tincture
smack
fringelet
well
fleck
spot
speckle
dapple
whisper
patch
maculation
apparition
glimpse
scraplet
internality
stroke
soupçon
externality
Frankenstein's monster
apport
excavate
foreign body
pup
semicryptic
finding
riddle wrapped up in an enigma
visualise
microsculptured
mist over
external
prickle
plant
snippet
shade
snipping
a lick of
snip
spriglet
thornlet
implicit
scrawling
cosmetic
deposit
exterior
wink
shadow
minimal
sample
summit
morceau
stemlet
whiff
cuspule
seek and ye shall find
fruticulose
taper
adumbration
stime
vamp
deal
undertint
innovention
nonexternality
twiglet
enigma
fleak
telltale
blur
darkside
jazz
miniguide
concentrate
chingadera
complementer
handholdable
shadowy
tint
tinge
taint
untowardness
black
outside
sign
cousin
disinter
shepherd's rod
catch
minipalette
semimystical
simulacrum
snippock
overscattered
tangible
gleam
greyly
nonperson
face
semicryptic
microsculptured
external
implicit
cosmetic
fruticulose
handholdable
shadowy
semimystical
overscattered
greyly
tincture
smack
fringelet
fleck
spot
speckle
dapple
whisper
patch
maculation
apparition
glimpse
scraplet
internality
stroke
soupçon
externality
Frankenstein's monster
apport
foreign body
pup
finding
riddle wrapped up in an enigma
prickle
plant
snippet
shade
snipping
snip
spriglet
thornlet
scrawling
deposit
exterior
wink
shadow
minimal
sample
morceau
stemlet
whiff
cuspule
taper
adumbration
stime
vamp
deal
undertint
innovention
nonexternality
twiglet
enigma
fleak
telltale
blur
darkside
jazz
miniguide
concentrate
chingadera
complementer
tint
tinge
taint
untowardness
black
outside
sign
cousin
shepherd's rod
catch
minipalette
simulacrum
snippock
tangible
gleam
nonperson
face
well
excavate
visualise
mist over
disinter
noun
- A slight addition of a thing to something else; a shade, a touch, a trace.
- A colour or tint, especially if produced by a pigment or something which stains; a tinge.
- A (small) alcoholic drink.
- The part of a substance thought to be essential, finer, and/or more volatile, which could be extracted in a solution; also, the process of obtaining this.
- An immaterial substance or spiritual principle which was thought capable of being instilled into physical things; also, the essence or spirit of something.
- A hue or pattern used in the depiction of a coat of arms; namely, a colour, fur, or metal.
- A medicine consisting of one or more substances dissolved in ethanol or some other solvent.
- A material essence thought to be capable of extraction from a substance.
verb
- Followed by with: to add to or impregnate (something) with (a slight amount of) an abstract or (obsolete) physical quality; to imbue, to taint, to tinge.
- To have a taint or tinge of some quality.
- To dissolve (a substance) in ethanol or some other solvent to produce a medicinal tincture.
- To colour or stain (something) with, or as if with, a dye or pigment.
noun
- A slight trace of something; a smattering.
- A group of jellyfish.
- A sharp blow; a slap. See also: spank.
- The sound of a loud kiss.
- A distinct flavor, especially if slight.
- A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade and often called a fishing smack
- A form of fried potato; a scallop.
- A quick, sharp noise, as of the lips when suddenly separated, or of a whip.
- Heroin.
verb
- To strike a child (usually on the buttocks) as a form of discipline. (normal U.S. and Canadian term spank)
- To slap or hit someone.
- To have a particular taste; used with of.
- To wetly separate the lips, making a noise, after tasting something or in expectation of a treat.
- To indicate or suggest something; used with of.
- To get the flavor of.
- To kiss with a close compression of the lips, so as to make a sound when they separate.
- To make a smacking sound.
adv
noun
verb
- To have something seep out of the surface.
- To issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring.
adv
- To a significant degree.
- In a desirable manner; so as one could wish; satisfactorily; favourably; advantageously.
- Accurately, competently, satisfactorily.
- Completely, fully.
- Very (as a general-purpose intensifier).
intj
- An exclamation of sarcastic surprise (often doubled or tripled and spoken in a lowering intonation).
- Used to acknowledge a statement or situation.
- An exclamation of indignance.
- Used in speech to express the overcoming of reluctance to say something.
- Used in speech to fill gaps, particularly at the beginning of a response to a question; filled pause.
