English words for 'Initialism of accessory dwelling unit.'
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adj
noun
noun
- A building or portion thereof used as a home, such as a house or an apartment therein.
- (espionage) Synonym of rezidentura.
- Subsidence, as of a sediment
- The place where one lives (resides); one's home.
- That which falls to the bottom of liquors; sediment; also, refuse; residuum.
- Accommodation for students at a university or college.
- The place where a corporation is established.
- The state of living in a particular place or environment.
- The place where anything rests permanently.
- a large and imposing house
- the official house or establishment of an important person (as a sovereign or president)
- the act of dwelling in a place
- any address at which you dwell more than temporarily
noun
- a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families
- A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings.
- an official assembly having legislative powers
- a social unit living together
- play in which children take the roles of father or mother or children and pretend to interact like adults
- a building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented
- the members of a religious community living together
- the management of a gambling house or casino
- aristocratic family line
- (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided
- the audience gathered together in a theatre or cinema
- a building in which something is sheltered or located
- the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments
- Lotto; bingo.
- (American football, slang, with “the”) The end zone.
- (historical) A workhouse.
- The people who live in a house; a household.
- A dynasty; a family with its ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble one.
- (US, dialect) A small stand of trees in a swamp.
- A building intended to contain a single household, as opposed to an apartment or condominium or building containing these.
- A place of business; a company or organisation, especially a printing press, a publishing company, or a couturier.
- (astrology) One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart.
- (uncountable) Size and quality of residential accommodations; housing.
- (uncountable) A children's game in which the players pretend to be members of a household.
- A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities.
- An animal's shelter or den, or the shell of an animal such as a snail, used for protection.
- A place of public accommodation or entertainment, especially a public house, an inn, a restaurant, a theatre, or a casino; or the management thereof.
- (figurative) A place of rest or repose.
- (music) House music.
- A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word).
- (curling) The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice.
- (sudoku) A set of cells in a sudoku puzzle which must contain each digit exactly once, such as a row, column, or 3×3 box.
- The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance.
- A container; a thing which houses another.
- (politics) A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence the assembly itself, particularly a component of a legislature.
- (Hong Kong, only used in names) An apartment building within a public housing estate.
- (cartomancy) The fourth Lenormand card.
verb
- contain or cover
- provide someone with accommodation
- (transitive) To contain or cover mechanical parts.
- (transitive) To admit to residence; to harbor.
- (Canada, US, slang, transitive) To eat; especially, to scarf down.
- (nautical) To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe.
- (transitive) To contain one part of an object for the purpose of locating the whole.
- (transitive, astrology) To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.
- To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.
- (transitive) To keep within a structure or container.
noun
- (US) A dwelling unit with two floors.
- (geology) A system of multiple thrust faults bounded above and below by a roof thrust and floor thrust.
- (US, Canada, Australia) A house made up of two dwelling units.
- (philately) A cancellation combining a numerical cancellation with a second mark showing time, date, and place of posting.
- (biochemistry) A double-stranded polynucleotide.
- (juggling) A throwing motion where two balls are thrown with one hand at the same time.
- a house with two units sharing a common wall
- an apartment having rooms on two floors that are connected by a staircase
adj
- (architecture) Having two units, divisions, suites, or apartments.
- (metallurgy) Of stainless steel: having a structure containing austenite and ferrite in roughly equal proportions.
- (soil science) Having horizons with contrasting textures.
- (architecture) Having two floors.
- (telecommunications) Bidirectional (in two directions).
- (used technically of a device or process) having two parts
- allowing communication in opposite directions simultaneously
verb
verb
- (transitive) To furnish with a loft space.
- (intransitive) To fly or travel through the air, as though propelled
- (bowling) To throw the ball erroneously through the air instead of releasing it on the lane's surface.
- (transitive) To raise (a bed) on tall supports so that the space beneath can be used for something else.
- (transitive) To propel high into the air.
- kick or strike high in the air
- lay out a full-scale working drawing of the lines of a vessel's hull
- store in a loft
- propel through the air
noun
- Such an attic used as an atelier.
- An attic or similar space (often used for storage) in the roof of a house or other building.
- (cricket) A lofted drive.
- (textiles, countable, uncountable) The thickness of a soft object when not under pressure.
- (golf) The pitch or slope of the face of a golf club (tending to drive the ball upward).
- A gallery or raised apartment in a church, hall, etc.
- (chiefly US) A residential flat (apartment) on an upper floor of an apartment building.
- Ellipsis of pigeon loft.
- a raised shelter in which pigeons are kept
- floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage
- (golf) the backward slant on the head of some golf clubs that is designed to drive the ball high in the air
- floor consisting of a large unpartitioned space over a factory or warehouse or other commercial space
verb
- (transitive) To provide housing for.
