blockade
fix
penetrate
pawn chain
promote
priyome
promotion
pawn break
backward pawn
en passant
pawn storm
impawn
advanced pawn
overpenetrate
trap maker
bug
overextend
poisoned pawn
squeeze play
gambit
jump
counterattack
passed pawn
counterplay
tokin
skewer
play
hooking
disengagement
king
isolated pawn
pawnbrokering
discover
smother
push
hockshop
wrestle
cheapo
pop shop
royal fork
pawning
displacement
fortress
hit
pawn island
banking pin
pawner
doubled pawn
pawnable
card removal
pawn
David and Goliath mate
prise de fer
cannon
faro
couch
roulette wheel
wheel
evasive action
manoeuvre
maneuver
outside passed pawn
come to the scratch
crosscheck
winkle squeeze
mate
underpromotion
meg
age
pawnbrokerage
checkmate
kick
collar
move
squeeze
skate one's lane
relative pin
touch-move rule
underpromote
dormy
dormie
technical
back-rank mate
touch move
balk
press
invitation
riposte
card trick
run
cross-check
combo breaker
bagatelle
stakehorse
crosshead
bar billiards
setting
en passant
pawnable
dormy
dormie
en passant
blockade
pawn chain
priyome
promotion
pawn break
backward pawn
pawn storm
advanced pawn
trap maker
bug
poisoned pawn
squeeze play
gambit
en passant
counterattack
passed pawn
counterplay
tokin
hooking
disengagement
king
isolated pawn
pawnbrokering
hockshop
cheapo
pop shop
royal fork
pawning
displacement
fortress
pawn island
banking pin
pawner
doubled pawn
card removal
pawn
David and Goliath mate
prise de fer
cannon
faro
roulette wheel
wheel
evasive action
manoeuvre
maneuver
outside passed pawn
crosscheck
winkle squeeze
underpromotion
age
pawnbrokerage
collar
move
squeeze
relative pin
technical
back-rank mate
touch move
balk
press
invitation
card trick
combo breaker
bagatelle
stakehorse
crosshead
bar billiards
setting
fix
penetrate
promote
impawn
overpenetrate
overextend
jump
skewer
play
discover
smother
push
wrestle
hit
couch
come to the scratch
mate
meg
checkmate
kick
skate one's lane
underpromote
riposte
run
cross-check
noun
- Preventing an opponent's pawn moving by placing a piece in front of it.
- The ships or other forces used to effect a naval blockade.
- Inhibition of the activity (function) of chemical messengers or their receptors, such as (often) receptor antagonism.
- The physical blocking or surrounding of a place, especially a port, in order to prevent commerce and traffic in or out.
- Any form of formal isolation or inhibition of something, especially with the force of law or arms.
verb
verb
- To prevent enemy pawns from advancing by directly opposing the most advanced one with one of one's own pawns so as to threaten to capture any advancing backward pawns.
- To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate.
- To make (a contest, vote, or gamble) unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular group of contestants, usually before the contest begins; to arrange immunity for defendants by tampering with the justice system via bribery or extortion.
- To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
- To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
- To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.
- To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
- To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
- To convert into a stable or available form.
- To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance.
- To mend, to repair.
- To prepare (food or drink).
- To map a (point or subset) to itself.
noun
- fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace)
- A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid.
- A repair or corrective action.
- A determination of location.
- A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma; a predicament.
- A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user.
verb
- To move a piece past the defending pieces of one's opponent.
- To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to pierce.
- To achieve understanding of, despite some obstacle; to comprehend; to understand.
- To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings; to move deeply.
- To insert the penis into an opening, such as a vagina, mouth or anus.
- To infiltrate an enemy to gather intelligence.
verb
- change a pawn for a better piece by advancing it to the eighth row, or change a checker piece for a more valuable piece by moving it to the row closest to your opponent
- contribute to the progress or growth of
- give a promotion to or assign to a higher position
- make publicity for; try to sell (a product)
- be changed for a superior chess or checker piece
adj
noun
adv
noun
noun
- A small piece of metal used in a slot machine to block certain winning combinations.
- A problem that needs fixing.
- A manually positioned marker in flight instruments.
- HIV.
- A metal clip attached to the underside of a table, etc. to hold hidden cards, as a form of cheating.
