English words for 'Alternative form of French braid.'
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verb
noun
noun
- A braid; a plait (of hair, straw, etc.).
- A map showing the boundaries of real properties (delineating one or more plots of land), especially one that forms part of a legal document.
- (video games, slang) Clipping of platform game
- Clipping of platform
- A plot of land; a lot.
- Material produced by braiding or interweaving, especially a material of interwoven straw from which straw hats are made.
- a map showing planned or actual features of an area (streets and building lots etc.)
verb
adj
adv
noun
- A cloth or yarn made from such hair.
- a fabric made from the hair of sheep
- (slang) A marijuana cigarette or cigar laced with crack cocaine.
- (British, New Zealand) Yarn, including that made from synthetic fibers.
- (Liverpool, derogatory) A woolly back; a resident of a satellite town outside Liverpool, such as St Helens or Warrington. See also Yonner.
- Anything with a fibrous texture like that of sheep's wool.
- A fine fiber obtained from the leaves of certain trees, such as firs and pines.
- The hair of the sheep, llama and some other ruminants.
- outer coat of especially sheep and yaks
- fiber sheared from animals (such as sheep) and twisted into yarn for weaving
noun
- A piece of embroidery; a braid.
- (slang, US or Cockney) Money.
- (countable) Any variety of bread.
- A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.
- Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.
- (especially) Such foodstuff that is not difficult to chew, being not extremely hard, dense, and dry.
- food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked
- informal terms for money
verb
noun
- (haberdashery) A fine cord or narrow braid.
- In a sewing machine, the small spool that holds the lower thread.
- A spool or cylinder around which wire is coiled.
- The little rounded piece of wood at the end of a latch string, which is pulled to raise the latch.
- a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound
verb
noun
- a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair
- trimming used to decorate clothes or curtains
- (mathematics, topology) Given two sets of n points on corresponding positions on two parallel lines, a braid is a unique set of crossings (over or under) between n strands that connect each point on one line to a point on the other line such that all points represent the terminus of one and only one strand and the traversal of any strand from a starting point to an ending point never moves further away from the from the ending point.
- (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) A board to press curd for cheese.
- A weave of three or more strands of fibers, ribbons, cords or hair often for decoration.
- (dialectal) A wicker guard for protecting newly grafted trees.
- A tubular sheath made of braided strands of metal placed around a central cable for shielding against electromagnetic interference.
- A stranded wire composed of a number of smaller wires twisted together.
- (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) A shelf or board for holding objects.
- (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) A flat board attached to a beam, used for weighing.
verb
noun
- An act or result of interweaving; specifically, (horticulture) a hedge or lattice created by interweaving the branches of shrubs, trees, etc.
- (horticulture) A notch cut into a branch so that it can be bent when pleaching is carried out.
- (horticulture) A branch of a shrub, tree, etc., used for pleaching; a pleacher.
noun
adv
intj
verb
- (transitive) To indicate in a written form.
- (informal, imperative, transitive) Suppose, assume; used to mark an example, supposition or hypothesis.
- (intransitive) To speak; to express an opinion; to make answer; to reply.
- (transitive, informal, of a possession, especially money) To bet as a wager on an outcome; by extension, used to express belief in an outcome by the speaker.
- (transitive) To pronounce.
- (transitive) To recite.
- (transitive) To tell, either verbally or in writing.
- To try; to assay.
- (impersonal, transitive) To have a common expression; used in singular passive voice or plural active voice to indicate a rumor or well-known fact.
- express a supposition
- speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way
- give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority
- have or contain a certain wording or form
- indicate
- recite or repeat a fixed text
- state as one's opinion or judgement; declare
- report or maintain
- utter aloud
- express in words
- communicate or express nonverbally
noun
- (textiles) A piece of backing fabric used in embroidery.
- An additional wheel on a bicycle to keep it upright to assist a learner.
- An airfoil that stabilizes the flight of an aircraft or missile.
- (mathematics) For a group operating on a set and an element x of the set, the set of all group elements fixing x.
- A gyroscopically controlled fin or similar device that prevents the excess rolling of a ship in rough seas.
- Any substance added to something in order to stabilize it, as for example a fuel additive that prolongs the shelf life of petrol.
