anchor pylon
forward bias
demarc extension
hook ladder
electrical contact
channel
end piece
delta
rail in
Lichtenberg figure
rail
make
tailing
door handle
transposition
inedge
breakdown voltage
closed-circuit
scram
intraendoplasmic
endostructural
breakdown
swivel
coil
forcipal
swinging post
cutout
reclosable
bung up
latch-up
pluriclosed
shutting post
axial lead
end-on
intraspike
backgate
closure
vampire draw
nosepiece
headchair
header
VSS
closed loop
partial discharge extinction voltage
tapping
butterfly door
drawhook
station throat
stop
line of striction
P trap
node
body contact
lock
wall plug
link
ladderway
screw-top
mucro
crapaudine
ring oscillator
choana
point
sollar
railings
close
OR gate
plugpoint
endografting
upend
OR circuit
blow a fuse
phase
topoelectrical
invective
hook
worm
balun
endless chain
ensue
elevation
down
proximodistal
obturator
sheath
bill
isovoltage
result
convolution
junction
gate
tombstoning
power point
pressure wire
limmer
Jacob's ladder
polarity
closed-circuit
intraendoplasmic
endostructural
forcipal
reclosable
pluriclosed
end-on
intraspike
topoelectrical
invective
proximodistal
anchor pylon
forward bias
demarc extension
hook ladder
electrical contact
channel
end piece
delta
Lichtenberg figure
make
tailing
door handle
transposition
inedge
breakdown voltage
scram
breakdown
swivel
coil
swinging post
cutout
latch-up
shutting post
axial lead
backgate
closure
vampire draw
nosepiece
headchair
header
closed loop
partial discharge extinction voltage
tapping
butterfly door
drawhook
station throat
line of striction
P trap
node
body contact
lock
wall plug
link
ladderway
screw-top
mucro
crapaudine
ring oscillator
choana
point
sollar
railings
close
OR gate
plugpoint
endografting
OR circuit
phase
rail
hook
worm
balun
endless chain
elevation
down
obturator
sheath
bill
isovoltage
convolution
tombstoning
power point
pressure wire
limmer
Jacob's ladder
polarity
rail in
rail
bung up
stop
upend
blow a fuse
ensue
result
junction
gate
noun
- A connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit.
- A distribution channel
- The wale of a sailing ship which projects beyond the gunwale and to which the shrouds attach via the chains. One of the flat ledges of heavy plank bolted edgewise to the outside of a vessel, to increase the spread of the shrouds and carry them clear of the bulwarks.
- The navigable part of a river.
- A gutter; a groove, as in a fluted column.
- A single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation, such as by multipair cable.
- A single path provided by a transmission medium via spectral or protocol separation, such as by frequency or time-division multiplexing.
- A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television.
- The physical confine of a river or slough, consisting of a bed and banks.
- A means of delivering up-to-date Internet content.
- A channel was dredged to allow ocean-going vessels to reach the city.
- A path for conveying electrical or electromagnetic signals, usually distinguished from other parallel paths.
- The part of a turbine pump where the pressure is built up.
- A narrow body of water between two land masses.
- A particular area for conversations on an IRC network, analogous to a chat room and often dedicated to a specific topic.
- Something through which another thing passes; a means of conveying or transmitting.
- The natural or man-made deeper course through a reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water.
- The part that connects a data source to a data sink.
- A structural member with a cross section shaped like a squared-off letter C.
- A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies, usually in conjunction with a predetermined letter, number, or codeword, and allocated by international agreement.
- The portion of a storage medium, such as a track or a band, that is accessible to a given reading or writing station or head.
- A psychic or medium who temporarily takes on the personality of somebody else.
- The narrow conducting portion of a MOSFET transistor.
verb
noun
- The closed figure produced by connecting three coils or circuits successively, end for end, especially in a three-phase system.
- The rate of change in an option value with respect to the underlying asset's price.
- A landform at the mouth of a river where it empties into a body of water.
- The angle subtended at the center of a circular arc.
- A value in delta notation indicating the relative abundances of isotopes.
- a star that is usually the fourth brightest of a constellation.
- The symbol Δ.
