off the back foot
defensively
en garde
retrench
left field
stand
anchor
secondary
range
fielder
defensive tackle
holding midfielder
hyperdefensive
right back
on the back foot
on the defensive
shortstop
point d'appui
pick
left back
tackle
screen
right fielder
rusher
backfoot
linebacker
drop back
rearguard action
defensive midfielder
jeer
cornerbacking
poster
linemate
cornerback
center fielder
offside trap
leather
dime
center field
holder
coverage
fullback
Aztec
safety spot
blueliner
backfield
safety
backfielder
back judge
guard
tackleable
kitty bar the door
first baseman
line backer
skin
foreguard
wing
featherweight
fortified
bulwark
open-side
tacklee
route runner
end
halfback
circumvallation
boundary corner
undershift
overdefensive
roverback
third baseman
overshift
rover
defendable
midfielder
right wing
line up
defensible
quarterback
wingback
fanger
tackle for loss
sag off
ride off
garryowen
shotgun
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overdefensive
defendable
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defensively
kitty bar the door
left field
stand
anchor
secondary
range
fielder
defensive tackle
holding midfielder
right back
shortstop
point d'appui
left back
tackle
right fielder
rusher
linebacker
rearguard action
defensive midfielder
jeer
cornerbacking
poster
linemate
cornerback
center fielder
offside trap
leather
dime
center field
holder
coverage
fullback
Aztec
safety spot
blueliner
backfield
safety
backfielder
back judge
guard
first baseman
line backer
pick
wing
featherweight
open-side
tacklee
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end
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circumvallation
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rover
midfielder
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quarterback
wingback
fanger
tackle for loss
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shotgun
retrench
pick
screen
backfoot
drop back
skin
foreguard
bulwark
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sag off
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verb
- To take up a new defensive position.
- To furnish with a retrenchment (a defensive work within a fortification).
- To dig or redig a trench where one already exists.
- To terminate the employment of a worker to reduce the size of a workforce; to make redundant.
- To abridge; to curtail.
- To cut down or reduce.
- To live less expensively; to economize.
- To confine; to limit; to restrict.
noun
- The defensive position in the outfield to the left.
- An unusual or unexpected position, or a viewpoint held by very few others in contrast to the majority viewpoint (especially in the phrases out in left field and way out in left field)
- An unexpected, bizarre, or unwatched source (especially in the phrases out of left field and from left field).
- The part of a baseball field which is beyond the infield and to the left of a person standing on home plate and facing the pitcher.
noun
- a defensive effort
- a support or foundation
- the position where a thing or person stands
- a growth of similar plants (usually trees) in a particular area
- a small table for holding articles of various kinds
- a support for displaying ot holding various articles
- an interruption of normal activity
- a mental position from which things are viewed
- a booth where articles are displayed for sale
- a stop made by a touring musical or theatrical group to give a performance
- tiered seats consisting of a structure (often made of wood) where people can sit to watch an event (game or parade)
- a platform where a (brass) band can play in the open air
verb
- be standing; be upright
- be in some specified state or condition
- occupy a place or location, also metaphorically
- hold one's ground; maintain a position; be steadfast or upright
- put up with something or somebody unpleasant
- have or maintain a position or stand on an issue
- remain inactive or immobile
- be in effect; be or remain in force
- be tall; have a height of; copula
- put into an upright position
- withstand the force of something
- be available for stud services
noun
- A defensive player, especially one who counters the opposition's best offensive player.
- Any instrument serving a purpose like that of a ship's anchor, such as an arrangement of timber to hold a dam fast; a device to hold the end of a bridge cable etc.; or a device used in metalworking to hold the core of a mould in place.
- A metal tie holding adjoining parts of a building together.
- A marked point in a document that can be the target of a hyperlink.
- The combined anchoring gear (anchor, rode, bill/peak and fittings such as bitts, cat, and windlass.)
- A tool used to moor a vessel to the bottom of a sea or river to resist movement.
- That which gives stability or security.
- A screw anchor.
- Carved work, somewhat resembling an anchor or arrowhead; part of the ornaments of certain mouldings. It is seen in the echinus, or egg-and-anchor (called also egg-and-dart, egg-and-tongue) ornament.
- One of the calcareous spinules of certain holothurians, as in species of Synapta.
- The thirty-fifth Lenormand card.
- A superstore or other facility that serves as a focus to bring customers into an area.
- One of the anchor-shaped spicules of certain sponges.
- The brake of a vehicle.
- A point that is touched by the draw hand or string when the bow is fully drawn and ready to shoot.
- A device for attaching a climber at the top of a climb, such as a chain or ring or a natural feature.
- An iron device so shaped as to grip the bottom and hold a vessel at her berth by the chain or rope attached. (FM 55-501).
- The final runner in a relay race.
- An anchorman or anchorwoman.
- Representation of the nautical tool, used as a heraldic charge.
verb
noun
- The defensive backs.
- One who occupies a subordinate or auxiliary place; a delegate deputy.
- A radar return generated by the response of an aircraft's transponder to an interrogation signal broadcast by a radar installation, containing additional encoded identification and situational data not available from a simple primary return.
- An inductive coil or loop that is magnetically powered by a primary in a transformer or similar.
- Any flight feather attached to the ulna (forearm) of a bird.
- A satellite.
- An act of issuing more stock by an already publicly traded corporation.
- The second stage of a multistage thermonuclear weapon, which generates a fusion explosion when imploded as an indirect result of the fission explosion of the primary, and which, in a few extremely large weapons, itself implodes a fusion tertiary.
- A secondary circle.
- A secondary school.
- Anything secondary or of lesser importance.
adj
- Produced by alteration or deposition subsequent to the formation of the original rock mass.
- Derived from a parent compound by replacement of two atoms of hydrogen by organic radicals
- Developed by pressure or other causes.
- Dependent or consequent upon another disease, or occurring in the second stage of a disease.
- Related to secondary education, i.e. schooling between the ages of (approximately) 11 and 18.
- Of less than primary importance.
- Originating from a deputy or delegated person or body
- Representing a reversion to an ancestral state.
- Formed by mixing primary colors.
- Next in order to the first or primary; of second place in origin, rank, etc.
- Pertaining to the second joint of the wing of a bird.
- Relating to the manufacture of goods from raw materials.
noun
- The defensive area that a player can cover.
- A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many hotplates.
- An area for practicing shooting at targets.
- The extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope.
- An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land.
- The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce.
- The distance from a person or sensor to an object, target, emanation, or event.
- The length of the smallest interval which contains all the data in a sample; the difference between the largest and smallest observations in the sample.
- The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found.
- A sequential list of values specified by an iterator.
- The maximum distance or reach of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, etc.).
- The set of values (points) which a function can obtain.
- An area for military training or equipment testing.
- A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
- A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc.
- In the public land system, a row or line of townships lying between two succession meridian lines six miles apart.
- The distance a vehicle (e.g., a car, bicycle, lorry, or aircraft) can travel without refueling.
- Selection, array.
- An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.
- The variety of roles that an actor can play in a satisfactory way.
verb
- To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else.
- To classify.
- Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range.
- To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region.
- To form a line or a row.
- To place among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; usually, reflexively and figuratively, to espouse a cause, to join a party, etc.
- To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near.
- Of a player, to travel a significant distance for a defensive play.
- To rove over or through.
- To determine the range to a target.
- To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander.
- To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order.
- To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
noun
verb
- To intercept a pass from the offense as a defensive player.
- To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand and arm as the ball is released.
- To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
- To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
- To steal; to pilfer.
- To screen.
- To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
- To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground.
- To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
- To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
- To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
- To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
- To remove something from somewhere with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
- To seek (a fight or quarrel) where the opportunity arises.
- To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.
- To do anything fastidiously or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
noun
- A good defensive play by an infielder.
- Pasture; feed, for animals.
- A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
- A screen.
- A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
- The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute); hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread.
- A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
- A pickoff.
- A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
- That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
- An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- A choice; ability to choose.
- A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
- An interception.
- An anchor.
- That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
noun
- A defensive position between two defensive ends: defensive tackle; a person playing that position.
- A block and tackle.
- Any instance in which one person intercepts another and forces them to the ground.
- A device for grasping an object and an attached means of moving it, as a rope and hook.
- A man's genitalia.
- Equipment, gear, gadgetry.
- A play where a player attempts to take control over the ball from an opponent, as in rugby or football.
- Equipment (rod, reel, line, lure, etc.) used when angling.
- An offensive line position between a guard and an end: offensive tackle; a person playing that position.
- A play where a defender brings the ball carrier to the ground.
- Clothing.
verb
- To "hit on" or pursue a person that one is interested in.
- To face or deal with, attempting to overcome or fight down.
- To bring a ball carrier to the ground.
- To attempt to take away a ball.
- To force a person to the ground with the weight of one's own body, usually by jumping on top or slamming one's weight into them.
verb
- To stand so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- To determine the source or subject matter of a call before deciding whether to answer the phone.
- To present publicly (on the screen).
- To search chemical libraries by means of a computational technique in order to identify chemical compounds which would potentially bind to a given biological target such as a protein.
- To remove information, or censor intellectual material from viewing. To hide the facts.
- To fit with a screen.
- To shelter or conceal.
- To filter by passing through a screen.
- To examine patients or treat a sample in order to detect a chemical or a disease, or to assess susceptibility to a disease.
noun
- A collection of less-valuable vessels that travel with a more valuable one for the latter's protection.
- Searching through a sample for a target; an act of screening
- A dwarf wall or partition carried up to a certain height for separation and protection, as in a church, to separate the aisle from the choir, etc.
- A physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous.
- A technique used to identify genes so as to study gene functions.
- A stencil upon a framed mesh through which paint is forced onto printed-on material; the frame with the mesh itself.
- The visualised data or imagery displayed on a computer screen.
- An erection of white canvas or wood placed on the boundary opposite a batsman to make the ball more easily visible.
- The viewing surface or area of a movie, or moving picture or slide presentation.
- The informational viewing area of electronic devices, where output is displayed.
- The protective netting which protects the audience from flying objects
- An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- A frame supporting a mesh of bars or wires used to classify fragments of stone by size, allowing the passage of fragments whose a diameter is smaller than the distance between the bars or wires.
- One of the individual regions of a video game, etc. divided into separate screens.
- A disguise; concealment.
noun
- A dunk over a defending player.
- An advertisement to be posted on a pole, wall etc. to advertise something.
- A shot that hits a goalpost, scoring one point.
- A shot that hits a goalpost instead of passing into the goal.
- A picture of a celebrity, an event etc., intended to be attached to a wall.
- One who posts a message.
verb
noun
- A defensive formation with six defensive backs, one of whom is a dimeback.
- A measurement of illicit drugs (usually marijuana) sold in ten dollar bags.
- An assist.
- A coin worth one-tenth of a Canadian dollar.
- Ten dollars.
- Payment responsibility.
- A beautiful woman (10 on a 10-point scale).
- A playing card with the rank of ten.
- A coin worth one-tenth of a U.S. dollar.
- A small amount of money.
- A thousand dollars.
- A ten year prison sentence.
verb
noun
- Defense.
- Journalism: the attention given by the press or news media about some news; the total of stories published or broadcast about a topic.
- The average number of reads representing a given nucleotide in the reconstructed sequence.
- The area covered by a mobile phone (cellphone) or other radio network.
- The signal strength, reception of a radio signal.
- The amount of space or time given to an event in newspapers or on television.
- An amount by which something or someone is covered.
noun
- A player who plays on the left or right side of defence.
- A position behind the main line of backs in both rugby union and rugby league. In rugby union, they wear number 15 jersey at the start of play and are the last line of defence responsible for catching punts.
- A defensive player who assists the goalie in preventing the opposing team from scoring.
- An offensive back whose primary jobs are to block in advance of the halfback on running plays and for the quarterback on passing plays.
noun
- The position of defensive safety; a position furthest from the line of scrimmage whose responsibility is to defend against passes as well as to be the tackler of last resort.
- A short PSA about safety.
- A blue dot on some flashbulbs that turns pink if there is an air leak.
- A place one goes in order to be safe, especially one to go in times of emergency.
- The action of a spotter who is focused on preventing a fall or injury, as opposed to a control spot, which is focused on helping the gymnast acquire a skill.
noun
noun
- Any of the defensive players who are in position furthest from the line of scrimmage and whose responsibility is to defend against passes as well as to be the tacklers of last resort.
- An instance of a player being sacked or tackled in the end zone, or stepping out of the end zone and off the field, resulting in two points to the opposite team.
- A mechanism on a weapon or dangerous equipment designed to prevent accidental firing.
- The condition or feeling of being safe; security; certainty.
- A safety squeeze.
- Preservation from escape; close custody.
verb
noun
- (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage between the center and the tackles
- the person who lines up between the center and the tackles on the offensive line of a football team on the line of scrimmage
- a person who keeps watch over something or someone
- a device designed to prevent injury or accidents
- a posture of defence in boxing or fencing
- the person who plays the position of guard on a basketball team
- a military unit serving to protect some place or person
- a precautionary measure warding off impending danger or damage or injury etc.
- the duty of serving as a sentry
- a position on a basketball team
verb
verb
- To use tricks to go past a defender.
- To injure the skin of.
- To high five.
- To become covered with skin.
- To remove the skin and/or fur of an animal or a human.
- To cover with skin, or as if with skin; hence, to cover superficially.
- To apply a skin to (a computer program).
noun
- A congealed layer on the surface of a liquid.
- The outer surface covering much of the wings and fuselage of an aircraft.
- The outer protective layer of the body of any animal, including of a human.
- The outer protective layer of the fruit of a plant.
- A set of resources that modifies the appearance and/or layout of the graphical user interface of a computer program.
- An alternate appearance (texture map or geometry) for a character model in a video game.
- The covering, as of planking or iron plates, outside the framing, forming the sides and bottom of a vessel; the shell; also, a lining inside the framing.
- A subgroup of Australian aboriginal people; such divisions are cultural and not related to an individual′s physical skin.
- That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole.
- A drink of whisky served hot.
- The skin and fur of an individual animal used by humans for clothing, upholstery, etc.
- A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids.
- person, chap
- Bare flesh, particularly bare breasts.
- Rolling paper for cigarettes.
noun
- A player occupying such a position, also called a winger
- A fin at the side of a ray or similar fish
- One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.
- A panel of a car which encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.
- An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly
- Anything that agitates the air as a wing does, or is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, such as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, etc.
- A larger formation of two or more groups, which in turn control two or more squadrons.
- Passage by flying; flight.
- A platform on either side of the bridge of a vessel, normally found in pairs.
- Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.
- A part of something that is lesser in size than the main body, such as an extension from the main building.
- A cosmetic effect where eyeliner curves outward and ends at a point.
- That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides. In a fleet, one of the extremities when the ships are drawn up in line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle.
- A faction of a political movement. Usually implies a position apart from the mainstream center position.
- Any membranaceous expansion, such as that along the sides of certain stems, or of a fruit of the kind called samara.
- Limb or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion.
- An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot.
- A unit of command consisting of two or more squadrons and itself being a sub-unit of a group or station.
- A position in several field games on either side of the field.
- One of the large pectoral fins of a flying fish.
- The insignia of a qualified pilot or aircrew member.
- Part of an aircraft that produces the lift for rising into the air.
- A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another.
- One of the unseen areas on the side of the stage in a theatre.
- A protruding piece of material on a menstrual pad to hold it in place and prevent leakage.
- Human arm.
- On the enneagram, one of the two adjacent types to an enneatype that forms an individual's subtype of his or her enneatype.
- A portable shelter consisting of a fabric roof on a frame, like a tent without sides.
- A háček.
verb
noun
- (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage, designating players at each end of the defensive line
- either extremity of something that has length
- the point in time at which something ends
- the final stage or concluding parts of an event or occurrence
- the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it
- a final part or section
- a final state
- the surface at either extremity of a three-dimensional object
- (football) the person who plays at one end of the line of scrimmage
- a boundary marking the extremities of something
- one of two places from which people are communicating to each other
- the part you are expected to play
- the last section of a communication
- a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold
verb
noun
- A player in the halfback position, with both offensive and defensive roles.
- Any of various positions on the field of play between the forwards and the fullbacks.
- The player who feeds the ball into the scrum, and receives the ball as it emerges from the back of the scrum.
- An offensive back whose primary jobs are to carry the ball on running plays and to serve as a receiver or blocker on passing plays.
- One of three players (the centre halfback and two halfback flankers) on the line between the centre line and the fullback line.
- A defensive back whose primary jobs are to cover the slotback on passing plays and prevent running plays from going to the outside.
verb
verb
- To position defensive players too far in a particular direction.
- To undershoot when changing gears.
- To raise the price to consumers by less than an underlying cost increase that results from rising taxes.
- To move too small an amount or not to move something far enough.
noun
- The strategy or act of positioning defensive players extra far toward the offense's weak side.
- A misalignment resulting from failure to shift gears far enough.
- An underhang caused by seismic shift.
- An unfitted undergarment that covers the torso.
- A change that results in something being not being moved far enough or too few things being moved.
- The amount of displacement in the layers in a crystal lattice that places the layers too close together.
verb
- To position defensive players too far in a particular direction.
- To replant or repot too soon or too often.
- To raise the price to consumers by more than an underlying cost increase that results from rising taxes.
- To overshoot when changing gears.
- To move too great an amount or move something too far.
noun
- A work period that extends significantly beyond the normal eight-hour shift; An instance of involuntary overtime.
- An unfitted woman's overgarment.
- A misalignment resulting from shifting gears too far.
- A change that results in something being moved too far or too many things being moved.
- An overhang caused by seismic shift.
- The strategy or act of positioning defensive players extra far toward the offense's strong side, leaving portions of the field or court undefended.
- The amount of displacement in the layers in a crystal lattice that places the layers too far apart for molecular bonding.
noun
- A defensive back position whose coverage responsibilities are a hybrid of those of a cornerback, safety and linebacker.
- A position that is one of three of a team's followers, who follow the ball around the ground. Formerly a position for short players, rovers in professional leagues are frequently over 183 cm (6').
- A pirate.
- A randomly selected target.
- A vagabond, a tramp, an unsteady, restless person, one who by habit doesn't settle down or marry.
- A remotely-operated vehicle; ROV
- One who roves, a wanderer, a nomad.
- A ball which has passed through all the hoops and would go out if it hit the stake but is continued in play; also, the player of such a ball.
- The tenth defensive player in slow-pitch softball.
- A pirate ship.
- A vehicle for exploring extraterrestrial bodies.
noun
noun
- An offensive formation in which the quarterback receives the snap at a distance behind the center, often with a running back set to one or both sides of him.
- The front passenger seat in a vehicle, next to the driver; so called because the position of the shotgun-armed guard on a horse-drawn stage-coach, wagon train, or gold transport was next to the driver on a forward-mounted bench seat. Can also be used in situations of claiming other resources such as bedrooms.
- Relating to the use of numerous, diverse or indiscriminate means to achieve a particular result.
- Relating to shotguns, either in a present or past sense.
- A one-story dwelling with no hallways or corridors, with the rooms arranged in a straight line.
- Relating to the threat of force or dubious means.
- A gun which fires loads typically consisting of small metal balls, called shot, from a cartridge.
verb
- To send out many (requests, answers to a question, etc), especially in the hope that one obtains a positive result (i.e. reveals useful information, is correct, etc), in the manner of a shotgun firing many balls of shot such that one may hit a target.
- To hit the ball directly back at the pitcher.
- To inhale from a pipe or other smoking device, followed shortly by an exhalation into someone else’s mouth.
- To rapidly drink a beverage from a can by making a hole in the bottom of the can, placing the hole above one's mouth, and opening the top.
- To employ the technique of shotgun debugging.
- To verbally lay claim to (something)
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