English words for 'Alternative form of tip baiting.'
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verb
- (transitive) To catch by fishing with a concave spoon bait.
- (intransitive) To fish with a concave spoon bait.
- Alternative form of spoom.
- (tennis, golf, croquet) To hit (the ball) weakly, pushing it with a lifting motion, instead of striking with an audible knock.
- To serve using a spoon; to transfer (something) with a spoon.
- (transitive or intransitive, informal, of persons) To lie nestled front-to-back, following the contours of the bodies, in a manner reminiscent of stacked spoons.
- scoop up or take up with a spoon
- snuggle and lie in a position where one person faces the back of the others
noun
- (slang) An oar.
- (dentistry, informal) A spoon excavator.
- (fishing) A type of metal lure resembling the concave head of a tablespoon.
- An implement for eating or serving; a scooped utensil whose long handle is straight, in contrast to a ladle.
- A measure that will fit into a spoon; a spoonful.
- (US, military) A safety handle on a hand grenade, a trigger.
- (slang) A metaphoric unit of finite physical and mental energy available for daily activities, especially in the context of living with chronic illness or disability.
- An implement for stirring food while being prepared; a wooden spoon.
- A South African shrub of the genus Spatalla.
- as much as a spoon will hold
- formerly a golfing wood with an elevated face
- a piece of cutlery with a shallow bowl-shaped container and a handle; used to stir or serve or take up food
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verb
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verb
- (transitive) To affix bait to a trap or a fishing hook or fishing line.
- lure, entice, or entrap with bait
- (transitive) To target a pest species by laying baits.
- (transitive) To set dogs on (an animal etc.) to bite or worry; to attack with dogs, especially for sport.
- (intransitive) Of a horse or other animal: to take food, especially during a journey.
- (transitive) To intentionally annoy, torment, or threaten by constant rebukes or threats; to harass.
- (transitive) To lay baits in an environment to control pest species.
- (transitive) To attract with bait; to entice.
- (intransitive) (of a person) To stop to take a portion of food and drink for refreshment during a journey.
- attack with dogs or set dogs upon
- harass with persistent criticism or carping
adj
noun
- Food containing poison or a harmful additive to kill animals that are pests.
- A light or hasty luncheon.
- (as the head of a compound) Something that lures or entices a specified group.
- Anything which allures; something or someone used to lure or entice someone or something into doing something.
- Any substance, especially food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, trap, or net.
- A portion of food or drink, as a refreshment taken on a journey; also, a stop for rest and refreshment.
- (Internet slang) A post intended to elicit a, usually strong or negative, reaction from others.
- (Geordie, Durham) A packed lunch - the bite to eat a worker took with them to eat.
- (vulgar, sexuality) Someone that attracts or entices a specified sex act being done to them.
- (East Anglia) A small meal taken mid-morning while farming.
- (Northern England) A miner's packed meal.
- anything that serves as an enticement
- something used to lure fish or other animals into danger so they can be trapped or killed
noun
- A fishing line, bait, or lure used to fish in these ways.
- a fisherman's lure that is used in trolling
- (originally Scandinavian mythology, now also European folklore and fantasy) a giant supernatural being, especially a grotesque humanoid creature living in caves or hills or under bridges.
- (figurative, originally Internet slang) An inflammatory or insincere statement posted in an attempt to lure others into combative argument (a flame war), originally a way for regulars (long-time users) to poke light-hearted fun at new posters (especially in Usenet newsgroups) and promote in-group cohesion ("trolling for newbies").
- (informal, Michigan) A Michigander who lives on the mainland, i.e. not a resident of the Upper Peninsula, so named due to living south of the Mackinaw Bridge.
- (by extension, originally Internet slang) A person who makes or posts inflammatory or insincere statements in an attempt to lure others into combative argument for purposes of personal entertainment or to manipulate their perception, especially in an online community or discussion.
- (derogatory, slang) An ugly or unpleasant person.
- (music) A song the parts of which are sung in succession; a catch, a round.
- An act of fishing by using a running fishing line, or by trailing a line with bait or lures behind a boat.
- (astronomy, meteorology) An optical ejection from the top of the electrically active core region of a thunderstorm that is red in colour and seems to occur after tendrils of vigorous sprites extend downward towards cloudtops.
- (by extension, derogatory, informal) A company, person, etc., that owns and legally enforces copyrights, patents, trademarks, or other intellectual property rights in an aggressive and opportunistic manner, often with no intention of commercially exploiting the subjects of the rights.
- An act of moving round; a repetition, a routine.
- (by extension, politics) A person who sows discord, or spreads misinformation or propaganda, in order to promote an agenda as part of an organized political campaign.
- a partsong in which voices follow each other; one voice starts and others join in one after another until all are singing different parts of the song at the same time
- angling by drawing a baited line through the water
- (Scandinavian folklore) a supernatural creature (either a dwarf or a giant) that is supposed to live in caves or in the mountains
verb
- To move (something, especially a round object) by, or as if by, rolling; to bowl, to roll, to trundle.
- To say (something) lightly and quickly, or in a deep, resounding voice.
- (fishing) To fish using a running fishing line.
- To speak lightly and quickly, or in a deep, resounding voice.
- (fishing) To fish in (a place) using a running fishing line (that is, a line with a hook on the end which is drawn along the water surface, possibly a line which would originally have been spooled on to a troll (etymology 2, noun etymology 2 sense 8.1)).
- (by extension, colloquial) To prank, tease, or mess with someone in a lighthearted way.
- (figurative, originally Internet slang) To post irrelevant or inflammatory statements in an online discussion in an attempt to start a heated argument or to derail a conversation, either for one's personal entertainment or as part of an organized political campaign.
- (figurative) To attract or draw out (someone or something); to allure, to elicit, to entice, to lure.
- (by extension) To persistently harass someone over the Internet.
- To roll; also, to turn round and round; to rotate, to spin, to whirl.
- To move or walk at a leisurely pace; to ramble, to saunter, to stroll.
- (specifically, slang) Chiefly of a man: synonym of cruise (“to stroll about to find a (male) sexual partner”).
- (fishing, Scotland, US) To fish using a line and bait or lures trailed behind a boat similarly to trawling.
- sing loudly and without inhibition
- sing the parts of (a round) in succession
- praise or celebrate in song
- speak or recite rapidly or in a rolling voice
- circulate, move around
- cause to move round and round
- angle with a hook and line drawn through the water
verb
noun
noun
- (fishing) A lure used in addition to a bucktail used for fluke fishing.
- (television, video) A brief portion of a television episode or video that is shown at the beginning, often before the main title sequence, meant to introduce the story and entice viewers to watch the rest of the episode.
- The stoker of a glassworks furnace.
- (fishing) A lure, especially one without a hook, used to attract fish to another lure or lures.
- (textiles) A person or thing that teases.
- (electricity) A shunt winding on field magnets for maintaining their magnetism when the main circuit is open.
- (marketing) A preview or part of a product released in preparation of its main advertising, typically a short film, song, or quote.
- (UK) An assistant who accompanies the 'Obby 'Oss in the May Day festivities of Padstow, Cornwall.
- One who excites a person or an animal (see gomer) sexually without fulfilment.
- (theater) A short horizontal curtain used to mask the flies and frame the top of the inner stage opening, adjustable to the desired height.
- (UK, dialect) A kind of gull, the jaeger
- One who teases or pokes fun.
- an advertisement that offers something free in order to arouse customers' interest
- a flat at each side of the stage to prevent the audience from seeing into the wings
- someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity)
- an attention-getting opening presented at the start of a television show
- a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution
- a device for teasing wool
- a worker who teases wool
verb
noun
verb
noun
- (accounting) A collection of accounting entries consisting of credits and debits.
- A book for keeping notes; a record book, a register.
- A large, flat stone, especially one laid over a tomb.
- (fishing) Ellipsis of ledger bait (“fishing bait attached to a floating line fastened to the bank of a pond, stream, etc.”) or ledger line (“fishing line used with ledger bait for bottom fishing; ligger”).
- (construction) A board attached to a wall to provide support for attaching other structural elements (such as deck joists or roof rafters) to a building.
- A book or other scheme for keeping accounting records.
