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noun
- A complex machine or instrument.
- An assortment of tools and instruments.
- The entirety of means whereby a specific production is made existent or task accomplished.
- A vehicle used for emergency response.
- A bureaucratic organization, especially one influenced by political patronage.
- Any of the equipment on which the gymnasts perform their movements.
- A complex, highly modified weapon (typically not a firearm); a weaponized “Rube Goldberg machine.”
adj
- relating to or concerned with machinery or tools
- of or relating to technique or proficiency in a practical skill
- characterizing or showing skill in or specialized knowledge of applied arts and sciences
- of or relating to a practical subject that is organized according to scientific principles
- according to strict interpretation of the law or set of rules
adj
- of or relating to or requiring special knowledge to be understood
- resulting from or dependent on market factors rather than fundamental economic considerations
noun
noun
- An intricate complication; a problematic difficulty; a knotty or tangled situation.
- A slow-moving traffic jam.
- A squabble.
- A knot or complication of hair, thread, or the like, difficult to disentangle.
- A growl, for example that of an angry or surly dog, or similar; grumbling sounds.
- The act of snarling; a growl; a surly or peevish expression; an angry contention.
verb
- To be congested in traffic, or to make traffic congested.
- To speak crossly; to talk in rude, surly terms.
- To growl angrily by gnashing or baring the teeth; to gnarl; to utter grumbling sounds.
- To become entangled.
- To entangle; to complicate; to involve in knots.
- To place in an embarrassing situation; to ensnare; to make overly complicated.
- To form raised work upon the outer surface of (thin metal ware) by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface.
- To complain angrily; to utter growlingly.
verb
- To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate.
- To have clandestine or illicit intercourse.
- To conceive or carry out a secret plan intended to harm; to form a plot or scheme.
- To arouse the interest of; to fascinate.
noun
- A complicated or clandestine plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.
- The plot of a play, poem or romance; the series of complications in which a writer involves their imaginary characters.
- Clandestine intercourse between persons; illicit intimacy; a liaison or affair.
noun
- A problem or difficulty with something.
- A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch.
- A sausage.
- A tooth projecting beyond the others; a broken or decayed tooth.
- A goal.
- A misnaged, an opponent to Chassidic Judaism (more likely modern, for cultural reasons).
- A dead tree that remains standing.
- A tree, or a branch of a tree, fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water, and rising nearly or quite to the surface, by which boats are sometimes pierced and sunk.
- Any sharp protuberant part of an object, which may catch, scratch, or tear other objects brought into contact with it.
- A pulled thread or yarn, as in cloth.
- One of the secondary branches of an antler.
verb
- To obtain or pick up.
- To damage or sink (a vessel) by collision; said of a tree or branch fixed to the bottom of a navigable body of water and partially submerged or rising to just beneath the surface.
- To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly.
- To fish by means of dragging a large hook or hooks on a line, intending to impale the body (rather than the mouth) of the target.
- To catch or tear (e.g. fabric) upon a rough surface or projection.
noun
- A defect in an outwardly normal object that may render it inconvenient and troublesome to use.
- The meat of this crustacean, served as food; crabmeat.
- A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
- A playing card with the rank of three.
- The crab apple or wild apple.
- The tree bearing crab apples, which has a dogbane-like bitter bark with medical use.
- A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
- A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
- The tree species Carapa guianensis, native to South America.
- A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
- A crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.
- An infestation of pubic lice (Pthirus pubis).
- A position in rowing where the oar is pushed under the rigger by the force of the water.
- A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
- The angle by which an aircraft's nose is pointed upwind of its groundtrack to compensate for crosswinds during an approach to landing; its crab angle.
- The state of an aircraft's nose being pointed upwind of its groundtrack to compensate for crosswinds during an approach to landing.
- A bad-tempered person.
verb
- To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain a straight-line course.
- To move in a manner that involves keeping low and clinging to surfaces.
- To ruin.
- To fish for crabs.
- To move (a camera) sideways.
