English words for 'Alternative form of chessil.'
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noun
- (slang, chess) A chess piece.
- A manual or electrical device used for rendering the juice of fruits or vegetables.
- (slang) One who uses steroids.
- A (citrus) reamer.
- (slang) An alcoholic.
- A person who extracts juice for consumption.
- (slang, film) An electrician.
- a squeezer with a conical ridged center that is used for squeezing juice from citrus fruit
- a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess)
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- (chess, uncountable, slang) Chess pieces.
- (uncountable, slang) An erection of the penis.
- (countable) The wood from a particular species of tree.
- (US, sometimes offensive, chiefly prison slang, of a person) A peckerwood.
- (uncountable) The substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree. Used as a material for construction, to manufacture various items, etc. or as fuel.
- (countable, often as plurale tantum) A forested or wooded area.
- (countable, golf) A type of golf club, the head of which was traditionally made of wood.
- Firewood.
- (music) A woodwind instrument.
- the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees
- the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area
- any wind instrument other than the brass instruments
- a golf club with a long shaft used to hit long shots; originally made with a wooden head
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- (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard
- (chess, informal) A rook; a chess piece shaped like a castle tower.
- (chess) An instance of castling.
- a large building formerly occupied by a ruler and fortified against attack
- interchanging the positions of the king and a rook
- a large and stately mansion
- (cricket, colloquial) The wicket.
- (shogi) A defense structure in shogi formed by defensive pieces surrounding the king.
- A large residential building or compound that is fortified and contains many defences; in previous ages often inhabited by a nobleman or king. Also, a house or mansion with some of the architectural features of medieval castles.
verb
- move the king two squares toward a rook and in the same move the rook to the square next past the king
- (transitive, figurative) To protect or separate in a similar way.
- (usually intransitive, shogi) To create a similar defensive position in Japanese chess through several moves.
- (usually intransitive, chess) To move the king 2 squares right or left and, in the same turn, the nearest rook to the far side of the king. The move now has special rules: the king cannot be in, go through, or end in check; the squares between the king and rook must be vacant; and neither piece may have been moved before castling.
- (cricket) To bowl a batsman with a full-length ball or yorker such that the stumps are knocked over.
- (transitive) To house or keep in a castle.
noun
- (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard
- common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow
- A bad deal; a rip-off.
- (chess) A piece shaped like a castle tower, that can be moved only up, down, left or right (but not diagonally) or in castling.
- (rare) A castle or other fortification.
- A European bird, Corvus frugilegus, of the crow family.
- (baseball, slang) A rookie.
- (British) A type of firecracker used by farmers to scare birds of the same name.
- A cheat or swindler; someone who betrays.
- mist; fog; roke
- (uncountable) A trick-taking game, usually played with a specialized deck of cards.
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- (chess) A chess game which is concluded with very few moves.
- An illustration in an illuminated manuscript.
- A particular feature or trait.
- A musical composition which is short in duration.
- Greatly diminished size or form; reduced scale.
- A small version of something; a model of reduced scale.
- Lettering in red; rubric distinction.
- A small, highly detailed painting, a portrait miniature.
- (roleplaying games, board games) A token in a game representing a unit or character.
- The art of painting such highly detailed miniature works.
- painting or drawing included in a book (especially in illuminated medieval manuscripts)
- a copy that reproduces a person or thing in greatly reduced size
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- Of or pertaining to established principles in a discipline.
- Knowledgeable or skilled in the classics; versed in the classics.
- Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks and Romans, especially to Greek or Roman authors of the highest rank, or of the period when their best literature was produced; of or pertaining to places inhabited by the ancient Greeks and Romans, or rendered famous by their deeds.
- (music) Describing Western music and musicians of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
- (physics) Pertaining to models of physical laws that do not take quantum or relativistic effects into account; Newtonian or Maxwellian.
- (informal, music) Describing art music (rather than pop, jazz, blues, etc), especially when played using instruments of the orchestra.
- Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.
- Conforming to the best authority in literature and art; chaste; pure; refined
- (physics) relating to or based on concepts that preceded the theories of relativity and quantum mechanics
- of or pertaining to or characteristic of the ancient Greeks and Romans, especially their art, literature, or culture
- of or relating to the study of the literary works of ancient Greece and Rome
- of or relating to music in the European tradition, such as symphonies and operas
- of or relating to the languages used by ancient standard authors
- well-known and long-established in form or style
- of or relating to the first significant period of a civilization, culture, area of study, etc.
noun
- (chess) A counterattack in a different part of the board.
- (video games, sociology) A subversive style of gameplay in which a player attempts to overturn the usual rules and conventions of the game.
- A game move made as a response.
- (chess) an attack that is intended to counter the opponent's advantage in another part of the board
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- (chess) A chess puzzle in which a number of moves are retracted and the solver is challenged to reach an alternate outcome.
- A surgical instrument used to hold apart the edges of an incision or wound.
- One who, or that which, retracts.
- (zoology) A muscle serving to draw in any part.
- A bandage to protect soft parts of the body from injury by a surgical saw.
- In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.
- surgical instrument that holds back the edges of a surgical incision
noun
- (chess) The act of preventing an opponent's pawn moving by placing a piece in front of it.
- The physical blocking or surrounding of a place, especially a port, in order to prevent commerce and traffic in or out.
- (biology, medicine) Inhibition of the activity (function) of chemical messengers or their receptors, such as (often) receptor antagonism.
- (backgammon) Synonym of prime.
- (nautical) The ships or other forces used to effect a naval blockade.
- (by extension) Any form of formal isolation or inhibition of something, especially with the force of law or arms.
- a war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy
- prevents access or progress
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- (chess) One of the figures used in playing chess, specifically a higher-value figure as distinguished from a pawn; (by extension) those with which draughts, backgammon, and other similar board games are played.
- (US, colloquial) A gun.
- An article published in the press.
- (US, slang) A cannabis pipe.
- (US, colloquial, mildly vulgar, short for piece of crap/piece of shit) A shoddy or worthless object (usually applied to consumer products like vehicles or appliances).
- (US, colloquial, vulgar) A sexual encounter; from piece of ass or piece of tail.
- A part of a larger whole, usually in such a form that it is able to be separated from other parts.
- (Scotland, Ireland, UK, US, dialectal) A slice or other quantity of bread, eaten on its own; a sandwich or light snack.
