downflex
downstrike
sidle
moonrun
backward
bend down
countermotion
retrogradely
stoop
bend
bow
crouch
spin
oblongly
nonvertically
seesaw
strafe
lateral
downward
sink
tractionally
skew
totter
dive
transition
careen
wobble
remotion
down
shift
tilt
nod
descent
overstep
countertwisting
retruse
jack
roundoff
unflex
fall
geotaxis
side-to-side
jogtrot
understep
duck
retrograde
scoot
nonhorizontally
rockover
wave
slue
bladed stance
slew
extroflection
back up
prone
recline
turtle
lean back
back off
back down
skid
slide
slip
jouncing
cambré
swing
good morning
contortive
aerial
retroflex
fall back
jerkingly
splits
squatting
bounce
backslide
scurryingly
moonwalk
dorsiflexion
streel
squat
upbend
upbow
backhanded
pull back
tumblingly
leaningly
bob
point
shuffly
atumble
descend
downflex
downward
retruse
side-to-side
prone
contortive
retroflex
backhanded
shuffly
atumble
backward
retrogradely
oblongly
nonvertically
tractionally
down
nonhorizontally
jerkingly
scurryingly
tumblingly
leaningly
sidle
countermotion
seesaw
strafe
sink
skew
dive
transition
remotion
descent
overstep
countertwisting
roundoff
fall
geotaxis
understep
retrograde
scoot
rockover
moonrun
wave
bladed stance
extroflection
turtle
jouncing
downflex
cambré
good morning
aerial
totter
splits
squatting
bounce
backslide
moonwalk
dorsiflexion
squat
upbend
bob
point
downstrike
moonrun
bend down
stoop
bend
bow
crouch
spin
lateral
totter
careen
wobble
shift
tilt
nod
jack
unflex
jogtrot
duck
slue
slew
back up
recline
lean back
back off
back down
skid
slide
slip
swing
fall back
streel
downflex
upbow
pull back
descend
verb
- To move downward in a stiking motion.
- To go in a downward direction.
- To arc to ground in a downstrike.
- To dismay, reject, demote, or render lowly.
- To strike from above.
- To play a stringed instrument with a downward plucking motion.
- To point (finish a joint) by pressing mortar in at the bottom.
- To strike down; to knock down, kill, or cripple.
adj
adv
noun
- A variety of various devices that operates primarily by a downward striking action.
- A downward plucking motion on a stringed instrument.
- A line that is drawn with a downward stroke.
- A blow by a hand or weapon that occurs with a downward striking motion.
- A type of manual typewriter that causes the letters to print on the downstroke of the keys and retract as the key rises.
- A bolt of lightning that touches ground.
- A (usually unintended) branch of current that arcs downward to ground.
- A downstroke; a downward movement that terminates in striking something.
adv
- In a direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.
- In a reversed orientation; back to front.
- In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
- At, near or towards the rear of something.
- Oppositely to the desired direction of progress, or from a better to a worse state.
- Toward or into the past;
- By way of reflection; reflexively.
- In a reversed order or sequence.
noun
adj
- Acting or moving in the direction opposite to the usual direction of movement.
- Of a pawn, further behind than pawns of the same colour on adjacent files and unable to be moved forward safely.
- Further behind the batsman's popping crease than something else.
- Late or behindhand.
- Situated toward or at the rear of something.
- Lacking progressive or enlightened thought; outdated.
- On that part of the field behind the batsman's popping crease.
- Slow to apprehend; having difficulties in learning.
- Reluctant or unable to advance or act.
- Acting or moving in the direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing.
- Acting or moving oppositely to the desired direction of progress.
- Reversed in order or sequence.