- (cryptocurrencies) A distributed ledger, a public financial transaction database, typically using a blockchain.
- an accounting journal as a physical object
- a record in which commercial accounts are recorded
noun
- (fishing) An artificial bait in the form of a small fish.
- (figuratively) A person or thing of relatively little consequence, importance, or value.
- (sports, especially soccer, cricket) a team that is considered less skilled and not expected to win many, if any, of its matches.
- Any small fish.
- (British, regional) Synonym of stickleback (family Gasterosteidae).
- Chiefly with a qualifying word: any of a number of other (small) fish from the family Cyprinidae; also (chiefly US), other small (usually freshwater) fish from other families.
- The common minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus), a small freshwater fish of the carp family Cyprinidae which has a green back with black elongated blotches, commonly swimming in large shoals.
- (Australia, New Zealand) Synonym of galaxiid (“any member of the family Galaxiidae of mostly small freshwater fish of the Southern Hemisphere”); specifically, the common galaxias, inanga, or jollytail (Galaxias maculatus).
- very small European freshwater fish common in gravelly streams
adj
verb
verb
noun
noun
- (fishing) A type of lure consisting of wire, a rotating blade, a weighted body, and one or more hooks.
- (Australia, prison, slang) A mentally disturbed or eccentric person; weirdo.
- Agent noun of spin; someone or something who spins.
- (often vulgar, slang, film) Primarily in the adult film industry, an woman with a tiny frame, usually very thin and small-breasted.
- An ornamental hubcap that spins independently of the wheel
- (slang) A record turntable or CD player.
- (Australia, New Zealand) The coin thrower in a game of two-up.
- A device that is spun in games to choose a number or symbol.
- (pinball) A flat target mounted on an axis so that a ball passing through can make it spin around, usually awarding a certain number of points for every revolution it completes.
- (politics, slang) A spin doctor.
- (slang) A disc jockey.
- (cricket) A spin bowler.
- (Jamaica) A kind of dumpling, shaped by "spinning" it in the hands.
- Ellipsis of fidget spinner.
- (surfing) A manoeuvre in which the surfer makes a complete 360° turn while riding a surfboard.
- A dolphin (Stenella longirostris).
- (computing, graphical user interface) An input control for entering a number, with accompanying arrowed buttons that increase or decrease the value.
- A conical fairing near the hub of some aircraft propellers or turbofan fans.
- A spinneret.
- A Eurasian nightjar (Caprimulgus europaeus).
- fisherman's lure; revolves when drawn through the water
- board game equipment that consists of a dial and an arrow that is spun to determine the next move in the game
- someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads)
noun
- (fishing) An artificial bait attached to a fishing line to attract fish.
- A velvet smoothing brush.
- (music) Alternative form of lur.
- (also figurative) Something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure.
- (falconry) A bunch of feathers attached to a line, used in falconry to recall the hawk.
- qualities that attract by seeming to promise some kind of reward
- anything that serves as an enticement
- something used to lure fish or other animals into danger so they can be trapped or killed
verb
noun
- (fishing) Any bait or lure designed to resemble a midge.
- Any of various small two-winged flies, for example, from the family Chironomidae or non-biting midges, the family Chaoboridae or phantom midges, and the family Ceratopogonidae or biting midges, all belonging to the order Diptera.
- (Scotland, Northern England, now chiefly school slang) A small, short or insignificant person.
- minute two-winged mosquito-like fly lacking biting mouthparts; appear in dancing swarms especially near water
noun
- (fishing) A small device resembling a safety pin, used to attach the bait or lure to the line.
- (colloquial) Clipping of Snapchat (“user account on Snapchat”).
- A visual message sent through the Snapchat application.
- A quick offhand shot with a firearm; a snap shot.
- (colloquial) Something of no value.
- (uncountable) A subgenre of hip-hop music derived from crunk.
- A sudden break.
- A snap bean such as Phaseolus vulgaris.
- (colloquial) A rivet: a scrapbooking embellishment.
- A fastening device that makes a snapping sound when used.
- A quick breaking or cracking sound or the action of producing such a sound.
- (physics, humorous) jounce (the fourth derivative of the position vector with respect to time), followed by crackle and pop
- (uncountable) A crisp or pithy quality; epigrammatic point or force.
- (American football) A backward pass or handoff of a football from its position on the ground that puts the ball in play; a hike.
- That which is, or may be, snapped up; something bitten off, seized, or obtained by a single quick movement; hence, a bite, morsel, or fragment; a scrap.
- (uncountable) A card game, primarily for children, in which players cry "snap" to claim pairs of matching cards as they are turned up.
- A tool used by riveters.
- The act of snapping the fingers; making a sound by pressing a finger against the thumb and suddenly releasing to strike the hand.
- A brief, sudden period of a certain weather; used primarily in the phrase cold snap.
- An attempt to seize, bite, attack, or grab.
- (informal) A photograph; a snapshot.
- (Linux) A package provided for the application sandboxing system snapd developed by Canonical.
- A very short period of time (figuratively, the time taken to snap one's fingers), or a task that can be accomplished in such a period.
- A thin circular cookie or similar baked good.
- A tool used by glass-moulders.
- A newsflash.
- Briskness; vigour; energy; decision.
- (slang) An insult of the kind used in the African-American verbal game of the dozens.
- The sudden release of something held under pressure or tension.
- (UK, regional) A small meal, a snack; lunch.
- (slang) Something that is easy or effortless.
- A snapper, or snap beetle.
- any undertaking that is easy to do
- tender green beans without strings that easily snap into sections
- a sudden breaking
- the tendency of a body to return to its original shape after it has been stretched or compressed
- the noise produced by the rapid movement of a finger from the tip to the base of the thumb on the same hand
- (American football) putting the ball in play by passing it (between the legs) to a back
- a crisp round cookie flavored with ginger
- a fastener used on clothing; fastens with a snapping sound
- an informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera
- a spell of cold weather
- a sudden sharp noise
- the act of snapping the fingers; movement of a finger from the tip to the base of the thumb on the same hand
- the act of catching an object with the hands
adj
intj
- (Canada, US) Used in place of an expletive to express surprise, usually in response to a negative statement or news; often used facetiously.
- The cry used in a game of snap when winning a hand.
- (British, by extension) Used to express agreement.
- (British, Australia, by extension) "I've got one the same!", "Me too!"
- (British, Australia, New Zealand) Used after something is said by two people at exactly the same time.
verb
- (transitive) To cause to move suddenly and smartly.
- (intransitive, transitive) To fracture or break apart suddenly.
- (transitive) To cause something to emit a snapping sound, especially by closing it rapidly.
- (intransitive) To fit or fasten together with a snapping sound.
- (transitive) To pull apart with a snapping sound; to pop loose.
- (cricket, transitive) To catch out sharply (a batsman who has just snicked a bowled ball).
- (intransitive, computing, graphical user interface) To jump to a fixed position relative to another element.
- (intransitive) To flash or appear to flash as with light.
- (intransitive) To attempt to seize with eagerness.
- (intransitive) To give way abruptly and loudly.
- (transitive) To say abruptly or sharply.
- (intransitive) To misfire.
- (intransitive) To suffer a mental breakdown, usually while under tension.
- (social media, ditransitive) Alternative letter-case form of Snap (“to send a visual message through the Snapchat application”).
- (intransitive) To speak abruptly or sharply.
- (transitive, American football) To put (a football) in play by a backward pass or handoff from its position on the ground; to hike (a football).
- (transitive) To snap one's fingers: to make a snapping sound, often by pressing the thumb and an opposing finger of the same hand together and suddenly releasing the grip so that the finger hits against the palm; alternatively, by bringing the index finger quickly down onto the middle finger and thumb.
- (intransitive) To attempt to seize or bite with the teeth, beak, etc.
- (intransitive) To give forth or produce a sharp cracking noise; to crack.
- (transitive) To close something using a snap as a fastener.
- (transitive) To snatch with or as if with the teeth.
- (transitive) To take a photograph; to release a camera's shutter (which may make a snapping sound).
- (intransitive) To move or shift suddenly.