- A coin, especially one valued at less than the principal unit of currency.
- A single item belonging to a class of similar items.
- An amount of work to be done at one time; a unit of piece work.
- An artistic creation, such as a painting, sculpture, musical composition, literary work, etc.
- (US, Canada, colloquial, short for hairpiece) A toupee or wig, especially when worn by a man.
- (military) An artillery gun.
- (US) A pacifier; a dummy.
- (slang) An ounce of a recreational drug.
- (colloquial) A distance.
- (baseball, uncountable) Used to describe a pitch that has been hit but not well, usually either being caught by the opposing team or going foul. Usually used in the past tense with get.
- (rowing) A structured practice row, often used for performance evaluation.
- a portion of a natural object
- a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition
- game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games
- a share of something
- a separate part of a whole
- a serving that has been cut from a larger portion
- a portable gun
- an instance of some kind
- an item that is an instance of some type
- an artistic or literary composition
- a distance
- a work of art of some artistic value
- a musical work that has been created
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- (transitive, usually with together) To assemble (something real or figurative).
- To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces; to patch; often with out.
- (slang) To produce a work of graffiti more complex than a tag.
- eat intermittently; take small bites of
- to join or unite the pieces of
- create by putting components or members together
- join during spinning
- repair by adding pieces
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- (uncountable, chess) Ellipsis of blitz chess.
- (countable) A swift and overwhelming attack or effort.
- (countable) A sudden attack, especially an air raid; usually with reference to the Blitz.
- (countable, American football) A play in which additional defenders beyond the defensive linemen rush the passer.
- (cooking) The act of blending or puréeing food using a blender or processor.
- (fishing) An occurrence in which large numbers of fish, typically striped bass or bluefish, feed on a school of baitfish, typically one in which the occurrence can be seen from the surface.
- a swift and violent military offensive with intensive aerial bombardment
- (American football) defensive players try to break through the offensive line
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- (intransitive, American football) To perform a blitz.
- (transitive, informal) To do something quickly or in one session.
- (transitive, cooking) To purée or chop (food products) using a food processor or blender.
- (transitive) To attack quickly or suddenly, as by an air raid or similar action.
- attack suddenly and without warning
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- (chess) An opening in chess in which material is sacrificed to gain an advantage.
- Any ploy or stratagem.
- A remark intended to open a conversation.
- a maneuver in a game or conversation
- a chess move early in the game in which the player sacrifices minor pieces in order to obtain an advantageous position
- an opening remark intended to secure an advantage for the speaker
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- (chess, uncountable) Ellipsis of bullet chess.
- (banking, finance) A large scheduled repayment of the principal of a loan; a balloon payment.
- (slang) One year of prison time.
- A young or little bull; a male calf.
- (Canada, US, horse racing) The best workout time at a track on a given day at a specific distance, traditionally marked by a printer's bullet.
- A projectile, usually of metal, shot from a gun at high speed.
- Ammunition for a sling or slingshot which has been manufactured for such use.
- A rejection letter, as for employment, admission to a school or a competition.
- (slang) An ace (the playing card).
- (fishing) A plumb or sinker.
- Ellipsis of bullet vibrator.
- (attributive) Very fast (speedy).
- (informal) An entire round of unfired ammunition for a firearm, including the projectile, the cartridge casing, the propellant charge, etc.
- (Ireland, particularly Northern Ireland) The heavy projectile thrown in a game of road bowling.
- A notation used on pop music charts to indicate that a song is climbing in the rankings.
- (figuratively) Anything that is projected extremely fast.
- (Australia) A roughly bullet-shaped sweet consisting of a cylinder of liquorice covered in chocolate.
- (typography) A printed symbol in the form of a solid circle ⟨•⟩, often used to mark items in a list.
- a projectile that is fired from a gun
- (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity
- a high-speed passenger train
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- (slang, transitive) To fire from a job; to dismiss.
- (transitive, slang, rare) To inflict bullet shots upon.
- (transitive, informal) To make a shot, especially with great speed.
- (intransitive, informal) To speed, like a bullet.
- (transitive, informal) To draw attention to (text) by, or as if by, placing a graphic bullet in front of it.
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- (chess) A chess piece that, under contemporary rules, is the most powerful, able to move any number of spaces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.
- (originally UK) A queen scallop.
- A woman pre-eminent in a particular group or field.
- (LGBTQ slang, sometimes derogatory) A homosexual man, especially one who is effeminate or flaming.
- A female monarch.
- (card games) A playing card with a depiction of a queen on it, generally ranking next below the king and above the jack in a given suit.
- (rare) A queen apple.
- (LGBTQ, slang) Ellipsis of drag queen.
- Something regarded as the greatest of its kind or as having pre-eminence or power comparable to that of a queen over a given area.
- The wife, consort, or widow of a king.
- (slang, originally US) An attractive woman; a female partner in a romantic relationship.
- (Christianity) The Virgin Mary (especially in formulations such as Queen of Heaven, Queen of Glory).
- A monarch butterfly (Danaus spp., especially Danaus gilippus).
- A red disk that is the most valuable piece in the Asian game of carrom.
- Ellipsis of queen olive.
- (attributive, originally Canada, US) Pertaining to a queen-size bed or queen-size bedding.
- An adult female cat capable of breeding.
- A reproductive female insect in a hive, such as an ant, bee, termite or wasp.
- (now chiefly historical) A type of large roofing slate.
- An excellent woman.
- A girl or woman chosen to preside in an honorary or ceremonial manner over a specified festivity or occasion, as May Queen, Homecoming Queen, prom queen, pearly queen.
- the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
- the wife or widow of a king
- offensive term for a homosexual man
- one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen
- (chess) the most powerful piece
- an especially large mole rat and the only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring which are sired by only a few males
- a female competitor who holds a preeminent position
- a female sovereign ruler
- something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind
- female cat
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- (BDSM, slang, transitive, usually of a woman) To sit on a person’s face to receive oral sex, typically while straddling the person’s head.
- (transitive) To make a queen or (figuratively) to give the status of a queen.
- (beekeeping) To provide with a new queen bee.
- (chess) To promote a pawn to a queen.
- (beekeeping) To be the queen bee of a colony.
