shiver
cafe curtain
wicket
shutterwise
latchet
roller shutter
fox
safety lock
snib
safety bolt
fanlight
sliding window
doorlatch
hasp
heck
rail
cabin hook
door hinge
dormer window
volet
snugger
latch
traverse
roller blind
jalousie
curtain
transom
sliding bolt
slot
bar
slide bolt
sidelight
window
windowpane
lever lock
window lock
sash fastener
wedge
squeeze
louvered window
force
sashed
register grate
sash lock
crossette
splinter bar
peephole
spring latch
unbar
hanging stile
muntin
click
stallboard
valance
snecket
cafe curtains
leadlight
harr
windowlike
valve
transom window
sash
shade
prize
draw the curtains
saddle bar
selvage
doorframe
draught excluder
door frame
key
expansion bolt
shackle bolt
brise-bise
vertical blinds
hanging rail
bar up
bolt
casement
pulley shell
encurtain
klimp
splay
cornice
grill
ranchslider
gate
looplight
putty knife
valance board
draw
windowlet
pelmet
sashed
windowlike
shutterwise
shiver
cafe curtain
wicket
latchet
roller shutter
fox
safety lock
snib
safety bolt
fanlight
sliding window
doorlatch
hasp
heck
rail
cabin hook
door hinge
dormer window
volet
snugger
latch
traverse
roller blind
jalousie
transom
sliding bolt
slot
slide bolt
sidelight
window
windowpane
lever lock
window lock
sash fastener
louvered window
register grate
sash lock
crossette
splinter bar
peephole
spring latch
hanging stile
muntin
click
stallboard
valance
snecket
cafe curtains
leadlight
harr
valve
transom window
sash
shade
prize
saddle bar
selvage
doorframe
draught excluder
door frame
key
expansion bolt
shackle bolt
brise-bise
vertical blinds
hanging rail
bolt
casement
pulley shell
klimp
splay
cornice
grill
ranchslider
gate
looplight
putty knife
valance board
windowlet
pelmet
curtain
bar
wedge
squeeze
force
snib
unbar
draw the curtains
bar up
encurtain
draw
noun
- A small window or other opening, sometimes fitted with a grating.
- An angle bracket when used in HTML.
- Any of the small arches through which the balls are driven.
- A temporary metal attachment that one attaches one's lift-ticket to.
- A small door or gate, especially one beside a larger one.
- A device to measure the height of animals, usually dogs.
- A service window, as in a bank or train station, where a customer conducts transactions with a teller
- A dismissal; the act of a batsman getting out.
- The pitch.
- a ticket barrier at a rail station, box office at a cinema, etc.
- One of the two wooden structures at each end of the pitch, consisting of three vertical stumps and two bails; the target for the bowler, defended by the batsman.
- The area around the stumps where the batsmen stand.
- A shelter made from tree boughs, used by lumbermen.
- The period during which two batsmen bat together.
- The space between the pillars, in post-and-stall working.
noun
- A wedge driven into the split end of a bolt to tighten it.
- A physically attractive man or woman.
- A fox terrier.
- Air-to-air weapon launched.
- A red fox, small carnivore (Vulpes vulpes), related to dogs and wolves, with red or silver fur and a bushy tail.
- A small strand of rope made by twisting several rope-yarns together. Used for seizings, mats, sennits, and gaskets.
- A cunning person.
- A person with reddish brown hair, usually a woman.
- A hidden radio transmitter, finding which is the goal of radiosport.
- The fourteenth Lenormand card.
- The fur of a fox.
- The gemmeous dragonet, a fish, Callionymus lyra, so called from its yellow color.
- Any of numerous species of small wild canids resembling the red fox. In the taxonomy they form the tribe Vulpini within the family Canidae, consisting of nine genera (see the Wikipedia article on the fox).
verb
- To trick, fool or outwit (someone) by cunning or ingenuity.
- To act slyly or craftily.
- To make sour, as beer, by causing it to ferment.
- To confuse or baffle (someone).
- To intoxicate; to stupefy with drink.
- To turn sour; said of beer, etc., when it sours in fermenting.
- To discolour paper. Fox marks are spots on paper caused by humidity. (See foxing.)
