English words for 'A trailblazer.'
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noun
noun
- An adventurer on a dangerous but rewarding quest.
- Any of several species of shelled octopods of the family Argonautidae (of which only the genus Argonauta is not extinct).
- (specifically, historical) A 49er, a person who took part in the California Gold Rush of 1849.
- someone engaged in a dangerous but potentially rewarding adventure
- cephalopod mollusk of warm seas whose females have delicate papery spiral shells
noun
- A pioneering figure in a particular field.
- (computing) The archived older version of a file that immediately precedes the current version, and was itself derived from the grandfather.
- Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.
- A male who has sired a baby; this person in relation to his child or children.
- (Christianity) A member of a church council.
- A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.
- Something inanimate that begets.
- A term of respectful address for a priest.
- A term of respectful address for an elderly man.
- A male parent, especially of a human; a male who parents a child (which he has sired, adopted, fostered, taken as his own, etc.).
- A person who plays the role of a father in some way.
- a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization
- a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
- the head of an organized crime family
- the founder of a family
- a person who founds or establishes some institution
verb
noun
noun
- someone who can find paths through unexplored territory
- something that offers basic information or instruction
- a structure or marking that serves to direct the motion or positioning of something
- someone employed to conduct others
- a model or standard for making comparisons
- someone who shows the way by leading or advising
- Synonym of legend, a key to symbols, abbreviations, and terms on a map, chart, etc.
- Someone who guides, especially someone hired to show people around a place or an institution and offer information and explanation, or to lead them through dangerous terrain.
- A document or book that offers information or instruction; guidebook.
- A sign that guides people; guidepost.
- A grooved director for a probe or knife in surgery.
- A blade or channel for directing the flow of water to the buckets in a water wheel.
- (occult) A spirit believed to speak through a medium.
- (military) A member of a group marching in formation who sets the pattern of movement or alignment for the rest.
- Any marking or object that catches the eye to provide quick reference.
verb
- direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
- take somebody somewhere
- be a guiding or motivating force or drive
- use as a guide
- pass over, across, or through
- To serve as a guide for someone or something; to lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path.
- To steer or navigate, especially a ship or as a pilot.
- To supervise the education or training of someone.
- To exert control or influence over someone or something.
- (intransitive) To act as a guide.
noun
- someone who can find paths through unexplored territory
- One who discovers or makes a new path or way through an untraversed region.
- (finance) Ellipsis of pathfinder prospectus.
- (botany) Synonym of honey guide.
- (figurative) One who is the first to do something in a particular field; an innovator, a pioneer.
noun
- someone who can find paths through unexplored territory
- a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
- someone employed to discover and recruit talented persons (especially in the worlds of entertainment or sports)
- (informal) A term of address for a man or boy.
- (Oxford University, modern) A housekeeper or domestic cleaner, generally female, employed by one of the constituent colleges of Oxford University to clean rooms; generally equivalent to a modern bedder at Cambridge University.
- The guillemot.
- (historical, UK, up until 1920s) A fighter aircraft.
- A member of any number of youth organizations belonging to the international scout movement, such as the Boy Scouts of America or Girl Scouts of the United States.
- (radiography) A preliminary image that allows the technician to make adjustments before the actual diagnostic images.
- (UK, cricket) A fielder in a game for practice.
- (Oxford University, Harvard University, Yale University, historical) A domestic servant, generally male, who would attend (usually several) students in a variety of ways, including cleaning; generally equivalent to a gyp at Cambridge University or a skip at Trinity College, Dublin.
- A person employed to monitor rivals' activities in the petroleum industry.
- A person who assesses or recruits others; especially, one who identifies promising talent on behalf of a sports team.
- A person sent out to gather and bring back information; especially, one employed in war to gain information about the enemy and ground.
- An act of scouting or reconnoitering.
verb
- explore, often with the goal of finding something or somebody
- (transitive) To reject the ideas or beliefs of (a person).
- (Scotland) To pour forth a liquid forcibly, especially excrement; to cause a liquid to gush.
- (transitive, intransitive) To explore a wide terrain, as if on a search.
- (intransitive) To scoff.
- (transitive) To reject with contempt.
- (transitive) To observe, watch, or look for, as a scout; to follow for the purpose of observation, as a scout.
noun
- a hiker who wears a backpack
- a wholesaler in the meat-packing business
- a workman employed to pack things into containers
- (Australia) A packhorse.
- Clipping of meatpacker.