- become a queen
- promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess
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- (uncountable, chiefly chess) An informal form of chess played without a clock.
- plural of skittle
- (mostly British, uncountable) A pub game in which a ball is rolled down a wooden alley in order to knock down as many of the nine skittles as possible.
- a bowling game that is played by rolling a bowling ball down a bowling alley at a target of nine wooden pins
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- (chess) a piece that can be moved diagonally over unoccupied squares of the same color
- port wine mulled with oranges and cloves
- a senior member of the Christian clergy having spiritual and administrative authority; appointed in Christian churches to oversee priests or ministers; considered in some churches to be successors of the twelve Apostles of Christ
- A chief of the Festival of Fools or St. Nicholas Day.
- (Christianity) An overseer of congregations: either any such overseer, generally speaking, or (in Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Anglicanism, etc.) an official in the church hierarchy (actively or nominally) governing a diocese, supervising the church's priests, deacons, and property in its territory.
- A flowering plant of the genus Bifora.
- (chess) The chess piece denoted ♗ or ♝ which moves along diagonal lines and developed from the shatranj alfil ("elephant") and was originally known as the aufil or archer in English.
- A sweet drink made from wine, usually with oranges, lemons, and sugar; mulled and spiced port.
- Any of various African birds of the genus Euplectes; a kind of weaverbird closely related to the widowbirds.
- (religion, nonstandard) A similar official or chief priest in another religion.
- (dialectal) A ladybug or ladybird, beetles of the family Coccinellidae.
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- (Christianity) To make a bishop.
- (Christianity, rare) To provide with bishops.
- (UK, dialectal) To permit food (especially milk) to burn while cooking (from bishops' role in the inquisition or as mentioned in the quotation below, of horses).
- (Christianity) To act as a bishop, to perform the duties of a bishop, especially to confirm another's membership in the church.
- (by extension, of equestrianism) To make a horse seem younger, particularly by manipulation of its teeth.
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- (chess) To move a piece past the defending pieces of one's opponent.
- To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to pierce.
- To insert the penis into an orifice, such as a vagina, mouth, or anus.
- To infiltrate an enemy to gather intelligence.
- To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings; to move deeply.
- (figuratively) To achieve understanding of, despite some obstacle; to comprehend; to understand.
- spread or diffuse through
- enter a group or organization in order to spy on the members
- come to understand
- insert the penis into the vagina or anus of
- make one's way deeper into or through
- pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance
- become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions
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- (chess) One of the eight horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a number).
- (taxonomy) A level in a scientific taxonomy system.
- A hierarchical level in an organization such as the military.
- (algebra) The maximum quantity of D-linearly independent elements of a module (over an integral domain D).
- (card games) The value of a playing card.
- (typically in the plural) A category of people, such as those who share an occupation or belong to an organisation.
- (mathematics) The size of any basis of a given matroid.
- One's position in a list sorted by a shared property such as physical location, population, popularity, or quality.
- (music) In a pipe organ, a set of pipes of a certain quality for which each pipe corresponds to one key or pedal.
- (mathematics) The dimensionality of an array (computing) or tensor.
- (linear algebra) The maximal number of linearly independent columns (or rows) of a matrix.
- A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers.
- The level of one's position in a class-based society.
- the body of members of an organization or group
- relative status
- a row or line of people (especially soldiers or police) standing abreast of one another
- the ordinary members of an organization (such as the enlisted soldiers of an army)
- position in a social hierarchy
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- Having a very strong, bad taste or odor.
- (intensifier, negative) complete, unmitigated, utter.
- complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers
- very offensive in smell or taste
- growing profusely
- conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
- very fertile; producing profuse growth
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- (transitive, US) To take the rank of; to outrank.
- (intransitive) To have a ranking.
- (transitive) To assign a suitable place in a class or order; to classify.
- (transitive) To place abreast or in a line.
- take or have a position relative to others
- assign a rank or rating to
- take precedence or surpass others in rank
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- (chess) A position in which a player's pieces are both pinned and forked at the same time.
- (MLE, slang, collective) law enforcement, those who side with criminal prosecution
- (US politics, slang, derogatory) Funding proposed or requested by a member of Congress for special interests or their constituency as opposed to the good of the country as a whole.
- (chiefly uncountable) The meat of a pig.
- meat from a domestic hog or pig
- a legislative appropriation designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents
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- (chess) A fairy chess piece that cannot move or capture, but can be captured and used to skip moving another piece.
- (attributive) A newborn animal that is indifferent to stimulus and does not voluntarily move.
- (sports, chiefly rugby, soccer) A feigned pass or kick or play in order to deceive an opponent.
- (African-American Vernacular, Baltimore, slang) A term of address.
- Something constructed with the size and form of a human, to be used in place of a person.
- (linguistics) A word serving only to make a construction grammatical.
- (Australia, New Zealand, UK, Ireland) A pacifier; a plastic or rubber teat used to soothe or comfort a baby.
- (sports, UK) A bodily gesture meant to fool an opposing player; a feint.
- A person who is the mere tool of another; a man of straw.
- (programming) An unused parameter or value.
- A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a puppet.
- A deliberately nonfunctional device or tool used in place of a functional one.
- (card games, chiefly bridge) A player whose hand is shown and is to be played from by another player.
- A stupid person.
- a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet
- an ignorant or foolish person
- a person who does not talk
- a figure representing the human form
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- (chess) A fairy chess piece that is moved three squares in one direction and one at right angles to that direction in a single move, leaping over any intervening pieces.
- A light brownish color, like that of a camel (also called camel brown).
- A mammalian beast of burden, much used in desert areas, of the genus Camelus.
- (ethnic slur) A person of Middle Eastern origin.
- (typically in the plural) A vessel or tank, typically paired, used to make an object more buoyant.
- cud-chewing mammal used as a draft or saddle animal in desert regions
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- (chess) A fairy chess piece which moves only by jumping over another piece.
- A grasshopper or locust, especially:
- A bin or device that feeds material into a machine.
- One who or that which hops.
- A Sri Lankan pancake made from a fermented batter of rice flour, coconut milk, and palm toddy or yeast.
- A hopper car.
- An artificial fishing lure.
- A temporary storage bin, filled from the top and emptied from the bottom, often funnel-shaped.
- Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
- (music) An escapement lever in a piano.
- (slang) A toilet.
