English words for 'Like an upstart.'
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noun
- (figuratively) Someone who is a driving force in new endeavours.
- (military) A rod (for cylindrical secondaries) or sphere (for spherical secondaries) of fissile material at the center of the secondary of a multistage thermonuclear weapon, which undergoes nuclear fission when compressed to supercriticality by the imploding secondary, helping to raise the secondary to the pressures and temperatures necessary to ignite nuclear fusion in the secondary's fusion fuel.
- The part of some internal combustion engines which forms a high-voltage electric spark which ignites the fuel-air mixture to begin the power stroke. (Petrol engines have spark plugs. Diesel engines do not have them because the heat from their high compression ratios supplies the ignition.)
- electrical device that fits into the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine and ignites the gas by means of an electric spark
noun
- an ambitious and aspiring young person
- (informal, derogatory) Someone who wishes to be part of, or to assimilate to, a majority group of which they are not a member.
- (informal, derogatory, often attributive) Someone who wishes to be someone or do something, but lacks the qualifications or talent; an overeager amateur; an aspirant.
noun
- An ambitious, driven person; a go-getter.
- (nautical) A bow thruster or a stern thruster.
- (surfing) A surfboard (usually a shortboard) with three fins of approximately equal size, one centred at the back, one on each side about 25cm forward and out near the rails.
- One who thrusts, who pushes or stabs.
- A device for propelling an object, especially a spacecraft or a ship (marine vessel).
- a small rocket engine that provides the thrust needed to maneuver a spacecraft
- one who intrudes or pushes themself forward
noun
- A person who shows initiative and resourcefulness.
- an energetic person with unusual initiative
- A mechanism (usually one operated by electricity, compressed air, a spring, or an explosive gas), attached to an internal-combustion engine, as on an automobile, and used as a means of starting the engine without cranking it by hand.
- An engine so equipped, or the vehicle that it powers.
- an electric starting motor that automatically starts an internal-combustion engine
noun
- One who initiates.
- (military) A component of a nuclear weapon that produces a burst of neutrons to start the chain reaction.
- (chemistry) A substance that initiates a chain reaction or polymerization.
- (medicine) A material whose presence in the body eventually leads to cancer.
- (computing) A task (in a mainframe computer) that initiates multiple jobs.
- a person who initiates a course of action
noun
- Someone with new or modern ideas.
- (historical) any poet who belonged to the neoterics, a series of avant-garde Latin poets who wrote in the 1st century BC such as Catullus, Helvius Cinna, Publius Valerius Cato, Marcus Furius Bibaculus and Quintus Cornificius.
- A modern author (especially as opposed to a classical writer).
adj
verb
- To make a debut in a new field; to start off a career or reputation.
- (intransitive) To be published or released; to be issued; to be broadcast for the first time.
- (intransitive) To begin with something.
- (intransitive) To emerge from or reach the end of an era, event or process.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, out.
- To protest or go on strike, especially out of solidarity with other workers.
- (idiomatic, informal) To come out of the closet.
- (of the sun, moon or stars) To become visible in the sky as a result of clouds clearing away.
- (intransitive, slang) To join a church; to convert to a religion.
- (copulative) To end up or result; to turn out to be.
- (intransitive, of a stain) To be removed.
- (intransitive) To be discovered; to be revealed.
- (cricket, of a batsman) To walk onto the field at the beginning of an innings.
- To originate in; to derive from; to be taken from out of or to have arrived from.
- To express one's opinion openly.
- result or end
- bulge outward
- come out of
- be issued or published
- be made known; be disclosed or revealed
- appear or become visible; make a showing
- make oneself visible; take action
- take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal
- to state openly and publicly one's homosexuality
- drop out
- break out
noun
- a person of great ability and ambition
- A person who or a type of aircraft that flies at high elevations.
- (figurative) An ambitious person, especially one who takes risks or has an extravagant lifestyle.
- (fishing) A vertical pole used in commercial fishing to locate the beginning and end of a long fishing line.
- A type of phaeton carriage.
- A swingboat.
- (finance) A glamorous stock that potentially offers high returns to investors.
noun
- (figurative) One who is the first to do something in a particular field; an innovator, a pioneer.
- (finance) Ellipsis of pathfinder prospectus.
- (botany) Synonym of honey guide.
- One who discovers or makes a new path or way through an untraversed region.