- one of four baryons consisting of up and down quarks with a combined spin of 3/2: Δ⁺⁺ (uuu), Δ⁺ (uud), Δ⁰ (udd), or Δ⁻ (ddd)
- The fourth letter of the modern Greek alphabet Δ, δ.
- A change in a quantity, likely from "d" for "difference".
- A small but noticeable effect. Compare epsilon.
- A type of cargo bike that has one wheel in front and two in back.
- A military unit, nominally headed by a colonel, equivalent to a USAF operations wing, or an army regiment.
- The set of differences between two versions of a file.
verb
verb
verb
- enclose with rails
- complain bitterly
- provide with rails
- separate with a railing
- convey (goods etc.) by rails
- travel by rail or train
- lay with rails
- fish with a handline over the rails of a boat
- spread negative information about
- criticize severely
noun
- a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports
- short for railway
- a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll
- a horizontal bar (usually of wood or metal)
- any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud
noun
- The closing of an electrical circuit.
- A person's character or disposition.
- Quantity produced, especially of materials.
- A made basket.
- The camera was of German make.
- A home-made project
- Origin (of a manufactured article); manufacture; production.
- Brand or kind; model.
- Identification or recognition (of identity), especially from police records or evidence.
- Turn to declare the trump for a hand (in bridge), or to shuffle the cards.
- Past, present, or future target of seduction (usually female).
- A software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of this utility.
- Mate; a spouse or companion; a match.
- A promotion.
- Manner or style of construction (style of how a thing is made); form.
verb
- To earn, to gain (money, points, membership or status).
- To defecate or urinate.
- To constitute.
- To proceed (in a direction).
- To pay, to cover (an expense); chiefly used after expressions of inability.
- Of water, to flow toward land; to rise.
- To develop into; to prove to be.
- To prepare (food); to cook (food).
- To tend; to contribute; to have effect; with for or against.
- To force to do.
- To move at (a speed).
- To bring about; to effect or produce by means of some action.
- To indicate or suggest to be.
- To enact; to establish.
- To create (the universe), especially (in Christianity) from nothing.
- To form or formulate in the mind.
- To cause to appear to be; to represent as.
- To recognise, identify, spot.
- To take the virginity of.
- To perform a feat.
- To induct into the Mafia or a similar organization (as a made man).
- To gain sufficient audience to warrant its existence.
- To cover neatly with bedclothes.
- To cause to be.
- To build, construct, produce, or originate.
- To behave, to act.
- To cover (a given distance) by travelling.
- To interpret.
- To write or compose.
- To add up to, have a sum of.
- To cause (to do something); to compel (to do something).
- To arrive at a destination, usually at or by a certain time.
- To appoint; to name.
- To bring into success.
- To have sexual intercourse with.
noun
- (electricity) a rearrangement of the relative positions of power lines in order to minimize the effects of mutual capacitance and inductance
- any abnormal position of the organs of the body
- an event in which one thing is substituted for another
- (genetics) a kind of mutation in which a chromosomal segment is transfered to a new position on the same or another chromosome
- (mathematics) the transfer of a quantity from one side of an equation to the other along with a change of sign
- the act of reversing the order or place of
- (music) playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards
noun
- The device used to shut down a nuclear reactor; also, the button or switch used to initiate a shutdown.
- A shutdown of a nuclear reactor (or, by extension, some other thing), often done rapidly due to an emergency.
- A scratch, especially caused by claws or fingernails.
verb
- To scratch (something) with claws or fingernails; to claw.
- Of a nuclear reactor or some other thing: to shut down, usually because of an emergency.
- To leave in a hurry; to go away.
- To shut down (a nuclear reactor or, by extension, some other thing) for safety reasons, usually because of an emergency.
noun
- The sudden transition of an electrical insulator to a conductor when subjected to a sufficiently strong voltage, caused by the partial or complete ionization of the insulator.
- A loss of organization (of the parts of a system).
- A failure, particularly mechanical in nature.
- Any rapid bluegrass dance tune, especially featuring a five-string banjo.
- The percussion break of songs chosen by a DJ for use in hip-hop music.
- Breaking of chemical bonds within a compound to produce simpler compounds or elements.
- Something that has experienced a mechanical failure.
- A detailed description of a forthcoming project, including the characters and roles required.
- A physical collapse or lapse of mental stability.
- Listing, division or categorization in great detail.
