stroke
poussette
kineto-
force
push
underpush
grab
activity
zigzagging
pulling
drive
pull
worrying
retreat
pass
muscle
mandrel
move
tractile
action
platen
lever
rub
-kinesis
walk
maneuver
countermotion
cantilevering
engineering
sideways
crabwise
scoopingly
clawingly
head
tractive
time
single-handedness
trajectory
immobilizing
dynamics
birr
moment of force
tribology
immobilisation
immobilization
moment
one-handedness
snaking
stimulation
tugging
wrench
countermaneuver
pushing
pulley
manipulation
subduction
radial velocity
play
hammer
drawing
driving force
handling
shovel
harvest
kinetic art
beway
hunching
tropo-
business end
pivot
step
catch
prize
strain
compound control
two-body problem
puller
militate
flexibilization
hold
slashy
impression
crowbar
translative
dyneme
by the strong hand
mechanic
slowplay
swivelling
psychokinetic
inwicking
drift
swing
underhand
tractile
sideways
crabwise
tractive
slashy
translative
mechanic
psychokinetic
scoopingly
clawingly
underhand
stroke
poussette
underpush
activity
zigzagging
pulling
pull
worrying
retreat
pass
mandrel
move
action
platen
lever
maneuver
countermotion
cantilevering
engineering
head
single-handedness
trajectory
immobilizing
dynamics
birr
moment of force
tribology
immobilisation
immobilization
moment
one-handedness
push
snaking
stimulation
tugging
wrench
pushing
pulley
manipulation
subduction
radial velocity
play
hammer
drawing
driving force
handling
shovel
harvest
kinetic art
beway
hunching
business end
pivot
step
compound control
two-body problem
puller
flexibilization
hold
impression
dyneme
slowplay
swivelling
inwicking
drift
swing
force
push
grab
drive
muscle
rub
walk
time
countermaneuver
catch
prize
strain
militate
crowbar
noun
- A single movement with a tool; also, an impact of a tool on an object.
- One of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or upon it is accomplished.
- In Unicode: the formal name of the individual horizontal strikethroughs (as in "A̶").
- A flattering or friendly act, comment, etc., done or made to a person to influence them.
- The action of hitting the ball with the bat; a shot.
- A masterful or effective action.
- The oblique, slash, or virgule ("/").
- The movement of an oar or paddle through water, either the pull which actually propels the boat, or a single entire cycle of movement including the pull; also, the manner in which such movements are made; a rowing style.
- A beat or throb, as of the heart or pulse.
- An act of striking with a weapon; a blow.
- A single act of striking at the ball with a club; also, at matchplay, a shot deducted from a player's score at a hole as a result of a handicapping system.
- An act causing hurt or death, especially when seen as divine punishment.
- A point awarded to a player in case of interference or obstruction by the opponent.
- A gesture of assurance given as encouragement; specifically (psychoanalysis) in transactional analysis: a (generally positive) reaction expressed to a person which fulfils their desires or needs.
- A line making up a written character; specifically, a Chinese, Japanese, or Korean character.
- A damaging occurrence, especially if sudden; a blow, a calamity.
- A specific combination of movements of the arms and legs which, when repeated, causes the swimmer to advance through the water; also, the manner in which such movements are made; a swimming style.
- A movement of a brush in painting, of a chisel in carving, of a pen, pencil, or such implement in drawing or writing, etc., in one direction; hence, a line or mark made on a surface by such an implement.
- The hitting of a ball with a racket; also, the movement of the racket and arm that produces that impact.
- An act of hitting; a blow, a hit.
- An act, or the sound, of the clapper or hammer of a clock hitting a bell or other striking mechanism; hence, the time when such a strike occurs.
- An act of moving one's hand or an object along a surface in one direction, touching it lightly; a caress.
- A thrust of the penis during sexual intercourse.
- A single movement or thrust of a part (such as a piston) of a machine that moves back and forth; also, the length of this movement.
- The loss of brain function arising when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted.