- Of a culture, country, practice etc., undeveloped or unsophisticated.
verb
- bend one's back forward from the waist on down
- bend one's knee or body, or lower one's head
- yield to another's wish or opinion
- bend the head or the upper part of the body in a gesture of respect or greeting
verb
noun
- front part of a vessel or aircraft
- bending the head or body or knee as a sign of reverence or submission or shame or greeting
- an appearance by actors or performers at the end of the concert or play in order to acknowledge the applause of the audience
noun
- a knot with two loops and loose ends; used to tie shoelaces
- a slightly curved piece of resilient wood with taut horsehair strands; used in playing certain stringed instruments
- a weapon for shooting arrows, composed of a curved piece of resilient wood with a taut cord to propel the arrow
- something curved in shape
- a decorative interlacing of ribbons
- a stroke with a curved piece of wood with taut horsehair strands that is used in playing stringed instruments
verb
- To move sideways when bouncing.
- To use an exercise bicycle, especially as part of a gym class.
- To search rapidly.
- To stream or issue in a thread or a small current or jet.
- To shape, as malleable sheet metal, into a hollow form, by bending or buckling it by pressing against it with a smooth hand tool or roller while the metal revolves, as in a lathe.
- To play (vinyl records, etc.) as a disc jockey.
- To wait in a loop until some condition becomes true.
- To ride a bicycle at a fast cadence.
- To form into thin strips or ribbons, as with sugar
- To cause one's aircraft to enter or remain in a spin (abnormal stalled flight mode).
- To present, describe, or interpret, or to introduce a bias or slant, so as to give something a favorable or advantageous appearance.
- To enter, or remain in, a spin (abnormal stalled flight mode).
- To make the ball move sideways when it bounces on the pitch.
- To move swiftly.
- To form (a web, a cocoon, silk, etc.) from threads produced by the extrusion of a viscid, transparent liquid, which hardens on coming into contact with the air; said of the spider, the silkworm, etc.
- To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction.
- To make yarn by twisting and winding fibers together.
noun
- The use of an exercise bicycle, especially as part of a gym class.
- Special interest of an autistic person.
- Rotation of the ball as it flies through the air; sideways movement of the ball as it bounces.
- Rapid circular motion.
- A brief trip by vehicle, especially one made for pleasure.
- A search of a prisoner's cell for forbidden articles.
- A bundle of spun material; a mass of strands and filaments.
- A quantum angular momentum associated with subatomic particles, which also creates a magnetic moment.
- A favourable comment or interpretation intended to bias opinion on an otherwise unpleasant situation.
- A condition of flight where a stalled aircraft is simultaneously pitching, yawing, and rolling in a spinning motion.
- An abnormal condition in journal bearings where the bearing seizes to the rotating shaft and rotates inside the journal, destroying both the shaft and the journal.
- A single play of a record by a radio station.
noun
- A series of up-and-down movements.
- An abnormal breathing pattern caused by airway obstruction, characterized by paradoxical chest and abdominal movement.
- A structure composed of a plank, balanced in the middle, used as a game in which one person goes up as the other goes down.
- A series of alternating movements or feelings.
adj
verb
verb
noun
- An object, such as a passage or a protrusion, that is situated on the side of something else.
- A sound produced through lateral pronunciation (such as /l/ in lateral).
- An employee hired for a position at the same organizational level or salary as their previous position.
- A lateral pass.
adj
- Non-linear or unconventional, as in, lateral thinking.
- To the side; of or pertaining to the side.
- Affecting the side or sides of the body, or confined to one side of the body.
- Situated on one side or other of the body or of an organ, especially in the region furthest from the median plane.
- Acting or placed at right angles to a line of motion or strain.
- (of a consonant, especially the English clear l) Pertaining to sounds generated by partially blocking the egress of the airstream with the tip of the tongue touching the alveolar ridge, leaving space on one or both sides of the occlusion for air passage.
noun
- Descending motion; descent.
- An object or callback that captures events; an event sink.
- A stage trapdoor for shifting scenery.
- A depression in a stereotype plate.
- A destination vertex in a transportation network.
- An abode of degraded persons; a wretched place.
- A sinkhole.
- A drain for carrying off wastewater.
- An excavation smaller than a shaft.
- A habitat that cannot support a population on its own but receives the excess of individuals from some other source.
- One or several systems that remove currency from the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation.
- A basin used for holding water for washing.
- A heat sink.
- A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet.
- The motion of a sinker pitch.