- A leafhopper.
- A funnel-shaped section at the top of a drainpipe used to collect water, from above, from one or more smaller drainpipes.
- A window with hinges at the bottom, opened by tilting vertically.
- A person or machine that picks hops.
- The immature form of a locust.
- The larva of a cheese fly.
- (baseball) a hit that travels along the ground
- terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping
- a machine used for picking hops
- someone who hops
- funnel-shaped receptacle; contents pass by gravity into a receptacle below
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- (chess) A tactic in which a piece repeatedly gains material, while simultaneously creating an inescapable series of alternating direct and discovered checks.
- A structure composed of a plank, balanced in the middle, used as a game in which one person goes up as the other goes down.
- A series of up-and-down movements.
- (medicine, attributively) An abnormal breathing pattern caused by airway obstruction, characterized by paradoxical chest and abdominal movement.
- A series of alternating movements or feelings.
- a plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum; the board is ridden up and down by children at either end
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- (chess) A tactic in which a piece repeatedly gains material, while simultaneously creating an inescapable series of alternating direct and discovered checks.
- Any of various large papilionid butterflies of the genus Byasa, the wings of which resemble the vanes of a windmill.
- (dance) A breakdancing move in which the dancer rolls his/her torso continuously in a circular path on the floor, across the upper chest, shoulders and back, while twirling the legs in a V shape in the air.
- The building or structure containing such machinery.
- A child's toy consisting of vanes mounted on a stick that rotate when blown by a person or by the wind.
- Any of various muscle exercises in which a large deal of the body makes a great circle, typically one where a kettlebell is raised overhead and the torso is rotated to the other side with the hand reaching its foot (hitting the core, glutes, hamstrings, trapezius, rhomboids, deltoids and rotator cuffs) but sometimes even a windshield wiper.
- A machine which translates linear motion of wind to rotational motion by means of adjustable vanes called sails.
- (basketball) A dunk where the dunker swings his arm in a circular motion before throwing the ball through the hoop.
- (figurative) An imaginary enemy, but presented as real.
- (music) A guitar move where the strumming hand mimics a turning windmill.
- (baseball) A pitch where the pitcher swings his arm in a circular motion before throwing the ball.
- The act of windmilling.
- (juggling) The false shower.
- (colloquial, proscribed) A wind turbine, a device for converting wind power into electricity.
- a mill that is powered by the wind
- generator that extracts usable energy from winds
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- To move in order to rotate the penis in a circle (similar to the rotation of a windmill).
- (intransitive, aviation, nautical, of a propeller or turbine rotor) To be rotated by the force of the fluid passing through (the propeller or turbine rotor).
- (intransitive, of a rotating part of a machine) To (become disengaged and) rotate freely.
- (transitive, intransitive) To rotate with a sweeping motion.
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- (transitive, chess) To cause (a piece) to become vulnerable to capture.
- (intransitive) To veer in one direction.
- (intransitive) To be or remain suspended.
- (intransitive, chess) To be vulnerable to capture.
- (transitive, computing) To cause (a program or computer) to stop responding.
- (transitive, baseball, slang, of a pitcher) To throw a hittable off-speed pitch.
- (intransitive, law) To be executed by suspension by one's neck from a gallows, a tree, or other raised bar, attached by a rope tied into a noose.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To remain persistently in one's thoughts.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to be suspended, as from a hook, hanger, hinges, or the like.
- (intransitive, of a ball in cricket, tennis, etc.) To rebound unexpectedly or unusually slowly, due to backward spin on the ball or imperfections of the ground.
- (transitive, figurative) To attach or cause to stick (a charge or accusation, etc.).
- (transitive) To prevent from reaching a decision, especially by refusing to join in a verdict that must be unanimous.
- (transitive) To apply (wallpaper or drywall to a wall).
- (transitive) To hold or bear in a suspended or inclined manner or position instead of erect.
- (transitive, law) To kill (someone) by suspension from the neck, usually as a form of execution or suicide.
- (transitive) To exhibit (an object) by hanging.
- (intransitive, computing) To stop responding to manual input devices such as the keyboard and mouse.
- (intransitive) To float, as if suspended.
- (intransitive, informal) To loiter; to hang around; to spend time idly.
- (transitive, informal) (used in maledictions) To damn.
- (transitive) To decorate (something) with hanging objects.
- be exhibited
- hold on tightly or tenaciously
- decorate or furnish with something suspended
- be suspended or poised
- be suspended or hanging
- be menacing, burdensome, or oppressive
- give heed (to)
- be placed in position as by a hinge
- let drop or droop
- suspend (meat) in order to get a gamey taste
- fall or flow in a certain way
- prevent from reaching a verdict, of a jury
- kill by hanging
- cause to be hanging or suspended
- place in position as by a hinge so as to allow free movement in one direction
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- (colloquial) The smallest amount of concern or consideration; a damn.
- (computing) An instance of ceasing to respond to input.
- (Ireland, informal, derogatory) Cheap processed ham (cured pork), often made specially for sandwiches.
- A slackening of motion.
- The way in which something hangs.
- A hangout.
- A sharp or steep declivity or slope.
- A person that someone hangs out with.
- Alternative spelling of Hang (“musical instrument”).
- A mass of hanging material.
- (informal, figuratively) A grip, understanding.
- a gymnastic exercise performed on the rings or horizontal bar or parallel bars when the gymnast's weight is supported by the arms
- a special way of doing something
- the way a garment hangs
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- (chess) A fairy chess piece that moves like the last piece that was moved by the opponent.
- (slang) A funny person.
- A loser.
- An unspecified, vaguely disreputable person.
- (New Zealand, colloquial) A man.
- (military) A friendly unit that acts as a suspected hostile unit in a military excercise.
- A person who makes jokes.
- A jester.
- A clause in a contract that undermines its apparent provisions.
- A playing card that features a picture of a joker (that is, a jester) and that may be used as a wild card in some card games.
- (figurative) Something kept in reserve that can be used to gain an advantage; a trump card.
- The option, in a pub quiz, of selecting one particular round in which one's team will score double points.
- a person who enjoys telling or playing jokes
- a person who does something thoughtless or annoying
- a playing card that is usually printed with a picture of a jester
- an inconspicuous clause in a document or bill that affects its meaning in a way that is not immediately apparent
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- (slang, chess) A chess piece.
