English words for 'Alternative form of Guantanamo.'
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noun
- (anatomy) Initialism of gallbladder.
- (crystallography) Initialism of grain boundary.
- (informal, pharmacology) Initialism of goofball (“barbiturate”).
- a highly toxic chemical nerve agent that inhibits the activity of cholinesterase
- a unit of information equal to 1000 megabytes or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bytes
- a unit of information equal to 1024 mebibytes or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bytes
phrase
symbol
noun
verb
noun
- (military) Initialism of war prison.
- (computing) Initialism of word processing.
- (military) Initialism of weapons procurement.
- (software) Initialism of word processor.
- Initialism of white privilege.
- Initialism of white people.
- (baseball) Initialism of wild pitch.
- (military) Initialism of white phosphorus.
- (hydrology) Initialism of wilting point.
- (computing) Initialism of weakest precondition.
intj
name
- (international law) Initialism of Warsaw Pact.
- (rail transport) Initialism of Western Pacific.
- (Wikimedia jargon) Initialism of Wikipedia.
- (mobile telephony) Initialism of Windows Phone.
- (Internet) Initialism of Wattpad.
- (software) Initialism of WordPress.
- (newspaper) Initialism of Washington Post.
- (Internet) Initialism of Wirtualna Polska.
- (software) Initialism of WordPerfect.
noun
- a penal camp where political prisoners or prisoners of war are confined (usually under harsh conditions)
- A camp where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners, prisoners of war, refugees etc., are detained for the purpose of confining them in one place, typically with inadequate or inhumane facilities.
- a situation characterized by crowding and extremely harsh conditions
- A camp where troops are assembled, prior to combat or transport.
- (figuratively) A situation of overcrowding and extremely harsh conditions.
noun
- (US) A jail or guardhouse, especially in a naval military prison or jail on a ship, navy base, or (in fiction) spacecraft.
- (nautical) A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on both foremast and mainmast
- (Scotland, Northern Ireland, Northern England) Bridge.
- Brigadier.
- a penal institution (especially on board a ship)
- two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on both masts
noun
- a prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement
- (uncountable) Confinement in prison.
- A place or institution where people are held against their will, in the US especially for long-term confinement, as of those convicted of serious crimes or otherwise considered undesirable by the government.
- a correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment
- (colloquial, figurative) Any restrictive environment, such as a harsh academy or home.
verb
adj
verb
noun
- (US, slang) A prison.
- A device for refrigerating dead bodies in a morgue.
- (US, slang) A bouncer or doorman.
- Anything which cools.
- (India, countable) Ellipsis of air cooler, evaporative cooler, desert cooler, or swamp cooler.
- (poker, gambling, colloquial) A cold deck.
- (poker) A loss suffered while holding a hand which is ordinarily strong, especially one which involves the loss of many chips.
- (Canada, South Africa, countable or uncountable) A type of drink made with alcohol, especially wine, mixed with fruit juice.
- An insulated bin or box used with ice or freezer packs to keep food or beverages cold while picnicking or camping.
- (Philippines, countable) samalamig drink (sweet chilled beverage, such as chilled fruit juice or other flavors like chocolate, coffee, sweet corn, etc., usually mixed with either shredded jelly and/or sago pearls or tapioca pearls)
- a cell for violent prisoners
- a refrigerator for cooling liquids
- an iced drink especially white wine and fruit juice
adj
noun
- (US, slang) A prison.
- A box or compartment containing ice, typically used to keep provisions cool.
- (UK) A compartment in a refrigerator that is colder than the rest of the refrigerator and is used as a freezer.
- (US, slang) A city with a cold or snowy climate.
- (US, slang) A morgue.
- white goods in which food can be stored at low temperatures
adj
noun
- A place of punitive confinement; a lockup or cell; a military guardroom.
- (aviation) A dangerous optical illusion that can occur on a nighttime approach with dark, featureless terrain between the aircraft and a brightly-lit runway, where the aircraft appears to the pilots to be higher up than it actually is, potentially triggering a premature or overly-steep descent and a crash short of the runway.