- someone who can find paths through unexplored territory
noun
noun
- One who succeeds while making only a minimal effort.
- (Philippines) A minibus; small bus (especially Toyota Coaster or in general resembling such regardless of brand name)
- A sailor (especially the master or pilot of a vessel) who travels only in coastal waters.
- (Australia, slang) An itinerant person who shirks work but still seeks food and lodging; a loafer, a sundowner.
- (computing, slang) A useless compact disc or DVD, such as one that was burned incorrectly or has become corrupted.
- (Canada, US) Ellipsis of coaster trout (“the brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) in Lake Superior and Maine”).
- (US) A cow from the coastal part of Texas.
- A small, flat or tray-like object on which a bottle, cup, glass, mug, etc., is placed to protect a table surface from drink spills, heat, or water condensation.
- A merchant vessel that stays in coastal waters, especially one that travels between ports of the same country.
- (US, winter sports) A sled or toboggan.
- (US, winter sports) A person who uses a sled or toboggan to slide down a slope covered with ice or snow; a sledder, a tobogganist.
- (US, informal) Ellipsis of rollercoaster.
- A person who originates from or inhabits a coastal area.
- a covering (plate or mat) that protects the surface of a table (i.e., from the condensation on a cold glass or bottle)
- a resident of a coastal area
- someone who coasts
noun
- A newcomer.
- A person whom one does not know; a person who is neither a friend nor an acquaintance.
- An outsider or foreigner.
- (sometimes with "the") A moth, Lacanobia blenna
- (law) One not privy or party to an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right.
- (humorous) Used ironically to refer to a person who the speaker knows.
- One not admitted to communion or fellowship.
- an individual that one is not acquainted with
- anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found
adj
noun
- An ambitious or hard-working person (i.e. someone who arises at the 'crack' of dawn).
- (UK) A northern pintail, a dabbling duck of species Anas acuta.
- (computing) One who cracks (i.e. overcomes) computer software or security restrictions.
- (slang, chiefly British, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) A fine, great thing or person (crackerjack).
- A person or thing that breaks a thing (e.g., nutcracker).
- A dry, thin, crispy baked bread (usually salty or savoury, but sometimes sweet, as in the case of graham crackers and animal crackers).
- A prawn cracker.
- Refinery equipment used to pyrolyse organic feedstocks. If catalyst is used to aid pyrolysis it is informally called a cat-cracker
- A Christmas cracker.
- A firecracker.
- The final section of certain whips, which is made of a short, thin piece of unravelled rope, or which is a short piece of twisted string tied to the end of the whip, which produces a distinctive cracking sound when the whip is cracked.
- (US, derogatory, ethnic slur, offensive) An impoverished white person from the southeastern United States, originally associated with Georgia and parts of Florida; (by extension) any white person (slang).
- a poor White person in the southern United States
- a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends
- a thin crisp wafer made of flour and water with or without leavening and shortening; unsweetened or semisweet
- firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing
- a programmer who cracks (gains unauthorized access to) computers, typically to do malicious things
noun
- (figuratively) A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.
- (cricket, slang) A professional cricketer during his first season.
- A young crane (bird).
- (nautical, historical) A short piece of rope once used by petty officers as an instrument of punishment.
- (biblical) A young camel or donkey.
- A young male horse.
- a young male horse under the age of four
verb
noun
- A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man.
- (US, slang) One hundred.
- (US, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, informal) A dollar (one hundred cents).
- (finance) One million dollars.
- (US, military slang, WWI–WWII) Lowest rank; a private.
- Clipping of buckshot.
- Synonym of mule (“type of cocktail with ginger ale etc.”).
- The sound made by a chicken.
- A wood or metal frame used by automotive customizers and restorers to assist in the shaping of sheet metal bodywork.
- (UK, dialect) The body of a post mill, particularly in East Anglia. See Wikipedia:Windmill machinery.
- (Africa) An antelope of either sex; compare with Afrikaans bok.
- A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
- (by extension, Australia, South Africa, US, informal) Money.
- (Scotland) The beech tree.
- (US) An uncastrated sheep, a ram.
- A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret, salmonid, shad and kangaroo.
- A leather-covered frame used for gymnastic vaulting.
- (South Africa, informal) A rand (currency unit).
- (informal, rare) A euro.