- A manual or electrical device used for rendering the juice of fruits or vegetables.
- (slang) One who uses steroids.
- A (citrus) reamer.
- (slang) An alcoholic.
- A person who extracts juice for consumption.
- (slang, film) An electrician.
- a squeezer with a conical ridged center that is used for squeezing juice from citrus fruit
- a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess)
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- (chess, uncountable, slang) Chess pieces.
- (uncountable, slang) An erection of the penis.
- (countable) The wood from a particular species of tree.
- (US, sometimes offensive, chiefly prison slang, of a person) A peckerwood.
- (uncountable) The substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree. Used as a material for construction, to manufacture various items, etc. or as fuel.
- (countable, often as plurale tantum) A forested or wooded area.
- (countable, golf) A type of golf club, the head of which was traditionally made of wood.
- Firewood.
- (music) A woodwind instrument.
- the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees
- the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area
- any wind instrument other than the brass instruments
- a golf club with a long shaft used to hit long shots; originally made with a wooden head
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- (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard
- (chess, informal) A rook; a chess piece shaped like a castle tower.
- (chess) An instance of castling.
- a large building formerly occupied by a ruler and fortified against attack
- interchanging the positions of the king and a rook
- a large and stately mansion
- (cricket, colloquial) The wicket.
- (shogi) A defense structure in shogi formed by defensive pieces surrounding the king.
- A large residential building or compound that is fortified and contains many defences; in previous ages often inhabited by a nobleman or king. Also, a house or mansion with some of the architectural features of medieval castles.
verb
- move the king two squares toward a rook and in the same move the rook to the square next past the king
- (transitive, figurative) To protect or separate in a similar way.
- (usually intransitive, shogi) To create a similar defensive position in Japanese chess through several moves.
- (usually intransitive, chess) To move the king 2 squares right or left and, in the same turn, the nearest rook to the far side of the king. The move now has special rules: the king cannot be in, go through, or end in check; the squares between the king and rook must be vacant; and neither piece may have been moved before castling.
- (cricket) To bowl a batsman with a full-length ball or yorker such that the stumps are knocked over.
- (transitive) To house or keep in a castle.
noun
- (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard
- common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow
- A bad deal; a rip-off.
- (chess) A piece shaped like a castle tower, that can be moved only up, down, left or right (but not diagonally) or in castling.
- (rare) A castle or other fortification.
- A European bird, Corvus frugilegus, of the crow family.
- (baseball, slang) A rookie.
- (British) A type of firecracker used by farmers to scare birds of the same name.
- A cheat or swindler; someone who betrays.
- mist; fog; roke
- (uncountable) A trick-taking game, usually played with a specialized deck of cards.
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- (chess) A chess game which is concluded with very few moves.
- An illustration in an illuminated manuscript.
- A particular feature or trait.
- A musical composition which is short in duration.
- Greatly diminished size or form; reduced scale.
- A small version of something; a model of reduced scale.
- Lettering in red; rubric distinction.
- A small, highly detailed painting, a portrait miniature.
- (roleplaying games, board games) A token in a game representing a unit or character.
- The art of painting such highly detailed miniature works.
- painting or drawing included in a book (especially in illuminated medieval manuscripts)
- a copy that reproduces a person or thing in greatly reduced size
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- Of or pertaining to established principles in a discipline.
- Knowledgeable or skilled in the classics; versed in the classics.
- Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks and Romans, especially to Greek or Roman authors of the highest rank, or of the period when their best literature was produced; of or pertaining to places inhabited by the ancient Greeks and Romans, or rendered famous by their deeds.
- (music) Describing Western music and musicians of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
- (physics) Pertaining to models of physical laws that do not take quantum or relativistic effects into account; Newtonian or Maxwellian.
- (informal, music) Describing art music (rather than pop, jazz, blues, etc), especially when played using instruments of the orchestra.
- Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.
- Conforming to the best authority in literature and art; chaste; pure; refined
- (physics) relating to or based on concepts that preceded the theories of relativity and quantum mechanics
- of or pertaining to or characteristic of the ancient Greeks and Romans, especially their art, literature, or culture
- of or relating to the study of the literary works of ancient Greece and Rome
- of or relating to music in the European tradition, such as symphonies and operas
- of or relating to the languages used by ancient standard authors
- well-known and long-established in form or style
- of or relating to the first significant period of a civilization, culture, area of study, etc.
noun
- (chess) A counterattack in a different part of the board.
- (video games, sociology) A subversive style of gameplay in which a player attempts to overturn the usual rules and conventions of the game.
- A game move made as a response.
- (chess) an attack that is intended to counter the opponent's advantage in another part of the board
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- (chess) A chess puzzle in which a number of moves are retracted and the solver is challenged to reach an alternate outcome.
- A surgical instrument used to hold apart the edges of an incision or wound.
- One who, or that which, retracts.
- (zoology) A muscle serving to draw in any part.
- A bandage to protect soft parts of the body from injury by a surgical saw.
- In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.
- surgical instrument that holds back the edges of a surgical incision
noun
- (chess) The act of preventing an opponent's pawn moving by placing a piece in front of it.
- The physical blocking or surrounding of a place, especially a port, in order to prevent commerce and traffic in or out.
- (biology, medicine) Inhibition of the activity (function) of chemical messengers or their receptors, such as (often) receptor antagonism.
- (backgammon) Synonym of prime.
- (nautical) The ships or other forces used to effect a naval blockade.
- (by extension) Any form of formal isolation or inhibition of something, especially with the force of law or arms.
- a war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy
- prevents access or progress
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- (chess) One of the figures used in playing chess, specifically a higher-value figure as distinguished from a pawn; (by extension) those with which draughts, backgammon, and other similar board games are played.
- (US, colloquial) A gun.
- An article published in the press.
- (US, slang) A cannabis pipe.
- (US, colloquial, mildly vulgar, short for piece of crap/piece of shit) A shoddy or worthless object (usually applied to consumer products like vehicles or appliances).
- (US, colloquial, vulgar) A sexual encounter; from piece of ass or piece of tail.
- A part of a larger whole, usually in such a form that it is able to be separated from other parts.
- (Scotland, Ireland, UK, US, dialectal) A slice or other quantity of bread, eaten on its own; a sandwich or light snack.