- a device for making something stable
- airfoil consisting of a device for stabilizing an aircraft
- a chemical that is added to a solution or mixture or suspension to maintain it in a stable or unchanging state
noun
- A knot, braid, or plait of hair.
- Something designed to fool, dupe, outsmart, mislead or swindle.
- An effective, clever or quick way of doing something.
- (card games) A sequence in which each player plays a card and a winning play is determined.
- (nautical) A sailor's spell of work at the helm, usually two hours long.
- (slang) A customer or client of a prostitute.
- (heraldry) A representation of arms that is drawn as an outline with labels to indicate colors.
- An entertaining difficult physical action.
- (Western Pennsylvania) A daily period of work, especially in shift-based jobs.
- Mischievous or annoying behavior; a prank.
- (slang, vulgar) A term of abuse.
- (slang) A sex act, chiefly one performed for payment; an act of prostitution.
- A single element of a magician's (or any variety entertainer's) act; a magic trick.
- (card games) in a single round, the sequence of cards played by all the players; the high card is the winner
- a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement
- a cunning or deceitful action or device
- a prostitute's customer
- an attempt to get you to do something foolish or imprudent
- an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
- a period of work or duty
adj
verb
noun
- A strand of hair twisted together in a braid-like fashion
- Something that is twisty, such as a road
- (graphical user interface) A collapsible element having a marker such as a small triangle that rotates between horizontal and vertical positions to indicate whether the content is currently hidden or expanded.
adj
noun
- (textiles) A type of embroidery with small pieces of reflective metal attached to the fabric.
- The tobacco smoked in such a pipe, especially as mixed with molasses and flavour extract.
- (countable) An Arabic water-pipe, or hookah.
- an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water
noun
- a scarf (or trimming) made of sable
- marten of northern Asian forests having luxuriant dark brown fur
- an artist's brush made of sable hairs
- the expensive dark brown fur of the marten
- a very dark black
- (countable) Any other marten, especially Martes americana (syn. Mustela americana).
- (countable) A small carnivorous mammal of the Old World that resembles a weasel, Martes zibellina, from cold regions in Eurasia and the North Pacific islands, valued for its dark brown fur.
- (countable and uncountable) A dark brown colour, resembling the fur of some sables.
- The sablefish.
- (in the plural, sables) Black garments, especially worn in mourning.
- (countable) An artist's brush made from the fur of the sable, the kolinsky sable-hair brush.
- (heraldry) A black colour on a coat of arms.
- (countable and uncountable) A pelt of fur of a sable or of one of another species of martens; a coat made from this fur.
adj
noun
verb
noun
- a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair
- any clever maneuver
- social dancing in which couples vigorously twist their hips and arms in time to the music; was popular in the 1960s
- a circular segment of a curve
- a jerky pulling movement
- the act of rotating rapidly
- a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments
- an unforeseen development
- a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight
- a miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself
- turning or twisting around (in place)
- an interpretation of a text or action
- the act of winding or twisting
- A distortion to the meaning of a passage or word.
- The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
- A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together.
- (preceded by definite article) A modern dance popular in Western culture in the late 1950s and 1960s, based on rotating the hips repeatedly from side to side. See Twist (dance) on Wikipedia for more details.
- A twisting force.
- A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.
- The form given in twisting.
- Anything twisted, or the act of twisting.
- An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.
- (slang) A girl, a woman.
- A rotation of the body when diving.
- A roll or baton of baked dough or pastry in a twisted shape.
- A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination.
- The degree of stress or strain when twisted.
- Ellipsis of hair twist.
- A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.
- A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc.
- A sprain, especially to the ankle.
- (countable, uncountable) A small roll of tobacco.
verb
- to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling)
- form into a spiral shape
- do the twist
- twist suddenly so as to sprain
- form into twists
- extend in curves and turns
- twist or pull violently or suddenly, especially so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached or from where it originates
- practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive
- turn in the opposite direction
- cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form
- To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.
- (transitive) To coax.
- To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
- (transitive) To cause to rotate.
- To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
- To join together by twining one part around another.
- (card games) In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.
- (reflexive) To wind into; to insinuate.
- (intransitive) To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).
- To turn a knob etc.
- (intransitive, of a path) To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.
- To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).
- To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
- To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.
noun
name
- A settlement in Otago, New Zealand, on the Taieri River.
- A habitational surname from Old English.