- Used as a greeting
- Used as a question to demand an answer from someone reluctant to answer.
noun
- A compartment in the middle of the hold of a fishing vessel, made tight at the sides, but having holes perforated in the bottom to let in water to keep fish alive while they are transported to market.
- A small depression suitable for holding liquid or other objects.
- A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out of the water.
- A hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries.
- A source of supply.
- The playfield of Tetris and similar video games, into which the blocks fall.
- An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole.
- In a microtiter plate, each of the small equal circular or square sections which serve as test tubes.
- A well drink.
- A hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids.
- A place where a liquid such as water surfaces naturally; a spring.
- The lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls.
- The cockpit of a sailboat.
- The open space between the bench and the counsel tables in a courtroom.
- A vertical, cylindrical trunk in a ship, reaching down to the lowest part of the hull, through which the bilge pumps operate.
adj
noun
- a small contrasting part of something
- a point located with respect to surface features of some region
- a short section or illustration (as between radio or tv programs or in a magazine) that is often used for advertising
- an outstanding characteristic
- a blemish made by dirt
- a section of an entertainment that is assigned to a specific performer or performance
- a business establishment for entertainment
- a slight attack of illness
- a small piece or quantity of something
- a mark on a die or on a playing card (shape depending on the suit)
- a lamp that produces a strong beam of light to illuminate a restricted area; used to focus attention of a stage performer
- a playing card with a specified number of pips on it to indicate its value
- an act that brings discredit to the person who does it
verb
noun
- A faint trace or hint (of something).
- A private message to an individual in a chat room.
- A low rustling sound, like that of the wind in leaves.
- A rumor.
- The act of speaking in a quiet voice, especially, without vibration of the vocal cords.
verb
- To speak softly, or under the breath, so as to be heard only by one near at hand; to utter words without sonant breath; to talk without that vibration in the larynx which gives sonorous, or vocal, sound.
- To speak with suspicion or timorous caution; to converse in whispers, as in secret plotting.
- To make a low, sibilant sound.
- To mention privately and confidentially, or in a whisper.
noun
- a small contrasting part of something
- a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation
- a piece of cloth used as decoration or to mend or cover a hole
- a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition
- a short set of commands to correct a bug in a computer program
- a connection intended to be used for a limited time
- sewing that repairs a worn or torn hole (especially in a garment)
- a protective cloth covering for an injured eye
- a piece of soft material that covers and protects an injured part of the body
verb
noun
- The thing appearing; a visible object; a form.
- An unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance; especially something such as a ghost or phantom.
- The first appearance of a star or other luminary after having been invisible or obscured; opposed to occultation.
- A period of consecutive days or nights when a particular celestial body may be observed, beginning with the heliacal rising of the body and ending with its heliacal setting.
- An act of becoming visible; appearance; visibility.
noun
- a light touch
- (sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand
- the maximum movement available to a pivoted or reciprocating piece by a cam
- a sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain
- a light touch with the hands
- (golf) the unit of scoring in golf is the act of hitting the ball with a club
- the oarsman nearest the stern of the shell who sets the pace for the rest of the crew
- anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause
- a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information
- a mark made on a surface by a pen, pencil, or paintbrush
- any one of the repeated movements of the limbs and body used for locomotion in swimming or rowing
- a single complete movement
verb
noun
- A kind of small spotlight.
- A young, inexperienced person.
- A young dog, wolf, fox, seal, bat or shark, or the young of certain other animals.
- A short semi-trailer used jointly with a dolly and another semi-trailer to create a twin trailer.
- Any cute dog, regardless of age.
- A new plant growing from a shoot that can be used for propagation.
- An early edition of a periodical publication, intended for distribution to distant locations.
verb
adj
- Having merely the outward appearance of something.
- Relating to or denoting a medicine or similar substance for use on the outside of the body.
- Having existence independent of the mind.
- Situated near or toward the surface of the body.
- For or concerning students registered with and taking the examinations of a university but not resident there.
- Not contained in the main computer.
- Outside of something; on the exterior.
- Not intrinsic or essential.
- Provided by something or someone outside of the entity (object, group, company etc.) considered.
- Using a disk or tape drive rather than the main memory.
- Relating to or connected with foreign nations or institutions.
noun
noun
- An aspect that is reminiscent of something.
- Something that blocks light, particularly in a window.
- A variety of a colour/color, in particular one obtained by adding black (compare tint).
