rider
foil
scalebeam
bijou
sergette
rerollable
bob
scale
bolster
scleroscope
headsheet
platform scale
bush
descendeur
slip
strip
pull-up
pullup
crimp
plectron
pick
plectrum
microbalance
creeper
socket
corkscrew
lever
lever tumbler
ultramicrobalance
button
pony
burr
weirplate
kern
pinch
Baoding ball
decompactor
gusset
plating
gusset plate
metal plating
vigorimeter
drop-forged
flexometallic
morselizer
spring
China cap
guide plate
fleak
pressing
auto-blocking belay device
workstand
spatula
spoon
mat
claw
bracteate
neck
drawing machine
pan
casting weight
suspension scale
cramp
pleximeter
silver plate
macerator
crutch
cramp iron
plessimeter
metallizer
nail
key
support force
weighing machine
pin
recrusher
runner
kettlebell
CUPAL
mounture
bite stick
argentine
backsaw
posterboard
pseudometaloph
underhead
deadblow
whisker
lightweight
back saw
weaving
holddown
elastic
board
metalloscope
equalizer
die
corkscrew
drop-forged
flexometallic
bracteate
underhead
lightweight
rider
foil
scalebeam
bijou
sergette
rerollable
bob
scale
bolster
scleroscope
headsheet
platform scale
bush
descendeur
slip
strip
pull-up
pullup
crimp
plectron
pick
plectrum
microbalance
creeper
socket
lever
lever tumbler
ultramicrobalance
button
pony
burr
weirplate
kern
pinch
Baoding ball
decompactor
gusset
plating
gusset plate
metal plating
vigorimeter
morselizer
spring
China cap
guide plate
fleak
pressing
auto-blocking belay device
workstand
spatula
spoon
mat
claw
neck
drawing machine
pan
casting weight
suspension scale
cramp
pleximeter
silver plate
macerator
crutch
cramp iron
plessimeter
metallizer
nail
key
support force
weighing machine
pin
recrusher
runner
kettlebell
CUPAL
mounture
bite stick
argentine
backsaw
posterboard
pseudometaloph
deadblow
whisker
back saw
weaving
holddown
elastic
board
metalloscope
equalizer
die
noun
- A small, sliding piece of thin metal on a balance, used to determine small weights.
- An amendment or addition to an entertainer's performance contract, often covering a performer's equipment or food, drinks, and general comfort requirements.
- Someone riding in a vehicle; a passenger on public transport.
- A supplementary question, now especially in mathematics.
- An interior rib occasionally fixed in a ship's hold, reaching from the keelson to the beams of the lower deck, to strengthen the frame.
- The first Lenormand card, also known as either the horseman or the cavalier.
- The second tier of casks in a vessel's hold.
- A supplementary clause added to a document after drafting, especially to a bill under the consideration of a legislature.
- Someone who rides a horse or (later) a bicycle, motorcycle etc.
- An old Dutch gold coin with the figure of a man on horseback stamped upon it.
- A knight, or other mounted warrior.
- An additional matter or question arising in corollary; a qualification.
- A piece, such as the rook or bishop, which moves any distance in one direction, as long as no other piece is in the way.
noun
- a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal
- anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities
- a device consisting of a flat or curved piece (as a metal plate) so that its surface reacts to the water it is passing through
- picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector
- a light slender flexible sword tipped by a button
verb
noun
- a hanging weight, especially a metal ball on a string
- a former monetary unit in Great Britain
- a hair style for women and children; a short haircut all around
- a long racing sled (for 2 or more people) with a steering mechanism
- a small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line
- a short or shortened tail of certain animals
- a short abrupt inclination (as of the head)
verb
noun
- The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife.
- A mathematical base for a numeral system; radix.
- A device to measure mass or weight.
- The flaky material sloughed off heated metal.
- Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard protective layers forming a pinecone that flare when mature to release pine nut seeds.
