subchain
chainlike
rackle
polycatenary
catenarian
chained
round turn
swivel
chain up
bechained
link
chainlet
lasher
multichain
rope yarn
slack
Jacob's ladder
pilot ladder
jack ladder
gyve
reticulation
ganger
catenulate
spider
catenary
branchery
multibranching
hawser-laid rope
cable
chainwise
stay
rope in
trapline
rope off
span
cordon off
micropulley
line
shifter
tye
outrunner
bifurcation
ramification
endless chain
lead
feazings
snatch block
grapple
multistrand
lay
wall knot
slackline
enchained
make off
stringful
subbranch
in chains
multistranded
top-chain
sling
chainmaker
strand
tie
guy rope
lash
string
filaceous
fastened
tied
grappling
cotter pin
grapplehook
spin
drawbolt
anchor rope
anchor chain
skid
ropy
bucket brigade
bungee
interramification
splice
girthline
chainlessness
undergird
chainwide
cordelle
bungee cord
trammel of Archimedes
strepto-
minichain
net
biramous
chainlike
polycatenary
catenarian
chained
bechained
multichain
catenary
multibranching
chainwise
multistrand
enchained
in chains
multistranded
filaceous
fastened
tied
ropy
chainwide
biramous
chainwise
subchain
rackle
round turn
swivel
link
chainlet
lasher
rope yarn
slack
Jacob's ladder
pilot ladder
jack ladder
reticulation
ganger
spider
branchery
hawser-laid rope
cable
stay
trapline
span
micropulley
line
shifter
tye
outrunner
bifurcation
ramification
endless chain
lead
feazings
snatch block
grapple
wall knot
slackline
stringful
subbranch
top-chain
sling
chainmaker
tie
guy rope
string
grappling
cotter pin
grapplehook
spin
drawbolt
anchor rope
anchor chain
skid
bucket brigade
bungee
interramification
girthline
chainlessness
cordelle
bungee cord
trammel of Archimedes
lay
minichain
net
chain up
gyve
catenulate
rope in
rope off
cordon off
lay
make off
strand
lash
splice
undergird
adj
noun
- Anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain.
- One element of a chain or other connected series.
- Any one of the several elementary pieces of a mechanism, such as the fixed frame, or a rod, wheel, mass of confined liquid, etc., by which relative motion of other parts is produced and constrained.
- The windings of a river; the land along a winding stream.
- The connection between buses or systems.
- a thin wild bank of land splitting two cultivated patches and often linking two hills.
- A space comprising one or more disjoint knots.
- A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.
- An introductory cue.
- Any intermediate rod or piece for transmitting force or motion, especially a short connecting rod with a bearing at each end; specifically (in steam engines) the slotted bar, or connecting piece, to the opposite ends of which the eccentric rods are jointed, and by means of which the movement of the valve is varied, in a link motion.
- The length of one joint of Gunter's chain, being the hundredth part of it, or 7.92 inches, the chain being 66 feet in length.
- A sausage that is not a patty.
- A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.
- an individual person or element in a system
verb
- To meet with someone.
- To contain a hyperlink to another page.
- To supply (somebody) with a hyperlink; to direct by means of a link.
- To demonstrate a correlation between two things.
- To combine objects generated by a compiler into a single executable.
- To skip or trip along smartly; to go quickly.
- To connect two or more things.
- To post a hyperlink to.
noun
adj
noun
noun
- a cord or rope or cable that is hanging loosely
- dust consisting of a mixture of small coal fragments and coal dust and dirt that sifts out when coal is passed over a sieve
- a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality
- a stretch of water without current or movement
- a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
- the quality of being loose (not taut)
adj
- not tense or taut
- flowing with little speed as e.g. at the turning of the tide
- lacking in rigor or strictness
verb
noun
noun
- A part of a crank, to which the chainrings are attached.
- A soft-hackle fly.
- A cast-iron frying pan with three legs, once common in open-hearth cookery.
- The network of wires separating the areas of a dartboard.
- A spider graph or spider tree.
