rounding
catchstitch
Smyth sewing
signature
sheetlike
kettle stitch
knock up
half-bound
board
sheet
buckram
sheety
endband
headband
laminate
forward
sheeting
block
deckle
pleat
fell stitch
plait
line
gauffer
seam
sheet-like
tassel
Roxburgh binding
panel
chain stitch
sheetable
drapey
tie
lash
plough
gilt-edged
jacquardlike
contract
scallop
stab
circular-knit
stab binding
gatefold
blanket stitch
quill
garter stitch
afghan
lacing
canvaslike
cable stitch
dog-ear
endpaper
yarncraft
canvassy
flexatube
forel
origami
warp knitting
blanking
sashing
pad
half binding
trapunto
folio
draft
low-warp-loom
featheredged
felled seam
backstitch
deckle-edged
needlepoint
elasticized
fagoting
elasticised
fell
make-ready
edge
deckled
guillotine
tie-dyeing
saddle stitch
dart
bias
deco
drawnwork
rag-roll
spin
buttonhole stitch
crocheting
quilted
reflection
satin weave
trindle
rack
uncut
sheetlike
half-bound
sheety
sheet-like
sheetable
drapey
gilt-edged
jacquardlike
circular-knit
canvaslike
canvassy
featheredged
deckle-edged
elasticized
elasticised
deckled
bias
quilted
uncut
rounding
catchstitch
Smyth sewing
signature
kettle stitch
board
buckram
endband
headband
laminate
sheeting
block
deckle
pleat
fell stitch
plait
seam
tassel
Roxburgh binding
panel
chain stitch
lash
plough
scallop
stab binding
gatefold
blanket stitch
garter stitch
afghan
lacing
cable stitch
endpaper
yarncraft
flexatube
forel
warp knitting
blanking
sashing
pad
half binding
trapunto
folio
low-warp-loom
felled seam
backstitch
needlepoint
fagoting
fell
make-ready
guillotine
tie-dyeing
saddle stitch
dart
deco
drawnwork
buttonhole stitch
crocheting
reflection
satin weave
trindle
knock up
sheet
forward
line
gauffer
tie
contract
stab
quill
dog-ear
origami
draft
fell
edge
seam
rag-roll
spin
rack
noun
- A group of four (or a multiple of four) sheets printed such that, when folded, they become a section of a book.
- A mark or sign of implication.
- Signs on the stave indicating key and tempo, composed of the key signature and the time signature.
- A pattern used for matching the identity of a virus, the parameter types of a method, etc.
- Text (or images, etc.) appended to a user's emails, newsgroup posts, forum posts, etc. as a way of adding a personal touch or including contact details.
- The part of a doctor’s prescription containing directions for the patient.
- A person's name, written by that person, used as identification or to signify approval of accompanying material, such as a legal contract.
- A dish that is characteristic of a particular chef.
- A tuple specifying the sign of coefficients in any diagonal form of a quadratic form.
- Data attached to a message that guarantees that the message originated from its claimed source.
- An act of signing one's name; an act of producing a signature.
adj
verb
- To make even at the edges, or to shape into book form.
- To impregnate, especially out of wedlock. See knocked up.
- To awaken (someone) as by knocking at the door; rouse; call; summon; also, to go door-to-door on election day to persuade a candidate's supporters to go to the polling station and vote. See also knocker up.
- To gently hit the ball back and forth before a tennis match, as practice or warm-up, and to gauge the state of the playing surface, lighting, etc. See knock-up.
- To put together, fabricate, or assemble, particularly if done hastily or temporarily. See also knock together.
noun
- Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard.
- A rebound.
- The wall that surrounds an ice hockey rink.
- A container for holding pre-dealt cards that is used to allow multiple sets of players to play the same cards.
- The distance a sailing vessel runs between tacks when working to windward.
- A relatively long, wide and thin piece of any material, usually wood or similar, often for use in construction or furniture-making.
- A device (e.g., switchboard) containing electrical switches and other controls and designed to control lights, sound, telephone connections, etc.
- A committee that manages the business of an organization, e.g., a board of directors.
- Regular meals or the amount paid for them in a place of lodging.
