English words for 'An insect, the silverfish.'
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noun
- A common silverfish (Lepisma saccharinum, or any member of genus Lepisma.
- (slang) A moonshiner.
- One who causes things to shine; a polisher.
- A small reflective surface used for cheating at card games.
- Any silvery fish, such as the horsefish, menhaden, or moonfish.
- (colloquial) Raccoon eyes.
- Any of numerous species of small freshwater American cyprinoid fishes of Notropis, Lythrurus, and allied genera, such as the redfin.
- A brick that is laid on its tallest, thinnest side, with its largest face facing the outside of the wall (oriented so that this face is wider than it is tall).
- (wine) A bottle of finished wine, without a label.
- One who shines; a luminary.
- (colloquial) A black eye.
- something that shines (with emitted or reflected light)
- any of numerous small silvery North American cyprinid fishes especially of the genus Notropis
- a swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye
- important food fish of the northern Atlantic and Mediterranean; its body is greenish-blue with dark bars and small if any scales
noun
- Ctenolepisma lineata (four-lined silverfish).
- Ctenolepisma longicaudata (grey silverfish).
- Antarctic silverfish, Pleuragramma antarcticum.
- Enteromius mattozi (papermouth)
- Elops saurus (ladyfish)
- Ulaema lefroyi (mottled mojarra)
- Labeobarbus bynni (Niger barb, barbel, Nile barb)
- Argentina sphyraena (herring smelt)
- Trichiurus lepturus (largehead hairtail)
- Leptatherina presbyteroides (hardyhead, prettyfish)
- Callorhinchus milii (elephant shark)
- Raiamas senegalensis (silver fish).
- Argyrozona argyrozona (carpenter sea bream)
- Steindachnerina argentea (toothless characin)
- A white variety of the goldfish.
- Aphareus rutilans (rusty jobfish)
- Megalops atlanticus (Atlantic tarpon, tarpum).
- A small wingless insect of species Lepisma saccharinum, with silvery scales; a type of bristletail.
- Pseudocaranx dentex (white trevally)
- Trachinotus ovatus (pompano)
- silver-grey wingless insect found in houses feeding on book bindings and starched clothing
- a silvery variety of Carassius auratus
noun
- The sablefish.
- (countable) Any other marten, especially Martes americana (syn. Mustela americana).
- (countable) A small carnivorous mammal of the Old World that resembles a weasel, Martes zibellina, from cold regions in Eurasia and the North Pacific islands, valued for its dark brown fur.
- (countable and uncountable) A dark brown colour, resembling the fur of some sables.
- (in the plural, sables) Black garments, especially worn in mourning.
- (countable) An artist's brush made from the fur of the sable, the kolinsky sable-hair brush.
- (heraldry) A black colour on a coat of arms.
- (countable and uncountable) A pelt of fur of a sable or of one of another species of martens; a coat made from this fur.
- marten of northern Asian forests having luxuriant dark brown fur
- a scarf (or trimming) made of sable
- an artist's brush made of sable hairs
- the expensive dark brown fur of the marten
- a very dark black
adj
noun
- a mayfly used as fishing bait
- (fantasy, not universal) lesser draconic creature
- A male duck.
- (old) mayfly
- (poetic) dragon
- (historical) small piece of artillery
- a fiery meteor (variously known as fiery serpents and dragons in many cultures)
- beaked galley, or Viking warship
- adult male of a wild or domestic duck
noun
- A lesser queenfish (Scomberoides lysan)
- A beluga (both the sturgeon and the whale).
- Any of several North American freshwater fish, of the genus Coregonus, used as food.
- (cooking, fishing) Any of several species of demersal fish with fins, particularly cod, whiting, and haddock, as opposed to the oily or pelagic fishes.
- Any of several other fish, such as whiting (Merlangius merlangus) or menhaden (Brevoortia spp. and Ethmidium spp.).
- any market fish — edible saltwater fish or shellfish — except herring
- silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the Northern Hemisphere
- flesh of salmon-like or trout-like cold-water fish of cold lakes of the Northern Hemisphere
verb
noun
- (fishing) A lightweight fishing lure resembling an insect.
- (often plural) A strip of material (sometimes hiding zippers or buttons) at the front of a pair of trousers, pants, underpants, bootees, etc.