- A musical technique by which the music is stripped down, becoming simpler, varying in heaviness depending on the genre.
noun
- reactor consisting of a spiral of insulated wire that introduces inductance into a circuit
- a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops
- a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
- a transformer that supplies high voltage to spark plugs in a gasoline engine
- a contraceptive device placed inside a woman's womb
- tubing that is wound in a spiral
verb
noun
- That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed.
- An event or occurrence that signifies an ending.
- A device to facilitate temporary and repeatable opening and closing.
- An abstraction that represents a function within an environment, a context consisting of the variables that are both bound at a particular time during the execution of the program and that are within the function's scope.
- The smallest set that both includes a given subset and possesses some given property.
- A method of ending a parliamentary debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body.
- The process whereby the reader of a comic book infers the sequence of events by looking at the picture panels.
- The phenomenon by which a group maintains its resources by the exclusion of others from their group based on varied criteria. ᵂᵖ
- The act of shutting or closing something permanently or temporarily.
- The smallest closed set which contains the given set.
- The act of shutting; a closing.
- A feeling of completeness; the experience of an emotional conclusion, usually to a difficult period.
noun
- A horizontal structural or finish piece over an opening.
- A headlong fall, jump or dive.
- Text, or other visual information, used to mark off a quantity of text, often titling or summarizing it.
- A pipe which connects several smaller pipes.
- One who puts a head on something.
- Text, or other visual information, that goes at the top of a column of information in a table.
- A font, text style, or typesetting used for any of the above.
- Someone who heads the ball.
- A raised tank that supplies water at constant pressure, especially to a central heating and hot water system.
- The upper portion of a page (or other) layout.
- The first part of a file or record that describes its contents.
- A machine that separates and gathers the heads of grain etc.
- the first part of a packet or stream, often containing its address and descriptors.
- The act of hitting the ball with the head.
- The rodeo performer who drives the steer toward the heeler to be tied.
- A brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall or within the brickwork with the short side showing.
verb
noun
- Closed-loop communication.
- An economy in which materials are consistently reused rather than discharged as waste.
- A path whose initial point is equal to its terminal point.
- A closed-loop transfer function.
- A PID controller.
- An electronic feedback loop.
- The process of pulling water from one area of a reef aquarium and pumping it immediately elsewhere in the tank to create higher flow and minimize dead spots.
- A closed ecological system.
noun
- A door which pivots on a central axis, used in locations with a pressure differential between the two sides of the door, so that forces exhibited do not inhibit opening and closing of the door, due to contrary action of forces on the two halves of the door which open inwards and outwards at the same time.
- A door consisting of two leaves that swing on a pivot above the center of the firebox opening to open and close.
- A car door similar to scissor door, but while scissor doors move straight up via hinge points at the bottom of the A-pillar, butterfly doors move up and out via hinges along the A-pillar.
noun
verb
- To close or block an opening.
- To cause (something) to come to an end.
- To pronounce (a phoneme) as a stop.
- To cease; to no longer continue (doing something).
- To cease moving.
- To end someone else's activity.
- To stay; to spend a short time; to reside or tarry temporarily.
- To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.
- To make fast; to stopper.
- To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
- To delay the purchase or sale of (a stock) while agreeing the price for later.
- To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.
- Not to continue.
punct
noun
- An f-stop.
- A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
- A part of a photographic system that reduces the amount of light.
- A coup d'arret, or stop thrust.
- A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.
- A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.
- One of the vent-holes in a wind instrument, or the place on the wire of a stringed instrument, by the stopping or pressing of which certain notes are produced.
- An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
- A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts.
- A consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis.
- A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
- A save; preventing the opposition from scoring a goal
- That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
- The squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.
- The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
- A device intended to block the path of a moving object
- The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
- A unit of exposure corresponding to a doubling of the brightness of an image.
- A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought.
- A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.
noun
- a connecting point at which several lines come together
- any thickened enlargement
- (botany) the small swelling that is the part of a plant stem from which one or more leaves emerge
- (physics) the point of minimum displacement in a periodic system
- (astronomy) a point where an orbit crosses a plane
- the source of lymph and lymphocytes
- any bulge or swelling of an anatomical structure or part
- (computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a computer network
noun
- A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.