- A place that absorbs resources or energy.
verb
- To demean or lower oneself; to do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
- To cause to decline; to depress or degrade.
- To drink (especially something alcoholic).
- To (directly or indirectly) cause a vessel to sink, generally by making it no longer watertight.
- To push (something) into something.
- To make by digging or delving.
- To pot; hit a ball into a pocket or hole.
- To pay absolutely.
- To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.
- To descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance.
- To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
- To experience apprehension, disappointment, dread, or momentary depression.
noun
- An oblique or sideways movement.
- A squint or sidelong glance.
- A state of asymmetry in a distribution; skewness.
- The coping of a gable.
- A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems (such as computers) in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different times.
- Something that has an oblique or slanted position.
- A kind of wooden vane or cowl in a chimney which revolves according to the direction of the wind and prevents smoking.
- A piece of rock lying in a slanting position and tapering upwards which overhangs a working-place in a mine and is liable to fall.
- A stone at the foot of the slope of a gable, the offset of a buttress, etc., cut with a sloping surface and with a check to receive the coping stones and retain them in place; a skew-corbel.
- A bias or distortion in a particular direction.
verb
- To look at obliquely; to squint; hence, to look slightingly or suspiciously.
- To cause (a distribution) to be asymmetrical.
- To bias or distort in a particular direction.
- To move obliquely; to move sideways, to sidle; to lie obliquely.
- To jump back or sideways in fear or surprise; to shy, as a horse.
- To hurl or throw.
- To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
adv
adj
noun
- A downward swooping motion.
- A swim under water.
- A jump or plunge into water.
- Aerial descent with the nose pointed down.
- A deliberate fall after a challenge.
- A decline.
- A seedy bar, nightclub, etc.
- A headfirst jump toward the ground or into another substance.
verb
- To deliberately fall down after a challenge, imitating being fouled, in the hope of getting one's opponent penalised.
- To descend sharply or steeply.
- To cause to descend, dunk; to plunge something into water.
- To jump headfirst toward the ground or into another substance.
- To undertake with enthusiasm.
- To swim under water.
- To explore by diving; to plunge into.
- To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore.
- To jump into water head-first.
noun
- A change between forward and backward motion without stopping.
- A word or phrase connecting one part of a discourse to another.
- A published procedure for instrument flight, coming between the departure and en-route phases of flight, or between en-route flight and an approach/landing procedure.
- Professional special education assistance for children or adults in the process of leaving one educational environment or support program for another to relatively more independent living.
- A point mutation in which one base is replaced by another of the same class (purine or pyrimidine); compare transversion.
- Death; passing from life into death.
- The process of change from one form, state, style or place to another.
- A change of key.
- A change from defense to attack, or attack to defense.
- A brief modulation; a passage connecting two themes.
- The process or act of changing from one gender role to another, or of bringing one's outward appearance in line with one's internal gender identity.
- The onset of the final stage of childbirth.
verb
noun
adv
- From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
- At or towards any place that is visualised as 'down' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
- So as to reduce size, weight or volume.
- From less to greater detail.
- So as to lessen quantity, level or intensity.
- Forward, straight ahead.
- In the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
- To the south (as south is at the bottom of typical maps).
- At a lower or further place or position along a set path.
- As a down payment.
- On paper (or in a durable record).
- Get down.
- Into a state of non-operation.
- To a subordinate or less prestigious position or rank.
- Towards the opponent's side (in ball-sports).
- Away from the city (regardless of direction).
- Used with verbs to indicate that the action of the verb was carried to some state of completion, permanence, or success rather than being of indefinite duration.
- From a remoter or higher antiquity.
- So as to secure or compress something to the floor, ground, or other (usually horizontal) surface.
noun
- The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, such as the thistle.
- That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down.
- Down payment.
- A hill, especially a chalk hill; rolling grassland
- A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep.
- Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping bags and jackets.
- The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
- An act of swallowing an entire drink at once.
- A negative aspect; a downer, a downside.
- A clue whose solution runs vertically in the grid.
- A downstairs room of a two-story house.