- (New Zealand) An object inserted to hold a space open for the purpose of alignment; a spacer or shim.
- A person whose business is to pack things; especially, one who packs food for preservation
- (LGBTQ) An artificial penis or similar object worn by a drag king, trans man, etc., inside the trousers.
- (US) A ring of packing or a special device to render gastight and watertight the space between the tubing and bore of an oil well.
- (computing) A software program that compresses code or data.
- (Nigeria) A dustpan.
noun
- One who goes before, as into the wilderness, preparing the way for others to follow.
- A person or other entity who is first or among the earliest in any field of inquiry, enterprise, or progress.
- A member of any of several European organizations advocating abstinence from alcohol.
- (communism) A member of a children’s organization operated by the Communist Party, typically in the second of three stages toward becoming a member of the Party itself.
- (Singapore) Alternative letter-case form of Pioneer (“A Singaporean born on or before 31 December 1949, who is entitled to various healthcare and social support schemes.”).
- (military) A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances; a sapper.
- one of the first colonists or settlers in a new territory
- someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art
verb
noun
- (now uncommon) One who sets the pace in a race, to guide the others.
- (by extension, medicine) A medical implement that is used to stimulate a heart to beat by simulating the action of the natural pacemaker.
- (anatomy) Specialized cells which stimulate the heart to beat.
- a leading instance in its field
- an implanted electronic device that takes over the function of the natural cardiac pacemaker
- a horse used to set the pace in racing
- a specialized bit of heart tissue that controls the heartbeat
noun
- a person who travels by foot
- (used only in combinations) the height or length of something in feet
- a printed note placed below the text on a printed page
- (chiefly British, slang, uncountable) Football / soccer.
- (computing) A line of information printed at the bottom of a page to identify the contents or number pages. (Compare foot in printing.)
- (in combination) Someone who has a preference for using a certain foot.
- (in combination) Something that measures a stated number of feet in some dimension.
- (chiefly British, slang, countable) A football.
verb
noun
adj
noun
- a person who travels by foot
- a shoe designed for comfortable walking
- an enclosing framework on casters or wheels; helps babies learn to walk
- a light enclosing framework (trade name Zimmer) with rubber castors or wheels and handles; helps invalids or the handicapped or the aged to walk
- A walking frame or baby walker.
- Alternative form of waulker.
- The agent noun of to walk: a person who walks or a thing which walks, especially a pedestrian or a participant in a walking race.
- (rare) One who walks (takes for a walk).
- A male escort who accompanies a woman to an event.
- (law) A forester.
- (science fiction) A kind of military robot or mecha with legs for locomotion.
- (fiction) A zombie.
- A gressorial bird.
- (cricket) A batsman or batswoman who directly walks off the field when out without waiting for the umpire's decision.
- (often in the plural) A shoe designed for comfortable walking.
- (Philippines) A prostitute, streetwalker.
noun
name
- A village in Adams County, Illinois.
- A number of townships, in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan (2), Nebraska and Pennsylvania, listed under Columbus Township.
- A small city in Anoka County, Minnesota, previously a township.
- A male given name from Latin.
- A tiny city in Burke County, North Dakota.
- The capital city of Ohio, and the county seat of Franklin County.
- A town in Columbia County, Wisconsin.
- A surname.
- A town, the county seat of Polk County, North Carolina.
- A city, the county seat of Cherokee County, Kansas.
- An unincorporated community in Burlington County, New Jersey.
- A city, the county seat of Muscogee County, Georgia, with which it is consolidated.
- A small city, the county seat of Colorado County, Texas.
- A tiny home rule city in Hickman County, Kentucky.
- A town in Chenango County, New York.
- A village in Luna County, New Mexico.
- A city, the county seat of Platte County, Nebraska.
- A city, the county seat of Lowndes County, Mississippi.
- A city, the county seat of Bartholomew County, Indiana.
- A small city in Columbia County and Dodge County, Wisconsin.
- An unincorporated community and inactive township in Johnson County, Missouri.
- Christopher Columbus (1451?–1506), Italian explorer of the Americas.
- A town, the county seat of Stillwater County, Montana.
verb
noun
noun
- someone who travels on foot by running
- (football) the player who is carrying (and trying to advance) the ball on an offensive play
- a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips
- someone who imports or exports without paying duties
- device consisting of the parts on which something can slide along
- a long narrow carpet
- 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)
- fish of western Atlantic: Cape Cod to Brazil
- a trained athlete who competes in foot races
- The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached.