- A device for keeping a wheel from turning.
- A segment of a canal or other waterway enclosed by gates, used for raising and lowering boats between levels.
- Complete control over a situation.
- The firing mechanism.
- Something sure to be a success.
- A place impossible to get out of, as by a lock.
- A grapple in wrestling.
- A tuft or length of hair, wool, etc.
- A small quantity of straw etc.
- A quantity of meal, the perquisite of a mill-servant.
- A player in the scrum behind the front row, usually the tallest members of the team.
- A mutex or other token restricting access to a resource.
- Something used for fastening, which can only be opened with a key or combination.
verb
- To raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.
- To modify (a thread) so that users cannot make new posts in it.
- To freeze one's body or a part thereof in place.
- To fasten with a lock.
- To be capable of becoming fastened in place.
- To seize (e.g. the sword arm of an antagonist) by turning one's left arm around it, to disarm them.
- To play in the position of lock.
- To become fastened in place.
- To intertwine or dovetail.
- To prevent a page from being edited by other users.
- To furnish (a canal) with locks.
noun
- Anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain.
- One element of a chain or other connected series.
- Any one of the several elementary pieces of a mechanism, such as the fixed frame, or a rod, wheel, mass of confined liquid, etc., by which relative motion of other parts is produced and constrained.
- The windings of a river; the land along a winding stream.
- The connection between buses or systems.
- a thin wild bank of land splitting two cultivated patches and often linking two hills.
- A space comprising one or more disjoint knots.
- A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.
- An introductory cue.
- Any intermediate rod or piece for transmitting force or motion, especially a short connecting rod with a bearing at each end; specifically (in steam engines) the slotted bar, or connecting piece, to the opposite ends of which the eccentric rods are jointed, and by means of which the movement of the valve is varied, in a link motion.
- The length of one joint of Gunter's chain, being the hundredth part of it, or 7.92 inches, the chain being 66 feet in length.
- A sausage that is not a patty.
- A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.
- an individual person or element in a system
verb
- To meet with someone.
- To contain a hyperlink to another page.
- To supply (somebody) with a hyperlink; to direct by means of a link.
- To demonstrate a correlation between two things.
- To combine objects generated by a compiler into a single executable.
- To skip or trip along smartly; to go quickly.
- To connect two or more things.
- To post a hyperlink to.
noun
- The socket in which the pivot of a door turns.
- A type of piquant sauce flavored with tarragon, lemon or vinegar, and other spices, that is traditionally served with a fowl cooked in the crapaudine style.
- A toadstone.
- An heirloom variety of beet originating in France, and considered possibly the oldest beet cultivar.
- A form of torture in which the hands and feet are tied together behind the back, forcing the victim's body to bow, and sometimes accompanied by additional forms of torture, such as suspending the body by the point where the hands and feet are tied or beating.
- A method of preparing fowl and poultry, where the back is split apart and the bird is flattened down the breast, looking somewhat like a toad; spatchcock.
- A device for calibrating a pendulum consisting of a dilatable plate that produces an artificial tilt of a clinometer.
noun
- An electric power socket.
- The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game.
- A focus of conversation or consideration; the main idea.
- A particular moment in an event or occurrence; a juncture.
- Pointedness of speech or writing; a penetrating or decisive quality of expression.
- A tine or snag of an antler.
- Each of the main directions on a compass, usually considered to be 32 in number; a direction.
- A topic of discussion or debate; a proposition.
- A decimal point (now especially when reading decimal fractions aloud).
- A spot to which a straight run is made; hence, a straight run from point to point; a cross-country run.
- A peninsula or promontory.
- The position of the player of each side who stands a short distance in front of the goalkeeper.
- Any projecting extremity of an object.
- A full stop or other terminal punctuation mark.
- A specific location or place, seen as a spatial position.
- The position at the front or vanguard of an advancing force.
- A distinguishing quality or characteristic.
- a unit of measure equal to 1/12 of a pica, or approximately 1/72 of an inch (exactly 1/72 of an inch in the digital era).
- Each of the marks or strokes written above letters, especially in Semitic languages, to indicate vowels, stress etc.
- A purpose or objective, which makes something meaningful.