- An amount of work; specifically, a large amount of business or work.
- A distinctive expression in a written composition; a touch.
- A powerful or sudden effort by which something is done or produced; also, something accomplished by such an effort; an achievement, a feat.
- The rower who is nearest the stern of the boat, the movement of whose oar sets the rowing rhythm for the other rowers; also, the position in the boat occupied by this rower.
- An individual discharge of lightning, particularly if causing damage.
verb
- To move one's hand or an object (such as a broom or brush) along (a surface) in one direction, touching it lightly; to caress.
- Chiefly followed by out: to suffer loss of brain function when the blood supply to the brain is suddenly interrupted; to have a stroke (noun sense 4).
- Followed by out or through: to draw a line or lines through (text) to indicate that it is deleted; to cancel, to strike or strike out.
- To strike (the water) with one's arms and legs when swimming.
- To swim by making co-ordinated movements with the arms and legs.
- To give assurance to (someone) through encouragement.
- To give a finely fluted surface to (stone) by carving it with a tool.
- To milk (a cow or other animal); especially, to squeeze the teat of (a cow, etc.) to extract the last bit of milk from the udder; to strap (dialectal), to strip.
- Of a rower or a crew: to row at (a rate of a certain number of strokes (“movements of the oar through water”) per minute).
- To draw the horizontal line across the upright part (of the letter t).
- To bring (something) to a certain condition by stroking (sense 1).
- To influence (someone) by convincing or flattering them.
- To act as the stroke (“rower who is nearest the stern of the boat, the movement of whose oar sets the rowing rhythm for the other rowers”) of (a boat or its crew).
- To mark (something) with lines or stripes; to stripe.
- To hit or kick (the ball) with a flowing or smooth motion; also, to score (a goal, a point, etc.) by doing so.
- Of a bell or clock: to chime or sound to indicate (the hour, the time, etc.).
prefix
verb
- move with force
- to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means
- urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate
- impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably
- squeeze like a wedge into a tight space
- force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically
- do forcibly; exert force
- take by force
noun
- a powerful effect or influence
- (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity
- physical energy or intensity
- group of people willing to obey orders
- a unit that is part of some military service
- an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists)
- one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority
- a group of people having the power of effective action
- (of a law) having legal validity
- a putout of a base runner who is required to run; the putout is accomplished by holding the ball while touching the base to which the runner must advance before the runner reaches that base
verb
- move with force
- press, drive, or impel (someone) to action or completion of an action
- make publicity for; try to sell (a product)
- strive and make an effort to reach a goal
- press against forcefully without moving
- approach a certain age or speed
- exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for
- sell or promote the sale of (illegal goods such as drugs)
- move strenuously and with effort
- make strenuous pushing movements during birth to expel the baby
noun
noun
- Something done as an action or a movement.
- The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that change over time and have no natural end point.
- Something done for pleasure or entertainment, especially one involving movement or an excursion.
- The state or quality of being active; activeness.
- The number of radioactive decays per unit time. Unit for it: becquerel or curie
- The propery of substances to react with other substances
verb
- move by being propelled by a force
- operate or control a vehicle
- travel or be transported in a vehicle
- cause someone or something to move by driving
- force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically
- to compel or force or urge relentlessly or exert coercive pressure on, or motivate strongly
- cause to move back by force or influence
- compel somebody to do something, often against his own will or judgment
- push, propel, or press with force
- cause to move rapidly by striking or throwing with force
- strive and make an effort to reach a goal
- move into a desired direction of discourse
- have certain properties when driven
- work as a driver
- urge forward
- proceed along in a vehicle
- strike with a driver, as in teeing off
- hit very hard, as by swinging a bat horizontally
- excavate horizontally
- cause to function by supplying the force or power for or by controlling
- (hunting) search for game
- (hunting) chase from cover into more open ground
noun
- the act of applying force to propel something
- a mechanism by which force or power is transmitted in a machine
- a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
- a road leading up to a private house
- the trait of being highly motivated
- hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver
- the act of driving a herd of animals overland
- a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile)
- a physiological state corresponding to a strong need or desire
- (computer science) a device that writes data onto or reads data from a storage medium
- a wide scenic road planted with trees
- (sports) a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash)
noun
- the act of pulling; applying force to move something toward or with you
- the force used in pulling
- special advantage or influence
- a device used for pulling something
- a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments
- a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke)
- a sustained effort
verb
- cause to move by pulling
- direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes
- move into a certain direction
- apply force so as to cause motion towards the source of the motion
- perform an act, usually with a negative connotation
- bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover
- steer into a certain direction
- strain abnormally
- cause to move in a certain direction by exerting a force upon, either physically or in an abstract sense
- operate when rowing a boat
- rein in to keep from winning a race
- tear or be torn violently
- hit in the direction that the player is facing when carrying through the swing
- strip of feathers
- remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense
- take sides with; align oneself with; show strong sympathy for
- take away
noun
- The move of a piece from a threatened position.