- (video games) A speedrunner.
- The channel or strip on which a drawer is opened and closed.
- A leaping food fish (Elagatis pinnulatis) of Florida and the West Indies; the skipjack, shoemaker, or yellowtail.
- A streamlet.
- (poker slang) A competitor in a poker tournament.
- (Australia, Canada, Ireland, Scotland) A type of soft-soled shoe originally intended for runners.
- In molding, a channel cut in a mold.
- Any entrant, person or animal (especially a horse), for a race or any competition; a candidate for an election.
- Part of a shoe that is stitched to the bottom of the upper so it can be glued to the sole.
- (climbing) A short sling with a carabiner on either end, used to link the climbing rope to a bolt or other protection such as a nut or friend.
- (chiefly in combination) A person or vessel that runs blockades or engages in smuggling.
- A restaurant employee responsible for taking food from the kitchens to the tables.
- The blade of an ice skate.
- A smooth strip on which a sledge runs.
- (slang, usually in the phrase do a runner) A quick escape away from a scene; (by extension) the person who gets away.
- Part of a mechanism which allows something to be pulled out for maintenance.
- (botany) A long stolon sent out by a plant (such as strawberry), in order to root new plantlets, or a plant that propagates by using such runners.
- (film) An assistant.
- A tool in which lenses are fastened for polishing.
- The rotating-stone of a grinding-mill.
- A person who moves, on foot, at a fast pace, especially an athlete.
- A running gag.
- A person hired by a gambling establishment to locate potential customers and bring them in.
- (Australian rules football) A person (from one or the other team) who runs out onto the field during the game to take verbal instructions from the coach to the players. A runner mustn't interfere with play, and may have to wear an identifying shirt to make clear his or her purpose on the field.
- Anyone sent on an errand or with communications, especially for a bank (or, historically, a foot soldier responsible for carrying messages during war).
- A long, narrow carpet for a high-traffic area such as a hall or stairs.
- One who runs away; a deserter or escapee.
- (nautical, sailing) A rope to increase the power of a tackle.
- (sports slang) An employee of a sports agent who tries to recruit possible player clients for the agent.
- In saddlery, a loop of metal through which a rein is passed.
- An idea or plan that has potential to be adopted or put into operation.
- The curved base of a rocking chair.
- (baseball, softball) A baserunner.
- (slang) An automobile; a working or driveable automobile.
- (cricket) A player who runs for a batsman who is too injured to run; he is dressed exactly as the injured batsman, and carries a bat.
- A strip of fabric used to decorate or protect a table or dressing table.
- (slang) A part of a cigarette that is burning unevenly.
- A boat for transporting fish, oysters, etc.
- Somebody who controls or manages (e.g. a system).
- A part of an apparatus that moves quickly.
noun
- A person who traces something.
- A device or instrument used to assist in making tracings.
- (chemistry) A compound, element, or isotope used to track the progress or history of a natural process.
- The act or state of tracking or investigating something.
- A request to trace the movements of a person or an object, such as a shipment.
- (computing) A process that traces something, such as the path of execution of a program during debugging.
- A round of ammunition for a firearm that contains magnesium or another flammable substance arranged such that it will burn and produce a visible trail when fired in the dark.
- ammunition whose flight can be observed by a trail of smoke
- an investigator who is employed to find missing persons or missing goods
- an instrument used to make tracings
- (radiology) any radioactive isotope introduced into the body to study metabolism or other biological processes
noun
adj
noun
- a person with a record of successes
- an attainment that is successful
- an event that accomplishes its intended purpose
- a state of prosperity or fame
- One who, or that which, achieves assumed goals.
- The fact of getting or achieving wealth, respect, or fame.
- (business) Financial profitability.
- The achievement of one's aim or goal.
noun
- someone who ascends on foot
- an iron spike attached to the shoe to prevent slipping on ice when walking or climbing
- someone seeking social prominence by obsequious behavior
- a vine or climbing plant that readily grows up a support or over other plants
- someone who climbs as a sport; especially someone who climbs mountains
- (figurative, derogatory) A person who is constantly trying to get ahead socially.
- (ornithology) A bird that climbs, such as a parrot or woodpecker; specifically (archaic), a bird having two toes pointing forward, and two pointing backward, formerly regarded as being from the order Scansores or Zygodactyli (now obsolete as the birds formerly in this order have been reclassified into different orders); a zygodactyl.
- (cycle racing) A cyclist who specializes in riding especially well on steep hills or roads.
