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noun
- A steep bank of a river or gorge.
- A defensive structure; a protective barrier; a bulwark.
- A defensive mound of earth or a wall with a broad top and usually a stone parapet; a wall-like ridge of earth, stones or debris; an embankment for defensive purpose.
- That which defends against intrusion from outside; a protection.
verb
noun
- A trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside.
- A road drain.
- A small valley.
- A fielding position on the off side about 30 degrees behind square, between the slips and point; a fielder in such a position
- A grooved iron rail or tram plate.
- A large knife.
- A drop kerb.
- an alleyway or side street.
verb
noun
noun
- A channel of floodwater that has burst from its usual course; or the track or channel eroded by the water.
- A swing dance in which the leader occasionally swings the follower out into an open position.
- An item of scenery designed to be broken or destroyed during the performance.
- A stampede of animals.
- A group of riders which has gone ahead of the peloton.
- An animal that breaks away from a herd.
- An eroding steep slope on the edge of a plateau; an escarpment.
- A particular yo-yo trick http://yoyo.wikia.com/wiki/Breakaway.
- A situation in the game where one or more players of a team attack towards the goal of the other team without having any defenders in front of them.
- The act of breaking away from something.
- The act of getting away from one's opponent; the separation of the boxers after a spell of infighting.
adj
noun
- a high steep bank (usually formed by river erosion)
- pretense that your position is stronger than it really is
- the act of bluffing in poker; deception by a false show of confidence in the strength of your cards
adj
- very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front
- bluntly direct and outspoken but good-natured
verb
noun
- an obstruction to the flow of a river caused by the flow of a glacier across its course
- an obstruction to the flow of a river caused by the concatenation of surface ice into a ridge that rises above and sinks below the surface causing a blockage, occurring frequently during spring breakup season
- a mass of ice formed at the transition from a warm to a cold roof surface, frequently formed by refreezing meltwater at the overhang of a steep roof, causing ice and water to back up under roofing materials.
noun
- a ravine formed by a river in an area with little rainfall
- a rule or especially body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a field of art or philosophy
- a priest who is a member of a cathedral chapter
- a contrapuntal piece of music in which a melody in one part is imitated exactly in other parts
- a complete list of saints that have been recognized by the Roman Catholic Church
- a collection of books accepted as holy scripture especially the books of the Bible recognized by any Christian church as genuine and inspired
noun
noun
- A point where a waterway, such as a river or other stream, splits and flows into two (or more) different directions.
- In a bicycle or motorcycle, the portion of the frameset holding the front wheel, allowing the rider to steer and balance, also called front fork.
- Such a pronged tool having a long straight handle, generally for two-handed use, as used for digging, lifting, mucking, pitching, etc.
- Either of the (figurative) paths thus taken.
- The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).
- The crotch.
- A tuning fork.
- The upper front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
- Any of the pieces/versions (of software, content, or data sets) thus created.
- Any of several types of pronged tools for use on farms, in fields, or in the garden or lawn, such as a smaller hand fork for weeding or a larger one for turning over the soil.
- A decision point.
- The bottom of a sump into which the water of a mine drains.
- A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting.
- A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.
- The launch of one or more separate software development efforts based upon a modified copy of an existing project, especially in free and open-source software.
- Any of the software projects resulting from the launch of such separate software development efforts based upon a copy of the original project.
- The splitting of the coverage of a topic (within a corpus of content) into two or more pieces.
- Any of the pieces/versions of content thus created.
- A split in a blockchain resulting from protocol disagreements, or a branch of the blockchain resulting from such a split.
- An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.
- One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow.
- A forklift.
- Either of the blades of a forklift (or, in plural, the set of blades), on which the goods to be raised are loaded.
verb
- To move with a fork (as hay or food).
- To kick someone in the crotch.
- To launch a separate software development effort based upon a modified copy of an existing software project, especially in free and open-source software.
- To create a copy of a distributed version control repository.
- To spawn a new child process by duplicating the existing process.
- To divide into two or more branches or copies.
- To bale a shaft dry.
- To shoot into blades, as corn does.
noun
verb
adj
noun
- A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
- A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
- Success in an examination or similar test.
- Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
- An intentional walk.
- The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the waiting staff.
- A sexual advance.
- An attempt.
- A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
- A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission
- The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
- A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
- A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other overtake it.
- The act of overtaking; an overtaking manoeuvre.
- The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
- An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier such as a mountain range; a passageway; a defile; a ford.
- A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).
- A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
- A thrust; a sally of wit.
- An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
verb
- To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another.
- To depart, to cease, to come to an end.
- To spend.
- To go from one person to another.
- To put through a sieve.
- To be tolerated as a substitute for something else, to "do".
- To reject; to pass up.
