divagation
inflection
bag
divert
wandering
go awry
amiss
awry
dropout
derail
stray
flunkout
straggle
errant
wander off
go off into the weeds
off like a dirty shirt
smorzando
adrift
courseless
deviate
circuitous
roundabout
devious
odd
beak off
fromward
false step
deflect
withdrawingly
ride off into the sunset
way-going
decrescent
do one
trip
go missing
beway
draw back
withdrawer
mooch off
vagabonding
outta
drift
by
off the rails
err
poriomania
weeder course
off like a bride's nightie
weeder class
loosely
sally
distance
expose
digress
sidetrack
depart
wander
get away
break loose
flaunt
escape
sheer
disappear
go and boil your head
flag
evanescence
degeminate
Houdini
tabid
betrump
skipper
ungear
take a walk
efferent
offa
refracted
solute
disappearingly
off-beam
wild
unmist
evaporate
go astray
rack off
like rats from a sinking ship
vanishment
eat someone's dust
departed
ghost
fallen
on the run
orphaned
off-
behind the curve
yaw
errant
off like a dirty shirt
courseless
circuitous
roundabout
devious
odd
fromward
way-going
decrescent
vagabonding
by
off like a bride's nightie
tabid
efferent
refracted
solute
off-beam
wild
departed
fallen
orphaned
amiss
awry
smorzando
adrift
withdrawingly
loosely
disappearingly
divagation
inflection
wandering
dropout
flunkout
false step
trip
beway
withdrawer
poriomania
weeder course
weeder class
evanescence
skipper
vanishment
ghost
stray
bag
divert
go awry
derail
stray
straggle
wander off
go off into the weeds
deviate
beak off
deflect
ride off into the sunset
do one
go missing
draw back
mooch off
drift
err
sally
distance
expose
digress
sidetrack
depart
wander
get away
break loose
flaunt
escape
sheer
disappear
flag
degeminate
Houdini
betrump
ungear
take a walk
unmist
evaporate
go astray
rack off
eat someone's dust
yaw
noun
- A turning away from a straight course.
- Change in the form of a word (morphologic change) to express different grammatical categories.
- Diffraction.
- Any form produced by such an instance of a change, such as the principal parts for any given stem: any of the declined or conjugated forms that constitute its declension or conjugation.
- An affix representing such an instance.
- A change in curvature from concave to convex or from convex to concave.
- A change in pitch or tone of voice.
- An instance of such change.
verb
- To drop away from the correct course.
- To arrest.
- To laugh uncontrollably.
- To take a woman away with one as a romantic or sexual interest.
- To steal.
- To put into a bag.
- To fit with a bag to collect urine.
- To hang like an empty bag.
- To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something.
- To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting.
- To provide with artificial ventilation via a bag valve mask (BVM) resuscitator.
- To criticise sarcastically.
- To forget, ignore, or get rid of.
- To furnish or load with a bag.
noun
- A breathalyzer, so named because it formerly had a plastic bag over the end to measure a set amount of breath.
- One's preference.
- A container made of leather, plastic, or other material, usually with a handle or handles, in which you carry personal items, or clothes or other things that you need for travelling. Includes shopping bags, schoolbags, suitcases, and handbags.
- A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods.
- The scrotum.
- A collection of objects, disregarding order, but (unlike a set) in which elements may be repeated.
- £1000, a grand.
- A sac in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance.
- An ugly woman.
- A fellow gay man.
- The cloth-covered pillow used for first, second, and third base.
- A small envelope that contains drugs, especially narcotics.
- A dark circle under the eye, caused by lack of sleep, drug addiction etc.
- A large number or amount.
- First, second, or third base.
- A pouch tied behind a man's head to hold the back-hair of a wig; a bag wig.
- A unit of measure of cement equal to 94 pounds.
- The quantity of game bagged in a hunt.
noun
- Someone who has left an educational institution without completing the course
- A technique for regularizing a neural network by discarding a random subset of its units.