- (transitive) To cause to come to agreement; to bring about harmony; to reconcile.
- (transitive) To give consideration to; to allow for.
- (transitive, often reflexive) To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt.
- (intransitive, of an eye) To change focal length in order to focus at a different distance.
- (transitive) To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc.
- (transitive) To provide sufficient space for.
- (transitive) To provide with something desired, needed, or convenient.
- (transitive) To do a favor or service for; to oblige.
- (intransitive, rare) To adapt oneself; to be conformable or adapted; become adjusted.
- (transitive) To contain comfortably; to have space for.
- be agreeable or acceptable to
- have room for; hold without crowding
- make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose
- make (one thing) compatible with (another)
- provide with something desired or needed
- provide a service or favor for someone
- provide housing for
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- (informal, automotive) The housing for a differential, built into an axle of a vehicle; the housing and its contents.
- (uncountable) The typical color of the ripe fruit of the pumpkin plant.
- (Australia) Any of a number of cultivars from the genus Cucurbita; known in the US as winter squash.
- (US) A term of endearment for someone small and cute.
- The round yellow or orange fruit of this plant.
- A domesticated plant, in species Cucurbita pepo, similar in growth pattern, foliage, flower, and fruit to the squash or melon.
- a coarse vine widely cultivated for its large pulpy round orange fruit with firm orange skin and numerous seeds; subspecies of Cucurbita pepo include the summer squashes and a few autumn squashes
- usually large pulpy deep-yellow round fruit of the squash family maturing in late summer or early autumn
noun
- An enclosure or dwelling generally.
- (Christianity) A church congregation, a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church; also, the Christian church as a whole, the flock of Christ.
- (collective) A group of sheep or goats, particularly those kept in a given enclosure.
- (geology) The bending or curving of one or a stack of originally flat and planar surfaces, such as sedimentary strata, as a result of plastic (i.e. permanent) deformation.
- One individual part of something described as manifold, twofold, fourfold, etc.
- One of the doorleaves of a folding door.
- (by extension, web design) The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window without scrolling; usually the fold.
- A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.
- A gentle curve of the ground; gentle hill or valley.
- An act of folding.
- A clasp, embrace.
- Any enclosed piece of land belonging to a farm or mill; yard, farmyard.
- (functional programming) Any of a family of higher-order functions that process a data structure recursively to build up a value.
- A bend or crease.
- (newspapers) The division between the top and bottom halves of a broadsheet: headlines above the fold will be readable in a newsstand display; usually the fold.
- (figuratively) Home, family.
- (figuratively) A group of people with shared ideas or goals or who live or work together.
- (programming) A section of source code that can be collapsed out of view in an editor to aid readability.
- Any correct move in origami.
- A coil of a snake’s body.
- A layer, typically of folded or wrapped cloth.
- a group of sheep or goats
- the act of folding
- an angular or rounded shape made by folding
- a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church
- a geological process that causes a bend in a stratum of rock
- a pen for sheep
- a folded part (as in skin or muscle)
verb
- (transitive) To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
- (transitive) To double or lay together (one’s arms, hands, wings, etc.) so as to overlap with each other.
- (intransitive, poker) To withdraw from betting.
- (intransitive) To fail, to collapse, to disband.
- (transitive) To enclose within folded arms, to clasp, to embrace (see also enfold).
- (transitive, computing) To split (a line of text) across multiple lines, to obey line length limitations.
- (intransitive, business) Of a company, to cease to trade.
- (intransitive) To give way on a point or in an argument.
- (intransitive) To become folded; to form folds.
- (intransitive, informal) To fall over; to collapse or give way; to be crushed.
- (transitive) To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.
- (transitive) To confine (animals) in a fold, to pen in.
- (transitive) To place sheep on (a piece of land) in order to manure it.
- (transitive, cooking) To stir (semisolid ingredients) gently, with an action as if folding over a solid.
- (transitive, figuratively) To cover up, to conceal.
- (transitive, figuratively) To include in a spiritual ‘flock’ or group of the saved, etc.
- (intransitive, by extension) To withdraw or quit in general.
- (transitive) To draw or coil (one’s arms, a snake’s body, etc.) around something so as to enclose or embrace it.
- (transitive) To enclose in a fold of material, to swathe, wrap up, cover, enwrap.
