English words for 'Alternative form of rain pit.'
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noun
verb
- To wash; to wash, and to smooth with a flatiron or mangle; to wash and iron.
- (money) To disguise the source of (ill-gotten wealth) by various means.
- (programming, transitive) To obtain a pointer to an object created in storage occupied by an existing object of the same type, even if it has const or reference members.
- cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water
- convert illegally obtained funds into legal ones
noun
- (Canadian Prairies) A pit used to catch and store rainwater or runoff.
- (baseball, soccer, cricket) A sunken shelter at the side of a sports field where non-playing team members and staff sit during a game.
- (nautical) A canoe made from a hollowed-out log.
- (slang) A small portable case for equipment used to smoke marijuana.
- (military) A pit dug into the ground as a shelter, especially from enemy fire.
- a fortification of earth; mostly or entirely below ground
- a canoe made by hollowing out and shaping a large log
- either of two low shelters on either side of a baseball diamond where the players and coaches sit during the game
- a shelter for humans or domesticated animals and livestock based on a hole or depression dug into the ground; can be fully recessed into the earth, with a flat roof covered by ground, semi-recessed, with a constructed wood or sod roof standing out, or dug into a hillside.
noun
- A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground.
- Any person who leads or directs.
- (UK, journalism) The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article; a lead story.
- One having authority to direct.
- (mining) A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one.
- (printing) A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face.
- (printing, in the plural) A row of dots, periods, or hyphens, used in tables of contents, etc., to lead the eye across a space to the right word or number.
- A person or organization that leads in a certain field in terms of excellence, success, etc.
- One who goes first.
- (meteorology) The path taken by electrons from a cloud to ground level, determining the shape of a bolt of lightning.
- (engineering) The drive wheel in any kind of machinery.
- (nautical) A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places.
- (botany) A fast-growing terminal shoot of a woody plant.
- One who leads a political party or group of elected party members; sometimes used in titles.
- (music) A performer who leads a band, choir, or a section of an orchestra.
- The dominant animal in a pack of animals, such as wolves or lions.
- (film, printing) A piece of material at the beginning or end of a reel or roll to allow the material to be threaded or fed onto something, as a reel of film onto a projector or a roll of paper onto a rotary printing press.
- (fishing) A section of line between the main fishing line and the snell of a hook, intended to be more resistant to bites and harder for a fish to detect than the main fishing line.
- (music, UK) The first violin in a symphony orchestra; the concertmaster.
- (fishing) A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc.
- Either of the two front horses of a team of four in front of a carriage.
- (marketing) A loss leader or a popular product sold at a normal price.
- An animal placed in advance of others, especially on a team of horse, oxen, or dogs.
- a person who rules or guides or inspires others
- a featured article of merchandise sold at a loss in order to draw customers
noun
- A reservoir or tank for holding water, especially for catching and holding rainwater for later use.
- an artificial reservoir for storing liquids; especially an underground tank for storing rainwater
- (biology) A cisterna.
- A shallow, typically oval, vessel made of porcelain, pottery, or glass.
- The receptacle that holds the fuel in an oil lamp.
- In a flush toilet, the container in which the water used for flushing is held; a toilet tank.
- The vessel surrounding the condenser in a steam engine.
- a tank that holds the water used to flush a toilet
- a sac or cavity containing fluid especially lymph or cerebrospinal fluid
noun
- A reservoir or natural source of water that is put to use.
- A showerhead.
- A water main
- (uncountable) Hydrocephalus
- The amount of water or water pressure provided by a waterhead (reservoir or portion of a device that stores water).
- A spring or headwater.
- A stupid and/or ugly person.
- A burst of water.
- The enlarged head of a person or animal with hydrocephalus.
- A hydrocephalic person or animal
- The place where water enters or exits a device or system
- An area of high elevation, viewed as the catchment basin for a region.
- A portion of a device or system where water is stored before it is used, such as a header tank.
verb
noun
- A small pit.
- A basic or essential supply.
- A wire fastener, made of thin wire, used to secure stacks of paper by penetrating all the sheets and curling around.
- A wire fastener, in any of various sizes, used to secure something else by penetrating and curling.
- One of a set of U-shaped metal rods hammered into a structure, such as a piling or wharf, which serve as a ladder.
- A recurring topic, character, or item.
