English words for 'A tiger beetle.'
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noun
- A tiger beetle.
- A male tiger; as opposed to a tigress.
- A tiger moth in the family Arctiidae.
- Any of the three Australian species of black-and-yellow striped dragonflies of the genus Ictinogomphus.
- Panthera tigris, a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia.
- (inexact) A Tasmanian tiger, †Thylacinus cynocephalus.
- (inexact) A sabre-toothed tiger (any felid in subfamily †Machairodontinae).
- A pneumatic box or pan used in refining sugar.
- (heraldry) A representation of a large mythological cat, used on a coat of arms.
- A final shouted phrase, accompanied by a jump or outstretched arms, at the end of a cheer.
- (US, slang) A person who is very athletic during sexual intercourse.
- (figurative) A ferocious, bloodthirsty and audacious person.
- (South Africa, dated but still used) A leopard.
- A tiger butterfly in tribe Danaini, especially subtribe Danaina.
- A relatively small country or group of countries with a fast-growing economy.
- large feline of forests in most of Asia having a tawny coat with black stripes; endangered
- a fierce or audacious person
noun
- A large beetle, especially the European dung beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius).
- (British) The odometer of a motor vehicle.
- (slang) A face; the head.
- (uncountable) A luck-based patience or solitaire card game with the cards laid out to represent the face of a clock.
- The seed head of a dandelion.
- A time clock.
- (computing, informal) A CPU clock cycle, or T-state.
- (attributive) A common noun relating to an instrument that measures or keeps track of time.
- A chronometer, an instrument that measures time, particularly the time of day.
- A pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking.
- (electronics) An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.
- a timepiece that shows the time of day
verb
- (ambitransitive, chiefly African-American Vernacular and LGBTQ slang) To expose or attack someone, typically in a targeted and insulting manner.
- (transitive, informal, with as) To recognize; to assess, register.
- (British, slang) To falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle.
- (transitive, informal) To identify (someone) as having some attribute (for example, being trans or gay).
- (transitive, slang) To hit (someone) heavily.
- (transitive, British, New Zealand, Australia, slang) To beat a video game.
- (transitive) To ornament (e.g. the side of a stocking) with figured work.
- (transitive, informal) To notice; to take notice of (someone or something).
- (transitive) To measure the duration of.
- (transitive) To measure the speed of.
- measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time
noun
name
- (astronomy) A crater in the first quadrant on the moon.
- (Roman mythology) The Roman name for the Greek divine hero Heracles, who was the son of Jupiter and Alcmene, a celebrated hero who possessed exceptional strength. Most famous for his twelve labours performed to redeem himself after killing his family.
- (astronomy) A summer constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble the mythical hero, lying between the constellations Lyra and Corona Borealis.
- A city in Contra Costa County, California, United States.
- (rare, countable) A male given name from Ancient Greek.
verb
adj
noun
- a tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually wooden); used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing
- insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings
- A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; a beetling machine.
- A type of mallet with a large wooden head, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.
- 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.
- Alternative letter-case form of Beetle (“car”).
- (uncountable) 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
noun
- Any large beetle having a horn-like prominence on the head or prothorax, especially the Hercules beetle, Dynastes tityus.
- (business) A person with multidisciplinary expertise, especially a laundry list of three or more skills in a young field such as UX design or data science (e.g., domain knowledge, statistics, and software engineering).
- A Siberian unicorn, †Elasmotherium sibiricum.
- (military) A howitzer.
- Someone or something that is rare and hard to find.
- A caterpillar, Schizura unicornis, with a large thorn-like spine on the back near its head.
- An Asian unicorn, or saola, Pseudoryx nghetinhensis.
- (finance) A startup company whose valuation has exceeded one billion U.S. dollars, which is solely backed by venture capitalists, and which has yet to have an IPO.
- (mythology) A mythical horse, widely believed to exist until the 17th century, with a single, straight, spiraled horn projecting from its forehead.