- Either of the two metal surfaces in a distributor which close or open to allow or prevent the flow of current through the ignition coil. There is usually a moving point, pushed by the distributor cam, and a fixed point, and they are built together as a unit.
- An object which has a sharp or tapering tip.
- A unit of measure for rain, equal to 0.254 mm or 0.01 of an inch.
- An operational or public leadership position in a risky endeavor.
- The difference between two points of the compass.
- A railroad switch.
- Something tiny, as a pinprick; a very small mark.
- A movement executed with the sabre or foil.
- A unit of scoring in a game or competition.
- An individual element in a larger whole; a particular detail, thought, or quality.
- An area of contrasting colour on an animal, especially a dog; a marking.
- A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails.
- The act of pointing, as of the foot downward in certain dance positions.
- A dot or mark used to designate certain tones or time. In ancient music, it distinguished or characterized certain tones or styles (points of perfection, of augmentation, etc.). In modern music, it is placed on the right of a note to raise its value, or prolong its time, by one half.
- The sharp tip of an object.
- A string or lace used to tie together certain garments.
- A unit used to express differences in prices of stocks and shares.
- The perpendicular rising of a hawk over the place where its prey has gone into cover.
- A note; a tune.
- A zero-dimensional mathematical object representing a location in one or more dimensions; something considered to have position but no magnitude or direction.
- The position of the pitcher and catcher.
- The gesture of extending the index finger in a direction in order to indicate something.
- A fielding position square of the wicket on the off side, between gully and cover.
- Each of the twelve triangular positions in either table of a backgammon board, on which the stones are played.
- A tenth; formerly also a twelfth.
- One of the several different parts of the escutcheon.
- Lace worked by the needle.
- A unit of bearing equal to one thirty-second of a circle, i.e. 11.25°.
verb
- To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end.
- To repair mortar.
- To direct toward an object; to aim.
- To direct the central processing unit to seek information at a certain location in memory.
- To draw attention to something or indicate a direction.
- To face in a particular direction.
- To separate an integer from a decimal with a decimal point.
- To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or to draw attention to it.
- To indicate the presence of game by a fixed and steady look, as certain hunting dogs do.
- To mark with diacritics.
- To direct or encourage (someone) in a particular direction.
- To direct requests sent to a domain name to the IP address corresponding to that domain name.
- To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or mortar, and bringing it to a smooth surface.
- To indicate a probability of something.
- To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.
- To sail close to the wind.
- To approximate to the surface; to head.
noun
- The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.
- The common staircase in a tenement.
- A cathedral close.
- The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed
- The point at the end of a sales pitch when the consumer is asked to buy.
- The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
- A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the ground floor.
- An end or conclusion.
- A grapple in wrestling.
- The time when checkin staff will no longer accept passengers for a flight.
- A double bar marking the end.
- A street that ends in a dead end.
verb
- To move to a position allowing electricity to flow.
- To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
- To move to a position preventing fluid from flowing.
- To cancel or reverse (a trading position).
- To make (e.g. a gap) smaller.
- To make a sale.
- To move so that an opening is closed.
- To grapple; to engage in close combat.
- To make the final outs, usually three, of a game.
- To terminate an application, window, file or database connection, etc.
- To come or gather around; to enclose; to encompass; to confine.
- To come to an end.
- To put an end to; to conclude; to complete; to finish; to consummate.
- To obstruct (an opening).
- To do the tasks (putting things away, locking doors, etc.) required to prepare a store or other establishment to shut down for the night.
- To turn off; to switch off.
adj
- Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact.
- Marked, evident.
- Intimate; well-loved.
- Strictly confined; carefully guarded.
- Accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating; strict.
- Almost, but not quite (getting to an answer or goal); near
- Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.
- At a little distance; near.
- Of a corporation or other business entity, closely held.
- Hot, humid, with no wind.
- Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.
- Narrow; confined.
- Short.
- Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced.
noun
- In a polyphase electrical power system, one of the power-carrying conductors, or the alternating current carried by it.
- A component in a material system that is distinguished by chemical composition and/or physical state (solid, liquid or gas) and/or crystal structure. It is delineated from an adjoining phase by an abrupt change in one or more of those conditions.
- The arctangent of the quotient formed by dividing the imaginary part of a complex number by the real part.
- A distinguishable part of a sequence or cycle occurring over time.
