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paracotylar
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shiplap
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sideboard
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inkle
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bulging
matchboard
spring
fold
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sidth
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top and but
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coverstrip
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flap
slick
buckle
oil-canning
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inkle
give
fill-in
strain rate
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matchboard
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elastoplasticity
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buckle
fold
noun
- A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness and/or cross section in an elongated object.
- 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.
adj
verb
noun
- Any solid object rounded at one end and tapering on the other, possibly attached to a larger object at the tapered end.
- A light bulb (not necessarily bulbous in shape).
- A bulbous protuberance at the forefoot of certain vessels to reduce turbulence.
- The bulb-shaped root portion of a plant such as a tulip, from which the rest of the plant may be regrown.
verb
noun
- A thin piece of material, sometimes tapered, used for alignment or support.
- A small library that transparently intercepts and modifies calls to an API, usually for compatibility purposes.
- A kind of shallow plow used in tillage to break the ground and clear it of weeds.
- A small metal device used to pick open a lock.
- A person characterised by both male and female traits, or by ambiguous male-female traits; a hermaphrodite.
- A wedge.
- A transsexual person, especially a trans woman; (loosely) a drag queen or transvestite.
verb
noun
noun
- A hanging end or shred, in particular a long pointed strip of cloth at the edge of a piece of clothing, or one of a row of decorative strips of cloth that may ornament a tent, booth or fairground.
- A dangling lock of sheep’s wool matted with dung.
- A skewer.
- A misty shower; dew.
- A spit, a sharpened rod used for roasting food over a fire.
- The unbranched antler of a young deer.
- One who dresses unfashionably or without apparent care about appearance; someone who is not cool; a dweeb or nerd.
- A directed acyclic graph; an ordered pair (V,E) such that E is a subset of some partial ordering relation on V.
intj
verb
adj
verb
- To move (away) quickly, to scurry away.
- To beat with a heavy mallet.
- To loom over; to extend or jut.
- To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine.
noun
- A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; a beetling machine.
- Any of numerous species of insect in the order Coleoptera characterized by a pair of hard, shell-like front wings which cover and protect a pair of rear wings when at rest.
- A type of mallet with a large wooden head, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.
- A game of chance in which players attempt to complete a drawing of a beetle, different dice rolls allowing them to add the various body parts.
noun
- State of an elastic object which is stretched in a way which increases its length.
- The condition of being held in a state between two or more forces, which are acting in opposition to each other.
- A feeling of nervousness, excitement, or fear that is created in a movie, book, etc.; suspense.
- Force transmitted through a rope, string, cable, or similar object (used with prepositions on, in, or of, e.g., "The tension in the cable is 1000 N", to convey that the same magnitude of force applies to objects attached to both ends).
- Voltage. Usually only the terms low tension, high tension, and extra-high tension, and the abbreviations LT, HT, and EHT are used. They are not precisely defined; LT is normally a few volts, HT a few hundreds of volts, and EHT thousands of volts.
- Psychological state of being tense.
verb
adj
- Flattening at the ends.
- Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft.
- Unable to emit power; dead.
- Smooth; having no protrusions, indentations or other surface irregularities, or relatively so.
- Lacking acidity without being sweet.
- Not having an inflectional ending or sign, such as a noun used as an adjective, or an adjective as an adverb, without the addition of a formative suffix; or an infinitive without the sign "to".
- Absolute; downright; peremptory.
- Without variation in tone or hue (uniform), and dull (not glossy).
- Without variation in level, quantity, value, tone etc.
- Of fees, fares etc., fixed; unvarying.
- Lowered by one semitone.
- Without spin; spinless.
- Having small or invisible breasts and/or buttocks.
- At a consistently depressed level; consistently lacklustre.
- With all or most of its carbon dioxide having come out of solution so that the drink no longer fizzes or contains any bubbles.
- Exact.
- In a horizontal line or plane; not sloping.
- Lacking liveliness or action; depressed; uninteresting; dull and boring.
- Of a note or voice, lower in pitch than it should be.
- Without variations in pitch.
- Deflated, especially because of a puncture.
- Having no variations in height.
- Lacking in depth, substance, or believability; underdeveloped; one-dimensional.
adv
- Used to emphasize the smallness of the measurement.
- Completely.
- Without allowance for accrued interest.
- Bluntly.
- In the mile race, Smith's time was 3:58.56, and Brown's was four minutes flat.
- Directly; flatly.
- Exactly, precisely.
- So as to be flat.
noun
- A flat tyre/flat tire.
- A rectangular wooden structure covered with masonite, lauan, or muslin, often produced in standard modules, that is used to build wall surfaces on stage. Flats can be painted and outfitted with doors and/or windows to depict a building or other part of a scene. It's a hard-surfaced alternative to a backcloth orbackdrop.
- An area of level ground (sometimes covered with water).
- A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
- An early kind of toy soldier having a flat design.
- The palm of the hand, with the adjacent part of the fingers.
- A large mail piece measuring at least 8 1/2 by 11 inches, such as catalogs, magazines, and unfolded paper enclosed in large envelopes.
- A flat (i.e. plane) mirror
- The flat side of a blade, as opposed to the sharp edge.