- A limited form of wild card in some variants of poker.
- An asterisk denoting an apprentice jockey's weight allowance.
- Any insect, arachnid, myriapod or entognath.
- A young apprentice jockey.
- A keen enthusiast or hobbyist.
- A concealed electronic eavesdropping or intercept device.
- A trilobite.
- A semi-automated telegraph key.
- An enthusiasm for something; an obsession.
- Any insect, arachnid, or other terrestrial arthropod that is a pest.
- Synonym of union bug.
- Any of various species of marine or freshwater crustaceans; e.g. a Moreton Bay bug, mudbug.
- A contagious illness, or a pathogen causing it.
- A small and usually invisible file (traditionally a single-pixel image) on a World Wide Web page, primarily used to track users.
- A small, usually transparent or translucent image placed in a corner of a television program to identify the broadcasting network or cable channel.
- An insect of the order Hemiptera (the “true bugs”).
verb
noun
- The tactic of running a suit to compel another player to waste potentially winning cards.
- The tactic of reraising a raiser and a caller to compel one or both to fold, often as a bluff.
- The tactic of bunting the ball to help a runner at third base score.
- An instance of 'squeezing' someone: a use of pressure or force to achieve one's goal.
verb
- To employ a move in certain board games where one game piece is moved from one legal position to another passing over the position of another piece.
- To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap.
- To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
- To bore with a jumper.
- To increase the height of a tower crane by inserting a section at the base of the tower and jacking up everything above it.
- To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.
- To jump-start a car or other vehicle with a dead battery, as with jumper cables.
- To attack suddenly and violently.
- To move the distance between two opposing subjects.
- To cause to jump.
- To engage in sexual intercourse with (a person).
- To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.
- To increase speed aggressively and without warning.
- To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound) by jerking the body violently.
- To join by a buttweld.
- To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.
- To increase sharply, to rise, to shoot up.
- To move to a position (in a queue/line) that is further forward.
- To start executing code from a different location, rather than following the program counter.
noun
- An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
- An object which causes one to jump; a ramp.
- An abrupt increase in the height of the surface of a flowing liquid at the location where the flow transitions from supercritical to subcritical, involving an abrupt reduction in flow speed and increase in turbulence.
- A kind of loose jacket for men.
- An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body.
- A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) used to make a video game character jump (propel itself upwards).
- A jumping move in a board game.
- An early start or an advantage.
- An effort; an attempt; a venture.
- A change of the path of execution to a different location.
- An instance of propelling oneself upwards.
- A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured interval of the discontinuity.
- An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location.
- An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly.
- An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.
- A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.
- An instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from ordinary space.
- Synonym of one-night stand (“single evening's performance”)
- The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.
noun
verb
- put (a card or piece) into play during a game, or act strategically as if in a card game
- participate in games or sport
- act or have an effect in a specified way or with a specific effect or outcome
- play on an instrument
- play a role or part
- be at play; be engaged in playful activity; amuse oneself in a way characteristic of children
- replay (as a melody)
- perform music on (a musical instrument)
- pretend to have certain qualities or state of mind
- move or seem to move quickly, lightly, or irregularly
- bet or wager (money)
- engage in recreational activities rather than work; occupy oneself in a diversion
- pretend to be somebody in the framework of a game or playful activity
- emit recorded sound
- perform on a certain location
- engage in an activity as if it were a game rather than take it seriously
- behave in a certain way
- cause to emit recorded audio or video
- manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination
- use to one's advantage
- consider not very seriously
- be received or accepted or interpreted in a specific way
- behave carelessly or indifferently
- cause to move or operate freely within a bounded space
- perform on a stage or theater
- be performed or presented for public viewing
- cause to happen or to occur as a consequence
- discharge or direct or be discharged or directed as if in a continuous stream
- make bets
- stake on the outcome of an issue
- shoot or hit in a particular manner
- use or move
- employ in a game or in a specific position
- contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle
- exhaust by allowing to pull on the line
noun
- a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage
- a theatrical performance of a drama
- a preset plan of action in team sports
- a deliberate coordinated movement requiring dexterity and skill
- a state in which action is feasible
- utilization or exercise
- an attempt to get something
- activity by children that is guided more by imagination than by fixed rules
- (in games or plays or other performances) the time during which play proceeds
- the removal of constraints
- a weak and tremulous light
- verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously)
- movement or space for movement
- gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement
- (game) the activity of doing something in an agreed succession
- the act of playing for stakes in the hope of winning (including the payment of a price for a chance to win a prize)
- the act using a sword (or other weapon) vigorously and skillfully
noun
- A circular movement of the blade that blocks an opponent's parry.