- (figuratively) A void into which things disappear for good; an inscrutable area or subject.
- (physics) A region of spacetime that exerts a gravitational pull strong enough that no matter or energy, not even light, can escape it.
- (Internet, often attributive) A place where incoming traffic is silently discarded.
- (programming) A bit bucket; a place of permanent oblivion for data.
- a region of space resulting from the collapse of a star; extremely high gravitational field
verb
noun
- (uncountable) Confinement in a jail.
- A place or institution for the confinement of persons held against their will in lawful custody or detention, especially (in US usage) a place where people are held for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.
- In dodgeball and related games, the area where players who have been struck by the ball are confined.
- (computing, FreeBSD, usually uncountable) A kind of sandbox for running a guest operating system instance.
- (horse racing, uncountable) The condition created by the requirement that a horse claimed in a claiming race not be run at another track for some period of time (usually 30 days).
- a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)
verb
verb
- (transitive) To capture and turn over to another country secretly and extrajudicially.
- (transitive, computer graphics) To transform (a model) into a display on the screen or other media.
- (transitive) To pass down.
- (transitive) To interpret, give an interpretation or rendition of.
- (intransitive, cooking) To have fat melt off meat from cooking.
- (nautical) To pass; to run; said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.
- (transitive) To give; to give back; to deliver.
- (nautical) To yield or give way.
- (transitive) To translate into another language.
- (transitive, art, by extension) To apply realistic coloring and shading.
- (transitive) To make over as a return.
- (ditransitive) To cause to become.
- (transitive) To convert waste animal tissue into a usable byproduct.
- (construction) To cover a wall with a layer of plaster.
- cause to become
- give back
- coat with plastic or cement
- make over as a return
- to surrender someone or something to another
- show in, or as in, a picture
- give an interpretation or rendition of
- bestow
- give something useful or necessary to
- melt (fat or lard) in order to separate out impurities
- restate (words) from one language into another language
- give or supply
- pass down
noun
prep_phrase
noun
adj
- lacking companions or companionship
- characterized by or preferring solitude
- of plants and animals; not growing or living in groups or colonies
- being the only one; single and isolated from others
- devoid of creatures
- Performed, passed, or endured alone.
- Single; individual; sole.
- Not much visited or frequented; remote from society
- Living or being by oneself; alone; having no companion present
- Not inhabited or occupied; without signs of inhabitants or occupation; desolate; deserted
- (botany) Not associated with others of the same kind.
- Gloomy; dismal, because of not being inhabited.
noun
- A jail or prison, especially one regarded as mistreating its prisoners.
- (British, derogatory) Synonym of workhouse (“an institution for homeless poor people funded by the local parish, where the able-bodied were required to work”).
- (military, historical) The fortified encampment of an army besieging a place; also, any of the buildings in such an encampment.
- Chiefly in French contexts: a bastion (“projecting part of a rampart or other fortification”) or tower of a castle; also, a fortified tower or other building; or a small citadel or fortress.
- a jail or prison (especially one that is run in a tyrannical manner)
verb
verb
noun
- extreme mental distress
- a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented
- the act of harassing someone
- intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain
- unbearable physical pain
- a severe affliction
- Torture, originally as inflicted by an instrument of torture.
- Any extreme pain, anguish or misery, either physical or mental.
verb
noun
- the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
- extreme mental distress
- the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason
- intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain
- unbearable physical pain
- The infliction of severe pain or anguish, especially as an interrogation technique or punishment; (usually in the plural) a technique, method, or device which is designed to inflict such anguish.
- (in figurative or extended use) An unpleasant sensation or its infliction: embarrassment, heartache, etc.
- (BDSM, in combination) Sexual activity involving the infliction of pain to a certain body part or in a certain manner.
- Severe pain or anguish, of mind or body.
noun
- (informal) A correctional institution.
- A long-established organization or type of organization, particularly one involved with education, public service, or charity work.
- (informal) A mental institution.
