English words for 'Alternative form of gun deck.'
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noun
- a kind of gun emplacement
- a structure in which animals lay eggs or give birth to their young
- a cosy or secluded retreat
- a gang of people (criminals or spies or terrorists) assembled in one locality
- furniture pieces made to fit close together
- (card games) A fixed number of cards in some bidding games awarded to the highest bidder allowing him to exchange any or all with cards in his hand.
- A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger.
- A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively.
- A circular bed of pasta, rice, etc. to be topped or filled with other foods.
- (computing) A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.
- A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
- A retreat, or place of habitual resort.
- (military) A fortified position for a weapon.
- (geology) An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock.
- A place used by a monotreme, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.
- A snug, comfortable, or cosy residence or job situation.
- (vulgar, slang, now US) The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself.
- A home that a child or young adult shares with a parent or guardian.
- A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt; a den.
verb
- move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position
- inhabit a nest, usually after building
- fit together or fit inside
- gather nests
- (intransitive) To successively neatly fit inside another.
- (intransitive) To settle into a home.
- (intransitive) To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").
- (intransitive, of animals) To build or settle into a nest.
- (transitive) To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).
- (transitive) To place in, or as if in, a nest.
noun
name
prep_phrase
adj
- (of a weapon) Prepared for use; loaded.
- (botany) Having prickles or thorns.
- (sometimes in combination) Equipped, especially with a weapon.
- (chiefly in combination) Having an arm or arms, often of a specified number or type.
- (of a creature) Possessing arms of a specified number or type.
- (heraldry, of animals) Having horns, claws, teeth, a beak, etc. in a particular tincture, as contrasted with that of the animal as a whole.
- (of a person, specifically) Equipped with a gun.
- (used of persons or the military) characterized by having or bearing arms
- having arms or arms as specified; used especially in combination
- (used of plants and animals) furnished with bristles and thorns
verb
noun
- (firearms) A paper cartridge.
- (Egyptology, hieroglyphs) An oval figure containing the characters of an important personal name, such as that of royal or divine people.
- (firearms) A wooden case filled with balls, to be shot from a cannon.
- (architecture) An ornamental figure, often on an oval shield.
- (cartography) A decorative emblem on a globe or map.
- (firearms) A gunner's bag for ammunition.
- (military) A military pass for a soldier on furlough.
- (cooking) A parchment disc placed on top of food to limit evaporation, or to prevent a skin forming on soups and stews.
- a cartridge (usually with paper casing)
verb
noun
- (informal) One's capacity for mental activity modeled as a physical space with limits; one's mental state or state of mind.
- (multiplicity slang) A place within a person (singlet or multiple) that they can visit or inhabit.
- (chemistry) The gas phase in contact and in equilibrium with a nonvolatile liquid in a sample.
- (firearms) The gap between the face of the bolt and the stopping surface for the cartridge.
- (informal) Time and opportunity for reflection and thinking.
- The space between the top of the contents of a container (such as a jar) and its seal (such as a lid).
- the volume left at the top of a filled container (bottle or jar or tin) before sealing
noun
- an enclosed firing range with targets for rifle or handgun practice
- a building (usually abandoned) where drug addicts buy and use heroin
- (slang, drugs) A room where recreational drug users inject themselves with a drug.
- (figuratively, sports) Any game or match with lots of shooting (e.g. at a goal)
- A carnival game typically featuring a pellet gun and numerous moving mechanical tracks with small targets to be shot for prizes.
noun
- a portable gun
- 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
- 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
- (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.
- (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.
- 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.
verb
- 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
- (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.
noun
noun
- A gun grip of such shape.
- A species of prickly pear cactus, Opuntia basilaris.
- A kind of wetsuit having a flap that passes over the crotch and is fastened at the front.
- The tail of a beaver.
- (Canada, US) Any object like a beaver's tail, oval or tear-drop in plan, usually broad and flat; usually beaver-tail.
- (Canada, US) A fried-dough pastry of such shape; usually beaver tail.
noun
- A light musket or firelock.