- A coin, especially one valued at less than the principal unit of currency.
- A single item belonging to a class of similar items.
- An amount of work to be done at one time; a unit of piece work.
- An artistic creation, such as a painting, sculpture, musical composition, literary work, etc.
- (US, Canada, colloquial, short for hairpiece) A toupee or wig, especially when worn by a man.
- (military) An artillery gun.
- (US) A pacifier; a dummy.
- (slang) An ounce of a recreational drug.
- (colloquial) A distance.
- (baseball, uncountable) Used to describe a pitch that has been hit but not well, usually either being caught by the opposing team or going foul. Usually used in the past tense with get.
- (rowing) A structured practice row, often used for performance evaluation.
- a portion of a natural object
- a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition
- game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games
- a share of something
- a separate part of a whole
- a serving that has been cut from a larger portion
- a portable gun
- an instance of some kind
- an item that is an instance of some type
- an artistic or literary composition
- a distance
- a work of art of some artistic value
- a musical work that has been created
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- (transitive, usually with together) To assemble (something real or figurative).
- To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces; to patch; often with out.
- (slang) To produce a work of graffiti more complex than a tag.
- eat intermittently; take small bites of
- to join or unite the pieces of
- create by putting components or members together
- join during spinning
- repair by adding pieces
noun
- (uncountable, chess) Ellipsis of blitz chess.
- (countable) A swift and overwhelming attack or effort.
- (countable) A sudden attack, especially an air raid; usually with reference to the Blitz.
- (countable, American football) A play in which additional defenders beyond the defensive linemen rush the passer.
- (cooking) The act of blending or puréeing food using a blender or processor.
- (fishing) An occurrence in which large numbers of fish, typically striped bass or bluefish, feed on a school of baitfish, typically one in which the occurrence can be seen from the surface.
- a swift and violent military offensive with intensive aerial bombardment
- (American football) defensive players try to break through the offensive line
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- (intransitive, American football) To perform a blitz.
- (transitive, informal) To do something quickly or in one session.
- (transitive, cooking) To purée or chop (food products) using a food processor or blender.
- (transitive) To attack quickly or suddenly, as by an air raid or similar action.
- attack suddenly and without warning
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- (chess) An opening in chess in which material is sacrificed to gain an advantage.
- Any ploy or stratagem.
- A remark intended to open a conversation.
- a maneuver in a game or conversation
- a chess move early in the game in which the player sacrifices minor pieces in order to obtain an advantageous position
- an opening remark intended to secure an advantage for the speaker
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- (chess, uncountable) Ellipsis of bullet chess.
- (banking, finance) A large scheduled repayment of the principal of a loan; a balloon payment.
- (slang) One year of prison time.
- A young or little bull; a male calf.
- (Canada, US, horse racing) The best workout time at a track on a given day at a specific distance, traditionally marked by a printer's bullet.
- A projectile, usually of metal, shot from a gun at high speed.
- Ammunition for a sling or slingshot which has been manufactured for such use.
- A rejection letter, as for employment, admission to a school or a competition.
- (slang) An ace (the playing card).
- (fishing) A plumb or sinker.
- Ellipsis of bullet vibrator.
- (attributive) Very fast (speedy).
- (informal) An entire round of unfired ammunition for a firearm, including the projectile, the cartridge casing, the propellant charge, etc.
- (Ireland, particularly Northern Ireland) The heavy projectile thrown in a game of road bowling.
- A notation used on pop music charts to indicate that a song is climbing in the rankings.
- (figuratively) Anything that is projected extremely fast.
- (Australia) A roughly bullet-shaped sweet consisting of a cylinder of liquorice covered in chocolate.
- (typography) A printed symbol in the form of a solid circle ⟨•⟩, often used to mark items in a list.
- a projectile that is fired from a gun
- (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity
- a high-speed passenger train
verb
- (slang, transitive) To fire from a job; to dismiss.
- (transitive, slang, rare) To inflict bullet shots upon.
- (transitive, informal) To make a shot, especially with great speed.
- (intransitive, informal) To speed, like a bullet.
- (transitive, informal) To draw attention to (text) by, or as if by, placing a graphic bullet in front of it.
noun
- (chess) A chess piece that, under contemporary rules, is the most powerful, able to move any number of spaces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.
- (originally UK) A queen scallop.
- A woman pre-eminent in a particular group or field.
- (LGBTQ slang, sometimes derogatory) A homosexual man, especially one who is effeminate or flaming.
- A female monarch.
- (card games) A playing card with a depiction of a queen on it, generally ranking next below the king and above the jack in a given suit.
- (rare) A queen apple.
- (LGBTQ, slang) Ellipsis of drag queen.
- Something regarded as the greatest of its kind or as having pre-eminence or power comparable to that of a queen over a given area.
- The wife, consort, or widow of a king.
- (slang, originally US) An attractive woman; a female partner in a romantic relationship.
- (Christianity) The Virgin Mary (especially in formulations such as Queen of Heaven, Queen of Glory).
- A monarch butterfly (Danaus spp., especially Danaus gilippus).
- A red disk that is the most valuable piece in the Asian game of carrom.
- Ellipsis of queen olive.
- (attributive, originally Canada, US) Pertaining to a queen-size bed or queen-size bedding.
- An adult female cat capable of breeding.
- A reproductive female insect in a hive, such as an ant, bee, termite or wasp.
- (now chiefly historical) A type of large roofing slate.
- An excellent woman.
- A girl or woman chosen to preside in an honorary or ceremonial manner over a specified festivity or occasion, as May Queen, Homecoming Queen, prom queen, pearly queen.
- the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
- the wife or widow of a king
- offensive term for a homosexual man
- one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen
- (chess) the most powerful piece
- an especially large mole rat and the only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring which are sired by only a few males
- a female competitor who holds a preeminent position
- a female sovereign ruler
- something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind
- female cat
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- (BDSM, slang, transitive, usually of a woman) To sit on a person’s face to receive oral sex, typically while straddling the person’s head.
- (transitive) To make a queen or (figuratively) to give the status of a queen.
- (beekeeping) To provide with a new queen bee.
- (chess) To promote a pawn to a queen.
- (beekeeping) To be the queen bee of a colony.
- become a queen
- promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess
noun
- (uncountable, chiefly chess) An informal form of chess played without a clock.