- Any facility where people (especially those who are mentally or physically disabled or sick, or who are prisoners) are committed (confined), where their freedom to leave is restricted.
- (Christianity) The act by which a bishop commits a cure of souls to a priest.
- The act of instituting something.
- The building or buildings which house such an organization.
- (informal) A person long established in a place, position, or field.
- A custom or practice of a society or community.
- (informal) Any long established and respected place or business.
- an establishment consisting of a building or complex of buildings where an organization for the promotion of some cause is situated
- a custom that for a long time has been an important feature of some group or society
- a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person
- an organization founded and united for a specific purpose
- the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new
name
adj
noun
noun
- A prison camp, especially one used to hold political prisoners.
- (also figuratively) A place where, or political system in which, people with dissident views are routinely oppressed.
- (historical) Also GULAG: the system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s).
- a Russian prison camp for political prisoners
verb
verb
- (transitive) To imprison.
- To twist two or more filaments of (silk, etc.) so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles, in a direction contrary to the twist of the singles themselves; sometimes applied to the whole class of operations by which silk is prepared for the weaver.
- (baseball, slang, of a team, a manager, etc.) To select (a pitcher); to assign a pitcher to a given role (such as starter or reliever).
- (martial arts) To lift or unbalance one’s opponent and then bring him back down to the ground, especially into a position behind the thrower.
- (transitive) To show sudden emotion, especially anger.
- (transitive, informal) To confuse or mislead.
- (transitive, figuratively) To send hastily or desperately.
- (transitive, ceramics) To make (a pot) by shaping clay as it turns on a wheel.
- (transitive, computing) To send (an error) to an exception-handling mechanism in order to interrupt normal processing.
- (transitive, veterinary medicine) Of animals: to give birth to (young).
- (American football) Synonym of pass.
- (transitive) To project or send forth.
- (transitive) To organize an event, especially a party.
- (transitive) To change (one’s voice) in order to give the illusion that the voice is that of someone else, or coming from a different place.
- (transitive) To install (a bridge).
- (transitive) To cause a certain number on the die or dice to be shown after rolling it.
- (transitive) To move to another position or condition; to displace.
- To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.
- (transitive) To eject or cause to fall off.
- (transitive, cricket, of a bowler) To deliver (the ball) illegally by straightening the bowling arm during delivery.
- (ambitransitive) To roll (a die or dice).
- (transitive) To hurl; to release (an object) with some force from one’s hands, an apparatus, etc. so that it moves rapidly through the air.
- (transitive, bridge) To discard.
- (sports, video games) To intentionally lose a game.
- (sports, transitive) (of a game where one’s role is throwing something) To perform in a specified way in (a match).
- (transitive, of a punch or boxing combination) To deliver.
- cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation
- to put into a state or activity hastily, suddenly, or carelessly
- make on a potter's wheel
- throw (a die) out onto a flat surface
- place or put with great energy
- move violently, energetically, or carelessly
- be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly
- utter with force; utter vehemently
- convey or communicate; of a smile, a look, a physical gesture
- put or send forth
- cause to be confused emotionally
- to remove
- cause to fall off
- organize or be responsible for
- propel through the air
noun
- (informal) A single instance, occurrence, venture, or chance.
- One’s ability to throw.
- The act of throwing something.
- (historical) A hand-operated lathe, especially a small lathe used by clockmakers.
- The flight of a thrown object.
- A distance travelled in general; displacement.
- Any of the projections integral to a crankshaft that receive or impart cranking motion from a connecting rod or similar component.
- (martial arts) A move in which one lifts or unbalances one’s opponent and then brings him down to the ground.
- A piece of fabric used to cover a bed, sofa or other soft furnishing.
- The distance travelled by something thrown.
- the act of throwing (propelling something with a rapid movement of the arm and wrist)
- the maximum movement available to a pivoted or reciprocating piece by a cam
- a single chance or instance
- casting an object in order to determine an outcome randomly
- bedclothes consisting of a lightweight cloth covering (an afghan or bedspread) that is casually thrown over something
noun
verb
noun
- (military) Initialism of war prison.