- A U-shaped wire fastener, made of thick wire, used to attach fence wire or other material to posts or structures.
- Unmanufactured material; raw material.
- a type of two-pronged fastener, usually metal, used for joining, gathering, or binding materials together.
- (now historical) A town containing merchants who have exclusive right, under royal authority, to purchase or produce certain goods for export; also, the body of such merchants seen as a group.
- (mining) A shaft, smaller and shorter than the principal one, joining different levels.
- (by extension) Place of supply; source.
- The principal commodity produced in a town or region.
- Short fiber, as of cotton, sheep’s wool, or the like, which can be spun into yarn or thread.
- A district granted to an abbey.
- a short U-shaped wire nail
- paper fastener consisting of a short length of U-shaped wire that can fasten papers together
- a natural fiber (raw cotton, wool, hemp, flax) that can be twisted to form yarn
- (usually in the plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant
- material suitable for manufacture or use or finishing
adj
- Fit to be sold; marketable.
- Regularly produced or manufactured in large quantities; belonging to wholesale traffic; principal; chief.
- Relating to, or being market of staple for, commodities.
- Established in commerce; occupying the markets; settled.
- necessary or important, especially regarding food or commodities
verb
verb
noun
- A wide bowl for washing, sometimes affixed to a wall.
- (geography) An area of land from which water drains into a common outlet; drainage basin.
- (geography) A shallow depression in a rock formation, such as an area of down-folded rock that has accumulated a thick layer of sediments, or an area scooped out by water erosion.
- A depression, natural or artificial, containing water.
- a bowl-shaped vessel; usually used for holding food or liquids
- the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same outlet
- a natural depression in the surface of the land often with a lake at the bottom of it
- a bathroom sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you can wash your hands and face
- the quantity that a basin will hold
verb
noun
noun
- a pit filled with loose wet sand into which objects are sucked down
- a treacherous situation that tends to entrap and destroy
- (figuratively) Anything that metaphorically pulls one down or buries one; a treacherous, risky danger
- Wet sand that appears firm but in which things readily sink, often found near rivers or coasts.
noun
- A roof of a house or other building which is designed to collect rainfall for use in gardens, lawns, or as drinking water.
- A roof of a house or other building which is covered with soil and grass, plants, trees, or other landscaping materials.
- A roof of a house or other building on which solar panels, solar hot water collectors, wind powered turbines, or other natural energy collectors are placed.
noun
- a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater
- A duct or channel beneath the eaves of a building to carry rain water; eavestrough.
- a tool for gutting fish
- misfortune resulting in lost effort or money
- a worker who guts things (fish or buildings or cars etc.)
- (comics) A space between comic strip panels.
- Any narrow channel or groove, such as one formed by erosion in the vent of a gun from repeated firing.
- (printing) One of a number of pieces of wood or metal, grooved in the centre, used to separate the pages of type in a form.
- A ditch along the side of a road.
- (typography) A space between printed columns of text.
- A large groove (commonly behind animals) in a barn used for the collection and removal of animal excrement.
- (bowling) A groove down the sides of a bowling lane.
- One who or that which guts.
- A prepared channel in a surface, especially at the side of a road adjacent to a curb, intended for the drainage of water.
- (figuratively) A low, vulgar state.
- The notional locus of things, acts, or events that are distasteful, ill-bred, or morally questionable.
- (philately) An unprinted space between rows of stamps.
- (British) A drainage channel.
verb
- provide with gutters
- flow in small streams
- wear or cut gutters into
- burn unsteadily, feebly, or low; flicker
- (transitive) To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel.
- To flow or stream; to form gutters.
- (of a candle) To melt away by having the molten wax run down along the side of the candle.
- (transitive) To supply with a gutter or gutters.
- (of a small flame, or poetically, of eyes) To flicker as if about to be extinguished.
- (transitive) To send (a bowling ball) into the gutter, not hitting any pins.
- (intransitive, uncommon) To worsen considerably.
noun
- a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater
- a treasury for government funds
- a narrow depression (as in the earth or between ocean waves or in the ocean bed)
- a long narrow shallow receptacle
- a concave shape with an open top
- a container (usually in a barn or stable) from which cattle or horses feed
- (meteorology) A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.