- bend or lay so that one part covers the other
- cease to operate or cause to cease operating
- become folded or folded up
- confine in a fold, like sheep
- incorporate a food ingredient into a mixture by repeatedly turning it over without stirring or beating
noun
- the housing or outer covering of something
- a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities)
- a statement of facts and reasons used to support an argument
- bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow
- the actual state of things
- the quantity contained in a case
- a glass container used to store and display items in a shop or museum or home
- an occurrence of something
- a special set of circumstances
- a specific state of mind that is temporary
- an enveloping structure or covering enclosing an animal or plant organ or part
- (printing) the receptacle in which a compositor has their type, which is divided into compartments for the different letters, spaces, or numbers
- a problem requiring investigation
- the enclosing frame around a door or window opening
- nouns or pronouns or adjectives (often marked by inflection) related in some way to other words in a sentence
- a person requiring professional services
- a specific size and style of type within a type family
- a portable container for carrying several objects
- a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation
- a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy
- (grammar) A specific inflection of a word (particularly a noun, pronoun, or adjective) depending on its function in the sentence.
- An actual event, situation, or fact.
- A cardboard box that holds (usually 24) beer bottles or cans.
- A specific matter or piece of work, specifically defined within a profession, usually in respect of a specific person and/or event; the set of tasks involved in addressing one such matter.
- (grammar, uncountable) Grammatical cases and their meanings taken either as a topic in general or within a specific language.
- (poker slang) Four of a kind.
- A suitcase.
- The outer covering or framework of a piece of apparatus such as a computer.
- (typography, by extension) The nature of a piece of alphabetic type, whether a “capital” (upper case) or “small” (lower case) letter.
- (medicine) An instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms.
- A box that contains or can contain a number of identical items of manufacture.
- (law) A legal proceeding; a lawsuit or prosecution.
- (printing, historical) A shallow tray divided into compartments or "boxes" for holding type, traditionally arranged in sets of two, the "upper case" (containing capitals, small capitals, accented) and "lower case" (small letters, figures, punctuation marks, quadrats, and spaces).
- A box, sheath, or covering generally.
- An enclosing frame or casing.
- (programming) A section of code representing one of the actions of a conditional switch.
- A piece of furniture, constructed partially of transparent glass or plastic, within which items can be displayed.
- (mining) A small fissure which admits water into the workings.
- (academia) An instance or event as a topic of study.
- A piece of luggage that can be used to transport an apparatus such as a sewing machine.
- A thin layer of harder metal on the surface of an object whose deeper metal is allowed to remain soft.
- (US) A unit of liquid measure used to measure sales in the beverage industry, equivalent to 192 fluid ounces.
verb
- enclose in, or as if in, a case
- look over, usually with the intention to rob
- (transitive, informal) To survey (a building or other location) surreptitiously, as in preparation for a robbery.
- (transitive) To place (an item or items of manufacture) into a box, as in preparation for shipment.
- (transitive) To cover or protect with, or as if with, a case; to enclose.
adj
noun
- the housing or outer covering of something
- the outermost covering of a pneumatic tire
- the enclosing frame around a door or window opening
- That which encloses or encases.
- (uncountable, computing) The state of letter case across a whole phrase or whole lines of text; the collective state/arrangement of uppercase and lowercase letters.
- (oil industry) A metal pipe used to line the borehole of a well.
- (architecture) The decorative trim around a door or window.
verb
noun
- the housing or outer covering of something
- a rigid covering that envelops an object
- the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod
- a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
- the hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits especially nuts
- hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles
- the exterior covering of a bird's egg
- a very light narrow racing boat
- ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun
- the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals
- The covering, or outside part, of a nut.
- (architecture) Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in, as the shell of a house.
- The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
- A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that often fastens in the rear.
- (nautical, rigging) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
- (nautical) The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
- A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
- (figuratively) The empty outward form of someone or something.
- (music) A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
- In formal debating, a set of proposed rules to be followed, with set penalties for violating them.
- A psychological barrier to social interaction.
- (figuratively) The outward form independent of what is inside.
- (British, education) One or more school grades within secondary education, at certain public schools.
- The thin coating of copper on an electrotype.
- (chemistry) A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
- (music) The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims added for tuning and for attaching the drum head.
- One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
- An engraved copper roller used in print works.
- The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
- The conjoined scutes that constitute the "shell" (carapace) of a tortoise or turtle.
- (UK, slang) A person's ear.
- (geology) The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
- An emaciated person.
- (nautical) A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper; a racing shell or dragon boat.
- (computing) An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs and control their interactions; the user's command interpreter. Shell is a way to separate the internal complexity of the implementation of the command from the user. The internals can change while the user experience/interface remains the same.
- (weaponry) A hollow, usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon. It contains an explosive substance designed to be ignited by a fuse or by percussion at the target site so that it will burst and scatter at high velocity its contents and fragments. Formerly called a bomb.
- (business) A legal entity that has no operations.