- (computing) Initialism of word processing.
- (military) Initialism of weapons procurement.
- (software) Initialism of word processor.
- Initialism of white privilege.
- Initialism of white people.
- (baseball) Initialism of wild pitch.
- (military) Initialism of white phosphorus.
- (hydrology) Initialism of wilting point.
- (computing) Initialism of weakest precondition.
intj
name
- (international law) Initialism of Warsaw Pact.
- (rail transport) Initialism of Western Pacific.
- (Wikimedia jargon) Initialism of Wikipedia.
- (mobile telephony) Initialism of Windows Phone.
- (Internet) Initialism of Wattpad.
- (software) Initialism of WordPress.
- (newspaper) Initialism of Washington Post.
- (Internet) Initialism of Wirtualna Polska.
- (software) Initialism of WordPerfect.
noun
- a penal camp where political prisoners or prisoners of war are confined (usually under harsh conditions)
- A camp where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners, prisoners of war, refugees etc., are detained for the purpose of confining them in one place, typically with inadequate or inhumane facilities.
- a situation characterized by crowding and extremely harsh conditions
- A camp where troops are assembled, prior to combat or transport.
- (figuratively) A situation of overcrowding and extremely harsh conditions.
noun
- (US) A jail or guardhouse, especially in a naval military prison or jail on a ship, navy base, or (in fiction) spacecraft.
- (nautical) A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on both foremast and mainmast
- (Scotland, Northern Ireland, Northern England) Bridge.
- Brigadier.
- a penal institution (especially on board a ship)
- two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on both masts
noun
- a prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement
- (uncountable) Confinement in prison.
- A place or institution where people are held against their will, in the US especially for long-term confinement, as of those convicted of serious crimes or otherwise considered undesirable by the government.
- a correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment
- (colloquial, figurative) Any restrictive environment, such as a harsh academy or home.
verb
noun
- (US, slang) A prison.
- A device for refrigerating dead bodies in a morgue.
- (US, slang) A bouncer or doorman.
- Anything which cools.
- (India, countable) Ellipsis of air cooler, evaporative cooler, desert cooler, or swamp cooler.
- (poker, gambling, colloquial) A cold deck.
- (poker) A loss suffered while holding a hand which is ordinarily strong, especially one which involves the loss of many chips.
- (Canada, South Africa, countable or uncountable) A type of drink made with alcohol, especially wine, mixed with fruit juice.
- An insulated bin or box used with ice or freezer packs to keep food or beverages cold while picnicking or camping.
- (Philippines, countable) samalamig drink (sweet chilled beverage, such as chilled fruit juice or other flavors like chocolate, coffee, sweet corn, etc., usually mixed with either shredded jelly and/or sago pearls or tapioca pearls)
- a cell for violent prisoners
- a refrigerator for cooling liquids
- an iced drink especially white wine and fruit juice
adj
noun
- (US, slang) A prison.
- A box or compartment containing ice, typically used to keep provisions cool.
- (UK) A compartment in a refrigerator that is colder than the rest of the refrigerator and is used as a freezer.
- (US, slang) A city with a cold or snowy climate.
- (US, slang) A morgue.
- white goods in which food can be stored at low temperatures
adj
noun
- A place of punitive confinement; a lockup or cell; a military guardroom.
- (aviation) A dangerous optical illusion that can occur on a nighttime approach with dark, featureless terrain between the aircraft and a brightly-lit runway, where the aircraft appears to the pilots to be higher up than it actually is, potentially triggering a premature or overly-steep descent and a crash short of the runway.
- (figuratively) A void into which things disappear for good; an inscrutable area or subject.
- (physics) A region of spacetime that exerts a gravitational pull strong enough that no matter or energy, not even light, can escape it.
- (Internet, often attributive) A place where incoming traffic is silently discarded.
- (programming) A bit bucket; a place of permanent oblivion for data.