- A particular appearance or state in a regularly recurring cycle of changes with respect to quantity of illumination or form, or the absence, of its enlightened disk. Illustrated in Wikipedia's article Lunar phase.
- Any one point or portion in a recurring series of changes, as in the changes of motion of one of the particles constituting a wave or vibration; one portion of a series of such changes, in distinction from a contrasted portion, as the portion on one side of a position of equilibrium, in contrast with that on the opposite side.
- In certain organisms, one of two or more colour variations characteristic of the species, but independent of the ordinary seasonal and sexual differences, and often also of age.
- A haplotype.
- That which is exhibited to the eye; the appearance which anything manifests, especially any one among different and varying appearances of the same object.
- The period of play between consecutive breakdowns.
- Any appearance or aspect of an object of mental apprehension or view.
- A distortion caused by a difference in the speed of propagation for different frequencies
verb
noun
- The part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
- Part of a system's operation that can be intercepted to change or augment its behaviour.
- 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.
- A ship's anchor.
- Removal or expulsion from a group or activity.
- A tie-in to a current event or trend that makes a news story or editorial relevant and timely.
- A field sown two years in succession.
- A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the left. (See draw, slice, fade.)
- A barbed metal hook used for fishing; a fishhook.
- A ball that is rolled in a curved line.
- 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.
- 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.
- A loop shaped like a hook under certain written letters, for example, g and j.
- A jack (the playing card).
- Any of the chevrons denoting rank.
- 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.
- The projecting points of the thighbones of cattle; called also hook bones.
- Synonym of shoulder (“the part of a wave that has not yet broken”)
- A catchy musical phrase which forms the basis of a popular song.
- a háček.
- a type of punch delivered with the arm rigid and partially bent and the fist travelling nearly horizontally mesially along an arc
- A finesse.
- A curveball.
- 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.
- The curved needle used in the art of crochet.
- Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.
- A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end, such as Sandy Hook in New Jersey.
- a diacritical mark shaped like the upper part of a question mark, as in ỏ.
- A prostitute.
- A snare; a trap.
- 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.
verb
- To attach a hook to.
- To finesse.
- To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
- To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated hooker).
- To engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking (i.e., using the hockey stick to trip or block another player)
- To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
- To connect (hook into, hook together).
- To engage in prostitution.
- To swerve a ball; kick or throw a ball so it swerves or bends.
- To ensnare or obligate someone, as if with a hook.
- To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
- To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
- To play a hook shot.
- To make addicted; to captivate.
- To move or go with a sudden turn.
- To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
noun
- The spiral wire of a corkscrew.
- Either a mythical "dragon" (especially wingless), a gigantic sea serpent, or a creature that resembles a Mongolian death worm.
- A strip of linked tiles sharing parallel edges in a tiling.
- The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to save space.
- Anything helical, especially the thread of a screw.
- A self-replicating program that propagates through a network.
- A short revolving screw whose threads drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel or rack by gearing into its teeth.
- A graphical representation of the total runs scored in an innings.
- More loosely, any of various tubular invertebrates resembling annelids but not closely related to them, such as velvet worms, acorn worms, flatworms, or roundworms.
- A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms.
- An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one’s mind with remorse.
- The lytta.
- A contemptible or devious being.
- A dance, or dance move, in which the dancer lies on the floor and undulates the body horizontally thereby moving forwards.
- A muscular band in the tongue of some animals, such as dogs; the lytta.
- A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum; an earthworm.
verb
- To work one's way by artful or devious means.
- To fill in the contlines of (a rope) before parcelling and serving.
- To drag out of, to get information that someone is reluctant or unwilling to give (through artful or devious means or by pleading or asking repeatedly).
- To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm.
- To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of (a dog, etc.) for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw, and formerly supposed to guard against canine madness.
- To move with one's body dragging the ground.
- To make (one's way) with a crawling motion.
- To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means.
- To work (one's way or oneself) (into) gradually or slowly; to insinuate.
- To deworm (an animal).
noun
- The angle which the gnomon makes with the substylar line.
- That which is raised up or elevated; an elevated place or station.
- The raising of the host—representing Christ’s body—in a mass or Holy Communion service.