- a piece of paper money worth one dollar
- mature male of various mammals (especially deer or antelope)
- a gymnastic horse without pommels and with one end elongated; used lengthwise for vaulting
- a framework for holding wood that is being sawed
verb
- (chiefly Ireland, humorous or euphemistic) To fuck.
- (MLE) To meet, to encounter, to come across.
- (intransitive, by extension) To resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly.
- (transitive, military) To subject to a mode of punishment which consists of tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.
- (transitive, by extension) To overcome or shed (e.g., an impediment or expectation), in pursuit of a goal; to force a way through despite (an obstacle); to resist or proceed against.
- (metalworking, construction) To press a heavy, shaped bucking bar against the bucktail of a rivet, while the opposite end (the rivet factory head) is hammered by a rivet gun, to upset the bucktail into an appropriate shape, most commonly a pancake-shape.
- (intransitive) To bend; buckle.
- (US, military slang) To strive or aspire e.g. to a promotion.
- (forestry) To saw a felled tree into shorter lengths, as for firewood.
- (transitive, of a horse or similar saddle or pack animal) To throw (a rider or pack) by bucking.
- (intransitive, by extension) To move or operate in a sharp, jerking, or uneven manner.
- (intransitive) To copulate, as bucks and does.
- (intransitive, of a horse or similar saddle or pack animal) To leap upward arching its back, coming down with head low and forelegs stiff, forcefully kicking its hind legs upward, often in an attempt to dislodge or throw a rider or pack.
- (electronics) To output a voltage that is lower than the input voltage.
- jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched
- move quickly and violently
- to strive with determination
- resist
noun
- Someone or something who changes things.
- Someone or something that changes or transforms itself.
- A moneychanger; a person employed in changing or discounting money.
- a person who changes something
- an automatic mechanical device on a record player that causes new records to be played without manual intervention
adj
- (nonstandard) Vigorous; making strides; forceful in a positive way.
- Forceful (typically in a negative way) or obtrusive.
- Loud; shrill, piercing, high-pitched; rough-sounding.
- Grating or obnoxious.
- of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as ‘f’, ‘s’, ‘z’, or ‘th’ in both ‘thin’ and ‘then’)
- unpleasantly loud and harsh
- conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry
- being sharply insistent on being heard
noun
adj
noun
noun
- (figuratively) Someone who is a driving force in new endeavours.
- (military) A rod (for cylindrical secondaries) or sphere (for spherical secondaries) of fissile material at the center of the secondary of a multistage thermonuclear weapon, which undergoes nuclear fission when compressed to supercriticality by the imploding secondary, helping to raise the secondary to the pressures and temperatures necessary to ignite nuclear fusion in the secondary's fusion fuel.
- The part of some internal combustion engines which forms a high-voltage electric spark which ignites the fuel-air mixture to begin the power stroke. (Petrol engines have spark plugs. Diesel engines do not have them because the heat from their high compression ratios supplies the ignition.)
- electrical device that fits into the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine and ignites the gas by means of an electric spark
noun
- an ambitious and aspiring young person
- (informal, derogatory) Someone who wishes to be part of, or to assimilate to, a majority group of which they are not a member.
- (informal, derogatory, often attributive) Someone who wishes to be someone or do something, but lacks the qualifications or talent; an overeager amateur; an aspirant.
noun
- An ambitious, driven person; a go-getter.
- (nautical) A bow thruster or a stern thruster.
- (surfing) A surfboard (usually a shortboard) with three fins of approximately equal size, one centred at the back, one on each side about 25cm forward and out near the rails.
- One who thrusts, who pushes or stabs.
- A device for propelling an object, especially a spacecraft or a ship (marine vessel).
- a small rocket engine that provides the thrust needed to maneuver a spacecraft
- one who intrudes or pushes themself forward
noun
- A person who shows initiative and resourcefulness.
- an energetic person with unusual initiative
- A mechanism (usually one operated by electricity, compressed air, a spring, or an explosive gas), attached to an internal-combustion engine, as on an automobile, and used as a means of starting the engine without cranking it by hand.
- An engine so equipped, or the vehicle that it powers.
- an electric starting motor that automatically starts an internal-combustion engine
noun
- One who initiates.
- (military) A component of a nuclear weapon that produces a burst of neutrons to start the chain reaction.
- (chemistry) A substance that initiates a chain reaction or polymerization.
- (medicine) A material whose presence in the body eventually leads to cancer.
- (computing) A task (in a mainframe computer) that initiates multiple jobs.