- A very small degree of a quantity, or variety of meaning
- A ghost or specter; a spirit.
- A subtle variation in a concept.
- A postage stamp showing an obvious difference in colour/color to the original printing and needing a separate catalogue/catalog entry.
- Subtle insults.
- A candle-shade.
- A cover around or above a light bulb, a lampshade.
- Darkness where light, particularly sunlight, is blocked.
verb
- To shield (someone or something) from light.
- To reduce (a window) so that only its title bar is visible.
- To alter slightly.
- To move slightly from one's normal fielding position.
- To vary or approach something slightly, particularly in color.
- To darken, particularly in drawing.
- To surpass by a narrow margin.
- To throw shade, to subtly insult someone.
- To shield oneself from light.
noun
noun
noun
noun
- Anything left behind on a surface.
- Sediment or rock that is not native to its present location or is different from the surrounding material. Sometimes refers to ore or gems.
- A sum of money or other asset given as an initial payment, to show good faith, or to reserve something for purchase.
- That which is placed anywhere, or in anyone's hands, for safekeeping; something entrusted to the care of another.
- A place of deposit; a depository.
- Money placed in an account.
- A sum of money given as a security for a borrowed item, which will be given back when the item is returned, e.g. a bottle deposit or can deposit
verb
noun
- A subtle allusion.
- Synonym of periwinkle
- A brief time; an instant.
- The smallest possible amount.
- An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking.
- A brief period of sleep; especially forty winks.
- Synonym of tiddlywink (“small disc used in the game of tiddlywinks”)
verb
- To close one's eyes quickly and involuntarily; to blink.
- To blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion, usually with an implication of conspiracy. (When transitive, the object may be the eye being winked, or the message being conveyed.)
- To close one's eyes.
- To gleam fitfully or intermitently; to twinkle; to flicker.
- Usually followed by at: to look the other way, to turn a blind eye.
noun
- A spirit; a ghost; a shade.
- A small degree; a shade.
- A dark image projected onto a surface where light (or other radiation) is blocked by the shade of an object.
- An influence, especially a pervasive or a negative one.
- Relative darkness, especially as caused by the interruption of light; gloom; obscurity.
- That which looms as though a shadow.
- A area protected by an obstacle (likened to an object blocking out sunlight).
- One who secretly or furtively follows another.
- An inseparable companion.
- A drop shadow effect applied to lettering in word processors etc.
- An unconscious aspect of the personality.
- A trainee, assigned to work with an experienced officer.
- An imperfect and faint representation.
verb
- To accompany (a professional) during the working day, so as to learn about an occupation one intends to take up.
- To make (an identifier, usually a variable) inaccessible by declaring another of the same name within the scope of the first.
- To hide; to conceal.
- To represent faintly and imperfectly.
- To shade, cloud, or darken.
- To block light or radio transmission from.
- To secretly or discreetly track or follow another, to keep under surveillance.
- To apply the shadowing process to (the contents of ROM).
adj
noun
noun
- A slight sign of something; a burst, a glimpse, a hint.
- A brief, gentle breeze; a light gust of air; a waft.
- A flag used as a signal.
- A short inhalation or exhalation of breath, especially when accompanied by smoke from a cigarette or pipe.
- An odour (usually unpleasant) carried briefly through the air.
- The name of a number of flatfish such as (dated) the lemon sole (Microstomus kitt) and now, especially, the megrim (Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis) and (with a descriptive word) a species of large-tooth flounder or sand flounder (family Paralichthyidae).
- A slight attack or touch.
- A characteristic quality of something; a flavour, a savour, a taste.
- A failure to hit a ball in various sports (for example, golf); a miss.
- A sound like that of air passing through a small opening; a short or soft whistle.
- A small quantity of cloud, smoke, vapour, etc.; specifically (obsolete), chiefly in take the whiff: a puff of tobacco smoke.
- From the batter's perspective: a strike.
- An outrigged boat for one person propelled by oar.
intj
verb
- To inhale or exhale (smoke from tobacco, etc.) from a cigarette, pipe, or other smoking implement; to smoke (a cigarette, pipe, etc.); to puff.
- To say (something) with an exhalation of breath.
- To breathe in or sniff (an odour); to smell.
- To carry or convey (something) by, or as by, a whiff or puff of air; to blow, puff, or waft away.
- Of a pitcher: to strike out (a batter); to fan.
- To be carried, or move as if carried, by a puff of air; to waft.
