from a kick of 10 metres or more without having been touched in transit, resulting in a free kick.
- A visible impression or sign; a blemish, scratch, or stain, whether accidental or intentional.
- A sign or brand on a person.
- A target for shooting at with a projectile.
- Other similar currencies notionally equal to a mark of silver or gold.
- The model number of a device; a device model.
- A specified level on a scale denoting gas-powered oven temperatures.
- An omen; a symptomatic indicator of something.
- A characteristic or essential attribute; a differential.
- An official note that is added to a record kept about someone's behavior or performance.
- The target or intended victim of a swindle, fixed game or con game.
- One of the bits of leather or coloured bunting placed upon a sounding line at intervals of from two to five fathoms. (The unmarked fathoms are called "deeps".)
- An indication or sign used for reference or measurement.
- Attention.
- Badge or sign of honour, rank, or official station.
- A characteristic feature.
- A written character or sign.
- A half pound, a former English and Scottish currency equivalent to 13 shillings and fourpence and notionally equivalent to a mark of sterling silver.
- The line indicating an athlete's starting-point.
- Similar half-pound units in other measurement systems, chiefly used for gold and silver.
- A score for finding the correct answer, or other academic achievement; the sum of such points gained as out of a possible total.
- Limit or standard of action or fact.
- A former currency of Germany and West Germany.
verb
- To choose or intend (someone) for a particular end or purpose.
- To identify (someone as a particular type of person or as having a particular role).
- To focus one's attention on (something or someone); to pay attention to, to take note of.
- To catch the ball directly from a kick of 15 metres or more without having been touched in transit, resulting in a free kick.
- To have a long-lasting negative impact on (someone or something).
- To put a mark on (something); to make (something) recognizable by a mark; to label or write on (something).
- To leave a mark (often an undesirable or unwanted one) on (something).
- To indicate (something) in writing or by other symbols.
- To be a point in time or space at which something takes place; to accompany or be accompanied by (an event, action, etc.); to coincide with.
- To create (a mark) on a surface.
- To hold (someone) in one's line of sight.
- To celebrate or acknowledge (an event) through an action of some kind.
- To indicate the correctness of and give a score to (a school assignment, exam answers, etc.).
- To record that (someone) has a particular status.
- To put a marker in the place of one's ball.
- To sing softly, sometimes an octave lower than usual, in order to protect one's voice during a rehearsal.
- To create an indication of (a location).
- To keep account of; to enumerate and register; to keep score.
- To assign (someone) to a particular category or class.
- To be an indication of (something); to show where (something) is located.
- To follow a player not in possession of the ball when defending, to prevent them receiving a pass easily.
- To be typical or characteristic of (something).
- To distinguish (one person or thing from another).
noun
verb
- To win a point by an ace.
- To pass (a test, interviews etc.) perfectly.
- To make an ace (hole in one).
adj
noun
- A hole in one.
- The ball marked with the number 1 in pool and related games.
- An expert at something; a maverick, genius; a person owning a "first rank" talent.
- A perfect score on a school exam.
- A dollar bill.
- A person who is asexual.
- A military aircraft pilot who is credited with shooting down many enemy aircraft, typically five or more.
- The best pitcher on the team.
- Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
- A card or die face so marked.
- A single point or spot on a playing card or die normally indicating it as the prime, i.e. first and forefront. (in playing cards, of that series)
- A point won by a single stroke, as in handball, rackets, etc.
- A very small quantity or degree; a particle; an atom; a jot.
- A serve won without the opponent hitting the ball.
verb
- To score a spare.
- To express (a quantity) in alternative units.
- To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another.
- To score extra points after (a try) by completing a conversion.
- To appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully; to commit the common law tort of conversion.
- To induce (someone) to adopt a particular religion, faith, ideology or belief (see also sense 11).
- To perform the action that an online advertisement is intended to induce; to reach the point of conversion.
- To undergo a conversion of religion, faith or belief (see also sense 3).
- To transform a material or positional advantage into a win.
- To become converted.
- To score (especially a penalty kick).
- To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.