- (chiefly Canada) Any structure on a playground designed to be climbed on.
- (climbing) Synonym of climbing iron (“a kind of crampon attached to the shoe to aid with climbing”).
- (botany) A plant such as a vine that climbs upwards as it grows by attaching itself to some support.
- Someone or something that climbs (such as a mountain climber).
adj
noun
- Any major progress; such as a great innovation or discovery that overcomes a significant obstacle.
- (sports) The penetration of the opposition's defence.
- (construction) The penetration of a separating wall or the remaining distance to an adjacent hollow (a crosscut in mining) or between two parts of a tunnel build from both ends; knockthrough.
- (medicine, sometimes attributive) The emergence or one or more symptoms of a condition despite medication or other medical treatment.
- (military) An advance through and past enemy lines.
- a penetration of a barrier such as an enemy's defense
- making an important discovery
- a productive insight
adv
- Along a path which runs past someone or something.
- (uncommon outside the phrase 'put by') Aside, away.
- In the vicinity, near.
- (uncommon except in set phrases) Beyond or past a certain point.
- To or at a place, as a residence or place of business.
- so as to pass a given point
- in reserve; not for immediate use
adj
noun
prep
- Following a noun.
- (horse breeding) Designates a horse's sire (“male parent”).
- Invokes an authority in an oath.
- (chiefly Yeshivish) At; with; among.
- Per; with or in proportion to each.
- Indicates the creator of a work: Existing through the authorship etc. of.
- Used to separate dimensions when describing the size of something.
- Indicates a means of classification or organisation.
- Indicates an authority according to which something is done.
- Not later than (the given time); not later than the end of (the given time interval).
- [with the] Acted on in units of the specified size or measure. (Sometimes hyperbolically)
- (not in common modern use) Following an adjective.
- Indicates a means of achieving something: Involving/using the means of.
- Following a passive verb.
- Near or next to.
- In the formulae X by X and by Xs, indicates a steady progression, one X after another.
- Indicates a referenced source: According to.
- (mathematics) multiplied by or (chiefly South Asia) divided by
- Indicates the amount of change, difference or discrepancy
- From one side of something to the other, passing close by; past.
- (nautical) in a windward direction, sailing near to the direction from which the wind is blowing
noun
- a stagehand responsible for moving scenery
- a mechanical device for engaging and disengaging gears
- (linguistics) A word whose meaning changes depending on the situation, as by deixis.
- A shiftworker.
- (nautical) An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, soaking, and shifting the salt provisions.
- (cycling) A component used by the rider to control the gearing mechanisms and select the desired gear ratio, usually connected to the derailleur by a mechanical actuation cable.
- (engineering) A control device (usually a lever or button) for shifting gears in a gearbox, or an arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another.
- (mining, historical) A person employed to repair the horseways and other passages, and keep them unobstructed.
- One who, or that which, shifts or changes.
- (mythology, science fiction, fantasy) A shape-shifter; a person or other being capable of changing their physical form, especially a lycanthrope.
- (spirituality) Ellipsis of reality shifter.
- (engineering, textiles) A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc.
- (US, Pennsylvania) A switcher or shunter: a railroad locomotive used for shunting.
- (especially Australia) A spanner with an adjustable jaw size.
noun
- an energetic person with unusual initiative
- A person who shows initiative and resourcefulness.
- an electric starting motor that automatically starts an internal-combustion engine
- A mechanism (usually one operated by electricity, compressed air, a spring, or an explosive gas), attached to an internal-combustion engine, as on an automobile, and used as a means of starting the engine without cranking it by hand.
- An engine so equipped, or the vehicle that it powers.
noun
- Somebody who possesses great bravery and carries out extraordinary or noble deeds.
- (poker) The current player, especially a hypothetical player for example and didactic purposes. Compare: villain (“any opponent player”). Not to be confused with hero call (“a weak call against a supposed bluff”).
- A role model.
- (New York) A large sandwich made from meats and cheeses.
- (cooking) The standout component of a dish; the part of a dish that should take center stage on the palate.
- (film, photography, chiefly attributive) The product chosen from several candidates to be photographed, as in food advertising, or with props used in a movie.
- (web design) The eye-catching top portion of a web page, sometimes including a hero image; the portion above the fold.
- The protagonist in a work of fiction.