- The lightest quark with a charge number of −¹⁄₃.
- A field, especially one used for horse racing.
- A single play, from the time the ball is snapped (the start) to the time the whistle is blown (the end) when the ball is down, or is downed.
verb
- To disparage; to put down.
- To drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing the liquid is empty.
- To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down; to fell.
- Specifically, to cause (something in the air) to fall to the ground; to bring down (with a missile etc.).
- To render (the ball) dead, typically by touching the ground while in possession.
- To lower; to put (something) down.
- To defeat; to overpower.
- To sink (a ball) into a hole or pocket.
- To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.
prep
- From one end to another of (in any direction); along.
- From the higher end to the lower of.
- At (a given place that is seen as removed from one's present location or other point of reference).
- From north to south of.
adj
- Sad, unhappy, depressed, feeling low.
- Mechanically failed, collided, shot down, or otherwise suddenly unable to fly.
- Having a lower score than an opponent.
- Sick or ill.
- Negative about; hostile to.
- Comfortable with, accepting of.
- Wounded and unable to move normally, or killed.
- Facing downwards.
- Fallen or felled.
- At a lower level than before.
- Accepted, respected, or loyally participating in the (thug) community.
- Finished (of a task); defeated or dealt with (of an opponent or obstacle); elapsed (of time). Often coupled with to go (remaining).
- Out.
- Thoroughly practiced, learned or memorised; mastered. (Compare down pat.)
- Inoperable; out of order; out of service.
verb
- move sideways or in an unsteady way
- make a shift in or exchange of
- change place or direction
- move around
- move very slightly
- move from one setting or context to another
- change in quality
- move and exchange for another
- move abruptly
- use a shift key on a keyboard
- change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change
- change gears
- lay aside, abandon, or leave for another
noun
- an event in which something is displaced without rotation
- a qualitative change
- the time period during which you are at work
- the act of changing one thing or position for another
- the act of moving from one place to another
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time
- the key on the typewriter keyboard that shifts from lower-case letters to upper-case letters
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist
verb
- To dance by moving the torso forward and backward in a rippling motion.
- To physically raise using a jack.
- To hit (the ball) hard; especially, to hit (the ball) out of the field, producing a home run.
- To raise or increase.
- To increase the potency of an alcoholic beverage similarly to distillation by chilling it to below the freezing point of water, removing the water ice crystals that form, and leaving the still-liquid alcoholic portion.
- To steal something, typically an automobile.
- To jack off, to masturbate.
noun
- A large California rockfish, the bocaccio, Sebastes paucispinis.
- Mangifera caesia, related to the mango tree.
- Any of the marine fish in the family Carangidae.
- Nothing, jack shit.
- A coarse mediaeval coat of defence, especially one made of leather.
- Each of a series of blocks in a harpsichord or the earlier virginal, communicating the action of the key to the quill; sometime also, a hopper in a modern piano.
- The eleventh batsman to come to the crease in an innings.
- A mechanical device used to raise and (temporarily) support a heavy object, now especially to lift one side of a motor vehicle when (e.g.) changing a tyre.
- Any of various levers for raising or lowering the sinkers which push the loops down on the needles in a knitting machine or stocking frame.
- The lowest court card in a deck of standard playing cards, ranking between the 10 and queen, with an image of a knave or pageboy on it.
- A torch or other light used in hunting to attract or dazzle game at night.
- The related tree Mangifera caesia.
- Money.
- A small, six-pointed playing piece used in the game of jacks.
- A small ship's flag used as a signal or identifying device; a small flag flown at the bow of the vessel.
- A pitcher or other vessel for holding liquid, especially alcoholic drink; a black-jack.
- A sailor.
- A lumberjack.
- A pike, especially when young.
- A sepoy.
- A device for turning a spit; a smokejack or roasting jack.
- A man, a fellow; a typical man; men in general.
- A home run.
- A device used to hold a boot by the heel, to assist in removing the boot.
- A switch for a jack plug, a jackknife switch; (more generally) a socket used to connect a device to a circuit, network etc.