- A peaceful, quiet place affording privacy or security.
- The act of reversing direction and receding from a forward position.
- A bugle call or drumbeat signaling the lowering of the flag at sunset, as on a military base.
- A military ceremony to lower the flag.
- A period of retirement, seclusion, or solitude.
- A period of meditation, prayer or study.
- The act of pulling back or withdrawing, as from something dangerous, or unpleasant.
- A signal for a military withdrawal.
- Withdrawal by military force from a dangerous position or from enemy attack.
verb
noun
- A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
- A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
- Success in an examination or similar test.
- Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
- An intentional walk.
- The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.
- A sexual advance.
- An attempt.
- A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
- A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission
- The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
- A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other overtake it.
- A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
- The act of overtaking; an overtaking manoeuvre.
- The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
- An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier such as a mountain range; a passageway; a defile; a ford.
- A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).
- A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
- A thrust; a sally of wit.
- An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
verb
- To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another.
- To depart, to cease, to come to an end.
- To spend.
- To go from one person to another.
- To put through a sieve.
- To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do".
- To reject; to pass up.
- To happen.
- In turn-based games, to decline to play in one's turn.
- To proceed without hindrance or opposition.
- To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
- To utter; to pronounce; to pledge.
- To die.
- To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.
- In euchre, to decline to make the trump.
- To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
- To put in circulation; to give currency to.
- To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
- To decline something that is offered or available.
- To move or be moved from one place to another.
- To change from one state to another (without the implication of progression).
- To continue.
- To elapse, to be spent.
- To progress from one state to another; to advance.
- To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.
- To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just.
- To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate.
- To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
- To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
- To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes.
- To be accepted by others as a member of a race, sex, or other group to which one does not belong or would not have originally appeared to belong; especially to be considered white although one has black ancestry, or a woman although one was assigned male at birth or vice versa.
- To make a lunge or swipe.
- To throw the ball, generally downfield, towards a teammate.
- To decline or not attempt to answer a question.
- To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to become valid or effective; to obtain the formal sanction of (a legislative body).
- To make a judgment on or upon a person or case.
- To achieve a successful outcome from.
- To go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past.
noun
- A tool or component of a tool that guides, grips or clamps something, such as a workpiece to be machined, a machining tool or a part while it is moved.
- A round object used as an aid for shaping a material, e.g. shaping or enlarging a ring, or bending or enlarging a pipe without creasing or kinking it.
noun
- The act of moving; a movement.
- The event of changing one's residence.
- A change in strategy.
- A round, in which each player has a turn.
- The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules of the game.
- An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
- A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
- A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand combat, etc.
verb
- To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another
- To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion, to excite (for example, an emotion).
- To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to influence.
- To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and live at another place. See also move out and move in.
- To request an action from the court.
- To transfer (a piece) from one space or position on the board to another.
- To sell or market (especially physical inventory or illicit drugs).
- To change place or posture; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another.