- To express (a unit of measurement) in terms of another; to furnish a mathematical formula by which a quantity, expressed in the former unit, may be given in the latter.
- To increase one's individual score, especially from 50 runs (a fifty) to 100 runs (a century), or from a century to a double or triple century.
- To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product.
- To exchange for something of equal value.
noun
noun
- The first goal or point scored.
- A person who opens something.
- A device that opens something; specifically a tin-opener/can-opener, or a bottle opener.
- An establishment that opens.
- The player who starts the betting.
- The first act in a variety show or concert.
- A period of time when it is legal to commercially fish.
- Cards of sufficient value to enable a player to open the betting.
- A person employed to separate sheets of hot metal that become stuck together.
- A batsman who normally plays in the first two positions of an innings.
- The first game played in a competition.
- The first in a series of events, items etc.; the first remark or sentence of a conversation.
- A pitcher who specializes in getting the first outs of a game before being replaced, either by a long reliever or a pitcher who would normally start.
noun
noun
- A poor player who makes mistakes.
- A sub-genre of Scouse house music containing distinctive percussion sounds.
- dampness; moistness
- A dense mist or drizzle
- A fool.
- A car's engine.
- A donkey (the animal).
- A mouldy dampness; mouldiness
- A 1971 to 1976 Chevrolet Caprice or Impala that has been modified, usually by being raised and given bigger wheels.
verb
- To mess around, to play
- To provide a second person with a lift on a bicycle (formerly, on a horse), seating the passenger either in front (on the handlebar) or behind (sharing the seat); to travel as a passenger in such manner.
- To moisten; dampen
- To hit
- To drizzle
- To make a donk bet.
adj
adj
- Having a lower score than an opponent.
- Sad, unhappy, depressed, feeling low.
- Mechanically failed, collided, shot down, or otherwise suddenly unable to fly.
- Sick or ill.
- Negative about; hostile to.
- Comfortable with, accepting of.
- Wounded and unable to move normally, or killed.
- Facing downwards.
- Fallen or felled.
- At a lower level than before.
- Accepted, respected, or loyally participating in the (thug) community.
- Finished (of a task); defeated or dealt with (of an opponent or obstacle); elapsed (of time). Often coupled with to go (remaining).
- Out.
- Thoroughly practiced, learned or memorised; mastered. (Compare down pat.)
- Inoperable; out of order; out of service.
noun
- The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, such as the thistle.
- That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down.
- Down payment.
- A hill, especially a chalk hill; rolling grassland
- A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep.
- Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping bags and jackets.
- The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
- An act of swallowing an entire drink at once.
- A negative aspect; a downer, a downside.
- A clue whose solution runs vertically in the grid.
- A downstairs room of a two-story house.
- The lightest quark with a charge number of −¹⁄₃.
- A field, especially one used for horse racing.
- A single play, from the time the ball is snapped (the start) to the time the whistle is blown (the end) when the ball is down, or is downed.
verb
- To disparage; to put down.
- To drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing the liquid is empty.
- To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down; to fell.
- Specifically, to cause (something in the air) to fall to the ground; to bring down (with a missile etc.).
- To render (the ball) dead, typically by touching the ground while in possession.
- To lower; to put (something) down.
- To defeat; to overpower.
- To sink (a ball) into a hole or pocket.
- To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.
prep
- From one end to another of (in any direction); along.
- From the higher end to the lower of.
- At (a given place that is seen as removed from one's present location or other point of reference).
- From north to south of.
adv
- At or towards any place that is visualised as 'down' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
- So as to reduce size, weight or volume.
- From less to greater detail.
- So as to lessen quantity, level or intensity.
- Forward, straight ahead.
- In the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
- To the south (as south is at the bottom of typical maps).
- From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
- At a lower or further place or position along a set path.
- As a down payment.
- On paper (or in a durable record).
- Get down.
- Into a state of non-operation.
- To a subordinate or less prestigious position or rank.
- Towards the opponent's side (in ball-sports).
- Away from the city (regardless of direction).
- Used with verbs to indicate that the action of the verb was carried to some state of completion, permanence, or success rather than being of indefinite duration.