- The kamichi, or unicorn bird.
- (VTuber fandom slang) A fan with serious aspirations to become romantically involved with a VTuber (i.e., the streamer behind the avatar).
- (attributive) Being many (especially pastel) colours; multicoloured.
- (biblical) In various Bible translations, used to render the Latin unicornis or rhinoceros (representing Hebrew רְאֵם): a reem or wild ox.
- (historical) A 15th-century Scottish gold coin worth 18 shillings, bearing the image of a unicorn.
- (slang) A single, usually bisexual woman who participates in swinging or polyamory.
- an imaginary creature represented as a white horse with a long horn growing from its forehead
adj
verb
noun
- (entomology) A bombardier beetle.
- An artilleryman; a gunner.
- (Canada, British) A non-commissioned officer rank in artillery, equivalent to corporal. Abbreviated Bdr.
- (Canada, US) A bomber crew member who sights and releases bombs.
- the member of a bomber crew responsible for using the bombsight and releasing the bombs on the target
- a noncommissioned officer in the British artillery
noun
- A beetle, mostly in the genus Monochamus, that lives and feeds on trees, including timber.
- (US, dialect) The bowfin.
- (US) A large trunk of a tree brought down by the force of a river's current.
- One who saws timber, especially in a sawpit.
- one who is employed to saw wood
- any of several beetles whose larvae bore holes in dead or dying trees especially conifers
noun
- A species of rove beetle, so called from its habit of elevating the tail.
- A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in its veins.
- A mixed alcoholic beverage.
- (by extension) A mixture of other substances or things.
- a short mixed drink
- an appetizer served as a first course at a meal
verb
noun
noun
- any of various widely distributed beetles
- (botany) Any of the long, slender hygroscopic appendages attached to the spores of horsetails (genus Equisetum).
- (botany) A long, slender cell produced among spores and having hygroscopic secondary cell wall thickenings.
- That which elates.
- (zoology) An elaterid, or click beetle.
noun
- A tiger beetle.
- A male tiger; as opposed to a tigress.
- A tiger moth in the family Arctiidae.
- Any of the three Australian species of black-and-yellow striped dragonflies of the genus Ictinogomphus.
- Panthera tigris, a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia.
- (inexact) A Tasmanian tiger, †Thylacinus cynocephalus.
- (inexact) A sabre-toothed tiger (any felid in subfamily †Machairodontinae).
- A pneumatic box or pan used in refining sugar.
- (heraldry) A representation of a large mythological cat, used on a coat of arms.
- A final shouted phrase, accompanied by a jump or outstretched arms, at the end of a cheer.
- (US, slang) A person who is very athletic during sexual intercourse.
- (figurative) A ferocious, bloodthirsty and audacious person.
- (South Africa, dated but still used) A leopard.
- A tiger butterfly in tribe Danaini, especially subtribe Danaina.
- A relatively small country or group of countries with a fast-growing economy.
- large feline of forests in most of Asia having a tawny coat with black stripes; endangered
- a fierce or audacious person
noun
- A large beetle, especially the European dung beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius).
- (British) The odometer of a motor vehicle.
- (slang) A face; the head.
- (uncountable) A luck-based patience or solitaire card game with the cards laid out to represent the face of a clock.
- The seed head of a dandelion.
- A time clock.
- (computing, informal) A CPU clock cycle, or T-state.
- (attributive) A common noun relating to an instrument that measures or keeps track of time.
- A chronometer, an instrument that measures time, particularly the time of day.
- A pattern near the heel of a sock or stocking.
- (electronics) An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.
- a timepiece that shows the time of day
verb
- (ambitransitive, chiefly African-American Vernacular and LGBTQ slang) To expose or attack someone, typically in a targeted and insulting manner.
- (transitive, informal, with as) To recognize; to assess, register.
- (British, slang) To falsify the reading of the odometer of a vehicle.
- (transitive, informal) To identify (someone) as having some attribute (for example, being trans or gay).