- cause to make a snapping sound
- record on photographic film
- bring the jaws together
- close with a snapping motion
- break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension
- make a sharp sound
- move with a snapping sound
- move or strike with a noise
- lose control of one's emotions
- separate or cause to separate abruptly
- to grasp hastily or eagerly
- utter in an angry, sharp, or abrupt tone
- put in play with a snap
verb
- (fishing, transitive) To use as bait when fishing.
- (nautical, transitive) To repair (a spar or mast) by fastening a beam or other long object (often called a fish) over the damaged part (see Noun above).
- (intransitive, cricket) Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
- (intransitive, transitive) To hunt fish or other aquatic animals in a body of water, or to collect coral or pearls from the bottom of the sea.
- (transitive) To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.
- (intransitive) To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
- (nautical, transitive) To hoist the flukes of.
- (transitive) To draw or guide (a wire or cable) by means of fish tape.
- (intransitive, followed by "for" or "around for") To talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something, or seek to obtain something by artifice.
- seek indirectly
- catch or try to catch fish or shellfish
noun
- A period of time spent fishing.
- (uncountable) A card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank.
- A cartilaginous fish (class Chondrichthyes).
- (uncountable, slang, sometimes derogatory, sometimes positive) A (feminine) woman. (See also fishy.)
- An instance of seeking something.
- (cartomancy) The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.
- (nautical) A purchase used to fish the anchor.
- (countable, poker slang) A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).
- (Newfoundland) Cod; codfish.
- A placoderm (paraphyletic class †Placodermi).
- A jawless fish (paraphyletic infraphylum Agnatha).
- (uncountable) The flesh of the fish used as food.
- (LGBTQ slang, sometimes problematic) A drag queen or transgender woman who looks like a cisgender woman.
- (countable, nautical, military, slang) A torpedo (self-propelled explosive device).
- (prison slang) A new (usually vulnerable) prisoner.
- A bony fish (clade Osteichthyes), including tetrapods.
- (Roman Catholicism) An aquatic or semiaquatic animal suitable for consumption during fasting on Fridays during Lent.
- (Jamaica, offensive, derogatory) A male homosexual; a gay man.
- (countable, slang) An easy victim for swindling.
- (cellular automata, rare) A spaceship.
- (countable) A typically cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
- A spiny shark (paraphyletic class †Acanthodii)
- (countable, nautical) A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
- any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills
- the flesh of fish used as food
noun
- (fishing) A fish that tends to take bait.
- (curling) A stone that barely touches the outside of the house.
- (slang) One who copies someone else's work, style or techniques, especially in hip-hop.
- Agent noun of bite; someone or something who bites or tends to bite.
- (in combination, computing) Something (a data unit, machine etc.) with a width of a specified amount of bits.
- (fiction) A zombie.
- someone who bites
verb
- (transitive) To lure with bait; tole (especially, fish and animals).
- (transitive) To tear in pieces.
- (law) To suspend.
- (transitive) To summon by ringing a bell.
- (transitive) To draw; entice; invite; allure.
- (ambitransitive) To levy a toll on (someone or something).
- (transitive) To impose a fee for the use of.
- (transitive) To take as a toll.
- (ergative) To ring (a bell) slowly and repeatedly.
- (figuratively) To make a sound as if made by a bell.
- (African-American Vernacular) simple past and past participle of tell
- To pay a toll or tallage.
- (transitive) To announce by ringing a bell.
- ring slowly
- charge a fee for using
noun
- (business, by extension) A fee for using any kind of material processing service.
- The act or sound of ringing a bell, especially slowly, as with a church or cemetery bell.
- A fee paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending goods in a fair, market, etc.
- (US) A tollbooth.
- Loss or damage incurred through a disaster.
- A fee paid by the owner of materials or other goods for processing such goods, as under a tolling agreement.
- value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something
- a fee levied for the use of roads or bridges
- the sound of a bell being struck
noun
- A fishhook; tackle for catching fish, consisting of a line, hook, and bait, with or without a rod.
- A change in direction.
- Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
- A corner where two walls intersect.
- (slang, professional wrestling) A storyline between two wrestlers, providing the background for and approach to a feud.
- (geometry) A figure formed by two rays which start from a common point (a plane angle) or by three planes that intersect (a solid angle).
- (geometry) The measure of such a figure. In the case of a plane angle, this is the ratio (or proportional to the ratio) of the arc length to the radius of a section of a circle cut by the two rays, centered at their common point. In the case of a solid angle, this is the ratio of the surface area to the square of the radius of the section of a sphere.
- (astrology) Any of the four cardinal points of an astrological chart: the Ascendant, the Midheaven, the Descendant and the Imum Coeli.
- (slang) An ulterior motive; a scheme or means of benefiting from a situation, usually hidden, often immoral.
- (media) The focus of a news story.
- A viewpoint; a way of looking at something.
- A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment.
- a biased way of looking at or presenting something
- the space between two lines or planes that intersect; the inclination of one line to another; measured in degrees or radians
verb
- (transitive, billiards) To hamper (oneself or one's opponent) by leaving the cue ball in the jaws of a pocket such that the surround of the pocket (the "angle") blocks the path from cue ball to object ball.
- (intransitive, informal) To change direction rapidly.
- (intransitive) To try to catch fish with a hook and line.
- (transitive, often in the passive) To place (something) at an angle.
- (figurative, informal, with for) To attempt to subtly persuade someone to offer a desired thing.
- (transitive, informal) To present or argue something in a particular way or from a particular viewpoint.
- move or proceed at an angle
- seek indirectly
- present with a bias
- fish with a hook
- to incline or bend from a vertical position
noun
- an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish
- tender that is a light ship's boat; often for personal use of captain
- a booking for musicians
- small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and no hood
- a cluster of hooks (without barbs) that is drawn through a school of fish to hook their bodies; used when fish are not biting
- long and light rowing boat; especially for racing
- Originally (music), a performing engagement by a musician or musical group; (by extension, film, television, theater) a job or role for a performer.
- A small, narrow, open boat carried in a larger ship, and used for transportation between the ship and the shore, another vessel, etc.
- (fishing) Synonym of fishgig or fizgig (“a spear with a barb on the end of it, used for catching fish, frogs, or other small animals”).
- (slang, chiefly sciences) Any unit of measurement having the SI prefix giga-.
- (Southern England, by extension) A similar rowing boat or sailboat, especially one used for racing; specifically, a six-oared sea rowing boat commonly found in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
- (informal, computing) Clipping of gigabyte (“one billion (1,000,000,000) bytes”).
- (road transport, historical) A two-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse.
- (US, military) A demerit received for some infraction of a military deportment or dress code.
- (by extension) Any job, especially one that is freelance or temporary, or done on an on-demand basis.
verb
- (music) To play (a musical instrument) at a gig.
- (transitive) To make a joke, often condescendingly, at the expense of (someone); to make fun of.
- (intransitive) Sometimes followed by it: to ride in a gig (“a two-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse”).
- (by extension) To work at any job, especially one that is freelance or temporary, or done on an on-demand basis.
- (US, military) To impose a demerit (on someone) for an infraction of a military deportment or dress code.
- (intransitive) To catch or fish with a gig or fizgig.
- (transitive) To spear (fish, etc.) with a gig or fizgig.
- (film, music, television, theater) To engage in a musical performance, act in a theatre production, etc.
noun
- an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish
- a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon
- a surgical knife with a pointed double-edged blade; used for punctures and small incisions
- A wooden spear, sometimes hollow, used in jousting or tilting, designed to shatter on impact with the opposing knight’s armour.
- (metallurgy) A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell.
- (military) A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.
- (fishing) A spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen.
- (pyrotechnics) One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure.
- A piece in the game of shogi that can move directly forward any number of squares.
- A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen.
- (medicine) A lancet.
- (military) An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home.
verb
- move quickly, as if by cutting one's way
- open by piercing with a lancet
- pierce with a lance, as in a knights' fight
- Pierce with or as if with a lance.
- To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon.
- (informal) to steal or swipe
- Move suddenly and quickly
- To open with a lancet; to pierce.
- (medicine) Prick or cut open with a sharp instrument.
- To throw in the manner of a lance; to lanch.
noun
- an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish
- a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon
- A lance with barbed prongs, used by fishermen to retrieve fish.
- A long, thin strip from a vegetable.