- plural of skittle
- (mostly British, uncountable) A pub game in which a ball is rolled down a wooden alley in order to knock down as many of the nine skittles as possible.
- a bowling game that is played by rolling a bowling ball down a bowling alley at a target of nine wooden pins
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- (chess) a piece that can be moved diagonally over unoccupied squares of the same color
- port wine mulled with oranges and cloves
- a senior member of the Christian clergy having spiritual and administrative authority; appointed in Christian churches to oversee priests or ministers; considered in some churches to be successors of the twelve Apostles of Christ
- A chief of the Festival of Fools or St. Nicholas Day.
- (Christianity) An overseer of congregations: either any such overseer, generally speaking, or (in Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Anglicanism, etc.) an official in the church hierarchy (actively or nominally) governing a diocese, supervising the church's priests, deacons, and property in its territory.
- A flowering plant of the genus Bifora.
- (chess) The chess piece denoted ♗ or ♝ which moves along diagonal lines and developed from the shatranj alfil ("elephant") and was originally known as the aufil or archer in English.
- A sweet drink made from wine, usually with oranges, lemons, and sugar; mulled and spiced port.
- Any of various African birds of the genus Euplectes; a kind of weaverbird closely related to the widowbirds.
- (religion, nonstandard) A similar official or chief priest in another religion.
- (dialectal) A ladybug or ladybird, beetles of the family Coccinellidae.
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- (Christianity) To make a bishop.
- (Christianity, rare) To provide with bishops.
- (UK, dialectal) To permit food (especially milk) to burn while cooking (from bishops' role in the inquisition or as mentioned in the quotation below, of horses).
- (Christianity) To act as a bishop, to perform the duties of a bishop, especially to confirm another's membership in the church.
- (by extension, of equestrianism) To make a horse seem younger, particularly by manipulation of its teeth.
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- (chess) One of the eight horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a number).
- (taxonomy) A level in a scientific taxonomy system.
- A hierarchical level in an organization such as the military.
- (algebra) The maximum quantity of D-linearly independent elements of a module (over an integral domain D).
- (card games) The value of a playing card.
- (typically in the plural) A category of people, such as those who share an occupation or belong to an organisation.
- (mathematics) The size of any basis of a given matroid.
- One's position in a list sorted by a shared property such as physical location, population, popularity, or quality.
- (music) In a pipe organ, a set of pipes of a certain quality for which each pipe corresponds to one key or pedal.
- (mathematics) The dimensionality of an array (computing) or tensor.
- (linear algebra) The maximal number of linearly independent columns (or rows) of a matrix.
- A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers.
- The level of one's position in a class-based society.
- the body of members of an organization or group
- relative status
- a row or line of people (especially soldiers or police) standing abreast of one another
- the ordinary members of an organization (such as the enlisted soldiers of an army)
- position in a social hierarchy
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- Having a very strong, bad taste or odor.
- (intensifier, negative) complete, unmitigated, utter.
- complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers
- very offensive in smell or taste
- growing profusely
- conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
- very fertile; producing profuse growth
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- (transitive, US) To take the rank of; to outrank.
- (intransitive) To have a ranking.
- (transitive) To assign a suitable place in a class or order; to classify.
- (transitive) To place abreast or in a line.
- take or have a position relative to others
- assign a rank or rating to
- take precedence or surpass others in rank
noun
- (chess) A position in which a player's pieces are both pinned and forked at the same time.
- (MLE, slang, collective) law enforcement, those who side with criminal prosecution
- (US politics, slang, derogatory) Funding proposed or requested by a member of Congress for special interests or their constituency as opposed to the good of the country as a whole.
- (chiefly uncountable) The meat of a pig.
- meat from a domestic hog or pig
- a legislative appropriation designed to ingratiate legislators with their constituents
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- (chess) A fairy chess piece that cannot move or capture, but can be captured and used to skip moving another piece.
- (attributive) A newborn animal that is indifferent to stimulus and does not voluntarily move.
- (sports, chiefly rugby, soccer) A feigned pass or kick or play in order to deceive an opponent.
- (African-American Vernacular, Baltimore, slang) A term of address.
- Something constructed with the size and form of a human, to be used in place of a person.
- (linguistics) A word serving only to make a construction grammatical.
- (Australia, New Zealand, UK, Ireland) A pacifier; a plastic or rubber teat used to soothe or comfort a baby.
- (sports, UK) A bodily gesture meant to fool an opposing player; a feint.
- A person who is the mere tool of another; a man of straw.
- (programming) An unused parameter or value.
- A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a puppet.
- A deliberately nonfunctional device or tool used in place of a functional one.
- (card games, chiefly bridge) A player whose hand is shown and is to be played from by another player.
- A stupid person.
- a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet
- an ignorant or foolish person
- a person who does not talk
- a figure representing the human form
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- (chess) A fairy chess piece that is moved three squares in one direction and one at right angles to that direction in a single move, leaping over any intervening pieces.
- A light brownish color, like that of a camel (also called camel brown).
- A mammalian beast of burden, much used in desert areas, of the genus Camelus.
- (ethnic slur) A person of Middle Eastern origin.
- (typically in the plural) A vessel or tank, typically paired, used to make an object more buoyant.
- cud-chewing mammal used as a draft or saddle animal in desert regions
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- (chess) A fairy chess piece which moves only by jumping over another piece.
- A grasshopper or locust, especially:
- A bin or device that feeds material into a machine.
- One who or that which hops.
- A Sri Lankan pancake made from a fermented batter of rice flour, coconut milk, and palm toddy or yeast.
- A hopper car.
- An artificial fishing lure.
- A temporary storage bin, filled from the top and emptied from the bottom, often funnel-shaped.
- Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
- (music) An escapement lever in a piano.
- (slang) A toilet.
- A leafhopper.
- A funnel-shaped section at the top of a drainpipe used to collect water, from above, from one or more smaller drainpipes.
- A window with hinges at the bottom, opened by tilting vertically.
- A person or machine that picks hops.
- The immature form of a locust.
- The larva of a cheese fly.
- (baseball) a hit that travels along the ground
- terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping
- a machine used for picking hops
- someone who hops
- funnel-shaped receptacle; contents pass by gravity into a receptacle below
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- (chess) A tactic in which a piece repeatedly gains material, while simultaneously creating an inescapable series of alternating direct and discovered checks.