- (in the plural) Husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is sometimes used as a substitute or adulterant for cocoa and its products such as chocolate.
- (by extension) Any mollusk having such a covering.
- (figuratively) A person otherwise diminished.
- The overlapping hard plates comprising the armor covering the armadillo's body.
- (weaponry) The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
- (weaponry) The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
- (phonology) The onset and coda of a syllable.
- A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
- A pod containing the seeds of certain plants, such as the legume Phaseolus vulgaris.
- An unmarked vehicle for carrying corpses from a crime scene.
- (entomology) The exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects.
- (engineering) A gouge bit or shell bit.
verb
- remove from its shell or outer covering
- use explosives on
- create by using explosives
- fall out of the pod or husk
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- look for and collect shells by the seashore
- remove the husks from
- hit the pitches of hard and regularly
- (topology) To form a shelling.
- To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
- (computing, intransitive) To switch to a shell or command line.
- (cricket, slang, transitive) To drop (the ball).
- (intransitive) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
- (intransitive) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
- (informal) To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
- To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
- To remove the outer covering or shell of something.
noun
noun
- A rudimentary or improvised dwelling, especially one not legally owned.
- A roughly-built hut or cabin.
- A rhythmic work song, traditionally sung by sailors or stevedores, functioning to set the pace for hauling, turning a capstan, loading, or other such activities.
- (Australia, New Zealand) An unlicensed pub.
- small crude shelter used as a dwelling
- a rhythmical work song originally sung by sailors
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verb
noun
- (countable, US) Initialism of community living center.
- (countable) Initialism of chemical looping combustion.
- (countable, US) Initialism of command light cruiser.
- (countable, US) Initialism of combat logistics company.
- (countable, Australia) Initialism of community legal centre.
- (photography) Initialism of contrast light compensation.
- Initialism of comprehensive land consolidation.
- (countable) Initialism of Chinese language centre.
- (countable) Initialism of collateral ligament complex.
- (countable, UK) Initialism of city learning centre.
- (countable) Initialism of community learning centre.
- (countable) Initialism of closed-loop communication.
- (countable, US) Initialism of central labor council.
- (countable) Initialism of certified lactation counsellor.
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adj
verb
noun
- (UK) Initialism of home/house in/of multiple occupation/occupancy: a rented house typically let as individual rooms, often to students or migrant workers.
- (US, Philippines, medicine) Initialism of health maintenance organization.
- group insurance that entitles members to services of participating hospitals and clinics and physicians
noun
- The physical arrangement of any place, particularly (UK, slang) a house.
- The study of the physical properties of the earth, including how humans affect and are affected by them.
- (figuratively) The relative arrangement of the parts of anything.
- (chiefly upper-class UK, euphemistic) The lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.
- (astronomy) Similar books, studies, or regions concerning other planets.
- Terrain: the physical properties of a region of the earth.
- Any subject considered in terms of its physical distribution.
- (chiefly business and marketing) A territory: a geographical area as a field of business or market sector.
- study of the earth's surface; includes people's responses to topography and climate and soil and vegetation
name
noun
- Initialism of high density.
- (biochemistry) Initialism of homeodomain.
- Initialism of heavy duty.
- (television) Initialism of high definition (“1280×720 pixels”).
- (pathology) Initialism of Hodgkin's disease.
- (computing) Initialism of hard disc, hard disk, or hard drive.
- (medicine) Initialism of hemodialysis.
- (pathology) Initialism of Hansen's disease.
- (pathology) Initialism of Huntington's disease.
noun
- (HVAC) Initialism of building management system.
- (military) Initialism of battlefield management system.
- (metallurgy) Initialism of bright mild steel (“mild steel that has been cold finished and polished”).
- (medicine) Initialism of bare-metal stent.
- Initialism of burning mouth syndrome.
- (electronics) Initialism of battery management system.
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intj
noun
- Initialism of penthouse.
- Initialism of physical health.
- (computer science) Initialism of polynomial hierarchy.
- Initialism of public holiday.
- (health, policy) Initialism of public health.
- Initialism of public house.
- (business, hydrology) Initialism of professional hydrologist.
- Initialism of Purple Heart.
- (law) Initialism of preliminary hearing.
- Initialism of pommel horse.
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verb
- (transitive, construction) To erect the initial walls and roof of (a new building).
- (transitive) To arrange fraudulent evidence to falsely implicate (a person) of a crime.
- (photography) To prepare a shot by deciding what to include and exclude, what to use as background, etc.
- construct by fitting or uniting parts together
noun
- A building or portion thereof used as a home, such as a house or an apartment therein.
- (espionage) Synonym of rezidentura.
- Subsidence, as of a sediment
- The place where one lives (resides); one's home.
