non sequitur
saltation
changeable
jolting
bounce
step change
snap
shifty
leap
jump
wave
go narrow
abruptedly
vagary
quantum leap
break
hustle
chop
morph
switchblade
chopping and changing
rush
caprice
dart
transformative
zig
multitransitional
precipitating
flash
roller coaster
run
mutable
broken-field
macrotransition
shift
lurch
pitch
jolt
jar
casual
thrash about
extreme
leaven
toss
whiplash
undershift
tipping point
kerwallop
overchange
heterochronic
cold shower
transition
minute-to-minute
freeze
everchanging
flurry
alterant
burst
fit
halt
hobble
atypical
mobility
wheel
unstable
find oneself
desynchrony
wheel around
glide
surgery
overshift
uncertain
shake
bam
eccentric
changeful
precipitation
nongradual
sharp
agitate
twilight zone
crop up
abruptively
jerksome
out of nowhere
flit
bend
varyingly
drift
hook
erratic
occasional
swerving
flukey
adventitiously
changeable
jolting
shifty
transformative
multitransitional
precipitating
mutable
broken-field
casual
heterochronic
minute-to-minute
everchanging
alterant
atypical
unstable
uncertain
eccentric
changeful
nongradual
sharp
jerksome
erratic
occasional
flukey
abruptedly
abruptively
varyingly
adventitiously
non sequitur
saltation
step change
leap
jump
vagary
quantum leap
chopping and changing
caprice
dart
zig
roller coaster
macrotransition
extreme
leaven
toss
whiplash
undershift
tipping point
kerwallop
overchange
cold shower
freeze
flurry
burst
fit
halt
mobility
desynchrony
surgery
wave
overshift
precipitation
flit
drift
swerving
bounce
snap
wave
go narrow
break
hustle
chop
morph
switchblade
rush
flash
run
shift
lurch
pitch
jolt
jar
thrash about
transition
hobble
wheel
find oneself
wheel around
glide
shake
agitate
twilight zone
crop up
bend
hook
burst
noun
- Any abrupt and inexplicable transition or occurrence.
- Any invalid argument in which the conclusion cannot be logically deduced from the premises.
- A kind of pun that uses a change of word, subject, or meaning to make a joke of the listener’s expectation.
- A statement that does not logically follow a statement that came before it.
verb
- To cause to move quickly up and down, or back and forth, once or repeatedly.
- (sometimes employing the preposition with) To have sexual intercourse.
- To mix (two or more tracks of a multi-track audio tape recording) and record the result onto a single track, in order to free up tracks for further material to be added.
- To leave.
- To fail to cover (have sufficient funds for) (a draft presented against one's account).
- To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound.
- To land hard at unsurvivable velocity with fatal results.
- To change the direction of motion after hitting an obstacle.
- To move rapidly (between).
- To attack unexpectedly.
- To land hard and lift off again due to excess momentum.
- To be refused by a bank because it is drawn on insufficient funds.
- To move quickly up and then down, or vice versa, once or repeatedly.
- To suggest or introduce (an idea, etc.) to (off or by) somebody, in order to gain feedback.
- To return undelivered.
- To turn power off and back on; to reset.
noun
- A genre of hip-hop music of New Orleans, characterized by often lewd call-and-response chants.
- Drugs.
- Scyliorhinus canicula, a European dogfish.
- An email that returns to the sender because of a delivery failure.
- The sack, dismissal.
- Swagger.
- A change of direction of motion after hitting the ground or an obstacle.
- A bang, boom.
- A talent for leaping.
- A good beat in music.
- A movement up and then down (or vice versa), once or repeatedly.
verb
- To cause to move suddenly and smartly.
- To suffer a mental breakdown, usually while under tension.
- To say abruptly or sharply.
- To jump to a fixed position relative to another element.
- To snatch with or as if with the teeth.
- To flash or appear to flash as with light.
- To snap one's fingers: to make a snapping sound, often by pressing the thumb and an opposing finger of the same hand together and suddenly releasing the grip so that the finger hits against the palm; alternatively, by bringing the index finger quickly down onto the middle finger and thumb.
- To attempt to seize or bite with the teeth, beak, etc.
- To send a visual message through the Snapchat application.
- To cause something to emit a snapping sound, especially by closing it rapidly.
- To take a photograph; to release a camera's shutter (which may make a snapping sound).
- To attempt to seize with eagerness.