- A man who persistently approaches or accosts a woman in a public social setting, particularly in a bar.
- Part of a resonator instrument that transmits string vibrations from the bridge to a resonator cone at multiple points.
- Heroin.
- A stick with a convex arch-shaped notched head used to support the cue when the cue ball is out of reach at normal extension; a bridge.
- Implement for moving food in and out of hot oil for deep frying, with a circular metal mesh attached to a long handle; a spider skimmer
- A support for a camera tripod, preventing it from sliding.
- A float (drink) made by mixing ice-cream and a soda or fizzy drink (such as lemonade).
- A skeleton or frame with radiating arms or members, often connected by crosspieces, such as a casting forming the hub and spokes to which the rim of a fly wheel or large gear is bolted; the body of a piston head; or a frame for strengthening a core or mould for a casting.
- A spindly person.
- Any of various eight-legged, predatory arthropods, of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs to catch prey.
verb
adj
noun
- The curve described by a flexible chain or a rope if it is supported at each end and is acted upon by no other forces than a uniform gravitational force due to its own weight and variations involving additional and non-uniform forces.
- A cable, the segments of which between supports take a catenary geometric shape, supporting in turn an overhead conductor that provides trains, trams or trolley buses with electricity, or the combination of the conductor, the cable, and supports.
- The curve of an anchor cable from the seabed to the vessel; it should be horizontal at the anchor so as to bury the flukes.
- Any physical cable, rope, chain, or other weight-supporting structure taking such geometric shape, as a suspension cable for a bridge or a power-transmission line or an arch for a bridge or roof.
noun
- An assembly of two or more cable-laid ropes.
- A strong, large-diameter wire or rope, or something resembling such a rope.
- 100 fathoms, 600 imperial feet, approximately 185 m.
- A strong rope or chain used to moor or anchor a ship.
- An assembly of two or more wires, used for electrical power or data circuits; one or more and/or the whole may be insulated.
- The currency pair British Pound against United States Dollar.
- A telegram, notably when sent by (submarine) telegraph cable.
- A system for transmitting television or Internet services over a network of coaxial or fibreoptic cables.
- A unit of length equal to one tenth of a nautical mile.
- A textural pattern achieved by passing groups of stitches over one another.
- A moulding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to resemble the spiral twist of a rope.
verb
noun
- The transverse piece in a chain-cable link.
- A guy, rope, or wire supporting or stabilizing a platform, such as a bridge, a pole, such as a tentpole, the mast of a derrick, or other structural element.
- Continuance or a period of time spent in a place; abode for an indefinite time.
- A piece of stiff material, such as plastic or whalebone, used to stiffen a piece of clothing.
- A corset.
- Restraint of passion; prudence; moderation; caution; steadiness; sobriety.
- A fixed state; fixedness; stability; permanence.
- A strong rope or wire supporting a mast, and leading from one masthead down to some other, or other part of the vessel.
- A prop; a support.
- A postponement, especially of an execution or other punishment.
- A station or fixed anchorage for vessels.
verb
- To live; reside
- To incline forward, aft, or to one side by means of stays.
- To put off; defer; postpone; delay; keep back.
- To brace or support with a stay or stays
- To remain in a particular place, especially for a definite or short period of time; sojourn; abide.
- To stop; detain; keep back; delay; hinder.
- To continue to have a particular quality.
- To change; tack; go about; be in stays, as a ship.
- To hold out, as in a race or contest; last or persevere to the end; to show staying power.
- To restrain; withhold; check; stop.
- To hold the attention of.
- To cause to cease; to put an end to.
- To prop; support; sustain; hold up; steady.
- To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time.
- To tack; put on the other tack.
adv
adj
noun
- The length of a cable, wire, rope, chain between two consecutive supports.
- The space of all linear combinations of something.
- A portion of something by length; a subsequence.
- A small space or a brief portion of time.
- The spread or extent of an arch or between its abutments, or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or the like, between supports.
- The time required to execute a parallel algorithm on an infinite number of processors, i.e. the shortest distance across a directed acyclic graph representing the computation steps.
- wingspan of a plane or bird
- Any of various traditional units of length approximating this distance, especially the English handspan of 9 inches forming ⅛ fathom and equivalent to 22.86 cm.
- A pair of horses or other animals driven together; usually, such a pair of horses when similar in color, form, and action.
- A rope having its ends made fast so that a purchase can be hooked to the bight; also, a rope made fast in the center so that both ends can be used.
- The full width of an open hand from the end of the thumb to the end of the little finger used as an informal unit of length.
verb
noun
noun
- A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness.
- A circle of latitude or of longitude, as represented on a map.
- A sentence of dialogue, especially in a play, movie, or the like.
- A set of positions in a team which play in a similar position on the field; in a traditional team, consisting of three players and acting as one of six such sets in the team.
- A verse (in poetry).
- One fortieth of an inch.
- The goal line.
- An edge of a graph.
- A series of notes forming a certain part (such as the bass or melody) of a greater work.
- An infinitely extending one-dimensional figure that has no curvature; one that has length but not breadth or thickness.
- A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
- The equator.
- A vascular catheter.
- A written or printed row of letters, words, numbers, or other text, especially a row of words extending across a page or column, or a blank in place of such text.
- A particular path taken by a vehicle when driving a bend or corner in the road.
- A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
- The position in which the fencers hold their swords.
- a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock and a catheter.
- A hose or pipe, of any size.
- A letter, a written form of communication.
- A line segment; a continuous finite segment of such a figure.
- A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied by specified forces.
- A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement for forwarding merchandise, etc.
- A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
- A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often waiting to be processed or dealt with, or arranged abreast of one another in a row (and contrasted with a column), as in a military formation.
- The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry, artillery, etc.
- A lie or exaggeration, especially one told to gain another's approval or prevent losing it.
- A tsarist-era Russian unit of measure, approximately equal to one tenth of an English inch, used especially when measuring the calibre of firearms.
- A population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
- The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political or religious faction.
- Direction, path.
- A group of people born in a certain year (liners).
- Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with reference to smooth working).
- The batter's box.
- A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
- The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
- That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place of abode.
- Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade, or intellectual activity.
- Any of an ill-defined set of units of length, varying according to the country, discipline, industry, and date of application, commonly with no indication of the intended magnitude
- One of the straight horizontal and parallel prolonged strokes on and between which the notes are placed.
- The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points: a telephone or network connection.
- One sixteenth of an inch.
- One twelfth of an inch.
- A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight.
- A clothesline.
- The horizontal path of a ball towards the batsman (see also length).
- Information about or understanding of something. (Mostly restricted to the expressions get a line on, have a line on, and give a line on.)
- Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
- A number of shares taken by a jobber.
- A small path-shaped portion or serving of a powdery illegal drug, especially cocaine.
- A group of forwards that play together.
- A set of products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.
verb
- To reinforce (the back of a book) with glue and glued scrap material such as fabric or paper.
- To mark with a line or lines; to cover with lines.
- To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.
- To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding; to fortify.
- To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
- To align (one or more switches) to direct a train onto a particular track.
- To read or repeat line by line.
- To form a line along.
- To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
- To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare fly and ground.
- To measure.
- To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.
noun
- A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc.
- A word whose meaning changes depending on the situation, as by deixis.
- A switcher or shunter: a railroad locomotive used for shunting.
- One who, or that which, shifts or changes.
- An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions.
- A component used by the rider to control the gearing mechanisms and select the desired gear ratio, usually connected to the derailleur by a mechanical actuation cable.
- An arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another.
- A genre of erotica focusing on lycanthropes or other shapeshifters, such as werewolves.
- A spanner with an adjustable jaw size.
- A person who changes the reality their consciousness resides in, through meditation or other means.
- A person employed to repair the horseways and other passages, and keep them unobstructed.
- A shape-shifter, or a person or other being capable of changing their physical form.
noun
- An arrangement of branches.
- A branching-out, the act or result of developing branches; specifically the divergence of the stem and limbs of a plant into smaller ones, or of similar developments in blood vessels, anatomical structures etc.
- An offshoot of a decision, fact etc.; a consequence or implication, especially one which complicates a situation.
noun
- The course of a rope from end to end.
- The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same shaft.
- A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or (dated) to estimate velocity in knots.
- The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it.
- Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details about a crime or incident.
- Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.
- The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
- In a steam engine, the width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release of steam, at the instant when the piston is at end of its stroke.
- An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast
- The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.
- The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course
- The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
- bullets; ammunition.
- A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
- In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor
- The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.
- A lode.
- Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more details.
- Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead in a race; the highest score in a game in an incomplete game.
- The main role in a play or film; the lead role.
- A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic number 82, symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum).
- A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others.
- An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.
- The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played
- The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
- The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the poles.
- Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.
- The person in charge of a project or a work shift etc.
- A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash
- The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.
- A thin cylinder of graphite used in pencils.
- The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times the number of starts.
- A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
- A channel of open water in an ice field.
- Hypothesis that has not been pursued
- Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.
- A teaser; a lead-in; the start of a newspaper column, telling who, what, when, where, why and how. (Sometimes spelled as lede for this usage to avoid ambiguity.)
verb
- To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or preeminence; to be first or chief; — used in most of the senses of the transitive verb.
- To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to show the way, especially by going with or going in advance of, to lead a pupil; to guide somebody somewhere or to bring somebody somewhere by means of instructions.
- To direct; to counsel; to instruct
- To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; to command, especially a military or business unit.
- To guide or conduct oneself in, through, or along (a certain course); hence, to proceed in the way of; to follow the path or course of; to pass; to spend. Also, to cause (one) to proceed or follow in (a certain course).
- To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among.
- To step off base and move towards the next base.
- To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure
- To be ahead of others, e.g., in a race.
- Lead climb.
- To produce (with to).
- To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection.
- To place leads between the lines of.
- To aim in front of a moving target, in order that the shot may hit the target as it passes.
- To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
- To have the highest interim score in a game.
- To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place.
- To lead off or out, to go first; to begin.
- To live or experience (a particular way of life).
- To be more advanced in technology or business than others.
- To begin a game, round, or trick, with
adj
noun
- A grapnel (“type of anchor”).
- A close hand-to-hand struggle.
- A combination of grape and apple flavors.
- The act of grappling. (uncountable)
- A device consisting of iron claws, attached to the end of a rope, used for grasping and holding an enemy ship prior to boarding; a grappling iron.
verb
- To hook and raise with a grapple.
- To ponder and intensely evaluate a problem; to struggle to deal with.
- To climb (whether by means of a grapple and rope, or by hand, etc).
- To fasten, as with a grapple; (by extension) to fix; to join indissolubly.
- To wrestle or tussle.
- To seize something and hold it firmly.
- To use a grapple (for example to attempt to find, hook, and raise a net or cable).
verb
- To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them.
- To take a position; to come or go.
- To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.
- To don or put on (tefillin (phylacteries)).
- To have sex with.
- To place (new type) properly in the cases.
- To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.
- To impose (a burden, punishment, command, tax, etc.).
- To produce and deposit an egg.
- To lie: to rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
- To apply; to put.
- To deposit (a stake) as a wager; to stake; to risk.
- To bet (that something is or is not the case).
- To point; to aim.
- To be in a horizontal position; to lie (from confusion with lie).
- To present or offer.
- simple past tense of lie when pertaining to position.
- To state; to allege.
- To impute; to charge; to allege.
- To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another.
- To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle).
noun
- The direction a rope is twisted.
- A casual sexual partner.
- A lake.
- A ballad or sung poem; a short poem or narrative, usually intended to be sung.
- What was I, just another lay you can toss aside as you go on to your next conquest?
- Arrangement or relationship; layout.
- An act of sexual intercourse.
- A share of the profits in a business.
- A lyrical, narrative poem written in octosyllabic couplets that often deals with tales of adventure and romance.
- The laying of eggs.
adj
noun
- A loop of rope, or a rope or chain with hooks, for suspending a barrel, bale, or other heavy object, in hoisting or lowering.
- A strap attached to a firearm, for suspending it from the shoulder.
- A loop of rope or fabric tape used for various purposes: e.g. as part of a runner, or providing extra protection when abseiling or belaying.
- A drink composed of a spirit (usually gin) and water sweetened.
- A loop of cloth, worn around the neck, for supporting a baby or other such load.
- A band of rope or iron for securing a yard to a mast.
- The act or motion of hurling as with a sling; a throw; figuratively, a stroke.
- An instrument for throwing stones or other missiles, consisting of a short strap with two strings fastened to its ends, or with a string fastened to one end and a light stick to the other.
- A kind of hanging bandage put around the neck, in which a wounded arm or hand is supported.
- A young or infant spider, such as one raised in captivity.
verb
verb
- To break a strand of (a rope).
- To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert.
- To form by uniting strands.
- To run aground; to beach.
- To cause the third out of an inning to be made, leaving a runner on base.
noun
- A group of wires, usually twisted or braided.
- The shore or beach of the sea or ocean; shore; beach.
- A small brook or rivulet.
- A passage for water; gutter.
- A nucleotide chain.
- A string.
- A series of programmes on a particular theme or linked subject.
- An element in a composite whole; a sequence of linked events or facts; a logical thread.
- A street.
- An individual length of any fine, string-like substance.
- Each of the strings which, twisted together, make up a yarn, rope or cord.
noun
- a cord (or string or ribbon or wire etc.) with which something is tied
- neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front
- a social or business relationship
- equality of score in a contest
- a horizontal beam used to prevent two other structural members from spreading apart or separating
- a fastener that serves to join or connect
- the finish of a contest in which the score is tied and the winner is undecided
- (music) a slur over two notes of the same pitch; indicates that the note is to be sustained for their combined time value
- one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track
verb
- fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord
- finish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc.
- limit or restrict to
- connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces
- form a knot or bow in
- create social or emotional ties
- perform a marriage ceremony
- make by tying pieces together
- unite musical notes by a tie
noun
- a collection of things threaded on a single strand, or as if threaded on a single strand
- a lightweight cord
- stringed instruments that are played with a bow
- a tightly stretched cord of wire or gut, as a part of an instrument or a tennis racket
- a sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding
- a linear sequence (as of characters, words, proteins, etc.)
- a tie consisting of a cord that goes through a seam around an opening
- a tough piece of fiber in vegetables, meat, or other food (especially the tough fibers connecting the two halves of a bean pod)
- (cosmology) a hypothetical one-dimensional subatomic particle having a concentration of energy and the dynamic properties of a flexible loop
- a necklace made by stringing objects together
verb
noun
noun
- A bundle of spun material; a mass of strands and filaments.
- The use of an exercise bicycle, especially as part of a gym class.
- Special interest of an autistic person.
- Rotation of the ball as it flies through the air; sideways movement of the ball as it bounces.
- Rapid circular motion.
- A brief trip by vehicle, especially one made for pleasure.
- A search of a prisoner's cell for forbidden articles.
- A quantum angular momentum associated with subatomic particles, which also creates a magnetic moment.
- A favourable comment or interpretation intended to bias opinion on an otherwise unpleasant situation.
- A condition of flight where a stalled aircraft is simultaneously pitching, yawing, and rolling in a spinning motion.
- An abnormal condition in journal bearings where the bearing seizes to the rotating shaft and rotates inside the journal, destroying both the shaft and the journal.
- A single play of a record by a radio station.
verb
- To use an exercise bicycle, especially as part of a gym class.
- To search rapidly.
- To stream or issue in a thread or a small current or jet.
- To move sideways when bouncing.
- To shape, as malleable sheet metal, into a hollow form, by bending or buckling it by pressing against it with a smooth hand tool or roller while the metal revolves, as in a lathe.
- To play (vinyl records, etc.) as a disc jockey.
- To wait in a loop until some condition becomes true.
- To ride a bicycle at a fast cadence.
- To form into thin strips or ribbons, as with sugar
- To cause one's aircraft to enter or remain in a spin (abnormal stalled flight mode).
- To present, describe, or interpret, or to introduce a bias or slant, so as to give something a favorable or advantageous appearance.
- To enter, or remain in, a spin (abnormal stalled flight mode).
- To make the ball move sideways when it bounces on the pitch.
- To move swiftly.
- To form (a web, a cocoon, silk, etc.) from threads produced by the extrusion of a viscid, transparent liquid, which hardens on coming into contact with the air; said of the spider, the silkworm, etc.
- To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction.
- To make yarn by twisting and winding fibers together.
noun
noun
- A hook attached to a chain, used for the same purpose.
- A ski-shaped runner or supporting surface as found on a helicopter or other aircraft in place of wheels.
- A runner of a sled.
- (also losing skid) A losing streak.
- Large fenders hung over a vessel's side to protect it when handling cargo.
- A basic platform for the storage and transport of goods, machinery or equipment, later developed into the pallet.
- One of a pair of horizontal rails or timbers for supporting anything, such as a boat or barrel.
- A banked sideslip where the aircraft's nose is yawed towards the low wing, often due to excessive rudder input.
- A stepchild.
- A script kiddie.
- An out-of-control sliding motion as would result from applying the brakes too hard in a car.
- A shoe or clog, as of iron, attached to a chain, and placed under the wheel of a wagon to prevent its turning when descending a steep hill.
verb
- To operate an aircraft in a banked sideslip with the nose yawed towards the low wing.
- To protect or support with a skid or skids.
- To cause to move on skids.
- To check or halt (wagon wheels, etc.) with a skid.
- (of a wheel, sled runner, or vehicle tracks) To slide along the ground, without the rotary motion that wheels or tracks would normally have.
- To slide in an uncontrolled manner as in a car with the brakes applied too hard, the wheels sliding with limited spinning.
noun
- any process in which something is passed along a chain.
- The long line of people, in a primitive firefighting technique, who pass buckets of water hand-to-hand from the nearest water source to the site of a fire, in an attempt to douse it.
- A discrete-time analogue delay line that moves a signal along a line of capacitors, one step at each clock cycle.
noun
verb
- To unite, as two ropes, or parts of a rope, by a particular manner of interweaving the strands, the union being between two ends, or between an end and the body of a rope.
- To unite as if splicing.
- To unite, as spars, timbers, rails, etc., by lapping the two ends together, or by applying a piece which laps upon the two ends, and then binding, or in any way making fast.
- To remove intron sequences from the pre-messenger RNA, and then join together exons.
- To unite in marriage.
noun
- A junction or joining of ropes made by splicing them together.
- The electrical and mechanical connection between two pieces of wire or cable.
- That part of a bat where the handle joins the blade.
- Bonding or joining of overlapping materials.
- The process of removing intron sequences from the pre-messenger RNA, and then joining together exons.
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- A mesh of string, cord or rope.
- A conductor that interconnects two or more component terminals.
- The amount remaining after expenses are deducted; profit.
- Any set of polygons joined edge to edge that, when folded along the edges between adjoining polygons so that the outer edges touch, form a given polyhedron.
- A device made from such mesh, generally used for trapping something.
- Anything that has the appearance of such a device.
- The area of the court close to the net (mesh stretched to divide the court).
- A system that interconnects a number of users, locations etc. allowing transport or communication between them.
- A framework backed by a mesh, serving as the goal in hockey, soccer, lacrosse, etc.
- A trap.
- A device made from such mesh, used for catching fish, butterflies, etc.
- A mesh stretched to divide the court in tennis, badminton, volleyball, etc.
adj
- Final; end.
- Free from extraneous substances; pure; unadulterated; neat.
- Remaining after expenses or deductions.
verb
- To form a netting or network; to knit.
- To yield as profit for.
- To enclose or cover with a net.
- To score (a goal).
- To catch in a trap, or by stratagem.
- To catch by means of a net.
- To receive as profit.
- To fully hedge a position.
- To hit the ball into the net.
adv
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