- The side of a ship.
- A level or stage having a particular layout.
- A flat surface with markings for playing a board game.
verb
- To step or climb onto or otherwise enter a ship, aircraft, train or other conveyance.
- To capture an enemy ship by going alongside and grappling her, then invading her with a boarding party
- To receive meals and lodging in exchange for money.
- To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation
- To cover with boards or boarding.
- To provide someone with meals and lodging, usually in exchange for money.
- Antonyms: alight, disembark
- To hit (someone) with a wooden board.
- To write something on a board, especially a blackboard or whiteboard.
verb
- To form into sheets.
- Of rain, or other precipitation, to pour heavily.
- To cover or wrap with cloth, or paper, or other similar material.
- To trim a sail using a sheet.
noun
- A layer of veneer.
- A piece of paper, usually rectangular, that has been prepared for writing, artwork, drafting, wrapping, manufacture of packaging (boxes, envelopes, etc.), and for other uses. The word does not include scraps and irregular small pieces destined to be recycled, used for stuffing or cushioning or paper mache, etc.
- A sail.
- A thin bed cloth used as a covering for a mattress or as a layer over the sleeper.
- A thin, flat layer of solid material.
- A line (rope) used to adjust the trim of a sail.
- The area of ice on which the game of curling is played.
- Precipitation of such quantity and force as to resemble a thin, virtually solid wall.
- A flat metal pan, often without raised edge, used for baking.
- A broad, flat expanse of a material on a surface.
- An extensive bed of an eruptive rock intruded between, or overlying, other strata.
- The space in the forward or after part of a boat where there are no rowers.
noun
verb
- To assemble (a book) by sewing sections, attaching cover boards, and so on.
- To send (a letter, email etc.) on to a third party.
- To advance, promote.
adv
- To an earlier point in time. See also bring forward.
- In the direction in which someone or something is facing.
- In the usual order or sequence.
- At, near or towards the front of something.
- Into the future.
- At, near, or towards the bow of a vessel (with the frame of reference within the vessel).
- In the desired or usual direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively; onwards.
- So that front and back are in the usual orientation.
noun
- One of the eight players (comprising two props, one hooker, two locks, two flankers and one number eight, collectively known as the pack) whose primary task is to gain and maintain possession of the ball (compare back).
- A player on a team in football (soccer) in the row nearest to the opposing team's goal, who are therefore principally responsible for scoring goals.
- The small forward or power forward position; two frontcourt positions that are taller than guards but shorter than centers.
- An umbrella term for a centre or winger in ice hockey.
- The front part of a vessel.
- An e-mail message that is forwarded to another recipient or recipients; an electronic chain letter.
- A direct agreement between two parties to buy or sell an asset at a specific point in the future; distinguished from a futures contract in that the latter is standardized and traded on an exchange.
adj
- Acting in or pertaining to the direction of travel or movement.
- Situated toward or at the front of something.
- Situated toward or near the enemy lines.
- Without customary restraint or modesty; bold, cheeky, pert, presumptuous or pushy.
- Expected or scheduled to take place in the future.
- Advanced beyond the usual degree; advanced for the season; precocious.
- Moving in the desired direction of progress.
- Acting in or pertaining to the direction in which someone or something is facing.
- Having the usual order or sequence.
noun
- A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end, forming a cuboid shape.
- A temporary or permanent ban that prevents access to an online account or service, or connection to or from a designated telephone number, IP address, or similar.
- A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.
- A case or frame housing one or more sheaves (pulleys), used with ropes to increase or redirect force, for example as part of lifting gear or a sailing ship's rigging. See also block and tackle.
- A cellblock.
- The popping crease.
- A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit.
- A fixed-length group of bits making up part of a message.
- A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see cluster).
- Solitary confinement.
- A section of split logs used as fuel.
- A blockhole.
- A portion of a macromolecule, comprising many units, that has at least one feature not present in adjacent portions.
- Something that prevents something from passing.
- A physical area or extent of something, often rectangular or approximately rectangular.
- A joined group of four (or in some cases nine) postage stamps, forming a roughly square shape.