- That which falls to the bottom of liquors; sediment; also, refuse; residuum.
- Accommodation for students at a university or college.
- The place where a corporation is established.
- The state of living in a particular place or environment.
- The place where anything rests permanently.
- a large and imposing house
- the official house or establishment of an important person (as a sovereign or president)
- the act of dwelling in a place
- any address at which you dwell more than temporarily
noun
- a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families
- A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings.
- an official assembly having legislative powers
- a social unit living together
- play in which children take the roles of father or mother or children and pretend to interact like adults
- a building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented
- the members of a religious community living together
- the management of a gambling house or casino
- aristocratic family line
- (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided
- the audience gathered together in a theatre or cinema
- a building in which something is sheltered or located
- the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments
- Lotto; bingo.
- (American football, slang, with “the”) The end zone.
- (historical) A workhouse.
- The people who live in a house; a household.
- A dynasty; a family with its ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble one.
- (US, dialect) A small stand of trees in a swamp.
- A building intended to contain a single household, as opposed to an apartment or condominium or building containing these.
- A place of business; a company or organisation, especially a printing press, a publishing company, or a couturier.
- (astrology) One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart.
- (uncountable) Size and quality of residential accommodations; housing.
- (uncountable) A children's game in which the players pretend to be members of a household.
- A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities.
- An animal's shelter or den, or the shell of an animal such as a snail, used for protection.
- A place of public accommodation or entertainment, especially a public house, an inn, a restaurant, a theatre, or a casino; or the management thereof.
- (figurative) A place of rest or repose.
- (music) House music.
- A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word).
- (curling) The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice.
- (sudoku) A set of cells in a sudoku puzzle which must contain each digit exactly once, such as a row, column, or 3×3 box.
- The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance.
- A container; a thing which houses another.
- (politics) A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence the assembly itself, particularly a component of a legislature.
- (Hong Kong, only used in names) An apartment building within a public housing estate.
- (cartomancy) The fourth Lenormand card.
verb
- contain or cover
- provide someone with accommodation
- (transitive) To contain or cover mechanical parts.
- (transitive) To admit to residence; to harbor.
- (Canada, US, slang, transitive) To eat; especially, to scarf down.
- (nautical) To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe.
- (transitive) To contain one part of an object for the purpose of locating the whole.
- (transitive, astrology) To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.
- To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.
- (transitive) To keep within a structure or container.
noun
- (US) A dwelling unit with two floors.
- (geology) A system of multiple thrust faults bounded above and below by a roof thrust and floor thrust.
- (US, Canada, Australia) A house made up of two dwelling units.
- (philately) A cancellation combining a numerical cancellation with a second mark showing time, date, and place of posting.
- (biochemistry) A double-stranded polynucleotide.
- (juggling) A throwing motion where two balls are thrown with one hand at the same time.
- a house with two units sharing a common wall
- an apartment having rooms on two floors that are connected by a staircase
adj
- (architecture) Having two units, divisions, suites, or apartments.
- (metallurgy) Of stainless steel: having a structure containing austenite and ferrite in roughly equal proportions.
- (soil science) Having horizons with contrasting textures.
- (architecture) Having two floors.
- (telecommunications) Bidirectional (in two directions).
- (used technically of a device or process) having two parts
- allowing communication in opposite directions simultaneously
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pron
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- (informal, automotive) The housing for a differential, built into an axle of a vehicle; the housing and its contents.
- (uncountable) The typical color of the ripe fruit of the pumpkin plant.
- (Australia) Any of a number of cultivars from the genus Cucurbita; known in the US as winter squash.
- (US) A term of endearment for someone small and cute.
- The round yellow or orange fruit of this plant.
- A domesticated plant, in species Cucurbita pepo, similar in growth pattern, foliage, flower, and fruit to the squash or melon.
- a coarse vine widely cultivated for its large pulpy round orange fruit with firm orange skin and numerous seeds; subspecies of Cucurbita pepo include the summer squashes and a few autumn squashes
- usually large pulpy deep-yellow round fruit of the squash family maturing in late summer or early autumn
noun
- An enclosure or dwelling generally.
- (Christianity) A church congregation, a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church; also, the Christian church as a whole, the flock of Christ.
- (collective) A group of sheep or goats, particularly those kept in a given enclosure.
- (geology) The bending or curving of one or a stack of originally flat and planar surfaces, such as sedimentary strata, as a result of plastic (i.e. permanent) deformation.
- One individual part of something described as manifold, twofold, fourfold, etc.
- One of the doorleaves of a folding door.
- (by extension, web design) The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window without scrolling; usually the fold.
- A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.
- A gentle curve of the ground; gentle hill or valley.
- An act of folding.