- To repair (boots) with new front upper leather, or to piece the upper fronts of.
noun
- A horizontal piece of wood that serves to separate sections of a door or window.
- A horizontal bar extending between supports and used for support or as a barrier; a railing.
- A large line (portion or serving of a powdery illegal drug).
- A railroad; a railway, as a means of transportation.
- A conductor maintained at a fixed electrical potential relative to ground, to which other circuit components are connected.
- Any of several birds in the family Rallidae.
- One of the lengthwise edges of a surfboard.
- The metal bar forming part of the track for a railroad.
- A vertical section on one side of a web page.
verb
noun
noun
- A type of latch that operates by providing spring tension between a door or window and its frame.
- A threaded plastic tube used to clamp blood vessels during surgery.
- Moveable brackets for keeping small items secure on a shelf.
- A ring that fits tightly around a cable, rope or wire, holding it in place or preventing leakage around any hole through which it passes.
noun
- A fastening for a door that has a bar that fits into a notch or slot, and is lifted by a lever or string from either side.
- A breastfeeding baby's connection to the breast.
- A lightweight lock to protect internal structures from being modified by multiple concurrent accesses.
- An electronic circuit that is like a flip-flop, except that it is level triggered instead of edge triggered.
verb
noun
verb
- To cover (a window) with a curtain; to hang curtains.
- To hide, cover or separate as if by a curtain.
noun
- Death.
- That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.
- A piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc. to offer privacy and keep out light.
- A similar piece of cloth that separates the audience and the stage in a theater.
- The beginning of a show; the moment the curtain rises.
- The flat area of wall which connects two bastions or towers; the main area of a fortified wall.
noun
- An implement for barring, bolting, locking or securing a door, box, gate, lid, window or the like.
- The inside of the "rim" or semicircular copy desk, occupied by the supervisor of the copy editors.
- A broad, flat, wooden bar, a slat, especially as used to secure a door, window, etc.
- The vagina.
- A channel opening in the stator or rotor of a rotating machine for ventilation and insertion of windings.
- The track of an animal, especially a deer; spoor.
- A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm; a crevasse.
- A space in memory or on disk etc. in which a particular type of object can be stored.
- A rectangular area directly in front of the net and extending toward the blue line.
- A period of time within a schedule or sequence.
- A narrow depression, perforation, or aperture; especially, one for the reception of a piece fitting or sliding in it.
- A metal bolt or wooden bar, especially as a crosspiece.
- The barrel or tube of a wave.
- A slot machine designed for gambling.
- The area between the last offensive lineman on either side of the center and the wide receiver on that side.
- In a flying display, the fourth position; after the leader and two wingmen.
- The allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival at an airport's runway.
verb
- To kick the ball between the posts for a goal; to score a goal by doing this.
- To fall, or cause to fall, into a crevasse.
- To assign something or someone into a slot (gap in a schedule or sequence)
- To put something (such as a coin) into a slot (narrow aperture)
- To create a slot (narrow aperture or groove), as for example by cutting or machining.
- To put something where it belongs.
- To kill.
verb
- To lock or bolt with a bar.
- To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).
- To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.
- To prohibit.
noun
- An establishment offering cosmetic services.
- Premises or a counter serving any type of beverage.
- A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is ¹⁄₄ inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called a strip.
- The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.
- A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance, especially a formation extending across the mouth of a river or harbor or off a beach, and which may obstruct navigation. (FM 55-501).
- The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit.
- A broad shaft, band, or stripe.
- The bar exam, the legal licensing exam.
- A drilling or tamping rod.
- A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.
- An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act.
- A dividing line (physical or notional) in the chamber of a legislature beyond which only members and officials may pass.
- A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
- A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.
- A similar sign indicating that the charge on a particle is the negative of its usual value (and that consequently the particle is in fact an antiparticle).
- A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, approximately equal to atmospheric pressure at sea level.
- The counter of such premises.
- The sign indicating that the characteristic of a logarithm is negative, conventionally placed above the digit(s) to show that it applies to the characteristic only and not to the mantissa.
- A metasyntactic variable representing an unspecified entity, often the second in a series, following foo.
