English words for 'Depleted by excessive mining.'
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noun
- (mining) A pile of coal or ore heaped up on the ground after it has been mined.
- (specifically, military, weaponry) A supply of nuclear weapons kept by a country; a nuclear stockpile.
- A supply (especially a large one) of something kept for future use, specifically in case the cost of the item increases or if there a shortage.
- a storage pile accumulated for future use
- something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose
verb
noun
- The activity of removing valuable resources (often minerals) from the earth.
- (figuratively) Any activity that extracts or undermines.
- (cryptocurrencies) Creation of new units of cryptocurrency by validating transactions and demonstrating proof of work.
- (military) The activity of placing mines (the explosive devices).
- laying explosive mines in concealed places to destroy enemy personnel and equipment
- the act of extracting ores or coal etc. from the earth
verb
noun
- (mining, uncountable) Underclay in a coal mine.
- (military, countable) Ellipsis of warrant officer.
- (countable) A certificate of appointment given to a warrant officer.
- (countable) An order that serves as authorization; especially a voucher authorizing payment or receipt of money.
- (law, countable) A judicial writ authorizing an officer to make a search, seizure, or arrest, or to execute a judgment.
- (finance, countable) An option, usually issued together with another security and with a term at issue greater than a year, to buy other securities of the issuer.
- (countable) Something that provides assurance or confirmation; a guarantee or proof.
- (New Zealand, road transport, countable) A document certifying that a motor vehicle meets certain standards of mechanical soundness and safety; a warrant of fitness.
- Authorization or certification; a sanction, as given by a superior.
- a writ from a court commanding police to perform specified acts
- a written assurance that some product or service will be provided or will meet certain specifications
- formal and explicit approval
- a type of security issued by a corporation (usually together with a bond or preferred stock) that gives the holder the right to purchase a certain amount of common stock at a stated price
verb
- (transitive) To authorize; to give (someone) sanction or warrant (to do something).
- (transitive) To guarantee as being true; (colloquial) to believe strongly.
- (transitive) To guarantee (something) to be (of a specified quality, value, etc.).
- (transitive) To justify; to give grounds for.
- provide adequate grounds to justify (a certain course of action)
- stand behind and guarantee the quality, accuracy, or condition of
verb
- (mining) To remove all the mineral that can be profitably exploited.
- (transitive) To smooth or perfect.
- (intransitive, US) To earn a wage working away from one's farm.
- (transitive, intransitive) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see work, out.
- (transitive) To calculate.
- (transitive) To make sense of.
- (intransitive) To conclude with the correct solution.
- (transitive) To bring about or cause to happen by work or effort.
- (intransitive) To exercise, especially by lifting weights.
- (transitive) To resolve; to find a solution for.
- (transitive) To develop or devise in detail; to elaborate.
- (intransitive) To succeed; to result in a satisfactory situation.
- (transitive) To decide.
- (transitive) To strengthen a part of one’s body by exercise.
- work out in detail
- make a mathematical calculation or computation
- happen in a certain way, leading to, producing, or resulting in a certain outcome, often well
- do physical exercise
- find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of
- give a workout to
- come up with
- be calculated
noun
- (Australia, New Zealand, mining) Overburden: waste material generated while searching for minerals or while mining, such as when sinking a shaft.
- (Australia, New Zealand, mining) Tailings: waste rock from which the wanted gold, minerals, opal, etc., has been extracted.
- Nonsense, rubbish.
- (now UK dialect) Rubbish, waste matter.
- (UK, Yorkshire, dialect) A mess; the result of a blunder.
verb
noun
- (uncountable, mining) Waste material in old mine workings, goaf.
- (countable) A lump of soft or sticky material.
- (UK, Commonwealth, Ireland, slang) The mouth.
- (uncountable, slang) Saliva or phlegm.
- (US, military, slang) A sailor.
- (countable, US, regional) A whoopie pie.
- a man who serves as a sailor
- a lump of slimy stuff
- informal terms for the mouth
verb
noun
- (mining) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
- (countable, uncountable) A large number or crowd of people, animals, or objects.
- (countable, uncountable) The children in one family; offspring.
- (uncountable) The young of any egg-laying creature, especially if produced at the same time.
- Parentage.
- The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother.
- (countable, uncountable) The eggs and larvae of social insects such as bees, ants and some wasps, especially when gathered together in special brood chambers or combs within the colony.
- That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
- the young of an animal cared for at one time
adj
verb
- (transitive) To keep an egg warm to make it hatch.
- (transitive) To protect (something that is gradually maturing); to foster.
- (intransitive) (typically with over, on or about) To dwell upon moodily and at length, mainly alone.
- (intransitive) To be bred.
- be in a huff and display one's displeasure
- hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing
- be in a huff; be silent or sullen
- sit on (eggs)
- think moodily or anxiously about something
verb
- (mining) Of a lode: to be depleted of ore; to peter or peter out.
- To use effort to draw (a response, words, etc.) from or out of someone; to generate (something) as a response.
- (also figuratively) Often followed by from or out: to extract (a liquid) from something wet by squeezing, twisting, or otherwise putting pressure on it.
- Often followed by out: to squeeze or twist (something moist) tightly so that liquid is forced out.
- To clasp and twist (hands) together due to distress, sorrow, etc.
- To twist or wind (something) into coils; to coil.
- To twist the body in or as if in pain; to writhe.
- To obtain (something) from or out of a person or thing by extortion or other force.
- (materials science) To slide (two ultraflat surfaces) together such that their faces bond.
- To be engaged in clasping and twisting (especially the hands), or exerting pressure.
- To contend, to struggle; also, to strive, to toil.
- (also figuratively) To hold (someone or something) tightly and press or twist; to wrest.
- To squeeze water (from an item of wet clothing) by passing through a wringer.
- To bend or strain (something) out of its position; to wrench, to wrest.
- To cause distress or pain to (a person or their heart, soul, etc.); to distress, to torment.
- Of a thing (such as footwear): to pinch or press (a person or part of their body), causing pain.
- To contort or screw up (the face or its features).
- To experience distress, pain, punishment, etc.
- To cause (tears) to come out from a person or their eyes.
- twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish
- twist, squeeze, or compress in order to extract liquid
- twist and press out of shape
- obtain by coercion or intimidation
noun
noun
- (mining) Liquid waste from some types of mining, such as mountain top removal mining, usually very toxic and stored nearby in large dams.
- Any flowable suspension of small particles in liquid.
- (cooking) A thickener.
- (agriculture) A mixture of animal waste, other organic material and sometimes water, stored in a slurry pit and used as fertilizer; also used in combination, as pig slurry, etc.
- a suspension of insoluble particles (as plaster of Paris or lime or clay etc.) usually in water
adj
verb
noun
- A deposit of ore, coal, etc.
- (countable) The bottom of a body of water, such as an ocean, sea, lake, or river.
- A shaped piece of timber to hold a cask clear of a ship’s floor; a pallet.
- A piece of music, normally instrumental, over which a radio DJ talks.
- (uncountable, usually after a preposition) Sleep; rest; getting to sleep.
- (uncountable) Time spent in a bed.
- (masonry) A course of stone or brick in a wall.
- The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.
- (uncountable, usually after a preposition) The time for going to sleep or resting in bed; bedtime.
- Clipping of bedroom.
- (countable, geology) The smallest division of a geologic formation or stratigraphic rock series marked by well-defined divisional planes (bedding planes) separating it from layers above and below.
- An area where a large number of oysters, mussels, other sessile shellfish, or a large amount of seaweed is found.
- (countable) A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep.
- (US, Canada, automotive) The platform of a truck, trailer, wagon, railcar, or other vehicle that supports the load to be hauled.
- (usually after a preposition) One's place of sleep or rest.
- A garden plot.
- (figurative) Marriage.
- (trampoline) The taut surface of a trampoline.
- A foundation or supporting surface formed of a fluid.
- (figurative, uncountable) Sexual activity.
- A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.
- (masonry) The horizontal surface of a building stone.
- A prepared spot in which to spend the night.
- (computing) The flat surface of a scanner on which a document is placed to be scanned.
- (masonry) The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile.
- (darts) Any of the sections of a dartboard with a point value, delimited by a wire.
- a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit
- a depression forming the ground under a body of water
- (geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock)
- a plot of ground in which plants are growing
- the flat surface of a printing press on which the type form is laid in the last stage of producing a newspaper or magazine or book etc.
- a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep
- single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance
- a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track
verb
- (intransitive, hunting) Of large game animals: to be at rest.
- (transitive) To place in a bed.
- (transitive) To dress or prepare the surface of (stone) so it can serve as a bed.
- (ambitransitive) To have sex (with).
- (intransitive) To go to bed; to put oneself to sleep.
- (transitive) To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or enclosed; to embed.
- (transitive) To set out (plants) in a garden bed.
- (transitive) To furnish with a bed or bedding.
- (transitive) To set in a soft matrix, as paving stones in sand, or tiles in cement.
- (transitive) To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position.
- To settle, as machinery.
- put to bed
- have sexual intercourse with
- place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil
- furnish with a bed
- prepare for sleep
noun
- Waste material from a mine.
- Scum that forms on the surface of molten metal.
