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noun
- Something that is withheld or kept back.
- The area which separates opposing lanes of traffic on a divided motorway or dual carriageway; see also central reservation.
- The practice of reserving part of the consecrated bread of the Eucharist for the communion of the sick.
- A limiting qualification regarding certainty; a doubt.
- An arrangement by which accommodation or transport arrangements are secured in advance.
- A power of an overseeing authority to suspend legislation in the jurisdiction being overseen pending the approval of a higher authority. Such as a provincial/state governor reserving a bill passed by the state/provincial legislature from assent, pending approval of the federal government; or a federal bill passed by federal parliament being reserved by the viceroy pending approval by the crown.
- A tract of land set apart by the US government for the use of a Native American people; Indian reservation (compare Canadian reserve).
- The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back.
- The act of the pope to reserve to himself the right to nominate to certain benefices.
- The setting aside of a certain percentage of vacancies in government institutions for members of backward and underrepresented communities (defined primarily by caste and tribe).
noun
- Something that secures.
- Proof of ownership of stocks, bonds or other investment instruments.
- Property etc. temporarily relinquished to guarantee repayment of a loan.
- Something that secures the fulfillment of an obligation or law.
- A guarantee.
- The condition of not being threatened, especially physically, psychologically, emotionally, or financially.
- An organization or department responsible for providing security by enforcing laws, rules, and regulations as well as maintaining order.
- Freedom from apprehension.
- A tradeable financial asset, such as a share of stock.ᵂ
noun
verb
- To put or secure in its place.
- To trade or send a player to another team.
- To engage to serve on board a vessel.
- To take in (water) over the sides of a vessel.
- To pass (from one person to another).
- To go all in.
- Leave, depart, scram.
- To send by water-borne transport.
- To bungle a kick and give the opposing team possession.
- To send (a parcel or container) to a recipient (by any means of transport).
- To embark on a ship.
- To support or approve of a fictional romantic relationship between two characters, typically in fan fiction or other fandom contexts.
- To release a product (not necessarily physical) to vendors or customers; to launch.
noun
- A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship) used to hold incense.
- A spaceship (the type of pattern in a cellular automaton).
- A vessel which travels through any medium other than across land, such as an airship or spaceship.
- A fictional romantic relationship between two characters, either real or themselves fictional, especially one explored in fan fiction.
- The third card of the Lenormand deck.
- A water-borne vessel generally larger than a boat.
noun
- something serving as a cover or protection
- a tight-fitting headdress
- a top (as for a bottle)
- a mechanical or electrical explosive device or a small amount of explosive; can be used to initiate the reaction of a disrupting explosive
- a fruiting structure resembling an umbrella or a cone that forms the top of a stalked fleshy fungus such as a mushroom
- a protective covering that is part of a plant
- an upper limit on what is allowed
- (dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth
- the upper part of a column that supports the entablature
verb
noun
- A means of keeping or remaining safe.
- Coverage.
- The process of keeping (something or someone) safe.
- The state of being safe.
- An instance of a security token associated with a resource (such as a file).
- Restrictions on foreign competitors which limit their ability to compete with domestic producers of goods or services.
- A means, such as a condom, of preventing pregnancy or sexually transmitted disease.
- Immunity from harm, obtained by illegal payments, as bribery or extortion.
verb
- To keep (something) safe; to safeguard.
- To spare (somebody) from effort, or from something undesirable.
- To redeem or protect someone from eternal damnation.
- To obviate or make unnecessary.
- To catch or deflect (a shot at goal).
- To store for future use.
- To economize or avoid waste.
- To preserve, as a relief pitcher, (a win of another pitcher's on one's team) by defending the lead held when the other pitcher left the game.
- To write a file to disk or other storage medium.
- To refrain from romantic or (especially in later use) sexual relationships until one is married or is with a suitable partner.
- To help (somebody) to survive, or rescue (somebody or something) from harm.
- To conserve or prevent the wasting of.
- To accumulate money or valuables.
conj
prep
noun
- The act, process, or result of saving data to a storage medium.
- A saving throw.
- A successful attempt by a relief pitcher to preserve the win of another pitcher on one's team.
- In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring.
- An instance of preventing (further) harm or difficulty.
- A point in a professional wrestling match when one or more wrestlers run to the ring to aid a fellow wrestler who is being beaten.