- From a remoter or higher antiquity.
- So as to secure or compress something to the floor, ground, or other (usually horizontal) surface.
verb
noun
verb
- To score a try.
- Of both batsmen, to pass each other when running between the wickets in order to score runs.
- To go from one side of (something) to the other.
- To travel in a direction or path that will intersect with that of another.
- To make the sign of the cross over oneself.
- To conduct a cross examination; to question a hostile witness.
- To write lines of text at right angles to and over the top of one another in order to save paper.ᵂ
- To cross-fertilize or crossbreed.
- To contradict (another) or frustrate the plans of.
- To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time.
- To stamp or mark (a cheque) in such a way as to prevent it being cashed, thus requiring it to be deposited into a bank account.
- To place across or athwart; to cause to intersect.
- To mark with an X.
- To lay or draw something across, such as a line.
- To make the sign of the cross over (something or someone).
- To pass the ball from one side of the pitch to the other side.
prep
adj
- Bad-tempered, angry, annoyed.
- Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged.
- Of the sea, having two wave systems traveling at oblique angles, due to the wind over shifting direction or the waves of two storm systems meeting.
- Transverse; lying across the main direction.
noun
- A difficult situation that must be endured.
- A place where roads intersect and lead off in four directions; a crossroad (common in UK and Irish place names such as Gerrards Cross).
- A hybrid of any kind.
- A monument that marks such a place. (Also common in UK or Irish place names such as Charing Cross)
- An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.
- A geometrical figure consisting of two straight lines or bars intersecting each other such that at least one of them is bisected by the other.
- Usually with the: the cross on which Christ was crucified.
- The act of going across; the act of passing from one side to the other
- A modified representation of the crucifixion stake, worn as jewellery or displayed as a symbol of religious devotion.
- A wooden post with a perpendicular beam attached and used (especially in the Roman Empire) to execute criminals (by crucifixion).
- The thirty-sixth Lenormand card.
- A hand gesture made in imitation of the shape of the Cross.
- Four edge cubies of one side that are in their right places, forming the shape of a cross.
- A pipe-fitting with four branches whose axes usually form a right angle.
- Any geometric figure having this or a similar shape, such as a cross of Lorraine or a Maltese cross.
- A hook thrown over the opponent's punch.
- A pass in which the ball is kicked from a side of the pitch to a position close to the opponent’s goal.
- crossfire.
- An animal or plant produced by crossbreeding or cross-fertilization.
- A line drawn across or through another line.
noun
- An addition to the player's score based on performance, e.g. for time remaining.
- An extra sum given as a premium, e.g. to an employee or to a shareholder.
- Something extra that is good; an added benefit.
- One or more free throws awarded to a team when the opposing team has accumulated enough fouls.
verb
noun
- A great loss or defeat; licking.
- The action of the verb to kick.
- A violent assault involving repeated kicks.
- A performance art that is a mix of dance footwork, acrobatic maneuver, and martial arts kicks, drawn from a variety of disciplines. Used in stage dance choreography and staged fight choreography.
adj
adj
- used of an unexpected defeat of a team favored to win
- afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief
- thrown into a state of disarray or confusion
- mildly physically distressed
- having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom
noun
- an unhappy and worried mental state
- the act of disturbing the mind or body
- a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning
- a tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging
- the act of upsetting something
- an improbable and unexpected victory
verb
verb
- To score a try.
- To have rotation in such direction that the crank pin traverses the upper, or front, half of its path in the forward, or outward, stroke; said of a crank which drives, or is driven by, a reciprocating piece.
- To cross by running.
- To overflow.
- To exceed the allotted time.
- To drive over, causing injury or death.
- To describe briefly; to summarize or recapitulate.
- To rehearse quickly.
noun
- A stumble or misstep.
- A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip.
- A journey; an excursion or jaunt.
- A trip-switch or cut-out.
- Intense involvement in or enjoyment of a condition.
- A flock of wigeons.
- A period of time in which one experiences drug-induced reverie or hallucinations.
- The act of tripping someone, or causing them to lose their footing.
- A single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to windward.