- To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration and determination, in a deliberative assembly; to submit
- To act; to take action; to begin to act
noun
- A way of motion or functioning.
- Something done, often so as to accomplish a purpose.
- A religious performance or solemn function, i.e. action sermon, a sacramental sermon in the Scots Presbyterian Church.
- The mechanism, that is the set of moving mechanical parts, of a keyboard instrument, like a piano, which transfers the motion of the key to the sound-making device.
- The effort of performing or doing something.
- a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings).
- The way in which a mechanical device acts when used; especially a firearm.
- Fast-paced activity.
- The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem, or other composition; the unfolding of the drama of events.
- The distance separating the strings and the fretboard on a guitar or other string instrument.
- A charge or other process in a law court (also called lawsuit and actio).
- A mapping from a pairing of mathematical objects to one of them, respecting their individual structures. The pairing is typically a Cartesian product or a tensor product. The object that is not part of the output is said to act on the other object. In any given context, action is used as an abbreviation for a more fully named notion, like group action or left group action.
- The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive of the sentiment or passion depicted.
- Sexual intercourse.
- Combat.
- spin put on the bowling ball.
- The product of energy and time, especially the product of the Lagrangian and time.
- The way in which cartridges are loaded, locked, and extracted from the mechanism.
adj
intj
verb
noun
- The movable table of a planer or other machine tool, on which the work is fastened, and presented to the action of the tool.
- The part of a typewriter or printer on which the paper rests to receive an impression.
- The part of a printing press which presses the paper against the type and by which the impression is made.
- The flat glass surface of a scanner or photocopier on which operators place items to be scanned.
noun
- An arm on a rock shaft, to give motion to the shaft or to obtain motion from it.
- A bar, as a capstan bar, applied to a rotatory piece to turn it.
- A levee.
- A rigid piece which is capable of turning about one point, or axis (the fulcrum), and in which are two or more other points where forces are applied; — used for transmitting and modifying force and motion.
- A small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device (like a button).
- Specifically, a bar of metal, wood or other rigid substance, used to exert a pressure, or sustain a weight, at one point of its length, by receiving a force or power at a second, and turning at a third on a fixed point called a fulcrum. It is usually named as the first of the six mechanical powers, and is of three kinds, according as either the fulcrum F, the weight W, or the power P, respectively, is situated between the other two, as in the figures.
verb
verb
- To move (one object) while maintaining contact with another object over some area, with pressure and friction.
- To scour; to burnish; to polish; to brighten; to cleanse; often with up or over.
- To hinder; to cross; to thwart.
- To touch the jack with the bowl.
- To be rubbed against something.
- To rub something against (a second thing).
- To spread a substance thinly over; to smear.
noun
suffix
verb
- To move something by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
- To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
- To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
- To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, such as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person.
- To walk off the field, as if given out, after the fielding side appeals and before the umpire has ruled; done as a matter of sportsmanship when the batsman believes he is out.
- To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.
- To leave, resign.
- To put, keep, or train (a puppy) in a walk, or training area for dogfighting.
- To move a guest to another hotel if their confirmed reservation is not available on day of check-in.
- To operate the left and right throttles of (an aircraft) in alternation.
- To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the case of animals with four or more feet) forward, with at least one foot on the ground at all times. Compare run.
- To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
- To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
- Of an object, to go missing or be stolen.
- To travel (a distance) by walking.
- To full; to beat cloth to give it the consistency of felt.
- To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty.
noun
- A situation where all players fold to the big blind, as their first action (instead of calling or raising), once they get their cards.
- A distance walked.
- A sequence of alternating vertices and edges, where each edge's endpoints are the preceding and following vertices in the sequence.
- Something very easily accomplished; a walk in the park.
- A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.
- An Olympic Games track event requiring that the heel of the leading foot touch the ground before the toe of the trailing foot leaves the ground.
- A trip made by walking.
- An award of first base to a batter following four balls being thrown by the pitcher; known in the rules as a "base on balls".
- In coffee, coconut, and other plantations, the space between them.
