reverse fault
normal fault
common fault
gravity fault
hanging wall
footwall
strike-slip fault
thrust fault
countermure
transform fault
overthrust
transcurrent
batter
overthrust fault
downthrow
toe-crushing
engaged
ledger wall
accident
obvallate
set-back
setoff
offset
ruptile
alligatoring
thrum
brick up
brick over
vauntmure
brick in
hackle
jump
upthrow
spanwanned
sideboarding
fault scarp
angle bead
walled
geologic joint
wallwards
murus
wo
waw
parge coat
anticracking
spur
blocked up
gate
mattress
anticrack
peak
daubing
asperity
flaw
chink up
cracking
chemise
dip
sidewall
mudwall
recess
tieback wall
enclosed
forework
coving
fracture
BW
macrocrack
upfault
brick wall
crevice
tied
pseudofault
floating
locked fault
sheet piling
machicolation
heartbond
rupture
wallward
footing
ledge
cavity wall
wall
banquette
crack
roughcast
pitwall
transpression
jag bolt
gutterwork
overthrust
transcurrent
engaged
obvallate
ruptile
spanwanned
walled
anticracking
blocked up
anticrack
enclosed
tied
wallwards
wallward
reverse fault
normal fault
common fault
gravity fault
hanging wall
footwall
strike-slip fault
thrust fault
countermure
transform fault
overthrust
batter
overthrust fault
downthrow
toe-crushing
ledger wall
accident
set-back
setoff
offset
alligatoring
thrum
vauntmure
hackle
jump
upthrow
sideboarding
fault scarp
angle bead
geologic joint
murus
wo
waw
parge coat
spur
gate
mattress
peak
daubing
asperity
flaw
cracking
chemise
dip
sidewall
mudwall
recess
tieback wall
forework
coving
fracture
BW
macrocrack
crevice
pseudofault
floating
locked fault
sheet piling
machicolation
heartbond
rupture
footing
cavity wall
wall
banquette
roughcast
pitwall
transpression
jag bolt
gutterwork
brick up
brick over
brick in
chink up
upfault
brick wall
countermure
ledge
crack
noun
- An incline on the outer face of a built wall.
- A beaten mixture of flour and liquid (usually egg and milk), used for baking (e.g. pancakes, cake, or Yorkshire pudding) or to coat food (e.g. fish) prior to frying.
- A paste of clay or loam.
- A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.
- A binge; a heavy drinking session.
- The player attempting to hit the ball with a bat.
- The player now receiving strike; the striker.
- A player of the batting side now on the field.
- Any player selected for his or her team principally to bat, as opposed to a bowler.
verb
adj
- built against or attached to a wall
- having ones attention or mind or energy engaged
- involved in military hostilities
- reserved in advance
- (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (`engaged' is a British term for a busy telephone line)
- (used of toothed parts or gears) interlocked and interacting
- having services contracted for
- pledged to be married
noun
- A sudden discontinuity of ground such as fault of great thickness, bed or lentil of unstable ground.
- Any property, fact, or relation that is the result of chance or is nonessential or nonsubstantive.
- A person born from an unintended pregnancy.
- A collision or crash of a vehicle, aircraft, or other form of transportation that causes damage to the transportation involved; and sometimes injury or death to the transportation's occupants or bystanders in close proximity. (but see Usage notes)
- A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, such as gender, number, or case.
- An instance of incontinence.
- An unexpected event with negative consequences occurring without the intention of the one suffering the consequences, and (in the strict sense) not directly caused by humans.
- Chance; random chance.
- Urine or feces excreted due to incontinence.
- An irregular surface feature with no apparent cause.
- A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.
- An unintended pregnancy.
- Any chance event.
- casus; such unforeseen, extraordinary, extraneous interference as is out of the range of ordinary calculation.
adj
adj
noun
- structure where a wall or building narrows abruptly
- the time at which something is supposed to begin
- a compensating equivalent
- a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips
- a natural consequence of development
- a plate makes an inked impression on a rubber-blanketed cylinder, which in turn transfers it to the paper
verb
noun
- A shove out of place; a small displacement or fault along a seam.
