English words for 'Alternative form of seapower'
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noun
- (military, nautical) Initialism of replenishment at sea.
- (law enforcement) Initialism of reasonable articulable suspicion.
- (computing) Initialism of remote access service.
- (firearms) Abbreviation of rail accessory system.
- Initialism of retinoic acid syndrome
- (linguistics) Initialism of redundant acronym syndrome.
- (neurology) Initialism of reticular activating system.
- (medicine) Initialism of renin-angiotensin system.
- the network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function
adj
- of or relating to the sea
- Used or adapted for use at sea.
- native to or inhabiting the sea
- relating to or characteristic of or occurring on or in the sea
- of or relating to military personnel who serve both on land and at sea (specifically the U.S. Marine Corps)
- relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen
- Relating to or connected with the sea (in operation, scope, etc.), especially as pertains to shipping, a navy, or naval forces.
- Belonging to or characteristic of the sea; existing or found in the sea; formed or produced by the sea.
- (zoology) Inhabiting the high seas; oceanic; pelagic. (distinguished from maritime or littoral)
noun
verb
suffix
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verb
- (transitive) To transport to shore by waves.
- (ambitransitive) To clean by sweeping.
- (transitive, usually passive) to overwhelm, to cause to become overly involved in.
- take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
- force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
noun
- (nautical) the act of changing tack
- a short nail with a sharp point and a large head
- gear for a horse
- sailing a zigzag course
- (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind
- the heading or position of a vessel relative to the trim of its sails
- (nautical) The lower corner on the leading edge of a sail relative to the direction of the wind.
- A thumbtack.
- (nautical) A rope used to hold in place the foremost lower corners of the courses when the vessel is close-hauled; also, a rope employed to pull the lower corner of a studding sail to the boom.
- (law, Scotland and Northern England) A contract by which the use of a thing is set, or let, for hire; a lease.
- (nautical) The maneuver by which a sailing vessel turns its bow through the wind so that the wind changes from one side to the other.
- (nautical) A course or heading that enables a sailing vessel to head upwind.
- That which is attached; a supplement; an appendix.
- (figurative) A direction or course of action, especially a new one; a method or approach to solving a problem.
- A small nail with a flat head.
- A stain; a tache.
- (sewing) A loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth.
- Food generally; fare, especially of the hard bread or breadlike kind.
- (manufacturing, construction, chemistry) The stickiness of a compound, related to its cohesive and adhesive properties.
- (nautical) The distance a sailing vessel runs between these maneuvers when working to windward; a board.
- Any of the various equipment and accessories worn by horses in the course of their use as domesticated animals.
- (colloquial) That which is tacky; something cheap and gaudy.
verb
- sew together loosely, with large stitches
- fasten with tacks
- turn into the wind
- create by putting components or members together
- fix to; attach
- reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
- (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
- (nautical) To maneuver a sailing vessel so that its bow turns through the wind, i.e. the wind changes from one side of the vessel to the other.
- To sew/stitch with a tack (loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth).
- (transitive) To nail (something) with a tack (small nail with a flat head).
- To add something as an extra item.
- To weld with initial small welds to temporarily fasten in preparation for full welding.
- Synonym of tack up (“to prepare a horse for riding by equipping it with a tack”).
noun
- (nautical) the act of changing tack
- a loose temporary sewing stitch to hold layers of fabric together
- (sewing) Loose temporary stitches in dressmaking etc.
- (law) A union of securities given at different times, all of which must be redeemed before an intermediate purchaser can interpose a claim.
- (law) The joining together of consecutive periods of possession of property, especially between squatters in cases of adverse possession.
- (nautical) The act of changing tack.
verb
noun
- (nautical) A vessel such as a ship or submarine running on nuclear power.
- A nuclear weapon.
- (rare) A microwave oven.
- A nuclear power station.
- A person (such as a sailor in a navy or a scientist) who works with nuclear weapons or nuclear power.
- (by extension) Something that destroys or negates, especially on a catastrophic scale.
- Alternative spelling of nuc (“nucleus colony of bees”).
- (warez) A cautionary flag placed on a release to label it as "bad" for some reason or another (e.g., being a dupe of a previous release or containing malware).
- the warhead of a missile designed to deliver an atom bomb
verb
- (transitive, US, nautical, colloquial) To overanalyze or despair unduly over something.
- (transitive, Internet slang) To maliciously destroy an online community or chat server (especially on Discord) by mass-deleting channels, roles, and messages, or by mass-banning members, often using an automated script or bot.
- (transitive, chiefly Canada, US, colloquial) To use a nuclear weapon on (a target).
- (transitive, chiefly Canada, US, colloquial, figuratively) To destroy or erase completely.
- (transitive, chiefly Canada, US, colloquial) To expose to some form of radiation.
- (transitive, chiefly Canada, US, colloquial) To cook in a microwave oven.
- (transitive, Internet slang, by extension) To carry out a denial-of-service attack against (an IRC user).
- strike at with firepower or bombs
- cook or heat in a microwave oven
- bomb with atomic weapons
adj
- Of or relating to the ocean.
- Resembling an ocean in vastness or extent.
- Having a climate that has a relatively small difference in temperature between the warmest and coldest times of the year, and relatively high rainfall
- Living in, produced by, or frequenting the ocean.
- resembling the ocean in apparent limitlessness in extent or degree
- relating to or occurring or living in or frequenting the open ocean
- constituting or living in the open sea
verb
- (transitive, nautical) To raise an anchor free of the seabed.
- (intransitive) To be considered as important; to have weight in the intellectual balance.
- (intransitive) To have weight; to be heavy; to press down.
- (transitive) To determine the weight of an object.
- (intransitive, copulative, stative) To have a certain weight.
- (transitive, figuratively) To determine the intrinsic value or merit of an object, to evaluate.
- To bear up; to raise; to lift into the air; to swing up.
- (intransitive, nautical) To weigh anchor.
- (transitive) To consider a subject.
- (transitive) Often with "out", to measure a certain amount of something by its weight, e.g. for sale.
- determine the weight of
- to be oppressive or burdensome
- have weight; have import, carry weight
- have a certain weight
- show consideration for; take into account
noun
noun
- (military, nautical) Initialism of replenishment at sea.
- (law enforcement) Initialism of reasonable articulable suspicion.
- (computing) Initialism of remote access service.
- (firearms) Abbreviation of rail accessory system.
- Initialism of retinoic acid syndrome
- (linguistics) Initialism of redundant acronym syndrome.
- (neurology) Initialism of reticular activating system.
- (medicine) Initialism of renin-angiotensin system.
- the network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function
noun
noun
- (nautical) the act of changing tack
- a short nail with a sharp point and a large head
- gear for a horse
- sailing a zigzag course
- (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind
- the heading or position of a vessel relative to the trim of its sails
- (nautical) The lower corner on the leading edge of a sail relative to the direction of the wind.
- A thumbtack.
- (nautical) A rope used to hold in place the foremost lower corners of the courses when the vessel is close-hauled; also, a rope employed to pull the lower corner of a studding sail to the boom.
- (law, Scotland and Northern England) A contract by which the use of a thing is set, or let, for hire; a lease.
- (nautical) The maneuver by which a sailing vessel turns its bow through the wind so that the wind changes from one side to the other.
- (nautical) A course or heading that enables a sailing vessel to head upwind.
- That which is attached; a supplement; an appendix.
- (figurative) A direction or course of action, especially a new one; a method or approach to solving a problem.
- A small nail with a flat head.
- A stain; a tache.
- (sewing) A loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth.
- Food generally; fare, especially of the hard bread or breadlike kind.
- (manufacturing, construction, chemistry) The stickiness of a compound, related to its cohesive and adhesive properties.
- (nautical) The distance a sailing vessel runs between these maneuvers when working to windward; a board.
- Any of the various equipment and accessories worn by horses in the course of their use as domesticated animals.
- (colloquial) That which is tacky; something cheap and gaudy.
verb
- sew together loosely, with large stitches
- fasten with tacks
- turn into the wind
- create by putting components or members together
- fix to; attach
- reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
- (intransitive, nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
- (nautical) To maneuver a sailing vessel so that its bow turns through the wind, i.e. the wind changes from one side of the vessel to the other.
- To sew/stitch with a tack (loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth).
- (transitive) To nail (something) with a tack (small nail with a flat head).
- To add something as an extra item.
- To weld with initial small welds to temporarily fasten in preparation for full welding.
- Synonym of tack up (“to prepare a horse for riding by equipping it with a tack”).
noun
- (nautical) the act of changing tack
- a loose temporary sewing stitch to hold layers of fabric together
- (sewing) Loose temporary stitches in dressmaking etc.
- (law) A union of securities given at different times, all of which must be redeemed before an intermediate purchaser can interpose a claim.
- (law) The joining together of consecutive periods of possession of property, especially between squatters in cases of adverse possession.
- (nautical) The act of changing tack.
verb
noun
- (nautical) A vessel such as a ship or submarine running on nuclear power.
- A nuclear weapon.
- (rare) A microwave oven.
- A nuclear power station.
- A person (such as a sailor in a navy or a scientist) who works with nuclear weapons or nuclear power.
- (by extension) Something that destroys or negates, especially on a catastrophic scale.
- Alternative spelling of nuc (“nucleus colony of bees”).
- (warez) A cautionary flag placed on a release to label it as "bad" for some reason or another (e.g., being a dupe of a previous release or containing malware).
- the warhead of a missile designed to deliver an atom bomb
verb
- (transitive, US, nautical, colloquial) To overanalyze or despair unduly over something.
- (transitive, Internet slang) To maliciously destroy an online community or chat server (especially on Discord) by mass-deleting channels, roles, and messages, or by mass-banning members, often using an automated script or bot.
- (transitive, chiefly Canada, US, colloquial) To use a nuclear weapon on (a target).
- (transitive, chiefly Canada, US, colloquial, figuratively) To destroy or erase completely.
- (transitive, chiefly Canada, US, colloquial) To expose to some form of radiation.
- (transitive, chiefly Canada, US, colloquial) To cook in a microwave oven.
- (transitive, Internet slang, by extension) To carry out a denial-of-service attack against (an IRC user).
- strike at with firepower or bombs
- cook or heat in a microwave oven
- bomb with atomic weapons
verb
- (transitive) To transport to shore by waves.
- (ambitransitive) To clean by sweeping.
- (transitive, usually passive) to overwhelm, to cause to become overly involved in.
- take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
- force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
verb
- (transitive, nautical) To raise an anchor free of the seabed.
- (intransitive) To be considered as important; to have weight in the intellectual balance.
- (intransitive) To have weight; to be heavy; to press down.
- (transitive) To determine the weight of an object.
- (intransitive, copulative, stative) To have a certain weight.
- (transitive, figuratively) To determine the intrinsic value or merit of an object, to evaluate.
- To bear up; to raise; to lift into the air; to swing up.
- (intransitive, nautical) To weigh anchor.
- (transitive) To consider a subject.
- (transitive) Often with "out", to measure a certain amount of something by its weight, e.g. for sale.
- determine the weight of
- to be oppressive or burdensome
- have weight; have import, carry weight
- have a certain weight
- show consideration for; take into account
noun
adj
- of or relating to the sea
- Used or adapted for use at sea.
- native to or inhabiting the sea
- relating to or characteristic of or occurring on or in the sea
- of or relating to military personnel who serve both on land and at sea (specifically the U.S. Marine Corps)
- relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen
- Relating to or connected with the sea (in operation, scope, etc.), especially as pertains to shipping, a navy, or naval forces.
- Belonging to or characteristic of the sea; existing or found in the sea; formed or produced by the sea.
- (zoology) Inhabiting the high seas; oceanic; pelagic. (distinguished from maritime or littoral)
noun
verb
adj
- Of or relating to the ocean.
- Resembling an ocean in vastness or extent.
- Having a climate that has a relatively small difference in temperature between the warmest and coldest times of the year, and relatively high rainfall
- Living in, produced by, or frequenting the ocean.
- resembling the ocean in apparent limitlessness in extent or degree
- relating to or occurring or living in or frequenting the open ocean
- constituting or living in the open sea