- A place for keeping and training puppies for dogfighting.
- An enclosed area in which a gamecock is confined to prepare him for fighting.
- A person's conduct or course in life.
- An area of an estate planted with fruit-bearing trees.
- A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk.
noun
- A movement of the body, or with an implement, instrument etc., especially one performed with skill or dexterity.
- A controlled (especially skillful) movement taken while steering a vehicle.
- The planned movement of troops, vehicles etc.; a strategic repositioning; (later also) a large training field-exercise of fighting units.
- A specific medical or surgical movement, often eponymous, done with the doctor's hands or surgical instruments.
- Any strategic or cunning action; a stratagem.
verb
noun
- Actions controling the motion, shape, and/or substance of any physical object(s).
- The application of mathematics and the physical sciences to the needs of humanity and the development of technology.
- Designates office area of the professional engineering staff.
- The area aboard a ship where the engine is located.
noun
- the striking part of a tool
- the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains
- a single domestic animal
- that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason
- a person who is in charge
- the front of a military formation or procession
- the pressure exerted by a fluid
- the top of something
- the source of water from which a stream arises
- (grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent
- the tip of an abscess (where the pus accumulates)
- the length or height based on the size of a human or animal head
- a dense cluster of flowers or foliage
- the educator who has executive authority for a school
- an individual person
- a user of (usually soft) drugs
- a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea)
- a rounded compact mass
- the foam or froth that accumulates at the top when you pour an effervescent liquid into a container
- the part in the front or nearest the viewer
- a difficult juncture
- forward movement
- a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer
- the subject matter at issue
- a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about
- the rounded end of a bone that fits into a rounded cavity in another bone to form a joint
- that part of a skeletal muscle that is away from the bone that it moves
- (computer science) a tiny electromagnetic coil and metal pole used to write and read magnetic patterns on a disk
- (usually plural) the obverse side of a coin that usually bears the representation of a person's head
- (nautical) a toilet on board a boat or ship
- a projection out from one end
- a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum
- oral stimulation of the genitals
verb
verb
- adjust so that a force is applied and an action occurs at the desired time
- measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time
- assign a time for an activity or event
- set the speed, duration, or execution of
- regulate or set the time of
noun
- an instance or single occasion for some event
- a period of time considered as a resource under your control and sufficient to accomplish something
- an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities)
- a suitable moment
- the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past
- a person's experience on a particular occasion
- a reading of a point in time as given by a clock
- the fourth coordinate that is required (along with three spatial dimensions) to specify a physical event
- rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration
- the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned
noun
- a turning force produced by an object acting at a distance (or a measure of that force)
- a particular point in time
- an indefinitely short time
- at this time
- having important effects or influence
- the n-th moment of a distribution is the expected value of the n-th power of the deviations from a fixed value
noun
- The possession of only one hand or the ability to use only one hand; the loss of the use of one hand.
- A state in which only one person is active
- Weakness, limitation
- The quality of having a dominant hand; left-handedness or right-handedness.
- Chirality
- The state of choosing to use only one hand.
- The quality of being designed for only one hand.
noun
- A movement that twists or pulls violently; a tug.
- In screw theory, a screw assembled from force and torque vectors arising from application of Newton's laws to a rigid body.
- An injury caused by a violent twisting or pulling of a limb; strain, sprain.
- A distorting change from the original meaning.
- In coursing, the act of bringing the hare round at less than a right angle, worth half a point in the recognised code of points for judging.
- A hand tool for making rotational adjustments, such as fitting nuts and bolts, or fitting pipes; a spanner.
- An adjustable spanner used by plumbers.
- A violent emotional change caused by separation.
verb
noun
verb
noun
- The action of being pushed or drawn beneath another object.
- The process of one tectonic plate moving beneath another and sinking into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary.
- Arithmetical subtraction.
- A surjection between diffeological spaces such that the target is identified as the pushforward of the source.
- The act of subducting or taking away.
noun
- Movement (of a pattern of light etc.)