- An action to interfere with the movement of an opposing player or of the object of play (ball, puck).
- A contiguous range of Unicode code points used to encode characters of a specific type; can be of any size evenly divisible by 16, up to 65,536 (a full plane).
- The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
- A defensive play by one or more players meant to deflect a spiked ball back to the hitter’s court.
- A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
- A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
- A region of code in a program that acts as a single unit, such as a function or loop.
- A contiguous group of urban lots of property, typically several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.
- The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket.
- A chopping block: a cuboid base for cutting or beheading.
- The distance from one street to another in a city or suburb that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern.
- The human head.
- A shot played by holding the bat vertically in the path of the ball, so that it loses momentum and drops to the ground.
- A discrete group of vines in a vineyard, often distinguished from others by variety, clone, canopy training method, irrigation infrastructure, or some combination thereof.
- Interference or obstruction of cognitive processes.
- A roughly cuboid building.
- A section of a railroad where the block system is used.
verb
- To hit with a block.
- To wait for some condition to become true.
- To specify the positions and movements of the actors for (a section of a play or film).
- To prevent (something or someone) from passing.
- To bar (someone undesirable) from connecting via telephone, instant messaging, etc., or from accessing an online account or service, or similar.
- To play a block shot.
- To stretch or mould (a knitted item, a hat, etc.) into the desired shape.
- To shape or sketch out roughly.
- To fill or obstruct (something) so that it is not possible to pass.
- To impede (an opponent or opponent's play).
- To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something).
- To bar (a message or communication), or bar connection with (an online account or service, a designated telephone number, IP address, etc.).
verb
- To reinforce (the back of a book) with glue and glued scrap material such as fabric or paper.
- To mark with a line or lines; to cover with lines.
- To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.
- To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding; to fortify.
- To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
- To align (one or more switches) to direct a train onto a particular track.
- To read or repeat line by line.
- To form a line along.
- To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
- To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare fly and ground.
- To measure.
- To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.
noun
- A circle of latitude or of longitude, as represented on a map.
- A sentence of dialogue, especially in a play, movie, or the like.
- A set of positions in a team which play in a similar position on the field; in a traditional team, consisting of three players and acting as one of six such sets in the team.
- A verse (in poetry).
- One fortieth of an inch.
- The goal line.
- An edge of a graph.
- A series of notes forming a certain part (such as the bass or melody) of a greater work.
- An infinitely extending one-dimensional figure that has no curvature; one that has length but not breadth or thickness.
- A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
- The equator.
- A vascular catheter.
- A written or printed row of letters, words, numbers, or other text, especially a row of words extending across a page or column, or a blank in place of such text.
- A particular path taken by a vehicle when driving a bend or corner in the road.
- A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
- The position in which the fencers hold their swords.
- a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock and a catheter.
- A hose or pipe, of any size.
- A letter, a written form of communication.
- A line segment; a continuous finite segment of such a figure.
- A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied by specified forces.
- A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement for forwarding merchandise, etc.
- A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
- A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often waiting to be processed or dealt with, or arranged abreast of one another in a row (and contrasted with a column), as in a military formation.
- The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry, artillery, etc.
- A lie or exaggeration, especially one told to gain another's approval or prevent losing it.
- A tsarist-era Russian unit of measure, approximately equal to one tenth of an English inch, used especially when measuring the calibre of firearms.
- A population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
- The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political or religious faction.
- Direction, path.
- A group of people born in a certain year (liners).
- Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with reference to smooth working).
- The batter's box.
- A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
- The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
- That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place of abode.
- Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade, or intellectual activity.
- A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness.
- Any of an ill-defined set of units of length, varying according to the country, discipline, industry, and date of application, commonly with no indication of the intended magnitude
- One of the straight horizontal and parallel prolonged strokes on and between which the notes are placed.
- The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points: a telephone or network connection.
- One sixteenth of an inch.
- One twelfth of an inch.
- A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight.
- A clothesline.
- The horizontal path of a ball towards the batsman (see also length).
- Information about or understanding of something. (Mostly restricted to the expressions get a line on, have a line on, and give a line on.)
- Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
- A number of shares taken by a jobber.
- A small path-shaped portion or serving of a powdery illegal drug, especially cocaine.
- A group of forwards that play together.
- A set of products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.
noun
- A folded-back and stitched piece of fabric; especially, the stitching that joins two or more pieces of fabric.
- The stitched equatorial seam of a cricket ball; the sideways movement of a ball when it bounces on the seam.
- A line of junction; a joint.
- A thin stratum, especially of an economically viable material such as coal or mineral.
- An old English measure of grain, containing eight bushels.
- A suture.
- A line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix.
- A joint formed by mating two separate sections of materials.
- An old English measure of glass, containing twenty-four weys of five pounds, or 120 pounds.
verb
- To make the appearance of a seam in, as in knitting a stocking; hence, to knit with a certain stitch, like that in such knitting.
- Of a bowler, to make the ball move thus.
- To mark with a seam or line; to scar.
- To put together with a seam.
- To crack open along a seam.
- Of the ball, to move sideways after bouncing on the seam.
noun
- A narrow silk ribbon, or similar, sewed to a book to be put between the pages.
- A kind of bur used in dressing cloth; a teasel.
- A ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads from which at one end protrudes a cord on which the ball is hung, and which may have loose, dangling threads at the other end (often used as decoration along the bottom of garments, curtains or other hangings).
- A thin plate of gold on the back of a bishop's gloves.
- The panicle on a male plant of maize, which consists of loose threads with anthers on them.
- The loose hairs at the end of a braid.
- A piece of board that is laid upon a wall as a sort of plate, to give a level surface to the ends of floor timbers.
verb
noun
- sheet that forms a distinct (usually flat and rectangular) section or component of something
- a committee appointed to judge a competition
- (law) a group of people summoned for jury service (from whom a jury will be chosen)
- a group of people gathered for a special purpose as to plan or discuss an issue or judge a contest etc
- a soft pad placed under a saddle
- a piece of cloth that is generally triangular or tapering; used in making garments or umbrellas or sails
- (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'
- electrical device consisting of a flat insulated surface that contains switches and dials and meters for controlling other electrical devices
verb
verb
- make by tying pieces together
- fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord
- finish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc.
- limit or restrict to
- connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces
- form a knot or bow in
- create social or emotional ties
- perform a marriage ceremony
- unite musical notes by a tie
noun
- neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front
- a social or business relationship
- equality of score in a contest
- a horizontal beam used to prevent two other structural members from spreading apart or separating
- a fastener that serves to join or connect
- the finish of a contest in which the score is tied and the winner is undecided
- (music) a slur over two notes of the same pitch; indicates that the note is to be sustained for their combined time value
- one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track
- a cord (or string or ribbon or wire etc.) with which something is tied
noun
- In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure.
- The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.
- A quick and violent sweeping movement, as of an animal's tail; a swish.
- A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut.
- An attempt; a go at something.
- A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough, often given as a punishment.
- A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash.
- Looseness between fitted parts, either intentional (as allowance) or unintentional (from error or wear).
adj
verb
- To utter censure or sarcastic language.
- To throw out with a jerk or quickly.
- To scold; or to satirize; to censure with severity.
- To fall heavily, especially in the phrase lash down.
- Used in phrasal verbs: lash back, lash out.
- To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash.
- To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.
- To ply the whip; to strike.
- To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten.
noun
- A bookbinder's implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.
- A device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting.
- A joiner's plane for making grooves.
- The use of a plough; tillage.
- A yoga pose resembling a traditional plough, halāsana.
verb
- To use a plough.
- To move with force.
- To use a plough on soil to prepare for planting.
- To fail (a student).
- To run through, as in sailing.
- To cut a groove in, as in a plank, or the edge of a board; especially, a rectangular groove to receive the end of a shelf or tread, the edge of a panel, a tongue, etc.
- To have sex with, penetrate.
- To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in.
- To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plough.
verb
- To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
- To enter into a contract with.
- To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.
- To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.
- To make an agreement or contract; to covenant; to agree; to bargain.
- To betroth; to affiance.
- To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.