- 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
- someone who fights for a cause
- the principal character in a play or movie or novel or poem
- (classical mythology) a being of great strength and courage celebrated for bold exploits; often the offspring of a mortal and a god
- a person distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength
verb
noun
noun
- An adventurer on a dangerous but rewarding quest.
- Any of several species of shelled octopods of the family Argonautidae (of which only the genus Argonauta is not extinct).
- (specifically, historical) A 49er, a person who took part in the California Gold Rush of 1849.
- someone engaged in a dangerous but potentially rewarding adventure
- cephalopod mollusk of warm seas whose females have delicate papery spiral shells
noun
- A pioneering figure in a particular field.
- (computing) The archived older version of a file that immediately precedes the current version, and was itself derived from the grandfather.
- Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.
- A male who has sired a baby; this person in relation to his child or children.
- (Christianity) A member of a church council.
- A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.
- Something inanimate that begets.
- A term of respectful address for a priest.
- A term of respectful address for an elderly man.
- A male parent, especially of a human; a male who parents a child (which he has sired, adopted, fostered, taken as his own, etc.).
- A person who plays the role of a father in some way.
- a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization
- a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
- the head of an organized crime family
- the founder of a family
- a person who founds or establishes some institution
verb
noun
noun
- someone who can find paths through unexplored territory
- something that offers basic information or instruction
- a structure or marking that serves to direct the motion or positioning of something
- someone employed to conduct others
- a model or standard for making comparisons
- someone who shows the way by leading or advising
- Synonym of legend, a key to symbols, abbreviations, and terms on a map, chart, etc.
- Someone who guides, especially someone hired to show people around a place or an institution and offer information and explanation, or to lead them through dangerous terrain.
- A document or book that offers information or instruction; guidebook.
- A sign that guides people; guidepost.
- A grooved director for a probe or knife in surgery.
- A blade or channel for directing the flow of water to the buckets in a water wheel.
- (occult) A spirit believed to speak through a medium.
- (military) A member of a group marching in formation who sets the pattern of movement or alignment for the rest.
- Any marking or object that catches the eye to provide quick reference.
verb
- direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
- take somebody somewhere
- be a guiding or motivating force or drive
- use as a guide
- pass over, across, or through
- To serve as a guide for someone or something; to lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path.
- To steer or navigate, especially a ship or as a pilot.
- To supervise the education or training of someone.
- To exert control or influence over someone or something.
- (intransitive) To act as a guide.
noun
- someone who can find paths through unexplored territory
- One who discovers or makes a new path or way through an untraversed region.
- (finance) Ellipsis of pathfinder prospectus.
- (botany) Synonym of honey guide.
- (figurative) One who is the first to do something in a particular field; an innovator, a pioneer.
noun
- someone who can find paths through unexplored territory
- a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
- someone employed to discover and recruit talented persons (especially in the worlds of entertainment or sports)
- (informal) A term of address for a man or boy.
- (Oxford University, modern) A housekeeper or domestic cleaner, generally female, employed by one of the constituent colleges of Oxford University to clean rooms; generally equivalent to a modern bedder at Cambridge University.
- The guillemot.
- (historical, UK, up until 1920s) A fighter aircraft.
- A member of any number of youth organizations belonging to the international scout movement, such as the Boy Scouts of America or Girl Scouts of the United States.
- (radiography) A preliminary image that allows the technician to make adjustments before the actual diagnostic images.
- (UK, cricket) A fielder in a game for practice.
- (Oxford University, Harvard University, Yale University, historical) A domestic servant, generally male, who would attend (usually several) students in a variety of ways, including cleaning; generally equivalent to a gyp at Cambridge University or a skip at Trinity College, Dublin.
- A person employed to monitor rivals' activities in the petroleum industry.
- A person who assesses or recruits others; especially, one who identifies promising talent on behalf of a sports team.
- A person sent out to gather and bring back information; especially, one employed in war to gain information about the enemy and ground.
- An act of scouting or reconnoitering.
verb
- explore, often with the goal of finding something or somebody
- (transitive) To reject the ideas or beliefs of (a person).
- (Scotland) To pour forth a liquid forcibly, especially excrement; to cause a liquid to gush.
- (transitive, intransitive) To explore a wide terrain, as if on a search.
- (intransitive) To scoff.
- (transitive) To reject with contempt.
- (transitive) To observe, watch, or look for, as a scout; to follow for the purpose of observation, as a scout.
noun
- a hiker who wears a backpack
- a wholesaler in the meat-packing business
- a workman employed to pack things into containers
- (Australia) A packhorse.
- Clipping of meatpacker.