- The crossbar.
- Any level of achievement regarded as a challenge to be overcome.
- A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.
- A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water.
- An establishment where alcohol and sometimes other refreshments are served.
- Collectively, lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries, but including all lawyers in others.
- One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a diminutive of a fess.
- Any of various lines used as punctuation or diacritics, such as the pipe ⟨|⟩, fraction bar (as in 12), and strikethrough (as in Ⱥ), formerly (obsolete) including oblique marks such as the slash.
- Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
- The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the centre of the sole.
- A city gate, in some British place names.
- An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.
- A business selling alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; a public house.
- One of those musical sections.
- A vein or dike crossing a lode.
- A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
- One of an array of bar-shaped symbols that display the level of something, such as wireless signal strength or battery life remaining.
- A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
- A horizontal pole that must be crossed in the high jump and pole vault.
- An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
- A measure of drugs, typically one ounce.
- The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay.
prep
noun
- The shutter, casement, sash with its fittings, or other framework, which closes a window opening.
- Something that allows one to see through or into something
- A rectangular area on a computer terminal or screen containing some kind of user interface, displaying the output of and allowing input for one of a number of simultaneously running computer processes.
- A function multiplied with a signal to reduce spectral leakage when performing a Fourier transform.
- An opening, usually covered by glass, in a shop which allows people to view the shop and its products from outside; a shop window.
- A figure formed of lines crossing each other.
- The time between first infection and detectability.
- A restricted range.
- An opening, usually covered by one or more panes of clear glass, to allow light and air from outside to enter a building or vehicle.
- A period of time when something is available or possible; a limited opportunity.
- Synonym of chaff (“strips of material intended to confuse radar”)
verb
verb
noun
- any shape that is triangular in cross section
- a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States
- a diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as the letter c) to indicate pronunciation
- a heel that is an extension of the sole of the shoe
- (golf) an iron with considerable loft and a broad sole
- something solid that is usable as an inclined plane (shaped like a V) that can be pushed between two things to separate them
- a block of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object
verb
- squeeze like a wedge into a tight space
- to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition
- press firmly
- to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means
- obtain by coercion or intimidation
- press or force
- squeeze tightly between the fingers
- hold (someone) tightly in your arms, usually with fondness
- squeeze or press together
noun
- the act of gripping and pressing firmly
- a state in which there is a short supply of cash to lend to businesses and consumers and interest rates are high
- a situation in which increased costs cannot be passed on to the customer
- (slang) a person's girlfriend or boyfriend
- a twisting squeeze
- an aggressive attempt to compel acquiescence by the concentration or manipulation of power
- a tight or amorous embrace
- the act of forcing yourself (or being forced) into or through a restricted space
verb
- squeeze like a wedge into a tight space
- 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
- move with force
- impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably
- 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
noun
- The latch of a door.
- A single instance of content on the Internet being accessed.
- A detent, pawl, or ratchet, such as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion.
- The act of pressing a button on a computer mouse or similar input device, both as a physical act and a reaction in the software.
- A pawl or similar catch.
- The act of making a clicking sound by pressing a finger against the thumb and then releasing to strike the palm; a snap.
- The act of operating a switch, etc., so that it clicks.
- An ingressive sound made by coarticulating a velar or uvular closure with another closure.
- A brief, sharp, not particularly loud, relatively high-pitched sound produced by the impact of something small and hard against something hard, such as by the operation of a switch, a lock, or a latch.
- Sound made by a dolphin.
- A limb contortion at the joint, part of vogue dancing.
intj
verb
- To press and release (a button on a computer mouse).
- To emit a click.
- To snap the fingers.
- To visit (a web site).
- To make sense suddenly.
- Of a film, to be successful at the box office.
- To select a software item using, usually, but not always, the pressing of a mouse button.
- To cause to make a click; to operate (a switch, etc) so that it makes a click.
- To navigate by clicking a mouse button.
- To get along well.
- To take (a photograph) with a camera.
- To achieve success in one's career or a breakthrough, often the first time.
noun
- A decorative framework used to conceal the curtain mechanism and so on at the top of a window.