- Small pieces of rope yarn used for making mats or mops.
- Any short piece of leftover thread or yarn; a tuft or tassel.
- A fringe made of such threads.
- The ends of the warp threads in a loom which remain unwoven attached to the loom when the web is cut.
- A spicy taste; a tang.
- A threadlike part of a flower; a stamen.
- A tuft, bundle, or fringe of any threadlike structures, as hairs on a leaf, fibers of a root.
- A bundle of minute blood vessels, a plexus.
- A mat made of canvas and tufts of yarn.
- A thrumming sound; a hum or vibration.
adj
verb
verb
verb
verb
noun
- A type of jagged crack extending inwards from the broken surface of a fractured material.
- By extension (because the hackles of a rooster are lifted when it is angry), the hair on the nape of the neck in dogs and other animals; also used figuratively for humans.
- Any flimsy substance unspun, such as raw silk.
- A feather plume on some soldier's uniforms, especially the hat or helmet.
- A feather used to make a fishing lure or a fishing lure incorporating a feather.
- An instrument with steel pins used to comb out flax or hemp.
- A plate with rows of pointed needles used to blend or straighten hair.
- One of the long, narrow feathers on the neck of birds, most noticeable on the rooster.
verb
noun
- An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.
- An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
- An object which causes one to jump; a ramp.
- An abrupt increase in the height of the surface of a flowing liquid at the location where the flow transitions from supercritical to subcritical, involving an abrupt reduction in flow speed and increase in turbulence.
- A kind of loose jacket for men.
- An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body.
- A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) used to make a video game character jump (propel itself upwards).
- A jumping move in a board game.
- An early start or an advantage.
- An effort; an attempt; a venture.
- A change of the path of execution to a different location.
- An instance of propelling oneself upwards.
- A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured interval of the discontinuity.
- An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location.
- An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly.
- A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.
- An instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from ordinary space.
- Synonym of one-night stand (“single evening's performance”)
- The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.
verb
- To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap.
- To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
- To bore with a jumper.
- To increase the height of a tower crane by inserting a section at the base of the tower and jacking up everything above it.
- To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.
- To jump-start a car or other vehicle with a dead battery, as with jumper cables.
- To attack suddenly and violently.
- To move the distance between two opposing subjects.
- To cause to jump.
- To employ a move in certain board games where one game piece is moved from one legal position to another passing over the position of another piece.
- To engage in sexual intercourse with (a person).
- To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.
- To increase speed aggressively and without warning.
- To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound) by jerking the body violently.
- To join by a buttweld.
- To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.
- To increase sharply, to rise, to shoot up.
- To move to a position (in a queue/line) that is further forward.
- To start executing code from a different location, rather than following the program counter.
adv
noun
- A wall in a fortification that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.
- A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam cannot be placed.
- Ergotized rye or other grain.
- A tern.
- A branch of a vein.
- A piece of timber fixed on the bilgeways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side.
- Any protruding part connected at one end, for instance a highway that extends from another highway into a city.
- A jab given with the spurs.
- Roots, tree roots.
- A very short branch line of a railway line.
- The track of an animal, such as an otter; a spoor.
- A projection from the round base of a column, occupying the angle of a square plinth upon which the base rests, or bringing the bottom bed of the base to a nearly square form. It is generally carved in leafage.
- A mountain that shoots from another mountain or range and extends some distance in a lateral direction, or at right angles.
- A rigid implement, often roughly y-shaped, that is fixed to one's heel for the purpose of prodding a horse. Often worn by, and emblematic of, the cowboy or the knight.
- Anything that inspires or motivates, as a spur does a horse.
- A spiked iron worn by seamen upon the bottom of the boot, to enable them to stand upon the carcass of a whale to strip off the blubber.
- An appendage or spike pointing rearward, near the foot, for instance that of a rooster.
- A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, such as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut.
- A short branch road of a motorway, freeway or major road.
- The short wooden buttress of a post.
- A spurious tone, one that interferes with a signal in a circuit and is often masked underneath that signal.
- A short thin side shoot from a branch, especially one that bears fruit or, in conifers, the shoots that bear the leaves.
verb
noun
- The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.