- To give forth or produce a sharp cracking noise; to crack.
- To give way abruptly and loudly.
- To pull apart with a snapping sound; to pop loose.
- To fracture or break apart suddenly.
- To close something using a snap as a fastener.
- To put (a football) in play by a backward pass or handoff from its position on the ground; to hike (a football).
- To speak abruptly or sharply.
- To misfire.
- To fit or fasten together with a snapping sound.
- To catch out sharply (a batsman who has just snicked a bowled ball).
adj
noun
- A crisp or pithy quality; epigrammatic point or force.
- A tool used by riveters.
- A tool used by glass-moulders.
- A card game, primarily for children, in which players cry "snap" to claim pairs of matching cards as they are turned up.
- A thin circular cookie or similar baked good.
- A snap bean such as Phaseolus vulgaris.
- Something of no value.
- A quick offhand shot with a firearm; a snap shot.
- A quick breaking or cracking sound or the action of producing such a sound.
- The sudden release of something held under pressure or tension.
- A visual message sent through the Snapchat application.
- A rivet: a scrapbooking embellishment.
- That which is, or may be, snapped up; something bitten off, seized, or obtained by a single quick movement; hence, a bite, morsel, or fragment; a scrap.
- A small meal, a snack; lunch.
- Something that is easy or effortless.
- A very short period of time (figuratively, the time taken to snap one's fingers), or a task that can be accomplished in such a period.
- A small device resembling a safety pin, used to attach the bait or lure to the line.
- A brief, sudden period of a certain weather; used primarily in the phrase cold snap.
- briskness; vigour; energy; decision
- An attempt to seize, bite, attack, or grab.
- A backward pass or handoff of a football from its position on the ground that puts the ball in play; a hike.
- The act of snapping the fingers; making a sound by pressing a finger against the thumb and suddenly releasing to strike the hand.
- A fastening device that makes a snapping sound when used.
- A sudden break.
- A photograph; a snapshot.
- A snapper, or snap beetle.
- A newsflash.
- jounce (the fourth derivative of the position vector with respect to time), followed by crackle and pop
- A package provided for the application sandboxing system snapd developed by Canonical.
intj
- The cry used in a game of snap when winning a hand.
- "I've got one the same!", "Me too!"
- Ritual utterance used after something is said by two people at exactly the same time.
- Used in place of expletive to express surprise, usually in response to a negative statement or news; often used facetiously.
- Ritual utterance of agreement (after the cry in the card game snap).
noun
- an abrupt transition
- a sudden and decisive increase
- (film) an abrupt transition from one scene to another
- a sudden involuntary movement
- descent with a parachute
- the act of jumping; propelling yourself off the ground
verb
- move forward by leaps and bounds
- move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm
- make a sudden physical attack on
- increase suddenly and significantly
- be highly noticeable
- enter eagerly into
- rise in rank or status
- jump down from an elevated point
- run off or leave the rails
- jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute
- cause to jump or leap
- start (a car engine whose battery is dead) by connecting it to another car's battery
- bypass
- pass abruptly from one state or topic to another
- go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions
verb
- To cause to move back and forth repeatedly.
- To generate a wave.
- To swing and miss at a pitch.
- To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion, as of the hand; to signify by waving; to beckon; to signal; to indicate.
- To move one’s hand back and forth (generally above the shoulders) in greeting or departure.
- To have an undulating or wavy form.
- To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form or surface to.
- To produce waves to the hair.
- To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement.
- To move back and forth repeatedly and somewhat loosely.
- To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.
noun
- A loose back-and-forth movement, as of the hands.
- One of the successive swarms of enemies sent to attack the player in certain games.
- A moving disturbance in the level of a body of liquid; an undulation.
- Any of a number of species of moths in the geometrid subfamily Sterrhinae, which have wavy markings on the wings.
- A shape that alternatingly curves in opposite directions.
- The ocean.
- A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.
- A sudden, but temporary, uptick in something.
- A group activity in a crowd imitating a wave going through water, where people in successive parts of the crowd stand and stretch upward, then sit.
verb
- To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
- To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
- To become deeper at puberty.
- To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
- To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
- To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
- To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
- To counter-attack.
- To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
- To become audible suddenly.
- To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
- To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
- To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
- Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
- To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
- To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
- To ruin financially.
- To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
- To change a steady state abruptly.
- To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
- To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- To end the run of (a play).