- (New Zealand) An object inserted to hold a space open for the purpose of alignment; a spacer or shim.
- A person whose business is to pack things; especially, one who packs food for preservation
- (LGBTQ) An artificial penis or similar object worn by a drag king, trans man, etc., inside the trousers.
- (US) A ring of packing or a special device to render gastight and watertight the space between the tubing and bore of an oil well.
- (computing) A software program that compresses code or data.
- (Nigeria) A dustpan.
noun
- One who goes before, as into the wilderness, preparing the way for others to follow.
- A person or other entity who is first or among the earliest in any field of inquiry, enterprise, or progress.
- A member of any of several European organizations advocating abstinence from alcohol.
- (communism) A member of a children’s organization operated by the Communist Party, typically in the second of three stages toward becoming a member of the Party itself.
- (Singapore) Alternative letter-case form of Pioneer (“A Singaporean born on or before 31 December 1949, who is entitled to various healthcare and social support schemes.”).
- (military) A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances; a sapper.
- one of the first colonists or settlers in a new territory
- someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art
verb
noun
- (now uncommon) One who sets the pace in a race, to guide the others.
- (by extension, medicine) A medical implement that is used to stimulate a heart to beat by simulating the action of the natural pacemaker.
- (anatomy) Specialized cells which stimulate the heart to beat.
- a leading instance in its field
- an implanted electronic device that takes over the function of the natural cardiac pacemaker
- a horse used to set the pace in racing
- a specialized bit of heart tissue that controls the heartbeat
noun
- a person who travels by foot
- (used only in combinations) the height or length of something in feet
- a printed note placed below the text on a printed page
- (chiefly British, slang, uncountable) Football / soccer.
- (computing) A line of information printed at the bottom of a page to identify the contents or number pages. (Compare foot in printing.)
- (in combination) Someone who has a preference for using a certain foot.
- (in combination) Something that measures a stated number of feet in some dimension.
- (chiefly British, slang, countable) A football.
verb
noun
adj
noun
- a person who travels by foot
- a shoe designed for comfortable walking
- an enclosing framework on casters or wheels; helps babies learn to walk
- a light enclosing framework (trade name Zimmer) with rubber castors or wheels and handles; helps invalids or the handicapped or the aged to walk
- A walking frame or baby walker.
- Alternative form of waulker.
- The agent noun of to walk: a person who walks or a thing which walks, especially a pedestrian or a participant in a walking race.
- (rare) One who walks (takes for a walk).
- A male escort who accompanies a woman to an event.
- (law) A forester.
- (science fiction) A kind of military robot or mecha with legs for locomotion.
- (fiction) A zombie.
- A gressorial bird.
- (cricket) A batsman or batswoman who directly walks off the field when out without waiting for the umpire's decision.
- (often in the plural) A shoe designed for comfortable walking.
- (Philippines) A prostitute, streetwalker.
noun
name
- A village in Adams County, Illinois.
- A number of townships, in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan (2), Nebraska and Pennsylvania, listed under Columbus Township.
- A small city in Anoka County, Minnesota, previously a township.
- A male given name from Latin.
- A tiny city in Burke County, North Dakota.
- The capital city of Ohio, and the county seat of Franklin County.
- A town in Columbia County, Wisconsin.
- A surname.
- A town, the county seat of Polk County, North Carolina.
- A city, the county seat of Cherokee County, Kansas.
- An unincorporated community in Burlington County, New Jersey.
- A city, the county seat of Muscogee County, Georgia, with which it is consolidated.
- A small city, the county seat of Colorado County, Texas.
- A tiny home rule city in Hickman County, Kentucky.
- A town in Chenango County, New York.
- A village in Luna County, New Mexico.
- A city, the county seat of Platte County, Nebraska.
- A city, the county seat of Lowndes County, Mississippi.
- A city, the county seat of Bartholomew County, Indiana.
- A small city in Columbia County and Dodge County, Wisconsin.
- An unincorporated community and inactive township in Johnson County, Missouri.
- Christopher Columbus (1451?–1506), Italian explorer of the Americas.
- A town, the county seat of Stillwater County, Montana.
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- someone who travels on foot by running
- (football) the player who is carrying (and trying to advance) the ball on an offensive play
- a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips
- someone who imports or exports without paying duties
- device consisting of the parts on which something can slide along
- a long narrow carpet
- 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)
- fish of western Atlantic: Cape Cod to Brazil
- a trained athlete who competes in foot races
- The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached.