- a person who initiates a course of action
noun
- Someone with new or modern ideas.
- (historical) any poet who belonged to the neoterics, a series of avant-garde Latin poets who wrote in the 1st century BC such as Catullus, Helvius Cinna, Publius Valerius Cato, Marcus Furius Bibaculus and Quintus Cornificius.
- A modern author (especially as opposed to a classical writer).
adj
noun
- a person of great ability and ambition
- A person who or a type of aircraft that flies at high elevations.
- (figurative) An ambitious person, especially one who takes risks or has an extravagant lifestyle.
- (fishing) A vertical pole used in commercial fishing to locate the beginning and end of a long fishing line.
- A type of phaeton carriage.
- A swingboat.
- (finance) A glamorous stock that potentially offers high returns to investors.
noun
- (figurative) One who is the first to do something in a particular field; an innovator, a pioneer.
- (finance) Ellipsis of pathfinder prospectus.
- (botany) Synonym of honey guide.
- One who discovers or makes a new path or way through an untraversed region.
- someone who can find paths through unexplored territory
noun
noun
- One who succeeds while making only a minimal effort.
- (Philippines) A minibus; small bus (especially Toyota Coaster or in general resembling such regardless of brand name)
- A sailor (especially the master or pilot of a vessel) who travels only in coastal waters.
- (Australia, slang) An itinerant person who shirks work but still seeks food and lodging; a loafer, a sundowner.
- (computing, slang) A useless compact disc or DVD, such as one that was burned incorrectly or has become corrupted.
- (Canada, US) Ellipsis of coaster trout (“the brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) in Lake Superior and Maine”).
- (US) A cow from the coastal part of Texas.
- A small, flat or tray-like object on which a bottle, cup, glass, mug, etc., is placed to protect a table surface from drink spills, heat, or water condensation.
- A merchant vessel that stays in coastal waters, especially one that travels between ports of the same country.
- (US, winter sports) A sled or toboggan.
- (US, winter sports) A person who uses a sled or toboggan to slide down a slope covered with ice or snow; a sledder, a tobogganist.
- (US, informal) Ellipsis of rollercoaster.
- A person who originates from or inhabits a coastal area.
- a covering (plate or mat) that protects the surface of a table (i.e., from the condensation on a cold glass or bottle)
- a resident of a coastal area
- someone who coasts
noun
- A newcomer.
- A person whom one does not know; a person who is neither a friend nor an acquaintance.
- An outsider or foreigner.
- (sometimes with "the") A moth, Lacanobia blenna
- (law) One not privy or party to an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right.
- (humorous) Used ironically to refer to a person who the speaker knows.
- One not admitted to communion or fellowship.
- an individual that one is not acquainted with
- anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found
adj
noun
- An ambitious or hard-working person (i.e. someone who arises at the 'crack' of dawn).
- (UK) A northern pintail, a dabbling duck of species Anas acuta.
- (computing) One who cracks (i.e. overcomes) computer software or security restrictions.
- (slang, chiefly British, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) A fine, great thing or person (crackerjack).
- A person or thing that breaks a thing (e.g., nutcracker).
- A dry, thin, crispy baked bread (usually salty or savoury, but sometimes sweet, as in the case of graham crackers and animal crackers).
- A prawn cracker.
- Refinery equipment used to pyrolyse organic feedstocks. If catalyst is used to aid pyrolysis it is informally called a cat-cracker
- A Christmas cracker.
- A firecracker.
- The final section of certain whips, which is made of a short, thin piece of unravelled rope, or which is a short piece of twisted string tied to the end of the whip, which produces a distinctive cracking sound when the whip is cracked.
- (US, derogatory, ethnic slur, offensive) An impoverished white person from the southeastern United States, originally associated with Georgia and parts of Florida; (by extension) any white person (slang).
- a poor White person in the southern United States
- a party favor consisting of a paper roll (usually containing candy or a small favor) that pops when pulled at both ends
- a thin crisp wafer made of flour and water with or without leavening and shortening; unsweetened or semisweet
- firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing
- a programmer who cracks (gains unauthorized access to) computers, typically to do malicious things
noun
- (figuratively) A youthful or inexperienced person; a novice.
- (cricket, slang) A professional cricketer during his first season.
- A young crane (bird).
- (nautical, historical) A short piece of rope once used by petty officers as an instrument of punishment.
- (biblical) A young camel or donkey.