- Limescale.
- Size; scope.
- Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order.
- Scale mail (as opposed to chain mail).
- A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color.
- A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced.
- A standard amount of money to be received by a performer or writer, negotiated by a union.
- A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.
- A scale insect.
- An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement, means of assigning a magnitude.
- The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.
- Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard pieces of keratin covering the skin of an animal, particularly a fish or reptile.
- A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis.
- Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance or scales.
verb
- To climb to the top of.
- To change the size of something whilst maintaining proportion; especially to change a process in order to produce much larger amounts of the final product.
- To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.
- To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae.
- To scatter; to spread.
- To strip or clear of scale; to descale.
- To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.
- To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.
- To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.
- To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.
- To remove the scales of.
noun
- The metallic end of a pocketknife handle.
- A large cushion or pillow.
- A small spacer located on top of the axle of horse-drawn wagons that gives the front wheels enough clearance to turn.
- The perforated plate in a punching machine on which anything rests when being punched.
- A pad, quilt, or anything used to hinder pressure, support part of the body, or make a bandage sit easy upon a wounded part; a compress.
- A block of wood on the carriage of a siege gun, upon which the breech of the gun rests when arranged for transportation.
- A short, horizontal structural timber between a post and a beam for enlarging the bearing area of the post and/or reducing the span of the beam.
- The rolls forming the ends or sides of the Ionic capital.
- A beam in the middle of a railway truck, supporting the body of the car.
- The part of a knife blade that abuts upon the end of the handle.
verb
noun
- A sheet of metal that guards the front or head of something.
- Synonym of headcloth
- A postor or booklet containing headshots and brief descriptions of the models or actors represented by a modelling or talent agency.
- The front page of a newspaper, containing the main headlines.
- Synonym of coversheet
- A cloth that covers the pillows at the head of a bed, protecting them from hair oils, etc.
- Synonym of foresheet
noun
- A thick washer or hollow cylinder of metal.
- A mechanical attachment, usually a metallic socket with a screw thread, such as the mechanism by which a camera is attached to a tripod stand.
- The wild forested areas of Canada; upcountry.
- An area of New Zealand covered in forest, especially native forest.
- A woodlot or bluff on a farm.
- A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.
- Tracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largely undeveloped and uncultivated.
- A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree.
- A person's pubic hair, especially a woman's.
- Amateurish behavior, short for "bush league behavior"
- A woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres tall; a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category.
- A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.
- The tail, or brush, of a fox.
- The countryside area of Australia that is less arid and less remote than the outback; loosely, areas of natural flora even within conurbations.
adj
verb
- To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.
- To set bushes for; to support with bushes.
- To become bushy (often used with up).
- To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush.
- To furnish with a bush or lining; to line.
adv
noun
- artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material
- a socially awkward or tactless act
- a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.
- potter's clay that is thinned and used for coating or decorating ceramics
- a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting
- a young and slender person
- a place where a craft can be made fast
- an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall
- a slippery smoothness
- a small sheet of paper
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow
- an unexpected slide
- a flight maneuver; aircraft slides sideways in the air
- the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning)
verb
- move stealthily
- insert inconspicuously or quickly or quietly
- move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner
- fall to a lower standard
- move smoothly and easily
- to make a mistake or be incorrect
- pass on stealthily
- move easily
- cause to move with a smooth or sliding motion
- pass out of one's memory
- move out of position
noun
- artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material
- a relatively long narrow piece of something
- an airfield without normal airport facilities
- a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book
- thin piece of wood or metal
- a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music
verb
- take away possessions from someone
- get undressed
- remove the surface from
- remove substances from by a percolating liquid
- lay bare
- steal goods; take as spoils
- remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely
- strip the cured leaves from
- remove the thread (of screws)
- remove a constituent from a liquid
- take off or remove
- draw the last milk (of cows)
- remove (someone's or one's own) clothes
noun
- A small hold with little surface area.