- Scoria associated with a volcano.
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, slang, derogatory) A prostitute or promiscuous woman; a slut.
- Hard aggregate remaining as a residue from blast furnaces, sometimes used as a surfacing material.
- (UK, Ireland, chiefly Cockney, derogatory) A contemptible person, a scumbag.
- Impurities formed and separated out when a metal is smelted from ore; vitrified cinders.
- the scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals
verb
- (transitive, Ireland, slang) To make fun of; to take the piss (tease, ridicule or mock).
- (transitive) To produce slag.
- (transitive) To reduce to slag.
- (intransitive) To become slag; to agglomerate when heated below the fusion point.
- (intransitive, Australia, slang) To spit.
- (transitive, UK, slang) To talk badly about; to malign or denigrate (someone).
- convert into slag
noun
- (UK, mining) A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.
- (countable) A desire, wish, longing.
- (uncountable) Poverty.
- (countable) Lack, absence, deficiency. [(often) with of]
- Something needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt.
- (dialectal) A mole (Talpa europea).
- the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable
- anything that is necessary but lacking
- a specific feeling of desire
- a state of extreme poverty
verb
- (transitive, in particular) To wish, desire, or demand to see, have the presence of or do business with.
- To desire a romantic or (especially) sexual relationship with someone; to lust for.
- (transitive, now colloquial) To lack and be in need of or require (something, such as a noun or verbal noun).
- (transitive) To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave, hanker, or demand.
- (by extension) To make it easy or tempting to do something undesirable, or to make it hard or challenging to refrain from doing it.
- (intransitive) To desire (to experience desire); to wish.
- (colloquial, usually second person, often future tense) To be advised to do something (compare should, ought).
- feel or have a desire for; want strongly
- have need of
- be without, lack; be deficient in
- wish or demand the presence of
- hunt or look for; want for a particular reason
noun
- (mining) A pile of ore or rock.
- That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.
- (historical, Australia, Canada) A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin (called a holey dollar).
- A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
- (usually in the plural) A sad, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; despondency.
- (computing) A formatted listing of the contents of program storage, especially when produced automatically by a failing program.
- (slang, often with the verb "take", euphemistic) An act of defecation; a defecating.
- A storage place for supplies, especially military.
- (slang) An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, unfashionable, boring, or depressing looking place.
- A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site.
- (marketing) A temporary display case that holds many copies of an item being sold.
- (computing) An act of dumping, or its result.
- (Northern England) A deep hole in a river bed; a pool.
- Absence of mind; reverie.
- (Internet slang) A disorganized collection of images posted on social media.
- a coarse term for defecation
- (computer science) a copy of the contents of a computer storage device; sometimes used in debugging programs
- a piece of land where waste materials are dumped
- a place where supplies can be stored
verb
- (transitive, computing) To copy (data) from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.
- (transitive) To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.
- (transitive, computing) To output the contents of storage or a data structure, often in order to diagnose a bug.
- (transitive) To discard; to get rid of something one no longer wants.
- (transitive, Australia) Of a surf wave, to crash a swimmer, surfer, etc., heavily downwards.
- (transitive) To sell below cost or very cheaply; to engage in dumping.
- (transitive) To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it
- (transitive, US) To precipitate (especially snow) heavily.
- (transitive, informal) To end a romantic relationship with.
- throw away as refuse
- sell at artificially low prices
- drop (stuff) in a heap or mass
- knock down with force
- fall abruptly
- sever all ties with, usually unceremoniously or irresponsibly
noun
- (mining) Subsidence below ground in a mine, which can cause the ground level above to drop.
- (figurative) A potential, unsuspected, hidden problem, hazard, or danger that is easily encountered but not immediately obvious.
- (computing) An antipattern.
- (literal) A type of trap consisting of a concealed pit in the ground, which the victim is supposed to fall into and not be able to get out from.
- an unforeseen or unexpected or surprising difficulty
- a trap in the form of a concealed hole
noun
- The process of breaking up or pulverizing ores.
- The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching.
- The act of a quadruped kicking both hind legs upward at once.
- The liquid used in this process.
- (forestry) The process of cutting a felled and delimbed tree into logs.
- A washing.
verb
noun
- (mining) The stratum of earth underneath a coal deposit.
- (uncountable) A disease of horses caused by this bony swelling (etymology 1 sense 1.1).
- (countable) A bony swelling which develops in a horse's leg where the shank and splint bone meet, caused by inflammation of the cartilage connecting those bones; also, a similar swelling caused by inflammation of the hock bones.
- (by extension, uncountable) A similar disease causing a person's leg to be lame.
- a swelling of the hock joint of a horse; resulting in lameness
verb
noun
- (mining, local use) Mining waste from lead and zinc mines.
- (by extension, nonstandard, humorous) Familiar term of address for users on social media other than a chat room, as in "guys."
- (Internet, uncountable, with or without "the") A chat room, especially (in later use) one accompanying a videoconference or live stream.
- A small potato, such as is given to swine.
- (British, Australia, New Zealand, World War I military slang) A louse (small, parasitic insect).
- (countable) Any of various small Old World passerine birds in the muscicapid tribe Saxicolini or subfamily Saxicolinae that feed on insects.
- (metonymic, originally video games) The entirety of users, viewed collectively, in a chat room, especially the chat room accompanying a live stream.
- (countable, uncountable) Informal conversation.
- (countable, uncountable) An exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, resembling a face-to-face conversation.
- Alternative form of chaat.
- (countable) Any of several small Australian honeyeaters in the genus Epthianura.
- birds having a chattering call
- an informal conversation
- songbirds having a chattering call
intj
verb
- (transitive) To talk of; to discuss.
- (informal, slang, often as chatting) To chat shit (to speak nonsense, to lie).
- To exchange text or voice messages in real time through a computer network such as a social media chat room or messaging application (as if having a face-to-face conversation instead of SMS or writing emails or letters).
- To talk more than a few words.
- To be engaged in informal conversation.
- talk socially without exchanging too much information
noun
- (mining) A place in a mine where ore has been washed away by a flow of water.
- A total failure; a disappointment.
- (aeronautics) The aerodynamic effect of a small twist in the shape of an aircraft wing.
- A sporting fixture or other event that cannot be completed because of rain.
- (British, air force slang) A destroyed aeroplane.
- (also biology) The cleaning of matter from a physiological system using a fluid; also, the fluid used for such cleaning; or the matter cleaned out from the system.
- An appliance designed to wash out the inside of something.
- (originally US, rail transport, road transport) A breach in a railway or road caused by flooding.
- A period between clinical treatments in which any medication delivered as the first treatment is allowed to be eliminated from a person's body before the second treatment begins.
- An unsuccessful person.
- The erosion of a relatively soft surface by a sudden gush of water; also, a channel produced by this action.
- (meteorology) The action whereby falling rainwater cleans particles from the air.
- An overwhelming victory; a landslide.
- (British, originally air force slang) A trainee who drops out of a training programme.
- An act of washing or cleaning the inside of something.
- someone who is unsuccessful
- the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway)
- the channel or break produced by erosion of relatively soft soil by water
noun
- (mining) A hole in a mineshaft where an orebody is mined upwards until it breaks through the surface into the open air.
- (glassblowing) A hole in the side of a furnace used to heat glass held on a metal rod.
- The stewards' mess on a passenger liner.
- A generally untidy place.
- (military, slang) A military trench.
- The stokehold on a coal-burning tramp steamer.
- (Canada, fishing) An especially good place to fish, a particularly rich fishing spot.
- A bell-mouth spillway; a spillway (a structure in the reservoir above a dam that allows overflowing water to be released in a controlled fashion) that is shaped like an upside-down bell, thereby giving the appearance of a hole in the surface of the water.
- (Scotland and Northern England) A deep built-in cupboard under the eaves or stairs of a house used for general storage, particularly of unrelated or unwanted items stored in some disorder.
- (sexuality, slang) A hole in a screen or wall big enough to allow an erect penis to be stuck through, made to facilitate anonymous sex with another person.
- (mining) An excavation into the sea floor designed to protect the wellhead equipment installed at the surface of a petroleum well from icebergs or pack ice.
- a small locker at the stern of a boat or between decks of a ship
verb
noun
- (mining) Any thick mass of rock that prevents miners from following the lode or vein.
- (architecture, interior decorating, carpentry) Either of the vertical components that form the side of an opening in a wall, such as that of a door frame, window frame, or fireplace.
- Synonym of jambeau (“piece of armor for the leg”).
- upright consisting of a vertical side member of a door or window frame
verb
noun
- (mining) A heap of dressed ore.
- (masonry) One of the faces of a hewn stone.
- (law) The whole jury.
- A soft pad beneath a saddletree to prevent chafing.
- (medicine) A group of tests or assays, a battery.
- A portion of text or other material within a book, newspaper, web page, etc. set apart from the main body or separated by a border.
- A portion of a framed structure between adjacent posts or struts, as in a bridge truss.
- (law) A document containing the names of persons summoned as jurors by the sheriff.
- A (usually) rectangular section of a surface, or of a covering or of a wall, fence etc.
- (dressmaking) A plain strip or band, as of velvet or plush, placed at intervals lengthwise on the skirt of a dress, for ornament.