- To smoke a cigarette, pipe, or other smoking implement.
- Especially in baseball or golf: to completely miss hitting a ball; hence (baseball), of a batter: to strike out; to fan.
- To give off or have an unpleasant smell; to stink.
- To catch fish by dragging a handline near the surface of the water from a moving boat.
- To shoot (someone) with a firearm; hence, to assassinate or kill (someone).
- To smell; to sniff.
- To fail spectacularly.
- In fighting games, to execute a move that fails to hit the opponent.
- To move in a way that causes a light gust of air, or a whistling sound.
adj
noun
noun
- A small light.
- A cone-shaped item for stretching the hole for an ear gauge (piercing).
- Someone who works with tape or tapes.
- A thin stick used for lighting candles, either a wax-coated wick or a slow-burning wooden rod.
- One who operates a tape machine.
- A slender wax candle.
- A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness and/or cross section in an elongated object.
verb
- To diminish gradually.
- To become thinner or narrower at one end.
- To make thinner or narrower at one end.
- (of a central bank) To tighten monetary policy.
adj
noun
- A faint sketch; a brief representation, an outline.
- The state of being in shadow or shade; (countable) a shadow.
- The outline of a charge (“image displayed on an escutcheon”), sometimes filled in with a darker shade than the field.
- The form of an object as seen by an observer.
- A rough or symbolic representation; a vague indication of what is to come, a foreshadowing.
noun
- Something added to give an old thing a new appearance.
- An activity or speech intended to fill or stall for time.
- The top part of a boot or shoe, above the sole and welt and in front of the ankle seam, that covers the instep and toes; the front part of an upper; the analogous part of a stocking.
- A flirtatious, seductive woman, especially one who exploits men by using their sexual desire for her.
- A repeated and often improvised accompaniment, usually consisting of one or two measures, often a single chord or simple chord progression, repeated as necessary, for example, to accommodate dialogue or to anticipate the entrance of a soloist.
- A vampire.
- A volunteer firefighter.
- Something patched up, pieced together, improvised, or refurbished.
verb
- To patch, repair, or refurbish.
- To cobble together, to extemporize, to improvise.
- To travel by foot; to walk.
- To attach a vamp (to footwear).
- To delay or stall for time, as for an audience.
- Often as vamp up: to fabricate or put together (something) from existing material, or by adding new material to something existing.
- To seduce or exploit someone.
- To turn into a vampire.
- To perform a vamp (“a repeated, often improvised accompaniment, for example, under dialogue or while waiting for a soloist to be ready”).
noun
- A thing, an unspecified or unidentified object.
- A transaction offered which is financially beneficial; a bargain.
- An agreement between parties; an arrangement.
- The distribution of cards to players; a player's turn for this.
- Male genitalia.
- A plank of softwood (fir or pine board).
- A particular instance of trading (buying or selling; exchanging; bartering); a transaction.
- Wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir).
- A situation, occasion, or event.
- An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good).
adj
verb
- To trade professionally (followed by in).
- To handle, to manage, to cope.
- To be concerned with.
- To pitch.
- To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share.
- To have dealings or business.
- To administer or give out, as in small portions.
- To sell, especially to sell illicit drugs.
- To distribute cards to the players in a game.
- To conduct oneself, to behave.
- deliver damage, a blow, strike or cut. To inflict.
noun
noun
- Something or someone puzzling, mysterious or inexplicable.
- A species of grasshopper, Oedaleonotus enigma.
- A riddle, or a difficult problem.
- Mysteriousness; obscurity; lack of clarity.
- The Talaud kingfisher, Todiramphus enigma.
- A rare species of moth, Heliothis enigma.
- A style of literature characterized by obscurity and hints of transcendental meaning.
- A protein with three LIM domains (a conserved cysteine- and histidine-rich structure of two adjacent zinc fingers) at the C terminus that regulates protein phosphorylation.
- Riddles and puzzles, collectively.
noun
- Something that serves to reveal something else.
- A bird, the tattler.
- A story or fable that has a moral or message.
- One who divulges private information with intent to hurt others.
- A mechanical attachment to the steering wheel, which, in the absence of a tiller, shows the position of the helm.
- Tattletale; squealer.
- A movable piece of ivory, lead, or other material, connected to the bellows of an organ, whose position indicates when the wind is exhausted.
- A length of yarn or ribbon attached to a sail or shroud etc to indicate the direction of the flow of the air relative to the boat.