- A clasp, embrace.
- Any enclosed piece of land belonging to a farm or mill; yard, farmyard.
- (functional programming) Any of a family of higher-order functions that process a data structure recursively to build up a value.
- A bend or crease.
- (newspapers) The division between the top and bottom halves of a broadsheet: headlines above the fold will be readable in a newsstand display; usually the fold.
- (figuratively) Home, family.
- (figuratively) A group of people with shared ideas or goals or who live or work together.
- (programming) A section of source code that can be collapsed out of view in an editor to aid readability.
- Any correct move in origami.
- A coil of a snake’s body.
- A layer, typically of folded or wrapped cloth.
- a group of sheep or goats
- the act of folding
- an angular or rounded shape made by folding
- a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church
- a geological process that causes a bend in a stratum of rock
- a pen for sheep
- a folded part (as in skin or muscle)
verb
- (transitive) To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
- (transitive) To double or lay together (one’s arms, hands, wings, etc.) so as to overlap with each other.
- (intransitive, poker) To withdraw from betting.
- (intransitive) To fail, to collapse, to disband.
- (transitive) To enclose within folded arms, to clasp, to embrace (see also enfold).
- (transitive, computing) To split (a line of text) across multiple lines, to obey line length limitations.
- (intransitive, business) Of a company, to cease to trade.
- (intransitive) To give way on a point or in an argument.
- (intransitive) To become folded; to form folds.
- (intransitive, informal) To fall over; to collapse or give way; to be crushed.
- (transitive) To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.
- (transitive) To confine (animals) in a fold, to pen in.
- (transitive) To place sheep on (a piece of land) in order to manure it.
- (transitive, cooking) To stir (semisolid ingredients) gently, with an action as if folding over a solid.
- (transitive, figuratively) To cover up, to conceal.
- (transitive, figuratively) To include in a spiritual ‘flock’ or group of the saved, etc.
- (intransitive, by extension) To withdraw or quit in general.
- (transitive) To draw or coil (one’s arms, a snake’s body, etc.) around something so as to enclose or embrace it.
- (transitive) To enclose in a fold of material, to swathe, wrap up, cover, enwrap.
- bend or lay so that one part covers the other
- cease to operate or cause to cease operating
- become folded or folded up
- confine in a fold, like sheep
- incorporate a food ingredient into a mixture by repeatedly turning it over without stirring or beating
noun
- the housing or outer covering of something
- a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities)
- a statement of facts and reasons used to support an argument
- bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow
- the actual state of things
- the quantity contained in a case
- a glass container used to store and display items in a shop or museum or home
- an occurrence of something
- a special set of circumstances
- a specific state of mind that is temporary
- an enveloping structure or covering enclosing an animal or plant organ or part
- (printing) the receptacle in which a compositor has their type, which is divided into compartments for the different letters, spaces, or numbers
- a problem requiring investigation
- the enclosing frame around a door or window opening
- nouns or pronouns or adjectives (often marked by inflection) related in some way to other words in a sentence
- a person requiring professional services
- a specific size and style of type within a type family
- a portable container for carrying several objects
- a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation
- a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy
- (grammar) A specific inflection of a word (particularly a noun, pronoun, or adjective) depending on its function in the sentence.
- An actual event, situation, or fact.
- A cardboard box that holds (usually 24) beer bottles or cans.
- A specific matter or piece of work, specifically defined within a profession, usually in respect of a specific person and/or event; the set of tasks involved in addressing one such matter.
- (grammar, uncountable) Grammatical cases and their meanings taken either as a topic in general or within a specific language.
- (poker slang) Four of a kind.
- A suitcase.
- The outer covering or framework of a piece of apparatus such as a computer.
- (typography, by extension) The nature of a piece of alphabetic type, whether a “capital” (upper case) or “small” (lower case) letter.
- (medicine) An instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms.
- A box that contains or can contain a number of identical items of manufacture.
- (law) A legal proceeding; a lawsuit or prosecution.
- (printing, historical) A shallow tray divided into compartments or "boxes" for holding type, traditionally arranged in sets of two, the "upper case" (containing capitals, small capitals, accented) and "lower case" (small letters, figures, punctuation marks, quadrats, and spaces).
- A box, sheath, or covering generally.
- An enclosing frame or casing.
- (programming) A section of code representing one of the actions of a conditional switch.
- A piece of furniture, constructed partially of transparent glass or plastic, within which items can be displayed.
- (mining) A small fissure which admits water into the workings.
- (academia) An instance or event as a topic of study.
- A piece of luggage that can be used to transport an apparatus such as a sewing machine.
- A thin layer of harder metal on the surface of an object whose deeper metal is allowed to remain soft.