- A hamlet in Buckland Newton parish, Dorset (OS grid ref ST6904).
- A town in Warwickshire; see Henley-in-Arden.
- An unincorporated community in Klamath County, Oregon, also from the surname.
- A hamlet in Box parish, Wiltshire (OS grid ref ST8267)
- A hamlet in Bitterley parish, south Shropshire (OS grid ref SO5476).
- An outer eastern suburb of Gloucester, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref SO9016).
- A hamlet in High Ham parish, Somerset (OS grid ref ST4332)
- A town in Oxfordshire; see Henley-on-Thames.
- A small settlement in Easebourne parish, Chichester district, West Sussex (OS grid ref SU8925).
- A hamlet in West Crewkerne parish, Somerset (OS grid ref ST4407).
- A suburb of Sydney in the Municipality of Hunter's Hill, New South Wales, Australia.
- An unincorporated community in Scioto County, Ohio, derived from the surname.
- A hamlet in Acton Scott parish, Shropshire (OS grid ref SO4588).
- A village and civil parish in Mid Suffolk district, Suffolk (OS grid ref TM1551).
- An unincorporated community in Cole County, Missouri, derived from the surname.
- A hamlet mostly in Buttermere parish, Wiltshire. (OS grid ref SU3259).
noun
noun
- A braid; a plait (of hair, straw, etc.).
- A map showing the boundaries of real properties (delineating one or more plots of land), especially one that forms part of a legal document.
- (video games, slang) Clipping of platform game
- Clipping of platform
- A plot of land; a lot.
- Material produced by braiding or interweaving, especially a material of interwoven straw from which straw hats are made.
- a map showing planned or actual features of an area (streets and building lots etc.)
verb
adj
adv
noun
- A cloth or yarn made from such hair.
- a fabric made from the hair of sheep
- (slang) A marijuana cigarette or cigar laced with crack cocaine.
- (British, New Zealand) Yarn, including that made from synthetic fibers.
- (Liverpool, derogatory) A woolly back; a resident of a satellite town outside Liverpool, such as St Helens or Warrington. See also Yonner.
- Anything with a fibrous texture like that of sheep's wool.
- A fine fiber obtained from the leaves of certain trees, such as firs and pines.
- The hair of the sheep, llama and some other ruminants.
- outer coat of especially sheep and yaks
- fiber sheared from animals (such as sheep) and twisted into yarn for weaving
noun
- A piece of embroidery; a braid.
- (slang, US or Cockney) Money.
- (countable) Any variety of bread.
- A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.
- Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.
- (especially) Such foodstuff that is not difficult to chew, being not extremely hard, dense, and dry.
- food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked
- informal terms for money
verb
noun
- (haberdashery) A fine cord or narrow braid.
- In a sewing machine, the small spool that holds the lower thread.
- A spool or cylinder around which wire is coiled.
- The little rounded piece of wood at the end of a latch string, which is pulled to raise the latch.
- a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound
noun
adv
intj
verb
- (transitive) To indicate in a written form.
- (informal, imperative, transitive) Suppose, assume; used to mark an example, supposition or hypothesis.
- (intransitive) To speak; to express an opinion; to make answer; to reply.
- (transitive, informal, of a possession, especially money) To bet as a wager on an outcome; by extension, used to express belief in an outcome by the speaker.
- (transitive) To pronounce.
- (transitive) To recite.
- (transitive) To tell, either verbally or in writing.
- To try; to assay.
- (impersonal, transitive) To have a common expression; used in singular passive voice or plural active voice to indicate a rumor or well-known fact.
- express a supposition
- speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way
- give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority
- have or contain a certain wording or form
- indicate
- recite or repeat a fixed text
- state as one's opinion or judgement; declare
- report or maintain
- utter aloud
- express in words
- communicate or express nonverbally
noun
- (textiles) A piece of backing fabric used in embroidery.
- An additional wheel on a bicycle to keep it upright to assist a learner.
- An airfoil that stabilizes the flight of an aircraft or missile.
- (mathematics) For a group operating on a set and an element x of the set, the set of all group elements fixing x.
- A gyroscopically controlled fin or similar device that prevents the excess rolling of a ship in rough seas.
- Any substance added to something in order to stabilize it, as for example a fuel additive that prolongs the shelf life of petrol.