- The movement of the axis of a piece in a vertical plane; also, the angle of elevation, that is, the angle between the axis of the piece and the line of sight; distinguished from direction.
- The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc.
- The condition of being or feeling elevated; heightened; exaltation.
- A geometrical projection of a building, or other object, on a plane perpendicular to the horizon; orthographic projection on a vertical plane; called by the ancients the orthography.
- A hill is an elevation of the ground.
- The distance of a celestial object above the horizon, or the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between it and the horizon; altitude.
- The measured vertical distance from the peak of a mountain or hill to its bordering lowlands.
noun
- A clue whose solution runs vertically in the grid.
- The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, such as the thistle.
- That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down.
- Down payment.
- A hill, especially a chalk hill; rolling grassland
- A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep.
- Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping bags and jackets.
- The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
- An act of swallowing an entire drink at once.
- A negative aspect; a downer, a downside.
- A downstairs room of a two-story house.
- The lightest quark with a charge number of −¹⁄₃.
- A field, especially one used for horse racing.
- A single play, from the time the ball is snapped (the start) to the time the whistle is blown (the end) when the ball is down, or is downed.
prep
- From one end to another of (in any direction); along.
- From the higher end to the lower of.
- At (a given place that is seen as removed from one's present location or other point of reference).
- From north to south of.
verb
- To disparage; to put down.
- To drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing the liquid is empty.
- To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down; to fell.
- Specifically, to cause (something in the air) to fall to the ground; to bring down (with a missile etc.).
- To render (the ball) dead, typically by touching the ground while in possession.
- To lower; to put (something) down.
- To defeat; to overpower.
- To sink (a ball) into a hole or pocket.
- To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.
adv
- At or towards any place that is visualised as 'down' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
- So as to reduce size, weight or volume.
- From less to greater detail.
- So as to lessen quantity, level or intensity.
- Forward, straight ahead.
- In the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
- To the south (as south is at the bottom of typical maps).
- From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
- At a lower or further place or position along a set path.
- As a down payment.
- On paper (or in a durable record).
- Get down.
- Into a state of non-operation.
- To a subordinate or less prestigious position or rank.
- Towards the opponent's side (in ball-sports).
- Away from the city (regardless of direction).
- Used with verbs to indicate that the action of the verb was carried to some state of completion, permanence, or success rather than being of indefinite duration.
- From a remoter or higher antiquity.
- So as to secure or compress something to the floor, ground, or other (usually horizontal) surface.
adj
- Sad, unhappy, depressed, feeling low.
- Mechanically failed, collided, shot down, or otherwise suddenly unable to fly.
- Having a lower score than an opponent.
- Sick or ill.
- Negative about; hostile to.
- Comfortable with, accepting of.
- Wounded and unable to move normally, or killed.
- Facing downwards.
- Fallen or felled.
- At a lower level than before.
- Accepted, respected, or loyally participating in the (thug) community.
- Finished (of a task); defeated or dealt with (of an opponent or obstacle); elapsed (of time). Often coupled with to go (remaining).
- Out.
- Thoroughly practiced, learned or memorised; mastered. (Compare down pat.)
- Inoperable; out of order; out of service.
noun
- A valve closure member (disk, gate, plug, etc.).
- Any device for preventing the escape of gas through the breech mechanism of a breech-loading gun; a gas check.
- A camera shutter.
- The membrane vessels, etc. that close the obturator foramen, or thyroid foramen, a large opening or fenestra in the anterior part of the hip bone.
- An object used to obstruct a hole, such as a fissure of the palate.
noun
- The insulating outer cover of an electrical cable.
- The base of a leaf when sheathing or investing a branch or stem, as in grasses.
- A holster for a sword; a scabbard.
- A condom.
- The foreskin of certain animals (for example, dogs and horses).
- A tight-fitting dress.
- Anything that has a similar shape to a scabbard that is used to hold an object that is longer than it is wide.
- One of the elytra of an insect.
noun
- The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke (also called the peak).
- A writing binding the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without interest, as may be stated in the document; a bill of exchange. In the United States, it is usually called a note, a note of hand, or a promissory note.
- The beak of a bird, especially when small or flattish; sometimes also used with reference to a platypus, turtle, or other animal.
- Of a cap or hat: the brim or peak, serving as a shade to keep sun off the face and out of the eyes.