- Termination of an agreement to be married.
- Withdrawal from combat, confrontation, or the assertion of influence.
- The release or separation of a chemical.
- The emergence of the fetus from the birth canal.
- Release or detachment from a physical situation or other involvement.
noun
- a checker that has been moved to the opponent's first row where it is promoted to a piece that is free to move either forward or backward
- a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom
- a competitor who holds a preeminent position
- a very wealthy or powerful businessman
- preeminence in a particular category or group or field
- one of the four playing cards in a deck bearing the picture of a king
- (chess) the weakest but the most important piece
verb
- To prevent the development of an opponent's attack by one's arm positioning.
- to burn very slowly for want of air; smolder.
- To suffocate; stifle; obstruct, more or less completely, the respiration of something or someone.
- To reduce to a low degree of vigor or activity; suppress or do away with; extinguish
- To cook in a close dish.
- To extinguish or deaden, as fire, by covering, overlaying, or otherwise excluding the air.
- To get in the way of a kick of the ball, preventing it going very far. When a player is kicking the ball, an opponent who is close enough will reach out with his hands and arms to get over the top of it, so the ball hits his hands after leaving the kicker's boot, dribbling away.
- To be suffocated.
- to perish, grow feeble, or decline, by suppression or concealment; be stifled; be suppressed or concealed.
- To get in the way of a kick of the ball.
- To breathe with great difficulty by reason of smoke, dust, close covering or wrapping, or the like.
- To daub or smear.
noun
verb
- To move (a pawn) directly forward.
- To press or urge forward; to drive.
- To tense the muscles in the abdomen in order to give birth or defecate.
- To burst out of its pot, as a bud or shoot.
- To add (a data item) to the top of a stack.
- To apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or thing applying the force.
- To strike the cue ball in such a way that it stays in contact with the cue and object ball at the same time (a foul shot).
- To continually attempt to persuade (a person) into a particular course of action.
- To make an all-in bet.
- To continually exert oneself in order to achieve a goal.
- To make a higher bid at an auction.
- To approach; to come close to.
- To continually promote (a point of view, a product for sale, etc.).
- To continue to attempt to persuade a person into a particular course of action.
- To publish (an update, etc.) by transmitting it to other computers.
noun
- A wager that results in no loss or gain for the bettor as a result of a tie or even score
- A short, directed application of force; an act of pushing.
- A foul shot in which the cue ball is in contact with the cue and the object ball at the same time
- An act of tensing the muscles of the abdomen in order to expel its contents.
- A marching or drill maneuver/manoeuvre performed by moving a formation (especially a company front) forward or toward the audience, usually to accompany a dramatic climax or crescendo in the music.
- An attempt to persuade someone into a particular course of action.
- The addition of a data item to the top of a stack.
- A great effort (to do something).
- The situation where a server sends data to a client without waiting for a request.
noun
verb
- To contend, with an opponent, by grappling and attempting to throw, immobilize or otherwise defeat him, depending on the specific rules of the contest
- To take part in a wrestling match with someone
- To move or lift something with difficulty
- To struggle or strive
- To fight.
- To throw a calf etc in order to brand it
noun
noun
noun
- Moving the target to avoid an attack; dodging.
- A vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component.
- The quantity of a liquid displaced by a floating body, as water by a ship, the weight of the displaced liquid being equal to that of the displacing body.
- The capability of a communication system to refer to things that are not present (that existed or will exist at another time, or that exist at another location).
- The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.
- The process of extracting soluble substances from organic material and the like, whereby a quantity of saturated solvent is displaced, or removed, for another quantity of the solvent.
verb
- To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
- To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
- To come up to bat.
- To have sex with.
- To attack.
- To affect negatively.
- To strike against something.
- To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.
- To attack, especially amphibiously.
- In blackjack, to deal a card to.
- to work out
- To manage to touch (a target) in the right place.