- A mechanical cutout device.
- A faux pas, a social error.
adj
verb
- To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free.
- To fall over or stumble over an object as a result of striking it with one's foot
- To activate or set in motion, as in the activation of a trap, explosive, or switch.
- To be activated, as by a signal or an event
- To cause (a person or animal) to fall or stumble by knocking their feet from under them.
- To become unreasonably upset, especially over something unimportant; to cause a scene or a disruption.
- To pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it.
- To be guilty of a misstep or mistake; to commit an offence against morality, propriety, etc
- To experience a state of reverie or to hallucinate, due to consuming psychoactive drugs.
- To journey, to make a trip.
noun
- A joke or an imitation.
- The Atlantic cod, Gadus morhua.
- The cocoon of a silkworm.
- Other not closely related fish which are similarly important to regional fisheries, as the hapuku and cultus cod.
- The sea fish of the family Gadidae which are sold as "cod", as haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) and whiting (usually Merlangius merlangus).
- The meat of any of the above fish
- Other not closely related fish which resemble the Atlantic cod, as the rock cod (Lotella rhacina) and blue cod (Parapercis colias).
- A stupid or foolish person.
- The sea fish of the genus Gadus generally, as inclusive of the Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus) and Greenland cod (Gadus ogac or Gadus macrocephalus ogac).
verb
adj
noun
- An early start or an advantage.
- An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
- An object which causes one to jump; a ramp.
- An abrupt increase in the height of the surface of a flowing liquid at the location where the flow transitions from supercritical to subcritical, involving an abrupt reduction in flow speed and increase in turbulence.
- A kind of loose jacket for men.
- An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body.
- A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) used to make a video game character jump (propel itself upwards).
- A jumping move in a board game.
- An effort; an attempt; a venture.
- A change of the path of execution to a different location.
- An instance of propelling oneself upwards.
- A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured interval of the discontinuity.
- An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location.
- An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly.
- An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.
- A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.
- An instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from ordinary space.
- Synonym of one-night stand (“single evening's performance”)
- The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.
verb
- To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap.
- To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
- To bore with a jumper.
- To increase the height of a tower crane by inserting a section at the base of the tower and jacking up everything above it.
- To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.
- To jump-start a car or other vehicle with a dead battery, as with jumper cables.
- To attack suddenly and violently.
- To move the distance between two opposing subjects.
- To cause to jump.
- To employ a move in certain board games where one game piece is moved from one legal position to another passing over the position of another piece.
- To engage in sexual intercourse with (a person).
- To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.
- To increase speed aggressively and without warning.
- To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound) by jerking the body violently.
- To join by a buttweld.
- To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.
- To increase sharply, to rise, to shoot up.
- To move to a position (in a queue/line) that is further forward.
- To start executing code from a different location, rather than following the program counter.
noun
- A mistake or error.
- A number between 0 and 1 that is the difference between the angular speed of a rotating magnetic field and the angular speed of its rotor, divided by the angular speed of the magnetic field.
- A fish, the sole.
- A woman's undergarment worn under a skirt or dress to conceal unwanted nudity that may otherwise be revealed by the skirt or dress itself; a shift.
- An escape; a secret or unexpected desertion.
- A young person (now usually with of introducing descriptive qualifier).
- The motion of the centre of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an oar, through the water horizontally, or the difference between a vessel's actual speed and the speed it would have if the propelling instrument acted upon a solid; also, the velocity, relatively to still water, of the backward current of water produced by the propeller.
- The difference between the actual and synchronous speeds of an induction motor.
- A slipway.
- A dislocation of a lead, destroying continuity.
- A small piece of paper, especially one longer than it is wide, typically a form for writing on or one giving printed information.
- Any of several fielding positions to the off side of the wicket keeper, designed to catch the ball after being deflected from the bat; a fielder in that position (See first slip, second slip, third slip, fourth slip and fifth slip.)
- A twig or shoot; a cutting.
- A particular quantity of yarn.
- Matter found in troughs of grindstones after the grinding of edge tools.
- A thin, slippery mix of clay and water.