- To back out of something.
- To be ill-tempered; to complain or find fault.
- To complain about.
- To cudgel or beat, as with a crabstick
- To drift or move sideways or to leeward (by analogy with the movement of a crab).
- To complain.
adj
- Designed in a sensitive or appropriate way.
- A supernatural connection or power resulting from two items having the same form or some other correspondence.
- Relating to musical tones produced by sympathetic vibration or to strings so tuned as to sound by sympathetic vibration.
- Showing approval of or favor towards an idea or action.
- Relating to or denoting the part of the autonomic nervous system consisting of nerves arising from ganglia near the middle part of the spinal cord, supplying the internal organs, blood vessels, and glands, and balancing the action of the parasympathetic nerves.
- Relating to, producing, or denoting an effect which arises through an affinity, interdependence, or mutual association.
- Of, related to, feeling, showing, or characterized by sympathy.
- Attracting the liking of others.
noun
- a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts
- the act of constructing something
- a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit
- the creation of a construct; the process of combining ideas into a congruous object of thought
- drawing a figure satisfying certain conditions as part of solving a problem or proving a theorem
- an interpretation of a text or action
- the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones
noun
- a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts
- the manner of construction of something and the arrangement of its parts
- the complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations
- a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing and its construction and arrangement
- the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships
verb
noun
- A usage scenario for a product, such as a piece of equipment or a tool.
- A potential scenario in which a system receives an external request (such as user input) and responds to it.
- A usage scenario for a piece of software; often used in the plural to suggest situations where a piece of software may be useful.
noun
- Something produced using the specified material or tool.
- The staging of events to appear as real.
- The result of a particular manner of production.
- Sustained effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result.
- The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.)
- Ore before it is dressed.
- A measure of energy expended in moving an object; most commonly, force times distance. No work is done if the object does not move.
- One's employer.
- Something on which effort is expended.
- effort expended on a particular task.
- The place where one is employed.
- A fortification.
- A measure of energy that is usefully extracted from a process.
- A literary, artistic, or intellectual production.
- labour, occupation, job.
verb
- To embroider with thread.
- To cause to ferment.
- To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
- To shape, form, or improve a material.
- Followed by with. General use, said of either fellow employees or instruments or clients.
- To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
- To pull off; to wear, perform, etc. successfully or to advantage.
- Followed by as. Said of one's job title
- To behave in a certain way when handled
- To exhaust, by working.
- Followed by in (or at, etc.) Said of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business).
- To ferment.
- To set into action.
- Followed by for. Said of a company or individual who employs.
- To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
- To provoke or excite; to influence.
- To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
- To cause to work.
- To effect by gradual degrees;
- To influence.
- To move in an agitated manner.
- To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad).
- To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
- To effect by gradual degrees.
- To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
noun
- An improvised device or solution to a problem.
- A person who frequently canvasses for votes, either directly or by appearing to continuously act with the ulterior motive of furthering their political career.
- An expedient, temporary solution, such as a small patch or change to code, meant to be replaced with a more elegant solution at a later date; a workaround.
- A try, an attempt.
- The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes off for delivery.
- A trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to increase productivity, efficiency, or ease.
- A video game or any computer software that has been altered from its original state.
- A hacking blow.
- A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
- A taxicab (hackney cab) driver.
- A hearse.
- A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for use in hackeysack.
- A dry cough.
- A vehicle let for hire; originally, a hackney coach, now typically a taxicab.
- A kick on the shins in football of any type.
- A tool for chopping.
- A horse for hire, especially one which is old and tired.
- The act of striking an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
- A board which the falcon's food is placed on; used by extension for the state of partial freedom in which they are kept before being trained.
- A gouge or notch made by such a blow.
- Time check, as for example upon synchronization of wristwatches.
- A computer programmer who makes quick but inelegant changes to computer code to solve problems or add features.
- A computer programmer, particularly a veteran or someone not immediately expected to be capable of programming.
- A swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter, particularly a choppy, ungraceful one that misses the ball such as at a fastball.
- One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to persons in a creative field.)
- A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language.
- An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.
- A food-rack for cattle.
- Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary.
- An untalented writer.
- A rack used to dry something, such as bricks, fish, or cheese.
- An airplane of poor quality or in poor condition.
- An illegal attempt to gain access to a computer network.
- A grating in a mill race.
- Confinement of an officer to their stateroom as a punishment.
- A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work.
- A political agitator.
verb
- To ride a horse at a regular pace; to ride on a road (as opposed to riding cross-country etc.).
- To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
- To chop or cut down in a rough manner.
- To kick (a player) on the shins.
- To swing at a pitched ball.
- To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
- To cheat by using unauthorized modifications.
- To work with something on an intimately technical level.
- To strike an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
- To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to (a computer system, e.g., a website, or network) by manipulating code.
- To make a flailing attempt to hit the puck with a hockey stick.
- To withstand or put up with a difficult situation.
- To gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account belonging to (a person or organisation).
- To strike in a frantic movement.
- To play hackeysack.
- To lay (bricks) on a rack to dry.
- To drive a hackney cab.
- To apply a trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to something to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.
- To keep (young hawks) in a state of partial freedom, before they are trained.
- To cough noisily.
- To make a quick code change to patch a computer program, often one that, while being effective, is inelegant or makes the program harder to maintain.
- To accomplish a difficult programming task.
- To strike lightly as part of tapotement massage.
adj
- Complicated.
- Many in number, numerous; multiple, multiplied.
- Various in kind or quality; diverse.
- Exhibited at diverse times or in various ways.
noun
- A copy made by the manifold writing process.
- A pipe fitting or similar device that connects multiple inputs or outputs.
- The third stomach of a ruminant animal, an omasum.
- A polygon mesh representing the continuous, closed surface of a solid object
- A topological space that looks locally like the "ordinary" Euclidean space ℝⁿ and is Hausdorff.
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verb
adj
- Intended for use with fragile items.
- Easily damaged or requiring careful handling.
- Unwell, especially because of having drunk too much alcohol.
- Pleasing to the senses; refined; adapted to please an elegant or cultivated taste.
- circa 1660, John Evelyn (author), William Bray (editor), The Diary of John Evelyn, volume I of II (1901), entry for the 19th of August in 1641, page 29
- Light, or softly tinted; said of a colour.
- Of exacting tastes and habits; dainty; fastidious.
- Refined; gentle; scrupulous not to trespass or offend; considerate; said of manners, conduct, or feelings.
- Affected by slight causes; showing slight changes.
- Of weak health; easily sick; unable to endure hardship.
- Characterized by a fine structure or thin lines.
- Highly discriminating or perceptive; refinedly critical; sensitive; exquisite.
- Slight and shapely; lovely; graceful.
noun
verb
- To place a product or piece of equipment under everyday and/or extreme conditions and examine it for its durability, etc.
- To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent.
- To administer or assign an examination, often given during the academic term, to (somebody).
- To refine (gold, silver, etc.) in a test or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
- To be shown to be by test.
- To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to try.
- To challenge.
noun
- A session in which a product, piece of equipment, or system is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to evaluate its durability, etc.
- An examination, given often during the academic term.
- A challenge, trial.
- A Test match.
- testosterone
- A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
- Testa; seed coat.
- The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm, e.g. sand dollars and sea urchins.
verb
- To render immobile or incapable; to inhibit the progress or abilities of.
- To shake, rattle.
- To restrain using shackles; to place in shackles.
noun
- A link for connecting railroad cars; a drawlink or draglink.
- A restraint on one's action, activity, or progress.
- A length of cable or chain equal to 12+¹⁄₂ fathoms or 75 feet, or later to 15 fathoms.
- A U-shaped piece of metal secured with a pin or bolt across the opening, or a hinged metal loop secured with a quick-release locking pin mechanism.
- A fetter-like band worn as an ornament.
- A restraint fit over a human or animal appendage, such as a wrist, ankle or finger; normally used in pairs joined by a chain.
noun
- Equipment designed for a particular purpose; an apparatus.
- A move or set of moves which are meant to draw out a reaction which leaves an exploitable opening in defense.
- The fashion in which something is organized or arranged.
- A situation orchestrated to frame someone; a covert effort to place the blame on somebody.
- An installer.
- The process of arranging resources for performing a specific operation, as a run of a particular product.
- The tendency of persistent wind to produce higher water levels at the downwind shore of a body of water and lower at the upwind shore.
noun
- miscellaneous unspecified objects
- the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object
- informal terms for personal possessions
- senseless talk
- unspecified qualities required to do or be something
- information in some unspecified form
- a critically important or characteristic component
verb
noun
- A difficult task or challenge.
- An elevation of land of considerable dimensions rising more or less abruptly, forming a conspicuous figure in the landscape, usually having a small extent of surface at its summit.
- Something very large in size or quantity; a huge amount; a great heap.
- Wine from Malaga made from grapes that grow on a mountain.
- A woman's large breast.
- The twenty-first Lenormand card.
verb
- put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position
- expose or make accessible to some action or influence
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- to show, make visible or apparent
- remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body
- reveal to view as by removing a cover
- expose to light, of photographic film
- expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas
- abandon by leaving out in the open air
noun
noun
- The way in which a mechanical device acts when used; especially a firearm.
- Something done, often so as to accomplish a purpose.
- A religious performance or solemn function, i.e. action sermon, a sacramental sermon in the Scots Presbyterian Church.
- The mechanism, that is the set of moving mechanical parts, of a keyboard instrument, like a piano, which transfers the motion of the key to the sound-making device.
- The effort of performing or doing something.
- a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings).
- A way of motion or functioning.
- Fast-paced activity.
- The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem, or other composition; the unfolding of the drama of events.
- The distance separating the strings and the fretboard on a guitar or other string instrument.
- A charge or other process in a law court (also called lawsuit and actio).
- A mapping from a pairing of mathematical objects to one of them, respecting their individual structures. The pairing is typically a Cartesian product or a tensor product. The object that is not part of the output is said to act on the other object. In any given context, action is used as an abbreviation for a more fully named notion, like group action or left group action.
- The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive of the sentiment or passion depicted.
- Sexual intercourse.
- Combat.
- spin put on the bowling ball.
- The product of energy and time, especially the product of the Lagrangian and time.
- The way in which cartridges are loaded, locked, and extracted from the mechanism.
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intj
verb
noun
- A difficult or confounding problem.
- An obviously gay man.
- Something unforgiving and unpleasant.
- A female dog or other canine, particularly a recent mother.
- A man considered weak, effeminate, timid or pathetic in some way
- A queen.
- Place; situation
- A complaint, especially when the complaint is unjustified.
- A woman.
- Friend.
- A despicable or disagreeable, aggressive person, usually a woman.
- A submissive person who does what others want; (prison slang) a man forced or coerced into a homoerotic relationship.
- A queen playing card, particularly the queen of spades in the card game of hearts.
verb
noun
- A deliberately nonfunctional device or tool used in place of a functional one.
- A newborn animal that is indifferent to stimulus and does not voluntarily move.
- A player whose hand is shown and is to be played from by another player.
- A stupid person.
- Something constructed with the size and form of a human, to be used in place of a person.
- A figure of a person or animal used by a ventriloquist; a puppet.
- A "dummy teat"; a plastic or rubber teat used to soothe or comfort a baby; a pacifier.
- A word serving only to make a construction grammatical.
- An unused parameter or value.
- A person who is the mere tool of another; a man of straw.
- A feigned pass or kick or play in order to deceive an opponent.
- A bodily gesture meant to fool an opposing player; a feint.
verb
- To feint.
- To make a mock-up or prototype version of something, without some or all off its intended functionality.
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