- A geological formation that contains an accumulation or prospect of hydrocarbons or other resources.
- An instance of watching or listening to digital media.
- The extent to which a part of a mechanism can move freely, as for example lash, backlash, or slack.
- An individual's performance in a sport or game.
- A literary composition, intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue.
- A button that, when pressed, causes media to be played.
- Activity for amusement only, especially among the young.
- Similar activity in young animals, as they explore their environment and learn new skills.
- An attempt to move forward, as in a plan or strategy, for example by a business, investor, or political party.
- Sexual activity or sexual role-playing.
- The conduct, or course, of a game.
- A short sequence of action within a game.
- An action carried out when it is one's turn to play.
- A theatrical performance featuring actors.
verb
- To act with levity or thoughtlessness; to trifle; to be careless.
- Contrary to fact, to give an appearance of being.
- To be performed; (or of a film) to be shown.
- To manipulate, deceive, or swindle someone.
- To move to and fro.
- To produce music (or a specified song or musical style) using (a specified musical instrument).
- To compete against, in a game.
- To act; to behave; to practice deception.
- To perform in or at; to give performances in or at.
- To produce music using a musical instrument.
- To move in any manner; especially, to move regularly with alternate or reciprocating motion; to operate.
- To take part in amorous activity; to make love.
- To perform in (a sport); to participate in (a game).
- To kid; to joke; say something for amusement.
- (in the scoring of games and sports) To be the opposing score to.
- To gamble.
- To act as the indicated role, especially in a performance.
- To produce music.
- To act or perform (a play).
- To bring into sportive or wanton action; to exhibit in action; to execute.
- To put in action or motion.
- To keep in play, as a hooked fish in order to land it.
- To use a device to watch or listen to the indicated recording.
- To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose of recreation or entertainment.
noun
- a hand tool with a heavy rigid head and a handle; used to deliver an impulsive force by striking
- the part of a gunlock that strikes the percussion cap when the trigger is pulled
- the ossicle attached to the eardrum
- a light drumstick with a rounded head that is used to strike such percussion instruments as chimes, kettledrums, marimbas, glockenspiels, etc.
- a heavy metal sphere attached to a flexible wire; used in the hammer throw
- a striker that is covered in felt and that causes the piano strings to vibrate
- a power tool for drilling rocks
- the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows)
verb
noun
- The process of drawing or pulling something.
- A small portion of tea for steeping.
- The act of producing such a picture.
- Such acts practiced as a graphic art form.
- A picture, likeness, diagram or representation, usually drawn on paper.
- An act or event in which the outcome (e.g., designating a winner) is selected by chance in the form of a blind draw, notably of lots; especially such a contest in which a winning name or number is selected randomly by removing (or drawing) it from a container, popularly a hat.
noun
- Act of turning on one foot.
- An element of a set to be sorted that is chosen as a midpoint, so as to divide the other elements into two groups to be dealt with recursively.
- Any of a row of captioned elements used to navigate to subpages, rather like tabs.
- A quarterback.
- The officer or soldier who simply turns in his place while the company or line moves around him in wheeling.
- Something or someone having a paramount significance in a certain situation.
- A circle runner.
- A shift during a general election in a political candidate's messaging to reflect plans and values more moderate than those advocated during the primary.
- A player with responsibility for co-ordinating their team in a particular jam.
- An element of a matrix that is used as a focus for row operations, such as dividing the row by the pivot, or adding multiples of the row to other rows making all other values in the pivot column 0.
- A pivot table.
- A thing on which something turns; specifically a metal pointed pin or short shaft in machinery, such as the end of an axle or spindle.
verb
noun
- An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
- The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running.
- The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale.
- A running board where passengers step to get on and off the bus.
- The part of a spade, digging stick or similar tool that a digger's foot rests against and presses on when digging; an ear, a foot-rest.
- A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a rung of a ladder.
- A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
- Proceeding; measure; action; act.
- One of a series of offsets, or parts, resembling the steps of stairs, as one of the series of parts of a cone pulley on which the belt runs.