- A small, typically white, ball used as the target ball in bowls; a jack-ball.
- Plant of the genus Emex, also considered synonymous to Rumex, if not then containing two species lesser jack and little jack for Emex spinosa syn. Rumex spinosus, Australian English three-corner jack and prickly jack for Emex australis syn. Rumex hypogaeus.
- Spadix of a plant (also capitalized Jack).
- The edible fruit of the Asian tree (Artocarpus heterophyllus); also the tree itself.
- Plant in the genus Arisaema, also known as Jack-in-the-pulpit, and capitalized Jack.
- A smooth often ovoid large gravel or small cobble in a natural water course.
- A policeman or detective; (Australia) a military policeman.
- A name applied to a hypothetical or typical man.
- A male ass, especially when kept for breeding.
- A jackrabbit.
adj
noun
- a movement downward
- the season when the leaves fall from the trees
- a sudden drop from an upright position
- a downward slope or bend
- a lapse into sin; a loss of innocence or of chastity
- a sudden decline in strength or number or importance
- the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions)
- the time of day immediately following sunset
- when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat
- a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity
- a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
verb
- descend in free fall under the influence of gravity
- move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
- pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind
- come under, be classified or included
- fall from clouds
- suffer defeat, failure, or ruin
- die, as in battle or in a hunt
- touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly
- be captured
- occur at a specified time or place
- decrease in size, extent, or range
- yield to temptation or sin
- lose office or power
- to be given by assignment or distribution
- move in a specified direction
- be due
- lose one's chastity
- to be given by right or inheritance
- come into the possession of
- fall to somebody by assignment or lot; passed
- be inherited by
- slope downward
- lose an upright position suddenly
- drop oneself to a lower or less erect position
- fall or flow in a certain way
- assume a disappointed or sad expression
- be cast down
- come out; issue
- be born, used chiefly of lambs
- begin vigorously
- go as if by falling
- come as if by falling
noun
- A movement backwards or opposite to the intended or normal motion.
- The reversal of a melody so that what is played first in the original melody is played last, and what is played last in the original melody is played first.
- The apparent movement of a planet across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- One who opposes social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; a conservative.
verb
- To cause (a land feature such as a coastline or waterfall) to undergo retrogradation, that is, to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion.
- To revert to an inferior or less developed state; to decline, to regress.
- Of a celestial body, especially a planet: to show retrogradation; to seem to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- To retreat or withdraw from a position.
- Of a land feature: to travel in the direction of the land or upstream due to erosion.
- To change (minerals, rocks, etc.) metamorphically through a decrease in pressure or temperature.
adv
adj
- Reverting to an inferior or less developed state; declining, regressing.
- Having a passage of music played backwards.
- Of a celestial body: seeming to move across the sky in the opposite direction from its ordinary movement.
- Of the order of something: inverse, reverse.
- Of a celestial body orbiting another: in the opposite direction to the orbited body's spin.
- Of amnesia: relating to the period leading up to the episode which caused it.
- Of ideas or a person: opposing social reform, favouring the maintenance of the status quo; conservative.
- Directed or moving backwards in relation to the normal or previous direction of travel; retreating.
- Of an animal: appearing to regress to a less developed form during its lifetime.
- Of a metamorphic change: resulting from a decrease in pressure or temperature.
noun
verb
- To walk or travel fast; to go quickly.
- To run away hastily; scram.
- To move with the forelegs while sitting, so that the floor rubs against its rear end.
- To dispatch someone or something at speed; Synonym of shoo.
- To move sideways (especially along a seat for multiple people), usually to make room for someone else (to sit, stand, etc.).
- To squirt.
- To ride on a scooter.
noun
- A loose back-and-forth movement, as of the hands.
- One of the successive swarms of enemies sent to attack the player in certain games.
- A moving disturbance in the level of a body of liquid; an undulation.
- Any of a number of species of moths in the geometrid subfamily Sterrhinae, which have wavy markings on the wings.
- A shape that alternatingly curves in opposite directions.
- The ocean.
- A moving disturbance in the energy level of a field.