- (US) A colored flare used as a warning on a railroad.
- A large friction match.
- One who, or that which, fuses or is fused; an individual component of a fusion.
- A fuse for an explosive.
- A conical, grooved pulley in early clocks, antique watches, and possibly all non-electronic marine chronometers.
- a friction match with a large head that will stay alight in the wind
- any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant
- a spirally grooved spindle in a clock that counteracts the diminishing power of the uncoiling mainspring
- a colored flare used as a warning signal by trucks and trains
noun
- a muzzle loader that had a flintlock type of gunlock
- an obsolete gunlock that has flint embedded in the hammer; the flint makes a spark that ignites the charge
- A type of lock used on muskets, rifles, and pistols from the early 17th to the mid-19th century.
- An early type of firearm, using a spring-loaded flint to strike sparks into the firing pan.
noun
- (firearms) The tumbler of a gunlock.
- (slang) A crazy person.
- (US, slang) Monthly expense to keep a venture running.
- (music, lutherie) On stringed instruments such as guitars and violins, the small piece at the peghead end of the fingerboard that holds the strings at the proper spacing and, in most cases, the proper height.
- (poker, attributive) The best possible hand of a certain type. Compare nuts (“the best possible hand available”).
- (US, slang) The amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs.
- (vulgar, slang, uncountable) Semen, ejaculate, cum.
- (typography slang) En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.
- (US, slang) A stash of money owned by an extremely rich investor, sufficient to sustain a high level of consumption if all other money is lost.
- (vulgar, slang, chiefly plural) A testicle, often used in the plural form.
- (colloquial) An extreme enthusiast.
- (climbing) A shaped piece of metal, threaded by a wire loop, which is jammed in a crack in the rockface and used to protect a climb. (Originally, machine nuts [sense #2] were used for this purpose.)
- (slang) The head. [from 19th c.]
- (hardware) A piece of hardware, typically metal and typically hexagonal or square in shape, with a hole through it having internal screw threads, intended to be screwed onto a threaded bolt or other threaded shaft.
- (vulgar, slang, countable) Orgasm, ejaculation; especially release of semen; cumshot
- Alternative form of nuth (“Indian nose ring”).
- (botany, strictly) Such a fruit that is indehiscent.
- (food, loosely) Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants.
- (nautical) A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.
- (archaic except in combination with a modifier) A small rounded cake or cookie.
- a whimsically eccentric person
- someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction
- usually large hard-shelled seed
- one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens
- half the width of an em
- a small (usually square or hexagonal) metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt
intj
verb
noun
- (firearms) A handgun with a revolving chamber enabling several shots to be fired without reloading.
- (by extension) Any (personal) firearm with such a mechanism.
- (finance) Synonym of revolving line of credit, a form of credit permitting the holder to repeatedly borrow money.
- Agent noun of revolve; something that revolves.
- a door consisting of four orthogonal partitions that rotate about a central pivot; a door designed to equalize the air pressure in tall buildings
- a pistol with a revolving cylinder (usually having six chambers for bullets)
adj
- (firearms) Not loaded with a round of live ammunition.
- (of the weather) Causing the air to be cold.
- Distant; said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. Compare warm and hot.
- (of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort.
- (databases) Rarely used or accessed, and thus able to be relegated to slower storage.
- (usually with "have" or "know" transitively) Perfectly, exactly, completely; by heart; down pat.
- Completely unprepared; without introduction.
- (painting) Having a bluish effect; not warm in colour.
- Without electrical power being supplied.
- Chilled, filled with an uncomfortable sense of fear, dread, or alarm.
- (usually with "have" transitively) Cornered; done for.
- (slang) Cool, impressive.
- Dispassionate; not prejudiced or partisan; impartial.
- (informal) Without compassion; heartless; ruthless.
- (of a thing) Having a low temperature.
- Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) only feebly; having lost its odour.
- Unconscious or deeply asleep; deprived of the metaphorical heat associated with life or consciousness.
- (informal) Not radioactive.
- Unfriendly; emotionally distant or unfeeling.
- marked by errorless familiarity
- so intense as to be almost uncontrollable
- extended meanings; especially of psychological coldness; without human warmth or emotion
- feeling or showing no enthusiasm
- sexually unresponsive
- of a seeker; far from the object sought
- having lost freshness through passage of time
- without compunction or human feeling
- having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration
- lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new
- unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication
- lacking the warmth of life
- (color) giving no sensation of warmth
adv
noun
- (countable, pathology) A common, usually harmless, usually viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever.
- (uncountable, slang) Rheum; sleepy dust.
- (uncountable) A condition of low temperature.
- (with 'the', figurative) A harsh place; a place of abandonment.
- the sensation produced by low temperatures
- the absence of heat
- a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs)
noun
- a self-contained weapons platform housing guns and capable of rotation
- a small tower extending above a building
- (machining, manufacturing) A turret head.
- (electronics) A tower-like solder post on a turret board (a circuit board with posts instead of holes).
- (gambling) The central conical ornament atop a spinning roulette wheel.
- (rail transport) The elevated central portion of the roof of a passenger car, with sides that are pierced for light and ventilation.
- (military) An armoured, rotating gun installation on a fort, ship, aircraft, or armoured fighting vehicle.
- (historical, military) A siege tower; a movable building, of a square form, consisting of ten or even twenty stories and sometimes one hundred and twenty cubits high, usually moved on wheels, and employed in approaching a fortified place, for carrying soldiers, engines, ladders, casting bridges, and other necessaries.
- (architecture) A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the corners of a building or castle.
noun
- (firearms) The firing pin of a breechloader.
- A device similar to a piston but without a mechanism; a long solid cylinder used, instead of a piston or bucket, as a forcer in pumps.
- (pottery) A boiler in which clay is beaten by a wheel to a creamy consistency.
- A cafetière, through abbreviation of coffee plunger.
- The part of a cafetière that is pushed down to remove grounds from coffee.
- One who plunges; a diver.
- (military) A cavalryman.
- (pinball) The spring-loaded assembly that propels the ball onto the table.
- A device that is used to remove blockages from the drain of a basin or tub, by suction.
- The sliding activator of an exploder, an electrical generator used to trigger electrical detonators such as blasting caps.
- A horse that plunges, or throws itself suddenly forward.
- The moving portion of a solenoid.
- The internal piece of a syringe that pushes out or pulls in any contents.
- hand tool consisting of a stick with a rubber suction cup at one end; used to clean clogged drains
- mechanical device that has a plunging or thrusting motion
- someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains
- someone who dives (into water)
noun
- A chamber in or attachable to a firearm enabling multiple rounds of ammunition to be fed into the firearm.
- (broadcasting) A radio or television show where each episode comprises a variety of features or segments, akin to the format of a print magazine.
- (historical, television, UK, Ireland) A collection of Teletext pages.
- (Louisiana) A store, or shop, where goods are kept for sale.
- (nautical) The portion of a warship where munitions are stored.
- A reservoir or supply chamber for a stove, battery, camera, typesetting machine, or other apparatus.
- A nonacademic, periodical publication which consists of articles by multiple writers on some broad topic or theme.
- (military) An ammunition storehouse.
- a metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun
- a light-tight supply chamber holding the film and supplying it for exposure as required
- a storehouse (as a compartment on a warship) where weapons and ammunition are stored
- a periodic publication containing pictures and stories and articles of interest to those who purchase it or subscribe to it
- a business firm that publishes magazines
- product consisting of a paperback periodic publication as a physical object
noun
- An accessory for a firearm that lessens the noise at the muzzle.
- (US, automotive) A part of the exhaust pipe of a car that dampens the noise the engine produces.
- (World War I military slang, rare) A gas mask.
- A type of scarf.
- a scarf worn around the neck
- a device that decreases the amplitude of electronic, mechanical, acoustical, or aerodynamic oscillations
- a tubular acoustic device inserted in the exhaust system that is designed to reduce noise
noun
- a kind of gun emplacement
- a structure in which animals lay eggs or give birth to their young
- a cosy or secluded retreat
- a gang of people (criminals or spies or terrorists) assembled in one locality
- furniture pieces made to fit close together
- (card games) A fixed number of cards in some bidding games awarded to the highest bidder allowing him to exchange any or all with cards in his hand.
- A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger.
- A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively.
- A circular bed of pasta, rice, etc. to be topped or filled with other foods.
- (computing) A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.
- A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
- A retreat, or place of habitual resort.
- (military) A fortified position for a weapon.
- (geology) An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock.
- A place used by a monotreme, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.
- A snug, comfortable, or cosy residence or job situation.
- (vulgar, slang, now US) The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself.
- A home that a child or young adult shares with a parent or guardian.
- A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt; a den.
verb
- move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position
- inhabit a nest, usually after building
- fit together or fit inside
- gather nests
- (intransitive) To successively neatly fit inside another.
- (intransitive) To settle into a home.
- (intransitive) To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").
- (intransitive, of animals) To build or settle into a nest.
- (transitive) To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).
- (transitive) To place in, or as if in, a nest.
noun
name
noun
- (firearms) A paper cartridge.
- (Egyptology, hieroglyphs) An oval figure containing the characters of an important personal name, such as that of royal or divine people.
- (firearms) A wooden case filled with balls, to be shot from a cannon.
- (architecture) An ornamental figure, often on an oval shield.
- (cartography) A decorative emblem on a globe or map.
- (firearms) A gunner's bag for ammunition.
- (military) A military pass for a soldier on furlough.
- (cooking) A parchment disc placed on top of food to limit evaporation, or to prevent a skin forming on soups and stews.
- a cartridge (usually with paper casing)
noun
- an enclosed firing range with targets for rifle or handgun practice
- a building (usually abandoned) where drug addicts buy and use heroin
- (slang, drugs) A room where recreational drug users inject themselves with a drug.
- (figuratively, sports) Any game or match with lots of shooting (e.g. at a goal)
- A carnival game typically featuring a pellet gun and numerous moving mechanical tracks with small targets to be shot for prizes.
noun
- a portable gun
- 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
- 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
- (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.
- (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.
- 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.
verb
- 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
- (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.
noun
noun
- A gun grip of such shape.
- A species of prickly pear cactus, Opuntia basilaris.
- A kind of wetsuit having a flap that passes over the crotch and is fastened at the front.
- The tail of a beaver.
- (Canada, US) Any object like a beaver's tail, oval or tear-drop in plan, usually broad and flat; usually beaver-tail.
- (Canada, US) A fried-dough pastry of such shape; usually beaver tail.
noun
- A light musket or firelock.
- (US) A colored flare used as a warning on a railroad.
- A large friction match.
- One who, or that which, fuses or is fused; an individual component of a fusion.
- A fuse for an explosive.
- A conical, grooved pulley in early clocks, antique watches, and possibly all non-electronic marine chronometers.
- a friction match with a large head that will stay alight in the wind
- any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant
- a spirally grooved spindle in a clock that counteracts the diminishing power of the uncoiling mainspring
- a colored flare used as a warning signal by trucks and trains
noun
- a muzzle loader that had a flintlock type of gunlock
- an obsolete gunlock that has flint embedded in the hammer; the flint makes a spark that ignites the charge
- A type of lock used on muskets, rifles, and pistols from the early 17th to the mid-19th century.
- An early type of firearm, using a spring-loaded flint to strike sparks into the firing pan.
noun
- (firearms) The tumbler of a gunlock.
- (slang) A crazy person.
- (US, slang) Monthly expense to keep a venture running.
- (music, lutherie) On stringed instruments such as guitars and violins, the small piece at the peghead end of the fingerboard that holds the strings at the proper spacing and, in most cases, the proper height.
- (poker, attributive) The best possible hand of a certain type. Compare nuts (“the best possible hand available”).
- (US, slang) The amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs.
- (vulgar, slang, uncountable) Semen, ejaculate, cum.
- (typography slang) En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.
- (US, slang) A stash of money owned by an extremely rich investor, sufficient to sustain a high level of consumption if all other money is lost.
- (vulgar, slang, chiefly plural) A testicle, often used in the plural form.
- (colloquial) An extreme enthusiast.
- (climbing) A shaped piece of metal, threaded by a wire loop, which is jammed in a crack in the rockface and used to protect a climb. (Originally, machine nuts [sense #2] were used for this purpose.)
- (slang) The head. [from 19th c.]
- (hardware) A piece of hardware, typically metal and typically hexagonal or square in shape, with a hole through it having internal screw threads, intended to be screwed onto a threaded bolt or other threaded shaft.
- (vulgar, slang, countable) Orgasm, ejaculation; especially release of semen; cumshot
- Alternative form of nuth (“Indian nose ring”).
- (botany, strictly) Such a fruit that is indehiscent.
- (food, loosely) Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants.
- (nautical) A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.
- (archaic except in combination with a modifier) A small rounded cake or cookie.
- a whimsically eccentric person
- someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction
- usually large hard-shelled seed
- one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens
- half the width of an em
- a small (usually square or hexagonal) metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt
intj
verb
noun
- (firearms) A handgun with a revolving chamber enabling several shots to be fired without reloading.
- (by extension) Any (personal) firearm with such a mechanism.
- (finance) Synonym of revolving line of credit, a form of credit permitting the holder to repeatedly borrow money.
- Agent noun of revolve; something that revolves.
- a door consisting of four orthogonal partitions that rotate about a central pivot; a door designed to equalize the air pressure in tall buildings
- a pistol with a revolving cylinder (usually having six chambers for bullets)
noun
- a self-contained weapons platform housing guns and capable of rotation
- a small tower extending above a building
- (machining, manufacturing) A turret head.
- (electronics) A tower-like solder post on a turret board (a circuit board with posts instead of holes).
- (gambling) The central conical ornament atop a spinning roulette wheel.
- (rail transport) The elevated central portion of the roof of a passenger car, with sides that are pierced for light and ventilation.
- (military) An armoured, rotating gun installation on a fort, ship, aircraft, or armoured fighting vehicle.
- (historical, military) A siege tower; a movable building, of a square form, consisting of ten or even twenty stories and sometimes one hundred and twenty cubits high, usually moved on wheels, and employed in approaching a fortified place, for carrying soldiers, engines, ladders, casting bridges, and other necessaries.
- (architecture) A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the corners of a building or castle.
noun
- (firearms) The firing pin of a breechloader.
- A device similar to a piston but without a mechanism; a long solid cylinder used, instead of a piston or bucket, as a forcer in pumps.
- (pottery) A boiler in which clay is beaten by a wheel to a creamy consistency.
- A cafetière, through abbreviation of coffee plunger.
- The part of a cafetière that is pushed down to remove grounds from coffee.
- One who plunges; a diver.
- (military) A cavalryman.
- (pinball) The spring-loaded assembly that propels the ball onto the table.
- A device that is used to remove blockages from the drain of a basin or tub, by suction.
- The sliding activator of an exploder, an electrical generator used to trigger electrical detonators such as blasting caps.
- A horse that plunges, or throws itself suddenly forward.
- The moving portion of a solenoid.
- The internal piece of a syringe that pushes out or pulls in any contents.
- hand tool consisting of a stick with a rubber suction cup at one end; used to clean clogged drains
- mechanical device that has a plunging or thrusting motion
- someone who risks losses for the possibility of considerable gains
- someone who dives (into water)
noun
- A chamber in or attachable to a firearm enabling multiple rounds of ammunition to be fed into the firearm.
- (broadcasting) A radio or television show where each episode comprises a variety of features or segments, akin to the format of a print magazine.
- (historical, television, UK, Ireland) A collection of Teletext pages.
- (Louisiana) A store, or shop, where goods are kept for sale.
- (nautical) The portion of a warship where munitions are stored.
- A reservoir or supply chamber for a stove, battery, camera, typesetting machine, or other apparatus.
- A nonacademic, periodical publication which consists of articles by multiple writers on some broad topic or theme.
- (military) An ammunition storehouse.
- a metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun
- a light-tight supply chamber holding the film and supplying it for exposure as required
- a storehouse (as a compartment on a warship) where weapons and ammunition are stored
- a periodic publication containing pictures and stories and articles of interest to those who purchase it or subscribe to it
- a business firm that publishes magazines
- product consisting of a paperback periodic publication as a physical object
noun
- An accessory for a firearm that lessens the noise at the muzzle.
- (US, automotive) A part of the exhaust pipe of a car that dampens the noise the engine produces.
- (World War I military slang, rare) A gas mask.
- A type of scarf.
- a scarf worn around the neck
- a device that decreases the amplitude of electronic, mechanical, acoustical, or aerodynamic oscillations
- a tubular acoustic device inserted in the exhaust system that is designed to reduce noise
verb
noun
- (informal) One's capacity for mental activity modeled as a physical space with limits; one's mental state or state of mind.
- (multiplicity slang) A place within a person (singlet or multiple) that they can visit or inhabit.
- (chemistry) The gas phase in contact and in equilibrium with a nonvolatile liquid in a sample.
- (firearms) The gap between the face of the bolt and the stopping surface for the cartridge.
- (informal) Time and opportunity for reflection and thinking.
- The space between the top of the contents of a container (such as a jar) and its seal (such as a lid).
- the volume left at the top of a filled container (bottle or jar or tin) before sealing
adj
- (of a weapon) Prepared for use; loaded.
- (botany) Having prickles or thorns.
- (sometimes in combination) Equipped, especially with a weapon.
- (chiefly in combination) Having an arm or arms, often of a specified number or type.
- (of a creature) Possessing arms of a specified number or type.
- (heraldry, of animals) Having horns, claws, teeth, a beak, etc. in a particular tincture, as contrasted with that of the animal as a whole.
- (of a person, specifically) Equipped with a gun.
- (used of persons or the military) characterized by having or bearing arms
- having arms or arms as specified; used especially in combination
- (used of plants and animals) furnished with bristles and thorns
verb
adj
- (firearms) Not loaded with a round of live ammunition.
- (of the weather) Causing the air to be cold.
- Distant; said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. Compare warm and hot.
- (of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort.
- (databases) Rarely used or accessed, and thus able to be relegated to slower storage.
- (usually with "have" or "know" transitively) Perfectly, exactly, completely; by heart; down pat.
- Completely unprepared; without introduction.
- (painting) Having a bluish effect; not warm in colour.
- Without electrical power being supplied.
- Chilled, filled with an uncomfortable sense of fear, dread, or alarm.
- (usually with "have" transitively) Cornered; done for.
- (slang) Cool, impressive.
- Dispassionate; not prejudiced or partisan; impartial.
- (informal) Without compassion; heartless; ruthless.
- (of a thing) Having a low temperature.
- Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) only feebly; having lost its odour.
- Unconscious or deeply asleep; deprived of the metaphorical heat associated with life or consciousness.
- (informal) Not radioactive.
- Unfriendly; emotionally distant or unfeeling.
- marked by errorless familiarity
- so intense as to be almost uncontrollable
- extended meanings; especially of psychological coldness; without human warmth or emotion
- feeling or showing no enthusiasm
- sexually unresponsive
- of a seeker; far from the object sought
- having lost freshness through passage of time
- without compunction or human feeling
- having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration
- lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new
- unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication
- lacking the warmth of life
- (color) giving no sensation of warmth
adv
noun
- (countable, pathology) A common, usually harmless, usually viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever.
- (uncountable, slang) Rheum; sleepy dust.
- (uncountable) A condition of low temperature.
- (with 'the', figurative) A harsh place; a place of abandonment.
- the sensation produced by low temperatures
- the absence of heat
- a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs)