leading line
dividing line
read
jigsaw
line of sight
line of vision
escape fire
Hackenbush
calculate
line of force
collision course
robot chess
field line
primrose path
baseline
voodoo
picture
scene
feint
unobtainium
symbol pusher
Buridan's ass
real plane
mesolabe
retractor
wedge
Megaminx
thought experiment
saddle point
labyrinthically
hemimetric
rabbit hole
dollar auction
normal form
girthline
cross
alternativity
nerd-snipe
puzzlery
teachable moment
circumference
manipulative
pole
irony
Chinese puzzle
preequatorial
reading
blank
metric
parabola
algebraic notation
circumscribe
two-point perspective
circle
hallucination
vizier
dabbaba
needle in a haystack
haplotypically
tracepoint
God works in mysterious ways
iterable
arrowword
intercortically
hack
huck
telltale
what
Jotto
puzzle cube
limit
distance formula
counterstep
hot mess
playworld
Square-1
disentangler
unraveler
unraveller
across
direction
T-maze
expansivity
address
perspectograph
pick
squiggle
symbol pushing
cone
postequatorial
embuggerance
glue
hyperbolic geometry
computer chess
cursorially
masyu
cryptic
mathematical game
complexifier
payoff function
preequatorial
postequatorial
cryptic
labyrinthically
haplotypically
intercortically
cursorially
leading line
dividing line
jigsaw
line of sight
line of vision
escape fire
line of force
collision course
robot chess
field line
primrose path
baseline
voodoo
picture
scene
feint
unobtainium
symbol pusher
real plane
mesolabe
retractor
wedge
Megaminx
thought experiment
saddle point
hemimetric
rabbit hole
dollar auction
normal form
girthline
cross
alternativity
puzzlery
teachable moment
circumference
manipulative
pole
irony
Chinese puzzle
reading
blank
metric
parabola
algebraic notation
two-point perspective
circle
hallucination
vizier
dabbaba
needle in a haystack
tracepoint
iterable
arrowword
hack
telltale
puzzle cube
limit
distance formula
counterstep
hot mess
playworld
Square-1
disentangler
unraveler
unraveller
across
direction
T-maze
expansivity
perspectograph
squiggle
symbol pushing
cone
embuggerance
glue
hyperbolic geometry
computer chess
masyu
mathematical game
complexifier
payoff function
read
calculate
nerd-snipe
circumscribe
huck
address
pick
verb
- To imagine sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones.
- To fetch data from (a storage medium, etc.).
- To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
- To read work(s) written by (a named author).
- Used after a euphemism to introduce the intended, more blunt meaning of a term.
- To call attention to the flaws of (someone) in either a playful, a taunting, or an insulting way.
- To consist of certain text.
- Synonyms: interpret, make out, make sense of, understand, scan
- To speak aloud words or other information that is written. (often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object)
- To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
- To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks.
- To observe and comprehend (a displayed signal).
- Of text, etc., to be interpreted or read in a particular way.
- To substitute (a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one); used to introduce an emendation of a text.
- To recognise (someone) as being transgender.
- To interpret, or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc., from.
noun
- A person's interpretation or impression of something.
- Something to be read; a written work.
- A reading or an act of reading, especially of an actor's part of a play or a piece of stored data.
- The identification of a specific sequence of genes in a genome or bases in a nucleic acid string
- An instance of reading (“calling attention to someone's flaws; a taunt or insult”).
verb
- To imagine sequences of potential moves and responses without actually moving the pieces.
- To determine values or solutions by a mathematical process; reckon.
- To plan; to expect; to think.
- To adjust for purpose; to adapt by forethought or calculation; to fit or prepare by the adaptation of means to an end.
- To ascertain or predict by mathematical or astrological computations the time, circumstances, or other conditions of; to forecast or compute the character or consequences of.
- To determine the value of something or the solution to something by a mathematical process.
noun
- a situation treated as an observable object
- a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
- graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface
- a clear and telling mental image
- illustrations used to decorate or explain a text
- a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement
- the visible part of a television transmission
- a graphic or vivid verbal description
- a typical example of some state or quality
- a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format
verb
noun
- a situation treated as an observable object
- the place where some action occurs
- an incident (real or imaginary)
- the visual percept of a region
- a consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a film
- a subdivision of an act of a play or performance
- a display of bad temper
- graphic art consisting of the graphic or photographic representation of a visual percept
- the context and environment in which something is set
- the painted structures of a stage set that are intended to suggest a particular locale
noun
- A movement made to confuse an opponent; a dummy.
- Something feigned; a false or pretend appearance; a pretence or stratagem.
- A blow, thrust, or other offensive movement resembling an attack on some part of the body, intended to distract from a real attack on another part.
verb
- To direct a feint or mock attack against (someone).
- To direct (a blow, thrust, or other offensive movement resembling an attack) on some part of the body, intended to distract from a real attack on another part.
- To make a feint or mock attack.
adj
name
- The hypothetical donkey, as a typical character of a number of philosophical paradoxes involving equally valuable incentives to action, and the nature of the possible choices and outcomes.
- The hypothetical donkey, in context of certainly dying of hunger or thirst by being unable to choose between the two equidistant options.
noun
noun
- A chess puzzle in which a number of moves are retracted and the solver is challenged to reach an alternate outcome.
- One who, or that which, retracts.
- A muscle serving to draw in any part.
- A bandage to protect soft parts of the body from injury by a surgical saw.
- A surgical instrument used to hold apart the edges of an incision or wound.
- In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.
noun
- Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things.
- A háček.
- The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos.
- A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape.
- A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
- A barometric ridge; an elongated region of high atmospheric pressure between two low-pressure areas.
- A quantity of money.
- The IPA character ʌ, which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel.
- A wedge tornado.
- A voussoir, one of the wedge-shaped blocks forming an arch or vault.
- One of the basic elements that make up cuneiform writing, a single triangular impression made with the corner of a reed stylus.
- A group of geese, swans, or other birds when they are in flight in a V formation.
- One of a pair of wedge-heeled shoes.
- A sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll.
- A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories.
- The symbol ∧, denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.
- One of the simple machines; a piece of material, such as metal or wood, thick at one edge and tapered to a thin edge at the other for insertion in a narrow crevice, used for splitting, tightening, securing, or levering.
- A hairpin, an elongated horizontal V-shaped sign indicating a crescendo or decrescendo.
- A market trend characterized by a contracting range in prices coupled with an upward trend in prices (a rising wedge) or a downward trend in prices (a falling wedge).
verb
- To support or secure using a wedge.
- To force or drive with a wedge.
- Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state.
- To pack (people or animals) together tightly into a mass.
- To cleave with a wedge.
- To shape into a wedge.
- To force into a narrow gap.
- To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.
noun
- A time-consuming tangent or detour, often one from which it is difficult to extricate oneself.
- A bizarre world, where everyday rules do not apply.
- A way into such a world.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rabbit, hole. (The entrance to) a rabbit warren or burrow.
- The initial clue that leads to an alternate reality game.
noun
- A geometrical figure consisting of two straight lines or bars intersecting each other such that at least one of them is bisected by the other.
- A difficult situation that must be endured.
- A place where roads intersect and lead off in four directions; a crossroad (common in UK and Irish place names such as Gerrards Cross).
- A hybrid of any kind.
- A monument that marks such a place. (Also common in UK or Irish place names such as Charing Cross)
- An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.
- Usually with the: the cross on which Christ was crucified.
- The act of going across; the act of passing from one side to the other
- A modified representation of the crucifixion stake, worn as jewellery or displayed as a symbol of religious devotion.
- A wooden post with a perpendicular beam attached and used (especially in the Roman Empire) to execute criminals (by crucifixion).
- The thirty-sixth Lenormand card.
- A hand gesture made in imitation of the shape of the Cross.
- Four edge cubies of one side that are in their right places, forming the shape of a cross.
- A pipe-fitting with four branches whose axes usually form a right angle.
- Any geometric figure having this or a similar shape, such as a cross of Lorraine or a Maltese cross.
- A hook thrown over the opponent's punch.
- A pass in which the ball is kicked from a side of the pitch to a position close to the opponent’s goal.
- crossfire.
- An animal or plant produced by crossbreeding or cross-fertilization.
- A line drawn across or through another line.
adj
- Bad-tempered, angry, annoyed.
- Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged.
- Of the sea, having two wave systems traveling at oblique angles, due to the wind over shifting direction or the waves of two storm systems meeting.
- Transverse; lying across the main direction.
prep
verb
- Of both batsmen, to pass each other when running between the wickets in order to score runs.
- To go from one side of (something) to the other.
- To travel in a direction or path that will intersect with that of another.
- To make the sign of the cross over oneself.
- To conduct a cross examination; to question a hostile witness.
- To write lines of text at right angles to and over the top of one another in order to save paper.ᵂ
- To cross-fertilize or crossbreed.
- To contradict (another) or frustrate the plans of.
- To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time.
- To stamp or mark (a cheque) in such a way as to prevent it being cashed, thus requiring it to be deposited into a bank account.
- To place across or athwart; to cause to intersect.
- To mark with an X.
- To score a try.
- To lay or draw something across, such as a line.
- To make the sign of the cross over (something or someone).
- To pass the ball from one side of the pitch to the other side.
noun
- A characteristic of something having alternative connotations, akin to the representation of choice between two or more possibilities.
- The tendency to pursue an alternative, especially when the previous solution is less available or less desirable.
- A term of magma used to describe identifiable properties in an algebraic structure.
noun
- A fixed point relative to other points or lines.
- A telescope used to identify birds, aeroplanes or wildlife.
- Either of the two points on the earth's surface around which it rotates; also, similar points on any other rotating object.
- A construction by which an animal is harnessed to a carriage.
- A gun.
- Either of the states that characterize a bipolar disorder.
- A point of magnetic focus, especially each of the two opposing such points of a magnet (designated north and south).
- Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes.
- A type of basic fishing rod.
- A long sports implement used for pole-vaulting; now made of glassfiber or carbon fiber, formerly also metal, bamboo and wood have been used.
- Pole position.
- For a meromorphic function f(z), any point a for which f(z)→∞ as z→a.
- A unit of length, equal to a rod (¹⁄₄ chain or 5+¹⁄₂ yards).
- A penis.
- A contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves.
verb
- To propel by pushing with poles, to push with a pole.
- To furnish with poles for support.
- To identify something quite precisely using a telescope.
- To convey on poles.
- To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.
- To strike (the ball) very hard.
- To induce piezoelectricity in (a substance) by aligning the dipoles.
noun
- The act or process of imagining sequences of potential moves and responses without actually placing stones.
- The process of interpreting a symbol, a sign or a measuring device.
- A value indicated by a measuring device.
- One of several stages a bill passes through before becoming law.
- The process of interpreting written language.
- An event at which written material is read aloud.
- An interpretation.
- The content of a reading list.
- A piece of literature or passage of scripture read aloud to an audience.
- The extent of what one has read.
- Something to read; reading material.
noun
- A domino without points on one or both of its divisions.
- Infertile semen.
- A vacant space, place, or period; a void [since the 17th century].
- A dash written in place of an omitted letter or word
- Blank verse .
- Provisional words printed in italics (instead of blank spaces) in a bill before Parliament, being matters of practical detail, of which the final form will be settled in Committee .
- An empty form without substance; anything insignificant; nothing at all .
- A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated [since the 16th century].
- A space to be filled in on a form or template.
- A document, paper, or form with spaces left blank to be filled up at the pleasure of the person to whom it is given (e.g. a blank charter, ballot, form, contract, etc.), or as the event may determine; a blank form .
- The white spot in the centre of a target; hence (figuratively) the object to which anything is directed or aimed, the range of such aim .
- An unprinted leaf of a book [20th century].
- The ¹ / ₂₃₀₄₀₀ of a grain [17th century].
- Any article of glass on which subsequent processing is required [since the 19th century].
- An empty space in one's memory; a forgotten item or memory [since the 18th century].
- The shaved wax ready for placing on a recording machine for making wax records with a stylus [20th century].
- The space character; the character resulting from pressing the space-bar on a keyboard.
- A sample for a control experiment that does not contain any of the analyte of interest, in order to deliberately produce a non-detection to verify that a detection is distinguishable from it.
verb
- To make void; to erase.
- To ignore (a person) deliberately.
- To prevent from scoring; for example, in a sporting event.
- To become blank.
- To be temporarily unable to remember.
- To render ineffective by blanketing with turbulent airflow, such as from aircraft wake or reverse thrust.
adj
- Lacking characteristics which give variety; uniform.
- Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in
- Utterly confounded or discomfited.
- Empty; void; without result; fruitless.
- Absolute; downright; sheer.
- Devoid of thoughts, memory, or inspiration.
- Of ammunition: having propellant but no bullets; unbulleted.
- Without expression, usually due to incomprehension.
noun
- A function for the measurement of the "distance" between two points in some metric space: it is a real-valued function d(x,y) between points x and y satisfying the following properties: (1) "non-negativity": d(x,y)>0, (2) "identity of indiscernibles": d(x,y)=0 mbox iffx=y, (3) "symmetry": d(x,y)=d(y,x), and (4) "triangle inequality": d(x,y)<d(x,z)+d(z,y).
- A measure for something; a means of deriving a quantitative measurement or approximation for otherwise qualitative phenomena (especially used in engineering).
- A metric tensor.
verb
adj
noun
- The explicit drawing of a parallel between two essentially dissimilar things, especially with a moral or didactic purpose. A parable.
- The conic section formed by the intersection of a cone with a plane parallel to a tangent plane to the cone; the locus of points equidistant from a fixed point (the focus) and line (the directrix).
noun
- A two-dimensional geometric figure, a line, consisting of the set of all those points in a plane that are equally distant from a given point (center).
- An instrument of observation, whose graduated limb consists of an entire circle. When fixed to a wall in an observatory, it is called a mural circle; when mounted with a telescope on an axis and in Y's, in the plane of the meridian, a meridian or transit circle; when involving the principle of reflection, like the sextant, a reflecting circle; and when that of repeating an angle several times continuously along the graduated limb, a repeating circle.
- A two-dimensional geometric figure, a disk, consisting of the set of all those points of a plane at a distance less than or equal to a fixed distance (radius) from a given point.
- A form of argument in which two or more unproved statements are used to prove each other; inconclusive reasoning.
- A line comprising two semicircles of 30 yards radius centred on the wickets joined by straight lines parallel to the pitch used to enforce field restrictions in a one-day match.
- A bagginess of the skin below the eyes from lack of sleep.
- A series ending where it begins, and repeating itself.
- A territorial division or district.
- Any thin three-dimensional equivalent of the geometric figures.
- Any shape, curve or arrangement of objects that approximates to or resembles the geometric figures.
- A curve that more or less forms part or all of a circle.
- A specific group of persons; especially one who shares a common interest.
- The orbit of an astronomical body.
- A ritual circle that is cast three times deosil and closes three times widdershins either in the air with a wand or literally with stones or other items used for worship.
- A traffic circle or roundabout.
verb
noun
- A fairy chess piece that can only be moved one space up, down, left or right.
- An ancient Mesopotamian 𒈛 (sukkal).
- The highest-ranking official or minister in ancient Egypt or Ebla; a chief administrator or a chancellor.
- A high-ranking official or minister in an Islamic government, especially in the Ottoman Empire.
- vicegerent, viceroy
proverb
- Expressing confidence that a conundrum has a solution despite it not being apparent.
- The way God guides us in and through our lives may seem illogical and beyond our understanding, but at the end it ultimately leads us to what our hearts truly desire.
- Commenting that a seemingly unfortunate or unfavourable situation or change may be beneficial later or in the long run.
noun
- An improvised device or solution to a problem.
- A person who frequently canvasses for votes, either directly or by appearing to continuously act with the ulterior motive of furthering their political career.
- An expedient, temporary solution, such as a small patch or change to code, meant to be replaced with a more elegant solution at a later date; a workaround.
- A try, an attempt.
- The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes off for delivery.
- A trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to increase productivity, efficiency, or ease.
- A video game or any computer software that has been altered from its original state.
- A hacking blow.
- A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
- A taxicab (hackney cab) driver.
- A hearse.
- A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for use in hackeysack.
- A dry cough.
- A vehicle let for hire; originally, a hackney coach, now typically a taxicab.
- A kick on the shins in football of any type.
- A tool for chopping.
- A horse for hire, especially one which is old and tired.
- The act of striking an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
- A board which the falcon's food is placed on; used by extension for the state of partial freedom in which they are kept before being trained.
- A gouge or notch made by such a blow.
- Time check, as for example upon synchronization of wristwatches.
- A computer programmer who makes quick but inelegant changes to computer code to solve problems or add features.
- A computer programmer, particularly a veteran or someone not immediately expected to be capable of programming.
- A swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter, particularly a choppy, ungraceful one that misses the ball such as at a fastball.
- One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to persons in a creative field.)
- A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language.
- An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.
- A food-rack for cattle.
- Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary.
- An untalented writer.
- A rack used to dry something, such as bricks, fish, or cheese.
- An airplane of poor quality or in poor condition.
- An illegal attempt to gain access to a computer network.
- A grating in a mill race.
- Confinement of an officer to their stateroom as a punishment.
- A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work.
- A political agitator.
verb
- To ride a horse at a regular pace; to ride on a road (as opposed to riding cross-country etc.).
- To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
- To chop or cut down in a rough manner.
- To kick (a player) on the shins.
- To swing at a pitched ball.
- To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
- To cheat by using unauthorized modifications.
- To work with something on an intimately technical level.
- To strike an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
- To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to (a computer system, e.g., a website, or network) by manipulating code.
- To make a flailing attempt to hit the puck with a hockey stick.
- To withstand or put up with a difficult situation.
- To gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account belonging to (a person or organisation).
- To strike in a frantic movement.
- To play hackeysack.
- To lay (bricks) on a rack to dry.
- To drive a hackney cab.
- To apply a trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to something to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.
- To keep (young hawks) in a state of partial freedom, before they are trained.
- To cough noisily.
- To make a quick code change to patch a computer program, often one that, while being effective, is inelegant or makes the program harder to maintain.
- To accomplish a difficult programming task.
- To strike lightly as part of tapotement massage.
verb
- To make a maneuver in a clumsy or poorly planned way.
- To throw or chuck.
- To paddle off a waterfall or to boof a big drop.
- To attempt a particularly big jump or drop, often haphazardly.
- To throw one's body in the air, possibly in a way that is ungraceful or lacks skill.
- To throw oneself off a large jump or drop.
- To throw a frisbee a long distance.
- To make a long throw with the frisbee; to start a point by making such a throw.
noun
noun
- Something that serves to reveal something else.
- A bird, the tattler.
- A story or fable that has a moral or message.
- One who divulges private information with intent to hurt others.
- A mechanical attachment to the steering wheel, which, in the absence of a tiller, shows the position of the helm.
- Tattletale; squealer.
- A movable piece of ivory, lead, or other material, connected to the bellows of an organ, whose position indicates when the wind is exhausted.
- A length of yarn or ribbon attached to a sail or shroud etc to indicate the direction of the flow of the air relative to the boat.
- A machine or contrivance for indicating or recording something, particularly for keeping a check upon employees (factory hands, watchmen, drivers, etc.) by revealing to their employers what they have done or omitted.
- An indicator, such as a warning light, that serves to warn of a hazard or problem.
- A compass in the cabin of a vessel, usually placed where the captain can see it at all hours, and thus inform himself of the vessel's course.
adj
det
- Which, especially which of an open-ended set of possibilities.
- Any ... that; all ... that; whatever.
- Used to form exclamations.
- Emphasises that something is noteworthy or remarkable in quality or degree, in either a good or bad way; may be used in combination with certain other determiners, especially 'a', less often 'some'.
- Which; the ... that.
noun
- Something that is addressed by what, as opposed to a person, addressed by who.
- The identity of a thing, as an answer to a question of what.
pron
- That which; those that; the thing(s) that.
- That; which; who.
- Anything that; all that; whatever.
- Which thing, event, circumstance, etc.: used in asking for the specification of an identity, quantity, quality, etc.
particle
adv
- In what way; to what extent.
- Used before a prepositional phrase to emphasise that something is taken into consideration as a cause or reason; usually used in combination with 'with' (see what with), and much less commonly with other prepositions.
intj
noun
- The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.
- A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
- A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
- Fixed limit.
- The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
- The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.
- A person who is exasperating, intolerable, astounding, etc.
- A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit and the lower limit of a sequence: if the upper and lower limits are different, then the sequence has no limit (i.e., does not converge).
- Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
adj
verb
noun
prep
- From one side to the other within (a space being traversed).
- At or near the far end of (a space).
- across from: on the opposite side, relative to something that lies between, from (a point of interest).
- To, toward, or from the far side of (something that lies between two points of interest).
- So as to intersect or pass through or over at an angle.
- In possession of full, up-to-date information about; abreast of.
- Throughout.
- Spanning.
- On the opposite side of (something that lies between two points of interest).
adv
noun
- A theoretical line (physically or mentally) followed from a point of origin or towards a destination. May be relative (e.g. up, left, outbound, dorsal), geographical (e.g. north), rotational (e.g. clockwise), or with respect to an object or location (e.g. toward Boston).
- Guidance, instruction.
- A general trend for future action.
- The work of the director in cinema or theater; the skill of directing a film, play etc.
verb
- To direct attention towards a problem or obstacle, in an attempt to resolve it.
- To direct speech to; to make a communication to, whether spoken or written; to apply to by words, as by a speech, petition, etc., to speak to.
- To direct in writing, as a letter; to superscribe, or to direct and transmit.
- To direct one’s remarks (to someone).
- To consign or entrust to the care of another, as agent or factor.
- To prepare oneself; to apply one's skill or energies (to some object); to betake.
- To address oneself to; to prepare oneself for; to apply oneself to; to direct one's speech, discourse or efforts to.
- To refer to a location in computer memory.
- To get ready to hit (the ball on the tee).
- To direct, as words (to anyone or anything); to make, as a speech, petition, etc. (to any audience).
- To make suit to as a lover; to court; to woo.
noun
- An act of addressing oneself to a person or group; a discourse or speech, or a record of this.
- A manner of speaking or writing to another; language, style.
- A description of the location of a property, usually with at least a street name and number, name of a town, and now also a postal code; such a description as superscribed for direction on an envelope or letter.
- The property itself.
- A number identifying a specific storage location in computer memory; a string of characters identifying a location on the internet or other network; sometimes (specifically) an e-mail address.
- The act of bringing the head of the club up to the ball in preparation for swinging.
- A formal approach to a sovereign, especially an official appeal or petition; later (specifically) a response given by each of the Houses of Parliament to the sovereign's speech at the opening of Parliament.
verb
- To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.
- To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand and arm as the ball is released.
- To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
- To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
- To steal; to pilfer.
- To screen.
- To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
- To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground.
- To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
- To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
- To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
- To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
- To remove something from somewhere with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
- To seek (a fight or quarrel) where the opportunity arises.
- To do anything fastidiously or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
- To intercept a pass from the offense as a defensive player.
noun
- Pasture; feed, for animals.
- A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
- A screen.
- A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
- The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute); hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread.
- A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
- A pickoff.
- A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
- That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
- An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- A choice; ability to choose.
- A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
- A good defensive play by an infielder.
- An interception.
- An anchor.
- That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
noun
- An object V together with an arrow going from V to each object of a diagram such that for any arrow A in the diagram, the pair of arrows from V which subtend A also commute with it. (Then V can be said to be the cone’s vertex and the diagram which the cone subtends can be said to be its base.)
- A unit of volume, applied solely to marijuana and only while it is in a smokable state; roughly 1.5 cubic centimetres, depending on use.
- Any of the small cone-shaped structures in the retina.
- A cone-shaped flower head of various plants, such as banksias and proteas.
- Anything shaped like a cone.
- A passenger on a cruise ship (so-called by employees after traffic cones, from the need to navigate around them)
- An ice cream cone.
- A space formed by taking the direct product of a given space with a closed interval and identifying all of one end to a point.
- A surface of revolution formed by rotating a segment of a line around another line that intersects the first line.
- A solid of revolution formed by rotating a triangle around one of its altitudes.
- The fruit of a conifer.
- The process of smoking cannabis in a bong.
- A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form.
- A set of formal languages with certain desirable closure properties, in particular those of the regular languages, the context-free languages and the recursively enumerable languages.
- A traffic cone
- A cone-shaped cannabis joint.
- The bowl piece on a bong.
verb
adj
- Of a crossword puzzle, or a clue in such a puzzle, using, in addition to definitions, wordplay such as anagrams, homophones and hidden words to indicate solutions.
- Involving use of a code or cipher.
- Apparently identical, but actually genetically distinct.
- Serving as camouflage.
- Living in a cavity or small cave.
- Well camouflaged; having good camouflage.
- Mystified or of an obscure nature.
- Having hidden (unapparent) meaning.
noun
English words for 'An imaginary line between two objects that can be used to chart a safe course in a difficult situation.'
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