- (transitive, slang) To hit (someone) heavily.
- (transitive, British, New Zealand, Australia, slang) To beat a video game.
- (transitive) To ornament (e.g. the side of a stocking) with figured work.
- (transitive, informal) To notice; to take notice of (someone or something).
- (transitive) To measure the duration of.
- (transitive) To measure the speed of.
- measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time
noun
name
- (astronomy) A crater in the first quadrant on the moon.
- (Roman mythology) The Roman name for the Greek divine hero Heracles, who was the son of Jupiter and Alcmene, a celebrated hero who possessed exceptional strength. Most famous for his twelve labours performed to redeem himself after killing his family.
- (astronomy) A summer constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble the mythical hero, lying between the constellations Lyra and Corona Borealis.
- A city in Contra Costa County, California, United States.
- (rare, countable) A male given name from Ancient Greek.
noun
noun
- Any large beetle having a horn-like prominence on the head or prothorax, especially the Hercules beetle, Dynastes tityus.
- (business) A person with multidisciplinary expertise, especially a laundry list of three or more skills in a young field such as UX design or data science (e.g., domain knowledge, statistics, and software engineering).
- A Siberian unicorn, †Elasmotherium sibiricum.
- (military) A howitzer.
- Someone or something that is rare and hard to find.
- A caterpillar, Schizura unicornis, with a large thorn-like spine on the back near its head.
- An Asian unicorn, or saola, Pseudoryx nghetinhensis.
- (finance) A startup company whose valuation has exceeded one billion U.S. dollars, which is solely backed by venture capitalists, and which has yet to have an IPO.
- (mythology) A mythical horse, widely believed to exist until the 17th century, with a single, straight, spiraled horn projecting from its forehead.
- The kamichi, or unicorn bird.
- (VTuber fandom slang) A fan with serious aspirations to become romantically involved with a VTuber (i.e., the streamer behind the avatar).
- (attributive) Being many (especially pastel) colours; multicoloured.
- (biblical) In various Bible translations, used to render the Latin unicornis or rhinoceros (representing Hebrew רְאֵם): a reem or wild ox.
- (historical) A 15th-century Scottish gold coin worth 18 shillings, bearing the image of a unicorn.
- (slang) A single, usually bisexual woman who participates in swinging or polyamory.
- an imaginary creature represented as a white horse with a long horn growing from its forehead
adj
verb
noun
- (entomology) A bombardier beetle.
- An artilleryman; a gunner.
- (Canada, British) A non-commissioned officer rank in artillery, equivalent to corporal. Abbreviated Bdr.
- (Canada, US) A bomber crew member who sights and releases bombs.
- the member of a bomber crew responsible for using the bombsight and releasing the bombs on the target
- a noncommissioned officer in the British artillery
noun
- A beetle, mostly in the genus Monochamus, that lives and feeds on trees, including timber.
- (US, dialect) The bowfin.
- (US) A large trunk of a tree brought down by the force of a river's current.
- One who saws timber, especially in a sawpit.
- one who is employed to saw wood
- any of several beetles whose larvae bore holes in dead or dying trees especially conifers
noun
- A species of rove beetle, so called from its habit of elevating the tail.
- A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in its veins.
- A mixed alcoholic beverage.
- (by extension) A mixture of other substances or things.
- a short mixed drink
- an appetizer served as a first course at a meal
verb
noun
noun
- any of various widely distributed beetles
- (botany) Any of the long, slender hygroscopic appendages attached to the spores of horsetails (genus Equisetum).
- (botany) A long, slender cell produced among spores and having hygroscopic secondary cell wall thickenings.
- That which elates.
- (zoology) An elaterid, or click beetle.
verb
adj
noun
- a tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually wooden); used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing
- insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings
- A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; a beetling machine.
- A type of mallet with a large wooden head, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.
- 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.
- Alternative letter-case form of Beetle (“car”).
- (uncountable) 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.
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