- a region of space resulting from the collapse of a star; extremely high gravitational field
verb
noun
- (uncountable) Confinement in a jail.
- A place or institution for the confinement of persons held against their will in lawful custody or detention, especially (in US usage) a place where people are held for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.
- In dodgeball and related games, the area where players who have been struck by the ball are confined.
- (computing, FreeBSD, usually uncountable) A kind of sandbox for running a guest operating system instance.
- (horse racing, uncountable) The condition created by the requirement that a horse claimed in a claiming race not be run at another track for some period of time (usually 30 days).
- a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)
verb
noun
adj
- lacking companions or companionship
- characterized by or preferring solitude
- of plants and animals; not growing or living in groups or colonies
- being the only one; single and isolated from others
- devoid of creatures
- Performed, passed, or endured alone.
- Single; individual; sole.
- Not much visited or frequented; remote from society
- Living or being by oneself; alone; having no companion present
- Not inhabited or occupied; without signs of inhabitants or occupation; desolate; deserted
- (botany) Not associated with others of the same kind.
- Gloomy; dismal, because of not being inhabited.
noun
- A jail or prison, especially one regarded as mistreating its prisoners.
- (British, derogatory) Synonym of workhouse (“an institution for homeless poor people funded by the local parish, where the able-bodied were required to work”).
- (military, historical) The fortified encampment of an army besieging a place; also, any of the buildings in such an encampment.
- Chiefly in French contexts: a bastion (“projecting part of a rampart or other fortification”) or tower of a castle; also, a fortified tower or other building; or a small citadel or fortress.
- a jail or prison (especially one that is run in a tyrannical manner)
verb
noun
- (informal) A correctional institution.
- A long-established organization or type of organization, particularly one involved with education, public service, or charity work.
- (informal) A mental institution.
- Any facility where people (especially those who are mentally or physically disabled or sick, or who are prisoners) are committed (confined), where their freedom to leave is restricted.
- (Christianity) The act by which a bishop commits a cure of souls to a priest.
- The act of instituting something.
- The building or buildings which house such an organization.
- (informal) A person long established in a place, position, or field.
- A custom or practice of a society or community.
- (informal) Any long established and respected place or business.
- an establishment consisting of a building or complex of buildings where an organization for the promotion of some cause is situated
- a custom that for a long time has been an important feature of some group or society
- a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person
- an organization founded and united for a specific purpose
- the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new
noun
- A prison camp, especially one used to hold political prisoners.
- (also figuratively) A place where, or political system in which, people with dissident views are routinely oppressed.
- (historical) Also GULAG: the system of all Soviet labour camps and prisons in use, especially during the Stalinist period (1930s–1950s).
- a Russian prison camp for political prisoners
verb
verb
- (transitive) To capture and turn over to another country secretly and extrajudicially.
- (transitive, computer graphics) To transform (a model) into a display on the screen or other media.
- (transitive) To pass down.
- (transitive) To interpret, give an interpretation or rendition of.
- (intransitive, cooking) To have fat melt off meat from cooking.
- (nautical) To pass; to run; said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.
- (transitive) To give; to give back; to deliver.
- (nautical) To yield or give way.
- (transitive) To translate into another language.
- (transitive, art, by extension) To apply realistic coloring and shading.
- (transitive) To make over as a return.
- (ditransitive) To cause to become.
- (transitive) To convert waste animal tissue into a usable byproduct.
- (construction) To cover a wall with a layer of plaster.
- cause to become
- give back
- coat with plastic or cement
- make over as a return
- to surrender someone or something to another
- show in, or as in, a picture
- give an interpretation or rendition of
- bestow
- give something useful or necessary to
- melt (fat or lard) in order to separate out impurities
- restate (words) from one language into another language
- give or supply
- pass down
noun
verb
noun
- extreme mental distress
- a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented
- the act of harassing someone
- intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain
- unbearable physical pain
- a severe affliction
- Torture, originally as inflicted by an instrument of torture.