- To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
- To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
- To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
- To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
- To begin or end.
- To suddenly become.
- To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
- To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
- To demulsify.
- To end (a connection); to disconnect.
- To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
- To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
- To arrive.
- To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
- To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
- To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
- To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
- To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
- To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
- To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
- To end.
- To remove one of the two men on (a point).
- To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
- To violate; to fail to adhere to.
- To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
- To B-boy; to breakdance.
noun
- The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
- A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
- An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
- A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
- A sharp bit or snaffle.
- The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
- An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
- A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
- A temporary split with a romantic partner.
- The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.
- A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
- A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
- A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
- A rest or pause, usually from work.
- The counter-attack.
- A short holiday.
- An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
- A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
- A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
- The beginning (of the morning).
- A game won by the receiving player(s).
- An act of escaping.
- The first shot in a game of billiards.
- The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
- A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
- The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
- The start of a horse race.
- A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
verb
- To vary or shift suddenly.
- To make a quick, heavy stroke or a series of strokes, with or as with an ax.
- To hit the ball downward so that it takes a high bounce.
- To remove the final character from (a text string).
- To interrupt; with in or out.
- to give a downward cutting blow or movement, typically with the side of the hand.
- To stab.
- To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.
- To converse, discuss, or speak with another.
- To stamp or seal (a document); to mark, impress or otherwise place a design or symbol on paper or other material, usually, but not necessarily, to indicate authenticity.
- To divide the pot (or tournament prize) between two or more players.
- To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize.
- To sever with an axe or similar implement.
- To seal a license or passport.
- To chap or crack.
noun
- A movable jaw or cheek, as of a vice.
- A complete shipment.
- A license or passport that has been sealed.
- The device used for stamping or sealing, which also contains the design to be imprinted.
- A blow with an axe, cleaver, or similar utensil.
- A hand where two or more players have an equal-valued hand, resulting in the chips being shared equally between them.
- A stamp or seal; a mark, imprint or impression on a document (or other object or material) made by stamping or sealing a design with ink or wax, respectively, or by other methods.
- Ocean waves, generally caused by wind, distinguished from swell by being smaller and not lasting as long.
- A woodchopping competition.
- A cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib.
- Termination, especially from employment; the sack.
- A blow delivered with the hand rigid and outstretched.
- A mark indicating nature, quality, or brand.
- A turn of fortune; change; a vicissitude.
- A jaw of an animal.
- An IRC channel operator.
- The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbour, or channel.
verb
- To undergo dramatic change in a seamless and barely noticeable fashion.
- To change shape, from one form to another, through computer animation.
- To shapeshift.
noun
- An allomorph: one of a set of realizations that a morpheme can have in different contexts.
- A computer-generated gradual change from one image to another.
- A recurrent distinctive sound or sequence of sounds representing an indivisible morphological form; especially as representing a morpheme.
- A variety of a species, distinguishable from other individuals of the species by morphology or behaviour.
- morphine
verb
- To cause to move or act with unusual haste.
- To run directly at another player in order to block or disrupt play.
- To flow or move forward rapidly or noisily.
- To swiftly attack without warning.
- To play at a faster tempo than one is supposed to or than the other musicians one is playing with, or to inadvertently gradually increase tempo while one is playing.
- To dribble rapidly.
- To hurry; to perform a task with great haste.
- To make a swift or sudden attack.
- To roquet an object ball to a particular location on the lawn.
- To attempt to join a fraternity or sorority, often involving a hazing or initiation process.
- To transport or carry quickly.
- To attack (an opponent) with a large swarm of units.
adj
noun
- The merest trifle; a straw.
- A person attempting to join a fraternity or sorority as part of a rush.
- The stem of such plants used in making baskets, mats, the seats of chairs, etc.
- A regulated period of recruitment in fraternities and sororities.
- A roquet in which the object ball is sent to a particular location on the lawn.
- The act of running at another player to block or disrupt play.
- General haste.
- A sudden attack; an onslaught.
- A surge.
- Any of several stiff plants of the genus Juncus, or the family Juncaceae, having hollow or pithy stems and small flowers, and often growing in marshes or near water.
- A sudden forward motion.
- A sudden, brief exhilaration, for instance the pleasurable sensation produced by a stimulant.
- A wick.
- The strategy of attacking an opponent with a large swarm of weak units, rather than spending time developing their abilities.
- A rapid, noisy flow.
noun
- A sudden or fast movement.