- One who infringes sub-section 1 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1854, applied to a person other than the owner, master, etc., who engages seamen without a license from the Board of Trade.
- The natural curliness of wool fibres.
- Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks.
- A grip on such a hold.
- A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together, often with a tool that adds indentations to capture the parts.
- An agent who procures seamen, soldiers, etc., especially by decoying, entrapping, impressing, or seducing them.
verb
- To gash the flesh, e.g. of a raw fish, to make it crisper when cooked.
- To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate.
- to hold using a crimp
- To bend or mold leather into shape.
- To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened.
- To style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make it kinky.
- To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy.
- To pinch and hold; to seize.
noun
- a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument
- the person or thing chosen or selected
- the quantity of a crop that is harvested
- the best people or things in a group
- the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving
- a thin sharp implement used for removing unwanted material
- a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends
- a basketball maneuver; obstructing an opponent with one's body
- the act of choosing or selecting
verb
- select carefully from a group
- look for and gather
- harass with constant criticism
- provoke
- remove in small bits
- remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits
- pilfer or rob
- pay for something
- pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
- attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example
- hit lightly with a picking motion
- eat intermittently; take small bites of
noun
- A metal plate with spikes, designed to be worn with shoes to prevent slipping.
- A one-piece garment for infants designed to facilitate access to the wearer's diaper.
- A small four-hooked grapnel used to recover objects dropped onto the sea bed.
- Any device for causing material to move steadily from one part of a machine to another, such as an apron in a carding machine, or an inner spiral in a grain screen.
- Any plant (as ivy or periwinkle) that grows by creeping, especially a climbing plant of the genus Parthenocissus.
- The lowest gear of a tractor or truck.
- A small low iron, or dog, between the andirons.
- A person who creeps people out; a creepy person.
- An instrument with iron hooks or claws for dredging up items from a well or other water.
- A person or a thing that crawls or creeps.
- A low-profile wheeled platform whereupon an auto mechanic may lie on their back and gain better access to the underbody of a vehicle.
- A kind of shoe, usually with a suede upper and a thick crepe sole, associated with various 20th-century subcultures.
- A spur-like device strapped to the boot to facilitate climbing.
- A ball that travels low, near ground level.
- A device which allows a small child to safely roam around a room from a seated or standing position.
- A treecreeper.
noun
- A hollow tool for grasping and lifting tools dropped in a well-boring.
- One endpoint of a two-way communication link, used for interprocess communication across a network.
- A hollow into a bone which a part fits, such as an eye, or another bone, in the case of a joint.
- An opening into which a plug or other connecting part is designed to fit (e.g. a light bulb socket).
- One endpoint of a two-way named pipe on Unix and Unix-like systems, used for interprocess communication.
- The hollow of a candlestick.
- A steel apparatus attached to a saddle to protect the thighs and legs.
verb
adj
noun
- An implement for opening bottles that are sealed by a cork. Sometimes specifically such an implement that includes a screw-shaped part, or worm.
- The screw-shaped worm of a typical corkscrew.
- A type of inversion used in roller coasters.
- A type of sharp, twisting punch, often one thrown close and from the side.
verb
noun
- A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.
- A badge worn on clothes, fixed with a pin through the fabric.
- A bud.
- An on-screen control that can be selected as an activator of an attached function.
- The means for initiating a nuclear strike or similar cataclysmic occurrence.
- In an instrument of the violin family, the near-semicircular shape extending from the top of the back plate of the instrument, meeting the heel of the neck.
- Synonym of endbutton, part of a violin-family instrument.
- A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.
- Pedicle; the attachment point for antlers in cervids.
- A mechanical device meant to be pressed with a finger in order to open or close an electric circuit or to activate a mechanism.
- The soft circular tip at the end of a foil.
- A raised pavement marker to further indicate the presence of a pavement-marking painted stripe.