- A machine or contrivance for indicating or recording something, particularly for keeping a check upon employees (factory hands, watchmen, drivers, etc.) by revealing to their employers what they have done or omitted.
- An indicator, such as a warning light, that serves to warn of a hazard or problem.
- A compass in the cabin of a vessel, usually placed where the captain can see it at all hours, and thus inform himself of the vessel's course.
adj
noun
adj
verb
noun
- The side of something that is in darkness or unlit, or has less illumination.
- A style of electronic music, being a form of hardcore characterized by discordant sounds; darkcore.
- The side that is distressing or undesirable.
- Synonym of farside (“the side of a moon that faces away from the planet that it orbits”)
- Synonym of nightside (“the side of a planet that faces away from the sun around which it orbits”)
- The side that is evil.
noun
- The substance or makeup of a thing; unspecified thing(s).
- Something of excellent quality, the genuine article.
- A musical art form rooted in West African cultural and musical expression and in the African American blues tradition, with diverse influences over time, commonly characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms and improvisation.
- Semen, jizz.
- Energy, excitement, excitability.
- Nonsense.
verb
noun
- A slight coloring.
- A pale or faint tinge of any color; especially, a variation of a color obtained by adding white (contrast shade)
- A shaded effect in engraving, produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.
- A vehicle window that has been darkened to conceal the occupant.
- A color considered with reference to other very similar colors.
verb
abbrev
noun
- A small added amount of colour; (by extension) a small added amount of some other thing.
- The degree of vividness of a colour; hue, shade, tint.
verb
- To add a small amount of colour; to tint; (by extension) to add a small amount of some other thing.
- To change slightly in shade due to the addition of colour; (by extension) to change slightly in quality due to the addition of some other thing.
- To affect or alter slightly, particularly due to the actual or metaphorical influence of some element or thing.
noun
- A tinge, trace or touch.
- A mark of disgrace, especially on one's character; blemish.
- A marker indicating that a variable is unsafe and should be subjected to additional security checks.
- A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food.
- A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.
- An injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a dishonorable or unscientific manner.
- The perineum.
verb
- To contaminate or corrupt (something) with an external agent, either physically or morally.
- To damage, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.
- To be infected or corrupted; to be touched by something corrupting.
- To thrust ineffectually with a lance.
- To invalidate (a share capital account) by transferring profits into it.
- To be affected with incipient putrefaction.
- To spoil (food) by contamination.
- To mark (a variable) as unsafe, so that operations involving it are subject to additional security checks.
noun
- Something, or a part of a thing, which is black.
- Blackness, the condition of belonging to or being descended from one of these ethnic groups.
- The edge of home plate.
- A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.
- The black ball.
- The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light is reflected, but rather absorbed.
- A black dye or pigment.
- A member of descendant of any of various (African, Aboriginal, etc) ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin. (See usage notes.)
- A type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.
- The person playing with the black set of pieces.
- Marijuana.
- A dark smut fungus, harmful to wheat.
- Black cloth hung up at funerals.
verb
- To boycott, usually as part of an industrial dispute.
- To make black; to blacken.
- To apply blacking to (something).
adj
- Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.
- Related to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.
- Of the spades or clubs suits. Compare red (“of the hearts or diamonds suit”)
- Clandestine; relating to a political, military, or espionage operation or site, the existence or details of which is withheld from the general public.
- Foul; dirty, soiled.
- Occult; relating to something (such as mystical or magical knowledge) which is unknown to or kept secret from the general public.
- Said of a symbol or character that is solid, filled with color. Compare white (“said of a character or symbol outline, not filled with color”).
- Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen.
- Without any cream, milk, or creamer.
- Having one or more features (hair, fur, armour, clothes, bark, etc) that is dark (or black); in taxonomy, especially: dark in comparison to another species with the same base name.
- Belonging to or descended from any of various (African, Aboriginal, etc) ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin. (See usage notes below.)
- Bad; evil; ill-omened.
- Of or relating to the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the "black" set (in chess the set used by the player who moves second) (often regardless of the pieces' actual colour).
- Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced.
- Belonging to or descended from any of various sub-Saharan African ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin.
- Anarchist; of or pertaining to anarchism.
- Overcrowded.
- Designated for use by those ethnic groups (as described above).
- Without light.
- Protestant, often with the implication of being militantly pro-British or anti-Catholic. (Compare blackmouth ("Presbyterian").)
noun
- The part of something that faces out; the outer surface.