- A fish, the dace.
- Any of various species of hesperiid butterfly.
- A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; for example, a short lance or javelin.
- Any sharp-pointed missile weapon, such as an arrow.
- A cigarette.
- Anything resembling such a missile; something that pierces or wounds like such a weapon.
- A small object with a pointed tip at one end and feathers at the other, which is thrown at a target in the game of darts.
- A fold that is stitched on a garment.
- A dart-shaped target towed behind an aircraft to train shooters.
verb
- To throw with a sudden effort or thrust; to hurl or launch.
- To shoot with a dart, especially a tranquilizer dart.
- To fly or pass swiftly, like a dart; to move rapidly in one direction; to shoot out quickly.
- To send forth suddenly or rapidly; to emit; to shoot.
- To start and run with speed; to shoot rapidly along.
verb
- To move, or cause to move, suddenly.
- To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently.
- To flaunt; to display in a showy manner.
- To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different colour.
- To burst out into violence.
- To send by some startling or sudden means.
- To release the pressure from a pressurized vessel.
- To evaporate suddenly. (See flash evaporation.)
- To expand (blown glass) into a disc.
- To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.
- To expose one's intimate body part or piece of clothing, often momentarily. (Contrast streak.)
- To write to the memory of (an updatable component such as a BIOS chip or games cartridge).
- To cause to shine briefly or intermittently.
- To perform a flash.
- To be visible briefly.
- To climb (a route) successfully on the first attempt.
- To make visible briefly.
- To break forth like a sudden flood of light; to show a momentary brilliance.
- To communicate quickly.
noun
- A language, created by a minority to maintain cultural identity, that cannot be understood by the ruling class.
- The strips of bright cloth or buttons worn around the collars of market traders.
- A pool.
- Pizzazz, razzle-dazzle.
- Material left around the edge of a moulded part at the parting line of the mould.
- A sudden, short, temporary burst of light.
- The (intentional or unintentional) exposure of an intimate body part or undergarment in public.
- Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genera Artipe, Deudorix and Rapala.
- A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal.
- A brief exposure or making visible (of a smile, badge, etc).
- A form of military insignia.
- A pattern where each prop is thrown and caught only once.
- A flashlight; an electric torch.
- The sudden sensation of being "high" after taking a recreational drug.
- A very short amount of time.
- A tattoo flash (example design on paper to give an idea of a possible tattoo).
- A sudden and brilliant burst, as of genius or wit.
adj
verb
- To cause to move quickly or lightly.
- To carry (a football) down the field, as opposed to passing or kicking.
- Of an object, to have a liquid flowing from it.
- To print or broadcast in the media.
- To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
- To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
- To be a candidate in an election.
- To fuse; to shape; to mould; to cast.
- To control or manage, be in charge of.
- To smuggle (illegal goods).
- To go at a fast pace; to move quickly.
- To extend in space or through a range (often with a measure phrase).
- To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
- To make run in a race.
- To transit a length of a river, as in whitewater rafting.
- To control or have precedence in a card game.
- To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off either foot. (Compare walk.)
- To leak or spread in an undesirable fashion; to bleed (especially used of dye or paint).
- To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
- To exert continuous activity; to proceed.
- To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time.
- To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
- To cause to enter; to thrust.
- To speedrun.
- To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
- To juggle a pattern continuously, as opposed to starting and stopping quickly.
- To move or spread quickly.
- To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.
- To extend in time, to last, to continue (usually with a measure phrase).
- To make a machine operate.
- To become liquid; to melt.
- To make something extend in space.
- Of a machine, including computer programs, to be operating or working normally.
- To achieve or perform by running or as if by running.
- To pass (without stopping), typically a stop signal, stop sign, or duty to yield the right of way.
- To transport someone or something, notionally at a brisk pace.
- To be presented in the media.
- Of a means of transportation: to travel (a route).
- To cost a large amount of money.
- Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
- To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
- To encounter or suffer (a particular, usually bad, fate or misfortune).
- Of a liquid, to flow.
- To compete in a race.
- Of fish, to migrate for spawning.
- To make run in an election.
- To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
- To have growth or development.
- To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company.
- To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
- To flee from a danger or towards help.
- To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
- To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
- To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
- To make a liquid flow; to make liquid flow from or into an object.
- To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.
verb
- move abruptly
- make a shift in or exchange of
- change place or direction
- move around
- move very slightly
- move from one setting or context to another
- change in quality
- move and exchange for another
- move sideways or in an unsteady way
- use a shift key on a keyboard
- change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change
- change gears
- lay aside, abandon, or leave for another
noun
- an event in which something is displaced without rotation
- a qualitative change
- the time period during which you are at work
- the act of changing one thing or position for another
- the act of moving from one place to another
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time
- the key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist
verb
- move abruptly
- throw or toss with a light motion
- fall or plunge forward
- set to a certain pitch
- sell or offer for sale from place to place
- be at an angle
- heel over
- erect and fasten
- throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball
- hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin
- lead (a card) and establish the trump suit
- set the level or character of
noun
- the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration
- the act of throwing a baseball or softball by the pitcher towards home plate, which initiates play by giving the batter a chance to hit it
- a vendor's position (especially on the sidewalk)
- promotion by means of an argument and demonstration
- degree of deviation from a horizontal plane
- any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue
- a sports field with predetermined dimensions for playing soccer
- a high approach shot in golf
- an all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump
- abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance)
- the action or manner of throwing something
adj
- Coming without regularity; occasional or incidental.
- Designed for informal or everyday use.
- Happening or coming to pass without design.
- Informal; relaxed.
- Employed irregularly.
- Happening by chance.
- Careless.
noun
- A person whose engagement with media is relaxed or superficial.
- A worker who is only working for a company occasionally, not as its permanent employee.
- A soldier temporarily at a place of duty, usually en route to another place of duty.
- A player of casual games.
- Shoes suitable for everyday use, as opposed to more formal footwear.
- A member of a group of football hooligans who wear expensive designer clothing to avoid police attention; see casual (subculture).
- One who receives relief for a night in a parish to which he does not belong; a vagrant.
noun
- A change that results in something being not being moved far enough or too few things being moved.
- The strategy or act of positioning defensive players extra far toward the offense's weak side.
- A misalignment resulting from failure to shift gears far enough.
- An underhang caused by seismic shift.
- An unfitted undergarment that covers the torso.
- The amount of displacement in the layers in a crystal lattice that places the layers too close together.
verb
noun
- The point at which a slow, reversible change becomes irreversible, often with dramatic consequences.
- The point in time at which some new technology becomes mainstream.
- An irreversible change in the climate system.
- A point in time when a group rapidly and dramatically changes its behavior by widely adopting a previously rare practice.
noun
- Something unexpected and often unpleasant which makes one take stock or reconsider something; a sudden change or turn of events.
- A chilly or unenthusiastic reaction to something or someone.
- A shower taken by a person in cold water; as taken for therapeutic reasons, or suggested as a remedy to calm sexual excitement.
noun
- an interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement
- the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid
- weather cold enough to cause freezing
- fixing (of prices or wages etc) at a particular level
verb
- stop moving or become immobilized
- change to ice
- be cold
- cause to freeze
- stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it
- be very cold, below the freezing point
- change from a liquid to a solid when cold
- prohibit the conversion or use of (assets)
- anesthetize by cold
- suddenly behave coldly and formally
noun
- Any sudden activity; a stir.
- An occurrence of something (countable instances) in large numbers, happening suddenly or in a short period of time.
- A light, brief snowfall.
- A sudden and brief blast or gust; a light, temporary breeze.
- A shower of dust, leaves etc. brought on by a sudden gust of wind.
- The violent spasms of a dying whale.
- A snack consisting of soft ice cream mixed with small pieces of fruit, cookie crumbs, etc.
verb
noun
- a sudden flurry of activity (often for no obvious reason)
- the act of exploding or bursting
- rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms
- a sudden intense happening
verb
- move suddenly, energetically, or violently
- come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure
- force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- burst outward, usually with noise
- be in a state of movement or action
- emerge suddenly
- cause to burst
- break open or apart suddenly and forcefully
noun
- a sudden flurry of activity (often for no obvious reason)
- a display of bad temper
- a sudden uncontrollable attack
- the manner in which something fits
verb
- be agreeable or acceptable to
- be the right size or shape; fit correctly or as desired
- make fit
- insert or adjust several objects or people
- be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics
- conform to some shape or size
- provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose
- fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condition or restriction
- make correspond or harmonize
adj
adj
noun
- A tendency to sudden change; mutability, changeableness.
- The degree to which particles of a liquid or gas are in movement.
- People's ability to move between different social levels or professional occupations.
- The ability of a military unit to move or be transported to a new position.
- The ability to move; capacity for movement.
verb
- To cause to change direction quickly, turn.
- To roll along on wheels.
- To travel around in large circles, particularly in the air.
- To put into a rotatory motion; to cause to turn or revolve; to make or perform in a circle.
- To transport something or someone using any wheeled mechanism, such as a wheelchair.
- To change direction quickly, turn, pivot, whirl, wheel around.
noun
- A wheelrim.
- A potter's wheel.
- A round portion of cheese.
- The lowest straight in poker: ace, 2, 3, 4, 5.
- A Catherine wheel firework.
- A recurring or cyclical course of events.
- A turn or revolution; rotation; compass.
- The instrument attached to the rudder by which a vessel is steered.
- A manoeuvre in marching in which the marchers turn in a curving fashion to right or left so that the order of marchers does not change.
- A person with a great deal of power or influence; a big wheel.
- The breaking wheel, an old instrument of torture.
- A circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines.
- A spinning wheel.
- A steering wheel and its implied control of a vehicle.
verb
- To cause to change direction quickly, turn.
- To change direction quickly, turn, pivot, whirl around.
- To transport someone or something to various locations by pushing a wheeled transporter such as a wheelchair, wheelbarrow or trolley.
- In dancing, when a couple, holding hands, turns around 180 degrees, with the left hand dancer moving backward and the right hand dancer moving forward.
noun
- Drastic changes made to anything.
- A room or department where surgery is performed.
- The medical specialty related to the performance of surgical procedures.
- Any arrangement where people arrive and wait for an interview with certain people, particularly a politician. cf. clinic.
- A pre-packaged bankruptcy or "quick bankruptcy".
- The production of a manifold by removing parts of one manifold and replacing them with corresponding parts of others.
- A procedure involving major incisions to remove, repair, or replace a part of a body.
- A doctor's office.
noun
- A change that results in something being moved too far or too many things being moved.
- A work period that extends significantly beyond the normal eight-hour shift; An instance of involuntary overtime.
- An unfitted woman's overgarment.
- A misalignment resulting from shifting gears too far.
- An overhang caused by seismic shift.
- The strategy or act of positioning defensive players extra far toward the offense's strong side, leaving portions of the field or court undefended.
- The amount of displacement in the layers in a crystal lattice that places the layers too far apart for molecular bonding.
verb
- To replant or repot too soon or too often.
- To raise the price to consumers by more than an underlying cost increase that results from rising taxes.
- To overshoot when changing gears.
- To position defensive players too far in a particular direction.
- To move too great an amount or move something too far.
verb
- move or cause to move back and forth
- move with or as if with a tremor
- shake or vibrate rapidly and intensively
- move back and forth or sideways
- undermine or cause to waver
- stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of
- get rid of
- bring to a specified condition by or as if by shaking
- shake (a body part) to communicate a greeting, feeling, or cognitive state
noun
- building material used as siding or roofing
- frothy drink of milk and flavoring and sometimes fruit or ice cream
- a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it
- grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract)
- a reflex motion caused by cold or fear or excitement
- causing to move repeatedly from side to side
adj
- Deviating from the norm; behaving unexpectedly or differently; unconventional and slightly strange.
- Having a different center; not concentric.
- Against or in the opposite direction of contraction of a muscle (such as results from flexion of the lower arm (bending of the elbow joint) by an external force while contracting the triceps and other elbow extensor muscles to control that movement; opening of the jaw while flexing the masseter).
- Having different goals or motives.
- Not at or in the centre; away from the centre.
- Not perfectly circular; elliptical.
noun
noun
- Unwise or rash rapidity; sudden haste.
- Any or all of the forms of water particles, whether liquid or solid, that fall from the upper atmosphere (e.g., rain, hail, snow or sleet). It is a major class of hydrometeor, but it is distinguished from cloud, fog, dew, rime, frost, etc., in that it must fall. It is distinguished from cloud and virga in that it must reach the ground.
- A hurried headlong fall.
- A reaction that leads to the formation of a heavier solid in a lighter liquid; the precipitate so formed at the bottom of the container.
adj
- very sudden and in great amount or degree
- (of something seen or heard) clearly defined
- ending in a sharp point
- having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions
- marked by practical hardheaded intelligence
- harsh
- having or emitting a high-pitched and sharp tone or tones
- dangerously steep
- quick and forceful
adj
- keenly and painfully felt; as if caused by a sharp edge or point
- having or made by a thin edge or sharp point; suitable for cutting or piercing
- (of a musical note) raised in pitch by one chromatic semitone
noun
- a musical notation indicating one half step higher than the note named
- a long thin sewing needle with a sharp point
adv
verb
- move or cause to move back and forth
- try to stir up public opinion
- cause to be agitated, excited, or roused
- exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for
- move very slightly
- change the arrangement or position of
verb
- To behave or occur in a confusing or unexpected manner.
- To put or place into an indeterminate position; to be in an ambiguous, undetermined, or improper context.
- To cause to daydream or zone out; to cause to lose attention to one's surroundings.
- To experience or perceive something bizarre or fantastic.
noun
verb
- To cause to change direction.
- To stoop.
- To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means.
- To change direction.
- To force to submit.
- To submit.
- To apply oneself to a task or purpose.
- To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast.
- To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.
- To apply to a task or purpose.
- To become curved.
- To smoothly change the pitch of a note.
- To be inclined; to direct itself.
- To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
- To swing the body when rowing.
noun
- The thickest and strongest planks in a ship's sides, more generally called wales, which have the beams, knees, and futtocks bolted to them.
- Hard, indurated clay; bind.
- In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt; sometimes, half a butt cut lengthwise.
- A curve.
- The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides.
- Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
- One of the honourable ordinaries formed by two diagonal lines drawn from the dexter chief to the sinister base; it generally occupies a fifth part of the shield if uncharged, but if charged one third.
- A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression, causing bubbles of nitrogen to form in the blood; decompression sickness.
- A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another.
noun
- Slow, cumulative change.
- Driftwood included in flotsam washed up onto the beach.
- The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.
- The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.
- A place (a ford) along a river where the water is shallow enough to permit crossing to the opposite side.
- The distance between the two blocks of a tackle.
- A sideways movement of the ball through the air, when bowled by a spin bowler.
- A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.
- In New Forest National Park, UK, the bi-annual round-up of wild ponies in order to be sold.
- A collection of loose earth and rocks, or boulders, which have been distributed over large portions of the earth's surface, especially in latitudes north of forty degrees, by the retreat of continental glaciers, such as that which buries former river valleys and creates young river valleys.
- A slightly tapered tool of steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal, by being forced or driven into or through it; a broach.
- The place in a deep-waisted vessel where the sheer is raised and the rail is cut off, and usually terminated with a scroll, or driftpiece.
- A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., especially by wind or water.
- A tool used to insert or extract a removable pin made of metal or hardwood, for the purpose of aligning and/or securing two pieces of material together.
- The angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the meridian, in drifting.
- The difference between the size of a bolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of a hoop and that of the mast on which it is to be driven.
- That which is driven, forced, or urged along.
- The distance through which a current flows in a given time.
- Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting.
- A tool used to pack down the composition contained in a rocket, or like firework.
- A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to obloid projectiles.
- Minor deviation of audio or video playback from its correct speed.
- The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention; hence, also, import or meaning of a sentence or discourse; aim.
- The situation where a performer gradually and unintentionally moves from their proper location within the scene.
- The distance a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes.
- Anything driven at random.
- A drove or flock, as of cattle, sheep, birds.
verb
- To deviate gently from the intended direction of travel.
- To move slowly, especially pushed by currents of water, air, etc.
- To move haphazardly without any destination.
- To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body.
- To drive into heaps.
- To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps.
- To make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence of metals or ores; to follow a vein; to prospect.
- To oversteer a vehicle, causing loss of traction, while maintaining control from entry to exit of a corner. See Drifting (motorsport).
- To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift.
verb
- To move or go with a sudden turn.
- To attach a hook to.
- To finesse.
- To catch with a hook (hook a fish).
- To succeed in heeling the ball back out of a scrum (used particularly of the team's designated hooker).
- To engage in the illegal maneuver of hooking (i.e., using the hockey stick to trip or block another player)
- To insert in a curved way reminiscent of a hook.
- To connect (hook into, hook together).
- To engage in prostitution.
- To swerve a ball; kick or throw a ball so it swerves or bends.
- To ensnare or obligate someone, as if with a hook.
- To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.
- To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet.
- To play a hook shot.
- To make addicted; to captivate.
- To 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.
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