- Someone who has opted out of conventional society.
- One who suddenly leaves anything, or the act of doing so.
- The slot in the frame that accepts the axles of the wheels.
- A damaged portion of a tape or disk, causing a brief omission of audio, video, or data.
- Momentary loss of an electronic signal.
verb
- To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way.
- To wander from company or outside proper limits; to rove or roam at large; to go astray.
- To wander from the path of duty or rectitude; to err.
- To cause to stray; lead astray.
noun
- An act of wandering off or going astray.
- An area of common land for use by domestic animals generally.
- Any domestic animal that has no enclosure nor proper place and company, but that instead wanders at large or is lost; an estray.
- An instance of atmospheric interference.
- One who is lost, literally or figuratively.
adj
adv
adj
- Out of the way, secluded.
- About, approximately; somewhat more than (an approximated round number).
- Scattered; occasional, infrequent; not forming part of a set or pattern.
- Used or employed for odd jobs.
- Left over or remaining (as a small amount) after counting, payment, etc.
- Numbered with an odd number.
- Without a corresponding mate in a pair or set; unmatched; (of a pair or set) mismatched.
- Not regular or planned.
- Differing from what is usual, ordinary or expected.
- Left over, remaining after the rest have been paired or grouped.
- Peculiar, singular and strange in looks or character; eccentric, bizarre.
- On the left.
- Numerically indivisible by two.
noun
verb
- turn aside and away from an initial or intended course
- prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off
- turn from a straight course, fixed direction, or line of interest
- draw someone's attention away from something
- impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball)
noun
- A stumble or misstep.
- A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip.
- A journey; an excursion or jaunt.
- A trip-switch or cut-out.
- Intense involvement in or enjoyment of a condition.
- A flock of wigeons.
- A period of time in which one experiences drug-induced reverie or hallucinations.
- The act of tripping someone, or causing them to lose their footing.
- A single board, or tack, in plying, or beating, to windward.
- A mechanical cutout device.
- A faux pas, a social error.
adj
verb
- To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free.
- To fall over or stumble over an object as a result of striking it with one's foot
- To activate or set in motion, as in the activation of a trap, explosive, or switch.
- To be activated, as by a signal or an event
- To cause (a person or animal) to fall or stumble by knocking their feet from under them.
- To become unreasonably upset, especially over something unimportant; to cause a scene or a disruption.
- To pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it.
- To be guilty of a misstep or mistake; to commit an offence against morality, propriety, etc
- To experience a state of reverie or to hallucinate, due to consuming psychoactive drugs.
- To journey, to make a trip.
noun
- a student who withdraws from the educational institution in which he or she was enrolled
- an authority who withdraws permission
- an individualist who withdraws from social interaction
- a drug addict who is discontinuing the use of narcotics
- a contestant who withdraws from competition
- a depositor who withdraws funds previously deposited
prep
verb
- wander from a direct course or at random
- be in motion due to some air or water current
- move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
- vary or move from a fixed point or course
- live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely
- move in an unhurried fashion
- cause to be carried by a current
- drive slowly and far afield for grazing
- be subject to fluctuation
- be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current
noun
- a force that moves something along
- the gradual departure from an intended course due to external influences (as a ship or plane)
- a process of linguistic change over a period of time
- a large mass of material that is heaped up by the wind or by water currents
- a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
- the pervading meaning or tenor
- a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine
adj
adv
- Along a path which runs past the speaker.
- Aside, away.
- To or at a place, as a residence or place of business.
- In the vicinity, near.
prep
- Following a passive verb.
- Acted on in units of the specified size or measure. (Sometimes hyperbolically)
- Designates a horse's male parent (sire); cf. out of.
- Indicates the amount of change, difference or discrepancy
- Indicates a means of achieving something: Involving/using the means of.
- Indicates a means of classification or organisation.
- At, with, among
- Indicates the creator of a work: Existing through the authorship etc. of.