- A small space or distance.
- A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
- A framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specifically, a block of wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast.
- A gait; manner of walking.
- A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
- A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
- A walk; passage.
- A distinct part of a process; stage; phase.
- A stepchild.
- A stepsibling.
- A constant difference between consecutive values in a series.
verb
- To dance.
- To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
- To move mentally; to go in imagination.
- To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance.
- To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in succession.
- To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.
- To set, as the foot.
verb
- To make a grasping or snatching motion (at).
- To attract and hold (a faculty or organ of sense).
- To grasp mentally: perceive and understand.
- To unpleasantly discover unexpectedly; to unpleasantly surprise (someone doing something).
- To acquire, as though by infection; to take on through sympathy or infection.
- To take or replenish something necessary, such as breath or sleep.
- Of fire, to spread or be conveyed to.
- To be held back or impeded.
- To get pregnant.
- To end a player's innings by catching a hit ball before the first bounce.
- To be the victim of (something unpleasant, painful etc.).
- To entrap or trip up a person; to deceive.
- To reach (someone) with a strike, blow, weapon etc.
- To be hit by something.
- To receive or be affected by (wind, water, fire etc.).
- To have something be held back or impeded.
- To contact a wave in such a way that one can ride it back to shore.
- To travel by means of.
- To become infected by (an illness).
- To reproduce or echo a spirit or idea faithfully.
- To serve well or poorly for catching, especially for catching fish.
- To seize or intercept an object moving through the air (or, sometimes, some other medium).
- To grip (the water) with one's oars at the beginning of the stroke.
- To become pregnant. (Only in past tense or as participle.)
- To charm or entrance.
- To grip or entangle.
- To handle an exception.
- To play (a specific period of time) as the catcher.
- To spread by infection or similar means.
- To take in; to watch or listen to (an entertainment).
- To engage with some mechanism; to stick, to succeed in interacting with something or initiating some process.
- To capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape).
- To germinate and set down roots.
- To be touched or affected by (something) through exposure.
- To overtake or catch up to; to be in time for.
noun
- The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
- A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
- A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
- The game of catching a ball.
- A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
- A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
- A fragment of music or poetry.
- The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting in an out.
- Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
- The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
- The act of seizing or capturing.
- A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually sung by men and often having bawdy lyrics.
- A slight remembrance; a trace.
- A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
- The first contact of an oar with the water.
- A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.
- A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
- A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
- The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.
- Something which is captured or caught.
verb
noun
- That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power.
- Anything worth striving for; a valuable possession held or in prospect.
- A lever; a pry; also, the hold of a lever.
- An honour or reward striven for in a competitive contest; anything offered to be competed for, or as an inducement to, or reward of, effort.
- Anything captured by a belligerent using the rights of war; especially, property captured at sea in virtue of the rights of war, as a vessel.
- That which may be won by chance, as in a lottery.
adj
verb
- To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.
- To urge with importunity; to press.
- To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.
- To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.
- To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what is normal or comfortable.
- To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander
- To percolate; to be filtered.
- To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
- hug somebody; to hold somebody tightly.
- To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.
noun
- The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
- Language that is eloquent, poetic, or otherwise heightened.
- An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.
- Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, etc.
- A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering strain or true strain.
- A kind or sort (of person etc.).
- A particular variety of a microbe, virus, or other organism, usually a taxonomically infraspecific one.
- A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles.
- Hereditary character, quality, tendency, or disposition.
noun
- The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
- The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
- 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.
verb
- 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 reserve.
- 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.
adj
- making a movement akin to swiping a sword.
- Characteristic of or related to slash fiction.
- slushy, very romantic
- resembling a slash (the punctuation mark)
- of a work of art, done in the style that suggests the painter was slashing the canvas with a paintbrush
- wet, having wet ground, slushy
- Involving lots of cutting with blades, or swordwork.