- An action that brings one back out of an awkward situation.
noun
- Anything used to conceal something undesirable or that one does not want to be discovered.
- A leaf of the fig plant.
- A representation of leaf of a fig plant used to cover the genitals of a nude figure in a work of art (alluding to Genesis iii 7, in which Adam and Eve use fig leaves to hide their nakedness).
verb
- protect, hide, or conceal from danger or harm
- test or examine for the presence of disease or infection
- examine methodically
- examine in order to test suitability
- project onto a screen for viewing
- prevent from entering
- separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff
noun
- a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something
- a protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight
- a white or silvered surface where pictures can be projected for viewing
- the display that is electronically created on the surface of the large end of a cathode-ray tube
- a protective covering consisting of netting; can be mounted in a frame
- the personnel of the film industry
- a strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles
- partition consisting of a decorative frame or panel that serves to divide a space
verb
noun
- Someone who displays a squirrel-like qualities such as stealing or hoarding objects.
- A person, usually a freezoner, who applies L. Ron Hubbard's technology in a heterodox manner.
- Any of the rodents of the family Sciuridae distinguished by their large bushy tail.
- One of the small rollers of a carding machine which work with the large cylinder.
verb
- To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
- To make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist).
- To defend (mark) a particular player or area.
- To discuss thoroughly; to provide coverage of.
- To set upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
- To be upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
- To provide insurance coverage for.
- To traverse or put behind a certain distance.
- To act as a replacement.
- To deal with or include someone or something.
- To be enough money for.
- To invest (oneself with something); to bring upon (oneself).
- To have as an assignment or responsibility.
- To protect using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing; or to protect using continuous, heaving fire at or in the direction of the enemy so as to force the enemy to remain in cover; or to threaten using an aimed firearm.
- To be over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
- To extend over a given period of time or range, to occupy, to stretch over a given area.
- To copulate with (said of certain male animals such as dogs and horses).
- To protect or control (a piece or square).
adj
- Of, pertaining to, or consisting of cover versions.
- Of or pertaining to the front cover of a book or magazine.
noun
- The top sheet of a bed.
- A persona maintained by a spy or undercover operative; cover story.
- The front and back of a book, magazine, CD package, etc.
- A cloth or similar material, often fitted, placed over an item such as a car or sofa or food to protect it from dust, rain, insects, etc. when not being used.
- A collection (or family) of subsets of a given set, whose union contains every element of said original set.
- Area or situation which screens a person or thing from view.
- An envelope complete with stamps and postmarks etc.
- A solid object, including terrain, that provides protection from enemy fire.
- The portion of a slate, tile, or shingle that is hidden by the overlap of the course above.
- An insurance contract; coverage by an insurance contract.
- A setting at a restaurant table or formal dinner.
- A new performance or rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song.
- The distance between reinforcing steel and the exterior of concrete.
- A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30° forward of square; a fielder in this position.
- A cover charge.
- In a steam engine, the lap of a slide valve.
- A lid.
- In commercial law, a buyer’s purchase on the open market of goods similar or identical to the goods contracted for after a seller has breached a contract of sale by failure to deliver the goods contracted for.
adj
- Protected from view or disturbance by others; secluded.
- Not publicly known; not open; secret.
- Not shared with another patient.
- Not accessible by the public.
- Belonging to, concerning, or accessible only to an individual person or a specific group.
- Secretive; reserved.
- Accessible only to the class itself or instances of it, and not to other classes or even subclasses.
- Not traded by the public.
- Not in governmental office or employment.
verb
noun
noun
- the storage of assets in a protected area
- the responsibility of a guardian
- the act of keeping something safe; protection from harm, damage, loss, or theft
- not returning checks; a system wherein banks keep checks (cheques) that people write, rather than returning them to the account holder with their monthly statement.
adj
- Held in reserve, to be used in an emergency.
- Not occupied or in current use.
- Very angry; frustrated or distraught.
- Scant; not abundant or plentiful.
- Being more than what is necessary, or what must be used or reserved; not wanted, or not used; superfluous.
- Sparing; frugal; parsimonious; not spending much money.
- Lean; lacking flesh; meager; thin; gaunt.
noun
- Parsimony; frugal use.
- An opening in a petticoat or gown; a placket.
- A superfluous or second-best person.