- Not later than (the given time); not later than the end of (the given time interval).
- Near or next to.
- Following a noun.
- Following an adjective.
- In the formulae X by X and by Xs, indicates a steady progression, one X after another.
- Indicates an authority according to which something is done.
- per; with or in proportion to each.
- Indicates a referenced source: According to.
- Invokes an authority in an oath.
- Used to separate dimensions when describing the size of something.
- From one side of something to the other, passing close by; past.
verb
- To venture off the beaten path.
- To set out on an excursion; venture; depart (often followed by "forth.")
- To make a sudden attack (e.g. on an enemy from a defended position).
noun
- A kind of stonefly.
- A willow
- An excursion or side trip.
- An object made from the above trees' wood
- A witty statement or quip, usually at the expense of one's interlocutor.
- A sudden rushing forth.
- Any tree that looks like a willow
- A tufted woollen part of a bellrope, used to provide grip when ringing a bell.
- A wren.
- A member of the Salvation Army.
- A sortie of troops from a besieged place against an enemy.
verb
- To leave at a distance; to outpace, leave behind.
- To lose interest in a specific issue.
- To move away (from) someone or something.
noun
- Remoteness of place; a remote place.
- The space measured back from the winning-post which a racehorse running in a heat must reach when the winner has covered the whole course, in order to run in the final heat.
- A withholding of intimacy; alienation; variance.
- Length or interval of time.
- The remoteness or reserve which respect requires; hence, respect; ceremoniousness.
- A space marked out in the last part of a racecourse.
- The amount of space between two points, usually geographical points, usually (but not necessarily) measured along a straight line.
- The entire amount of progress to an objective.
- Remoteness in succession or relation.
- The difference; the subjective measure between two quantities.
verb
- abandon by leaving out in the open air
- expose or make accessible to some action or influence
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- to show, make visible or apparent
- remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body
- reveal to view as by removing a cover
- put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position
- expose to light, of photographic film
- expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas
noun
verb
- run away from confinement
- fail to experience
- escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action
- be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by
- remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion
- flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
- issue or leak, as from a small opening
noun
- the act of escaping physically
- an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy
- nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do
- an avoidance of danger or difficulty
- a means or way of escaping
- a plant originally cultivated but now growing wild
- the discharge of a fluid from some container
- a valve in a container in which pressure can build up (as a steam boiler); it opens automatically when the pressure reaches a dangerous level
phrase
verb
- To fail, such as a class or an exam.
- To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.
- To signal (an event).
- To furnish or deck out with flags.
- To convey (a message) by means of flag signals.
- To defeat (an opponent) on time, especially in a blitz game.
- To enervate; to exhaust the vigour or elasticity of.
- To mark with a flag, especially to indicate the importance of something.
- To penalize for an infraction.
- To pave with flagstones.
- To weaken, become feeble.
- To set a program variable to true.
- To note, mark or point out for attention.
- To decoy (game) by waving a flag, handkerchief, etc. to arouse the animal's curiosity.
- To signal to, especially to stop a passing vehicle etc.
- To point the muzzle of a firearm at a person or object one does not intend to fire on.
- To lose on time, especially in a blitz game; when using a traditional analog chess clock, a flag would fall when time expired.
- To let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness.
noun
- The bushy tail of a dog such as a setter.
- A mechanical indicator that pops up to draw the pilot's attention to a problem or malfunction.
- The game of capture the flag.
- A slab of stone; a flagstone, a flat piece of stone used for paving.
- Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.
- A sequence of faces of a given polytope, one of each dimension up to that of the polytope (formally, though in practice not always explicitly, including the null face and the polytope itself), such that each face in the sequence is part of the next-higher dimension face.
- A flag flown by a ship to show the presence on board of the admiral; the admiral himself, or his flagship.
- An exact representation of a flag (for example: a digital one used in websites).