- To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.
- To guess; to light upon or discover.
- To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often by luck.
- To switch on.
- To affect someone, as if dealing a blow to that person.
- To reach or achieve.
- To use; to connect to.
- (of an exercise) to affect, to work a body part.
- To briefly visit.
- To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.
- To activate a button or key by pressing and releasing it.
- To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
pron
adj
noun
- The hit was very slight.
- A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
- A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
- A match found by searching a computer system or search engine
- An approximately correct answer in a test set.
- Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim.
- An attack on a location, person or people.
- The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.
- A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
- A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
- A move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point.
- A collision of a projectile with the target.
- In the game of Battleship, a correct guess at where one's opponent ship is.
- A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
noun
- A pawnshop; pawnbroker.
- A gallery.
- Someone who is being manipulated or used to some end.
- An instance of pawning something.
- The state of being held as security for a loan, or as a pledge.
- The most numerous chess piece, or a similar piece in a similar game. In chess, each side starts with eight; moves are only forward, and attacks are only diagonally or en passant.
verb
noun
- A piece which moves horizontally and vertically like a rook but captures another piece by jumping over a different piece in the line of attack.
- A cannon bit.
- Any similar device for shooting material out of a tube.
- An autocannon.
- A complete assembly, consisting of an artillery tube and a breech mechanism, firing mechanism or base cap, which is a component of a gun, howitzer or mortar. It may include muzzle appendages.
- The arm of a player who can throw well.
- A bone of a horse's leg, between the fetlock joint and the knee or hock.
- A large muzzle-loading artillery piece.
- A carom.
- A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently.
- A cylindrical item of plate armor protecting the arm, particularly one of a pair of such cylinders worn with a couter, the upper cannon protecting the upper arm and the lower cannon protecting the forearm.
- A pickpocket.
verb
verb
- To lower (a spear or lance) to the position of attack.
- To attach a thread onto fabric with small stitches in order to add texture.
- To transfer (for example, sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire mould to a felt blanket for further drying.
- To phrase in a particular style; to use specific wording for.
- To arrange or dispose as if in a bed.
- To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch.
- To lay something upon a bed or other resting place.
- To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed.
- To lie down; to recline (upon a couch or other place of repose).
- In the treatment of a cataract in the eye, to displace the opaque lens with a sharp object such as a needle. The technique is regarded as largely obsolete.
noun
- The den of an otter.
- A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley.
- A preliminary layer, as of colour or size.
- Psychotherapy.
- Couch grass, a species of persistent grass, Elymus repens, usually considered a weed.
- An item of furniture, often upholstered, for the comfortable seating of more than one person; a sofa.
- A bed, a resting-place.
noun
- game equipment consisting of a wheel with slots that is used for gambling; the wheel rotates horizontally and players bet on which slot the roulette ball will stop in
- a simple machine consisting of a circular frame with spokes (or a solid disc) that can rotate on a shaft or axle (as in vehicles or other machines)
- a handwheel that is used for steering
- forces that provide energy and direction
- a circular helm to control the rudder of a vessel
- an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims
- a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals
verb
verb
- place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game
- engage in sexual intercourse
- bring two objects, ideas, or people together
noun
- the officer below the master on a commercial ship
- a fellow member of a team
- the partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner)
- a person's partner in marriage
- an exact duplicate
- one of a pair
- South American holly; leaves used in making a drink like tea
- informal term for a friend of the same sex
- South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate
- a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king
noun
- The right of the player to the left of the dealer to pass the first round in betting, and then to come in last or stay out; also, the player holding this position; the eldest hand.
- That part of the duration of a being or a thing which is between its beginning and any given time; specifically the size of that part.
- The number of full years, months, days, hours, etc., that someone, or something, has been alive.
- Mature age; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities.
- The people who live during a particular period.
- A long time.
- The shortest geochronologic unit, being a period of thousands to millions of years; a subdivision of an epoch (or sometimes a subepoch).
- One of the twelve divisions of a Great Year, equal to roughly 2000 years and goverened by one of the zodiacal signs; a Platonic month.
- The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested.
- A generation.
- A period of one hundred years; a century.
- An advanced period of life; the latter part of life; the state of being old, old age, senility; seniority.
- One of the stages of life.