- To bring on; to incur; to acquire.
- To gain or acquire (an illness).
noun
- An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone.
- An agreement which the law will enforce in some way. A legally binding contract must contain at least one promise, i.e., a commitment or offer, by an offeror to and accepted by an offeree to do something in the future. A contract is thus executory rather than executed.
- An agreement between two or more parties, to perform a specific job or work order, often temporary or of fixed duration and usually governed by a written agreement.
- The document containing such an agreement.
- A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.
- The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.
verb
- To pierce folded sheets, near their back edges, for the passage of thread or wire.
- To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander.
- To pierce or to wound (somebody) with a (usually pointed) tool or weapon, especially a knife or dagger.
- To thrust in a stabbing motion.
- To roughen a brick wall with a pick so as to hold plaster.
- To cause a sharp, painful sensation (often used with at).
- To recklessly hit with the tip of a (usually pointed) object, such as a weapon or finger (often used with at).
noun
- The horizontal or vertical stabilizer of an aircraft.
- A wound made by stabbing.
- An act of stabbing or thrusting with an object.
- Pain inflicted on a person's feelings.
- Criticism.
- An attempt.
- A single staccato chord that adds dramatic impact to a composition.
- A bacterial culture made by inoculating a solid medium, such as gelatin, with the puncture of a needle or wire.
verb
- To form fabric into small, rounded folds.
- To subject (a woman who is giving birth) to the practice of quilling (blowing pepper into her nose to induce or hasten labor).
- To pierce or be pierced with quills.
- To decorate with quillwork.
- To write.
noun
- Something having the form of a quill, such as the fold or plain of a ruff, or (weaving) a spindle, or spool, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle.
- The lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs.
- The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.
- A thin piece of bark, especially of cinnamon or cinchona, curled up into a tube.
- The tube of a musical instrument.
- A pen made from a feather.
- A sharply pointed, barbed, and easily detached needle-like structure that grows on the skin of a porcupine or hedgehog as a defense against predators.
- The pen of a squid.
- Any pen.
noun
- The cords by which the boards of a book are fastened to the back.
- Lagging, or cross-pieces placed to prevent ore from falling into a passage.
- The knee of the head, or lace-piece, a piece of compass or knee timber secured to the back of the figurehead.
- A beating as punishment; a hiding.
- The tied or threaded laces that form a netlike pattern.
- That with which something is laced.
verb
noun
- The materials science technology that applies the art of origami to products.
- The materials science that studies origami applications in various material.
- A piece of art made by folding paper.
- The mathematics field that studies folding two-dimensional surfaces into three-dimensional structures, using folds and creases akin to those in the art of origami.
- The Japanese art of paper folding.
noun
- A kind of cushion for writing upon, or for blotting, especially one formed of many flat sheets of writing paper; now especially such a block of paper sheets as used to write on.
- An electrical extension cord with a multi-port socket on one end: "trip cord"
- The mostly hairless flesh located on the bottom of an animal's foot or paw.
- A small house, apartment, or mobile home occupied by a single person; such as a bachelor, playboy, etc.
- Any cushion-like part of the human body, especially the ends of the fingers.
- A panel or strip of material designed to be sensitive to pressure or touch.
- A random key (originally written on a disposable pad) of the same length as the plaintext.
- A footpath, particularly one unformed or unmaintained; a road or track.
- A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.
- A soft cover for a batsman's leg that protects it from damage when hit by the ball.
- A soft, or small, cushion.
- The effect produced by sustained lower reed notes in a musical piece, most common in blues music.
- A flat surface or area from which a helicopter or other aircraft may land or be launched.
- A prison cell.
- A type of wickerwork basket, especially as used as a measure of fish or other goods.
- An easy-paced horse; a padnag.
- A cushion-like thickening of the skin on the under side of the toes of animals.
- A toad.
- A flattened mass of anything soft, to sit or lie on.
- A soft bag or cushion to relieve pressure, support a part, etc.
- A synthesizer instrument sound used for sustained background sounds.
- A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame.
- A bed.
- A stuffed guard or protection, especially one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising.
- The sound of soft footsteps, or a similar noise made by an animal etc.