- A subset of n-dimensional space that is congruent to a Euclidean space of lower dimension.
- A flat, glossy children's book with few pages.
- A platform on a wheel, upon which emblematic designs etc. are carried in processions.
- A railroad car without a roof, and whose body is a platform without sides; a platform car or flatcar.
- An apartment, usually on one level and usually consisting of more than one room.
- Level ground in general.
- A note played a semitone lower than a natural, denoted by the symbol ♭ placed after the letter representing the note (e.g., B♭) or in front of the note symbol (e.g. ♭♪).
- A type of ladies' shoe with a very low heel.
- Level horse-racing ground, as contrasted with courses incorporating jumps, or the racing done on such ground.
- A wide, shallow container or pallet.
- A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
- A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.
- A cheater's die with the edges shaved to make certain rolls more likely.
- Any of various hesperiid butterflies that spread their wings open when they land.
- A thin, broad brush used in oil and watercolour painting.
- A flat sheet for use on a bed.
- the area in the centre of a racecourse.
- A type of flat-soled running shoe without spikes.
verb
noun
adj
- Having a margin that has concave edges as though with parts removed or notched.
- Having roughly the same height or width for most of its length, becoming much shallower or narrower before reaching the attachment point.
- Of a crystal: having edges or corners of the primitive form beveled, crossed by a face.
- With the outline of the margin more or less concave in places, usually at the apex.
verb
noun
- the outer boundary of an artifact or a material layer constituting or resembling such a boundary
- the extended two-dimensional outer boundary of a three-dimensional object
- the outermost level of the land or sea
- a superficial aspect as opposed to the real nature of something
- information that has become public
- a device that provides reactive force when in motion relative to the surrounding air; can lift or control a plane in flight
verb
- come to the surface
- put a coat on; cover the surface of; furnish with a surface
- appear or become visible; make a showing
adj
noun
noun
- Thin canvas glued on the inside of panels to prevent shrinking, checking, etc.
- A theater drop that appears opaque when a scene in front is lighted and transparent or translucent when a scene in back is lighted.
- A sheet of gauze etc. used to reduce the intensity of light.
- A kind of light cotton or linen fabric, often woven in openwork patterns, used for curtains, etc,.
- A woven, nonwoven or knitted fabric composed of continuous strands of material used for reinforcing or strengthening membranes.
- A large military scarf, usually camouflage coloured and used for concealment when not used as a scarf.
- A practice match between one or more organized teams usually in preparation for a more competitive format, such as a tournament.
verb
noun
- A narrow board, usually thicker at one edge than the other, used as siding for houses and similar structures of frame construction.
- A clapper board; a device used in film production, having hinged boards that are brought together with a clap, used to synchronize picture and sound at the start of each take of a motion picture or other video production.
- Such boards, arranged horizontally and overlapping with thick edge down, collectively, as siding.
verb
noun
- a thin flat strip or loop of flexible material that goes around or over something else, typically to hold it together or as a decoration
- an unofficial association of people or groups
- instrumentalists not including string players
- a stripe or stripes of contrasting color
- an adornment consisting of a strip of a contrasting color or material
- a group of musicians playing popular music for dancing
- a range of frequencies between two limits
- a thin flat strip of flexible material that is worn around the body or one of the limbs (especially to decorate the body)
- a cord-like tissue connecting two larger parts of an anatomical structure
- jewelry consisting of a circlet of precious metal (often set with jewels) worn on the finger
- a driving belt in machinery
- a strip of material attached to the leg of a bird to identify it (as in studies of bird migration)
- a restraint put around something to hold it together
verb
verb
- To make into a long tapered shape.
- To impale on a device for holding paper documents.
- To take on a long tapered shape.
noun
- A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord.
- Any marine gastropod with a spindle-shaped shell formerly in one of the three invalid genera called Fusus.
- The fusee of a watch.
- A rotary axis of a machine tool or power tool.
- A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.
- Any marine univalve shell of the genus Tibia; a spindle stromb.
- Certain of the species of the genus Euonymus, originally used for making the spindles used for spinning wool.
- A rod used for spinning and then winding natural fibres (especially wool), usually consisting of a shaft and a circular whorl positioned at either the upper or lower end of the shaft when suspended vertically from the forming thread.
- A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards.
- A sleep spindle.
- A rod which turns, or on which something turns.
- An upright spike for holding paper documents by skewering.
- A cytoskeletal structure formed during mitosis
- a dragonfly, calque of Swedish slända (dragonfly/spindle), introduced by New Sweden settlers.
- A muscle spindle.