- The right of bowling again at a full set of pins, after having knocked all the pins down in less than three bowls. If all the pins are knocked down in one bowl it is a double spare; in two bowls, a single spare.
- assistant or extra hand (typically on buses and lorries)
- A free period; a block of school during which one does not have a class.
- The act of sparing; moderation; restraint.
- A spare part, especially a spare tire.
- The act of knocking down all remaining pins in second ball of a frame; this entitles the pins knocked down on the next ball to be added to the score for that frame.
- That which has not been used or expended.
verb
- To keep to oneself; to forbear to impart or give.
- To save or gain, as by frugality; to reserve, as from some occupation, use, or duty.
- To preserve (someone) from danger or punishment; to forbear to punish, injure, or harm (someone); to show mercy towards.
- (to give up): To deprive oneself of, as by being frugal; to do without; to dispense with; to give up; to part with.
- To refrain from killing (someone) or having (someone) killed.
- To refrain from inflicting harm; to use mercy or forbearance.
- To be frugal; to not be profuse; to live frugally; to be parsimonious.
- To desist; to stop; to refrain.
verb
- To secure (something) by string or the like.
- To have the same score or position as another in a competition or ordering.
- To unite (musical notes) with a line or slur in the notation.
- To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely.
- In the Perl programming language, to extend (a variable) so that standard operations performed upon it invoke custom functionality instead.
- To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like.
- To have the same score or position as (another) in a competition or ordering.
- To form (a knot or the like) in a string or the like.
noun
- A twist tie, a piece of wire embedded in paper, strip of plastic with ratchets, or similar object which is wound around something and tightened.
- A horizontal wooden or concrete structural member that supports and ties together rails.
- A necktie (item of clothing consisting of a strip of cloth tied around the neck). See also bow tie, black tie.
- A structural member firmly holding two pieces together.
- A tiewig.
- The situation in which two or more participants in a competition are placed equally.
- A curved line connecting two notes of the same pitch denoting that they should be played as a single note with the combined length of both notes.
- A meeting between two players or teams in a competition.
- The situation at the end of all innings of a match where both sides have the same total of runs (different from a draw).
- A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig.
- A knot; a fastening.
- A lace-up shoe.
- A connection between two vertices.
- One or more equal values or sets of equal values in the data set.
- A curved line connecting two letters (⁀), used in the IPA to denote a coarticulation, as for example /d͡ʒ/.
- A strong connection between people or groups of people.
- A bearing and distance between a lot corner or point and a benchmark or iron off site.
- An equalizer, a run, goal, point, etc which causes participants in a competition to be placed equally or have the same score(s).
verb
- To hide or conceal as if by covering with earth or another substance.
- To render imperceptible by other, more prominent stimuli; drown out.
- To outlive.
- To score a goal.
- To place in the ground.
- To suppress and hide away in one's mind.
- To ritualistically inter in a grave or tomb.
- To put an end to; to abandon.
- To kill or murder.
noun
verb
noun
noun
- a supply or stock held in reserve for future use (especially in emergencies)
- sloping land (especially the slope beside a body of water)
- a financial institution that accepts deposits and channels the money into lending activities
- a long ridge or pile
- an arrangement of similar objects in a row or in tiers
- the funds held by a gambling house or the dealer in some gambling games
- a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force
- a container (usually with a slot in the top) for keeping money at home
- a building in which the business of banking is transacted
- a flight maneuver; aircraft tips laterally about its longitudinal axis (especially in turning)
verb
noun
- Something reserved or kept.
- The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
- The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
- Power over someone or something.
- A place where animals are held for safety
- An act or instance of holding.
- Keep a firm hold on the handlebars.
- A position or grip used to control the opponent.
- The wager amount, the total hold.
- A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
- The cargo area of a ship or aircraft (often holds or cargo hold).
- The ability to persist.
- An exercise involving holding a position for a set time
- An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
- A grasp or grip.
- The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
- As of Monday night the total Melbourne Cup hold was $848,015
- The House Hold on the game is 10,000, this is the amount of decision or risk the house wishes to assume.
- The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when all lines are busy.
- A statistic awarded to a relief pitcher who is not still pitching at the end of the game and who records at least one out and maintains a lead for his team.
- An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
- A region of airspace reserved for aircraft being kept in a holding pattern.
verb
- To detain.