- (colloquial) An undivided metal urinal (plumbing fixture)
- (agriculture, Australia, New Zealand) A channel for conveying water or other farm liquids (such as milk) from place to place by gravity; any ‘U’ or ‘V’ cross-sectioned irrigation channel.
- A long, narrow depression between waves or ridges; the low portion of a wave cycle.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A rectangular container used for washing or rinsing clothes.
- A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.
- Any similarly shaped container.
- (Canada) A gutter under the eaves of a building; an eaves trough.
- A short, narrow canal designed to hold water until it drains or evaporates.
- (economics) A low turning point or a local minimum of a business cycle.
verb
verb
- To pour (especially with rain)
- To be stocked to overflowing.
- (cooking, Scotland, Ireland) To drain the water from (boiled potatoes etc.).
- To be prolific; to abound; to be rife.
- To pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to fill, as a mould, with molten metal.
- (of rain, snow, etc) To fall prolifically.
- be teeming, be abuzz
- move in large numbers
noun
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To ooze or pass slowly through pores or other small openings, and in overly small quantities; said of liquids, etc.
- (Scotland) To soak.
- (intransitive, figurative) To enter or penetrate slowly; to spread or diffuse.
- (intransitive, figurative) To diminish or wane away slowly.
- (transitive) (of a crack etc.) To allow a liquid to pass through, to leak.
- pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings
noun
- (architecture) A grotesque like a gargoyle, but without a spout for rainwater.
- (zoology) Alternative form of chimaera, a cartilaginous marine fish in the subclass Holocephali and especially the order Chimaeriformes, with a blunt snout, long tail, and a spine before the first dorsal fin.
- (figurative) Synonym of bogeyman: any terrifying thing, especially as an unreal, imagined threat.
- (figurative) Anything composed of very disparate parts.
- (genetics) An organism with genetically distinct cells originating from two or more zygotes.
- (Greek mythology) Alternative letter-case form of Chimera, a supposed monster in Lycia with the head of a lion, body of a goat, and tail of a dragon or serpent, killed by the hero Bellerophon.
- (mythology, art) Any fantastic creature combining parts from different animals.
- (figurative) A foolish, incongruous, or vain thought or product of the imagination.
- a grotesque product of the imagination
noun
- A pit or hole which has been bored.
- (usually in the plural) One of the fragments thrown up when something is bored or drilled.
- The act or process of boring holes; such practice as an area of expertise in manufacturing.
- the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum
- the act of drilling
adj
- Used, designed to be used, or able to drill holes.
- Capable of penetrating; piercing.
- Causing boredom or tiredness; making one feel tired and impatient.
- (chiefly Manglish) Suffering from boredom; mildly annoyed and restless through having nothing to do.
- so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
verb
noun
- A conduit for carrying rainwater or flood water.
- A pipe that is part of a device or appliance for carrying away waste fluid.
- A type of form-fitting trousers with highly tapered legs.
- A verticle pipe carrying water from the roof gutter down the side of a building; downspout.
- A pipe that carries wastewater from a bathtub, shower, sink, etc.
- (uncountable) The type of pipe that is used to construct a drainpipe.
- a pipe through which liquid is carried away
noun
- a pit or hole produced by wear or weathering (especially in a road surface)
- A shallow pit or other edged depression in a road's surface, especially when caused by erosion by weather or traffic.
- (fandom slang, TV Tropes) A hyperlink with text displayed on a page that is different from the title of the page to which the text links; a piped link.
- A hole or recess on the top of a stove into which a pot may be placed.
- (Australia, mining) A shallow hole dug for the purpose of prospecting for opal or gold.
- (geology) A vertical cave system, often found in limestone.
- A pit formed in the bed of a turbulent stream.
- (archaeology) A pit resulting from unauthorized excavation by treasure-hunters or vandals.
noun
- (informal) Rain.
- (historical, treated as singular) A hydraulic apparatus by which a supply of water is furnished for ornamental purposes; also, an ornamental fountain or waterfall.
- (treated as singular) Any single facility, such as a filtration plant or pumping station, within such a system.
- (British, euphemistic) The genitourinary system.
- plural of waterwork
- The water supply system of a district, town, city, or other place, including reservoirs, pipes, and pumps.
- (informal) Often in the form turn on the waterworks: crying or tears, especially in a way that is considered manipulative or over-emotional.
- a public utility that provides water
- workplace where water is stored and purified and distributed for a community
noun
- A depressed area in which waste or drainage collects.
- (pinball) A hole in the playfield that rewards the player when the ball is guided into it.
- (computer security) An attack which redirects requests, whether network or memory accesses, to a new location defined by the attacker.
- (Internet) A domain name server that has been configured to hand out non-routeable addresses for all domains, so that every computer that uses it will fail to get access to the real website.
- (geology) A hole formed in soluble rock by the action of water, serving to conduct surface water to an underground passage.
- a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof
verb
verb
- To form a puddle.
- To line a canal with puddle (clay).
- To collect ideas, especially abstract concepts, into rough subtopics or categories, as in study, research or conversation.
- To play or splash in a puddle.
- To process iron, gold, etc., by means of puddling.
- To make (clay, loam, etc.) dense or close, by working it when wet, so as to render impervious to water.
- (entomology) Of butterflies, to congregate on a puddle or moist substance to pick up nutrients.
- To make foul or muddy; to pollute with dirt; to mix dirt with (water).
- make a puddle by splashing water
- eliminate urine
- subject to puddling or form by puddling
- dip into mud before planting
- make into a puddle
- wade or dabble in a puddle
- mix up or confuse
- work a wet mixture, such as concrete or mud
- mess around, as in a liquid or paste
noun
- A homogeneous mixture of clay, water, and sometimes grit, used to line a canal or pond to make it watertight.
- (now dialectal) Stagnant or polluted water.
- (rowing) The ripple left by the withdrawal of an oar from the water.
- A small, often temporary, pool of water, usually on a path or road.
- something resembling a pool of liquid
- a mixture of wet clay and sand that can be used to line a pond and that is impervious to water when dry
- a small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid
adj
noun
- deep ditch cut by running water (especially after a prolonged downpour)
- A road drain.
- (UK) A drop kerb.
- A trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside.
- (Scotland, northern UK) A large knife.
- (cricket) A fielding position on the off side about 30 degrees behind square, between the slips and point; a fielder in such a position
- A small valley.
- (UK) A grooved iron rail or tram plate.
verb
noun
verb
- To wash; to wash, and to smooth with a flatiron or mangle; to wash and iron.
- (money) To disguise the source of (ill-gotten wealth) by various means.
- (programming, transitive) To obtain a pointer to an object created in storage occupied by an existing object of the same type, even if it has const or reference members.
- cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water
- convert illegally obtained funds into legal ones
noun
- (Canadian Prairies) A pit used to catch and store rainwater or runoff.
- (baseball, soccer, cricket) A sunken shelter at the side of a sports field where non-playing team members and staff sit during a game.
- (nautical) A canoe made from a hollowed-out log.
- (slang) A small portable case for equipment used to smoke marijuana.
- (military) A pit dug into the ground as a shelter, especially from enemy fire.
- a fortification of earth; mostly or entirely below ground
- a canoe made by hollowing out and shaping a large log
- either of two low shelters on either side of a baseball diamond where the players and coaches sit during the game
- a shelter for humans or domesticated animals and livestock based on a hole or depression dug into the ground; can be fully recessed into the earth, with a flat roof covered by ground, semi-recessed, with a constructed wood or sod roof standing out, or dug into a hillside.
noun
- A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground.
- Any person who leads or directs.
- (UK, journalism) The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article; a lead story.
- One having authority to direct.
- (mining) A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one.
- (printing) A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face.
- (printing, in the plural) A row of dots, periods, or hyphens, used in tables of contents, etc., to lead the eye across a space to the right word or number.
- A person or organization that leads in a certain field in terms of excellence, success, etc.
- One who goes first.
- (meteorology) The path taken by electrons from a cloud to ground level, determining the shape of a bolt of lightning.
- (engineering) The drive wheel in any kind of machinery.
- (nautical) A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places.
- (botany) A fast-growing terminal shoot of a woody plant.
- One who leads a political party or group of elected party members; sometimes used in titles.
- (music) A performer who leads a band, choir, or a section of an orchestra.
- The dominant animal in a pack of animals, such as wolves or lions.
- (film, printing) A piece of material at the beginning or end of a reel or roll to allow the material to be threaded or fed onto something, as a reel of film onto a projector or a roll of paper onto a rotary printing press.