- A written list or inventory. (Now obsolete except in specific senses or set phrases; bill of lading, bill of goods, etc.)
- A document, originally sealed; a formal statement or official memorandum. (Now obsolete except with certain qualifying words; bill of health, bill of sale etc.)
- A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle, used in pruning, etc.; a billhook.
- The bell, or boom, of the bittern.
- A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; an invoice.
- Any of various bladed or pointed hand weapons, originally designating an Anglo-Saxon sword, and later a weapon of infantry, especially in the 14th and 15th centuries, commonly consisting of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, with a short pike at the back and another at the top, attached to the end of a long staff.
- A piece of paper money; a banknote.
- One hundred dollars.
- A pickaxe, or mattock.
- A beak-like projection, especially a promontory.
- A set of items presented together.
- Somebody armed with a bill; a billman.
- A draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.
- A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods
verb
verb
noun
- A point in time between two unrelated consecutive broadcasts.
- A place where two things meet, especially where two roads meet.
- A place where two or more railways or railroads meet.
- The boundary between two physically different materials, especially between conductors, semiconductors, or metals.
- The act of joining, or the state of being joined.
- The place where a distributary departs from the main stream.
- In the Raku programming language, a construct representing a composite of several values connected by an operator.
- electrical junction: a point or area where multiple conductors or semiconductors make physical contact.
- A kind of symbolic link to a directory.
verb
- To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
- To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively as needed, or to avoid damage from excessive light exposure. See autogating.
- To open a closed ion channel.
- To furnish with a gate.
- To punish, especially a child or teenager, by not allowing them to go out.
noun
- Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
- The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.
- The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
- A street; now used especially as a combining form to make the name of a street e.g. "Briggate" (a common street name in the north of England meaning "Bridge Street") or Kirkgate meaning "Church Street".
- Passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
- The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
- The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate.
- A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
- A doorlike structure outside a house.
- A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.
- The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
- Movable barrier.
- A location which serves as a conduit for transport, migration, or trade.
- A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
- In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
- A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
- A way, path.
noun
- An unwanted effect in the manufacture of electronic circuit boards, in which a component stands up on end instead of lying flat.
- In highway driving, a blockage in traffic caused by a semi-trailer truck attempting to pass another with insufficient acceleration.
- A tombstone pattern on an electrocardiogram.
- The process of (automatically) initiating software sleep mode on an app.
- In page layout, putting articles side by side so that the headlines are adjacent. The phenomenon is also referred to as bumping heads.
- The practice of leaving a marker in a location where a digital record has been withdrawn, in order to signify that the record had previously existed.
- The practice of jumping into the sea or similar body of water from a cliff or other high point such that the jumper enters the water vertically straight, like a tombstone.
noun
- A rope ladder from the ratline to the upper mast.
- A noncompact surface resembling a ladder made of handlebodies.
- A high-voltage electrical device, often used as a visual effect in old movies, which has a pair of vertical electrodes that form an arc between them starting at the bottom, rising to the top, then repeating.
- A pocketknife consisting of two handle segments joined by a pivot, with a blade connected by a second pivot to the end of one handle segment.
- A ladder leading to heaven.
- A toy consisting of blocks of wood, held together by strings or ribbons, that appear to cascade downward as they flip over.
- A serving of short ribs.
- A flowering plant of the genus Polemonium.
noun
- A measure of the electrical potential at the ends of a circuit. ᵂᵖ
- The separation, alignment or orientation of something into two opposed poles.
- The dipole-dipole intermolecular forces between the slightly positively-charged end of one molecule to the negative end of another or the same molecule. ᵂᵖ
- The division of an embryo into an animal pole and a vegetal pole within a blastula. ᵂᵖ
- A duality that is an involution, i.e. has order two. ᵂᵖ
- The grammatical category of the affirmative and the negative. ᵂᵖ
- Any of the various ways in which power is distributed within the international system. ᵂᵖ
- Either of the two extremes of such attributes.
- Spatial differences in shape, structure, and function within a cell. ᵂᵖ
- An indicator of the positivity or negativity of a literal. ᵂᵖ
- The concept of dualism between masculine and feminine. ᵂᵖ
- The direction of a wave's amplitude or its being in phase or antiphase.
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