- A short curtain that usually hangs along the top edge of a window.
- A short, decorative edging of cloth that hangs from beneath the mattress to the floor used to conceal the boxspring or space under the bed and prevent dust from accumulating there.
- A short, decorative edging of cloth that conceals the legs of a couch, sofa, etc.
- The drooping edging of the lid of a trunk, which covers the joint when the lid is closed.
noun
noun
- One of the leaves of a folding-door, or a window-sash.
- One of the pieces or divisions of bivalve or multivalve shells.
- One of the pieces into which certain fruits naturally separate when they dehisce.
- One of the two similar portions of the shell of a diatom.
- A device that admits fuel and air into the cylinder of an internal combustion engine, or one that allows combustion gases to exit.
- A device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid through a pipe.
- One or more membranous partitions, flaps, or folds, which permit the passage of the contents of a vessel or cavity in one direction, but stop or control the flow in the opposite direction
- A vacuum tube.
- A small portion of certain anthers, which opens like a trapdoor to allow the pollen to escape, such as in the barberry.
verb
noun
- The opening part (casement) of a window usually containing the glass panes, hinged to the jamb, or sliding up and down as in a sash window.
- A draggable vertical or horizontal bar used to adjust the relative sizes of two adjacent windows.
- A piece of cloth designed to be worn around the waist.
- The rectangular frame in which the saw is strained and by which it is carried up and down with a reciprocating motion; the gate.
- A window-like part of a fume hood which can be moved up and down in order to create a barrier between chemicals and people.
- A decorative length of cloth worn over the shoulder to the opposite hip, often for ceremonial or other formal occasions.
verb
noun
- Something that blocks light, particularly in a window.
- A variety of a colour/color, in particular one obtained by adding black (compare tint).
- An aspect that is reminiscent of something.
- 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
- A lever; a pry; also, the hold of a lever.
- 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.
- 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.
verb
adj
noun
- The edge plate of a lock, through which the bolt passes
- Any edge of fabric finished so as to prevent raveling.
- The edge of a woven fabric, where the weft (side-to-side) threads run around the warp (top to bottom) threads, creating a finished edge.
- Clay-like material found along and around a geological fault.
- That part of a lode adjacent to the walls on either side.
- A distinct border of a mass of igneous rock. It is usually fine-grained or glassy due to rapid cooling.
- The excess area of any printed or perforated sheet, such as the border on a sheet of postage stamps or the wide margins of an engraving.
verb
noun
- An object designed to open and close a lock.
- The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance.
- A piece of wood used as a wedge.
- A piece of information (e.g., a password or passphrase) used to encode or decode a message or messages.
- A modification of an advertisement so as to target a particular group or demographic.
- One of several small, usually square buttons on a typewriter or computer keyboard, mostly corresponding to text characters.
- A scale or group of pitches constituting the basis of a musical composition.
- A series of logically organized groups of discriminating information which aims to allow the user to correctly identify a taxon.
- The degree of roughness, or retention ability of a surface to have applied a liquid such as paint, or glue.
- One of a string of small islands.
- A crucial step or requirement.
- A password restricting access to an IRC channel.
- In instruments with a keyboard such as an organ or piano, one of the levers, or especially the exposed front end of it, which are depressed to cause a particular sound or note to be produced.
- In musical notation, a sign at the head of a staff indicating the musical key.
- A value that uniquely identifies an entry in a container.
- A keystone.
- The last board of a floor when laid down.
- The lowest note of a scale; keynote.
- A wooden support for a rail on the bullhead rail system.
- In musical theory, the total melodic and harmonic relations, which exist between the tones of an ideal scale, major or minor; tonality.
- An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, such as the fruit of the ash and maple; a samara.
- In musical instruments, one of the valve levers used to select notes, such as a lever opening a hole on a woodwind.
- A guide to the correct answers of a worksheet or test.
- The thirty-third card of the Lenormand deck.
- A guide explaining the symbols or terminology of a map or chart; a legend.
- That part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place.
- In musical theory and notation, the tonality centering in a given tone, or the several tones taken collectively, of a given scale, major or minor.
- A manual electrical switching device primarily used for the transmission of Morse code.