- A young male horse.
- a young male horse under the age of four
verb
noun
- A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man.
- (US, slang) One hundred.
- (US, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, informal) A dollar (one hundred cents).
- (finance) One million dollars.
- (US, military slang, WWI–WWII) Lowest rank; a private.
- Clipping of buckshot.
- Synonym of mule (“type of cocktail with ginger ale etc.”).
- The sound made by a chicken.
- A wood or metal frame used by automotive customizers and restorers to assist in the shaping of sheet metal bodywork.
- (UK, dialect) The body of a post mill, particularly in East Anglia. See Wikipedia:Windmill machinery.
- (Africa) An antelope of either sex; compare with Afrikaans bok.
- A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
- (by extension, Australia, South Africa, US, informal) Money.
- (Scotland) The beech tree.
- (US) An uncastrated sheep, a ram.
- A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret, salmonid, shad and kangaroo.
- A leather-covered frame used for gymnastic vaulting.
- (South Africa, informal) A rand (currency unit).
- (informal, rare) A euro.
- a piece of paper money worth one dollar
- mature male of various mammals (especially deer or antelope)
- a gymnastic horse without pommels and with one end elongated; used lengthwise for vaulting
- a framework for holding wood that is being sawed
verb
- (chiefly Ireland, humorous or euphemistic) To fuck.
- (MLE) To meet, to encounter, to come across.
- (intransitive, by extension) To resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly.
- (transitive, military) To subject to a mode of punishment which consists of tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.
- (transitive, by extension) To overcome or shed (e.g., an impediment or expectation), in pursuit of a goal; to force a way through despite (an obstacle); to resist or proceed against.
- (metalworking, construction) To press a heavy, shaped bucking bar against the bucktail of a rivet, while the opposite end (the rivet factory head) is hammered by a rivet gun, to upset the bucktail into an appropriate shape, most commonly a pancake-shape.
- (intransitive) To bend; buckle.
- (US, military slang) To strive or aspire e.g. to a promotion.
- (forestry) To saw a felled tree into shorter lengths, as for firewood.
- (transitive, of a horse or similar saddle or pack animal) To throw (a rider or pack) by bucking.
- (intransitive, by extension) To move or operate in a sharp, jerking, or uneven manner.
- (intransitive) To copulate, as bucks and does.
- (intransitive, of a horse or similar saddle or pack animal) To leap upward arching its back, coming down with head low and forelegs stiff, forcefully kicking its hind legs upward, often in an attempt to dislodge or throw a rider or pack.
- (electronics) To output a voltage that is lower than the input voltage.
- jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched
- move quickly and violently
- to strive with determination
- resist
noun
- Someone or something who changes things.
- Someone or something that changes or transforms itself.
- A moneychanger; a person employed in changing or discounting money.
- a person who changes something
- an automatic mechanical device on a record player that causes new records to be played without manual intervention
verb
- To make a debut in a new field; to start off a career or reputation.
- (intransitive) To be published or released; to be issued; to be broadcast for the first time.
- (intransitive) To begin with something.
- (intransitive) To emerge from or reach the end of an era, event or process.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, out.
- To protest or go on strike, especially out of solidarity with other workers.
- (idiomatic, informal) To come out of the closet.
- (of the sun, moon or stars) To become visible in the sky as a result of clouds clearing away.
- (intransitive, slang) To join a church; to convert to a religion.
- (copulative) To end up or result; to turn out to be.
- (intransitive, of a stain) To be removed.
- (intransitive) To be discovered; to be revealed.
- (cricket, of a batsman) To walk onto the field at the beginning of an innings.
- To originate in; to derive from; to be taken from out of or to have arrived from.
- To express one's opinion openly.
- result or end
- bulge outward
- come out of
- be issued or published
- be made known; be disclosed or revealed
- appear or become visible; make a showing
- make oneself visible; take action
- take a place in a competition; often followed by an ordinal
- to state openly and publicly one's homosexuality
- drop out
- break out
adj
- (nonstandard) Vigorous; making strides; forceful in a positive way.
- Forceful (typically in a negative way) or obtrusive.
- Loud; shrill, piercing, high-pitched; rough-sounding.
- Grating or obnoxious.
- of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as ‘f’, ‘s’, ‘z’, or ‘th’ in both ‘thin’ and ‘then’)
- unpleasantly loud and harsh
- conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry
- being sharply insistent on being heard