- a device for making something stable
- airfoil consisting of a device for stabilizing an aircraft
- a chemical that is added to a solution or mixture or suspension to maintain it in a stable or unchanging state
noun
- A knot, braid, or plait of hair.
- Something designed to fool, dupe, outsmart, mislead or swindle.
- An effective, clever or quick way of doing something.
- (card games) A sequence in which each player plays a card and a winning play is determined.
- (nautical) A sailor's spell of work at the helm, usually two hours long.
- (slang) A customer or client of a prostitute.
- (heraldry) A representation of arms that is drawn as an outline with labels to indicate colors.
- An entertaining difficult physical action.
- (Western Pennsylvania) A daily period of work, especially in shift-based jobs.
- Mischievous or annoying behavior; a prank.
- (slang, vulgar) A term of abuse.
- (slang) A sex act, chiefly one performed for payment; an act of prostitution.
- A single element of a magician's (or any variety entertainer's) act; a magic trick.
- (card games) in a single round, the sequence of cards played by all the players; the high card is the winner
- a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement
- a cunning or deceitful action or device
- a prostitute's customer
- an attempt to get you to do something foolish or imprudent
- an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
- a period of work or duty
adj
verb
noun
- A strand of hair twisted together in a braid-like fashion
- Something that is twisty, such as a road
- (graphical user interface) A collapsible element having a marker such as a small triangle that rotates between horizontal and vertical positions to indicate whether the content is currently hidden or expanded.
adj
noun
- (textiles) A type of embroidery with small pieces of reflective metal attached to the fabric.
- The tobacco smoked in such a pipe, especially as mixed with molasses and flavour extract.
- (countable) An Arabic water-pipe, or hookah.
- an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water
noun
- a scarf (or trimming) made of sable
- marten of northern Asian forests having luxuriant dark brown fur
- an artist's brush made of sable hairs
- the expensive dark brown fur of the marten
- a very dark black
- (countable) Any other marten, especially Martes americana (syn. Mustela americana).
- (countable) A small carnivorous mammal of the Old World that resembles a weasel, Martes zibellina, from cold regions in Eurasia and the North Pacific islands, valued for its dark brown fur.
- (countable and uncountable) A dark brown colour, resembling the fur of some sables.
- The sablefish.
- (in the plural, sables) Black garments, especially worn in mourning.
- (countable) An artist's brush made from the fur of the sable, the kolinsky sable-hair brush.
- (heraldry) A black colour on a coat of arms.
- (countable and uncountable) A pelt of fur of a sable or of one of another species of martens; a coat made from this fur.
adj
verb
noun
- a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair
- trimming used to decorate clothes or curtains
- (mathematics, topology) Given two sets of n points on corresponding positions on two parallel lines, a braid is a unique set of crossings (over or under) between n strands that connect each point on one line to a point on the other line such that all points represent the terminus of one and only one strand and the traversal of any strand from a starting point to an ending point never moves further away from the from the ending point.
- (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) A board to press curd for cheese.
- A weave of three or more strands of fibers, ribbons, cords or hair often for decoration.
- (dialectal) A wicker guard for protecting newly grafted trees.
- A tubular sheath made of braided strands of metal placed around a central cable for shielding against electromagnetic interference.
- A stranded wire composed of a number of smaller wires twisted together.
- (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) A shelf or board for holding objects.
- (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) A flat board attached to a beam, used for weighing.
noun
verb
noun
- a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair
- any clever maneuver
- social dancing in which couples vigorously twist their hips and arms in time to the music; was popular in the 1960s
- a circular segment of a curve
- a jerky pulling movement
- the act of rotating rapidly
- a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments
- an unforeseen development
- a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight
- a miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself
- turning or twisting around (in place)
- an interpretation of a text or action
- the act of winding or twisting
- A distortion to the meaning of a passage or word.
- The spiral course of the rifling of a gun barrel or a cannon.
- A type of thread made from two filaments twisted together.
- (preceded by definite article) A modern dance popular in Western culture in the late 1950s and 1960s, based on rotating the hips repeatedly from side to side. See Twist (dance) on Wikipedia for more details.
- A twisting force.
- A material for gun barrels, consisting of iron and steel twisted and welded together.
- The form given in twisting.
- Anything twisted, or the act of twisting.
- An unexpected turn in a story, tale, etc.
- (slang) A girl, a woman.
- A rotation of the body when diving.