- The black ink layer, especially in relation to the three color layers of cyan, magenta, and yellow. See also CMYK.
- The free-throw lane together with the circle surrounding the free-throw line, the free-throw lane having formerly been narrower, giving the area the shape of a skeleton key hole.
- A color to be masked or made transparent.
- In a relational database, a field used as an index into another table (not necessarily unique).
- An object designed to fit between two other objects (such as a shaft and a wheel) in a mechanism and maintain their relative orientation.
adj
verb
- To be identified as a certain taxon when using a key.
- (more usually to key in) To enter (information) by typing on a keyboard or keypad.
- To fasten or secure firmly; to fasten or tighten with keys or wedges.
- To link (as one might do with a key or legend).
- To depress (a telegraph key).
- To prepare for plastering by adding the key (that part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place).
- To attune to; to set at; to pitch.
- To vandalize (a car, etc.) by scratching with an implement such as a key.
- To operate (the transmitter switch of a two-way radio).
- To modify (an advertisement) so as to target a particular group or demographic.
- To fit (pieces of a mechanical assembly) with a key to maintain the orientation between them.
- To mark or indicate with a symbol indicating membership in a class.
- To fit (a lock) with a key.
noun
- A bar of wood or metal dropped in horizontal hooks on a door and adjoining wall or between the two sides of a double door, to prevent the door(s) from being forced open.
- A small personal-armour-piercing missile for short-range use, or (in common usage though deprecated by experts) a short arrow, intended to be shot from a crossbow or a catapult.
- The standard linear measurement of canvas for use at sea: 39 yards.
- A sieve, especially a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.
- A sliding mechanism to chamber and unchamber a cartridge in a firearm.
- A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.
- A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a cylindrical body that is threaded, with a larger head on one end. It can be inserted into an unthreaded hole up to the head, with a nut then threaded on the other end; a heavy machine screw.
- A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.
- A stalk or scape (of garlic, onion, etc).
- A burst of speed or efficiency.
- A lightning spark, i.e., a lightning bolt.
- An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.
- A sliding pin or bar in a lock or latch mechanism.
- A sudden event, action or emotion.
- A large roll of fabric or similar material, as a bolt of cloth.
- A sudden spring or start; a sudden leap aside.
verb
- To produce flower stalks and flowers or seeds quickly or prematurely; to form a bolt (stalk or scape); to go to seed.
- To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.
- To escape.
- To sift, especially through a cloth.
- To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge (an animal being hunted).
- To flee, to depart, to accelerate suddenly.
- To sift the bran and germ from wheat flour.
- To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt.
- To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.
- To secure a door by locking or barring it.
- To swallow food without chewing it.
- To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.
- To drink one's drink very quickly; to down a drink.
- To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.
- To separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.
adv
noun
- The criss-cross pieces that separate panes of glass in a window.
- A cooking device comprising a source of radiative and convective heat and a means of holding food above it; a barbecue.
- A grating; a grid of wire or a sheet of material with a pattern of holes or slots, usually used to protect something while allowing the passage of air and liquids. Typical uses: to allow air through a fan while preventing fingers or objects from passing; to allow people to talk to somebody, while preventing attack.
- A grillroom; a restaurant serving grilled food.
- A type of jewelry worn on the front teeth.
- Food (designed to be) cooked on a grill.
- The front teeth regarded collectively.
- On a vehicle, a slotted cover as above, to protect and hide the radiator, while admitting air to cool it.
- A cooking device comprising a source of radiative heat and a means of holding food under it; a broiler in US English
verb
noun
- In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
- Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
- The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.
- The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
- A street; now used especially as a combining form to make the name of a street e.g. "Briggate" (a common street name in the north of England meaning "Bridge Street") or Kirkgate meaning "Church Street".
- Passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
- The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
- The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate.
- A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
- A doorlike structure outside a house.
- A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.
- The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
- Movable barrier.
- A location which serves as a conduit for transport, migration, or trade.
- A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
- A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
- A way, path.
verb
- To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
- To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively as needed, or to avoid damage from excessive light exposure. See autogating.
- To open a closed ion channel.
- To furnish with a gate.