- (fishing) A section of line between the main fishing line and the snell of a hook, intended to be more resistant to bites and harder for a fish to detect than the main fishing line.
- (music, UK) The first violin in a symphony orchestra; the concertmaster.
- (fishing) A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc.
- Either of the two front horses of a team of four in front of a carriage.
- (marketing) A loss leader or a popular product sold at a normal price.
- An animal placed in advance of others, especially on a team of horse, oxen, or dogs.
- a person who rules or guides or inspires others
- a featured article of merchandise sold at a loss in order to draw customers
noun
- A reservoir or tank for holding water, especially for catching and holding rainwater for later use.
- an artificial reservoir for storing liquids; especially an underground tank for storing rainwater
- (biology) A cisterna.
- A shallow, typically oval, vessel made of porcelain, pottery, or glass.
- The receptacle that holds the fuel in an oil lamp.
- In a flush toilet, the container in which the water used for flushing is held; a toilet tank.
- The vessel surrounding the condenser in a steam engine.
- a tank that holds the water used to flush a toilet
- a sac or cavity containing fluid especially lymph or cerebrospinal fluid
noun
- A reservoir or natural source of water that is put to use.
- A showerhead.
- A water main
- (uncountable) Hydrocephalus
- The amount of water or water pressure provided by a waterhead (reservoir or portion of a device that stores water).
- A spring or headwater.
- A stupid and/or ugly person.
- A burst of water.
- The enlarged head of a person or animal with hydrocephalus.
- A hydrocephalic person or animal
- The place where water enters or exits a device or system
- An area of high elevation, viewed as the catchment basin for a region.
- A portion of a device or system where water is stored before it is used, such as a header tank.
verb
noun
- A small pit.
- A basic or essential supply.
- A wire fastener, made of thin wire, used to secure stacks of paper by penetrating all the sheets and curling around.
- A wire fastener, in any of various sizes, used to secure something else by penetrating and curling.
- One of a set of U-shaped metal rods hammered into a structure, such as a piling or wharf, which serve as a ladder.
- A recurring topic, character, or item.
- A U-shaped wire fastener, made of thick wire, used to attach fence wire or other material to posts or structures.
- Unmanufactured material; raw material.
- a type of two-pronged fastener, usually metal, used for joining, gathering, or binding materials together.
- (now historical) A town containing merchants who have exclusive right, under royal authority, to purchase or produce certain goods for export; also, the body of such merchants seen as a group.
- (mining) A shaft, smaller and shorter than the principal one, joining different levels.
- (by extension) Place of supply; source.
- The principal commodity produced in a town or region.
- Short fiber, as of cotton, sheep’s wool, or the like, which can be spun into yarn or thread.
- A district granted to an abbey.
- a short U-shaped wire nail
- paper fastener consisting of a short length of U-shaped wire that can fasten papers together
- a natural fiber (raw cotton, wool, hemp, flax) that can be twisted to form yarn
- (usually in the plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant
- material suitable for manufacture or use or finishing
adj
- Fit to be sold; marketable.
- Regularly produced or manufactured in large quantities; belonging to wholesale traffic; principal; chief.
- Relating to, or being market of staple for, commodities.
- Established in commerce; occupying the markets; settled.
- necessary or important, especially regarding food or commodities
verb
noun
- a pit filled with loose wet sand into which objects are sucked down
- a treacherous situation that tends to entrap and destroy
- (figuratively) Anything that metaphorically pulls one down or buries one; a treacherous, risky danger
- Wet sand that appears firm but in which things readily sink, often found near rivers or coasts.
noun
- A roof of a house or other building which is designed to collect rainfall for use in gardens, lawns, or as drinking water.
- A roof of a house or other building which is covered with soil and grass, plants, trees, or other landscaping materials.
- A roof of a house or other building on which solar panels, solar hot water collectors, wind powered turbines, or other natural energy collectors are placed.
noun
- a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater
- A duct or channel beneath the eaves of a building to carry rain water; eavestrough.
- a tool for gutting fish
- misfortune resulting in lost effort or money
- a worker who guts things (fish or buildings or cars etc.)
- (comics) A space between comic strip panels.
- Any narrow channel or groove, such as one formed by erosion in the vent of a gun from repeated firing.