- darting, running in a zigzag motion
noun
- the act of pressing one thing on or into the surface of another
- a vague idea in which some confidence is placed
- an outward appearance
- a clear and telling mental image
- a concavity in a surface produced by pressing
- a symbol that is the result of printing or engraving
- all the copies of a work printed at one time
- (dentistry) an imprint of the teeth and gums in wax or plaster
- an impressionistic portrayal of a person
verb
noun
prep_phrase
noun
- The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.
- Driftwood included in flotsam washed up onto the beach.
- The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.
- A place (a ford) along a river where the water is shallow enough to permit crossing to the opposite side.
- The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.
- A sideways movement of the ball through the air, when bowled by a spin bowler.
- Slow, cumulative change.
- A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.
- In New Forest National Park, UK, the bi-annual round-up of wild ponies in order to be sold.
- A collection of loose earth and rocks, or boulders, which have been distributed over large portions of the earth's surface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the retreat of continental glaciers, such as that which buries former river valleys and creates young river valleys.
- A slightly tapered tool of steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal, by being forced or driven into or through it; a broach.
- The place in a deep-waisted vessel where the sheer is raised and the rail is cut off, and usually terminated with a scroll, or driftpiece.
- A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., especially by wind or water.
- A tool used to insert or extract a removable pin made of metal or hardwood, for the purpose of aligning and/or securing two pieces of material together.
- The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting.
- The difference between the size of a bolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of a hoop and that of the mast on which it is to be driven.
- That which is driven, forced, or urged along.
- The distance through which a current flows in a given time.
- Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting.
- A tool used to pack down the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework.
- A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to obloid projectiles.
- Minor deviation of audio or video playback from its correct speed.
- The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention; hence, also, import or meaning of a sentence or discourse; aim.
- The situation where a performer gradually and unintentionally moves from their proper location within the scene.
- The distance a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes.
- Anything driven at random.
- A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds.
verb
- To deviate gently from the intended direction of travel.
- To move slowly, especially pushed by currents of water, air, etc.
- To move haphazardly without any destination.
- To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body.
- To drive into heaps.
- To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps.
- To make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence of metals or ores; to follow a vein; to prospect.
- To oversteer a vehicle, causing loss of traction, while maintaining control from entry to exit of a corner. See Drifting (motorsport).
- To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift.
noun
- Influence or power of anything put in motion.
- In a musical theater production, a performer who understudies several roles.
- The amount of change towards or away from something.
- The genre of music associated with this dance style.
- The manner in which something is swung.
- The sweep or compass of a swinging body.
- A dance style.
- In an election, the increase or decrease in the number of votes for opposition parties compared with votes for the incumbent party.
- A basic dance step in which a pair link hands and turn round together in a circle.
- A type of hook with the arm more extended.
- A hanging seat that can swing back and forth, in a children's playground, for acrobats in a circus, or on a porch for relaxing.
- A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing.
- Sideways movement of the ball as it flies through the air.
- Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in it.
- The maximum amount of change that has occurred or can occur; the sum of the maximum changes in any direction.
verb
- To move one's arm in a punching motion.
- To put (a door, gate, etc.) on hinges so that it can swing or turn.
- To move sideways in its trajectory.
- To change (a numerical result); especially to change the outcome of an election.
- To hang from the gallows; to be punished by hanging, swing for something or someone; (often hyperbolic) to be severely punished.
- To make (something) work; especially to afford (something) financially.
- To admit or turn something for the purpose of shaping it; said of a lathe.
- To turn in a different direction.
- To play notes that are in pairs by making the first of the pair slightly longer than written (augmentation) and the second shorter, resulting in a bouncy, uneven rhythm.
- To move (an object) backward and forward; to wave.
- To ride on a swing.
- To dance.
- To fluctuate or change.
- (of a bowler) To make the ball move sideways in its trajectory.
- To participate in the swinging lifestyle; to participate in wife-swapping.
- To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor.
- To rotate about an off-centre fixed point.
- In dancing, to turn around in a small circle with one's partner, holding hands or arms.
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