- To take place, to occur.
- In a food or drink order at an informal restaurant etc., requesting that a component normally included in that order be omitted.
- To have and keep possession of something.
- Not to move; to halt; to stop.
- To be or remain valid; to apply (usually in the third person).
- To contain or store.
- To be in possession of illicit drugs for sale.
- To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
- To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain.
- To win one's own service game.
- To cause to wait or delay.
- To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain.
- To bind (someone) to a consequence of his or her actions.
- To maintain, to consider, to opine.
- To grasp or grip.
- To reserve.
- To bear, carry, or manage.
- To keep oneself in a particular state.
- To remain continent; to control an excretory bodily function.
- Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or unsubdued.
- To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain.
verb
- To have something be held back or impeded.
- To attract and hold (a faculty or organ of sense).
- To grasp mentally: perceive and understand.
- To unpleasantly discover unexpectedly; to unpleasantly surprise (someone doing something).
- To acquire, as though by infection; to take on through sympathy or infection.
- To make a grasping or snatching motion (at).
- To take or replenish something necessary, such as breath or sleep.
- Of fire, to spread or be conveyed to.
- To be held back or impeded.
- To get pregnant.
- To end a player's innings by catching a hit ball before the first bounce.
- To be the victim of (something unpleasant, painful etc.).
- To entrap or trip up a person; to deceive.
- To reach (someone) with a strike, blow, weapon etc.
- To be hit by something.
- To receive or be affected by (wind, water, fire etc.).
- To contact a wave in such a way that one can ride it back to shore.
- To travel by means of.
- To become infected by (an illness).
- To reproduce or echo a spirit or idea faithfully.
- To serve well or poorly for catching, especially for catching fish.
- To seize or intercept an object moving through the air (or, sometimes, some other medium).
- To grip (the water) with one's oars at the beginning of the stroke.
- To become pregnant. (Only in past tense or as participle.)
- To charm or entrance.
- To grip or entangle.
- To handle an exception.
- To play (a specific period of time) as the catcher.
- To spread by infection or similar means.
- To take in; to watch or listen to (an entertainment).
- To engage with some mechanism; to stick, to succeed in interacting with something or initiating some process.
- To capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape).
- To germinate and set down roots.
- To be touched or affected by (something) through exposure.
- To overtake or catch up to; to be in time for.
noun
- The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
- A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
- A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
- The game of catching a ball.
- A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
- A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
- A fragment of music or poetry.
- The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting in an out.
- Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
- The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
- The act of seizing or capturing.
- A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually sung by men and often having bawdy lyrics.
- A slight remembrance; a trace.
- A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
- The first contact of an oar with the water.
- A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.
- A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
- A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
- The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.
- Something which is captured or caught.
noun
- A rectal concealment container for prohibited material such as money, drugs and tools.
- A speed loader that holds several cartridges together in a single unit for easier loading of a firearm's magazine.
- A large platter.
- One who charges.
- A device that charges or recharges.
- A large horse trained for battle and used by the cavalry (of a lighter build than a destrier).
- A large decorative plate, sometimes used under dinner plates or other savoury-dish vessels in a multi-course meal; also service plate or underplate.
- Synonym of hard charger (“person with a good work ethic”)
verb
- To hold, as something at someone's disposal.
- To be afflicted with, suffer from.
- To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.
- To believe, buy, be taken in by.
- To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
- To obtain.
- To include as a part, ingredient, or feature.
- See have to.
- To defeat in a fight; take.
- To accept as a romantic partner.
- To undertake or perform (an action or activity).
- To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)
- Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject.
- To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
- To cause to be.
- To be able to speak (a language).
- Used as an interrogative verb before a pronoun to form a tag question, echoing a previous use of 'have' as an auxiliary verb or, in certain cases, main verb. (For further discussion, see the appendix English tag questions.)
- To trick, to deceive.
- To experience, go through, undergo.
- To allow; to tolerate.
- To depict as being.
- To inflict punishment or retribution on.
- To make an observation of (a bird species).
- To possess, own.
- To engage in sexual intercourse with.
- To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.
- To consume or use up (a particular substance or resource, especially food or drink).
- Used in forming the perfect aspect.
- To host someone; to take in as a guest.
- To be scheduled to attend, undertake or participate in.
- To give birth to.
noun
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