inflexure
crankle
wingle
intorsion
inbend
uncincate
pretzel
curvation
bevel
twistingly
bendly
benthically
pretzelize
pucker
crook
deflexure
ogee
wind
double up
weaver's hitch
hook
bent
windily
swirl
plagio-
weaver's knot
inelastically
anfractuous
sidelong
flex
chuck
winding
twist
inflection point
cambré
articulate
embowment
circumflexion
vining
bow
enarched
flexure
slant
zigzagging
incurvate
hield
wamble
wallow
flexibleness
inclination
stiff
uncous
bracingly
incurvation
curvilinear
recurvation
flexibility
squiggle
cyrto-
chinkle
twine
snaking
fold
wimple
twisty
wavily
strut
circumgyrate
entwine
ply
supple
wind up
subtend
intratubularly
cranked
intort
crinkle-crankle
dumple
trestlewise
aslant
meander
slanted
inflected
sloping
slanting
sloped
volutation
aslope
ventroversion
diagonal
tuck
buxomly
curvaceously
uncincate
bevel
bendly
anfractuous
sidelong
enarched
slant
zigzagging
stiff
uncous
curvilinear
twisty
supple
cranked
aslant
slanted
inflected
sloping
slanting
sloped
aslope
diagonal
twistingly
benthically
windily
inelastically
bracingly
wavily
intratubularly
trestlewise
buxomly
curvaceously
inflexure
crankle
wingle
intorsion
curvation
pucker
crook
deflexure
ogee
wind
weaver's hitch
bent
swirl
weaver's knot
inbend
flex
winding
twist
inflection point
cambré
embowment
circumflexion
vining
flexure
wallow
flexibleness
inclination
incurvation
recurvation
flexibility
squiggle
chinkle
twine
snaking
fold
wimple
ply
crinkle-crankle
volutation
ventroversion
tuck
inbend
pretzel
pretzelize
crook
double up
hook
chuck
wingle
articulate
bow
flexure
incurvate
hield
wamble
strut
circumgyrate
entwine
wind up
subtend
intort
dumple
meander
flex
adj
noun
- A die used for cheating, having some sides slightly rounded instead of flat.
- An instrument consisting of two rules or arms, jointed together at one end, and opening to any angle, for adjusting the surfaces of work to the same or a given inclination; a bevel square.
- An edge that is canted, one that is not a 90-degree angle; a chamfer.
verb
noun
- A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything).
- A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.
- A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
- A pothook.
- A bishop's standard staff of office.
- An artifice; a trick; a contrivance.
- A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal.
- A specialized staff with a semi-circular bend (a "hook") at one end used by shepherds to control their herds.
- A bending of the knee; a genuflection.
verb
- To bend, or form into a hook.
- To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.
- To become bent or hooked.
adj
noun
- An inflection point.
- The malar or cheekbone prominence transitioning into the mid-cheek hollow.
- The bubble-shaped chamber of a pot still that connects the swan neck to the pot and allows distillate to expand, condense, and fall back into the pot.
- A double curve in the shape of an elongated S; an object of that shape.
- A pointed arch made from two ogees.
noun
- The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist.
- Flatus.
- Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.
- News of an event, especially by hearsay or gossip. (Used with catch, often in the past tense.)
- The region of the solar plexus, where a blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause temporary loss of breath or other injury.
- The ability to breathe easily.
- Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences in air pressure.
- The woodwind section of an orchestra. Occasionally also used to include the brass section.
- A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points, which are often called the "four winds".
- One of the five basic elements in Indian and Japanese models of the Classical elements.
- Types of playing-tile in the game of mah-jongg, named after the four winds.
- Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
- Air artificially put in motion by any force or action.
- A bird, the dotterel.
- A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing.
verb
- To rest (a horse, etc.) in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
- To perceive or follow by scent.
- To turn a boat or ship around, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side.
- To entwist; to enfold; to encircle.
- To cause a baby to bring up wind by patting its back after being fed.
- To cause to move by exerting a winding force; to haul or hoist, as by a winch.
- To turn coils of (a cord or something similar) around something.
- To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate; to govern.
- To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
- To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound.
- To tighten the spring of a clockwork mechanism such as that of a clock.
- To travel in a way that is not straight.
- To cover or surround with something coiled about.
- To turn (a ship) around, end for end.
- To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
- To turn a windmill so that its sails face into the wind.
- To cause (someone) to become breathless, as by a blow to the abdomen, or by physical exertion, running, etc.
verb
- To bend, bend over; to fold; to stoop.
- To employ double the usual resources for a particular purpose.
- To double one's amount of chips by winning an all-in pot.
- To have a secondary use.
- To double the quantity, amount or duration of something
- To get the second out in a double play, typically referring to getting an out by beating a runner back to a base (often by throwing) after a fly ball has been caught
verb
- To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
- 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 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
- 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.
- The part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
- 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.
noun
- The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity.
- A predisposition to act or react in a particular way.
- Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
- Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
- Such a subunit as a component of a barn's framing, joined to other bents by girts and summer beams.
- Such a subunit as a reinforcement to, or integral part of, a bridge's framing.
- Any of various stiff or reedy grasses.
- A grassy area, grassland.
- The old dried stalks of grasses.
- An inclination or talent.
- A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
adj
prefix
verb
- To place in a chuck, or hold by means of a chuck, as in turning.
- To discard, to throw away.
- To vomit.
- To throw; to bowl with an incorrect action.
- To jilt; to dump.
- To bore or turn (a hole) in a revolving piece held in a chuck.
- On rhythm guitar or mandolin etc.: to mute a chord by lifting the fretting fingers immediately after strumming, producing a percussive effect.
- To touch or tap gently.
- To leave; to depart; to bounce.
- To throw, especially in a careless or inaccurate manner.
- To call, as a hen her chickens.
- To make a clucking sound.
noun
- Meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal.
- A mechanical device that holds an object firmly in place, for example holding a drill bit in a high-speed rotating drill or grinder.
- A clucking sound.
- A friend or close acquaintance; term of endearment.
- A gentle touch or tap.
- A throw, an incorrect bowling action.
- An act or instance of vomiting.
- On rhythm guitar or mandolin etc., the muting of a chord by lifting the fretting fingers immediately after strumming, producing a percussive effect.
- A small pebble.
- A casual throw.
noun
- the act of winding or twisting
- an unforeseen development
- an interpretation of a text or action
- any clever maneuver
- the act of rotating rapidly
- a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments
- a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight
- a circular segment of a curve
- a miniature whirlpool or whirlwind resulting when the current of a fluid doubles back on itself
- a jerky pulling movement
- a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair
- social dancing in which couples vigorously twist their hips and arms in time to the music; was popular in the 1960s
- turning or twisting around (in place)
verb
- to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling)
- cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form
- turn in the opposite direction
- form into a spiral shape
- form into twists
- extend in curves and turns
- do the twist
- twist or pull violently or suddenly, especially so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached or from where it originates
- practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive
- twist suddenly so as to sprain
verb
- To bend or hinge something at intervals, or to allow or build something so that it can bend.
- To make clear or effective.
- To explain; to put into words; to make something specific.
- To speak clearly; to enunciate.
- to form a joint or connect by joints
- to attack a note, as by tonguing, slurring, bowing, etc.
noun
adj
verb
- To make something bend or curve.
- To become bent or curved.
- To defer (to something).
- To give a direction, indication, or command to by bowing.
- To play music on (a stringed) instrument using a bow.
- To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend, figuratively; to turn; to incline.
- To debut.
- To bend oneself as a gesture of respect or deference.
noun
- Any instrument consisting of an elastic rod, with ends connected by a string, employed for giving reciprocating motion to a drill, or for preparing and arranging hair, fur, etc., used by hatters.
- The part of a key that is not inserted into the lock and that is used to turn the key.
- The U-shaped piece which goes around the neck of an ox and fastens it to the yoke.
- A curved bend in a rod or planar surface, or in a linear formation such as a river (see oxbow).
- A crude sort of quadrant formerly used for taking the sun's altitude at sea.
- Two pieces of wood which form the arched forward part of a saddletree.
- A type of knot with two loops, used to tie together two cords such as shoelaces or apron strings, and frequently used as decoration, such as in gift-wrapping.
- Anything bent or curved, such as a rainbow.
- The front of a boat or ship.
- A weapon made of a curved piece of wood or other flexible material whose ends are connected by a string, used for shooting arrows.
- Either of the arms of a pair of spectacles, running from the side of the lens to behind the wearer's ear.
- The rower that sits in the seat closest to the bow of the boat.
- A stringed instrument (chordophone), consisting of a stick with a single taut cord stretched between the ends, most often played by plucking.
- A rod with horsehair (or an artificial substitute) stretched between the ends, used for playing various stringed musical instruments.
- A gesture, usually showing respect, made by inclining the head or bending forward at the waist; a reverence
noun
- A turn; a bend; a fold; a curve.
- The act of bending or flexing; flexion.
- A curve or bend in a tubular organ.
- The last joint, or bend, of the wing of a bird.
- The small distortion of an astronomical instrument caused by the weight of its parts; the amount to be added or subtracted from the observed readings of the instrument to correct them for this distortion.
verb
adj
noun
- A run: a heading driven diagonally between the dip and strike of a coal seam.
- A palette or similar container with slants or sloping depressions.
- A crime committed for the purpose of being apprehended and transported to a major settlement.
- A point of view, an angle.
- A look, a glance.
- An opportunity, particularly to go somewhere.
- A depression on a palette with a sloping bottom for holding and mixing watercolours.
- A person with slanting eyes, particularly an East Asian.
- A sloped surface or line.
- A pan with a sloped bottom used for holding paintbrushes.
- A slope; an incline, inclination.
- A sloping surface in a culture medium.
- Synonym of slash ⟨ / ⟩, particularly in its use to set off pronunciations from other text.
- An oblique movement or course.
verb
adj
- Rigid; hard to bend; inflexible.
- Of a shot: landing so close to the flagstick that it should be very easy to sink the ball with the next shot.
- Delivered more forcefully than needed, whether intentionally or accidentally, thus causing legitimate pain to the opponent.
- Dead, deceased.
- Erect.
- Inflexible; rigid.
- Beaten until so aerated that they stand up straight on their own.
- Formal in behavior; unrelaxed.
- Harsh, severe.
- Potent.
- Painful as a result of excessive or unaccustomed exercise.
- Having a dense consistency; thick; (by extension) Difficult to stir.
- Of an equation: for which certain numerical solving methods are numerically unstable, unless the step size is taken to be extremely small.
- Keeping upright.
verb
- To tip ungenerously.
- To kill.
- To cheat someone
- To fail to pay that which one owes (implicitly or explicitly) to another, especially by departing hastily.
noun
- Any hard hand where it is possible to exceed 21 by drawing an additional card.
- A person who leaves (especially a restaurant) without paying the bill.
- A customer who does not leave a tip.
- A person who is deceived, as a mark or pigeon in a swindle.
- A cadaver; a dead person.
- Negotiable instruments, possibly forged.
- A note or letter surreptitiously sent by an inmate.
- A flop; a commercial failure.
- An average person, usually male, of no particular distinction, skill, or education.
adv
prefix
noun
- The act of twining or winding round.
- A strong thread composed of two or three smaller threads or strands twisted together, and used for various purposes, as for binding small parcels, making nets, and the like; a small cord or string.
- Intimate and suggestive dance gyrations.
- A twist; a convolution.
verb
- To wind; to bend; to make turns; to meander.
- To ascend in spiral lines about a support; to climb spirally.
- To weave together.
- To wind, as one thread around another, or as any flexible substance around another body.
- To wind about; to embrace; to entwine.
- To mutually twist together; to become mutually involved; to intertwine.
noun
- A bend or crease.
- A group of sheep or goats.
- A section of source code that can be collapsed out of view in an editor to aid readability.
- Home, family.
- A church congregation, a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church; the Christian church as a whole, the flock of Christ.
- An act of folding.
- That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops; embrace.
- The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window without scrolling; usually the fold.
- Any correct move in origami.
- A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.
- The division between the top and bottom halves of a broadsheet: headlines above the fold will be readable in a newsstand display; usually the fold.
- In functional programming, any of a family of higher-order functions that process a data structure recursively to build up a value.
- A group of people with shared ideas or goals or who live or work together.
- The bending or curving of one or a stack of originally flat and planar surfaces, such as sedimentary strata, as a result of plastic (i.e. permanent) deformation.
verb
- To stir gently, with a folding action.
- To fall over; to be crushed.
- To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.
- To give way on a point or in an argument.
- To enclose within folded arms (see also enfold).
- To become folded; to form folds.
- To withdraw from betting.
- To withdraw or quit in general.
- To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands.
- To cover or wrap up; to conceal.
- To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
- To confine animals in a fold.
- Of a company, to cease to trade.
adj
noun
verb
- To be attached diagonally or at a slant; also, to be bent at a sharp angle.
- Of a peacock or other fowl: to stand or walk stiffly, with the tail erect and spread out.
- To walk across or on (a stage or other place) haughtily or proudly.
- To walk haughtily or proudly with one's head held high.
- To brace or support (something) by a strut or struts; to hold (something) in place or strengthen by a diagonal, transverse, or upright support.
noun
- A beam or rod providing support.
- An act of strutting (“bracing or supporting (something) by a strut or struts (sense 1); attaching diagonally; bending at a sharp angle”); specifically, deviation (of the spoke of a wheel) from the normal position.
- An instrument for adjusting the pleats of a ruff.
- A step or walk done stiffly and with the head held high, often due to haughtiness or pride; affected dignity in walking.
verb
- To form into a bent or curved shape.
- To make circuits (around an area or space).
- To move around something.
- To turn in a circle around an axis or fixed point.
- To cause to move around something; to cause to orbit.
- To be formed into a bent or curved shape (around something).
- To cause to turn in a circle around an axis or fixed point.
noun
- A bent; a direction.
- In two-player sequential games, a "half-turn" or a move made by one of the players.
- A layer of material.
- A strand that, twisted together with other strands, makes up rope or yarn.
- A condition, a state.
verb
- To work at (something) diligently.
- To press upon; to urge persistently.
- To persist in offering something to, especially for the purpose of inducement or persuasion.
- To travel over (a route) regularly.
- To bend, to flex; to be bent by something, to give way or yield (to a force, etc.).
- To wield or use (a tool, a weapon, etc.) steadily or vigorously.
verb
- To tighten (someone or something) by winding or twisting.
- To dissolve (a partnership or corporation) and liquidate its assets.
- To wind (rope, string, mainsprings, etc.) completely.
- To put (a clock, watch, etc.) in a state of renewed or continued motion by winding the spring or other energy-storage mechanism.
- To end up; to arrive or result.
- To upset; to anger or distress.
- To increase (in some aspect).
- To roll up (a car window or well bucket, etc., by cranking).
- To play a prank (on); to take the mickey (out of) or mock.
- To excite.
- To make the preparatory movements for a certain kind of pitch.
- To conclude, complete, or finish (something).
verb
- To extend or stretch opposite something; to be part of a straight or curved line that is opposite to and delimits an angle.
- To use an angle to delimit (mark off, enclose) part of a straight or curved line, for example an arc or the opposite side of a triangle.
- To form the central angle of a circle underneath an arc
verb
noun
- One of a series of regular sinuous curves, bends, loops, turns, or windings in the channel of a river, stream, or other watercourse
- Perplexity.
- One of the turns of a winding, crooked, or involved course.
- Synonym of Greek key, a decorative border; fretwork.
- A self-avoiding closed curve which intersects a line a number of times.
- A tortuous or winding journey.
adj
- having an oblique or slanted direction
- connecting two nonadjacent corners of a plane figure or any two corners of a solid that are not in the same face
noun
- (geometry) a straight line connecting any two vertices of a polygon that are not adjacent
- a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric
- an oblique line of squares of the same color on a checkerboard
- (mathematics) a set of entries in a square matrix running diagonally either from the upper left to lower right entry or running from the upper right to lower left entry
- a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information
noun
- An act of tucking; a pleat or fold.
- The act of keeping the thumb in position while moving the rest of the hand over it to continue playing keys that are outside the thumb.
- The beat of a drum.
- A fold in fabric that has been stitched in place from end to end, as to reduce the overall dimension of the fabric piece.
- A plastic surgery technique to remove excess skin.
- A curled position.
- A curled position, with the shins held towards the body.
- The afterpart of a ship, immediately under the stern or counter, where the ends of the bottom planks are collected and terminate by the tuck-rail.
verb
- To sew folds; to make a tuck or tucks in.
- To push into a snug position; to place somewhere safe or somewhat hidden.
- To pull or gather up (an item of fabric).
- To keep the thumb in position while moving the rest of the hand over it to continue playing keys that are outside the thumb.
- To eat; to consume.
- To conceal one’s penis and testicles, as with a gaff or by fastening them down with adhesive tape.
- To curl into a ball; to fold up and hold one's legs.
- To full, as cloth.
- To fit neatly.
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