- The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn.
- A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power printing press for doing the same work.
- The horizontal length of a flag.
- A piece of canvas that covers the opening at the front of a tent.
- (weightlifting) A chest exercise performed by moving extended arms from the sides to in front of the chest. (also flye)
- (weaving) A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk.
- An act of flying.
- (historical) A type of small, light, fast horse-drawn carriage that can be hired for transportation (sometimes pluralised flys).
- (preceded by definite article) A simple dance in which the hands are shaken in the air, popular in the 1960s.
- (American football) Ellipsis of fly route.
- The person who took the printed sheets from the press.
- The moving portion of an extendable ladder.
- Alternative form of vly (“swamp (in New York)”).
- Two or more vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of machinery by the resistance of the air, as in the striking part of a clock.
- (weightlifting) An exercise that involves wide opening and closing of the arms perpendicular to the shoulders.
- (nautical) That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card.
- Any similar but not closely related insect, such as a dragonfly, butterfly, or gallfly.
- (cotton manufacture) Waste cotton.
- (finance) A butterfly (combination of four options).
- One of the upper screens of a stage in a theatre.
- (baseball) A fly ball.
- (rustic, Scotland, Northern England) A wing.
- The part of a weather vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows.
- (swimming) The butterfly stroke (plural is normally flys).
- In a knitting machine, the piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while the needle is penetrating another loop; a latch.
- (zoology) Any insect of the order Diptera; characterized by having two wings (except for some wingless species), also called true flies.
- Ellipsis of flywheel.
- The free edge of a flag.
- (non-technical) Especially, any of the insects of the family Muscidae, such as the common housefly (other families of Diptera include mosquitoes and midges).
- fisherman's lure consisting of a fishhook decorated to look like an insect
- an opening in a garment that is closed by a zipper or by buttons concealed under a fold of cloth
- (baseball) a hit that flies up in the air
- flap consisting of a piece of canvas that can be drawn back to provide entrance to a tent
- two-winged insects characterized by active flight
adj
verb
- (transitive, ergative) To display (a flag) on a flagpole.
- (intransitive, entomology, of a type of moth or butterfly) To be in the winged adult stage.
- (intransitive, baseball) To hit a fly ball; to hit a fly ball that is caught for an out. Compare ground (verb) and line (verb).
- (intransitive) To travel through the air, another gas, or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface.
- (intransitive) To travel or proceed very fast; to hasten.
- (transitive, ergative) To cause to fly (travel or float in the air): to transport via air or the like.
- (intransitive) To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly.
- (intransitive, colloquial, of a proposal, project or idea) To be accepted, come about or work out.
- (intransitive) To proceed with great success.
- (transitive) To hunt with a hawk.
- be dispersed or disseminated
- pass away rapidly
- display in the air or cause to float
- move quickly or suddenly
- change quickly from one emotional state to another
- hit a fly
- travel over (an area of land or sea) in an aircraft
- cause to fly or float
- travel in an airplane
- run away quickly
- decrease rapidly and disappear
- operate an airplane
- transport by aeroplane
- travel through the air; be airborne
noun
- A common bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix)
- A cutlass fish (Trichiuridae spp.)
- A threadfish (Alectis spp.)
- A leatherjacket, leatherjack (genus Oligoplites)
- Several of the genus Euthynnus resembling tuna:
- A saurel (Trachurus spp.)
- An alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus)
- A jurel (Caranx or Trachurus)
- A saury (Scomberesocidae spp.)
- An elaterid; a click beetle.
- A skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis)
- A bonito (Sarda spp. etc.)
- A runner (Elagatis pinnulatis)
- A shallow sailboat with a rectilinear or V-shaped cross section.
- A butterfish
- able to right itself when on its back by flipping into the air with a clicking sound
- medium-sized tuna-like food fish of warm Atlantic and Pacific waters; less valued than tuna
- oceanic schooling tuna of considerable value in Pacific but less in Atlantic; reaches 75 pounds; very similar to if not the same as oceanic bonito
noun
- A drumfish (family Sciaenidae).
- (informal) A drumstick (of chicken, turkey, etc).
- (US) Synonym of construction barrel.
- (now historical) A social gathering or assembly held in the evening.
- (architecture) Any of the cylindrical blocks that make up the shaft of a pillar.
- Any similar hollow, cylindrical object.
- (architecture) The encircling wall that supports a dome or cupola.
- (Australia slang) A tip; a piece of information.
- (slang, chiefly UK) A person's home; a house or other building, especially when insalubrious; a tavern, a brothel.
- A barrel or large cylindrical container for liquid transport and storage.
- (music) A percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber; a membranophone.
- a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends
- a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end
- small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise
- the sound of a drum
- a cylindrical metal container, commonly used for shipping or storage of liquids
- a hollow cast iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes
verb
- Of various animals, to make a vocalisation or mechanical sound that resembles drumming.
- (intransitive) To beat a drum.
- To throb, as the heart.
- To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc.; used with for.
- (ambitransitive) To beat with a rapid succession of strokes.
- (transitive) To drill or review in an attempt to establish memorization.
- study intensively, as before an exam
- make a rhythmic sound
- play a percussion instrument
noun
- dark-colored insect having predaceous aquatic larvae
- A member of any one of the 66 species of the family Sialidae of megalopteran insects, each specimen of which has a body length not exceeding one inch and possesses long filamentous antennae and four large dark wings.
- (fishing) An artificial fly with brown mottled wings, body of peacock harl, and black legs.
noun
- any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies
- in family Monodactylidae (fingerfishes, silver angelfishes).
- large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean
- cusk (Brosme brosme), a North Atlantic cod-like fish in the ling family Lotidae, the only species in its genus.
- Mene maculata, of tropical coastal waters of the Indo-Pacific area.
- southern platyfish (Xiphophorus maculatus).
- opahs in the family Lamprididae.
- Most species of the genus Selene.
- Atlantic spadefish (Chaetodipterus faber).
- in family Molidae (ocean sunfish).
noun
- A bonefish.
- (figurative) A reward.
- (US, informal, in the plural) A dollar.
- (countable) Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of this material.
- (slang) An erect penis; a boner.
- (slang, chiefly in the plural) A domino or die.
- (figurative) The framework of anything.
- One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music.
- Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
- An off-white colour, like the typical colour of bone.
- A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
- (uncountable) A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
- (American football, informal) The wishbone formation.
- (slang) Clipping of trombone.
- (slang) A cannabis cigarette; a joint.
- One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
- the porous calcified substance from which bones are made
- rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates
- a shade of white the color of bleached bones
adj
adv
verb
- (vulgar, slang, usually of a man, ambitransitive) To have sexual intercourse (with).
- (transitive, slang) To apprehend, steal.
- To put whalebone into.
- To polish boots to a shiny finish.
- (usually with "up") To study.
- (carpentry, masonry, surveying) To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.
- To nag, especially for an unpaid debt.
- To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
- (civil engineering) To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.
- To fertilize with bone.
- study intensively, as before an exam
- remove the bones from
noun
- silver gemfish (Rexea solandri) of Australia
- white croaker (Genyonemus lineatus), of the United Kingdom
- Japanese meagre (Argyrosomus japonicus) of Australia
- wahoo (Acanthocybium solandri), of Barbados
- giant trevally or travelli (Caranx ignobilis) of South Africa
- narrow-barred Spanish mackerel (Scomberomorus commerson) of Australia
- crevalle jack (Caranx hippos) of Mauritania
- Cobia (Rachycentron canadum), of warm waters globally.
- king mackerel (Scomberomorus cavalla)
- Any of several food fishes of the genus Menticirrhus from the Atlantic; kingcroakers.
- opah (Lampris guttatus), of the United Kingdom
- yellowtail amberjack (Seriola lalandi) of Australia and New Zealand
- large game fish of Australia and New Zealand
- any of several food and game fishes of the drum family indigenous to warm Atlantic waters of the North American coast
- the lean flesh of any of several fish caught off the Atlantic coast of the United States
- small silvery marine food fish found off California
- large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters
noun
adj
adv
noun
- small cold-water silvery fish; migrate between salt and fresh water
- small trout-like silvery marine or freshwater food fishes of cold northern waters
- Any small anadromous fish of the family Osmeridae, found in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and in lakes in North America and northern part of Europe.
- Production of metal, especially iron, from ore in a process that involves heating and chemical reduction of metal compounds into purified metal.
- Any of the various liquids or semi-molten solids produced and used during the course of such production.
verb
noun
- a small fish of the genus Sillago; excellent food fish
- any of several food fishes of North American coastal waters
- flesh of any of a number of slender food fishes especially of Atlantic coasts of North America
- flesh of a cod-like fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe
- a food fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe resembling the cod; sometimes placed in genus Gadus
- found off Atlantic coast of North America
- A southern blue whiting (Micromesistius australis), a marine fish of the Southern Hemisphere.
- A fish, Merlangius merlangus (family Gadidae), similar to cod, found in the North Atlantic; English whiting (US).
- in family Sciaenidae, Menticirrhus americanus (Carolina whiting, king whiting, southern kingcroaker, and southern kingfish) found along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States.
- (Canada) Alaska pollock (Gadus chalcogrammus, syn. Theragra chalcogramma).
- A fine white chalk used in paints, putty, whitewash etc.
- in family Sillaginidae, smelt-whitings, inhabiting Indo-Pacific marine coasts, many species of which are commercially important whitefish.
- A blue whiting (Micromesistius poutassou), a marine fish of the Northern Hemisphere.
- (US) Any of several marine fish found in North American coastal waters, including hakes (genus Merluccius), especially Merluccius bilinearis (silver hake).
verb
noun
- Ellipsis of crown-of-thorns starfish
- A woodworking technique, used in tramp art, in which interlocking pieces are notched to intersect at right angles and form joints and self-supporting objects.
- The plant Koeberlinia spinosa.
- A spiny Mediterranean tree, Ziziphus spina-christi.
- (Christianity) The crown made of a thorny plant that Christ was forced to wear before his Crucifixion, in mocking reference to his alleged status as ‘king of the Jews’, or a representation of this.
- A spiny spurge, Euphorbia milii, native to Madagascar.
- a mock crown made of thorn branches that Roman soldiers placed on Jesus before the Crucifixion
- any affliction that causes great suffering
- somewhat climbing bushy spurge of Madagascar having long woody spiny stems with few leaves and flowers with scarlet bracts
noun
- A common silverfish (Lepisma saccharinum, or any member of genus Lepisma.
- (slang) A moonshiner.
- One who causes things to shine; a polisher.
- A small reflective surface used for cheating at card games.
- Any silvery fish, such as the horsefish, menhaden, or moonfish.
- (colloquial) Raccoon eyes.
- Any of numerous species of small freshwater American cyprinoid fishes of Notropis, Lythrurus, and allied genera, such as the redfin.
- A brick that is laid on its tallest, thinnest side, with its largest face facing the outside of the wall (oriented so that this face is wider than it is tall).
- (wine) A bottle of finished wine, without a label.
- One who shines; a luminary.
- (colloquial) A black eye.
- something that shines (with emitted or reflected light)
- any of numerous small silvery North American cyprinid fishes especially of the genus Notropis
- a swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye
- important food fish of the northern Atlantic and Mediterranean; its body is greenish-blue with dark bars and small if any scales
noun
- Ctenolepisma lineata (four-lined silverfish).
- Ctenolepisma longicaudata (grey silverfish).
- Antarctic silverfish, Pleuragramma antarcticum.
- Enteromius mattozi (papermouth)
- Elops saurus (ladyfish)
- Ulaema lefroyi (mottled mojarra)
- Labeobarbus bynni (Niger barb, barbel, Nile barb)
- Argentina sphyraena (herring smelt)
- Trichiurus lepturus (largehead hairtail)
- Leptatherina presbyteroides (hardyhead, prettyfish)
- Callorhinchus milii (elephant shark)
- Raiamas senegalensis (silver fish).
- Argyrozona argyrozona (carpenter sea bream)
- Steindachnerina argentea (toothless characin)
- A white variety of the goldfish.
- Aphareus rutilans (rusty jobfish)
- Megalops atlanticus (Atlantic tarpon, tarpum).
- A small wingless insect of species Lepisma saccharinum, with silvery scales; a type of bristletail.
- Pseudocaranx dentex (white trevally)
- Trachinotus ovatus (pompano)
- silver-grey wingless insect found in houses feeding on book bindings and starched clothing
- a silvery variety of Carassius auratus
noun
- The sablefish.
- (countable) Any other marten, especially Martes americana (syn. Mustela americana).
- (countable) A small carnivorous mammal of the Old World that resembles a weasel, Martes zibellina, from cold regions in Eurasia and the North Pacific islands, valued for its dark brown fur.
- (countable and uncountable) A dark brown colour, resembling the fur of some sables.
- (in the plural, sables) Black garments, especially worn in mourning.
- (countable) An artist's brush made from the fur of the sable, the kolinsky sable-hair brush.
- (heraldry) A black colour on a coat of arms.
- (countable and uncountable) A pelt of fur of a sable or of one of another species of martens; a coat made from this fur.
- marten of northern Asian forests having luxuriant dark brown fur
- a scarf (or trimming) made of sable
- an artist's brush made of sable hairs
- the expensive dark brown fur of the marten
- a very dark black
adj
noun
- a mayfly used as fishing bait
- (fantasy, not universal) lesser draconic creature
- A male duck.
- (old) mayfly
- (poetic) dragon
- (historical) small piece of artillery
- a fiery meteor (variously known as fiery serpents and dragons in many cultures)
- beaked galley, or Viking warship
- adult male of a wild or domestic duck
noun
- A lesser queenfish (Scomberoides lysan)
- A beluga (both the sturgeon and the whale).
- Any of several North American freshwater fish, of the genus Coregonus, used as food.
- (cooking, fishing) Any of several species of demersal fish with fins, particularly cod, whiting, and haddock, as opposed to the oily or pelagic fishes.
- Any of several other fish, such as whiting (Merlangius merlangus) or menhaden (Brevoortia spp. and Ethmidium spp.).
- any market fish — edible saltwater fish or shellfish — except herring
- silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the Northern Hemisphere
- flesh of salmon-like or trout-like cold-water fish of cold lakes of the Northern Hemisphere
verb
noun
- (fishing) A lightweight fishing lure resembling an insect.
- (often plural) A strip of material (sometimes hiding zippers or buttons) at the front of a pair of trousers, pants, underpants, bootees, etc.
- The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn.
- A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power printing press for doing the same work.
- The horizontal length of a flag.
- A piece of canvas that covers the opening at the front of a tent.
- (weightlifting) A chest exercise performed by moving extended arms from the sides to in front of the chest. (also flye)
- (weaving) A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk.
- An act of flying.
- (historical) A type of small, light, fast horse-drawn carriage that can be hired for transportation (sometimes pluralised flys).
- (preceded by definite article) A simple dance in which the hands are shaken in the air, popular in the 1960s.
- (American football) Ellipsis of fly route.
- The person who took the printed sheets from the press.
- The moving portion of an extendable ladder.
- Alternative form of vly (“swamp (in New York)”).
- Two or more vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of machinery by the resistance of the air, as in the striking part of a clock.
- (weightlifting) An exercise that involves wide opening and closing of the arms perpendicular to the shoulders.
- (nautical) That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card.
- Any similar but not closely related insect, such as a dragonfly, butterfly, or gallfly.
- (cotton manufacture) Waste cotton.
- (finance) A butterfly (combination of four options).
- One of the upper screens of a stage in a theatre.
- (baseball) A fly ball.
- (rustic, Scotland, Northern England) A wing.
- The part of a weather vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows.
- (swimming) The butterfly stroke (plural is normally flys).
- In a knitting machine, the piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while the needle is penetrating another loop; a latch.
- (zoology) Any insect of the order Diptera; characterized by having two wings (except for some wingless species), also called true flies.
- Ellipsis of flywheel.
- The free edge of a flag.
- (non-technical) Especially, any of the insects of the family Muscidae, such as the common housefly (other families of Diptera include mosquitoes and midges).
- fisherman's lure consisting of a fishhook decorated to look like an insect
- an opening in a garment that is closed by a zipper or by buttons concealed under a fold of cloth
- (baseball) a hit that flies up in the air
- flap consisting of a piece of canvas that can be drawn back to provide entrance to a tent
- two-winged insects characterized by active flight
adj
verb
- (transitive, ergative) To display (a flag) on a flagpole.
- (intransitive, entomology, of a type of moth or butterfly) To be in the winged adult stage.
- (intransitive, baseball) To hit a fly ball; to hit a fly ball that is caught for an out. Compare ground (verb) and line (verb).
- (intransitive) To travel through the air, another gas, or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface.
- (intransitive) To travel or proceed very fast; to hasten.
- (transitive, ergative) To cause to fly (travel or float in the air): to transport via air or the like.
- (intransitive) To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly.
- (intransitive, colloquial, of a proposal, project or idea) To be accepted, come about or work out.
- (intransitive) To proceed with great success.
- (transitive) To hunt with a hawk.
- be dispersed or disseminated
- pass away rapidly
- display in the air or cause to float
- move quickly or suddenly
- change quickly from one emotional state to another
- hit a fly
- travel over (an area of land or sea) in an aircraft
- cause to fly or float
- travel in an airplane
- run away quickly
- decrease rapidly and disappear
- operate an airplane
- transport by aeroplane
- travel through the air; be airborne
noun
- A common bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix)
- A cutlass fish (Trichiuridae spp.)
- A threadfish (Alectis spp.)
- A leatherjacket, leatherjack (genus Oligoplites)
- Several of the genus Euthynnus resembling tuna:
- A saurel (Trachurus spp.)
- An alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus)
- A jurel (Caranx or Trachurus)
- A saury (Scomberesocidae spp.)
- An elaterid; a click beetle.
- A skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis)
- A bonito (Sarda spp. etc.)
- A runner (Elagatis pinnulatis)
- A shallow sailboat with a rectilinear or V-shaped cross section.
- A butterfish
- able to right itself when on its back by flipping into the air with a clicking sound
- medium-sized tuna-like food fish of warm Atlantic and Pacific waters; less valued than tuna
- oceanic schooling tuna of considerable value in Pacific but less in Atlantic; reaches 75 pounds; very similar to if not the same as oceanic bonito
noun
- A drumfish (family Sciaenidae).
- (informal) A drumstick (of chicken, turkey, etc).
- (US) Synonym of construction barrel.
- (now historical) A social gathering or assembly held in the evening.
- (architecture) Any of the cylindrical blocks that make up the shaft of a pillar.
- Any similar hollow, cylindrical object.
- (architecture) The encircling wall that supports a dome or cupola.
- (Australia slang) A tip; a piece of information.
- (slang, chiefly UK) A person's home; a house or other building, especially when insalubrious; a tavern, a brothel.
- A barrel or large cylindrical container for liquid transport and storage.
- (music) A percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber; a membranophone.
- a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends
- a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end
- small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise
- the sound of a drum
- a cylindrical metal container, commonly used for shipping or storage of liquids
- a hollow cast iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes
verb
- Of various animals, to make a vocalisation or mechanical sound that resembles drumming.
- (intransitive) To beat a drum.
- To throb, as the heart.
- To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc.; used with for.
- (ambitransitive) To beat with a rapid succession of strokes.
- (transitive) To drill or review in an attempt to establish memorization.
- study intensively, as before an exam
- make a rhythmic sound
- play a percussion instrument
noun
- dark-colored insect having predaceous aquatic larvae
- A member of any one of the 66 species of the family Sialidae of megalopteran insects, each specimen of which has a body length not exceeding one inch and possesses long filamentous antennae and four large dark wings.
- (fishing) An artificial fly with brown mottled wings, body of peacock harl, and black legs.
noun
- any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies
- in family Monodactylidae (fingerfishes, silver angelfishes).
- large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean
- cusk (Brosme brosme), a North Atlantic cod-like fish in the ling family Lotidae, the only species in its genus.
- Mene maculata, of tropical coastal waters of the Indo-Pacific area.
- southern platyfish (Xiphophorus maculatus).
- opahs in the family Lamprididae.
- Most species of the genus Selene.
- Atlantic spadefish (Chaetodipterus faber).
- in family Molidae (ocean sunfish).
noun
- A bonefish.
- (figurative) A reward.
- (US, informal, in the plural) A dollar.
- (countable) Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of this material.
- (slang) An erect penis; a boner.
- (slang, chiefly in the plural) A domino or die.
- (figurative) The framework of anything.
- One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music.
- Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
- An off-white colour, like the typical colour of bone.
- A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
- (uncountable) A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
- (American football, informal) The wishbone formation.
- (slang) Clipping of trombone.
- (slang) A cannabis cigarette; a joint.
- One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
- the porous calcified substance from which bones are made
- rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates
- a shade of white the color of bleached bones
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- (vulgar, slang, usually of a man, ambitransitive) To have sexual intercourse (with).
- (transitive, slang) To apprehend, steal.
- To put whalebone into.
- To polish boots to a shiny finish.
- (usually with "up") To study.
- (carpentry, masonry, surveying) To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.
- To nag, especially for an unpaid debt.
- To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
- (civil engineering) To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.
- To fertilize with bone.
- study intensively, as before an exam
- remove the bones from
noun
- silver gemfish (Rexea solandri) of Australia
- white croaker (Genyonemus lineatus), of the United Kingdom
- Japanese meagre (Argyrosomus japonicus) of Australia
- wahoo (Acanthocybium solandri), of Barbados
- giant trevally or travelli (Caranx ignobilis) of South Africa
- narrow-barred Spanish mackerel (Scomberomorus commerson) of Australia
- crevalle jack (Caranx hippos) of Mauritania
- Cobia (Rachycentron canadum), of warm waters globally.
- king mackerel (Scomberomorus cavalla)
- Any of several food fishes of the genus Menticirrhus from the Atlantic; kingcroakers.
- opah (Lampris guttatus), of the United Kingdom
- yellowtail amberjack (Seriola lalandi) of Australia and New Zealand
- large game fish of Australia and New Zealand
- any of several food and game fishes of the drum family indigenous to warm Atlantic waters of the North American coast
- the lean flesh of any of several fish caught off the Atlantic coast of the United States
- small silvery marine food fish found off California
- large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters
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noun
- small cold-water silvery fish; migrate between salt and fresh water
- small trout-like silvery marine or freshwater food fishes of cold northern waters
- Any small anadromous fish of the family Osmeridae, found in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and in lakes in North America and northern part of Europe.
- Production of metal, especially iron, from ore in a process that involves heating and chemical reduction of metal compounds into purified metal.
- Any of the various liquids or semi-molten solids produced and used during the course of such production.
verb
noun
- a small fish of the genus Sillago; excellent food fish
- any of several food fishes of North American coastal waters
- flesh of any of a number of slender food fishes especially of Atlantic coasts of North America
- flesh of a cod-like fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe
- a food fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe resembling the cod; sometimes placed in genus Gadus
- found off Atlantic coast of North America
- A southern blue whiting (Micromesistius australis), a marine fish of the Southern Hemisphere.
- A fish, Merlangius merlangus (family Gadidae), similar to cod, found in the North Atlantic; English whiting (US).
- in family Sciaenidae, Menticirrhus americanus (Carolina whiting, king whiting, southern kingcroaker, and southern kingfish) found along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States.
- (Canada) Alaska pollock (Gadus chalcogrammus, syn. Theragra chalcogramma).
- A fine white chalk used in paints, putty, whitewash etc.
- in family Sillaginidae, smelt-whitings, inhabiting Indo-Pacific marine coasts, many species of which are commercially important whitefish.
- A blue whiting (Micromesistius poutassou), a marine fish of the Northern Hemisphere.
- (US) Any of several marine fish found in North American coastal waters, including hakes (genus Merluccius), especially Merluccius bilinearis (silver hake).
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noun
- Ellipsis of crown-of-thorns starfish
- A woodworking technique, used in tramp art, in which interlocking pieces are notched to intersect at right angles and form joints and self-supporting objects.
- The plant Koeberlinia spinosa.
- A spiny Mediterranean tree, Ziziphus spina-christi.
- (Christianity) The crown made of a thorny plant that Christ was forced to wear before his Crucifixion, in mocking reference to his alleged status as ‘king of the Jews’, or a representation of this.
- A spiny spurge, Euphorbia milii, native to Madagascar.
- a mock crown made of thorn branches that Roman soldiers placed on Jesus before the Crucifixion
- any affliction that causes great suffering
- somewhat climbing bushy spurge of Madagascar having long woody spiny stems with few leaves and flowers with scarlet bracts
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