- A long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon for throwing or thrusting, or anything used to make a thrusting motion.
- A shoot, as of grass; a spire.
- (now chiefly historical) A soldier armed with such a weapon; a spearman.
- (ice hockey) An illegal maneuver using the end of a hockey stick to strike into another hockey player.
- (wrestling) In professional wrestling, a running tackle in which the wrestler's shoulder is driven into the opponent's midsection.
- The feather of a horse.
- (botany) The sprout of a plant, stalk
- The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod.
verb
- thrust up like a spear
- pierce with a spear
- (transitive) To pierce with a spear.
- (gridiron football) To tackle an opponent by ramming into them with one's helmet.
- (transitive, by extension) To penetrate or strike with, or as if with, any long narrow object; to make a thrusting motion that catches an object on the tip of a long device.
- (intransitive) To shoot into a long stem, as some plants do.
adj
verb
- To catch (a fish, eel, etc) via a pot.
- (electronics) To package a circuit by encasing it in resin.
- To put (something) into a pot.
- (transitive, British) To seat a person, usually a young child, on a potty or toilet, typically during toilet teaching.
- (transitive) To drain (e.g. sugar of the molasses) in a perforated cask.
- (snooker, pool, billiards, transitive) To cause a ball to fall into a pocket.
- (chiefly East Midlands) To apply a plaster cast to a broken limb.
- (rugby, transitive) To score (a drop goal).
- (transitive) To shoot with a firearm.
- To preserve by bottling or canning.
- (transitive, colloquial) To secure; gain; win; bag.
- (British) To send someone to jail, expeditiously.
- (snooker, pool, billiards, intransitive) To be capable of being potted.
- (slang, broadcasting) To fade volume in or out by means of a potentiometer.
- plant in a pot
noun
- (UK, horse-racing, slang) A favorite: a heavily-backed horse.
- (historical) Any of various traditional units of volume notionally based on the capacity of a pot.
- (slang, uncountable) Ruin or deterioration.
- A vessel used for brewing or serving drinks: a coffeepot or teapot.
- A crucible: a melting pot.
- A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food, possibly excluding saucepans (see usage notes).
- (slang, electronics) A simple electromechanical device used to control resistance or voltage (often to adjust sound volume) in an electronic device by rotating or sliding when manipulated by a human thumb, screwdriver, etc.
- (slang, uncountable) Marijuana.
- (chiefly East Midlands, Yorkshire) A plaster cast.
- (rail transport) A pot-shaped non-conducting (usually ceramic) stand that supports an electrified rail while insulating it from the ground.
- (roleplaying games, video games) Clipping of potion.
- (slang) Clipping of potbelly (“a pot-shaped belly, a paunch”).
- A perforated cask for draining sugar.
- A vessel (usually earthenware) used with a seal for storing food, such as a honeypot.
- (Maine) A pot-shaped trap used for catching lobsters or other seafood: a lobster pot.
- (archaic except in place names) Pothole, sinkhole, vertical cave.
- An allocation of money for a particular purpose.
- (historical) Alternative form of pott: a former size of paper, 12.5 × 15 inches.
- A shallow hole used in certain games played with marbles. The marbles placed in it are called potsies.
- (Australia, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania) A glass of beer in Australia whose size varies regionally but is typically around 10 fl oz (285 mL).
- (historical) An iron hat with a broad brim worn as a helmet.
- A pot-shaped metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney: a chimney pot.
- (gambling, poker) The money available to be won in a hand of poker or a round of other games of chance; (figuratively) any sum of money being used as an enticement.
- (slang) Clipping of potshot (“a haphazard shot; an easy or cheap shot”).
- A vessel used to hold soil for growing plants, particularly flowers: a flowerpot.
- the quantity contained in a pot
- the cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker)
- a container in which plants are cultivated
- street names for marijuana
- slang for a paunch
- metal or earthenware cooking vessel that is usually round and deep; often has a handle and lid
- a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
- a resistor with three terminals, the third being an adjustable center terminal; used to adjust voltages in radios and TV sets
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
noun
- (fishing) A baited fishing line attached to a float, for night fishing, etc.
- A coverlet for a bed.
- A kelt (“thin, recently spawned salmon”).
- (slang) A freeloader or hanger-on, especially in the music or entertainment industry.
- A nether millstone.
- The horizontal timber of a scaffolding; a ledger.
- (dialectal) One who lies in bed.
- A simply supported plank over a stream used as a footbridge.
- (dialectal) A layer.
noun
- (fishing) A container used to distribute a large amount of bait in a single cast.
- (colloquial) One who wastes time on nonproductive activities online.
- (colloquial) One who studies excessively and is disliked by fellow students because of it; a swot.
- (Internet) One who uses talkers, an early form of chat room.
- (colloquial) A person of clumsy or awkward appearance.
verb
noun
- A barbed metal hook used for fishing; a fishhook.
- (music) A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
- (boxing) a type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly horizontally mesially along an arc
- (bowling) A ball that is rolled in a curved line.
- (programming) Part of a system's operation that can be intercepted to change or augment its behaviour.
- (typography) A diacritical mark shaped like the upper part of a question mark, as in ỏ.
- (Scrabble) An instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter to the start or the end of the word to form a new word.
- (nautical, chiefly historical) A knee-shaped wooden join connecting the keel to the stem (post forming the frontmost part of the bow) or the sternpost in cog-like vessels or similar vessels.
- The amount of spin placed on a bowling ball.
- (geography) A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook in New Jersey.
- (authorship) A brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make them want to continue to listen to a speech, read a book, or watch a play.
- (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. (See draw, slice, fade.)
- (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the air to the leg side, often played to balls which bounce around head height.
- A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.
- (slang) A prostitute.
- The part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
- (agriculture) A field sown two years in succession.
- The curved needle used in the art of crochet.
- Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.
- (informal) A grasp (of), an attachment (to).
- A snare; a trap.
- (informal) Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
- A sharp bend or angle in the course or length of an object (e.g. a bend in a river, etc.).
- (narratology) A gimmick or element of a creative work intended to be attention-grabbing for the audience; a compelling idea for a story that will be sure to attract people's attention.
- (baseball) A curveball.
- (basketball) a basketball shot in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket, gently throws the ball with a sweeping motion of his arm in an upward arc with a follow-through which ends over his head. Also called hook shot.
- (bridge, slang) A finesse.
- A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
- (card games, slang) A jack (the playing card).
- (typography, rare) A háček.
- An advantageous hold.
- A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, for example, g and j.
- (surfing) Synonym of shoulder (“the part of a wave that has not yet broken”).
- (Canada, Australia, military) Any of the chevrons denoting rank.
- (in the plural) The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
- (nautical, informal) A ship's anchor.
- a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer
- a short swinging punch delivered from the side with the elbow bent
- a catch for locking a door
- anything that serves as an enticement
- a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook
- a basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket
- a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something
- a curved or bent implement for suspending or pulling something
verb
- (usually passive voice) To make addicted; to captivate.
- (transitive) To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
- (soccer, bowling) To swerve a ball; kick or throw a ball so it swerves or bends.
- (intransitive) To become attached, as by a hook.
- (field hockey, ice hockey) To use the hockey stick to trip or block another player
- To acquire as a spouse.
- (transitive) To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
- (cricket, golf, basketball) To play a hook shot.
- (transitive) To connect (hook into, hook together).
- (intransitive) To move or go with a sudden turn.
- (transitive) To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
- (transitive) To ensnare or obligate someone, as if with a hook.
- (Scrabble) To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
- (transitive) To attach a hook to.
- (bridge, slang) To finesse.
- (transitive) To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
- (intransitive) To bend; to be curved.
- (rugby) To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated hooker).
- (intransitive, slang) To engage in prostitution.
- hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left
- make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle
- catch with a hook
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug)
- secure with the foot
- take by theft
- hit with a hook
- entice and trap
- approach with an offer of sexual favors
- fasten with a hook
- make off with belongings of others
noun
noun
- A fishing line, bait, or lure used to fish in these ways.
- a fisherman's lure that is used in trolling
- (originally Scandinavian mythology, now also European folklore and fantasy) a giant supernatural being, especially a grotesque humanoid creature living in caves or hills or under bridges.