- (US) A unit of liquid measure used to measure sales in the beverage industry, equivalent to 192 fluid ounces.
verb
- enclose in, or as if in, a case
- look over, usually with the intention to rob
- (transitive, informal) To survey (a building or other location) surreptitiously, as in preparation for a robbery.
- (transitive) To place (an item or items of manufacture) into a box, as in preparation for shipment.
- (transitive) To cover or protect with, or as if with, a case; to enclose.
adj
noun
- the housing or outer covering of something
- the outermost covering of a pneumatic tire
- the enclosing frame around a door or window opening
- That which encloses or encases.
- (uncountable, computing) The state of letter case across a whole phrase or whole lines of text; the collective state/arrangement of uppercase and lowercase letters.
- (oil industry) A metal pipe used to line the borehole of a well.
- (architecture) The decorative trim around a door or window.
verb
noun
- the housing or outer covering of something
- a rigid covering that envelops an object
- the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod
- a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
- the hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits especially nuts
- hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles
- the exterior covering of a bird's egg
- a very light narrow racing boat
- ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun
- the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals
- The covering, or outside part, of a nut.
- (architecture) Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in, as the shell of a house.
- The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
- A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that often fastens in the rear.
- (nautical, rigging) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
- (nautical) The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
- A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
- (figuratively) The empty outward form of someone or something.
- (music) A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
- In formal debating, a set of proposed rules to be followed, with set penalties for violating them.
- A psychological barrier to social interaction.
- (figuratively) The outward form independent of what is inside.
- (British, education) One or more school grades within secondary education, at certain public schools.
- The thin coating of copper on an electrotype.
- (chemistry) A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
- (music) The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims added for tuning and for attaching the drum head.
- One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
- An engraved copper roller used in print works.
- The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
- The conjoined scutes that constitute the "shell" (carapace) of a tortoise or turtle.
- (UK, slang) A person's ear.
- (geology) The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
- An emaciated person.
- (nautical) A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper; a racing shell or dragon boat.
- (computing) An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs and control their interactions; the user's command interpreter. Shell is a way to separate the internal complexity of the implementation of the command from the user. The internals can change while the user experience/interface remains the same.
- (weaponry) A hollow, usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon. It contains an explosive substance designed to be ignited by a fuse or by percussion at the target site so that it will burst and scatter at high velocity its contents and fragments. Formerly called a bomb.
- (business) A legal entity that has no operations.
- (in the plural) Husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is sometimes used as a substitute or adulterant for cocoa and its products such as chocolate.
- (by extension) Any mollusk having such a covering.
- (figuratively) A person otherwise diminished.
- The overlapping hard plates comprising the armor covering the armadillo's body.
- (weaponry) The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
- (weaponry) The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
- (phonology) The onset and coda of a syllable.
- A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
- A pod containing the seeds of certain plants, such as the legume Phaseolus vulgaris.
- An unmarked vehicle for carrying corpses from a crime scene.
- (entomology) The exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects.
- (engineering) A gouge bit or shell bit.
verb
- remove from its shell or outer covering
- use explosives on
- create by using explosives
- fall out of the pod or husk
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- look for and collect shells by the seashore
- remove the husks from
- hit the pitches of hard and regularly
- (topology) To form a shelling.
- To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
- (computing, intransitive) To switch to a shell or command line.
- (cricket, slang, transitive) To drop (the ball).
- (intransitive) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
- (intransitive) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
- (informal) To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
- To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
- To remove the outer covering or shell of something.
noun
noun
- A rudimentary or improvised dwelling, especially one not legally owned.
- A roughly-built hut or cabin.
- A rhythmic work song, traditionally sung by sailors or stevedores, functioning to set the pace for hauling, turning a capstan, loading, or other such activities.
- (Australia, New Zealand) An unlicensed pub.
- small crude shelter used as a dwelling
- a rhythmical work song originally sung by sailors
adj
verb
noun
- (countable, US) Initialism of community living center.
- (countable) Initialism of chemical looping combustion.
- (countable, US) Initialism of command light cruiser.
- (countable, US) Initialism of combat logistics company.
- (countable, Australia) Initialism of community legal centre.
- (photography) Initialism of contrast light compensation.
- Initialism of comprehensive land consolidation.
- (countable) Initialism of Chinese language centre.
- (countable) Initialism of collateral ligament complex.
- (countable, UK) Initialism of city learning centre.
- (countable) Initialism of community learning centre.
- (countable) Initialism of closed-loop communication.
- (countable, US) Initialism of central labor council.
- (countable) Initialism of certified lactation counsellor.
name
noun
adj
verb
noun
- (UK) Initialism of home/house in/of multiple occupation/occupancy: a rented house typically let as individual rooms, often to students or migrant workers.