- To happen.
- In turn-based games, to decline to play in one's turn.
- To proceed without hindrance or opposition.
- To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
- To utter; to pronounce; to pledge.
- To die.
- To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance.
- In euchre, to decline to make the trump.
- To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
- To put in circulation; to give currency to.
- To live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer.
- To decline something that is offered or available.
- To move or be moved from one place to another.
- To change from one state to another (without the implication of progression).
- To continue.
- To elapse, to be spent.
- To progress from one state to another; to advance.
- To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance.
- To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just.
- To move (the ball or puck) to a teammate.
- To kick (the ball) with precision rather than at full force.
- To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
- To eliminate (something) from the body by natural processes.
- To be accepted by others as a member of a race, sex, or other group to which one does not belong or would not have originally appeared to belong; especially to be considered white although one has black ancestry, or a woman although one was assigned male at birth or vice versa.
- To make a lunge or swipe.
- To throw the ball, generally downfield, towards a teammate.
- To decline or not attempt to answer a question.
- To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to become valid or effective; to obtain the formal sanction of (a legislative body).
- To make a judgment on or upon a person or case.
- To achieve a successful outcome from.
- To go past, by, over, or through; to proceed from one side to the other of; to move past.
noun
- A geologic process that explains how and why antecedent rivers can cut through mountain systems instead of going around them.
- That which precedes something or someone (e.g. prior events, origin, ancestry).
- The length of time by which one event or time period precedes another.
- The relationship between a pronoun and its antecedent.
- The relationship of preceding something in time or order.
intj
- A “jump” over hydraulic backwash in a high-gradient mountain river, an action analogous to a skier jumping a cliff.
- The sound of a blow or collision; wham.
verb
- To consume (drugs) rectally.
- To puff out in a voluminous way.
- (Of fish, especially barramundi) to surface quickly and catch prey by gulping, a behaviour which produces an audible sound.
- To conceal (a prohibited item) in one's rectum.
- To get something wrong or make a mistake.
- To make this kind of jump when whitewater kayaking.
- To have anal sex with someone, usually as the penetrative partner (possibly with negative connotations).
- To make this sound.
prefix
noun
- the point where a stream issues into a larger body of water
- the opening through which food is taken in and vocalizations emerge
- the externally visible part of the oral cavity on the face and the system of organs surrounding the opening
- an opening that resembles a mouth (as of a cave or a gorge)
- a person conceived as a consumer of food
- a spokesperson (as a lawyer)
- an impudent or insolent rejoinder
- the opening of a jar or bottle
verb
noun
- A large chasm, gorge, or ravine between two areas of land.
- An act of dividing.
- A distancing between two people or things.
- The topographical boundary dividing two adjacent catchment basins, such as a ridge or a crest.
- A thing that divides.
verb
- To vote, as in the British parliament and other legislatures, by the members separating themselves into two parties (as on opposite sides of the hall or in opposite lobbies), that is, the ayes dividing from the noes.
- To share (something) by dividing it.
- To separate into two or more parts.
- To mark divisions on; to graduate.
- To calculate the number (the quotient) by which you must multiply one given number (the divisor) to produce a second given number (the dividend).
- To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.
- To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.
- To be a divisor of.
- To split or separate (something) into two or more parts.
- Of a cell, to reproduce by dividing.
noun
noun
- Part of the river towards the upstream direction.
- The original developers or maintainers of software.
verb
- To have (a software library, patch, etc.) accepted by the original developers of the related software, so that they maintain and distribute it.
- To stream upward.
adv
adj
- In a direction against the flow of a current or stream of fluid (typically water); upriver.
- In the direction from the client to the server.
- Maintained, owned, or associated with the original developers of the given software; in contrast to a modified version downstream.
- Towards the leading end (5′ end) of a DNA molecule.
- Occurring earlier than something else; (also, usually, especially) being an influence on something else; causing a consequence for something else.
- Involving exploration and pre-production rather than refining and selling.
name
- A short river in the Southern Alps, New Zealand.
- An Irish surname, a variant of Dunican.
- A city in British Columbia, Canada; named for early settler William Chalmers Duncan.
- An unincorporated community in Casey County, Kentucky.
- An unincorporated community in Missouri.
- A Scottish surname originating as a patronymic.
- A city, the county seat of Stephens County, Oklahoma; named for early settler William Duncan.
- A town in Arizona; named for copper businessman Duncan Smith.
- A census-designated place in Iowa.
- An Irish surname, adopted as an anglicization of Ó Donnchadha (whence Donoghue).
- A surname from Irish, a variant of Dinkin.
- An Irish surname, a variant of Donegan.
- A town in Mississippi.
- A locality in South Australia, Australia; named for politician John Duncan.