- A sudden, but temporary, uptick in something.
- A group activity in a crowd imitating a wave going through water, where people in successive parts of the crowd stand and stretch upward, then sit.
verb
- To generate a wave.
- To swing and miss at a pitch.
- To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion, as of the hand; to signify by waving; to beckon; to signal; to indicate.
- To move one’s hand back and forth (generally above the shoulders) in greeting or departure.
- To have an undulating or wavy form.
- To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form or surface to.
- To produce waves to the hair.
- To signal (someone or something) with a waving movement.
- To move back and forth repeatedly and somewhat loosely.
- To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.
- To cause to move back and forth repeatedly.
noun
noun
- A breakdancing move consisting of a float during which the dancer's weight shifts from one hand to the other, producing rotation or a circular "walk".
- A small element towards the end of a list of items to be bubble sorted, and thus tending to take a long time to be swapped into its correct position. Compare rabbit.
- A type of robot having a domed case (and so resembling the reptile), used in education, especially for making line drawings by means of a computer program.
- An Ancient Roman attack method, where the shields held by the soldiers hide them, not only left, right, front and back, but also from above.
- A low stand for a lamp etc.
- An on-screen cursor that serves the same function as a turtle for drawing.
- A marine reptile of that order.
- The curved plate in which the form is held in a type-revolving cylinder press.
- Any land or marine reptile of the order Testudines, characterised by a protective shell enclosing its body. See also tortoise.
verb
verb
- move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner
- to pass or move unobtrusively or smoothly
- move smoothly along a surface
noun
- a small flat rectangular piece of glass on which specimens can be mounted for microscopic study
- (geology) the descent of a large mass of earth or rocks or snow etc.
- (music) rapid sliding up or down the musical scale
- plaything consisting of a sloping chute down which children can slide
- the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it
- a transparency mounted in a frame; viewed with a slide projector
- sloping channel through which things can descend
verb
- move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner
- move stealthily
- insert inconspicuously or quickly or quietly
- fall to a lower standard
- move smoothly and easily
- to make a mistake or be incorrect
- pass on stealthily
- move easily
- cause to move with a smooth or sliding motion
- pass out of one's memory
- move out of position
noun
- a socially awkward or tactless act
- a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.
- potter's clay that is thinned and used for coating or decorating ceramics
- a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting
- a young and slender person
- a place where a craft can be made fast
- an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall
- a slippery smoothness
- artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material
- a small sheet of paper
- a woman's sleeveless undergarment
- bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow
- an unexpected slide
- a flight maneuver; aircraft slides sideways in the air
- the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning)
verb
- To move sideways in its trajectory.
- To move one's arm in a punching motion.
- To put (a door, gate, etc.) on hinges so that it can swing or turn.
- To change (a numerical result); especially to change the outcome of an election.
- To hang from the gallows; to be punished by hanging, swing for something or someone; (often hyperbolic) to be severely punished.
- To make (something) work; especially to afford (something) financially.
- To admit or turn something for the purpose of shaping it; said of a lathe.
- To turn in a different direction.
- To play notes that are in pairs by making the first of the pair slightly longer than written (augmentation) and the second shorter, resulting in a bouncy, uneven rhythm.
- To move (an object) backward and forward; to wave.
- To ride on a swing.
- To dance.
- To fluctuate or change.
- (of a bowler) To make the ball move sideways in its trajectory.
- To participate in the swinging lifestyle; to participate in wife-swapping.
- To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor.
- To rotate about an off-centre fixed point.
- In dancing, to turn around in a small circle with one's partner, holding hands or arms.
noun
- In a musical theater production, a performer who understudies several roles.
- Influence or power of anything put in motion.
- The amount of change towards or away from something.
- The genre of music associated with this dance style.
- The manner in which something is swung.
- The sweep or compass of a swinging body.
- A dance style.
- In an election, the increase or decrease in the number of votes for opposition parties compared with votes for the incumbent party.
- A basic dance step in which a pair link hands and turn round together in a circle.
- A type of hook with the arm more extended.