- (architecture) A sunken compartment with raised margins, moulded or otherwise, as in ceilings, wainscotings, etc.
- (graphical user interface) A type of GUI widget, such as a control panel.
- (Scots law) A prisoner arraigned for trial at the bar of a criminal court.
- (masonry) A slab or plank of wood used instead of a canvas for painting on.
- (joinery) A board having its edges inserted in the groove of a surrounding frame.
- (mining) One of the districts divided by pillars of extra size, into which a mine is laid off in one system of extracting coal.
- (British, historical) A list of doctors who could provide limited free healthcare prior to the introduction of the NHS.
- A group of people gathered to judge, interview, discuss etc. as on a television or radio broadcast for example.
- (comics) An individual frame or drawing in a comic.
- sheet that forms a distinct (usually flat and rectangular) section or component of something
- (computer science) a small temporary window in a graphical user interface that appears in order to request information from the user; after the information has been provided the user dismisses the box with ‘okay’ or ‘cancel’
- a committee appointed to judge a competition
- a group of people gathered for a special purpose as to plan or discuss an issue or judge a contest etc
- a piece of cloth that is generally triangular or tapering; used in making garments or umbrellas or sails
- a soft pad placed under a saddle
- electrical device consisting of a flat insulated surface that contains switches and dials and meters for controlling other electrical devices
- (law) a group of people summoned for jury service (from whom a jury will be chosen)
verb
verb
- lay mines
- get from the earth by excavation
- (ambitransitive) To remove (rock or ore) from the ground.
- (by extension, figurative) To ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
- To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine.
- (transitive) To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area).
- To dig into, for ore or metal.
- (intransitive) To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth.
- (slang) To pick one's nose.
- (cryptocurrencies) To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.
- (by extension, figurative) To tap into.
- (transitive) To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device).
noun
- excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extracted
- explosive device that explodes on contact; designed to destroy vehicles or ships or to kill or maim personnel
- An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels.
- (military) A device intended to explode when stepped upon or touched, or when approached by a ship, vehicle, or person.
- (entomology) The cavity made by a caterpillar while feeding inside a leaf.
- (figurative) Any source of wealth or resources.
- (computing) A machine or network of machines used to extract units of a cryptocurrency.
- (pyrotechnics) A type of firework that explodes on the ground, shooting sparks upward.
- (military) A passage dug toward or underneath enemy lines, which is then packed with explosives.
- Alternative form of mien.
pron
verb
- deplete of resources
- flow off gradually
- empty of liquid; drain the liquid from
- make weak
- (intransitive) To lose liquid.
- (intransitive, pinball) To fall off the bottom of the playfield.
- (transitive, ergative) To cause liquid to flow out of.
- (transitive) To deplete of energy or resources.
- (transitive) To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to exhaust.
- (intransitive) To flow gradually.
- (transitive, basketball, slang) To make a shot.
- (transitive, ergative) To convert a perennially wet place into a dry one.
noun
- a pipe through which liquid is carried away
- tube inserted into a body cavity (as during surgery) to remove unwanted material
- a gradual depletion of energy or resources
- emptying something accomplished by allowing liquid to run out of it
- (electronics) One terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
- Something consuming resources and providing nothing in return.
- (chiefly US, Canada) A conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume; a plughole (UK)
- (chiefly UK) An access point or conduit for rainwater that drains directly downstream in a (drainage) basin without going through sewers or water treatment in order to prevent or belay floods.
- A natural or artificial watercourse which drains a tract of land.
- (pinball) An outhole.
- (vulgar) An act of urination.
adj
- (mining) Of something mined such as coal or ore: broken into pieces.
- Caused to move (and usually weakened) by a strong force.
- Of a drink, especially (alcoholic beverages) a cocktail: mixed by being agitated with ice in a shaker.
- Chiefly of a person: having had one's composure or confidence disrupted or upset; in a state of shock or trauma.
- Moved rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
- Weakened by some event.
- (timber industry) Of timber: damaged from being cracked.
- disturbed psychologically as if by a physical jolt or shock
noun
verb
noun
- (mining) An area for working in a coal mine.
- (in the plural) A set of rooms inhabited by someone; one's lodgings.
- (nautical) A space between the timbers of a ship's frame.
- A place or position in society; office; rank; post, sometimes when vacated by its former occupant.
- A quantity of furniture sufficient to furnish one room.
- (Internet, countable) An IRC or chat room.
- (usually in the singular, metonymic) The people in a room.
- (countable) A separate part of a building, enclosed by walls, a floor and a ceiling.
- (countable, with possessive pronoun) (One's) bedroom.
- Alternative form of roum (“deep blue dye”).
- (uncountable, figuratively) Sufficient space for or to do something.
- (caving) A portion of a cave that is wider than a passage.
- (uncountable) Space for something, or to carry out an activity.
- the people who are present in a room
- an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling
- space for movement
- opportunity for
adv
verb
noun
- (mining) The sudden narrowing almost to nothing of a vein of ore.
- (farriery) A stick with a hole in one end through which passes a loop, which can be drawn tightly over the upper lip or an ear of a horse and twisted to keep the animal quiet during minor surgery.
- (physiology) A brief, contractile response of a skeletal muscle elicited by a single maximal volley of impulses in the neurons supplying it.
- couch grass (Elymus repens; a species of grass, often considered as a weed)
- A brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again; a spasm.
- (informal) Action of spotting or seeking out a bird, especially a rare one.
- (birdwatching) A trip taken in order to observe a rare bird.
- a sudden muscle spasm; especially one caused by a nervous condition
verb
- (intransitive) To perform a twitch; spasm.
- (birdwatching, transitive) To spot or seek out a bird, especially a rare one.
- (transitive) To cause to twitch; spasm.
- (birdwatching, intransitive) To engage in twitching.
- (transitive) To jerk sharply and briefly.
- toss with a sharp movement so as to cause to turn over in the air
- move or pull with a sudden motion
- make an uncontrolled, short, jerky motion
- move with abrupt, seemingly uncontrolled motions
- squeeze tightly between the fingers
noun
- (mining) A fault.
- A small cataract over which fish attempt to jump; a salmon ladder.
- (figuratively) A significant move forward.
- A group of leopards.
- The distance traversed by a leap or jump.
- A trap or snare for fish, made from twigs; a weely.
- Half a bushel.
- Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast.
- (figuratively) A large step in reasoning, often one that is not justified by the facts.
- (music) A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other intermediate intervals.
- The act of leaping or jumping.
- the distance leaped (or to be leaped)
- an abrupt transition
- a sudden and decisive increase
- a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
adj
verb
noun
- (mining) A collapse or cave-in.
- (programming) A code cave.
- (figuratively, also slang) The vagina.
- A large, naturally-occurring cavity formed underground or in the face of a cliff or a hillside.
- (caving) A naturally-occurring cavity in bedrock which is large enough to be entered by an adult.
- (nuclear physics) A shielded area where nuclear experiments can be carried out.
- (slang, politics, often "Cave") A group that breaks from a larger political party or faction on a particular issue.
- A place of retreat, such as a man cave.
- (drilling, uncountable) Debris, particularly broken rock, which falls into a drill hole and interferes with drilling.
- A storage cellar, especially for wine or cheese.
- A hole, depression, or gap in earth or rock, whether natural or man-made.
- a geological formation consisting of an underground enclosure with access from the surface of the ground or from the sea
intj
verb
- To collapse.
- To engage in the recreational exploration of caves.
- To hollow out or undermine.
- (figurative) To surrender.
- (mining) In room-and-pillar mining, to extract a deposit of rock by breaking down a pillar which had been holding it in place.
- explore natural caves
- hollow out as if making a cave or opening
noun
verb
adj
- (mining) Done from below upward.
- Executed with the hand brought forward and down from above the shoulders.
- (of a loop in rope) With the working part on top of the standing part.
- (masonry) Laid such that the surface of the wall to be jointed is on the opposite side of the wall from the mason, requiring the mason to lean over the wall to complete the work.
- (sewing) Sewn with close, vertical stitches that draw the edges of a seam together.
- sewn together with overhand stitches (close vertical stitches that pass over and draw the two edges together)
- with hand brought forward and down from above shoulder level
adv
noun
verb
noun
- (mining) A passage underground through which ore is shot.
- One thousandth part in millage rates of property tax.
- (historical) A prison treadmill.
- (collectible card games) A strategy centered on depleting the opponent's deck.
- One thousandth of a US dollar, or one tenth of a cent.
- A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process; any similar apparatus that otherwise processes.
- (engineering, manufacturing) Alternative form of mil (“one thousandth of an inch”).
- A milling cutter used on such a machine.
- (mining) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
- (CB radio slang) A typewriter used to transcribe messages received.
- A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc. (Some are small and simple, and some are large and complex.)
- (US military slang, World War I, World War II) A military prison, either guardhouse or post prison.
- (collectible card games) Discarding a card from one's deck.
- (figurative, derogatory) An institution or pseudo-institutional business awarding credentials (such as diplomas, degrees, certificates, or certifications) of either dubious value or fraudulent nature; one selling essays or other documents for the buyers (usually students) to fraudulently pass off as their own.
- A milling machine for machining of solid metal, wood, or plastic.
- The building housing such a grinding apparatus; also, any similar building that houses a similarly material activity (such as weaving, fulling, dying, etc.); the place of business comprising such a building and its outbuildings and grounds.
- A line of three matching pieces in nine men's morris and related games.
- (informal) Clipping of millimeter.
- The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, such as a coin or screw.
- The building complex housing such a plant; the place of business comprising such buildings and their grounds.
- (informal) An engine.
- A machine for grinding and polishing.
- (figurative, usually derogatory) An establishment that handles a certain type of situation or procedure routinely, or produces large quantities of an item without much regard to quality. (The notion of churning out massive amounts indiscriminately underlies the figurative metaphor.)
- A manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, flooring, and some other kinds of materials.
- (military slang, World War I, World War II) A delousing station: a cootie mill.
- (die sinking) A hardened steel roller with a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, such as copper.
- (informal) Alternative form of mil (“million”).
- machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing
- a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing
- the act of grinding to a powder or dust
verb
- (transitive, mining) To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.
- (transitive) To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine.
- (intransitive) To undergo hulling.
- (transitive) To roll (steel, etc.) into bars.
- (transitive) To cause to mill, or circle around.
- (intransitive, slang) To take part in a fistfight; to box.
- (transitive, collectible card games) To move (a card) from a deck to the discard pile.
- (zoology, of air-breathing creatures) To swim underwater.
- (zoology, of a whale) To swim suddenly in a new direction.
- (transitive, Hearthstone) To destroy (a card) due to having a full hand.
- To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
- (transitive) To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine.
- (intransitive, followed by around, about, etc.) To move about in an aimless fashion.
- (transitive) To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin).
- (transitive, slang) To beat; to pound.
- (transitive) To make (drinking chocolate) frothy, as by churning.
- roll out (metal) with a rolling machine
- produce a ridge around the edge of
- move about in a confused manner
- grind with a mill
noun
- (mining) A heap of rubbish, attle, or other such refuse.
- (obsolete except in scientific use and in some dialects) A castrated boar.
- (saltworks) A wicker case in which salt is put to drain.
- A long sleeveless flannel garment for infants.
- (chiefly British) A hill.
- A mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves.
- (British) A small vehicle used to carry a load and pulled or pushed by hand.
- (archeology) a heap of earth placed over prehistoric tombs
- the quantity that a barrow will hold
- a cart for carrying small loads; has handles and one or more wheels
verb
adj
adv
noun
- Prunus sect. Armeniaca (better known as apricots)
- A desirable or choice thing of its kind; a prize selection; a choice appointment, assignment etc.
- An edible, fleshy stone fruit of Prunus domestica (European plum), often of a dark red or purple colour.
- Prunus mume, an Asian fruit more closely related to the apricot than the plum, usually consumed pickled, dried, or as a juice or wine; ume.
- A stone-fruit tree which bears this fruit, Prunus domestica.
- Prunus angustifolia (Chickasaw plum or sand plum)
- A dark bluish-red color/colour, the colour of some plums.
- Prunus salicina (Chinese plum or Japanese plum)
- Prunus americana (American plum)
- Prunus subcordata (Klamath plum or Oregon plum)
- (vulgar, slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
- Prunus nigra (Canadian plum or black plum)
- Prunus spinosa (sloe)
- Prunus rivularis (creek plum or hog plum)
- Prunus cerasifera (cherry plum or myrobalan)
- (derogatory, chiefly UK) A fool, an idiot.
- Prunus ursina (bear's plum)
- Prunus hortulana (hortulan plum)
- any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit
- any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone
- a highly desirable position or assignment
adj
noun
noun
- (mining) Refuse or rubbish from a mine.
- (only as plural) A publication intended for participants in an industry or related group of industries.
- (countable) Those engaged in an industry or group of related industries.
- Short for trade paperback
- (countable) An idea or strategy for an investment on a market.
- (countable or uncountable) An occupation in the secondary sector, as opposed to an agricultural, professional or military one.
- (chiefly in the plural) Steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator.
- (countable) A particular instance of buying or selling, or a series of related transactions executed as a single investment.
- (uncountable) The buying and selling of goods and services on a market.
- (countable) The skilled practice of a practical occupation.
- (countable) Those who perform a particular kind of skilled work.
- (uncountable, UK) The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers.
- (uncountable, gay slang) A masculine man available for casual sex with men, often for pay. (Compare rough trade.)
- (countable) An instance of bartering items in exchange for one another.
- steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator
- an equal exchange
- the commercial exchange (buying and selling on domestic or international markets) of goods and services
- the skilled practice of a practical occupation
- the business given to a commercial establishment by its customers
- people who perform a particular kind of skilled work
- a particular instance of buying or selling
adj
verb
- (transitive, with for) To give (something) in exchange (for).
- (horticulture, transitive or intransitive) To give someone a plant and receive a different one in return.
- (ambitransitive) To engage in trade.
- (transitive) To mutually exchange (something) (with).
- (transitive, with on) To use or exploit a particular aspect, such as a name, reputation, or image, to gain advantage or benefit.
- (intransitive) To have dealings; to be concerned or associated (with).
- (transitive) To recommend and get recommendations.
- (finance, intransitive, copulative) To be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions.
- (ambitransitive) To do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood.
- engage in the trade of
- exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions
- turn in as payment or part payment for a purchase
- do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood
noun
- (mining) A large deposit of ore in a lode.
- That which swallows irretrievably; a whirlpool; a sucking eddy.
- (figurative) A wide interval or gap; a separating space.
- (figurative) A difference, especially a large difference, between groups.
- (geography) A portion of an ocean or sea extending into the land; a partially landlocked sea
- (Oxbridge slang) The bottom part of a list of those awarded a degree, for those who have only just passed.
- A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin.
- a deep wide chasm
- an unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding)
- an arm of a sea or ocean partly enclosed by land; larger than a bay
verb
noun
- (mining) A shaft or excavation.
- (motor racing) The optimal route around the track, or any of several such routes.
- The middle of the strike zone in baseball where a pitch is most easily hit.
- A fixed routine.
- (music) A pronounced, enjoyable rhythm.
- A long, narrow channel or depression; e.g., such a slot cut into a hard material to provide a location for an engineering component, a tire groove, or a geological channel or depression.
- a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record)
- a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape
- (anatomy) any furrow or channel on a bodily structure or part
verb
noun
noun
- a mine or quarry that is being or has been worked
- Method of operation.
- (usually in the plural) Operation; action.
- Fermentation.
- (countable) A train movement.
- (arithmetic) The incidental or subsidiary calculations performed in solving an overall problem.
- A place where work is carried on.
- (of bodies of water) Becoming full of a vegetable substance.
adj
- serving to permit or facilitate further work or activity
- (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing
- adequate for practical use; especially sufficient in strength or numbers to accomplish something
- actively engaged in paid work
- adopted as a temporary basis for further work
- Enough to allow one to use something.
- That suffices but requires additional work; provisional.
- In paid employment.
- Used in real life; practical.
- That is or are functioning.
- Of or relating to employment.
verb
noun
- (mining) A pile of coal or ore heaped up on the ground after it has been mined.
- (specifically, military, weaponry) A supply of nuclear weapons kept by a country; a nuclear stockpile.
- A supply (especially a large one) of something kept for future use, specifically in case the cost of the item increases or if there a shortage.
- a storage pile accumulated for future use
- something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose
verb
noun
- The activity of removing valuable resources (often minerals) from the earth.
- (figuratively) Any activity that extracts or undermines.
- (cryptocurrencies) Creation of new units of cryptocurrency by validating transactions and demonstrating proof of work.
- (military) The activity of placing mines (the explosive devices).
- laying explosive mines in concealed places to destroy enemy personnel and equipment
- the act of extracting ores or coal etc. from the earth
verb
noun
- (mining, uncountable) Underclay in a coal mine.
- (military, countable) Ellipsis of warrant officer.
- (countable) A certificate of appointment given to a warrant officer.
- (countable) An order that serves as authorization; especially a voucher authorizing payment or receipt of money.
- (law, countable) A judicial writ authorizing an officer to make a search, seizure, or arrest, or to execute a judgment.
- (finance, countable) An option, usually issued together with another security and with a term at issue greater than a year, to buy other securities of the issuer.
- (countable) Something that provides assurance or confirmation; a guarantee or proof.
- (New Zealand, road transport, countable) A document certifying that a motor vehicle meets certain standards of mechanical soundness and safety; a warrant of fitness.
- Authorization or certification; a sanction, as given by a superior.
- a writ from a court commanding police to perform specified acts
- a written assurance that some product or service will be provided or will meet certain specifications
- formal and explicit approval
- a type of security issued by a corporation (usually together with a bond or preferred stock) that gives the holder the right to purchase a certain amount of common stock at a stated price
verb
- (transitive) To authorize; to give (someone) sanction or warrant (to do something).
- (transitive) To guarantee as being true; (colloquial) to believe strongly.
- (transitive) To guarantee (something) to be (of a specified quality, value, etc.).
- (transitive) To justify; to give grounds for.
- provide adequate grounds to justify (a certain course of action)
- stand behind and guarantee the quality, accuracy, or condition of
noun
- (Australia, New Zealand, mining) Overburden: waste material generated while searching for minerals or while mining, such as when sinking a shaft.
- (Australia, New Zealand, mining) Tailings: waste rock from which the wanted gold, minerals, opal, etc., has been extracted.
- Nonsense, rubbish.
- (now UK dialect) Rubbish, waste matter.
- (UK, Yorkshire, dialect) A mess; the result of a blunder.
verb
noun
- (uncountable, mining) Waste material in old mine workings, goaf.
- (countable) A lump of soft or sticky material.
- (UK, Commonwealth, Ireland, slang) The mouth.
- (uncountable, slang) Saliva or phlegm.
- (US, military, slang) A sailor.
- (countable, US, regional) A whoopie pie.
- a man who serves as a sailor
- a lump of slimy stuff
- informal terms for the mouth
verb
noun
- (mining) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
- (countable, uncountable) A large number or crowd of people, animals, or objects.
- (countable, uncountable) The children in one family; offspring.
- (uncountable) The young of any egg-laying creature, especially if produced at the same time.
- Parentage.
- The young of certain animals, especially a group of young birds or fowl hatched at one time by the same mother.
- (countable, uncountable) The eggs and larvae of social insects such as bees, ants and some wasps, especially when gathered together in special brood chambers or combs within the colony.
- That which is bred or produced; breed; species.
- the young of an animal cared for at one time
adj
verb
- (transitive) To keep an egg warm to make it hatch.
- (transitive) To protect (something that is gradually maturing); to foster.
- (intransitive) (typically with over, on or about) To dwell upon moodily and at length, mainly alone.
- (intransitive) To be bred.
- be in a huff and display one's displeasure
- hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing
- be in a huff; be silent or sullen
- sit on (eggs)
- think moodily or anxiously about something
noun
- (mining) Liquid waste from some types of mining, such as mountain top removal mining, usually very toxic and stored nearby in large dams.
- Any flowable suspension of small particles in liquid.
- (cooking) A thickener.
- (agriculture) A mixture of animal waste, other organic material and sometimes water, stored in a slurry pit and used as fertilizer; also used in combination, as pig slurry, etc.
- a suspension of insoluble particles (as plaster of Paris or lime or clay etc.) usually in water
adj
verb
noun
- A deposit of ore, coal, etc.
- (countable) The bottom of a body of water, such as an ocean, sea, lake, or river.
- A shaped piece of timber to hold a cask clear of a ship’s floor; a pallet.
- A piece of music, normally instrumental, over which a radio DJ talks.
- (uncountable, usually after a preposition) Sleep; rest; getting to sleep.
- (uncountable) Time spent in a bed.
- (masonry) A course of stone or brick in a wall.
- The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.
- (uncountable, usually after a preposition) The time for going to sleep or resting in bed; bedtime.
- Clipping of bedroom.
- (countable, geology) The smallest division of a geologic formation or stratigraphic rock series marked by well-defined divisional planes (bedding planes) separating it from layers above and below.
- An area where a large number of oysters, mussels, other sessile shellfish, or a large amount of seaweed is found.
- (countable) A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep.
- (US, Canada, automotive) The platform of a truck, trailer, wagon, railcar, or other vehicle that supports the load to be hauled.
- (usually after a preposition) One's place of sleep or rest.
- A garden plot.
- (figurative) Marriage.
- (trampoline) The taut surface of a trampoline.
- A foundation or supporting surface formed of a fluid.
- (figurative, uncountable) Sexual activity.
- A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.
- (masonry) The horizontal surface of a building stone.
- A prepared spot in which to spend the night.
- (computing) The flat surface of a scanner on which a document is placed to be scanned.
- (masonry) The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile.
- (darts) Any of the sections of a dartboard with a point value, delimited by a wire.
- a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit
- a depression forming the ground under a body of water
- (geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock)
- a plot of ground in which plants are growing
- the flat surface of a printing press on which the type form is laid in the last stage of producing a newspaper or magazine or book etc.
- a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep
- single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance
- a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track
verb
- (intransitive, hunting) Of large game animals: to be at rest.
- (transitive) To place in a bed.
- (transitive) To dress or prepare the surface of (stone) so it can serve as a bed.
- (ambitransitive) To have sex (with).
- (intransitive) To go to bed; to put oneself to sleep.
- (transitive) To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or enclosed; to embed.
- (transitive) To set out (plants) in a garden bed.
- (transitive) To furnish with a bed or bedding.
- (transitive) To set in a soft matrix, as paving stones in sand, or tiles in cement.
- (transitive) To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position.
- To settle, as machinery.
- put to bed
- have sexual intercourse with
- place (plants) in a prepared bed of soil
- furnish with a bed
- prepare for sleep
noun
- Waste material from a mine.
- Scum that forms on the surface of molten metal.
- Scoria associated with a volcano.
- (UK, Ireland, Australia, slang, derogatory) A prostitute or promiscuous woman; a slut.
- Hard aggregate remaining as a residue from blast furnaces, sometimes used as a surfacing material.
- (UK, Ireland, chiefly Cockney, derogatory) A contemptible person, a scumbag.
- Impurities formed and separated out when a metal is smelted from ore; vitrified cinders.
- the scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals
verb
- (transitive, Ireland, slang) To make fun of; to take the piss (tease, ridicule or mock).
- (transitive) To produce slag.
- (transitive) To reduce to slag.
- (intransitive) To become slag; to agglomerate when heated below the fusion point.
- (intransitive, Australia, slang) To spit.
- (transitive, UK, slang) To talk badly about; to malign or denigrate (someone).
- convert into slag
noun
- (UK, mining) A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.
- (countable) A desire, wish, longing.
- (uncountable) Poverty.
- (countable) Lack, absence, deficiency. [(often) with of]
- Something needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt.
- (dialectal) A mole (Talpa europea).
- the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable
- anything that is necessary but lacking
- a specific feeling of desire
- a state of extreme poverty
verb
- (transitive, in particular) To wish, desire, or demand to see, have the presence of or do business with.
- To desire a romantic or (especially) sexual relationship with someone; to lust for.
- (transitive, now colloquial) To lack and be in need of or require (something, such as a noun or verbal noun).
- (transitive) To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave, hanker, or demand.
- (by extension) To make it easy or tempting to do something undesirable, or to make it hard or challenging to refrain from doing it.
- (intransitive) To desire (to experience desire); to wish.
- (colloquial, usually second person, often future tense) To be advised to do something (compare should, ought).
- feel or have a desire for; want strongly
- have need of
- be without, lack; be deficient in
- wish or demand the presence of
- hunt or look for; want for a particular reason
noun
- (mining) A pile of ore or rock.
- That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.
- (historical, Australia, Canada) A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin (called a holey dollar).
- A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
- (usually in the plural) A sad, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; despondency.
- (computing) A formatted listing of the contents of program storage, especially when produced automatically by a failing program.
- (slang, often with the verb "take", euphemistic) An act of defecation; a defecating.
- A storage place for supplies, especially military.
- (slang) An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, unfashionable, boring, or depressing looking place.
- A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site.
- (marketing) A temporary display case that holds many copies of an item being sold.
- (computing) An act of dumping, or its result.
- (Northern England) A deep hole in a river bed; a pool.
- Absence of mind; reverie.
- (Internet slang) A disorganized collection of images posted on social media.
- a coarse term for defecation
- (computer science) a copy of the contents of a computer storage device; sometimes used in debugging programs
- a piece of land where waste materials are dumped
- a place where supplies can be stored
verb
- (transitive, computing) To copy (data) from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.
- (transitive) To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.
- (transitive, computing) To output the contents of storage or a data structure, often in order to diagnose a bug.
- (transitive) To discard; to get rid of something one no longer wants.
- (transitive, Australia) Of a surf wave, to crash a swimmer, surfer, etc., heavily downwards.
- (transitive) To sell below cost or very cheaply; to engage in dumping.
- (transitive) To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it
- (transitive, US) To precipitate (especially snow) heavily.
- (transitive, informal) To end a romantic relationship with.
- throw away as refuse
- sell at artificially low prices
- drop (stuff) in a heap or mass
- knock down with force
- fall abruptly
- sever all ties with, usually unceremoniously or irresponsibly
noun
- (mining) Subsidence below ground in a mine, which can cause the ground level above to drop.
- (figurative) A potential, unsuspected, hidden problem, hazard, or danger that is easily encountered but not immediately obvious.
- (computing) An antipattern.
- (literal) A type of trap consisting of a concealed pit in the ground, which the victim is supposed to fall into and not be able to get out from.
- an unforeseen or unexpected or surprising difficulty
- a trap in the form of a concealed hole
noun
- The process of breaking up or pulverizing ores.
- The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching.
- The act of a quadruped kicking both hind legs upward at once.
- The liquid used in this process.
- (forestry) The process of cutting a felled and delimbed tree into logs.
- A washing.
verb
noun
- (mining) The stratum of earth underneath a coal deposit.
- (uncountable) A disease of horses caused by this bony swelling (etymology 1 sense 1.1).
- (countable) A bony swelling which develops in a horse's leg where the shank and splint bone meet, caused by inflammation of the cartilage connecting those bones; also, a similar swelling caused by inflammation of the hock bones.
- (by extension, uncountable) A similar disease causing a person's leg to be lame.
- a swelling of the hock joint of a horse; resulting in lameness
verb
noun
- (mining, local use) Mining waste from lead and zinc mines.
- (by extension, nonstandard, humorous) Familiar term of address for users on social media other than a chat room, as in "guys."
- (Internet, uncountable, with or without "the") A chat room, especially (in later use) one accompanying a videoconference or live stream.
- A small potato, such as is given to swine.
- (British, Australia, New Zealand, World War I military slang) A louse (small, parasitic insect).
- (countable) Any of various small Old World passerine birds in the muscicapid tribe Saxicolini or subfamily Saxicolinae that feed on insects.
- (metonymic, originally video games) The entirety of users, viewed collectively, in a chat room, especially the chat room accompanying a live stream.
- (countable, uncountable) Informal conversation.
- (countable, uncountable) An exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, resembling a face-to-face conversation.
- Alternative form of chaat.
- (countable) Any of several small Australian honeyeaters in the genus Epthianura.
- birds having a chattering call
- an informal conversation
- songbirds having a chattering call
intj
verb
- (transitive) To talk of; to discuss.
- (informal, slang, often as chatting) To chat shit (to speak nonsense, to lie).
- To exchange text or voice messages in real time through a computer network such as a social media chat room or messaging application (as if having a face-to-face conversation instead of SMS or writing emails or letters).
- To talk more than a few words.
- To be engaged in informal conversation.
- talk socially without exchanging too much information
noun
- (mining) A place in a mine where ore has been washed away by a flow of water.
- A total failure; a disappointment.
- (aeronautics) The aerodynamic effect of a small twist in the shape of an aircraft wing.
- A sporting fixture or other event that cannot be completed because of rain.
- (British, air force slang) A destroyed aeroplane.
- (also biology) The cleaning of matter from a physiological system using a fluid; also, the fluid used for such cleaning; or the matter cleaned out from the system.
- An appliance designed to wash out the inside of something.
- (originally US, rail transport, road transport) A breach in a railway or road caused by flooding.
- A period between clinical treatments in which any medication delivered as the first treatment is allowed to be eliminated from a person's body before the second treatment begins.
- An unsuccessful person.
- The erosion of a relatively soft surface by a sudden gush of water; also, a channel produced by this action.
- (meteorology) The action whereby falling rainwater cleans particles from the air.
- An overwhelming victory; a landslide.
- (British, originally air force slang) A trainee who drops out of a training programme.
- An act of washing or cleaning the inside of something.
- someone who is unsuccessful
- the erosive process of washing away soil or gravel by water (as from a roadway)
- the channel or break produced by erosion of relatively soft soil by water
noun
- (mining) A hole in a mineshaft where an orebody is mined upwards until it breaks through the surface into the open air.
- (glassblowing) A hole in the side of a furnace used to heat glass held on a metal rod.
- The stewards' mess on a passenger liner.
- A generally untidy place.
- (military, slang) A military trench.
- The stokehold on a coal-burning tramp steamer.
- (Canada, fishing) An especially good place to fish, a particularly rich fishing spot.
- A bell-mouth spillway; a spillway (a structure in the reservoir above a dam that allows overflowing water to be released in a controlled fashion) that is shaped like an upside-down bell, thereby giving the appearance of a hole in the surface of the water.
- (Scotland and Northern England) A deep built-in cupboard under the eaves or stairs of a house used for general storage, particularly of unrelated or unwanted items stored in some disorder.
- (sexuality, slang) A hole in a screen or wall big enough to allow an erect penis to be stuck through, made to facilitate anonymous sex with another person.
- (mining) An excavation into the sea floor designed to protect the wellhead equipment installed at the surface of a petroleum well from icebergs or pack ice.
- a small locker at the stern of a boat or between decks of a ship
verb
noun
- (mining) Any thick mass of rock that prevents miners from following the lode or vein.
- (architecture, interior decorating, carpentry) Either of the vertical components that form the side of an opening in a wall, such as that of a door frame, window frame, or fireplace.
- Synonym of jambeau (“piece of armor for the leg”).
- upright consisting of a vertical side member of a door or window frame
verb
noun
- (mining) A heap of dressed ore.
- (masonry) One of the faces of a hewn stone.
- (law) The whole jury.
- A soft pad beneath a saddletree to prevent chafing.
- (medicine) A group of tests or assays, a battery.
- A portion of text or other material within a book, newspaper, web page, etc. set apart from the main body or separated by a border.
- A portion of a framed structure between adjacent posts or struts, as in a bridge truss.
- (law) A document containing the names of persons summoned as jurors by the sheriff.
- A (usually) rectangular section of a surface, or of a covering or of a wall, fence etc.
- (dressmaking) A plain strip or band, as of velvet or plush, placed at intervals lengthwise on the skirt of a dress, for ornament.
- (architecture) A sunken compartment with raised margins, moulded or otherwise, as in ceilings, wainscotings, etc.
- (graphical user interface) A type of GUI widget, such as a control panel.
- (Scots law) A prisoner arraigned for trial at the bar of a criminal court.
- (masonry) A slab or plank of wood used instead of a canvas for painting on.
- (joinery) A board having its edges inserted in the groove of a surrounding frame.
- (mining) One of the districts divided by pillars of extra size, into which a mine is laid off in one system of extracting coal.
- (British, historical) A list of doctors who could provide limited free healthcare prior to the introduction of the NHS.
- A group of people gathered to judge, interview, discuss etc. as on a television or radio broadcast for example.
- (comics) An individual frame or drawing in a comic.
- sheet that forms a distinct (usually flat and rectangular) section or component of something
- (computer science) a small temporary window in a graphical user interface that appears in order to request information from the user; after the information has been provided the user dismisses the box with ‘okay’ or ‘cancel’
- a committee appointed to judge a competition
- a group of people gathered for a special purpose as to plan or discuss an issue or judge a contest etc
- a piece of cloth that is generally triangular or tapering; used in making garments or umbrellas or sails
- a soft pad placed under a saddle
- electrical device consisting of a flat insulated surface that contains switches and dials and meters for controlling other electrical devices
- (law) a group of people summoned for jury service (from whom a jury will be chosen)
verb
noun
- (mining) An area for working in a coal mine.
- (in the plural) A set of rooms inhabited by someone; one's lodgings.
- (nautical) A space between the timbers of a ship's frame.
- A place or position in society; office; rank; post, sometimes when vacated by its former occupant.
- A quantity of furniture sufficient to furnish one room.
- (Internet, countable) An IRC or chat room.
- (usually in the singular, metonymic) The people in a room.
- (countable) A separate part of a building, enclosed by walls, a floor and a ceiling.
- (countable, with possessive pronoun) (One's) bedroom.
- Alternative form of roum (“deep blue dye”).
- (uncountable, figuratively) Sufficient space for or to do something.
- (caving) A portion of a cave that is wider than a passage.
- (uncountable) Space for something, or to carry out an activity.
- the people who are present in a room
- an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling
- space for movement
- opportunity for
adv
verb
noun
- (mining) The sudden narrowing almost to nothing of a vein of ore.
- (farriery) A stick with a hole in one end through which passes a loop, which can be drawn tightly over the upper lip or an ear of a horse and twisted to keep the animal quiet during minor surgery.
- (physiology) A brief, contractile response of a skeletal muscle elicited by a single maximal volley of impulses in the neurons supplying it.
- couch grass (Elymus repens; a species of grass, often considered as a weed)
- A brief, small (sometimes involuntary) movement out of place and then back again; a spasm.
- (informal) Action of spotting or seeking out a bird, especially a rare one.
- (birdwatching) A trip taken in order to observe a rare bird.
- a sudden muscle spasm; especially one caused by a nervous condition
verb
- (intransitive) To perform a twitch; spasm.
- (birdwatching, transitive) To spot or seek out a bird, especially a rare one.
- (transitive) To cause to twitch; spasm.
- (birdwatching, intransitive) To engage in twitching.
- (transitive) To jerk sharply and briefly.
- toss with a sharp movement so as to cause to turn over in the air
- move or pull with a sudden motion
- make an uncontrolled, short, jerky motion
- move with abrupt, seemingly uncontrolled motions
- squeeze tightly between the fingers
noun
- (mining) A fault.
- A small cataract over which fish attempt to jump; a salmon ladder.
- (figuratively) A significant move forward.
- A group of leopards.
- The distance traversed by a leap or jump.
- A trap or snare for fish, made from twigs; a weely.
- Half a bushel.
- Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast.
- (figuratively) A large step in reasoning, often one that is not justified by the facts.
- (music) A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other intermediate intervals.
- The act of leaping or jumping.
- the distance leaped (or to be leaped)
- an abrupt transition
- a sudden and decisive increase
- a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
adj
verb
noun
- (mining) A collapse or cave-in.
- (programming) A code cave.
- (figuratively, also slang) The vagina.
- A large, naturally-occurring cavity formed underground or in the face of a cliff or a hillside.
- (caving) A naturally-occurring cavity in bedrock which is large enough to be entered by an adult.
- (nuclear physics) A shielded area where nuclear experiments can be carried out.
- (slang, politics, often "Cave") A group that breaks from a larger political party or faction on a particular issue.
- A place of retreat, such as a man cave.
- (drilling, uncountable) Debris, particularly broken rock, which falls into a drill hole and interferes with drilling.
- A storage cellar, especially for wine or cheese.
- A hole, depression, or gap in earth or rock, whether natural or man-made.
- a geological formation consisting of an underground enclosure with access from the surface of the ground or from the sea
intj
verb
- To collapse.
- To engage in the recreational exploration of caves.
- To hollow out or undermine.
- (figurative) To surrender.
- (mining) In room-and-pillar mining, to extract a deposit of rock by breaking down a pillar which had been holding it in place.
- explore natural caves
- hollow out as if making a cave or opening
noun
verb
noun
- (mining) A passage underground through which ore is shot.
- One thousandth part in millage rates of property tax.
- (historical) A prison treadmill.
- (collectible card games) A strategy centered on depleting the opponent's deck.
- One thousandth of a US dollar, or one tenth of a cent.
- A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process; any similar apparatus that otherwise processes.
- (engineering, manufacturing) Alternative form of mil (“one thousandth of an inch”).
- A milling cutter used on such a machine.
- (mining) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
- (CB radio slang) A typewriter used to transcribe messages received.
- A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc. (Some are small and simple, and some are large and complex.)
- (US military slang, World War I, World War II) A military prison, either guardhouse or post prison.
- (collectible card games) Discarding a card from one's deck.
- (figurative, derogatory) An institution or pseudo-institutional business awarding credentials (such as diplomas, degrees, certificates, or certifications) of either dubious value or fraudulent nature; one selling essays or other documents for the buyers (usually students) to fraudulently pass off as their own.
- A milling machine for machining of solid metal, wood, or plastic.
- The building housing such a grinding apparatus; also, any similar building that houses a similarly material activity (such as weaving, fulling, dying, etc.); the place of business comprising such a building and its outbuildings and grounds.
- A line of three matching pieces in nine men's morris and related games.
- (informal) Clipping of millimeter.
- The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, such as a coin or screw.
- The building complex housing such a plant; the place of business comprising such buildings and their grounds.
- (informal) An engine.
- A machine for grinding and polishing.
- (figurative, usually derogatory) An establishment that handles a certain type of situation or procedure routinely, or produces large quantities of an item without much regard to quality. (The notion of churning out massive amounts indiscriminately underlies the figurative metaphor.)
- A manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, flooring, and some other kinds of materials.
- (military slang, World War I, World War II) A delousing station: a cootie mill.
- (die sinking) A hardened steel roller with a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, such as copper.
- (informal) Alternative form of mil (“million”).
- machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing
- a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing
- the act of grinding to a powder or dust
verb
- (transitive, mining) To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.
- (transitive) To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine.
- (intransitive) To undergo hulling.
- (transitive) To roll (steel, etc.) into bars.
- (transitive) To cause to mill, or circle around.
- (intransitive, slang) To take part in a fistfight; to box.
- (transitive, collectible card games) To move (a card) from a deck to the discard pile.
- (zoology, of air-breathing creatures) To swim underwater.
- (zoology, of a whale) To swim suddenly in a new direction.
- (transitive, Hearthstone) To destroy (a card) due to having a full hand.
- To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
- (transitive) To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine.
- (intransitive, followed by around, about, etc.) To move about in an aimless fashion.
- (transitive) To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin).
- (transitive, slang) To beat; to pound.
- (transitive) To make (drinking chocolate) frothy, as by churning.
- roll out (metal) with a rolling machine
- produce a ridge around the edge of
- move about in a confused manner
- grind with a mill
noun
- (mining) A heap of rubbish, attle, or other such refuse.
- (obsolete except in scientific use and in some dialects) A castrated boar.
- (saltworks) A wicker case in which salt is put to drain.
- A long sleeveless flannel garment for infants.
- (chiefly British) A hill.
- A mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves.
- (British) A small vehicle used to carry a load and pulled or pushed by hand.
- (archeology) a heap of earth placed over prehistoric tombs
- the quantity that a barrow will hold
- a cart for carrying small loads; has handles and one or more wheels
noun
- (mining) Refuse or rubbish from a mine.
- (only as plural) A publication intended for participants in an industry or related group of industries.
- (countable) Those engaged in an industry or group of related industries.
- Short for trade paperback
- (countable) An idea or strategy for an investment on a market.
- (countable or uncountable) An occupation in the secondary sector, as opposed to an agricultural, professional or military one.
- (chiefly in the plural) Steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator.
- (countable) A particular instance of buying or selling, or a series of related transactions executed as a single investment.
- (uncountable) The buying and selling of goods and services on a market.
- (countable) The skilled practice of a practical occupation.
- (countable) Those who perform a particular kind of skilled work.
- (uncountable, UK) The business given to a commercial establishment by its customers.
- (uncountable, gay slang) A masculine man available for casual sex with men, often for pay. (Compare rough trade.)
- (countable) An instance of bartering items in exchange for one another.
- steady winds blowing from east to west above and below the equator
- an equal exchange
- the commercial exchange (buying and selling on domestic or international markets) of goods and services
- the skilled practice of a practical occupation
- the business given to a commercial establishment by its customers
- people who perform a particular kind of skilled work
- a particular instance of buying or selling
adj
verb
- (transitive, with for) To give (something) in exchange (for).
- (horticulture, transitive or intransitive) To give someone a plant and receive a different one in return.
- (ambitransitive) To engage in trade.
- (transitive) To mutually exchange (something) (with).
- (transitive, with on) To use or exploit a particular aspect, such as a name, reputation, or image, to gain advantage or benefit.
- (intransitive) To have dealings; to be concerned or associated (with).
- (transitive) To recommend and get recommendations.
- (finance, intransitive, copulative) To be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions.
- (ambitransitive) To do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood.
- engage in the trade of
- exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions
- turn in as payment or part payment for a purchase
- do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood
noun
- (mining) A large deposit of ore in a lode.
- That which swallows irretrievably; a whirlpool; a sucking eddy.
- (figurative) A wide interval or gap; a separating space.
- (figurative) A difference, especially a large difference, between groups.
- (geography) A portion of an ocean or sea extending into the land; a partially landlocked sea
- (Oxbridge slang) The bottom part of a list of those awarded a degree, for those who have only just passed.
- A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin.
- a deep wide chasm
- an unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding)
- an arm of a sea or ocean partly enclosed by land; larger than a bay
verb
noun
- (mining) A shaft or excavation.
- (motor racing) The optimal route around the track, or any of several such routes.
- The middle of the strike zone in baseball where a pitch is most easily hit.
- A fixed routine.
- (music) A pronounced, enjoyable rhythm.
- A long, narrow channel or depression; e.g., such a slot cut into a hard material to provide a location for an engineering component, a tire groove, or a geological channel or depression.
- a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record)
- a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape
- (anatomy) any furrow or channel on a bodily structure or part
verb
noun
noun
- a mine or quarry that is being or has been worked
- Method of operation.
- (usually in the plural) Operation; action.
- Fermentation.
- (countable) A train movement.
- (arithmetic) The incidental or subsidiary calculations performed in solving an overall problem.
- A place where work is carried on.
- (of bodies of water) Becoming full of a vegetable substance.
adj
- serving to permit or facilitate further work or activity
- (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing
- adequate for practical use; especially sufficient in strength or numbers to accomplish something
- actively engaged in paid work
- adopted as a temporary basis for further work
- Enough to allow one to use something.
- That suffices but requires additional work; provisional.
- In paid employment.
- Used in real life; practical.
- That is or are functioning.
- Of or relating to employment.
verb
verb
- (mining) To remove all the mineral that can be profitably exploited.
- (transitive) To smooth or perfect.
- (intransitive, US) To earn a wage working away from one's farm.
- (transitive, intransitive) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see work, out.
- (transitive) To calculate.
- (transitive) To make sense of.
- (intransitive) To conclude with the correct solution.
- (transitive) To bring about or cause to happen by work or effort.
- (intransitive) To exercise, especially by lifting weights.
- (transitive) To resolve; to find a solution for.
- (transitive) To develop or devise in detail; to elaborate.
- (intransitive) To succeed; to result in a satisfactory situation.
- (transitive) To decide.
- (transitive) To strengthen a part of one’s body by exercise.
- work out in detail
- make a mathematical calculation or computation
- happen in a certain way, leading to, producing, or resulting in a certain outcome, often well
- do physical exercise
- find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of
- give a workout to
- come up with
- be calculated
noun
- (mining) A pile of coal or ore heaped up on the ground after it has been mined.
- (specifically, military, weaponry) A supply of nuclear weapons kept by a country; a nuclear stockpile.
- A supply (especially a large one) of something kept for future use, specifically in case the cost of the item increases or if there a shortage.
- a storage pile accumulated for future use
- something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose
verb
verb
- (mining) Of a lode: to be depleted of ore; to peter or peter out.
- To use effort to draw (a response, words, etc.) from or out of someone; to generate (something) as a response.
- (also figuratively) Often followed by from or out: to extract (a liquid) from something wet by squeezing, twisting, or otherwise putting pressure on it.
- Often followed by out: to squeeze or twist (something moist) tightly so that liquid is forced out.
- To clasp and twist (hands) together due to distress, sorrow, etc.
- To twist or wind (something) into coils; to coil.
- To twist the body in or as if in pain; to writhe.
- To obtain (something) from or out of a person or thing by extortion or other force.
- (materials science) To slide (two ultraflat surfaces) together such that their faces bond.
- To be engaged in clasping and twisting (especially the hands), or exerting pressure.
- To contend, to struggle; also, to strive, to toil.
- (also figuratively) To hold (someone or something) tightly and press or twist; to wrest.
- To squeeze water (from an item of wet clothing) by passing through a wringer.
- To bend or strain (something) out of its position; to wrench, to wrest.
- To cause distress or pain to (a person or their heart, soul, etc.); to distress, to torment.
- Of a thing (such as footwear): to pinch or press (a person or part of their body), causing pain.
- To contort or screw up (the face or its features).
- To experience distress, pain, punishment, etc.
- To cause (tears) to come out from a person or their eyes.
- twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish
- twist, squeeze, or compress in order to extract liquid
- twist and press out of shape
- obtain by coercion or intimidation
noun
noun
- (Australia, New Zealand, mining) Overburden: waste material generated while searching for minerals or while mining, such as when sinking a shaft.
- (Australia, New Zealand, mining) Tailings: waste rock from which the wanted gold, minerals, opal, etc., has been extracted.
- Nonsense, rubbish.
- (now UK dialect) Rubbish, waste matter.
- (UK, Yorkshire, dialect) A mess; the result of a blunder.
verb
verb
- lay mines
- get from the earth by excavation
- (ambitransitive) To remove (rock or ore) from the ground.
- (by extension, figurative) To ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
- To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine.
- (transitive) To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area).
- To dig into, for ore or metal.
- (intransitive) To dig a tunnel or hole; to burrow in the earth.
- (slang) To pick one's nose.
- (cryptocurrencies) To earn new units of cryptocurrency by doing certain calculations.
- (by extension, figurative) To tap into.
- (transitive) To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device).
noun
- excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extracted
- explosive device that explodes on contact; designed to destroy vehicles or ships or to kill or maim personnel
- An excavation from which ore or solid minerals are taken, especially one consisting of underground tunnels.
- (military) A device intended to explode when stepped upon or touched, or when approached by a ship, vehicle, or person.
- (entomology) The cavity made by a caterpillar while feeding inside a leaf.
- (figurative) Any source of wealth or resources.
- (computing) A machine or network of machines used to extract units of a cryptocurrency.
- (pyrotechnics) A type of firework that explodes on the ground, shooting sparks upward.
- (military) A passage dug toward or underneath enemy lines, which is then packed with explosives.
- Alternative form of mien.
pron
verb
- deplete of resources
- flow off gradually
- empty of liquid; drain the liquid from
- make weak
- (intransitive) To lose liquid.
- (intransitive, pinball) To fall off the bottom of the playfield.
- (transitive, ergative) To cause liquid to flow out of.
- (transitive) To deplete of energy or resources.
- (transitive) To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to exhaust.
- (intransitive) To flow gradually.
- (transitive, basketball, slang) To make a shot.
- (transitive, ergative) To convert a perennially wet place into a dry one.
noun
- a pipe through which liquid is carried away
- tube inserted into a body cavity (as during surgery) to remove unwanted material
- a gradual depletion of energy or resources
- emptying something accomplished by allowing liquid to run out of it
- (electronics) One terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
- Something consuming resources and providing nothing in return.
- (chiefly US, Canada) A conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume; a plughole (UK)
- (chiefly UK) An access point or conduit for rainwater that drains directly downstream in a (drainage) basin without going through sewers or water treatment in order to prevent or belay floods.
- A natural or artificial watercourse which drains a tract of land.
- (pinball) An outhole.
- (vulgar) An act of urination.
verb
adj
adv
noun
- Prunus sect. Armeniaca (better known as apricots)
- A desirable or choice thing of its kind; a prize selection; a choice appointment, assignment etc.
- An edible, fleshy stone fruit of Prunus domestica (European plum), often of a dark red or purple colour.
- Prunus mume, an Asian fruit more closely related to the apricot than the plum, usually consumed pickled, dried, or as a juice or wine; ume.
- A stone-fruit tree which bears this fruit, Prunus domestica.
- Prunus angustifolia (Chickasaw plum or sand plum)
- A dark bluish-red color/colour, the colour of some plums.
- Prunus salicina (Chinese plum or Japanese plum)
- Prunus americana (American plum)
- Prunus subcordata (Klamath plum or Oregon plum)
- (vulgar, slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
- Prunus nigra (Canadian plum or black plum)
- Prunus spinosa (sloe)
- Prunus rivularis (creek plum or hog plum)
- Prunus cerasifera (cherry plum or myrobalan)
- (derogatory, chiefly UK) A fool, an idiot.
- Prunus ursina (bear's plum)
- Prunus hortulana (hortulan plum)
- any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit
- any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone
- a highly desirable position or assignment
noun
- (mining) A passage underground through which ore is shot.
- One thousandth part in millage rates of property tax.
- (historical) A prison treadmill.
- (collectible card games) A strategy centered on depleting the opponent's deck.
- One thousandth of a US dollar, or one tenth of a cent.
- A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process; any similar apparatus that otherwise processes.
- (engineering, manufacturing) Alternative form of mil (“one thousandth of an inch”).
- A milling cutter used on such a machine.
- (mining) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
- (CB radio slang) A typewriter used to transcribe messages received.
- A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc. (Some are small and simple, and some are large and complex.)
- (US military slang, World War I, World War II) A military prison, either guardhouse or post prison.
- (collectible card games) Discarding a card from one's deck.
- (figurative, derogatory) An institution or pseudo-institutional business awarding credentials (such as diplomas, degrees, certificates, or certifications) of either dubious value or fraudulent nature; one selling essays or other documents for the buyers (usually students) to fraudulently pass off as their own.
- A milling machine for machining of solid metal, wood, or plastic.
- The building housing such a grinding apparatus; also, any similar building that houses a similarly material activity (such as weaving, fulling, dying, etc.); the place of business comprising such a building and its outbuildings and grounds.
- A line of three matching pieces in nine men's morris and related games.
- (informal) Clipping of millimeter.
- The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, such as a coin or screw.
- The building complex housing such a plant; the place of business comprising such buildings and their grounds.
- (informal) An engine.
- A machine for grinding and polishing.
- (figurative, usually derogatory) An establishment that handles a certain type of situation or procedure routinely, or produces large quantities of an item without much regard to quality. (The notion of churning out massive amounts indiscriminately underlies the figurative metaphor.)
- A manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, flooring, and some other kinds of materials.
- (military slang, World War I, World War II) A delousing station: a cootie mill.
- (die sinking) A hardened steel roller with a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, such as copper.
- (informal) Alternative form of mil (“million”).
- machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing
- a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing
- the act of grinding to a powder or dust
verb
- (transitive, mining) To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.
- (transitive) To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine.
- (intransitive) To undergo hulling.
- (transitive) To roll (steel, etc.) into bars.
- (transitive) To cause to mill, or circle around.
- (intransitive, slang) To take part in a fistfight; to box.
- (transitive, collectible card games) To move (a card) from a deck to the discard pile.
- (zoology, of air-breathing creatures) To swim underwater.
- (zoology, of a whale) To swim suddenly in a new direction.
- (transitive, Hearthstone) To destroy (a card) due to having a full hand.
- To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
- (transitive) To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine.
- (intransitive, followed by around, about, etc.) To move about in an aimless fashion.
- (transitive) To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin).
- (transitive, slang) To beat; to pound.
- (transitive) To make (drinking chocolate) frothy, as by churning.
- roll out (metal) with a rolling machine
- produce a ridge around the edge of
- move about in a confused manner
- grind with a mill
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adj
- (mining) Of something mined such as coal or ore: broken into pieces.
- Caused to move (and usually weakened) by a strong force.
- Of a drink, especially (alcoholic beverages) a cocktail: mixed by being agitated with ice in a shaker.
- Chiefly of a person: having had one's composure or confidence disrupted or upset; in a state of shock or trauma.
- Moved rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
- Weakened by some event.
- (timber industry) Of timber: damaged from being cracked.
- disturbed psychologically as if by a physical jolt or shock
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adj
- (mining) Done from below upward.
- Executed with the hand brought forward and down from above the shoulders.
- (of a loop in rope) With the working part on top of the standing part.
- (masonry) Laid such that the surface of the wall to be jointed is on the opposite side of the wall from the mason, requiring the mason to lean over the wall to complete the work.
- (sewing) Sewn with close, vertical stitches that draw the edges of a seam together.
- sewn together with overhand stitches (close vertical stitches that pass over and draw the two edges together)
- with hand brought forward and down from above shoulder level