- A village in Nebraska; named for early resident Wood B. Duncan.
- A male given name from Scottish Gaelic anglicized from Scottish Gaelic Donnchadh; the name of two early saints and of two kings of Scotland.
- A town in South Carolina; named for landowner Leroy Duncan.
- An unincorporated community in North Carolina.
- Four townships, in Illinois, Michigan, Missouri and Pennsylvania, listed under Duncan Township.
- A river in British Columbia, Canada; running 206 km near Mount Dawson into the Kootenay Lake; named for prospector John Duncan.
- An unincorporated community in Indiana.
- An unincorporated community in Mercer County, Kentucky.
adv
noun
- The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it.
- A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
- The end of a hammer, axe, golf club, or similar implement used for striking other objects.
- The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.
- A headdress; a covering for the head.
- A milling head, a part of a milling machine that houses the spindle.
- The end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor.
- The uppermost part of a valley.
- The antlers of a deer.
- Mental or emotional aptitude or skill.
- A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication.
- The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.
- The headstock of a guitar.
- The leafy top part of a tree.
- The top edge of a sail.
- A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum.
- The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.
- The toilet of a ship.
- An ear of wheat, barley, or other small cereal.
- A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium.
- Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
- The end of a nail, screw, bolt, or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide.
- A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound.
- Headway; progress.
- Mind; one's own thoughts.
- Topic; subject.
- The end of an abscess where pus collects.
- The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
- The glans penis.
- The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball.
- Deposits near the top of a geological succession.
- The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.
- A headmaster or headmistress.
- Denouement; crisis.
- The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.
- A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop.
- The end cap of a cask or other barrel.
- A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.
- Leader; chief; mastermind.
- Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
- The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs.
- An individual person.
- The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
- The bow of a vessel.
- A morpheme that determines the category of a compound or the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a member.
- The sharp end of an arrow, spear, or pointer.
- The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point.
- The population of game.
- The principal melody or theme of a piece.
- A single animal.
- The place of honour, or of command; the most important or foremost position; the front.
- A headland.
- More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.
verb
- To be in command of. (See also head up.)
- To come at the beginning or front of; to commence.
- To form a head.
- To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head.
- To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball
- To go in front of.
- To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose.
- To move in a specified direction.
- To check or restrain.
- To remove the head from a fish.
- To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
- To cut off the top of; to lop off.
- To set on the head.
adj
noun
- A stream, current or flood.
- Tendency or direction of causes, influences, or events; course; current.
- The period of twelve hours.
- The periodic change of the sea level, particularly when caused by the gravitational influence of the sun and the moon.
- Something which changes like the tides of the sea.
verb
noun
- The steep bank of a river.
- A formal reception, especially one given by royalty or other leaders.
- The border of an irrigated field.
- A pier or other landing place on a river.
- An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi.
- An elevated geographical feature.
- A reception of visitors held after getting up.
verb
noun
- A small and rather deep area of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream or river; a reservoir for water.
- A localized glow of light.
- In rifle shooting, a contest in which each competitor pays a certain sum for every shot he makes, the net proceeds being divided among the winners.
- A cue sport played on a pool table. There are 15 balls, 7 of one colour, 7 of another, and the black ball (also called the 8 ball). A player must pocket all their own colour balls and then the black ball in order to win.
- The stake played for in certain games of cards, billiards, etc.; an aggregated stake to which each player has contributed a share; also, the receptacle for the stakes.
- An aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to different people in a community, in a common fund, to be charged with common liabilities.
- A set of resources that are kept ready to use.
- A game at billiards, in which each of the players stakes a certain sum, the winner taking the whole; also, in public billiard rooms, a game in which the loser pays the entrance fee for all who engage in the game.
- A mutual arrangement between competing lines, by which the receipts of all are aggregated, and then distributed pro rata according to agreement.
- Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons join.
- A set of players in quadrille etc.
- A group of fencers taking part in a competition.
- A supply of resources.
- A small amount of liquid on a surface.
- Any small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle.
- A combination of persons contributing money to be used for the purpose of increasing or depressing the market price of stocks, grain, or other commodities; also, the aggregate of the sums so contributed.
verb
noun
- A tributary stream, especially of a canal.
- One who feeds, or gives food to another.
- A transmission line that feeds the electricity for an electricity substation, or for a transmitter.
- A judge whose law clerks are often selected to become clerks for the Supreme Court.
- A feeder ship.
- The participant in feederism who feeds the other (the feedee).
- A player whose character is killed by the opposing player or team more than once, deliberately or through lack of skills and experience, thus helping the opposing side.
- A branch line of a railway.
- That which is used to feed.
- One who, or that which, feeds material into something (especially a machine).
- One who feeds, or takes in food.
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