- A plastic container for packaging optical discs. Bulk blank CDs, DVDs, and BDs are often sold in such a package.
noun
- any broad thin and limber covering attached at one edge; hangs loose or projects freely
- an excited state of agitation
- the motion made by flapping up and down
- a movable piece of tissue partly connected to the body
- a movable airfoil that is part of an aircraft wing; used to increase lift or drag
verb
noun
- a trowel used to make a surface slick
- a slippery smoothness
- a magazine printed on good quality paper
- a film of oil or garbage floating on top of water
adj
- made slick by e.g. ice or grease
- superficially impressive, but lacking depth and attention to the true complexities of a subject
- having only superficial plausibility
- having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light; being of a smooth, soft and lustrous quality, resembling silk
- marked by skill in deception
verb
noun
- an implement consisting of soft material mounted on a block; used for polishing (as in manicuring)
- (chemistry) an ionic compound that resists changes in its pH
- a neutral zone between two rival powers that is created in order to diminish the danger of conflict
- an inclined metal frame at the front of a locomotive to clear the track
- (computer science) a part of RAM used for temporary storage of data that is waiting to be sent to a device; used to compensate for differences in the rate of flow of data between components of a computer system
- a power tool used to buff surfaces
- a cushion-like device that reduces shock due to an impact
verb
verb
- To form a more or less curved boundary or border upon.
- To mark with contour lines.
- To practise the makeup technique of contouring.
noun
- a speech sound which behaves as a single segment, but which makes an internal transition from one quality, place, or manner to another.
- A line on a map or chart delineating those points which have the same altitude or other plotted quantity: a contour line or isopleth.
- An outline, boundary or border, usually of curved shape.
- A general description giving the most important points.
noun
- a structure that encloses a body part
- a small container
- a pill in the form of a small rounded gelatinous container with medicine inside
- a dry dehiscent seed vessel or the spore-containing structure of e.g. mosses
- a shortened version of a written work
- a spacecraft designed to transport people and support human life in outer space
- a pilot's seat in an airplane that can be forcibly ejected in the case of an emergency; then the pilot descends by parachute
verb
noun
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- One of the leaves of a folding-door, or a window-sash.
verb
noun
- A board or similar barrier that forms part of the side of something.
- A set of cards that are separate from a player's primary deck, used to customize a match strategy against an opponent by enabling a player to change the composition of the playing deck.
- A piece of dining room furniture having drawers and shelves for linen and tableware; originally for serving food.
- A restriction on using the right to catch a certain number of fish that was granted in relation to a different fishery.
verb
noun
verb
- cause to have, in the abstract sense or physical sense
- be the cause or source of
- transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody
- convey or reveal information
- convey, as of a compliment, regards, attention, etc.; bestow
- organize or be responsible for
- convey or communicate; of a smile, a look, a physical gesture
- give as a present; make a gift of
- cause to happen or be responsible for
- dedicate
- give or supply
- transmit (knowledge or skills)
- bring about
- leave with; give temporarily
- emit or utter
- endure the loss of
- place into the hands or custody of
- give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause
- give (as medicine)
- give or convey physically
- bestow
- bestow, especially officially
- move in order to make room for someone for something
- give food to
- contribute to some cause
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- estimate the duration or outcome of something
- execute and deliver
- deliver in exchange or recompense
- afford access to
- present to view
- perform for an audience
- be flexible under stress of physical force
- propose
- accord by verdict
- manifest or show
- offer in good faith
- submit for consideration, judgment, or use
- guide or direct, as by behavior of persuasion
- allow to have or take
- inflict as a punishment
- occur
- consent to engage in sexual intercourse with a man
- proffer (a body part)
noun
- Something added to increase the size of something; padding or filler.
- Something added to fill a gap.
- A substitution.
- An intermediate result that must be stored temporarily during the course of a sparse matrix computation.
- A temporary replacement for another, especially at a job.
- A musical embellishment (usually percussion) that is added to connect musical phrases.
- A product category that is used to complete a range or variety of a product line.
- A question or puzzle in which one is expected to fill in a missing part of something.
noun
- A thin piece of material (such as wood, plaster, or metal) that forms and aligns the matched parting surfaces for the two parts (the cope and the drag) of a molding box or flask, to which board patterns are attached in some casting methods.
- A type of wooden board that connects with others using a tongue and groove system
noun
- the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length
- the season of growth; spring; the beginning of spring
- a metal elastic device that returns to its shape or position when pushed or pulled or pressed
- a natural flow of ground water
- a point at which water issues forth
- a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
verb
verb
- To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
- To stir gently, with a folding action.
- To fall over; to be crushed.
- To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.
- To give way on a point or in an argument.
- To enclose within folded arms (see also enfold).
- To become folded; to form folds.
- To withdraw from betting.
- To withdraw or quit in general.
- To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands.
- To cover or wrap up; to conceal.
- To confine animals in a fold.
- Of a company, to cease to trade.
noun
- A group of sheep or goats.
- A section of source code that can be collapsed out of view in an editor to aid readability.
- Home, family.
- A church congregation, a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church; the Christian church as a whole, the flock of Christ.
- An act of folding.
- That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops; embrace.
- The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window without scrolling; usually the fold.
- A bend or crease.
- Any correct move in origami.
- A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.
- The division between the top and bottom halves of a broadsheet: headlines above the fold will be readable in a newsstand display; usually the fold.
- In functional programming, any of a family of higher-order functions that process a data structure recursively to build up a value.
- A group of people with shared ideas or goals or who live or work together.
- The bending or curving of one or a stack of originally flat and planar surfaces, such as sedimentary strata, as a result of plastic (i.e. permanent) deformation.
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