- The final joke at the end of a comedic act (such as a sketch, set, or scene).
- The center (bullseye) of the house.
- The player who is last to act after the flop, turn and river, who possesses the button.
- A small white blotch on a cat's coat.
- The end of a runway.
- Synonym of adjuster.
- The punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene.
- The head of an unexpanded mushroom.
- The least amount of care or interest; a whit or jot.
- A methaqualone tablet (used as a recreational drug).
- A button man; a professional assassin.
- A plastic disk used to represent the person in last position in a poker game; also dealer's button.
- A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, such as a door.
- The clitoris.
- The final segment of a rattlesnake's rattle.
- A knob or disc that is passed through a loop or (buttonhole), serving as a fastener.
verb
noun
- a contraption built like a mount, strong enough to support one's weight
- One horsepower.
- A small horse; specifically, any of several small breeds of horse under 14.2 hands at the withers.
- A translation used as a study aid; loosely, a crib, a cheat-sheet.
- Crap; rubbish, nonsense.
- A ponytail hairstyle.
- A small serving of an alcoholic beverage, especially beer.
- A serving of 140 millilitres of beer (formerly 5 fl oz); a quarter pint.
- Twenty-five pounds sterling.
- A chorus girl of small stature.
verb
adj
noun
- A thin flat piece of metal, formed from a sheet by punching; a small washer put on the end of a rivet before it is swaged down.
- A uvular "r" sound, or (by extension) an accent characterized by this sound.
- And when his body was against the burr of the spear, he took his sword in both his hands and he swung the sword above his head, and he smote King Arthur with the edge of the sword upon the helmet.
- Many saddles, especially those for use on warhorses, had high burr plates and cantles. this was especially important when knights began using stirrups and the couched lance.
- A rough humming sound.
- 1819, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopaedia
- A metal ring at the top of the hand-rest on a spear.
- 2015, James B. Tschen-Emmons, Artifacts from Medieval Europe, page 280
- A burr knot or burl.
- A sharp, pointy object, such as a sliver or splinter.
- 1724, John Guillim, A Display of Heraldry
- A revolving disk or cone with abrasive surfaces used to grind hard products in a grinder or mill.
- We are made to witness a cathartic shuffling-off of mortalities and of hatreds: Mordred's pulling himself up to the 'burr' of Arthur's spear is Malory's own detail and one of the most memorable in the book.
- A bur; a seed pod with sharp features that stick in fur or clothing.
- A broad iron ring on a tilting lance just below the grip, to prevent the hand from slipping.
- The ear lobe.
- A small piece of material left on an edge after a cutting operation.
- The knot at the bottom of an antler.
- The front of it was defended by an iron-plate, called a vam-plat, that is, an avant-plate, and behind it was a broad iron ring, called a burr.
- burr or ring of iron behind the hand
- 2003, Thomas Howard Crofts, Fifteenth-century Malory, page 290
- 2012, Howard Pyle, The Story of the Grail and the Passing of Arthur
verb
noun
- A metal bar used as a lever for lifting weights, rolling wheels, etc.
- A close compression of anything with the fingers.
- A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.
- An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.
- An organic herbal smoke additive.
- A magnetic compression of an electrically-conducting filament.
- The narrow part connecting the two bulbs of an hourglass.
- The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
- An arrest.
verb
- To squeeze between two objects.
- Of clothing, to be uncomfortably tight in specific spots.
- To arrest or capture.
- To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.
- To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.
- To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
- To steal, usually something inconsequential.
- To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.
- To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.
- To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.
- To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
- To seize; to grip; to bite.
noun
- a metal elastic device that returns to its shape or position when pushed or pulled or pressed
- the season of growth; spring; the beginning of spring
- a natural flow of ground water
- a point at which water issues forth
- the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length
- a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
verb
noun
- A metal or plastic part made with a press.
- The extraction of juice from fruit using a press.
- The process of improving the appearance of clothing by improving creases and removing wrinkles with a press or an iron.
- A phonograph record; a number of records pressed at the same time.
- The application of pressure by a press or other means.
- Urgent insistence.
- A memento preserved by pressing, folding, or drying between the leaves of a flat container, book, or folio. Usually done with a flower, ribbon, letter, or other soft, small keepsake.
adj
noun
- A thin hand tool, often made of nickel, for handling chemicals or other materials, when weighing, etc.
- A kitchen utensil consisting of a flat surface attached to a long handle, used for turning, lifting, or stirring food.
- A croupier's tool for turning up cards in a casino.
- A kitchen utensil consisting of a flexible surface attached to a long handle, used for scraping the sides of bowls.
- A sclerotized, T-shaped plate in the prothorax of larvae of flies belonging to family Cecidomyiidae, the gall midges.
verb
noun
- A type of metal lure resembling the concave head of a tablespoon.
- An oar.
- An implement for stirring food while being prepared; a wooden spoon.
- A safety handle on a hand grenade, a trigger.
- A measure that will fit into a spoon; a spoonful.
- An implement for eating or serving; a scooped utensil whose long handle is straight, in contrast to a ladle.
- A spoon excavator.
- A metaphoric unit of finite physical and mental energy available for daily activities, especially in the context of living with chronic illness or disability.
verb
- To hit (the ball) weakly, pushing it with a lifting motion, instead of striking with an audible knock.
- To fish with a concave spoon bait.
- To catch by fishing with a concave spoon bait.
- To lie nestled front-to-back, following the contours of the bodies, in a manner reminiscent of stacked spoons.
- To serve using a spoon; to transfer (something) with a spoon.
noun
- a small pad of material that is used to protect surface from an object placed on it
- a thick flat pad used as a floor covering
- mounting consisting of a border or background for a picture
- sports equipment consisting of a piece of thick padding on the floor for gymnastic sports
- a mass that is densely tangled or interwoven
- the property of having little or no contrast; lacking highlights or gloss
- a foundation (usually on soft ground) consisting of an extended layer of reinforced concrete
adj
verb
noun
- A mechanical device resembling a claw, used for gripping or lifting.
- The pincer (chela) of a crustacean or other arthropod.
- A curved, pointed horny nail on each digit of the foot of a mammal, reptile, or bird.
- A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, such as the base of petals of the pink.
- The act of catching a ball overhand.
- A human fingernail, particularly one extending well beyond the fingertip.
- A foot equipped with such.
verb
noun
- a narrow part of an artifact that resembles a neck in position or form
- the part of an organism (human or animal) that connects the head to the rest of the body
- a narrow elongated projecting strip of land
- a cut of meat from the neck of an animal
- an opening in a garment for the neck of the wearer; a part of the garment near the wearer's neck
verb
noun
- metal device shaped in such a way that when it is inserted into the appropriate lock the lock's mechanism can be rotated
- something crucial for explaining
- pitch of the voice
- any of 24 major or minor diatonic scales that provide the tonal framework for a piece of music
- a kilogram of a narcotic drug
- a winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple
- a coral reef off the southern coast of Florida
- (basketball) a space (including the foul line) in front of the basket at each end of a basketball court; usually painted a different color from the rest of the court
- a list of answers to a test
- a list of words or phrases that explain symbols or abbreviations
- a generic term for any device whose possession entitles the holder to a means of access
- mechanical device used to wind another device that is driven by a spring (as a clock)
- the central building block at the top of an arch or vault
- a lever (as in a keyboard) that actuates a mechanism when depressed
adj
verb
noun
- a small slender (often pointed) piece of wood or metal used to support or fasten or attach things
- a piece of jewelry that is pinned onto the wearer's garment
- when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat
- small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc.