- The whole duration of a being, whether human, animal, plant, or other kind, being alive.
- A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others.
- A great period in the history of the Earth.
verb
- To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to.
- To postpone an action that would extinguish something, as a debt.
- To categorize by age.
- To indicate that a person has been alive for a certain period of time, especially a long one.
- To be viewed or turn out in some way after a certain time has passed.
- To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age.
verb
- To attack (a piece) in order to force it to move.
- To direct to a particular place by a blow with the foot or leg.
- To recoil; to push by recoiling.
- To be emphatically excellent.
- To make a sharp jerking movement of the leg, as to strike something.
- To show opposition or resistance.
- To overcome (a bothersome or difficult issue or obstacle); to free oneself of (a problem).
- To reset (a watchdog timer).
- To accelerate quickly with a few pedal strokes in an effort to break away from other riders.
- To eject summarily.
- To reproach oneself for making a mistake or missing an opportunity.
- To strike or hit with the foot or other extremity of the leg.
- To move or push suddenly and violently.
- To die.
- To forcibly remove a participant from an online activity.
- To work a press by impact of the foot on a treadle.
noun
- Something that tickles the fancy; something fun or amusing.
- Any bucking motion of an object that lacks legs or feet.
- A pass played by kicking with the foot.
- The recoil of a gun.
- Synonym of kicker (“backlight positioned at an angle”)
- A hit or strike with the leg, foot or knee.
- The removal of a person from an online activity.
- A stimulation provided by an intoxicating substance.
- The distance traveled by kicking the ball.
- Piquancy.
- A pocket.
- The action of swinging a foot or leg.
- An increase in speed in the final part of a running race.
noun
- a short ring fastened over a rod or shaft to limit, guide, or secure a machine part
- a band that fits around the neck and is usually folded over
- (zoology) an encircling band or marking around the neck of any animal
- anything worn or placed about the neck
- the stitching that forms the rim of a shoe or boot
- a band of leather or rope that is placed around an animal's neck as a harness or to identify it
- necklace that fits tightly around a woman's neck
- a figurative restraint
- the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
verb
noun
- The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules of the game.
- The event of changing one's residence.
- A change in strategy.
- A round, in which each player has a turn.
- The act of moving; a movement.
- An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
- A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
- A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand combat, etc.
verb
- To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another
- To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion, to excite (for example, an emotion).
- To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to influence.
- To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and live at another place. See also move out and move in.
- To request an action from the court.
- To transfer (a piece) from one space or position on the board to another.
- To sell or market (especially physical inventory or illicit drugs).
- To change place or posture; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another.
- To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration and determination, in a deliberative assembly; to submit
- To act; to take action; to begin to act
noun
- A play that forces an opponent to discard a card that gives up one or more tricks.
- The act of bunting in an attempt to score a runner from third.
- An instance of squeezing.
- A close or tight fit.
- The gradual closing of workings by the weight of the overlying strata.
- An illicit alcoholic drink made by squeezing Sterno through cheesecloth, etc., and mixing the result with fruit juice.
- A difficult position.
- A moulding, cast or other impression of an object, chiefly a design, inscription etc., especially by pressing wet paper onto the surface and peeling off when dry.
- A traversal of a narrow passage.
- A romantic partner.
- A hug or other affectionate grasp.
verb
- To put in a difficult position by presenting two or more choices.
- To attempt to score a runner from third by bunting.
- To remove something with difficulty, or apparent difficulty.
- To embrace closely; to give a tight hug to.
- To oppress with hardships, burdens, or taxes; to harass.
- To apply pressure to from two or more sides at once.
- To fit into a tight place.
noun
- A special move in certain fighting games that cancels out the effect of an opponent's attack.
- A pickup truck with a gun mounted on it.
adj
- Of or related to technology.
- Technically-minded; adept with science and technology.
- Relating to the internal mechanics of a market rather than more basic factors.
- In the strictest sense, but not practically or meaningfully.
- Relating to, or requiring, technique.
- Specifically related to a particular discipline.
- Requiring advanced techniques for successful completion.
noun
- A motion used to deceive the opponent during a serve.
- Beam, crossbeam; squared timber; a tie beam of a house, stretching from wall to wall, especially when laid so as to form a loft, "the balks".
- The wall of earth at the edge of an excavation.
- The area of the table lying behind the baulk line.
- A sudden and obstinate stop.
- A hindrance or disappointment; a check.
- The rope by which fishing nets are fastened together.
- The area of the table lying behind the line from which the cue ball is initially shot, and from which a ball in hand must be played.
- An illegal motion by the pitcher, intended to deceive a runner.
- An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing.
verb
- To refuse suddenly.
- To stop short and refuse to go on.
- To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles.
- To omit, miss, or overlook by chance.
- To leave or make balks in.
- To make a deceptive motion to deceive another player.
- To stop, check, block.
- To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring.
- To engage in contradiction; to be in opposition.
- To disappoint; to frustrate.
noun
- clamp to prevent wooden rackets from warping when not in use
- the state of demanding notice or attention
- the print media responsible for gathering and publishing news in the form of newspapers or magazines
- a machine used for printing
- a dense crowd of people
- a tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes
- any machine that exerts pressure to form or shape or cut materials or extract liquids or compress solids
- a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted to shoulder height and then smoothly lifted overhead
- the act of pressing; the exertion of pressure
verb
- exert pressure or force to or upon
- force or impel in an indicated direction
- to be oppressive or burdensome
- place between two surfaces and apply weight or pressure
- squeeze or press together
- crowd closely
- create by pressing
- be urgent
- exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for
- press from a plastic
- make strenuous pushing movements during birth to expel the baby
- press and smooth with a heated iron
- lift weights
- ask for or request earnestly
noun
- A bid that tells one's partner that game or slam is likely if their hand is at the strong end of what they have indicated.
- The act of inviting; solicitation; the requesting of a person's company.
- Allurement; enticement.
- A line that is intentionally left open to encourage the opponent to attack.
- The brief exhortation introducing the confession in the Anglican communion-office.
- A document or verbal message conveying an invitation.
verb
- To control or have precedence in a card game.
- To carry (a football) down the field, as opposed to passing or kicking.
- Of an object, to have a liquid flowing from it.
- To print or broadcast in the media.
- To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
- To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
- To be a candidate in an election.
- To fuse; to shape; to mould; to cast.
- To control or manage, be in charge of.
- To smuggle (illegal goods).
- To go at a fast pace; to move quickly.
- To extend in space or through a range (often with a measure phrase).
- To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
- To make run in a race.
- To transit a length of a river, as in whitewater rafting.
- To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off either foot. (Compare walk.)
- To leak or spread in an undesirable fashion; to bleed (especially used of dye or paint).
- To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
- To exert continuous activity; to proceed.
- To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time.
- To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
- To cause to move quickly or lightly.
- To cause to enter; to thrust.
- To speedrun.
- To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
- To juggle a pattern continuously, as opposed to starting and stopping quickly.
- To move or spread quickly.
- To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.
- To extend in time, to last, to continue (usually with a measure phrase).
- To make a machine operate.
- To become liquid; to melt.
- To make something extend in space.
- Of a machine, including computer programs, to be operating or working normally.
- To achieve or perform by running or as if by running.
- To pass (without stopping), typically a stop signal, stop sign, or duty to yield the right of way.
- To transport someone or something, notionally at a brisk pace.
- To be presented in the media.
- Of a means of transportation: to travel (a route).
- To cost a large amount of money.
- Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
- To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
- To encounter or suffer (a particular, usually bad, fate or misfortune).
- Of a liquid, to flow.
- To compete in a race.
- Of fish, to migrate for spawning.
- To make run in an election.
- To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
- To have growth or development.
- To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company.
- To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
- To flee from a danger or towards help.
- To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
- To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
- To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
- To make a liquid flow; to make liquid flow from or into an object.
- To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.
noun
- The act of marking the position of game, as a setter does.
- The mounting of a play, etc., for the stage.
- The direction of a current of wind.
- A piece of metal in which a precious stone or gem is fixed to form a piece of jewelry.
- A piece of vocal or choral music composed for particular words (set to music).
- A level or placement that a knob or control is set to.
- The time, place and circumstance in which something (such as a story or picture) is set; context; scenario.
- The act of setting.
- Hunting with a setter.
- Something set in, or inserted.
adj
English words for 'Preventing an opponent's pawn moving by placing a piece in front of it.'
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