- (figurative, originally Internet slang) An inflammatory or insincere statement posted in an attempt to lure others into combative argument (a flame war), originally a way for regulars (long-time users) to poke light-hearted fun at new posters (especially in Usenet newsgroups) and promote in-group cohesion ("trolling for newbies").
- (informal, Michigan) A Michigander who lives on the mainland, i.e. not a resident of the Upper Peninsula, so named due to living south of the Mackinaw Bridge.
- (by extension, originally Internet slang) A person who makes or posts inflammatory or insincere statements in an attempt to lure others into combative argument for purposes of personal entertainment or to manipulate their perception, especially in an online community or discussion.
- (derogatory, slang) An ugly or unpleasant person.
- (music) A song the parts of which are sung in succession; a catch, a round.
- An act of fishing by using a running fishing line, or by trailing a line with bait or lures behind a boat.
- (astronomy, meteorology) An optical ejection from the top of the electrically active core region of a thunderstorm that is red in colour and seems to occur after tendrils of vigorous sprites extend downward towards cloudtops.
- (by extension, derogatory, informal) A company, person, etc., that owns and legally enforces copyrights, patents, trademarks, or other intellectual property rights in an aggressive and opportunistic manner, often with no intention of commercially exploiting the subjects of the rights.
- An act of moving round; a repetition, a routine.
- (by extension, politics) A person who sows discord, or spreads misinformation or propaganda, in order to promote an agenda as part of an organized political campaign.
- a partsong in which voices follow each other; one voice starts and others join in one after another until all are singing different parts of the song at the same time
- angling by drawing a baited line through the water
- (Scandinavian folklore) a supernatural creature (either a dwarf or a giant) that is supposed to live in caves or in the mountains
verb
- To move (something, especially a round object) by, or as if by, rolling; to bowl, to roll, to trundle.
- To say (something) lightly and quickly, or in a deep, resounding voice.
- (fishing) To fish using a running fishing line.
- To speak lightly and quickly, or in a deep, resounding voice.
- (fishing) To fish in (a place) using a running fishing line (that is, a line with a hook on the end which is drawn along the water surface, possibly a line which would originally have been spooled on to a troll (etymology 2, noun etymology 2 sense 8.1)).
- (by extension, colloquial) To prank, tease, or mess with someone in a lighthearted way.
- (figurative, originally Internet slang) To post irrelevant or inflammatory statements in an online discussion in an attempt to start a heated argument or to derail a conversation, either for one's personal entertainment or as part of an organized political campaign.
- (figurative) To attract or draw out (someone or something); to allure, to elicit, to entice, to lure.
- (by extension) To persistently harass someone over the Internet.
- To roll; also, to turn round and round; to rotate, to spin, to whirl.
- To move or walk at a leisurely pace; to ramble, to saunter, to stroll.
- (specifically, slang) Chiefly of a man: synonym of cruise (“to stroll about to find a (male) sexual partner”).
- (fishing, Scotland, US) To fish using a line and bait or lures trailed behind a boat similarly to trawling.
- sing loudly and without inhibition
- sing the parts of (a round) in succession
- praise or celebrate in song
- speak or recite rapidly or in a rolling voice
- circulate, move around
- cause to move round and round
- angle with a hook and line drawn through the water
noun
- (fishing) A lure used in addition to a bucktail used for fluke fishing.
- (television, video) A brief portion of a television episode or video that is shown at the beginning, often before the main title sequence, meant to introduce the story and entice viewers to watch the rest of the episode.
- The stoker of a glassworks furnace.
- (fishing) A lure, especially one without a hook, used to attract fish to another lure or lures.
- (textiles) A person or thing that teases.
- (electricity) A shunt winding on field magnets for maintaining their magnetism when the main circuit is open.
- (marketing) A preview or part of a product released in preparation of its main advertising, typically a short film, song, or quote.
- (UK) An assistant who accompanies the 'Obby 'Oss in the May Day festivities of Padstow, Cornwall.
- One who excites a person or an animal (see gomer) sexually without fulfilment.
- (theater) A short horizontal curtain used to mask the flies and frame the top of the inner stage opening, adjustable to the desired height.
- (UK, dialect) A kind of gull, the jaeger
- One who teases or pokes fun.
- an advertisement that offers something free in order to arouse customers' interest
- a flat at each side of the stage to prevent the audience from seeing into the wings
- someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity)
- an attention-getting opening presented at the start of a television show
- a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution
- a device for teasing wool
- a worker who teases wool
noun
- (fishing) An artificial bait in the form of a small fish.
- (figuratively) A person or thing of relatively little consequence, importance, or value.
- (sports, especially soccer, cricket) a team that is considered less skilled and not expected to win many, if any, of its matches.
- Any small fish.
- (British, regional) Synonym of stickleback (family Gasterosteidae).
- Chiefly with a qualifying word: any of a number of other (small) fish from the family Cyprinidae; also (chiefly US), other small (usually freshwater) fish from other families.
- The common minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus), a small freshwater fish of the carp family Cyprinidae which has a green back with black elongated blotches, commonly swimming in large shoals.
- (Australia, New Zealand) Synonym of galaxiid (“any member of the family Galaxiidae of mostly small freshwater fish of the Southern Hemisphere”); specifically, the common galaxias, inanga, or jollytail (Galaxias maculatus).
- very small European freshwater fish common in gravelly streams
adj
verb
noun
- (fishing) A type of lure consisting of wire, a rotating blade, a weighted body, and one or more hooks.
- (Australia, prison, slang) A mentally disturbed or eccentric person; weirdo.
- Agent noun of spin; someone or something who spins.
- (often vulgar, slang, film) Primarily in the adult film industry, an woman with a tiny frame, usually very thin and small-breasted.
- An ornamental hubcap that spins independently of the wheel
- (slang) A record turntable or CD player.
- (Australia, New Zealand) The coin thrower in a game of two-up.
- A device that is spun in games to choose a number or symbol.
- (pinball) A flat target mounted on an axis so that a ball passing through can make it spin around, usually awarding a certain number of points for every revolution it completes.
- (politics, slang) A spin doctor.
- (slang) A disc jockey.
- (cricket) A spin bowler.
- (Jamaica) A kind of dumpling, shaped by "spinning" it in the hands.
- Ellipsis of fidget spinner.
- (surfing) A manoeuvre in which the surfer makes a complete 360° turn while riding a surfboard.
- A dolphin (Stenella longirostris).
- (computing, graphical user interface) An input control for entering a number, with accompanying arrowed buttons that increase or decrease the value.
- A conical fairing near the hub of some aircraft propellers or turbofan fans.
- A spinneret.
- A Eurasian nightjar (Caprimulgus europaeus).
- fisherman's lure; revolves when drawn through the water
- board game equipment that consists of a dial and an arrow that is spun to determine the next move in the game
- someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads)
noun
- (fishing) An artificial bait attached to a fishing line to attract fish.
- A velvet smoothing brush.
- (music) Alternative form of lur.
- (also figurative) Something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure.
- (falconry) A bunch of feathers attached to a line, used in falconry to recall the hawk.
- qualities that attract by seeming to promise some kind of reward
- anything that serves as an enticement
- something used to lure fish or other animals into danger so they can be trapped or killed
verb
noun
- (fishing) Any bait or lure designed to resemble a midge.
- Any of various small two-winged flies, for example, from the family Chironomidae or non-biting midges, the family Chaoboridae or phantom midges, and the family Ceratopogonidae or biting midges, all belonging to the order Diptera.
- (Scotland, Northern England, now chiefly school slang) A small, short or insignificant person.
- minute two-winged mosquito-like fly lacking biting mouthparts; appear in dancing swarms especially near water
noun
- (fishing) A small device resembling a safety pin, used to attach the bait or lure to the line.
- (colloquial) Clipping of Snapchat (“user account on Snapchat”).
- A visual message sent through the Snapchat application.
- A quick offhand shot with a firearm; a snap shot.
- (colloquial) Something of no value.
- (uncountable) A subgenre of hip-hop music derived from crunk.
- A sudden break.
- A snap bean such as Phaseolus vulgaris.
- (colloquial) A rivet: a scrapbooking embellishment.