- A hanging seat that can swing back and forth, in a children's playground, for acrobats in a circus, or on a porch for relaxing.
- A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing.
- Sideways movement of the ball as it flies through the air.
- Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in it.
- The maximum amount of change that has occurred or can occur; the sum of the maximum changes in any direction.
noun
- A move, as in dancing or skateboarding, involving one or both feet leaving the ground.
- A rod, wire, or other structure for receiving or transmitting radio, television signals etc.
- An aerial photograph.
adj
- Above the ground
- Living or taking place in the air.
- Pertaining to the air or atmosphere; atmospheric.
- Made up of air or gas; gaseous.
- Positioned high up; elevated.
- Ethereal, insubstantial; imaginary.
- Pertaining to a vehicle which travels through the air; airborne; relating to or conducted by means of aircraft.
adj
- Bent or curved backwards.
- Of pronunciation in which the tip of the tongue approaches or touches the back of the alveolar ridge.
- Of any of the aforementioned pronunciations.
- Of pronunciation in which the tip of the tongue is raised and bent backwards, so that the underside of the tongue approaches or touches the palate.
- Of pronunciation in which the blade of the tongue approaches or touches the back of the alveolar ridge.
noun
- A consonant pronounced with the tip of the tongue approaching or touching the back of the alveolar ridge.
- A consonant pronounced with the underside of the tongue approaching or touching the palate.
- Any of the aforementioned consonants.
- A consonant pronounced with the blade of the tongue approaching or touching the back of the alveolar ridge.
noun
- A change of direction of motion after hitting the ground or an obstacle.
- A genre of hip-hop music of New Orleans, characterized by often lewd call-and-response chants.
- Drugs.
- Scyliorhinus canicula, a European dogfish.
- An email that returns to the sender because of a delivery failure.
- The sack, dismissal.
- Swagger.
- A bang, boom.
- A talent for leaping.
- A good beat in music.
- A movement up and then down (or vice versa), once or repeatedly.
verb
- (sometimes employing the preposition with) To have sexual intercourse.
- To mix (two or more tracks of a multi-track audio tape recording) and record the result onto a single track, in order to free up tracks for further material to be added.
- To leave.
- To cause to move quickly up and down, or back and forth, once or repeatedly.
- To fail to cover (have sufficient funds for) (a draft presented against one's account).
- To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound.
- To land hard at unsurvivable velocity with fatal results.
- To change the direction of motion after hitting an obstacle.
- To move rapidly (between).
- To attack unexpectedly.
- To land hard and lift off again due to excess momentum.
- To be refused by a bank because it is drawn on insufficient funds.
- To move quickly up and then down, or vice versa, once or repeatedly.
- To suggest or introduce (an idea, etc.) to (off or by) somebody, in order to gain feedback.
- To return undelivered.
- To turn power off and back on; to reset.
noun
- the act of assuming or maintaining a crouching position with the knees bent and the buttocks near the heels
- exercising by repeatedly assuming a crouching position with the knees bent; strengthens the leg muscles
- a small worthless amount
adj
- short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature
- having a low center of gravity; built low to the ground
verb
noun
- A bobbing motion; a quick up and down movement.
- A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc.
- A working beam in a steam engine.
- An unspecified amount of money.
- The docked tail of a horse.
- A graphical element, resembling a hardware sprite, that can be blitted around the screen in large numbers.
- A particular style of ringing changes on bells.
- A bobsleigh.
- A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist.
- Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
- A curtsy.
- A bob haircut.
- Any round object attached loosely to a flexible line, a rod, a body part etc., so that it may swing when hanging from it.
- The dangling mass of a pendulum or plumb line.
- A short line ending a stanza of a poem.
- A bobber (buoyant fishing device).
- The short runner of a sled.
verb
- To bobsleigh.
- To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.
- To curtsy.
- To move (something) as though it were bobbing in water.
- To move gently and vertically, in either a single motion or repeatedly up and down, at or near the surface of a body of water, or similar medium.
- To cut (hair) into a bob haircut.
- To shorten by cutting; to dock; to crop.
noun
- The act of pointing, as of the foot downward in certain dance positions.
- The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game.
- A focus of conversation or consideration; the main idea.
- A particular moment in an event or occurrence; a juncture.
- Pointedness of speech or writing; a penetrating or decisive quality of expression.
- A tine or snag of an antler.
- Each of the main directions on a compass, usually considered to be 32 in number; a direction.
- A topic of discussion or debate; a proposition.
- A decimal point (now especially when reading decimal fractions aloud).
- A spot to which a straight run is made; hence, a straight run from point to point; a cross-country run.
- A peninsula or promontory.
- The position of the player of each side who stands a short distance in front of the goalkeeper.
- Any projecting extremity of an object.
- A full stop or other terminal punctuation mark.
- A specific location or place, seen as a spatial position.
- The position at the front or vanguard of an advancing force.
- A distinguishing quality or characteristic.
- a unit of measure equal to 1/12 of a pica, or approximately 1/72 of an inch (exactly 1/72 of an inch in the digital era).
- Each of the marks or strokes written above letters, especially in Semitic languages, to indicate vowels, stress etc.
- A purpose or objective, which makes something meaningful.
- Either of the two metal surfaces in a distributor which close or open to allow or prevent the flow of current through the ignition coil. There is usually a moving point, pushed by the distributor cam, and a fixed point, and they are built together as a unit.
- An object which has a sharp or tapering tip.
- A unit of measure for rain, equal to 0.254 mm or 0.01 of an inch.
- An operational or public leadership position in a risky endeavor.
- The difference between two points of the compass.
- A railroad switch.
- Something tiny, as a pinprick; a very small mark.
- An electric power socket.
- A movement executed with the sabre or foil.
- A unit of scoring in a game or competition.
- An individual element in a larger whole; a particular detail, thought, or quality.
- An area of contrasting colour on an animal, especially a dog; a marking.
- A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails.
- A dot or mark used to designate certain tones or time. In ancient music, it distinguished or characterized certain tones or styles (points of perfection, of augmentation, etc.). In modern music, it is placed on the right of a note to raise its value, or prolong its time, by one half.
- The sharp tip of an object.
- A string or lace used to tie together certain garments.
- A unit used to express differences in prices of stocks and shares.
- The perpendicular rising of a hawk over the place where its prey has gone into cover.
- A note; a tune.
- A zero-dimensional mathematical object representing a location in one or more dimensions; something considered to have position but no magnitude or direction.
- The position of the pitcher and catcher.
- The gesture of extending the index finger in a direction in order to indicate something.
- A fielding position square of the wicket on the off side, between gully and cover.
- Each of the twelve triangular positions in either table of a backgammon board, on which the stones are played.
- A tenth; formerly also a twelfth.
- One of the several different parts of the escutcheon.
- Lace worked by the needle.
- A unit of bearing equal to one thirty-second of a circle, i.e. 11.25°.
verb
- To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end.
- To repair mortar.
- To direct toward an object; to aim.
- To direct the central processing unit to seek information at a certain location in memory.
- To draw attention to something or indicate a direction.
- To face in a particular direction.
- To separate an integer from a decimal with a decimal point.
- To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or to draw attention to it.
- To indicate the presence of game by a fixed and steady look, as certain hunting dogs do.
- To mark with diacritics.
- To direct or encourage (someone) in a particular direction.
- To direct requests sent to a domain name to the IP address corresponding to that domain name.
- To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or mortar, and bringing it to a smooth surface.
- To indicate a probability of something.
- To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.
- To sail close to the wind.
- To approximate to the surface; to head.
verb
- To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, for example by falling, flowing, walking, climbing etc.
- To move toward the south, or to the southward.
- To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.
- to proceed by generation or by transmission; to happen by inheritance.
- To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of
- to be derived (from)
- To enter mentally; to retire.
- To come down, as from a source, original, or stock
- To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or rank; to lower or abase oneself
- To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence.
- And on the suitors let thy wrath descend.
- To pass from the more general or important to the specific or less important matters to be considered.
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