- The highest value reached by some quantity in a time period.
- The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail.
- A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.
- The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point.
- The whole hill or mountain, especially when isolated.
- The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it.
- A local maximum of a function, e.g. for sine waves, each point at which the value of y is at its maximum.
verb
- To reach a highest degree or maximum.
- To pry; to peep slyly.
- To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak.
- To raise the point of (a gaff) closer to perpendicular.
- To cause to adopt gender-critical or trans-exclusionary views (ellipsis of peak trans).
- To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sickly.
- To become sick or wan.
adj
noun
- A section of a fault line with high friction, such that there is no movement along this part of the fault except during an earthquake.
- The quality of being harsh or severe in the way one speaks or behaves toward people.
- An area that protrudes from a surface.
- The quality of being difficult or unpleasant to experience.
- The quality of having a rough or uneven surface.
- Something that is harsh and difficult to endure.
noun
- A crack or breach, a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion.
- A storm of short duration.
- An inclusion, stain, or other defect of a diamond or other gemstone.
- A sudden burst of noise and disorder
- A defect or error in a contract or other document which may make the document invalid or ineffective.
- A defect, fault, or imperfection, especially one that is hidden.
- A sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration; windflaw.
verb
noun
- The angle from horizontal of a planar geologic surface, such as a fault line.
- A diplomat.
- A swim, usually a short swim to refresh.
- A lower section of a road or geological feature.
- The moist form of snuff tobacco.
- A move in many different styles of partner dances, often performed at the end of a dance, in which the follower leans far to the side and is supported by the leader.
- The viscid exudation that is dipped out from incisions in the trees. Virgin dip is the runnings of the first year, yellow dip the runnings of subsequent years.
- A sudden drop followed by a climb, usually to avoid obstacles or as the result of getting into an airhole.
- Fried bread.
- A foolish person.
- A dip stick.
- A gymnastic or bodybuilding exercise on parallel bars in which the performer, resting on his hands, lets his arms bend and his body sink until his chin is level with the bars, and then raises himself by straightening his arms.
- A tank or trough where cattle or sheep are immersed in chemicals to kill parasites.
- Inclination downward; direction below a horizontal line; slope; pitch.
- A sauce for dipping.
- The act of missing out on seeing a sought after bird.
- The action of dipping or plunging for a moment into a liquid.
- A financial asset in decline, seen as an investment opportunity.
verb
- To incline downward from the plane of the horizon.
- To perform a dip dance move (often phrased with the leader as the subject noun and the follower as the subject noun being dipped)
- To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part; often with out.
- To immerse oneself; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink.
- To treat cattle or sheep by immersion in chemical solution.
- To lower (a flag), particularly a national ensign, to a partially hoisted position in order to render or to return a salute. While lowered, the flag is said to be “at the dip.” A flag being carried on a staff may be dipped by leaning it forward at an approximate angle of 45 degrees.
- To perform the action of plunging a dipper, ladle. etc. into a liquid or soft substance and removing a part.
- To lower into a liquid.
- To miss out on seeing a sought after bird.
- To immerse for baptism.
- To use a dip stick to check oil level in an engine.
- To perform (a bow or curtsey) by inclining the body.
- To engage as a pledge; to mortgage.
- To lower the body by bending the knees while keeping the body in an upright position, as in movement to the rhythm of music.
- To leave.
- To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten.
- To consume snuff by placing a pinch behind the lip or under the tongue so that the active chemical constituents of the snuff may be absorbed into the system for their narcotic effect.
- To lower a light's beam.
- To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
- (of a value or rate) To decrease slightly.
noun
- A small space created by building part of a wall further back from the rest.
- A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.
- A time of play during the school day, usually on a playground.
- An inset, hole, hollow space or opening.
- A remote, secret or abstruse place.
- A break, pause or vacation.
- A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.
- A period of time when the proceedings of a parliament, committee, court of law, or other official body are temporarily suspended.
verb
noun
adj
- Having walls that are connected in a few places by a single stone overlapping from one wall to another.
- Conditional on other agreements being upheld.