- A fastening device that makes a snapping sound when used.
- A quick breaking or cracking sound or the action of producing such a sound.
- (physics, humorous) jounce (the fourth derivative of the position vector with respect to time), followed by crackle and pop
- (uncountable) A crisp or pithy quality; epigrammatic point or force.
- (American football) A backward pass or handoff of a football from its position on the ground that puts the ball in play; a hike.
- That which is, or may be, snapped up; something bitten off, seized, or obtained by a single quick movement; hence, a bite, morsel, or fragment; a scrap.
- (uncountable) A card game, primarily for children, in which players cry "snap" to claim pairs of matching cards as they are turned up.
- A tool used by riveters.
- The act of snapping the fingers; making a sound by pressing a finger against the thumb and suddenly releasing to strike the hand.
- A brief, sudden period of a certain weather; used primarily in the phrase cold snap.
- An attempt to seize, bite, attack, or grab.
- (informal) A photograph; a snapshot.
- (Linux) A package provided for the application sandboxing system snapd developed by Canonical.
- A very short period of time (figuratively, the time taken to snap one's fingers), or a task that can be accomplished in such a period.
- A thin circular cookie or similar baked good.
- A tool used by glass-moulders.
- A newsflash.
- Briskness; vigour; energy; decision.
- (slang) An insult of the kind used in the African-American verbal game of the dozens.
- The sudden release of something held under pressure or tension.
- (UK, regional) A small meal, a snack; lunch.
- (slang) Something that is easy or effortless.
- A snapper, or snap beetle.
- any undertaking that is easy to do
- tender green beans without strings that easily snap into sections
- a sudden breaking
- the tendency of a body to return to its original shape after it has been stretched or compressed
- the noise produced by the rapid movement of a finger from the tip to the base of the thumb on the same hand
- (American football) putting the ball in play by passing it (between the legs) to a back
- a crisp round cookie flavored with ginger
- a fastener used on clothing; fastens with a snapping sound
- an informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera
- a spell of cold weather
- a sudden sharp noise
- the act of snapping the fingers; movement of a finger from the tip to the base of the thumb on the same hand
- the act of catching an object with the hands
adj
intj
- (Canada, US) Used in place of an expletive to express surprise, usually in response to a negative statement or news; often used facetiously.
- The cry used in a game of snap when winning a hand.
- (British, by extension) Used to express agreement.
- (British, Australia, by extension) "I've got one the same!", "Me too!"
- (British, Australia, New Zealand) Used after something is said by two people at exactly the same time.
verb
- (transitive) To cause to move suddenly and smartly.
- (intransitive, transitive) To fracture or break apart suddenly.
- (transitive) To cause something to emit a snapping sound, especially by closing it rapidly.
- (intransitive) To fit or fasten together with a snapping sound.
- (transitive) To pull apart with a snapping sound; to pop loose.
- (cricket, transitive) To catch out sharply (a batsman who has just snicked a bowled ball).
- (intransitive, computing, graphical user interface) To jump to a fixed position relative to another element.
- (intransitive) To flash or appear to flash as with light.
- (intransitive) To attempt to seize with eagerness.
- (intransitive) To give way abruptly and loudly.
- (transitive) To say abruptly or sharply.
- (intransitive) To misfire.
- (intransitive) To suffer a mental breakdown, usually while under tension.
- (social media, ditransitive) Alternative letter-case form of Snap (“to send a visual message through the Snapchat application”).
- (intransitive) To speak abruptly or sharply.
- (transitive, American football) To put (a football) in play by a backward pass or handoff from its position on the ground; to hike (a football).
- (transitive) To snap one's fingers: to make a snapping sound, often by pressing the thumb and an opposing finger of the same hand together and suddenly releasing the grip so that the finger hits against the palm; alternatively, by bringing the index finger quickly down onto the middle finger and thumb.
- (intransitive) To attempt to seize or bite with the teeth, beak, etc.
- (intransitive) To give forth or produce a sharp cracking noise; to crack.
- (transitive) To close something using a snap as a fastener.
- (transitive) To snatch with or as if with the teeth.
- (transitive) To take a photograph; to release a camera's shutter (which may make a snapping sound).
- (intransitive) To move or shift suddenly.
- cause to make a snapping sound
- record on photographic film
- bring the jaws together
- close with a snapping motion
- break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension
- make a sharp sound
- move with a snapping sound
- move or strike with a noise
- lose control of one's emotions
- separate or cause to separate abruptly
- to grasp hastily or eagerly
- utter in an angry, sharp, or abrupt tone
- put in play with a snap
noun
- (fishing) A fish that tends to take bait.
- (curling) A stone that barely touches the outside of the house.
- (slang) One who copies someone else's work, style or techniques, especially in hip-hop.
- Agent noun of bite; someone or something who bites or tends to bite.
- (in combination, computing) Something (a data unit, machine etc.) with a width of a specified amount of bits.
- (fiction) A zombie.
- someone who bites
noun
- A fishhook; tackle for catching fish, consisting of a line, hook, and bait, with or without a rod.
- A change in direction.
- Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
- A corner where two walls intersect.
- (slang, professional wrestling) A storyline between two wrestlers, providing the background for and approach to a feud.
- (geometry) A figure formed by two rays which start from a common point (a plane angle) or by three planes that intersect (a solid angle).
- (geometry) The measure of such a figure. In the case of a plane angle, this is the ratio (or proportional to the ratio) of the arc length to the radius of a section of a circle cut by the two rays, centered at their common point. In the case of a solid angle, this is the ratio of the surface area to the square of the radius of the section of a sphere.
- (astrology) Any of the four cardinal points of an astrological chart: the Ascendant, the Midheaven, the Descendant and the Imum Coeli.
- (slang) An ulterior motive; a scheme or means of benefiting from a situation, usually hidden, often immoral.
- (media) The focus of a news story.
- A viewpoint; a way of looking at something.
- A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment.
- a biased way of looking at or presenting something
- the space between two lines or planes that intersect; the inclination of one line to another; measured in degrees or radians
verb
- (transitive, billiards) To hamper (oneself or one's opponent) by leaving the cue ball in the jaws of a pocket such that the surround of the pocket (the "angle") blocks the path from cue ball to object ball.
- (intransitive, informal) To change direction rapidly.
- (intransitive) To try to catch fish with a hook and line.
- (transitive, often in the passive) To place (something) at an angle.
- (figurative, informal, with for) To attempt to subtly persuade someone to offer a desired thing.
- (transitive, informal) To present or argue something in a particular way or from a particular viewpoint.
- move or proceed at an angle
- seek indirectly
- present with a bias
- fish with a hook
- to incline or bend from a vertical position
noun
- an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish
- tender that is a light ship's boat; often for personal use of captain
- a booking for musicians
- small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and no hood
- a cluster of hooks (without barbs) that is drawn through a school of fish to hook their bodies; used when fish are not biting
- long and light rowing boat; especially for racing
- Originally (music), a performing engagement by a musician or musical group; (by extension, film, television, theater) a job or role for a performer.
- A small, narrow, open boat carried in a larger ship, and used for transportation between the ship and the shore, another vessel, etc.
- (fishing) Synonym of fishgig or fizgig (“a spear with a barb on the end of it, used for catching fish, frogs, or other small animals”).
- (slang, chiefly sciences) Any unit of measurement having the SI prefix giga-.
- (Southern England, by extension) A similar rowing boat or sailboat, especially one used for racing; specifically, a six-oared sea rowing boat commonly found in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
- (informal, computing) Clipping of gigabyte (“one billion (1,000,000,000) bytes”).
- (road transport, historical) A two-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse.
- (US, military) A demerit received for some infraction of a military deportment or dress code.
- (by extension) Any job, especially one that is freelance or temporary, or done on an on-demand basis.
verb
- (music) To play (a musical instrument) at a gig.
- (transitive) To make a joke, often condescendingly, at the expense of (someone); to make fun of.
- (intransitive) Sometimes followed by it: to ride in a gig (“a two-wheeled carriage drawn by a single horse”).
- (by extension) To work at any job, especially one that is freelance or temporary, or done on an on-demand basis.
- (US, military) To impose a demerit (on someone) for an infraction of a military deportment or dress code.