- (printing) One of a number of pieces of wood or metal, grooved in the centre, used to separate the pages of type in a form.
- A ditch along the side of a road.
- (typography) A space between printed columns of text.
- A large groove (commonly behind animals) in a barn used for the collection and removal of animal excrement.
- (bowling) A groove down the sides of a bowling lane.
- One who or that which guts.
- A prepared channel in a surface, especially at the side of a road adjacent to a curb, intended for the drainage of water.
- (figuratively) A low, vulgar state.
- The notional locus of things, acts, or events that are distasteful, ill-bred, or morally questionable.
- (philately) An unprinted space between rows of stamps.
- (British) A drainage channel.
verb
- provide with gutters
- flow in small streams
- wear or cut gutters into
- burn unsteadily, feebly, or low; flicker
- (transitive) To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel.
- To flow or stream; to form gutters.
- (of a candle) To melt away by having the molten wax run down along the side of the candle.
- (transitive) To supply with a gutter or gutters.
- (of a small flame, or poetically, of eyes) To flicker as if about to be extinguished.
- (transitive) To send (a bowling ball) into the gutter, not hitting any pins.
- (intransitive, uncommon) To worsen considerably.
noun
- a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater
- a treasury for government funds
- a narrow depression (as in the earth or between ocean waves or in the ocean bed)
- a long narrow shallow receptacle
- a concave shape with an open top
- a container (usually in a barn or stable) from which cattle or horses feed
- (meteorology) A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.
- (colloquial) An undivided metal urinal (plumbing fixture)
- (agriculture, Australia, New Zealand) A channel for conveying water or other farm liquids (such as milk) from place to place by gravity; any ‘U’ or ‘V’ cross-sectioned irrigation channel.
- A long, narrow depression between waves or ridges; the low portion of a wave cycle.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A rectangular container used for washing or rinsing clothes.
- A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.
- Any similarly shaped container.
- (Canada) A gutter under the eaves of a building; an eaves trough.
- A short, narrow canal designed to hold water until it drains or evaporates.
- (economics) A low turning point or a local minimum of a business cycle.
verb
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To ooze or pass slowly through pores or other small openings, and in overly small quantities; said of liquids, etc.
- (Scotland) To soak.
- (intransitive, figurative) To enter or penetrate slowly; to spread or diffuse.
- (intransitive, figurative) To diminish or wane away slowly.
- (transitive) (of a crack etc.) To allow a liquid to pass through, to leak.
- pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings
noun
- (architecture) A grotesque like a gargoyle, but without a spout for rainwater.
- (zoology) Alternative form of chimaera, a cartilaginous marine fish in the subclass Holocephali and especially the order Chimaeriformes, with a blunt snout, long tail, and a spine before the first dorsal fin.
- (figurative) Synonym of bogeyman: any terrifying thing, especially as an unreal, imagined threat.
- (figurative) Anything composed of very disparate parts.
- (genetics) An organism with genetically distinct cells originating from two or more zygotes.
- (Greek mythology) Alternative letter-case form of Chimera, a supposed monster in Lycia with the head of a lion, body of a goat, and tail of a dragon or serpent, killed by the hero Bellerophon.
- (mythology, art) Any fantastic creature combining parts from different animals.
- (figurative) A foolish, incongruous, or vain thought or product of the imagination.
- a grotesque product of the imagination
noun
- A pit or hole which has been bored.
- (usually in the plural) One of the fragments thrown up when something is bored or drilled.
- The act or process of boring holes; such practice as an area of expertise in manufacturing.
- the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum
- the act of drilling
adj
- Used, designed to be used, or able to drill holes.
- Capable of penetrating; piercing.
- Causing boredom or tiredness; making one feel tired and impatient.
- (chiefly Manglish) Suffering from boredom; mildly annoyed and restless through having nothing to do.
- so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
verb
noun
- A conduit for carrying rainwater or flood water.
- A pipe that is part of a device or appliance for carrying away waste fluid.
- A type of form-fitting trousers with highly tapered legs.
- A verticle pipe carrying water from the roof gutter down the side of a building; downspout.
- A pipe that carries wastewater from a bathtub, shower, sink, etc.
- (uncountable) The type of pipe that is used to construct a drainpipe.