- The amount by which a signal has been reduced.
- A piece of timber fixed on a beam to fit the curve of the deck.
intj
verb
- To imbue uniformly with a mordant.
- To furnish with a pad or padding.
- To wear a path by walking.
- To stuff.
- To deliberately play the ball with the leg pad instead of the bat.
- To travel on foot.
- To travel along (a road, path etc.).
- To increase the size of, especially by adding undesirable filler.
- To walk softly, quietly or steadily, especially without shoes.
noun
- A book made of sheets of paper each folded in half (two leaves or four pages to the sheet); hence, a book of the largest kind, exceeding 30 cm in height.
- A page in an account book; sometimes, two opposite pages bearing the same serial number.
- A page number. The even folios are on the left-hand pages and the odd folios on the right-hand pages.
- A wrapper for loose papers.
- a leaf of a book or manuscript
- A page of a book, that is, one side of a leaf of a book.
- A sheet of paper folded in half.
verb
verb
- To draw fibers out of a clump, for spinning in the production of yarn.
- To draw out; to call forth.
- To write a law.
- To conscript a person, force a person to serve in some capacity, especially in the military.
- To follow very closely (behind another vehicle), thereby providing an aerodynamic advantage to both lead and follower and conserving energy or increasing speed.
- To draw in outline; to make a draught, sketch, or plan of, as in architectural and mechanical drawing.
- To select someone (or something) for a particular role or purpose.
- To write a first version, make a preliminary sketch.
- To select a rookie player onto a professional sports team.
- To select and separate an animal or animals from a group.
adj
- Referring to animals used for pulling heavy loads.
- Referring to drinks on tap, in contrast to bottled.
noun
- Conscription, the system of forcing people to serve in the military.
- The bevel given to the pattern for a casting, so that it can be drawn from the sand without damaging the mould.
- The draw through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process.
- The pulling force (tension) on couplers and draft gear during a slack stretched condition.
- An act of drinking.
- A system of forcing or convincing people to take an elected position.
- A preliminary sketch or outline for a plan.
- A current of air, usually coming into a room or vehicle.
- The quantity of liquid (such as water, alcohol, or medicine) drunk in one swallow.
- An early version of a written work (such as a book or e-mail) or drawing.
- The depth of water needed to float a particular ship; the depth from the waterline to the bottom of a vessel's hull; the depth of water drawn by a vessel.
- Liquid, especially beer or other alcohol, drawn from a cask or keg rather than a bottle or can.
- A dose (of medicine, alcohol, etc.).
- A system of assigning rookie players to professional sports teams.
- A cheque, an order for money to be paid.
verb
- To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
- To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.
- To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
- To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
- To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
- To delay one's orgasm so as to remain almost at the point of orgasm.
- To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
- To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
- To win by a small margin.
noun
- A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices of a polygon; the place where two faces of a polyhedron meet.
- Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
- The boundary line of a surface.
- An advantage.
- The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument, such as an ax, knife, sword, or scythe; that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc.
- The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time)
- A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
- The point of data production in an organization (the focus of edge computing), as opposed to the cloud.
- A level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax.
- A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
- A connected pair of vertices in a graph.
noun
- A device used for cutting the pages of books, stacks of paper, etc., to straight edges, usually by means of a hinged or sliding blade attached to a flat platform.
- A legislative motion that debate be ended and a vote taken; a cloture.
- A parliamentary procedure for fixing the dates when various stages of discussion of a bill must end, to ensure that the enactment of the bill proceeds expeditiously.
- An instrument with a sliding blade for cutting the tonsils, uvula, or other body parts.
- A machine used for the application of capital punishment by decapitation, consisting of a tall upright frame from which is suspended a heavy diagonal-edged blade which is dropped onto the neck of the person to be executed; also, execution using this machine.
verb
noun
- A fold that is stitched on a garment.
- A fish, the dace.
- Any of various species of hesperiid butterfly.
- A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; for example, a short lance or javelin.
- Any sharp-pointed missile weapon, such as an arrow.
- A sudden or fast movement.
- A cigarette.