- A roll or baton of baked dough or pastry in a twisted shape.
- A strong individual tendency or bent; inclination.
- The degree of stress or strain when twisted.
- Ellipsis of hair twist.
- A sudden bend (or short series of bends) in a road, path, etc.
- A sliver of lemon peel added to a cocktail, etc.
- A sprain, especially to the ankle.
- (countable, uncountable) A small roll of tobacco.
verb
- to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling)
- form into a spiral shape
- do the twist
- twist suddenly so as to sprain
- form into twists
- extend in curves and turns
- twist or pull violently or suddenly, especially so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached or from where it originates
- practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive
- turn in the opposite direction
- cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form
- To distort or change the truth or meaning of words when repeating.
- (transitive) To coax.
- To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
- (transitive) To cause to rotate.
- To turn the ends of something, usually thread, rope etc., in opposite directions, often using force.
- To join together by twining one part around another.
- (card games) In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.
- (reflexive) To wind into; to insinuate.
- (intransitive) To dance the twist (a type of dance characterised by twisting one's hips).
- To turn a knob etc.
- (intransitive, of a path) To wind; to follow a bendy or wavy course; to have many bends.
- To form a twist (in any of the above noun meanings).
- To wreathe; to wind; to encircle; to unite by intertexture of parts.
- To injure (a body part) by bending it in the wrong direction.
noun
name
- A settlement in Otago, New Zealand, on the Taieri River.
- A habitational surname from Old English.
- A hamlet in Buckland Newton parish, Dorset (OS grid ref ST6904).
- A town in Warwickshire; see Henley-in-Arden.
- An unincorporated community in Klamath County, Oregon, also from the surname.
- A hamlet in Box parish, Wiltshire (OS grid ref ST8267)
- A hamlet in Bitterley parish, south Shropshire (OS grid ref SO5476).
- An outer eastern suburb of Gloucester, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref SO9016).
- A hamlet in High Ham parish, Somerset (OS grid ref ST4332)
- A town in Oxfordshire; see Henley-on-Thames.
- A small settlement in Easebourne parish, Chichester district, West Sussex (OS grid ref SU8925).
- A hamlet in West Crewkerne parish, Somerset (OS grid ref ST4407).
- A suburb of Sydney in the Municipality of Hunter's Hill, New South Wales, Australia.
- An unincorporated community in Scioto County, Ohio, derived from the surname.
- A hamlet in Acton Scott parish, Shropshire (OS grid ref SO4588).
- A village and civil parish in Mid Suffolk district, Suffolk (OS grid ref TM1551).
- An unincorporated community in Cole County, Missouri, derived from the surname.
- A hamlet mostly in Buttermere parish, Wiltshire. (OS grid ref SU3259).
verb
noun
verb
noun
- a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair
- trimming used to decorate clothes or curtains
- (mathematics, topology) Given two sets of n points on corresponding positions on two parallel lines, a braid is a unique set of crossings (over or under) between n strands that connect each point on one line to a point on the other line such that all points represent the terminus of one and only one strand and the traversal of any strand from a starting point to an ending point never moves further away from the from the ending point.
- (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) A board to press curd for cheese.
- A weave of three or more strands of fibers, ribbons, cords or hair often for decoration.
- (dialectal) A wicker guard for protecting newly grafted trees.
- A tubular sheath made of braided strands of metal placed around a central cable for shielding against electromagnetic interference.
- A stranded wire composed of a number of smaller wires twisted together.
- (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) A shelf or board for holding objects.
- (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) A flat board attached to a beam, used for weighing.
verb
noun
- An act or result of interweaving; specifically, (horticulture) a hedge or lattice created by interweaving the branches of shrubs, trees, etc.
- (horticulture) A notch cut into a branch so that it can be bent when pleaching is carried out.
- (horticulture) A branch of a shrub, tree, etc., used for pleaching; a pleacher.
noun
- A braid; a plait (of hair, straw, etc.).
- A map showing the boundaries of real properties (delineating one or more plots of land), especially one that forms part of a legal document.
- (video games, slang) Clipping of platform game
- Clipping of platform
- A plot of land; a lot.
- Material produced by braiding or interweaving, especially a material of interwoven straw from which straw hats are made.
- a map showing planned or actual features of an area (streets and building lots etc.)
verb
adj
adv
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