- (video games) A speedrunner.
- The channel or strip on which a drawer is opened and closed.
- A leaping food fish (Elagatis pinnulatis) of Florida and the West Indies; the skipjack, shoemaker, or yellowtail.
- A streamlet.
- (poker slang) A competitor in a poker tournament.
- (Australia, Canada, Ireland, Scotland) A type of soft-soled shoe originally intended for runners.
- In molding, a channel cut in a mold.
- Any entrant, person or animal (especially a horse), for a race or any competition; a candidate for an election.
- Part of a shoe that is stitched to the bottom of the upper so it can be glued to the sole.
- (climbing) A short sling with a carabiner on either end, used to link the climbing rope to a bolt or other protection such as a nut or friend.
- (chiefly in combination) A person or vessel that runs blockades or engages in smuggling.
- A restaurant employee responsible for taking food from the kitchens to the tables.
- The blade of an ice skate.
- A smooth strip on which a sledge runs.
- (slang, usually in the phrase do a runner) A quick escape away from a scene; (by extension) the person who gets away.
- Part of a mechanism which allows something to be pulled out for maintenance.
- (botany) A long stolon sent out by a plant (such as strawberry), in order to root new plantlets, or a plant that propagates by using such runners.
- (film) An assistant.
- A tool in which lenses are fastened for polishing.
- The rotating-stone of a grinding-mill.
- A person who moves, on foot, at a fast pace, especially an athlete.
- A running gag.
- A person hired by a gambling establishment to locate potential customers and bring them in.
- (Australian rules football) A person (from one or the other team) who runs out onto the field during the game to take verbal instructions from the coach to the players. A runner mustn't interfere with play, and may have to wear an identifying shirt to make clear his or her purpose on the field.
- Anyone sent on an errand or with communications, especially for a bank (or, historically, a foot soldier responsible for carrying messages during war).
- A long, narrow carpet for a high-traffic area such as a hall or stairs.
- One who runs away; a deserter or escapee.
- (nautical, sailing) A rope to increase the power of a tackle.
- (sports slang) An employee of a sports agent who tries to recruit possible player clients for the agent.
- In saddlery, a loop of metal through which a rein is passed.
- An idea or plan that has potential to be adopted or put into operation.
- The curved base of a rocking chair.
- (baseball, softball) A baserunner.
- (slang) An automobile; a working or driveable automobile.
- (cricket) A player who runs for a batsman who is too injured to run; he is dressed exactly as the injured batsman, and carries a bat.
- A strip of fabric used to decorate or protect a table or dressing table.
- (slang) A part of a cigarette that is burning unevenly.
- A boat for transporting fish, oysters, etc.
- Somebody who controls or manages (e.g. a system).
- A part of an apparatus that moves quickly.
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- A person who traces something.
- A device or instrument used to assist in making tracings.
- (chemistry) A compound, element, or isotope used to track the progress or history of a natural process.
- The act or state of tracking or investigating something.
- A request to trace the movements of a person or an object, such as a shipment.
- (computing) A process that traces something, such as the path of execution of a program during debugging.
- A round of ammunition for a firearm that contains magnesium or another flammable substance arranged such that it will burn and produce a visible trail when fired in the dark.
- ammunition whose flight can be observed by a trail of smoke
- an investigator who is employed to find missing persons or missing goods
- an instrument used to make tracings
- (radiology) any radioactive isotope introduced into the body to study metabolism or other biological processes
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- a person with a record of successes
- an attainment that is successful
- an event that accomplishes its intended purpose
- a state of prosperity or fame
- One who, or that which, achieves assumed goals.
- The fact of getting or achieving wealth, respect, or fame.
- (business) Financial profitability.
- The achievement of one's aim or goal.
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- someone who ascends on foot
- an iron spike attached to the shoe to prevent slipping on ice when walking or climbing
- someone seeking social prominence by obsequious behavior
- a vine or climbing plant that readily grows up a support or over other plants
- someone who climbs as a sport; especially someone who climbs mountains
- (figurative, derogatory) A person who is constantly trying to get ahead socially.
- (ornithology) A bird that climbs, such as a parrot or woodpecker; specifically (archaic), a bird having two toes pointing forward, and two pointing backward, formerly regarded as being from the order Scansores or Zygodactyli (now obsolete as the birds formerly in this order have been reclassified into different orders); a zygodactyl.
- (cycle racing) A cyclist who specializes in riding especially well on steep hills or roads.
- (chiefly Canada) Any structure on a playground designed to be climbed on.
- (climbing) Synonym of climbing iron (“a kind of crampon attached to the shoe to aid with climbing”).
- (botany) A plant such as a vine that climbs upwards as it grows by attaching itself to some support.
- Someone or something that climbs (such as a mountain climber).
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- a stagehand responsible for moving scenery
- a mechanical device for engaging and disengaging gears
- (linguistics) A word whose meaning changes depending on the situation, as by deixis.
- A shiftworker.
- (nautical) An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, soaking, and shifting the salt provisions.
- (cycling) A component used by the rider to control the gearing mechanisms and select the desired gear ratio, usually connected to the derailleur by a mechanical actuation cable.
- (engineering) A control device (usually a lever or button) for shifting gears in a gearbox, or an arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another.
- (mining, historical) A person employed to repair the horseways and other passages, and keep them unobstructed.
- One who, or that which, shifts or changes.
- (mythology, science fiction, fantasy) A shape-shifter; a person or other being capable of changing their physical form, especially a lycanthrope.
- (spirituality) Ellipsis of reality shifter.
- (engineering, textiles) A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc.
- (US, Pennsylvania) A switcher or shunter: a railroad locomotive used for shunting.
- (especially Australia) A spanner with an adjustable jaw size.
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- an energetic person with unusual initiative
- A person who shows initiative and resourcefulness.
- an electric starting motor that automatically starts an internal-combustion engine
- A mechanism (usually one operated by electricity, compressed air, a spring, or an explosive gas), attached to an internal-combustion engine, as on an automobile, and used as a means of starting the engine without cranking it by hand.
- An engine so equipped, or the vehicle that it powers.
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- Somebody who possesses great bravery and carries out extraordinary or noble deeds.
- (poker) The current player, especially a hypothetical player for example and didactic purposes. Compare: villain (“any opponent player”). Not to be confused with hero call (“a weak call against a supposed bluff”).
- A role model.
- (New York) A large sandwich made from meats and cheeses.
- (cooking) The standout component of a dish; the part of a dish that should take center stage on the palate.
- (film, photography, chiefly attributive) The product chosen from several candidates to be photographed, as in food advertising, or with props used in a movie.
- (web design) The eye-catching top portion of a web page, sometimes including a hero image; the portion above the fold.
- The protagonist in a work of fiction.
- 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
- someone who fights for a cause
- the principal character in a play or movie or novel or poem
- (classical mythology) a being of great strength and courage celebrated for bold exploits; often the offspring of a mortal and a god
- a person distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength
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- Along a path which runs past someone or something.
- (uncommon outside the phrase 'put by') Aside, away.
- In the vicinity, near.
- (uncommon except in set phrases) Beyond or past a certain point.
- To or at a place, as a residence or place of business.
- so as to pass a given point
- in reserve; not for immediate use
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- Following a noun.
- (horse breeding) Designates a horse's sire (“male parent”).
- Invokes an authority in an oath.
- (chiefly Yeshivish) At; with; among.
- Per; with or in proportion to each.
- Indicates the creator of a work: Existing through the authorship etc. of.
- Used to separate dimensions when describing the size of something.
- Indicates a means of classification or organisation.
- Indicates an authority according to which something is done.
- Not later than (the given time); not later than the end of (the given time interval).
- [with the] Acted on in units of the specified size or measure. (Sometimes hyperbolically)
- (not in common modern use) Following an adjective.
- Indicates a means of achieving something: Involving/using the means of.
- Following a passive verb.
- Near or next to.
- In the formulae X by X and by Xs, indicates a steady progression, one X after another.
- Indicates a referenced source: According to.
- (mathematics) multiplied by or (chiefly South Asia) divided by
- Indicates the amount of change, difference or discrepancy
- From one side of something to the other, passing close by; past.
- (nautical) in a windward direction, sailing near to the direction from which the wind is blowing
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- Any major progress; such as a great innovation or discovery that overcomes a significant obstacle.
- (sports) The penetration of the opposition's defence.
- (construction) The penetration of a separating wall or the remaining distance to an adjacent hollow (a crosscut in mining) or between two parts of a tunnel build from both ends; knockthrough.
- (medicine, sometimes attributive) The emergence or one or more symptoms of a condition despite medication or other medical treatment.
- (military) An advance through and past enemy lines.
- a penetration of a barrier such as an enemy's defense
- making an important discovery
- a productive insight