- A slipdress.
- An act or instance of slipping.
- The positional displacement in a sequence of transmitted symbols that causes the loss or insertion of one or more symbols.
- A long, thin piece of something.
- A difference between the theoretical distance traveled per revolution of the propeller and the actual advance of the vessel.
- A memorandum of the particulars of a risk for which a policy is to be executed. It usually bears the broker's name and is initiated by the underwriters.
- A long seat or narrow pew in churches, often without a door.
- An outside covering or case.
- A one-time return to previous maladaptive behaviour after cure.
- A leash or string by which a dog is held; so called from its being made in such a manner as to slip, or become loose, by relaxation of the hand.
- A berth; a space for a ship to moor.
verb
- To release (a dog, a bird of prey, etc.) to go after a quarry.
- To cause to slip or slide off, or out of place.
- To cut slips from; to cut; to take off; to make a slip or slips of.
- To move down; to slide.
- To bring forth (young) prematurely; to slink.
- To accidentally reveal a secret or otherwise say something unintentional.
- To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.
- To pass (a note, money, etc.), often covertly.
- To lose one’s traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction.
- To err.
- To move quickly and often secretively; to depart, withdraw, enter, appear, intrude, or escape as if by sliding.
- To move or fly (out of place); to shoot; often with out, off, etc.
- To remove the skin of a soft fruit, such as a tomato or peach, by blanching briefly in boiling water, then transferring to cold water so that the skin peels, or slips, off easily.
- To cause (a schedule or release, etc.) to go, or let it go, beyond the allotted deadline.
noun
- {{lb|en|backgammon}} A victory in the game when the loser has not borne off a stone, and still has one or more stones in the winner's inner home row or on the bar.
- A board game for two players in which each has 15 stones which move between 24 triangular points according to the roll of a pair of dice; the object is to move all of one's pieces around, and bear them off the board.
verb
noun
- A mistake or error.
- A characteristic, positive or negative or both, which subjects a person or thing to increased risk of danger.
- In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam.
- An illegal serve.
- A lost scent; act of losing the scent.
- Blame; the responsibility for a mistake.
- A fracture in a rock formation causing a discontinuity.
- A weakness of character; a failing.
- A minor offense.
- A defect; something that detracts from perfection.
- An abnormal connection in a circuit.
verb
noun
- A score of zero.
- A small freshwater fish (Cottus bairdii); the miller's thumb.
- A shapeless or amorphous mass; a vague shape or amount, especially of a liquid or semisolid substance; a clump, group or collection that lacks definite shape.
- A large cloud of gas.
- The partially inflated air bag used in the sport of blobbing.
- A bubble; a bleb.
verb
verb
- To hit or kick off target.
- To act or proceed slowly or without enthusiasm; to be reluctant.
- To roast, say negative things about, or call attention to the flaws of (someone).
- To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
- To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty.
- To break (land) by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow.
- To play at a slower tempo than one is supposed to or than the other musicians one is playing with, or to inadvertently gradually decrease tempo while one is playing.
- To perform as a drag queen or drag king.
- To operate a pointing device by moving it with a button held down; to move, copy, etc. (an item) in this way.
- To unintentionally rub or scrape on a surface.
- To draw along (something burdensome); hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
- To search for something, as a lost object or body, by dragging something along the bottom of a body of water.
- To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
- To search exhaustively, as if with a dragnet.
- To fish with a dragnet.
noun
- A men's party attended in women's clothing.
- A long open horse-drawn carriage with transverse or side seats.
- A heavy harrow for breaking up ground.
- A skid or shoe for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel.
- The bottom part of a sand casting mold.
- A double drum-stroke played at twice the speed of the context in which it is placed.
- Someone or something that is annoying or frustrating, or disappointing; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.
- A device for guiding wood to the saw.
- A prison sentence of three months.
- A device dragged along the bottom of a body of water in search of something, e.g. a dead body, or in fishing.
- A puff on a cigarette or joint.
- The last position in a line of hikers.
- A systematic search for someone over a wide area, especially by the authorities; a dragnet.
- Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged.