- Any extreme pain, anguish or misery, either physical or mental.
verb
noun
- the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
- extreme mental distress
- the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason
- intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain
- unbearable physical pain
- The infliction of severe pain or anguish, especially as an interrogation technique or punishment; (usually in the plural) a technique, method, or device which is designed to inflict such anguish.
- (in figurative or extended use) An unpleasant sensation or its infliction: embarrassment, heartache, etc.
- (BDSM, in combination) Sexual activity involving the infliction of pain to a certain body part or in a certain manner.
- Severe pain or anguish, of mind or body.
noun
- a prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement
- (uncountable) Confinement in prison.
- A place or institution where people are held against their will, in the US especially for long-term confinement, as of those convicted of serious crimes or otherwise considered undesirable by the government.
- a correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment
- (colloquial, figurative) Any restrictive environment, such as a harsh academy or home.
verb
verb
- (transitive) To imprison.
- To twist two or more filaments of (silk, etc.) so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles, in a direction contrary to the twist of the singles themselves; sometimes applied to the whole class of operations by which silk is prepared for the weaver.
- (baseball, slang, of a team, a manager, etc.) To select (a pitcher); to assign a pitcher to a given role (such as starter or reliever).
- (martial arts) To lift or unbalance one’s opponent and then bring him back down to the ground, especially into a position behind the thrower.
- (transitive) To show sudden emotion, especially anger.
- (transitive, informal) To confuse or mislead.
- (transitive, figuratively) To send hastily or desperately.
- (transitive, ceramics) To make (a pot) by shaping clay as it turns on a wheel.
- (transitive, computing) To send (an error) to an exception-handling mechanism in order to interrupt normal processing.
- (transitive, veterinary medicine) Of animals: to give birth to (young).
- (American football) Synonym of pass.
- (transitive) To project or send forth.
- (transitive) To organize an event, especially a party.
- (transitive) To change (one’s voice) in order to give the illusion that the voice is that of someone else, or coming from a different place.
- (transitive) To install (a bridge).
- (transitive) To cause a certain number on the die or dice to be shown after rolling it.
- (transitive) To move to another position or condition; to displace.
- To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.
- (transitive) To eject or cause to fall off.
- (transitive, cricket, of a bowler) To deliver (the ball) illegally by straightening the bowling arm during delivery.
- (ambitransitive) To roll (a die or dice).
- (transitive) To hurl; to release (an object) with some force from one’s hands, an apparatus, etc. so that it moves rapidly through the air.
- (transitive, bridge) To discard.
- (sports, video games) To intentionally lose a game.
- (sports, transitive) (of a game where one’s role is throwing something) To perform in a specified way in (a match).
- (transitive, of a punch or boxing combination) To deliver.
- cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation
- to put into a state or activity hastily, suddenly, or carelessly
- make on a potter's wheel
- throw (a die) out onto a flat surface
- place or put with great energy
- move violently, energetically, or carelessly
- be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly
- utter with force; utter vehemently
- convey or communicate; of a smile, a look, a physical gesture
- put or send forth
- cause to be confused emotionally
- to remove
- cause to fall off
- organize or be responsible for
- propel through the air
noun
- (informal) A single instance, occurrence, venture, or chance.
- One’s ability to throw.
- The act of throwing something.
- (historical) A hand-operated lathe, especially a small lathe used by clockmakers.
- The flight of a thrown object.
- A distance travelled in general; displacement.
- Any of the projections integral to a crankshaft that receive or impart cranking motion from a connecting rod or similar component.
- (martial arts) A move in which one lifts or unbalances one’s opponent and then brings him down to the ground.
- A piece of fabric used to cover a bed, sofa or other soft furnishing.
- The distance travelled by something thrown.
- the act of throwing (propelling something with a rapid movement of the arm and wrist)
- the maximum movement available to a pivoted or reciprocating piece by a cam
- a single chance or instance
- casting an object in order to determine an outcome randomly
- bedclothes consisting of a lightweight cloth covering (an afghan or bedspread) that is casually thrown over something