- A structure composed of a plank, balanced in the middle, used as a game in which one person goes up as the other goes down.
- A series of up-and-down movements.
- (medicine, attributively) An abnormal breathing pattern caused by airway obstruction, characterized by paradoxical chest and abdominal movement.
- A series of alternating movements or feelings.
- a plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum; the board is ridden up and down by children at either end
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- (chess) A tactic in which a piece repeatedly gains material, while simultaneously creating an inescapable series of alternating direct and discovered checks.
- Any of various large papilionid butterflies of the genus Byasa, the wings of which resemble the vanes of a windmill.
- (dance) A breakdancing move in which the dancer rolls his/her torso continuously in a circular path on the floor, across the upper chest, shoulders and back, while twirling the legs in a V shape in the air.
- The building or structure containing such machinery.
- A child's toy consisting of vanes mounted on a stick that rotate when blown by a person or by the wind.
- Any of various muscle exercises in which a large deal of the body makes a great circle, typically one where a kettlebell is raised overhead and the torso is rotated to the other side with the hand reaching its foot (hitting the core, glutes, hamstrings, trapezius, rhomboids, deltoids and rotator cuffs) but sometimes even a windshield wiper.
- A machine which translates linear motion of wind to rotational motion by means of adjustable vanes called sails.
- (basketball) A dunk where the dunker swings his arm in a circular motion before throwing the ball through the hoop.
- (figurative) An imaginary enemy, but presented as real.
- (music) A guitar move where the strumming hand mimics a turning windmill.
- (baseball) A pitch where the pitcher swings his arm in a circular motion before throwing the ball.
- The act of windmilling.
- (juggling) The false shower.
- (colloquial, proscribed) A wind turbine, a device for converting wind power into electricity.
- a mill that is powered by the wind
- generator that extracts usable energy from winds
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- To move in order to rotate the penis in a circle (similar to the rotation of a windmill).
- (intransitive, aviation, nautical, of a propeller or turbine rotor) To be rotated by the force of the fluid passing through (the propeller or turbine rotor).
- (intransitive, of a rotating part of a machine) To (become disengaged and) rotate freely.
- (transitive, intransitive) To rotate with a sweeping motion.
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- (chess) A fairy chess piece that moves like the last piece that was moved by the opponent.
- (slang) A funny person.
- A loser.
- An unspecified, vaguely disreputable person.
- (New Zealand, colloquial) A man.
- (military) A friendly unit that acts as a suspected hostile unit in a military excercise.
- A person who makes jokes.
- A jester.
- A clause in a contract that undermines its apparent provisions.
- A playing card that features a picture of a joker (that is, a jester) and that may be used as a wild card in some card games.
- (figurative) Something kept in reserve that can be used to gain an advantage; a trump card.
- The option, in a pub quiz, of selecting one particular round in which one's team will score double points.
- a person who enjoys telling or playing jokes
- a person who does something thoughtless or annoying
- a playing card that is usually printed with a picture of a jester
- an inconspicuous clause in a document or bill that affects its meaning in a way that is not immediately apparent
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- (chess) To move a piece past the defending pieces of one's opponent.
- To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to pierce.
- To insert the penis into an orifice, such as a vagina, mouth, or anus.
- To infiltrate an enemy to gather intelligence.
- To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings; to move deeply.
- (figuratively) To achieve understanding of, despite some obstacle; to comprehend; to understand.
- spread or diffuse through
- enter a group or organization in order to spy on the members
- come to understand
- insert the penis into the vagina or anus of
- make one's way deeper into or through
- pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance
- become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions
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- (transitive, chess) To cause (a piece) to become vulnerable to capture.
- (intransitive) To veer in one direction.
- (intransitive) To be or remain suspended.
- (intransitive, chess) To be vulnerable to capture.
- (transitive, computing) To cause (a program or computer) to stop responding.
- (transitive, baseball, slang, of a pitcher) To throw a hittable off-speed pitch.
- (intransitive, law) To be executed by suspension by one's neck from a gallows, a tree, or other raised bar, attached by a rope tied into a noose.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To remain persistently in one's thoughts.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to be suspended, as from a hook, hanger, hinges, or the like.
- (intransitive, of a ball in cricket, tennis, etc.) To rebound unexpectedly or unusually slowly, due to backward spin on the ball or imperfections of the ground.
- (transitive, figurative) To attach or cause to stick (a charge or accusation, etc.).
- (transitive) To prevent from reaching a decision, especially by refusing to join in a verdict that must be unanimous.
- (transitive) To apply (wallpaper or drywall to a wall).
- (transitive) To hold or bear in a suspended or inclined manner or position instead of erect.
- (transitive, law) To kill (someone) by suspension from the neck, usually as a form of execution or suicide.
- (transitive) To exhibit (an object) by hanging.
- (intransitive, computing) To stop responding to manual input devices such as the keyboard and mouse.
- (intransitive) To float, as if suspended.
- (intransitive, informal) To loiter; to hang around; to spend time idly.
- (transitive, informal) (used in maledictions) To damn.
- (transitive) To decorate (something) with hanging objects.
- be exhibited
- hold on tightly or tenaciously
- decorate or furnish with something suspended
- be suspended or poised
- be suspended or hanging
- be menacing, burdensome, or oppressive
- give heed (to)
- be placed in position as by a hinge
- let drop or droop
- suspend (meat) in order to get a gamey taste
- fall or flow in a certain way
- prevent from reaching a verdict, of a jury
- kill by hanging
- cause to be hanging or suspended
- place in position as by a hinge so as to allow free movement in one direction
noun
- (colloquial) The smallest amount of concern or consideration; a damn.
- (computing) An instance of ceasing to respond to input.
- (Ireland, informal, derogatory) Cheap processed ham (cured pork), often made specially for sandwiches.
- A slackening of motion.
- The way in which something hangs.
- A hangout.
- A sharp or steep declivity or slope.
- A person that someone hangs out with.
- Alternative spelling of Hang (“musical instrument”).
- A mass of hanging material.
- (informal, figuratively) A grip, understanding.
- a gymnastic exercise performed on the rings or horizontal bar or parallel bars when the gymnast's weight is supported by the arms
- a special way of doing something
- the way a garment hangs