- (US, Philippines, medicine) Initialism of health maintenance organization.
- group insurance that entitles members to services of participating hospitals and clinics and physicians
noun
- The physical arrangement of any place, particularly (UK, slang) a house.
- The study of the physical properties of the earth, including how humans affect and are affected by them.
- (figuratively) The relative arrangement of the parts of anything.
- (chiefly upper-class UK, euphemistic) The lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.
- (astronomy) Similar books, studies, or regions concerning other planets.
- Terrain: the physical properties of a region of the earth.
- Any subject considered in terms of its physical distribution.
- (chiefly business and marketing) A territory: a geographical area as a field of business or market sector.
- study of the earth's surface; includes people's responses to topography and climate and soil and vegetation
noun
- (HVAC) Initialism of building management system.
- (military) Initialism of battlefield management system.
- (metallurgy) Initialism of bright mild steel (“mild steel that has been cold finished and polished”).
- (medicine) Initialism of bare-metal stent.
- Initialism of burning mouth syndrome.
- (electronics) Initialism of battery management system.
noun
intj
noun
- Initialism of penthouse.
- Initialism of physical health.
- (computer science) Initialism of polynomial hierarchy.
- Initialism of public holiday.
- (health, policy) Initialism of public health.
- Initialism of public house.
- (business, hydrology) Initialism of professional hydrologist.
- Initialism of Purple Heart.
- (law) Initialism of preliminary hearing.
- Initialism of pommel horse.
name
verb
- (transitive) To furnish with a loft space.
- (intransitive) To fly or travel through the air, as though propelled
- (bowling) To throw the ball erroneously through the air instead of releasing it on the lane's surface.
- (transitive) To raise (a bed) on tall supports so that the space beneath can be used for something else.
- (transitive) To propel high into the air.
- kick or strike high in the air
- lay out a full-scale working drawing of the lines of a vessel's hull
- store in a loft
- propel through the air
noun
- Such an attic used as an atelier.
- An attic or similar space (often used for storage) in the roof of a house or other building.
- (cricket) A lofted drive.
- (textiles, countable, uncountable) The thickness of a soft object when not under pressure.
- (golf) The pitch or slope of the face of a golf club (tending to drive the ball upward).
- A gallery or raised apartment in a church, hall, etc.
- (chiefly US) A residential flat (apartment) on an upper floor of an apartment building.
- Ellipsis of pigeon loft.
- a raised shelter in which pigeons are kept
- floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage
- (golf) the backward slant on the head of some golf clubs that is designed to drive the ball high in the air
- floor consisting of a large unpartitioned space over a factory or warehouse or other commercial space
verb
- (transitive) To provide housing for.
- (transitive) To cause to come to agreement; to bring about harmony; to reconcile.
- (transitive) To give consideration to; to allow for.
- (transitive, often reflexive) To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt.
- (intransitive, of an eye) To change focal length in order to focus at a different distance.
- (transitive) To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc.
- (transitive) To provide sufficient space for.
- (transitive) To provide with something desired, needed, or convenient.
- (transitive) To do a favor or service for; to oblige.
- (intransitive, rare) To adapt oneself; to be conformable or adapted; become adjusted.
- (transitive) To contain comfortably; to have space for.
- be agreeable or acceptable to
- have room for; hold without crowding
- make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose
- make (one thing) compatible with (another)
- provide with something desired or needed
- provide a service or favor for someone
- provide housing for
verb
- (transitive, construction) To erect the initial walls and roof of (a new building).
- (transitive) To arrange fraudulent evidence to falsely implicate (a person) of a crime.
- (photography) To prepare a shot by deciding what to include and exclude, what to use as background, etc.
- construct by fitting or uniting parts together
adj
noun
noun
- (US) A dwelling unit with two floors.
- (geology) A system of multiple thrust faults bounded above and below by a roof thrust and floor thrust.
- (US, Canada, Australia) A house made up of two dwelling units.
- (philately) A cancellation combining a numerical cancellation with a second mark showing time, date, and place of posting.
- (biochemistry) A double-stranded polynucleotide.
- (juggling) A throwing motion where two balls are thrown with one hand at the same time.
- a house with two units sharing a common wall
- an apartment having rooms on two floors that are connected by a staircase
adj
- (architecture) Having two units, divisions, suites, or apartments.
- (metallurgy) Of stainless steel: having a structure containing austenite and ferrite in roughly equal proportions.
- (soil science) Having horizons with contrasting textures.
- (architecture) Having two floors.
- (telecommunications) Bidirectional (in two directions).
- (used technically of a device or process) having two parts
- allowing communication in opposite directions simultaneously