- (intransitive) To catch or fish with a gig or fizgig.
- (transitive) To spear (fish, etc.) with a gig or fizgig.
- (film, music, television, theater) To engage in a musical performance, act in a theatre production, etc.
noun
- an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish
- a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon
- a surgical knife with a pointed double-edged blade; used for punctures and small incisions
- A wooden spear, sometimes hollow, used in jousting or tilting, designed to shatter on impact with the opposing knight’s armour.
- (metallurgy) A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in casting a shell.
- (military) A soldier armed with a lance; a lancer.
- (fishing) A spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen.
- (pyrotechnics) One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure.
- A piece in the game of shogi that can move directly forward any number of squares.
- A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen.
- (medicine) A lancet.
- (military) An instrument which conveys the charge of a piece of ordnance and forces it home.
verb
- move quickly, as if by cutting one's way
- open by piercing with a lancet
- pierce with a lance, as in a knights' fight
- Pierce with or as if with a lance.
- To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon.
- (informal) to steal or swipe
- Move suddenly and quickly
- To open with a lancet; to pierce.
- (medicine) Prick or cut open with a sharp instrument.
- To throw in the manner of a lance; to lanch.
noun
- an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish
- a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon
- A lance with barbed prongs, used by fishermen to retrieve fish.
- A long, thin strip from a vegetable.
- A long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon for throwing or thrusting, or anything used to make a thrusting motion.
- A shoot, as of grass; a spire.
- (now chiefly historical) A soldier armed with such a weapon; a spearman.
- (ice hockey) An illegal maneuver using the end of a hockey stick to strike into another hockey player.
- (wrestling) In professional wrestling, a running tackle in which the wrestler's shoulder is driven into the opponent's midsection.
- The feather of a horse.
- (botany) The sprout of a plant, stalk
- The rod to which the bucket, or plunger, of a pump is attached; a pump rod.
verb
- thrust up like a spear
- pierce with a spear
- (transitive) To pierce with a spear.
- (gridiron football) To tackle an opponent by ramming into them with one's helmet.
- (transitive, by extension) To penetrate or strike with, or as if with, any long narrow object; to make a thrusting motion that catches an object on the tip of a long device.
- (intransitive) To shoot into a long stem, as some plants do.
adj
noun
- (fishing) A baited fishing line attached to a float, for night fishing, etc.
- A coverlet for a bed.
- A kelt (“thin, recently spawned salmon”).
- (slang) A freeloader or hanger-on, especially in the music or entertainment industry.
- A nether millstone.
- The horizontal timber of a scaffolding; a ledger.
- (dialectal) One who lies in bed.
- A simply supported plank over a stream used as a footbridge.
- (dialectal) A layer.
noun
- (fishing) A container used to distribute a large amount of bait in a single cast.
- (colloquial) One who wastes time on nonproductive activities online.
- (colloquial) One who studies excessively and is disliked by fellow students because of it; a swot.
- (Internet) One who uses talkers, an early form of chat room.
- (colloquial) A person of clumsy or awkward appearance.
verb
noun
- A barbed metal hook used for fishing; a fishhook.
- (music) A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
- (boxing) a type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly horizontally mesially along an arc
- (bowling) A ball that is rolled in a curved line.
- (programming) Part of a system's operation that can be intercepted to change or augment its behaviour.
- (typography) A diacritical mark shaped like the upper part of a question mark, as in ỏ.
- (Scrabble) An instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter to the start or the end of the word to form a new word.
- (nautical, chiefly historical) A knee-shaped wooden join connecting the keel to the stem (post forming the frontmost part of the bow) or the sternpost in cog-like vessels or similar vessels.
- The amount of spin placed on a bowling ball.
- (geography) A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook in New Jersey.
- (authorship) A brief, punchy opening statement intended to get attention from an audience, reader, or viewer, and make them want to continue to listen to a speech, read a book, or watch a play.
- (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. (See draw, slice, fade.)
- (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a horizontal arc, hitting the ball high in the air to the leg side, often played to balls which bounce around head height.
- A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.
- (slang) A prostitute.
- The part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
- (agriculture) A field sown two years in succession.
- The curved needle used in the art of crochet.
- Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.
- (informal) A grasp (of), an attachment (to).
- A snare; a trap.
- (informal) Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
- A sharp bend or angle in the course or length of an object (e.g. a bend in a river, etc.).
- (narratology) A gimmick or element of a creative work intended to be attention-grabbing for the audience; a compelling idea for a story that will be sure to attract people's attention.
- (baseball) A curveball.
- (basketball) a basketball shot in which the offensive player, usually turned perpendicular to the basket, gently throws the ball with a sweeping motion of his arm in an upward arc with a follow-through which ends over his head. Also called hook shot.
- (bridge, slang) A finesse.
- A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
- (card games, slang) A jack (the playing card).
- (typography, rare) A háček.
- An advantageous hold.
- A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, for example, g and j.
- (surfing) Synonym of shoulder (“the part of a wave that has not yet broken”).
- (Canada, Australia, military) Any of the chevrons denoting rank.
- (in the plural) The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
- (nautical, informal) A ship's anchor.
- a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer
- a short swinging punch delivered from the side with the elbow bent
- a catch for locking a door
- anything that serves as an enticement
- a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook
- a basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket
- a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something
- a curved or bent implement for suspending or pulling something
verb
- (usually passive voice) To make addicted; to captivate.
- (transitive) To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
- (soccer, bowling) To swerve a ball; kick or throw a ball so it swerves or bends.
- (intransitive) To become attached, as by a hook.
- (field hockey, ice hockey) To use the hockey stick to trip or block another player
- To acquire as a spouse.
- (transitive) To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
- (cricket, golf, basketball) To play a hook shot.
- (transitive) To connect (hook into, hook together).
- (intransitive) To move or go with a sudden turn.
- (transitive) To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
- (transitive) To ensnare or obligate someone, as if with a hook.
- (Scrabble) To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
- (transitive) To attach a hook to.
- (bridge, slang) To finesse.
- (transitive) To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
- (intransitive) To bend; to be curved.
- (rugby) To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated hooker).
- (intransitive, slang) To engage in prostitution.
- hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left
- make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle
- catch with a hook
- rip off; ask an unreasonable price
- to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug)
- secure with the foot
- take by theft
- hit with a hook
- entice and trap
- approach with an offer of sexual favors
- fasten with a hook
- make off with belongings of others
verb
- (transitive) To catch by fishing with a concave spoon bait.
- (intransitive) To fish with a concave spoon bait.
- Alternative form of spoom.
- (tennis, golf, croquet) To hit (the ball) weakly, pushing it with a lifting motion, instead of striking with an audible knock.
- To serve using a spoon; to transfer (something) with a spoon.
- (transitive or intransitive, informal, of persons) To lie nestled front-to-back, following the contours of the bodies, in a manner reminiscent of stacked spoons.
- scoop up or take up with a spoon
- snuggle and lie in a position where one person faces the back of the others
noun
- (slang) An oar.
- (dentistry, informal) A spoon excavator.
- (fishing) A type of metal lure resembling the concave head of a tablespoon.
- An implement for eating or serving; a scooped utensil whose long handle is straight, in contrast to a ladle.
- A measure that will fit into a spoon; a spoonful.
- (US, military) A safety handle on a hand grenade, a trigger.
- (slang) A metaphoric unit of finite physical and mental energy available for daily activities, especially in the context of living with chronic illness or disability.
- An implement for stirring food while being prepared; a wooden spoon.
- A South African shrub of the genus Spatalla.
- as much as a spoon will hold
- formerly a golfing wood with an elevated face
- a piece of cutlery with a shallow bowl-shaped container and a handle; used to stir or serve or take up food
verb
noun
verb
- (transitive) To affix bait to a trap or a fishing hook or fishing line.
- lure, entice, or entrap with bait
- (transitive) To target a pest species by laying baits.
- (transitive) To set dogs on (an animal etc.) to bite or worry; to attack with dogs, especially for sport.
- (intransitive) Of a horse or other animal: to take food, especially during a journey.
- (transitive) To intentionally annoy, torment, or threaten by constant rebukes or threats; to harass.
- (transitive) To lay baits in an environment to control pest species.