- a pipe through which liquid is carried away
noun
- a pit or hole produced by wear or weathering (especially in a road surface)
- A shallow pit or other edged depression in a road's surface, especially when caused by erosion by weather or traffic.
- (fandom slang, TV Tropes) A hyperlink with text displayed on a page that is different from the title of the page to which the text links; a piped link.
- A hole or recess on the top of a stove into which a pot may be placed.
- (Australia, mining) A shallow hole dug for the purpose of prospecting for opal or gold.
- (geology) A vertical cave system, often found in limestone.
- A pit formed in the bed of a turbulent stream.
- (archaeology) A pit resulting from unauthorized excavation by treasure-hunters or vandals.
noun
- (informal) Rain.
- (historical, treated as singular) A hydraulic apparatus by which a supply of water is furnished for ornamental purposes; also, an ornamental fountain or waterfall.
- (treated as singular) Any single facility, such as a filtration plant or pumping station, within such a system.
- (British, euphemistic) The genitourinary system.
- plural of waterwork
- The water supply system of a district, town, city, or other place, including reservoirs, pipes, and pumps.
- (informal) Often in the form turn on the waterworks: crying or tears, especially in a way that is considered manipulative or over-emotional.
- a public utility that provides water
- workplace where water is stored and purified and distributed for a community
noun
- A depressed area in which waste or drainage collects.
- (pinball) A hole in the playfield that rewards the player when the ball is guided into it.
- (computer security) An attack which redirects requests, whether network or memory accesses, to a new location defined by the attacker.
- (Internet) A domain name server that has been configured to hand out non-routeable addresses for all domains, so that every computer that uses it will fail to get access to the real website.
- (geology) A hole formed in soluble rock by the action of water, serving to conduct surface water to an underground passage.
- a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof
verb
noun
- deep ditch cut by running water (especially after a prolonged downpour)
- A road drain.
- (UK) A drop kerb.
- A trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside.
- (Scotland, northern UK) A large knife.
- (cricket) A fielding position on the off side about 30 degrees behind square, between the slips and point; a fielder in such a position
- A small valley.
- (UK) A grooved iron rail or tram plate.
verb
verb
noun
- A wide bowl for washing, sometimes affixed to a wall.
- (geography) An area of land from which water drains into a common outlet; drainage basin.
- (geography) A shallow depression in a rock formation, such as an area of down-folded rock that has accumulated a thick layer of sediments, or an area scooped out by water erosion.
- A depression, natural or artificial, containing water.
- a bowl-shaped vessel; usually used for holding food or liquids
- the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same outlet
- a natural depression in the surface of the land often with a lake at the bottom of it
- a bathroom sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you can wash your hands and face
- the quantity that a basin will hold
verb
noun
verb
- To pour (especially with rain)
- To be stocked to overflowing.
- (cooking, Scotland, Ireland) To drain the water from (boiled potatoes etc.).
- To be prolific; to abound; to be rife.
- To pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to fill, as a mould, with molten metal.
- (of rain, snow, etc) To fall prolifically.
- be teeming, be abuzz
- move in large numbers
noun
verb
- To form a puddle.
- To line a canal with puddle (clay).
- To collect ideas, especially abstract concepts, into rough subtopics or categories, as in study, research or conversation.
- To play or splash in a puddle.
- To process iron, gold, etc., by means of puddling.
- To make (clay, loam, etc.) dense or close, by working it when wet, so as to render impervious to water.
- (entomology) Of butterflies, to congregate on a puddle or moist substance to pick up nutrients.
- To make foul or muddy; to pollute with dirt; to mix dirt with (water).
- make a puddle by splashing water
- eliminate urine
- subject to puddling or form by puddling
- dip into mud before planting
- make into a puddle
- wade or dabble in a puddle
- mix up or confuse
- work a wet mixture, such as concrete or mud
- mess around, as in a liquid or paste
noun
- A homogeneous mixture of clay, water, and sometimes grit, used to line a canal or pond to make it watertight.
- (now dialectal) Stagnant or polluted water.
- (rowing) The ripple left by the withdrawal of an oar from the water.
- A small, often temporary, pool of water, usually on a path or road.
- something resembling a pool of liquid
- a mixture of wet clay and sand that can be used to line a pond and that is impervious to water when dry
- a small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid