English words for 'A small sandpiper.'
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noun
- smallest American sandpiper
- an unbroken period of time during which you do something
- an individual's prescribed share of work
- Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.
- A period of time spent doing or being something; a spell.
- Limit; bound; restraint; extent.
- Misspelling of stent (“medical device”).
- (motor racing) A part of the race between two consecutive pit stops.
- Any of several very small wading birds in the genus Calidris. Types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or the sanderling.
verb
- supply sparingly and with restricted quantities
- subsist on a meager allowance
- (intransitive) To be sparing or mean.
- (of mares) To impregnate successfully; to get with foal.
- To assign a certain task to (a person), upon the performance of which he/she is excused from further labour for that day or period; to stent.
- (transitive) To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance.
noun
- a small wind instrument that produces a whistling sound by blowing into it
- an inexpensive fipple flute
- acoustic device that forces air or steam against an edge or into a cavity and so produces a loud shrill sound
- the sound made by something moving rapidly or by steam coming out of a small aperture
- the act of signalling (e.g., summoning) by whistling or blowing a whistle
- Any high-pitched sound similar to the sound made by whistling.
- A device designed to be placed in the mouth and blown, or driven by steam or some other mechanism, to make a whistling sound.
- A shrill, high-pitched sound made by whistling.
- An act of whistling.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A suit (from whistle and flute).
- (colloquial) The mouth and throat; so called as being the organs of whistling.
verb
- move, send, or bring as if by whistling
- make whistling sounds
- utter or express by whistling
- move with, or as with, a whistling sound
- make a whining, ringing, or whistling sound
- give a signal by whistling
- (intransitive) To move in such a way as to create a whistling sound.
- (transitive) To send, signal, or call by a whistle.
- (ambitransitive) To make a similar sound by forcing air through a musical instrument or a pipe etc.
- (intransitive, Opus Dei, slang) To request admission to Opus Dei, a Roman Catholic organization.
- (ambitransitive) To make a shrill, high-pitched sound by forcing air through the mouth. To produce a whistling sound, restrictions to the flow of air are created using the teeth, tongue and lips.
noun
- A bagpiper.
- A common European gurnard (Trigla lyra), having a large head, with prominent nasal projection, and with large, sharp, opercular spines.
- A musician who plays a pipe.
- A baby pigeon.
- A sea urchin (Cidaris cidaris) with very long spines, native to the American and European coasts.
- A halfbeak (Hyporhamphus ihi) found in New Zealand.
- someone who plays the bagpipe
noun
- The drone pipe of a bagpipe.
- A bumblebee, genus Bombus.
- (historical) Unadapted borrowing from French bourdon; a pilgrim's staff.
- A large, low-pitched bell not part of a diatonically tuned ring of bells.
- The lowest-pitched stop of an organ.
- The lowest-pitched bell of a carillon.
- a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone
noun
- a small bagpipe formerly popular in France
- A small oboe without a cap for its reed, which evolved from the chanter or pipe of bagpipes; a piccolo oboe.
- (historical) An organ stop using reed pipes with cone-shaped resonators, found in organs in France in the 17th and 18th centuries.
- (historical) Any of various small bagpipes having a soft sound, especially with a bellows, which were popular in France in the 17th and early 18th century.
- (by extension) A pastoral air or tune that has a drone imitating such an instrument; also, a dance performed to this music.
- (chiefly US, originally military) In full musette bag: a small bag or knapsack with a shoulder strap, formerly used by soldiers, and now (cycling) chiefly by cyclists to hold food and beverages or other items.
noun
- (colloquial, birdwatching) Ellipsis of sandpiper.
- (uncountable, figurative) "sand in [someone's] eyes" (idiom):
- (uncountable) Rock that is ground more finely than gravel, but is not as fine as silt (more formally, see grain sizes chart), forming beaches and deserts and also used in construction.
- (countable) A specific grade, type, or composition of sand.
- Dried mucus in the eye's inner corner, perhaps left from sleep (sleepy sand).
- (countable, figurative) A moment or interval of time; the term or extent of one's life (referring to the sand in an hourglass).
- An excuse for tears.
- A light beige colour, like that of typical sand.
- (countable, often in the plural) A beach or other mass of sand.
- (uncountable, geology) A particle from 62.5 microns to 2 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
- fortitude and determination
- a loose material consisting of grains of rock or coral
adj
verb
noun
- The drone of a bagpipe.
- (medicine) The total amount of toxins, parasites, cancer cells, plaque or similar present in an organism.
- (music) A phrase or theme that recurs at the end of each verse in a folk song or ballad.
- A responsibility, onus.
- (metalworking) The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.
- Theme, core idea.
- (mining) The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.
- A heavy load.
- A cause of worry; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.
- A fixed quantity of certain commodities.
- The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry.
- (blasting) The distance between rows of blastholes parallel to the major free face (i.e. face of the excavation)
- weight to be borne or conveyed
- the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
- an onerous or difficult concern
- the central idea that is expanded in a document or discourse
verb
noun
- egg-shaped terracotta wind instrument with a mouthpiece and finger holes
- pantropical vine widely cultivated in several varieties for its large sweet tuberous root with orange flesh
- the edible tuberous root of the sweet potato vine which is grown widely in warm regions of the United States
- An ocarina.
- A tropical perennial American vine, Ipomoea batatas, having a fleshy tuber.
- The tuber of this plant cooked as a vegetable.
noun
noun
- A blowpipe used by a pewterer.
- (originally British, dialectal and US) A receptacle for carrying coal, particularly one shaped like a bucket which is designed for loading coal or coke through the door of a firebox.
- (horse racing) A bookmaker's bag.
- A three-sided box mounted on a pole for carrying bricks, mortar, or other construction materials over the shoulder.
- The amount of material held by a hod (sense 1); a hodful.
- an open box attached to a long pole handle; bricks or mortar are carried on the shoulder
noun
- a tubular wind instrument
- the flues and stops on a pipe organ
- a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc.
- a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco
- a hollow cylindrical shape
- A type of pasta similar to macaroni.
- (especially in informal contexts) A water pipe.
- (Canada, US, colloquial, historical) The distance travelled between two rest periods during which one could smoke a pipe.
- (computing, typography) The character |.
- (music) A tube used to produce sound in an organ; an organ pipe.
- (mining) An elongated or irregular body or vein of ore.
- (computing) A mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another by sending its output to the other as input.
- (Australia, colloquial, historical) An anonymous satire or essay, insulting and frequently libellous, written on a piece of paper which was rolled up and left somewhere public where it could be found and thus spread, to embarrass the author's enemies.
- (computing, slang) A data backbone, or broadband Internet access.
- (smoking) A hollow stem with a bowl at one end used for smoking, especially a tobacco pipe but also including various other forms such as a water pipe.
- (geology) A vertical conduit through the Earth's crust below a volcano through which magma has passed, often filled with volcanic breccia.
- The contents of such a vessel, as a liquid measure, sometimes set at 126 wine gallons; half a tun.
- Decorative edging stitched to the hems or seams of an object made of fabric (clothing, hats, curtains, pillows, etc.), often in a contrasting color; piping.
- (music) A wind instrument consisting of a tube, often lined with holes to allow for adjustment in pitch, sounded by blowing into the tube.
- (lacrosse) One of the goalposts of the goal.
- A high-pitched sound, especially of a bird.
- A tubular passageway in the human body such as a blood vessel or the windpipe.
- (slang) A man's penis.
- (slang) A telephone.
- A rigid tube that transports water, steam, or other fluid, as used in plumbing and numerous other applications.
- The key or sound of the voice.
- A large container for storing liquids or foodstuffs; now especially a vat or cask of cider or wine. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.)
verb
- utter a shrill cry
- trim with piping
- transport by pipeline
- play on a pipe
- (intransitive) To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
- (transitive) To install or configure with pipes.
- (transitive) To dab moisture away from.
- (US, journalism, slang) To invent or embellish (a story).
- (transitive, computing, chiefly Unix) To directly feed (the output of one program) as input to another program, indicated by the pipe character (|) at the command line.
- (intransitive) Of a queen bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.
- (transitive, nautical) To order or signal by a note pattern on a boatswain's pipe.
- (intransitive) To shout loudly and at high pitch.
- (transitive, slang, of a man) To have sex with a woman.
- (transitive, figuratively) To lead or conduct as if by pipes, especially by wired transmission.
- (intransitive, metallurgy) Of a metal ingot: to become hollow in the process of solidifying.
- (transitive, cooking) To create or decorate with piping (icing).
- (transitive) To hit with a pipe.
- (transitive) To convey or transport (something) by means of pipes.
- (ambitransitive) To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute.
noun
- smallest American sandpiper
- an unbroken period of time during which you do something
- an individual's prescribed share of work
- Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.
- A period of time spent doing or being something; a spell.
- Limit; bound; restraint; extent.
- Misspelling of stent (“medical device”).
- (motor racing) A part of the race between two consecutive pit stops.
- Any of several very small wading birds in the genus Calidris. Types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or the sanderling.
verb
- supply sparingly and with restricted quantities
- subsist on a meager allowance
- (intransitive) To be sparing or mean.
- (of mares) To impregnate successfully; to get with foal.
- To assign a certain task to (a person), upon the performance of which he/she is excused from further labour for that day or period; to stent.
- (transitive) To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance.
noun
- a small wind instrument that produces a whistling sound by blowing into it
- an inexpensive fipple flute
- acoustic device that forces air or steam against an edge or into a cavity and so produces a loud shrill sound
- the sound made by something moving rapidly or by steam coming out of a small aperture
- the act of signalling (e.g., summoning) by whistling or blowing a whistle
- Any high-pitched sound similar to the sound made by whistling.
- A device designed to be placed in the mouth and blown, or driven by steam or some other mechanism, to make a whistling sound.
- A shrill, high-pitched sound made by whistling.
- An act of whistling.
- (Cockney rhyming slang) A suit (from whistle and flute).
- (colloquial) The mouth and throat; so called as being the organs of whistling.
verb
- move, send, or bring as if by whistling
- make whistling sounds
- utter or express by whistling
- move with, or as with, a whistling sound
- make a whining, ringing, or whistling sound
- give a signal by whistling
- (intransitive) To move in such a way as to create a whistling sound.
- (transitive) To send, signal, or call by a whistle.
- (ambitransitive) To make a similar sound by forcing air through a musical instrument or a pipe etc.
- (intransitive, Opus Dei, slang) To request admission to Opus Dei, a Roman Catholic organization.
- (ambitransitive) To make a shrill, high-pitched sound by forcing air through the mouth. To produce a whistling sound, restrictions to the flow of air are created using the teeth, tongue and lips.
noun
- A bagpiper.
- A common European gurnard (Trigla lyra), having a large head, with prominent nasal projection, and with large, sharp, opercular spines.
- A musician who plays a pipe.
- A baby pigeon.
- A sea urchin (Cidaris cidaris) with very long spines, native to the American and European coasts.
- A halfbeak (Hyporhamphus ihi) found in New Zealand.
- someone who plays the bagpipe
noun
- The drone pipe of a bagpipe.
- A bumblebee, genus Bombus.
- (historical) Unadapted borrowing from French bourdon; a pilgrim's staff.
- A large, low-pitched bell not part of a diatonically tuned ring of bells.
- The lowest-pitched stop of an organ.
- The lowest-pitched bell of a carillon.
- a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone
noun
- a small bagpipe formerly popular in France
- A small oboe without a cap for its reed, which evolved from the chanter or pipe of bagpipes; a piccolo oboe.
- (historical) An organ stop using reed pipes with cone-shaped resonators, found in organs in France in the 17th and 18th centuries.
- (historical) Any of various small bagpipes having a soft sound, especially with a bellows, which were popular in France in the 17th and early 18th century.
- (by extension) A pastoral air or tune that has a drone imitating such an instrument; also, a dance performed to this music.
- (chiefly US, originally military) In full musette bag: a small bag or knapsack with a shoulder strap, formerly used by soldiers, and now (cycling) chiefly by cyclists to hold food and beverages or other items.
noun
- (colloquial, birdwatching) Ellipsis of sandpiper.
- (uncountable, figurative) "sand in [someone's] eyes" (idiom):
- (uncountable) Rock that is ground more finely than gravel, but is not as fine as silt (more formally, see grain sizes chart), forming beaches and deserts and also used in construction.
- (countable) A specific grade, type, or composition of sand.
- Dried mucus in the eye's inner corner, perhaps left from sleep (sleepy sand).
- (countable, figurative) A moment or interval of time; the term or extent of one's life (referring to the sand in an hourglass).
- An excuse for tears.
- A light beige colour, like that of typical sand.
- (countable, often in the plural) A beach or other mass of sand.
- (uncountable, geology) A particle from 62.5 microns to 2 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
- fortitude and determination
- a loose material consisting of grains of rock or coral
adj
verb
noun
- The drone of a bagpipe.
- (medicine) The total amount of toxins, parasites, cancer cells, plaque or similar present in an organism.
- (music) A phrase or theme that recurs at the end of each verse in a folk song or ballad.
- A responsibility, onus.
- (metalworking) The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.
- Theme, core idea.
- (mining) The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.
- A heavy load.
- A cause of worry; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.
- A fixed quantity of certain commodities.
- The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry.
- (blasting) The distance between rows of blastholes parallel to the major free face (i.e. face of the excavation)
- weight to be borne or conveyed
- the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
- an onerous or difficult concern
- the central idea that is expanded in a document or discourse
verb
noun
- egg-shaped terracotta wind instrument with a mouthpiece and finger holes
- pantropical vine widely cultivated in several varieties for its large sweet tuberous root with orange flesh
- the edible tuberous root of the sweet potato vine which is grown widely in warm regions of the United States
- An ocarina.
- A tropical perennial American vine, Ipomoea batatas, having a fleshy tuber.
- The tuber of this plant cooked as a vegetable.
noun
noun
- A blowpipe used by a pewterer.
- (originally British, dialectal and US) A receptacle for carrying coal, particularly one shaped like a bucket which is designed for loading coal or coke through the door of a firebox.
- (horse racing) A bookmaker's bag.
- A three-sided box mounted on a pole for carrying bricks, mortar, or other construction materials over the shoulder.
- The amount of material held by a hod (sense 1); a hodful.
- an open box attached to a long pole handle; bricks or mortar are carried on the shoulder
noun
- a tubular wind instrument
- the flues and stops on a pipe organ
- a long tube made of metal or plastic that is used to carry water or oil or gas etc.
- a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco
- a hollow cylindrical shape
- A type of pasta similar to macaroni.
- (especially in informal contexts) A water pipe.
- (Canada, US, colloquial, historical) The distance travelled between two rest periods during which one could smoke a pipe.
- (computing, typography) The character |.
- (music) A tube used to produce sound in an organ; an organ pipe.
- (mining) An elongated or irregular body or vein of ore.
- (computing) A mechanism that enables one program to communicate with another by sending its output to the other as input.
- (Australia, colloquial, historical) An anonymous satire or essay, insulting and frequently libellous, written on a piece of paper which was rolled up and left somewhere public where it could be found and thus spread, to embarrass the author's enemies.
- (computing, slang) A data backbone, or broadband Internet access.
- (smoking) A hollow stem with a bowl at one end used for smoking, especially a tobacco pipe but also including various other forms such as a water pipe.
- (geology) A vertical conduit through the Earth's crust below a volcano through which magma has passed, often filled with volcanic breccia.
- The contents of such a vessel, as a liquid measure, sometimes set at 126 wine gallons; half a tun.
- Decorative edging stitched to the hems or seams of an object made of fabric (clothing, hats, curtains, pillows, etc.), often in a contrasting color; piping.
- (music) A wind instrument consisting of a tube, often lined with holes to allow for adjustment in pitch, sounded by blowing into the tube.
- (lacrosse) One of the goalposts of the goal.
- A high-pitched sound, especially of a bird.
- A tubular passageway in the human body such as a blood vessel or the windpipe.
- (slang) A man's penis.
- (slang) A telephone.
- A rigid tube that transports water, steam, or other fluid, as used in plumbing and numerous other applications.
- The key or sound of the voice.
- A large container for storing liquids or foodstuffs; now especially a vat or cask of cider or wine. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.)
verb
- utter a shrill cry
- trim with piping
- transport by pipeline
- play on a pipe
- (intransitive) To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle.
- (transitive) To install or configure with pipes.
- (transitive) To dab moisture away from.
- (US, journalism, slang) To invent or embellish (a story).
- (transitive, computing, chiefly Unix) To directly feed (the output of one program) as input to another program, indicated by the pipe character (|) at the command line.
- (intransitive) Of a queen bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.
- (transitive, nautical) To order or signal by a note pattern on a boatswain's pipe.
- (intransitive) To shout loudly and at high pitch.
- (transitive, slang, of a man) To have sex with a woman.
- (transitive, figuratively) To lead or conduct as if by pipes, especially by wired transmission.
- (intransitive, metallurgy) Of a metal ingot: to become hollow in the process of solidifying.
- (transitive, cooking) To create or decorate with piping (icing).
- (transitive) To hit with a pipe.
- (transitive) To convey or transport (something) by means of pipes.
- (ambitransitive) To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute.
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