- Restricted.
- a cover having a stamp where the postmark cancellation overlaps the stamp.
- Provided for use by an employer for as long as one is employed, often with restrictions on the conditions of use.
- Closely connected or associated.
- That resulted in a tie.
noun
noun
- The thickened or sloping portion of a wall, or of an embankment at its foot; foundation.
- Stability or balance when standing on one's feet.
- A narrow cotton lace, without figures.
- A footprint or footprints; tracks, someone's trail.
- The finer refuse part of whale blubber, not wholly deprived of oil.
- The act of putting a foot to anything; also, that which is added as a foot
- The act of adding up a column of figures; the amount or sum total of such a column.
- A double-check of the numbers vertically.
- A ground for the foot; place for the foot to rest on; firm foundation to stand on.
- A standing; position; established place; foothold.
- A relative condition; state.
verb
noun
- A shelf, ridge, or reef, of rocks.
- A provincial or territorial legislative assembly.
- A cornice.
- A (door or window) lintel.
- A piece of timber to support the deck, placed athwartship between beams.
- A lode; a limited mass of rock bearing valuable mineral.
- A provincial or territorial legislature building.
- A layer or stratum.
- A shelf on which articles may be laid; also, that which resembles such a shelf in form or use, as a projecting ridge or part, or a molding or edge in joinery.
noun
- Something with the apparent solidity and dimensions of a building wall.
- A doctor who tries to admit as few patients as possible.
- A line of defenders set up between an opposing free-kick taker and the goal.
- A point of defeat or extinction.
- A divisive or containing structure in an organ or cavity.
- A character that has high defenses, thereby reducing the amount of damage taken from the opponent’s attacks.
- A spring of water.
- A fictional bidder used to increase the price at an auction.
- Any of the surfaces of rock enclosing the lode.
- Each of the substantial structures acting either as the exterior of or divisions within a structure.
- A rampart of earth, stones etc. built up for defensive purposes.
- The stage of biological aging where physical appearance and attractiveness start to deteriorate rapidly.
- The butterfly Lasiommata megera.
- A point of desperation.
- A structure built for defense surrounding a city, castle etc.
- The right or privilege of taking the side of the road near the wall when encountering another pedestrian.
- A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot or wale.
- A barrier to vision.
- A barrier.
- An impediment to free movement.
- A personal notice board listing messages of interest to a particular user.
- Two or more blockers skating together so as to impede the opposing team.
verb
noun
- A narrow area behind a defensive wall's parapet elevated above its terreplein and used by defenders to shoot at attackers.
- A sidewalk.
- An upholstered bench, e.g., along a wall of a restaurant or lounge area.
- A bench built into a wall, especially (military) one built into a wall of a defensive trench, used for sitting and for shooting at attackers.
verb
- To form cracks.
- To change rapidly in register.
- To become debilitated by psychological pressure.
- To make a cracking sound.
- To break open or crush to small pieces by impact or stress.
- To make a crack or cracks in.
- To make a sharply humorous comment.
- To open slightly.
- To overcome a security system or component.
- To break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application of heat: to pyrolyse.
- To break apart under force, stress, or pressure.
- To alternate between high and low register in the process of eventually lowering.
- To strike forcefully.
- To cause to yield under interrogation or other pressure.
- To circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits.
- To tell (a joke).
- To break down or yield, especially under interrogation or torture.
- To solve a difficult problem.
- To cause to make a sharp sound.
- To realize that one is transgender.
- To barely reach, attain to (a measurement, extent).
- To open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food.
adj
noun
- An attempt at something.
- A sharp, resounding blow.
- The tone of voice when changed at puberty.
- A program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software.
- Vagina.
- The space between the buttocks.
- A narrow opening.
- Any sharp sound.
- A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.
- A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack.
- a meaningful chat.
- Something good-tasting or habit-forming.
- Extremely silly, absurd or off-the-wall ideas or prose.
- Conviviality; fun; good conversation, chat, gossip, or humorous storytelling; good company.
- The sharp sound made when solid material breaks.
- Business; events; news.
- Crack cocaine, a potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack-pipe.
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