- (transitive) To attract with bait; to entice.
- (intransitive) (of a person) To stop to take a portion of food and drink for refreshment during a journey.
- attack with dogs or set dogs upon
- harass with persistent criticism or carping
adj
noun
- Food containing poison or a harmful additive to kill animals that are pests.
- A light or hasty luncheon.
- (as the head of a compound) Something that lures or entices a specified group.
- Anything which allures; something or someone used to lure or entice someone or something into doing something.
- Any substance, especially food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, trap, or net.
- A portion of food or drink, as a refreshment taken on a journey; also, a stop for rest and refreshment.
- (Internet slang) A post intended to elicit a, usually strong or negative, reaction from others.
- (Geordie, Durham) A packed lunch - the bite to eat a worker took with them to eat.
- (vulgar, sexuality) Someone that attracts or entices a specified sex act being done to them.
- (East Anglia) A small meal taken mid-morning while farming.
- (Northern England) A miner's packed meal.
- anything that serves as an enticement
- something used to lure fish or other animals into danger so they can be trapped or killed
verb
noun
verb
noun
verb
noun
- (accounting) A collection of accounting entries consisting of credits and debits.
- A book for keeping notes; a record book, a register.
- A large, flat stone, especially one laid over a tomb.
- (fishing) Ellipsis of ledger bait (“fishing bait attached to a floating line fastened to the bank of a pond, stream, etc.”) or ledger line (“fishing line used with ledger bait for bottom fishing; ligger”).
- (construction) A board attached to a wall to provide support for attaching other structural elements (such as deck joists or roof rafters) to a building.
- A book or other scheme for keeping accounting records.
- (cryptocurrencies) A distributed ledger, a public financial transaction database, typically using a blockchain.
- an accounting journal as a physical object
- a record in which commercial accounts are recorded
verb
noun
verb
- (fishing, transitive) To use as bait when fishing.
- (nautical, transitive) To repair (a spar or mast) by fastening a beam or other long object (often called a fish) over the damaged part (see Noun above).
- (intransitive, cricket) Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.
- (intransitive, transitive) To hunt fish or other aquatic animals in a body of water, or to collect coral or pearls from the bottom of the sea.
- (transitive) To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.
- (intransitive) To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.
- (nautical, transitive) To hoist the flukes of.
- (transitive) To draw or guide (a wire or cable) by means of fish tape.
- (intransitive, followed by "for" or "around for") To talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something, or seek to obtain something by artifice.
- seek indirectly
- catch or try to catch fish or shellfish
noun
- A period of time spent fishing.
- (uncountable) A card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank.
- A cartilaginous fish (class Chondrichthyes).
- (uncountable, slang, sometimes derogatory, sometimes positive) A (feminine) woman. (See also fishy.)
- An instance of seeking something.
- (cartomancy) The thirty-fourth Lenormand card.
- (nautical) A purchase used to fish the anchor.
- (countable, poker slang) A bad poker player. Compare shark (a good poker player).
- (Newfoundland) Cod; codfish.
- A placoderm (paraphyletic class †Placodermi).
- A jawless fish (paraphyletic infraphylum Agnatha).
- (uncountable) The flesh of the fish used as food.
- (LGBTQ slang, sometimes problematic) A drag queen or transgender woman who looks like a cisgender woman.
- (countable, nautical, military, slang) A torpedo (self-propelled explosive device).
- (prison slang) A new (usually vulnerable) prisoner.
- A bony fish (clade Osteichthyes), including tetrapods.
- (Roman Catholicism) An aquatic or semiaquatic animal suitable for consumption during fasting on Fridays during Lent.
- (Jamaica, offensive, derogatory) A male homosexual; a gay man.
- (countable, slang) An easy victim for swindling.
- (cellular automata, rare) A spaceship.
- (countable) A typically cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills.
- A spiny shark (paraphyletic class †Acanthodii)
- (countable, nautical) A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.
- any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills
- the flesh of fish used as food
verb
- (transitive) To lure with bait; tole (especially, fish and animals).
- (transitive) To tear in pieces.
- (law) To suspend.
- (transitive) To summon by ringing a bell.
- (transitive) To draw; entice; invite; allure.
- (ambitransitive) To levy a toll on (someone or something).
- (transitive) To impose a fee for the use of.
- (transitive) To take as a toll.
- (ergative) To ring (a bell) slowly and repeatedly.
- (figuratively) To make a sound as if made by a bell.
- (African-American Vernacular) simple past and past participle of tell
- To pay a toll or tallage.
- (transitive) To announce by ringing a bell.
- ring slowly
- charge a fee for using
noun
- (business, by extension) A fee for using any kind of material processing service.
- The act or sound of ringing a bell, especially slowly, as with a church or cemetery bell.
- A fee paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending goods in a fair, market, etc.
- (US) A tollbooth.
- Loss or damage incurred through a disaster.
- A fee paid by the owner of materials or other goods for processing such goods, as under a tolling agreement.
- value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something
- a fee levied for the use of roads or bridges
- the sound of a bell being struck
verb
- To catch (a fish, eel, etc) via a pot.
- (electronics) To package a circuit by encasing it in resin.
- To put (something) into a pot.
- (transitive, British) To seat a person, usually a young child, on a potty or toilet, typically during toilet teaching.
- (transitive) To drain (e.g. sugar of the molasses) in a perforated cask.
- (snooker, pool, billiards, transitive) To cause a ball to fall into a pocket.
- (chiefly East Midlands) To apply a plaster cast to a broken limb.
- (rugby, transitive) To score (a drop goal).
- (transitive) To shoot with a firearm.
- To preserve by bottling or canning.
- (transitive, colloquial) To secure; gain; win; bag.
- (British) To send someone to jail, expeditiously.
- (snooker, pool, billiards, intransitive) To be capable of being potted.
- (slang, broadcasting) To fade volume in or out by means of a potentiometer.
- plant in a pot
noun
- (UK, horse-racing, slang) A favorite: a heavily-backed horse.
- (historical) Any of various traditional units of volume notionally based on the capacity of a pot.
- (slang, uncountable) Ruin or deterioration.
- A vessel used for brewing or serving drinks: a coffeepot or teapot.
- A crucible: a melting pot.
- A flat-bottomed vessel (usually metal) used for cooking food, possibly excluding saucepans (see usage notes).
- (slang, electronics) A simple electromechanical device used to control resistance or voltage (often to adjust sound volume) in an electronic device by rotating or sliding when manipulated by a human thumb, screwdriver, etc.
- (slang, uncountable) Marijuana.
- (chiefly East Midlands, Yorkshire) A plaster cast.
- (rail transport) A pot-shaped non-conducting (usually ceramic) stand that supports an electrified rail while insulating it from the ground.
- (roleplaying games, video games) Clipping of potion.
- (slang) Clipping of potbelly (“a pot-shaped belly, a paunch”).
- A perforated cask for draining sugar.
- A vessel (usually earthenware) used with a seal for storing food, such as a honeypot.
- (Maine) A pot-shaped trap used for catching lobsters or other seafood: a lobster pot.
- (archaic except in place names) Pothole, sinkhole, vertical cave.
- An allocation of money for a particular purpose.
- (historical) Alternative form of pott: a former size of paper, 12.5 × 15 inches.
- A shallow hole used in certain games played with marbles. The marbles placed in it are called potsies.
- (Australia, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania) A glass of beer in Australia whose size varies regionally but is typically around 10 fl oz (285 mL).
- (historical) An iron hat with a broad brim worn as a helmet.
- A pot-shaped metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney: a chimney pot.
- (gambling, poker) The money available to be won in a hand of poker or a round of other games of chance; (figuratively) any sum of money being used as an enticement.
- (slang) Clipping of potshot (“a haphazard shot; an easy or cheap shot”).
- A vessel used to hold soil for growing plants, particularly flowers: a flowerpot.
- the quantity contained in a pot
- the cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker)
- a container in which plants are cultivated
- street names for marijuana
- slang for a paunch
- metal or earthenware cooking vessel that is usually round and deep; often has a handle and lid
- a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
- a resistor with three terminals, the third being an adjustable center terminal; used to adjust voltages in radios and TV sets
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent