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noun
- A very short amount of time.
- A language, created by a minority to maintain cultural identity, that cannot be understood by the ruling class.
- The strips of bright cloth or buttons worn around the collars of market traders.
- A pool.
- Pizzazz, razzle-dazzle.
- Material left around the edge of a moulded part at the parting line of the mould.
- A sudden, short, temporary burst of light.
- The (intentional or unintentional) exposure of an intimate body part or undergarment in public.
- Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genera Artipe, Deudorix and Rapala.
- A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal.
- A brief exposure or making visible (of a smile, badge, etc).
- A form of military insignia.
- A pattern where each prop is thrown and caught only once.
- A flashlight; an electric torch.
- The sudden sensation of being "high" after taking a recreational drug.
- A tattoo flash (example design on paper to give an idea of a possible tattoo).
- A sudden and brilliant burst, as of genius or wit.
verb
- To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently.
- To flaunt; to display in a showy manner.
- To cover with a thin layer, as objects of glass with glass of a different colour.
- To burst out into violence.
- To send by some startling or sudden means.
- To release the pressure from a pressurized vessel.
- To evaporate suddenly. (See flash evaporation.)
- To expand (blown glass) into a disc.
- To move, or cause to move, suddenly.
- To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.
- To expose one's intimate body part or piece of clothing, often momentarily. (Contrast streak.)
- To write to the memory of (an updatable component such as a BIOS chip or games cartridge).
- To cause to shine briefly or intermittently.
- To perform a flash.
- To be visible briefly.
- To climb (a route) successfully on the first attempt.
- To make visible briefly.
- To break forth like a sudden flood of light; to show a momentary brilliance.
- To communicate quickly.
adj
prep_phrase
noun
- A very short moment of time.
- Correction fluid or correction tape.
- The chaffinch.
- One or more very small, short bursts of light.
- A young, attractive, slim male, usually having little body hair.
- A weak or effeminate man, whether gay or not.
- A player (or character created by a player) in a multi-user dungeon or other roleplaying game who engages in obnoxious or abusive behaviour, especially one who uses a higher level character to give advanced equipment to one of their own lower-level characters.
verb
adv
- only a very short time before
- and nothing more
- indicating exactness or preciseness
- only a moment ago
- (used for emphasis) absolutely
- possibly (indicating a slight chance of something being true)
- exactly at this moment or the moment described
- by a little
adj
- used especially of what is legally or ethically right or proper or fitting
- fair to all parties as dictated by reason and conscience
- free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception; conforming with established standards or rules
adj
noun
- A very short period of time; a moment.
- A single, usually precise, point in time.
- A beverage or food which has been pre-processed to reduce preparation time, especially instant coffee.
adj
- Present; current; extant.
- Very quickly and easily prepared.
- Of the current month.
- Occurring immediately; immediate; present.
- Lasting for a short moment; momentary; short-lived.
adv
prep_phrase
noun
- A short period.
- A competitive weightlifting event in which a barbell is lifted from the platform to locked arms overhead in a smooth continuous movement.
- Rapid, uncommanded jerking or oscillation of the ailerons of some aircraft at high Mach numbers, resulting from shock wave formation at transonic speeds.
- A quick grab or catch.
- The vulva.
- A piece of some sound, usually music or conversation.
verb
prep_phrase
phrase
noun
- A short period of time, particularly a second.
- A mark on any scale of measurement; a unit of measurement.
- Credit, trust.
- The whinchat.
- A bird seen (or heard) by a birdwatcher, for the first time that day, year, trip, etc., and thus added to a list of observed birds.
- A jiffy (unit of time defined by basic timer frequency).
- A tiny woodland arachnid of the suborder Ixodida.
- Ticking.
- A periodic increment of damage or healing caused by an ongoing status effect.
- A sheet that wraps around a mattress; the cover of a mattress, containing the filling.
- A relatively quiet but sharp sound generally made repeatedly by moving machinery.
- A mark (✓) made to indicate agreement, correctness or acknowledgement.
verb
adj
adv
- In a very short (but unspecified) amount of time.
- During or throughout the night, especially during the evening or night just past.
noun
- An overnight stay, especially in a hotel or other lodging facility.
- Viewership ratings for a television show that are published the morning after it is broadcast, and may be revised later on.
- Items delivered or completed overnight.
adj
- Complete before the next morning.
- Occurring between dusk and dawn.
- Of an activity or event in which participants stay overnight.
verb
noun
adj
- lasting a very short time
- allowing you to pass (e.g., an examination or inspection) satisfactorily
- hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
noun
- (American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate
- euphemistic expressions for death
- the motion of one object relative to another
- the end of something
- a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another
- going by something that is moving in order to get in front of it
- success in satisfying a test or requirement
adv
adj
adv
adj
noun
- A very short, unspecified length of time.
- The time taken for light to travel a specified distance in a vacuum, usually one centimetre, but sometimes one foot or the width of a nucleon.
- A unit of time defined by the frequency of its basic timer – historically, and by convention, 0.01 of a second, but some computer operating systems use other values.
- The length of an alternating current power cycle (1/60 or 1/50 of a second).
adj
- Having little duration.
- Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant.
- bowled so that it bounces relatively far from the batsman.
- Of betting odds, offering a small return for the money wagered.
- that falls short of the green or the hole.
- Of comparatively small height.
- Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty.
- Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of another).
- Brittle, crumbly. (See shortbread, shortcake, shortcrust, shortening, hot short, cold-short.)
- Deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard.
- that is relatively close to the batsman.
- Undiluted; neat.
- Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.
- Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied, especially with money; scantily furnished; lacking.
- Being in a financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying security declines in the future.
- Doubtful of, skeptical of.
adv
- Unawares.
- Abruptly, curtly, briefly.
- Without achieving a goal or requirement.
- With a negative ownership position.
- Relatively far from the batsman and hence bouncing higher than normal; opposite of full.
verb
- To shortchange.
- To provide with a smaller than agreed or labeled amount.
- To sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for delivery at a later date in hopes of profiting from a decline in the price; to sell short.
- To short circuit.
- To cause a short circuit in (something).
noun
- A short version of a garment in a particular size.
- A short sound, syllable, or vowel.
- A short film.
- A shortstop.
- A short seller.
- An automobile; especially in crack shorts, to break into automobiles.
- A short circuit.
- A short sale or short position.
- An integer variable having a smaller range than normal integers; usually two bytes long.
- A summary account.
prep
noun
- A small number.
- That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler.
- A couple-close.
- Two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship.
- One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery, called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple.
- Two of the same kind connected or considered together.
- A turning effect created by forces that sum to zero in magnitude but produce a non-zero external torque.
det
adj
verb
noun
- A very short space of time; an instant.
- A periodic signal generated by hardware or software to indicate normal operation or to synchronize other parts of a system.
- One pulsation of the heart; especially an irregular one, hence the emotion which causes it.
- A driving impulse or vital force; the vital center of something.
- The rhythm at which a heart pulsates, a cardiac indicator.
adv
adj
noun
- Specifically, a small amount of time.
- A gag of a style similar to a bridle.
- A small amount of something.
- An excerpt of material making up part of a show, comedy routine, etc.
- The bevelled front edge of an axehead along which the cutting edge runs.
- A piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to the reins to direct the animal.
- A gun.
- The smallest unit of storage in a digital computer, consisting of a binary digit.
- A portion of something.
- A binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0.
- In the southern and southwestern states, a small silver coin (such as the real) formerly current; commonly, one worth about 12½ cents; also, the sum of 12½ cents.
- The cutting iron of a plane.
- Any datum that may take on one of exactly two values.
- A unit of measure for information entropy.
- A prison sentence, especially a short one.
- A microbitcoin, or a millionth of a bitcoin (0.000001 BTC).
- A unit of currency or coin in the Americas worth a fraction of a Spanish dollar; now specifically, an eighth of a US dollar.
- A rotary cutting tool fitted to a drill, used to bore holes.
- Fractions of a second.
- Somewhat; something, but not very great; also used like jot and whit to express the smallest degree. See also a bit.
- The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers.
verb
adj
noun
- a limited period of time
- a word or expression used for some particular thing
- (usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement
- any distinct quantity contained in a polynomial
- one of the substantive phrases in a logical proposition
- the end of gestation or point at which birth is imminent
- (architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar; originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome
verb
prep_phrase
adj
- Lasting for a short time only.
- Of limited time, transient, passing, not perpetual, as opposed to eternal.
- Of or relating to time as distinguished from space.
- Relating to or denoting time or tense.
- Of or situated in the temples of the head or the sides of the skull behind the orbits.
- Of or relating to the material world, as opposed to sacred or clerical.
- Of or relating to the sequence of time or to a particular time.
noun
noun
- A short but unspecified time period.
- A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a degree.
- An old coin, a half farthing.
- A nautical or a geographic mile.
- A (usually formal) written record of a meeting or a part of a meeting.
- A point in time; a moment.
- A unit of time equal to sixty seconds (one-sixtieth of an hour).
- A fixed part of a module.
- A unit of purchase on a telephone or other similar network, especially a cell phone network, roughly equivalent in gross form to sixty seconds' use of the network.
- A while or a long unspecified period of time
adj
verb
adj
adj
- Short.
- Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact.
- Marked, evident.
- Intimate; well-loved.
- Strictly confined; carefully guarded.
- Accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating; strict.
- Almost, but not quite (getting to an answer or goal); near
- Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.
- At a little distance; near.
- Of a corporation or other business entity, closely held.
- Hot, humid, with no wind.
- Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.
- Narrow; confined.
- Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced.
verb
- To move to a position allowing electricity to flow.
- To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
- To move to a position preventing fluid from flowing.
- To cancel or reverse (a trading position).
- To make (e.g. a gap) smaller.
- To make a sale.
- To move so that an opening is closed.
- To grapple; to engage in close combat.
- To make the final outs, usually three, of a game.
- To terminate an application, window, file or database connection, etc.
- To come or gather around; to enclose; to encompass; to confine.
- To come to an end.
- To put an end to; to conclude; to complete; to finish; to consummate.
- To obstruct (an opening).
- To do the tasks (putting things away, locking doors, etc.) required to prepare a store or other establishment to shut down for the night.
- To turn off; to switch off.
noun
- The common staircase in a tenement.
- A cathedral close.
- The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed
- The point at the end of a sales pitch when the consumer is asked to buy.
- The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
- A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the ground floor.
- An end or conclusion.
- A grapple in wrestling.
- The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.
- The time when checkin staff will no longer accept passengers for a flight.
- A double bar marking the end.
- A street that ends in a dead end.
prefix
prep_phrase
adj
- Short in duration; brief.
- Operating on a small scale.
- Very young.
- To imply that the inhabitants of the place have an insular attitude and are hostile to those they perceive as foreign.
- Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow; shallow; contracted; mean; illiberal; ungenerous.
- Younger.
- Used with the name of a place, especially of a country or its capital, to denote a neighborhood whose residents or storekeepers are from that place.
- Having few members.
- Small in size.
- Insignificant, trivial.
- Used to belittle a person.
noun
- A small amount.
- One who has mentally age regressed to a childlike state.
- A child; particularly an infant.
- A newly initiated member of a sorority, who is mentored by a big.
- The participant in ageplay who acts out the younger role.
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