- Any of various plants with sword-shaped leaves, especially irises; specifically, Iris pseudacorus.
- A plot or words of a character in an animation, etc., that would usually lead to a specific outcome or event, not logically or causally, but as a pattern of the animation, etc.
- In a command line interface, a command parameter requesting optional behavior or otherwise modifying the action of the command being invoked.
- A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks.
- A hook attached to the stem of a written note that assigns its rhythmic value
- The use of a flag, especially to indicate the start of a race or other event.
- A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc.
- A dark piece of material that can be mounted on a stand to block or shape the light.
- A sequence of subspaces of a vector space, beginning with the null space and ending with the vector space itself, such that each member of the sequence (until the last) is a proper subspace of the next.
- A variable or memory location that stores a true-or-false, yes-or-no value, typically either recording the fact that a certain event has occurred or requesting that a certain optional action take place.
- A piece of cloth, often decorated with an emblem, used as a visual signal or symbol.
- A signal flag.
- A slice of turf; a sod.
noun
- A person who skips, or fails to attend class.
- The cheese maggot, the larva of a cheese fly (family Piophilidae), which leaps to escape predators.
- A barn or shed in which to shelter for the night.
- The master of a ship.
- A coach, director, or other leader.
- One who jumps rope.
- Any of various butterflies of the families Hesperiidae and its subfamily Megathyminae, having a hairy mothlike body, hooked tips on the antennae, and a darting flight pattern.
- The captain of a sports team such as football, cricket, rugby or curling.
- Any of several marine fishes that often leap above water, especially Cololabis saira, the Pacific saury.
verb
prep
adj
- deviating widely from an intended course
- in a state of extreme emotion
- (of colors or sounds) intensely vivid or loud
- without a basis in reason or fact
- talking or behaving irrationally
- involving risk or danger
- fanciful and unrealistic; foolish
- located in a dismal or remote area; desolate
- intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with
- without civilizing influences
- (of the elements) as if showing violent anger
adj
- marked by extreme lack of restraint or control
- in a natural state; not tamed or domesticated or cultivated
noun
- a wild primitive state untouched by civilization
- a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition
adv
verb
noun
- Abandoned.
- A formerly nonexistent character that was at some point mistakenly encoded into a character set standard, which might have since become used opportunistically for some genuine purpose.
- Remnant; the remains of a(n).
- Perceived or listed but not real.
- A covert (and deniable) agent.
- Transparent or translucent.
- An unwanted image similar to and overlapping or adjacent to the main one on a television screen, caused by the transmitted image being received both directly and via reflection.
- Of cryptid, supernatural or extraterrestrial nature.
- White or pale.
- A game in which players take turns to add a letter to a possible word, trying not to complete a word.
- Substitute.
- A dead person whose identity is stolen by another. See ghosting.
- A nonexistent person invented to obtain some fraudulent benefit.
- An understudy.
- The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death.
- Someone whose identity cannot be established because there are no records of him/her.
- An image of a file or hard disk.
- Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image.
- A false image formed in a telescope, camera, or other optical device by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses.
- The faint image that remains after an attempt to remove graffiti.
- An opponent in a racing game that follows a previously recorded route, allowing players to compete against previous best times.
- An unresponsive user on IRC, resulting from the user's client disconnecting without notifying the server.
- A ghostwriter.
- An unphysical state in a gauge theory.
verb
- To copy a file or hard drive image.
- To provide the speaking or singing voice for another actor, who is lip-syncing.
- To forcibly disconnect an IRC user who is using one's reserved nickname.
- To gray out (a visual item) to indicate that it is unavailable.
- To perform an act of ghosting: to break up with someone without warning or explanation; to ignore someone, especially on social media.
- To kill.
- To ghostwrite.
- To imbue with a ghost-like hue or effect.
- To sail seemingly without wind.
- To appear or move without warning, quickly and quietly; to slip.
- To transfer (a prisoner) to another prison without the prior knowledge of other inmates.
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