- informal terms for the leg
- axis consisting of a short shaft that supports something that turns
- cylindrical tumblers consisting of two parts that are held in place by springs; when they are aligned with a key the bolt can be thrown
- flagpole used to mark the position of the hole on a golf green
- a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing
- a club-shaped wooden object used in bowling; set up in triangular groups of ten as the target
verb
noun
- device consisting of the parts on which something can slide along
- someone who imports or exports without paying duties
- someone who travels on foot by running
- a person who is employed to deliver messages or documents
- a baseball player on the team at bat who is on base (or attempting to reach a base)
- a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips
- a trained athlete who competes in foot races
- (football) the player who is carrying (and trying to advance) the ball on an offensive play
- a long narrow carpet
- fish of western Atlantic: Cape Cod to Brazil
noun
- A small tendril that forms on metal.
- The (very small) distance between two things.
- One who, or that which, whisks, or moves with a quick, sweeping motion.
- One of the long, projecting hairs growing at the sides of the mouth of a cat, or other animal.
- That part of the beard which grows upon the sides of the face, usually of the male, or upon the chin, or upon both.
- A graphic element that shows the maxima and minima in a box plot.
- A hair of the beard.
- Spreaders from the bows to spread the bowsprit shrouds.
adj
- weighing relatively little compared with another item or object of similar use
- having no importance or influence
noun
- a professional boxer who weighs between 131 and 135 pounds
- someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous
- an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 132 pounds
- a wrestler who weighs 139-154 pounds
- A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the featherweight division and lighter than those in the welterweight division.
noun
adj
- Capable of stretching; particularly, capable of stretching so as to return to an original shape or size when force is released.
- Made of elastic.
- springy; bouncy; vivacious
- Pervasive, all-encompassing.
- Sensitive to changes in price.
- Able to return quickly to a former state or condition, after being depressed or overtaxed; having power to recover easily from shocks and trials.
- Of clothing, elasticated.
noun
- a flat piece of material designed for a special purpose
- a committee having supervisory powers
- a stout length of sawn timber; made in a wide variety of sizes and used for many purposes
- food or meals in general
- a vertical surface on which information can be displayed to public view
- a table at which meals are served
- electrical device consisting of a flat insulated surface that contains switches and dials and meters for controlling other electrical devices
- a printed circuit that can be inserted into expansion slots in a computer to increase the computer's capabilities
- a flat portable surface (usually rectangular) designed for board games
verb
noun
- A device that balances various quantities.
- One who makes equal; a balancer.
- A goal, run, point, etc. that equalizes the score.
- A device, such as a bar, for operating two brakes, especially a pair of hub brakes for an automobile, with equal force.
- A sliding panel to preserve the lateral stability of an aeroplane.
- A morphism whose codomain is the domain of a parallel pair of morphisms and which forms part of the limit of that parallel pair. Equivalently, a morphism which equalizes a parallel pair of morphisms in a limiting way, which is to say that any other morphism which equalizes that parallel pair factors through this limiting morphism; and moreover such factorization is unique.
- A weapon, usually a blackjack or gun.
- A set of arguments where two or more functions have equal values; the solution set of an equation.
- An electronic audio device for altering the frequencies of sound recordings.
- Any device for equalizing the pull of electromagnets.
- A conductor of low resistance joining the armature ends of the series field coils of dynamos connected in parallel.
noun
- a device used for shaping metal
- a small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the six faces; used in gambling to generate random numbers
- a cutting tool that is fitted into a diestock and used for cutting male (external) screw threads on screws or bolts or pipes or rods
verb
- pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- suffer or face the pain of death
- be brought to or as if to the point of death by an intense emotion such as embarrassment, amusement, or shame
- stop operating or functioning
- feel indifferent towards
- languish as with love or desire
- cut or shape with a die
- to be on base at the end of an inning, of a player
- lose sparkle or bouquet
- disappear or come to an end
- suffer spiritual death; be damned (in the religious sense)
English words for 'A small, sliding piece of thin metal on a balance, used to determine small weights.'
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