- The part of a road towards the central division: towards the right if one drives on the left, or towards the left if one drives on the right.
- The side of a curved road, racetrack etc. that has the longer arc length; the side of a racetrack furthest from the interior of the course or some other point of reference.
- The outer part of the sea, away from the peak of a wave.
- The external appearance of someone or something.
- The space beyond some limit or boundary.
- The furthest limit, as to number, quantity, extent, etc.
adv
- Outdoors.
- To or in the outdoors or outside; to or in an area that is beyond the scope, limits, or borders of a given place.
- Not in prison.
prep
- Near, but not in.
- Except, apart from.
- Beyond the scope, limits, or borders of.
- On the outside of, not inside (something, such as a building).
verb
adj
- Away from the interior or center of something.
- Originating from, arranged by, or being someone outside an organization, group, etc.
- Of, pertaining to or originating from beyond the outer surface, limit or boundary.
- Extending or going beyond the borders or scope of an organization, group, etc.
- Away (far) from the batter as it crosses home plate.
- Reaching the extreme or farthest limit, as to extent, quantity, etc; maximum.
- Positioned towards the shoulder of a road: towards the left-hand side if one drives on the left, or right-hand side if one drives on the right.
- Of or pertaining to the outer surface, limit or boundary.
- Not legally married to or related to (e.g. not born in wedlock to), and/or not residing with, a specified other person (parent, child, or partner); (of a marriage, relationship, etc) existing between two such people. (Compare out of wedlock, nonresidential.)
- Positioned towards the central division of a road: towards the right-hand side if one drives on the left, or left-hand side if one drives on the right.
noun
- A clearly visible object, generally flat, bearing a short message in words or pictures.
- An astrological sign.
- A specific gesture or motion used to communicate by those with speaking or hearing difficulties; now specifically, a linguistic unit in sign language equivalent to word in spoken languages.
- Sign language in general.
- A wonder; miracle; prodigy.
- A perceptible (e.g. visible) indication.
- A property of the body that indicates a disease and, unlike a symptom, can be detected objectively by someone other than the patient.
- A military emblem carried on a banner or standard.
- Physical evidence left by an animal.
- A semantic unit, something that conveys meaning or information (e.g. a word of written language); (linguistics, semiotics) a unit consisting of a signifier and a signified concept. (See sign (semiotics).)
- An omen.
- Positive or negative polarity, as denoted by the + or - sign.
verb
- To write (one's name) as a signature.
- To validate or ratify (a document) by writing one's signature on it.
- To communicate using gestures to (someone).
- To bless (someone or something) with the sign of the cross; to mark with the sign of the cross.
- To engage (a sports player, musician etc.) in a contract.
- To determine the sign of
- To cross oneself.
- To furnish (a road etc.) with signs.
- More generally, to write one's signature on (something) as a means of identification etc.
- To write one's signature.
- To finalise a contractual agreement to work for a given sports team, record label etc.
- To use sign language.
- To communicate or make known (a meaning, intention, etc.) by a sign.
- To calculate or derive whether a quantity has a positive or negative sign.
- To mark, to put or leave a mark on.
- To communicate using a gesture or signal.
noun
- Something kindred or related to something else.
- The child of a person's uncle or aunt; a first cousin.
- Any relation who is not a direct ancestor or descendant but part of one's extended family; one more distantly related than an uncle, aunt, granduncle, grandaunt, nephew, niece, grandnephew, grandniece, etc.
- A member of the British intelligence services (from an American perspective) or of the American intelligence services (from a British perspective).
noun
- A slight remembrance; a trace.
- 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 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
- 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 make a grasping or snatching motion (at).
- 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
noun
- the general outward appearance of something
- the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear
- the feelings expressed on a person's face
- the striking or working surface of an implement
- a part of a person that is used to refer to a person
- a surface forming part of the outside of an object
- the part of an animal corresponding to the human face
- the side upon which the use of a thing depends (usually the most prominent surface of an object)
- a contorted facial expression
- a specific size and style of type within a type family
- status in the eyes of others
- impudent aggressiveness
- a vertical surface of a building or cliff
verb
- deal with (something unpleasant) head on
- oppose, as in hostility or a competition
- be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point; be opposite to
- be opposite
- turn so as to face; turn the face in a certain direction
- present somebody with something, usually to accuse or criticize
- turn so as to expose the face
- line the edge (of a garment) with a different material
- cover the front or surface of
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