- Anything resembling such a missile; something that pierces or wounds like such a weapon.
- A small object with a pointed tip at one end and feathers at the other, which is thrown at a target in the game of darts.
- A dart-shaped target towed behind an aircraft to train shooters.
verb
- To throw with a sudden effort or thrust; to hurl or launch.
- To shoot with a dart, especially a tranquilizer dart.
- To fly or pass swiftly, like a dart; to move rapidly in one direction; to shoot out quickly.
- To send forth suddenly or rapidly; to emit; to shoot.
- To start and run with speed; to shoot rapidly along.
verb
- To make yarn by twisting and winding fibers together.
- To use an exercise bicycle, especially as part of a gym class.
- To search rapidly.
- To stream or issue in a thread or a small current or jet.
- To move sideways when bouncing.
- To shape, as malleable sheet metal, into a hollow form, by bending or buckling it by pressing against it with a smooth hand tool or roller while the metal revolves, as in a lathe.
- To play (vinyl records, etc.) as a disc jockey.
- To wait in a loop until some condition becomes true.
- To ride a bicycle at a fast cadence.
- To form into thin strips or ribbons, as with sugar
- To cause one's aircraft to enter or remain in a spin (abnormal stalled flight mode).
- To present, describe, or interpret, or to introduce a bias or slant, so as to give something a favorable or advantageous appearance.
- To enter, or remain in, a spin (abnormal stalled flight mode).
- To make the ball move sideways when it bounces on the pitch.
- To move swiftly.
- To form (a web, a cocoon, silk, etc.) from threads produced by the extrusion of a viscid, transparent liquid, which hardens on coming into contact with the air; said of the spider, the silkworm, etc.
- To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction.
noun
- The use of an exercise bicycle, especially as part of a gym class.
- Special interest of an autistic person.
- Rotation of the ball as it flies through the air; sideways movement of the ball as it bounces.
- Rapid circular motion.
- A brief trip by vehicle, especially one made for pleasure.
- A search of a prisoner's cell for forbidden articles.
- A bundle of spun material; a mass of strands and filaments.
- A quantum angular momentum associated with subatomic particles, which also creates a magnetic moment.
- A favourable comment or interpretation intended to bias opinion on an otherwise unpleasant situation.
- A condition of flight where a stalled aircraft is simultaneously pitching, yawing, and rolling in a spinning motion.
- An abnormal condition in journal bearings where the bearing seizes to the rotating shaft and rotates inside the journal, destroying both the shaft and the journal.
- A single play of a record by a radio station.
noun
- The folding of a part; a fold.
- The act of reflecting or the state of being reflected.
- The process or mechanism of determining the capabilities of an object at run-time.
- Something, such as an image, that is reflected.
- The property of a propagated wave being thrown back from a surface (such as a mirror).
- Careful thought or consideration.
- An implied criticism.
verb
- To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
- To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.
- To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.
- To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
- To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.
- To cause (someone) to suffer pain.
- To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round.
- To fly, as vapour or broken clouds.
- To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace.
- To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir.
- To place in or hang on a rack.
- To torture (someone) on the rack.
- To tend to shear a structure (that is, force it to bend, lean, or move in different directions at different points).
- To strike in the testicles.
- To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.
noun
- A cranequin, a mechanism including a rack, pinion and pawl, providing both mechanical advantage and a ratchet, used to bend and cock a crossbow.
- Any of various kinds of frame for holding luggage or other objects on a vehicle or vessel.
- A distaff.
- A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other
- A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs.
- A woman's breasts.
- A climber's set of equipment for setting up protection and belays, consisting of runners, slings, carabiners, nuts, Friends, etc.
- A friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with five or more metal bars, around which the rope is threaded.
- A thousand pounds (£1,000), especially if proceeds of crime
- Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky.
- A bunk.
- A grate on which bacon is laid.
- A set of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).
- Sleep.
- A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.
- A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.
- A hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game.
- A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with a pawl as a ratchet allowing movement in one direction only, used for example in a handbrake or crossbow.
- A set with a distributive binary operation whose result is unique.
- A fast amble.
- A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with those of a gearwheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive or be driven by it.
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