- The scent-path left by dragging a fox, or some other substance such as aniseed, for training hounds to follow scents.
- Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; especially, a canvas bag with a hooped mouth (drag sail), so used.
- Street, as in 'main drag'.
- A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
- A push somewhat under the centre of the cue ball, causing it to follow the object ball a short way.
- Any force acting in opposition to the motion of an object.
- A large amount of backspin on the cue ball, causing the cue ball to slow down.
- Witch house music.
- A kind of sledge for conveying heavy objects; also, a kind of low car or handcart.
- The bottom part of a flask or mould, the upper part being the cope.
- The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel.
- A mailcoach.
- Resistance of a fluid to something moving through it.
- Any type of clothing or costume associated with a particular occupation or subculture.
- Men's clothing worn by women for the purpose of entertainment.
- A pulled load.
- Women's clothing worn by men for the purpose of entertainment.
noun
- a successful attempt at scoring
- the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it
- the place designated as the end (as of a race or journey)
- game equipment consisting of the place toward which players of a game try to advance a ball or puck in order to score points
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noun
- a slight amount or degree of difference
- relative darkness caused by light rays being intercepted by an opaque body
- a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color
- protective covering that protects something from direct sunlight
- a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude
- a position of relative inferiority
- a mental representation of some haunting experience
- a representation of the effect of shadows in a picture or drawing (as by shading or darker pigment)
- a protective ornamental covering for a lamp, used to screen a light bulb from direct view
verb
noun
- A hindrance or disappointment; a check.
- Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when laid so as to form a loft, "the balks".
- The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation.
- The area of the table lying behind the baulk line.
- A sudden and obstinate stop.
- The rope by which fishing nets are fastened together.
- The area of the table lying behind the line from which the cue ball is initially shot, and from which a ball in hand must be played.
- An illegal motion by the pitcher, intended to deceive a runner.
- A motion used to deceive the opponent during a serve.
- An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing.
verb
- To refuse suddenly.
- To stop short and refuse to go on.
- To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.
- To omit, miss, or overlook by chance.
- To leave or make balks in.
- To make a deceptive motion to deceive another player.
- To stop, check, block.
- To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring.
- To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.
- To disappoint; to frustrate.
noun
- A touchdown, or major score.
- A large, commercially successful company, especially a record label that is bigger than an indie.
- An officer in charge of a section of band instruments, used with a modifier.
- A system of change-ringing using eight bells.
- The principal subject or course of a student working toward a degree at a college or university.
- A student at a college or university specializing on a given area of study.
- A rank of officer in the army and the US air force, between captain and lieutenant colonel.
- A goal.
- A person of legal age.
- A large leaf-cutter ant that acts as a soldier, defending the nest.
verb
adj
- Prominent or significant in size, amount, or degree.
- Equivalent to that between the tonic and another note of a major scale, and greater by a semitone than the corresponding minor interval.
- Having a major third above the root.
- Of or relating to a subject of academic study chosen as a field of specialization.
- Bell changes rung on eight bells.
- Containing the major term in a categorical syllogism.
- Greater in dignity, rank, importance, significance, or interest.
- Of full legal age, having attained majority.
- Greater in number, quantity, or extent.
- (of a key) Based on a major scale, tending to produce a bright or joyful effect.
- Involving great risk, serious, life-threatening.
- Occurring as the predicate in the conclusion of a categorical syllogism.
- Notable or conspicuous in effect or scope.
- Having intervals of a semitone between the third and fourth, and seventh and eighth degrees.
noun
- A leap or jump.
- A person who is lifted and/or thrown by another person or persons.
- That which flies, as a bird or insect.
- A machine that flies.
- A leaflet, often for advertising.
- The part of a spinning machine that twists the thread as it takes it to and winds it on the bobbin
- A risky investment or other venture.
- A fast-moving person or thing.
- A false start
- An arch that connects a flying buttress into the structure it supports.
- A stray shot away from the group on a target.
- A person who travels by airplane.
- A standard rectangular step of a staircase (as opposed to a winder).
- A female kangaroo; a roo; a doe; a jill.
verb
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