- To punish, especially a child or teenager, by not allowing them to go out.
verb
- To pull (a curtain, blinds etc.) open or closed.
- To take (air, smoke etc.) into the lungs; to inhale.
- To provoke or attract (a particular response or reaction).
- To hit (the ball) with the toe of the club so that it is deflected toward the left.
- To take (water) from a well or other source.
- To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes it to take a backward direction on striking another ball.
- To receive (a salary); to withdraw (money) from a bank etc.
- To elicit information from (someone); to induce (a person) to speak on some subject. (Now frequently in passive.)
- To pull out, unsheathe (a sword, firearm etc.).
- To make (wire) by pulling it through an aperture; to stretch (metal) into a wire.
- To move steadily in a particular direction or into a specific position.
- To extract (a tooth).
- To take or be dealt a playing card from the deck. See also draw out.
- To pull (something) in a particular manner or direction.
- To call forth (something) from a person, to elicit.
- To take or be dealt (a card) from the deck; to have (a particular hand) as a result of this.
- To make a shot that lands gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones.
- To attract (something) by means of a physical force, especially magnetism or gravity; (figurative) to act as an inducement or enticement.
- To come to, towards (a particular moment in time); to approach (a time).
- To produce (a shape, figure, picture etc.) with pencil, crayon, chalk, or other implement.
- To cause (someone) to come to a particular place, condition, or course of action; to attract (a person).
- To conduct (a lottery); to select (the numbers) for a lottery; to win (a prize) in a lottery.
- To depict (something) linguistically; to portray in words.
- To produce a visual representation of (a person or thing) by lines and marks with pencil, pen, paints etc.
- To drag (a person, thing, or part of the body), especially along the ground.
- To move (a part of one's body) in a particular direction.
- To stretch or elongate.
- To deduce or infer (a conclusion); to make (a deduction).
- To draw up, compose (a document).
- To have a draught; to allow air to be passed through in order to allow for combustion.
- To induce (the mind, eyes, attention etc.) to be directed at or focused on something.
- To cause (something); to bring (something) about as a consequence.
- To become contracted; to shrink.
- To assume a specific position or attitude.
- To require (a depth of water) for floating.
- To pull back (the string of a bow) in preparation for shooting.
- To pull (one's face, features) out of shape, from emotion etc.
- Of a sail, to fill with wind.
- To select (an item) at random to decide which of a group of people will receive or undergo something; to select (a person) by this process.
- To disembowel (someone); to remove the viscera from (an animal), especially before cooking.
- To end a game in a draw (with neither side winning).
- To steep; to leave (tea) temporarily in water to allow the flavour to increase.
- To run (a bath).
- To produce an image of something by artistic means; to make drawings.
- To pull (a belt or other item) so that it tightens or wraps around something more closely.
- To take (something) from a particular source, especially of information; to derive.
- To pull (a plough, vehicle etc.); to cause (something) to move forwards by pulling it.
- To extract (juice, fluids etc.) from something by pressure, osmosis or similar.
- To play (a short-length ball directed at the leg stump) with an inclined bat so as to deflect the ball between the legs and the wicket.
- To consume (power).
noun
- A dry stream bed that drains surface water only during periods of heavy rain or flooding.
- The act of drawing.
- The act of pulling back the strings in preparation of firing.
- Something that attracts e.g. a crowd.
- Cannabis.
- The spin or twist imparted to a ball etc. by a drawing stroke.
- The procedure by which the result of a lottery is determined.
- A shot that is intended to land gently in the house (the circular target) without knocking out other stones; cf. takeout.
- A bag of cannabis.
- Draft in the sense of the flow through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process, possibly adjustable with a damper.
- The result of a two-innings match in which at least one side did not complete all their innings before time ran out (as distinguished from a tie).
- A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the left. See hook, slice, fade.
- In a commission-based job, an advance on future (potential) commissions given to an employee by the employer.
- A situation in which one or more players has four cards of the same suit or four out of five necessary cards for a straight and requires a further card to make their flush or straight.
- The result of a contest that neither side has won; a tie.
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English words for 'A small wedge, as for fastening the bolt of a window shutter.'
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